Judul nya terinspirasi ma kata2 tmn gw… hehe

Anak sekarang tuh udah pada modern. Ada yang baru aja kelas… 4, uda punya hp… Hp nya keren2 lagi…Trus anak2 jaman skarang itu, pada pacar2an… (tapi gw ga yaa…. najong dah gw pacarann…) ada anak klas 1 udah pacaran pula! weleh…Trus juga, uda pada bisa maen komputer, pada punya Eph Es, punya Fesbuk… Lama2 ntar anak nya yang ngajarin orang tuanya men fesbuk.. Ada juga yang kecentilan, sampe-sampe muka nya bisulan/jerawatan itulah… di sekolah gw ada yang bgitu! Kecentilannya, contoh, ada temen gw, nama nya si A, dia itu naksir sama si B, tapi si B udah ada yg punya yaitu si C. nah biar si A ditaksir sama si B, si A caper, dket2, n ngikut2in gaya nya si C. Si A juga kecentilan orangnya.. di kelas tuh ngelirik2 si B mulu… Ini kisah nyata loh!! pkonya dia ituh centil bngt deh…

The question of what to watch used to come down to what was left over at the local video store in the new releases section. But now the web offers more movies, TV shows and short clips than we have time to watch but no way to filter the results in a meaningful way. You could use a web search engine to search for movies, view popular TV shows on iTunes, read new film reviews on Rotten Tomatoes or enter some keywords on the IMDb to find related movies and TV shows. But what’s missing from the results you’d end up with is a simple way to narrow down your choices using your preferences, and your situation, i.e., you’re looking for a movie you and your friend(s) or family will like, or at least something all of you can watch without someone hating it. Enter Jinni.com.

Jinni is a new search engine and database for movies, TV shows and online video that does take your preferences into account. At Jinni, you can search for movies, TV series, short flicks and free online videos and filter your results with lists of plot conventions, genres, times, places and more. The results include a synopsis and reviews, plus other the opportunity to rate the movie and see how the movie fits into their categories (what they call the movie “genome”), allowing you to narrow your search down further. The site allows users to rate and review content and to disagree with the categories that specific items appear in. If you sign up, site developers say your selections, preferences and history of searches will be used to develop your movie profile so the site can deliver more customized recommendations the next time you visit.

Once you narrow your search, you can choose to rent, buy, view-on-demand (VOD), or view a free version online, as the content is available. Jinni’s partner sites include Netflix (you can connect your existing account), Blockbuster, iTunes, Amazon (buy) or Amazon Unbox (VOD), Jaman.com and Lovefilm (for viewers in Europe).

Eventually, Jinni hopes to work with broadcasters to show you what’s available to watch on the channels you already subscribe to via your satellite or cable TV company. If you don’t want to watch it or buy right away, you can save titles in your ‘favourites’ list.

So far, I like the concept and the way you can browse by genre, mood, plot, audience, time/period, place or praise (awards), or apply these categories to narrow results based on keyword searches. Within the search, some of the features aren’t working for me, (i.e. when I click on a plot convention listed in the description of a specific film from my results, I expect to see more titles from the results that share this characteristic, but nothing happens). This may be because I can’t upgrade to the latest Firefox until I upgrade my operating system (lame), or the fact that the site is still in development. In fact, the site may be really busy at the moment, because I can’t enter search terms at all.

In my Jinni searches, most of the results consist of highly recognizable Hollywood movies, but this is likely due to time constraints and because Jinni wants to appeal to the masses. Over time, hopefully site will introduce content we haven’t heard about on billboards and online ads. Although the results aren’t all blockbuster flicks. I did see the recent Canadian animated film Madame Tutli-Putli in results for “bleak” films. But now, when I search for it again, I can’t find it by name, and oddly, ‘animated’ isn’t included as a genre on Jinni as far as I can tell.

Here’s the Jinni page for the film: Nosferatu (1922) to give you an idea of how the site categorizes content. While you’re there, try your own search or use the browse menu on the left side of the page.

Jinni may eventually help settle disputes over who starred in that film or who directed this TV series, and help Tom Cruise fans out there prove that some of his movies have earned accolades. For one of my tests, I rhetorically searched Jinni for Tom Cruise movies that won awards. I was blown away when five films popped up in the results. Oh, wait, but none of the awards were for Tom. Better luck next time.

Scott Kirsner (of CinemaTech blog) has a good article in Variety which gives gives the cold hard facts on a frustrating phenomenon: online distribution of indie films isn’t happening in a meaningful or profitable way yet, for indie filmmakers:

“…while more success stories are starting to be seen, the indie download business is still having problems gaining traction. The power of the Internet was supposed to level the playing field on which independent filmmakers and studios compete for audiences. So what happened?

A decade after the dot-com boom, when the Web promised to make any piece of content globally accessible to any interested viewer, a dominant online destination for indie film has failed to emerge — though many have tried.

Earlier this year, San Francisco-based Caachi quietly shut down, and world cinema purveyor Jaman let go most of its staff. Two of the first sites to try to connect cinephiles with streaming and downloadable indie films, GreenCine and Intertainer, have since exited that business.

And while Hulu.com, a site geared to mainstream TV and movie content, is reaching more than six million unique visitors a month, SnagFilms, a site dedicated to independent documentaries like “The Future of Food,” is barely reaching 100,000, according to the Internet traffic-monitoring service Compete.com.”

A few people wrote in to correct Scott, saying it’s not quite as bleak. But Scott is right on in the main. For the moment, most talk about profitable long-tail distribution of small indie films online is wishful thinking. Prescriptive talk, not descriptive talk. One further piece of bad news which Scott doesn’t even mention is: iTunes, Hulu and Netflix are not available in most of the world outside of the U.S. anyway. So, for example, a whole generation in Asia, with zero opportunity to pay for online content (either indie or Hollywood blockbuster) is turning to Bit Torrent, and being conditioned to think illegal downloads are “OK”.

The sweet spot is this: the ability to sit in your living room, after 3 glasses of wine over dinner, and use your remote to buy for US$3 and download (on an AppleTV like device) a movie which has gotten good reviews (a la eMusic)  and ratings by both professional reviews or bloggers and “wisdom of crowd” raters in a Ning-like community site (like Amazon.com reviews, where in addition to the 1-5 star rating, readers of the rating/review answer “Was this review helpful to you?”)

Somebody needs to do this. It’s coming. The problem is, you need to be the platform, the one to aggregate the wise crowd, the one to ride the swell of Metcalf’s Law.

I’m not sure why iTunes doesn’t take this up as a potential revenue source. I’ve heard from my contacts at Red that it has something to do with the cost associated with caching the content and providing speedy downloading. This seems odd to me: most viewers would be OK with “speedy downloads” for Hollywood content and “good enough normal broadband speeeds” for everything else. (So maybe that means picking your indie movie before dinner and having it download during dinner. Or even picking it the night before.) In any case, as reported in Scott’s Variety article, the navigation in iTunes sucks. And there is no good rating/social networking element in iTunes.

But distributor Freyr Thor, of Vanguard Cinema says, in Scott’s Variety article:

“Just because these specialty indie platforms haven’t succeeded, that doesn’t mean one cannot succeed. There’s a patience factor and a money factor that have been missing.”

Some of my filmmaker friends have told me I should be the one to start this platform. No thanks. I know that only a single (or two, three at the most) aggregator will win in this niche (just as Facebook and LinkedIn did) while hundreds of other contenders went bankrupt or floundered. And if the smart and funded folks at Jaman couldn’t make it happen, I’m not going to try. I’d rather make films. And then distribute them on the “winner” platform which emerges (I predict) within 3 years.

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Update: after rain !

Home grown / Sun ripe !!!

related: Native Fruits in model town.

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Content NOW is honored to have been chosen to cover the first Producers Guild of America Produced By Conference taking place this weekend at Sony Studios. At this sold out event, Hollywood heavyweights James Cameron, Norman Lear, Clint Eastwood mentor up-and-coming producers, HBO, USA, AMC discuss scripted cable, Desperate Housewives, Lost showrunners explore elements of episodic hits, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell speaks on indie gaming, Reveille speaks on branded entertainment and perhaps the Twitter deal, Arianna Huffington goes green, and more. We’re not in LA this weekend, but will follow #PBC, #producedby and retweet @contentnow.  Here’s the guide:   

F 6/5

8:30-11pm
Party on the Paramount Pictures Lot, Paramount Theater

Sa 6/6  

8:30 
Breakfast Meet & Greet, Sony Pictures Plaza/Atrium

10-11:30
A1 – James Cameron – Seeing the Future in 3D
B1 – Scripted Cable w USA, FX, AMC, TNT/TBS/TCM, DisneyABC
D1 – Branded Entertainment w Reveille

11:50-1
A2 – Indie Film Finance
B2 – Curb Your Enthusiasm producer
D2 – Lost, Ugly Betty, XMen producers

2-3:10
A3 – Gordon on Gordon – Die Hard, Day After Tomorrow producers
B3 – Starlight Runner Entertainment, MIT Media Lab, Mass Animation
D3 – ABC Entertainment, Endemol, Bunim-Murray
E3 – Virtual to Viral Monetization, Marketing, Development w WB, Sony

3:30-5
A4 – Lawrence Bender, Norman Lear, Roger Corman, Michael London
B4 – Fx Star Trek, Star Wars, Cloverfield, Iron Man, Watchmen
D4 – Episodic TV: Elements of a Hit

5:20-6:30
A5 – Producers of Benjamin Button, Gladiator
B5 – Nolan Bushnell, Atari with Disney, Acclaim
D5 – DRM Jaman, Auditude

6:30-7:30
Cocktails with Digital 25, Sony Pictures Plaza/Atrium
Those that have made the most significant contribution to digital entertainment and storytelling:

- Steve Jobs (Apple/iPhone)
- Jeff Bezos (Amazon/Kindle)
- James Cameron
- Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks)
- Henry Selick (CORALINE)
- Ed Catmull/Pete Docter/John Lasseter/Jim Morris/Andrew Stanton (Pixar)
- Roger Guyett/Mike Sanders/Steve Sullivan (ILM)
- Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy)
- Yair Landau (Mass Animation)
- Jim Jannard (RED)
- Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo)
- Ev Williams/ Jack Dorsey/Biz Stone (Twitter)
- Steve Chen/Chad Hurley (YouTube)
- Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
- Tom Anderson/ChrisDeWolfe (MySpace)
- Jason Kilar (Hulu)
- Kevin Rose/Alex Albrecht (Digg)
- Philip Rosedale (Second Life)
- Sam Houser (Grand Theft Auto)
- Evan/Gregg Spiridellis (JibJab)
- Ashton Kutcher/Jason Goldberg
- Sandy Climna/Steve Schklair/Jon&Peter Shapiro (3ality)
- Jonathan Kaplan (Pure Digital)
- Fred Seibert (Nick-at- Night, Hanna Barbera)
- Laura Michaelchyshyn (Discovery)

Winners determined by the PGA New Media Council, Rebecca Allen (Nokia Research Center), Ian Ballon (Greenberg & Taurig), Greg Clayman (MTV), David Eun (Google), Jody Graham Dunitz (Angel Investor), Brian Hall (MS), Lew Henderson (Davey-Brown), Yair Landau (Mass Animation), Martin Nisenholtz (NYT), Ira Rubenstein (Marvel), Kara Swisher (D), Aber Whitcomb (MySpace).  Next time you see them ask why digital visionaries George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are not on their list, but Ashton Kutcher is  

Su

9-10:10
A6 – Producers of Desperate Housewives
B6 – Media in Motion with Nokia, GoTV

10:30-12:30
B7 –  Master Classes with Marshall Herskovitz, Thom Beers
C7 –  Being Green with Arianna Huffington

12:30-2
That’s Lunch Catering Truck Showcase, Thalberg Parking Lot

2-3:10
A8 – Pixar
B8 – Producers of The Tudors, TOKYOPOP
C8 – Produce a Doc Not Boring, Inconvenient Truth producer
D8 – Music Licensing with Lionsgate

3:30-5
A9 – Clint Eastwood
B9 – 3ality, Sony, REAL D
C9 – Indie Distribution with Withoutabox

5:20-6:30
A10 – Marvel
B10 – HBO Films, Sony, Dark Knight producer
C10 – Motion Capture with Sony, Digital Domain, ILM

6:45-10
Producers Challenge Awards, Cary Grant Theater

A – Cary Grant Theater
B – Wheel of Fortune, Stage 11
C – William Holden Theater
D – Backstage Theater
E – Jimmy Stewart 24

Jaman terus berubah, dan perubahan itu tidak bisa dihindarkan. Begitu juga yang dialami oleh negara-negara di dunia, globalisasi menjadi arus yang kuat yang sulit untuk dibendung. Sebenarnya tidak ada yang salah dengan globalisasi, karena dengan globalisasi akses perdagangan menjadi terbuka dan perekonomian semakin bergairah. Harapannya paling tidak adalah perekonomian di suatu negara semakin berkembang dan itu akan membantu rakyatnya. Tentu bagi negara miskin dan berkembang yang sebagian besar rakyatnya dalam kemiskinan.

Namun apa yang terjadi kini adalah kebalikannya. Kapitalis dari negara-negara maju secara perlahan-lahan telah memakan penguasaan ekonomi di negara-negara berkembang. Dan setidaknya ada empat hal yang ditawarkan dalam era globalisasi ini, yaitu: (1) new market (pasar baru), di mana uang itu dipasarkan dan menjadi barang yang diperjualbelikan; (2) new tools, sistem informasi yang canggih membuat hilangnya jarak antar Negara; (3) new actors, munculnya personal yang mengalahkan otoritas state karena kekayaan yang dimiliki; dan (4) new rules, aturan baru soal hak cipta barang.

Apabila kita bercermin pada kondisi di negeri kita, apakah kita juga pelaku di dalam era globalisasi. Ataukah hanya menjadi obyek saja sehingga lebih tepat bila disebut dengan korban? Yah mungkin lebih tepatnya adalah sebagai korban. Mengapa? Memang dengan globalisasi perdagangan di Indonesia semakin meningkat. Di mana permintaan barang-barang denga mudah dan cepat kini bisa terpenuhi.

Tetapi hal itu bukanlah berarti Indonesia telah menjadi pelaku dalam globalisasi. Dinamika globalisasi dan berbagai pengaruh penting lainnya diakui telah melahirkan suatu realitas yang oleh Stiglitz (2002) dikatakannya sebagai kondisi serba ketidakpastian dan ketidakpuasan, kemudian melahirkan virus kemiskinan dan ketidakadilan. Fakta menunjukkan terjadinya ketimpangan ekonomi yang sangat mencolok antara Negara kaya dan berkembang. Sebanyak 40 persen dari total populasi dunia hidup di Negara miskin, namun hanya 3 persen dari pendapatan perkapita dunia di serap Negara itu. Sementara Negara kaya hanya 14 persen dari populasi dunia tetapi dapat menyerap sebanyak 75 persen dari pendapatan perdagangan dunia.

Di samping itu globalisasi membawa dampak tersendiri terhadap industri di dalam negeri. Berapa banyak barang-barang yang buatan luar negeri berhamburan dan digunakan oleh penduduk indonesia. Bahkan mungkin kita akan agak kesulitan ketika mencari barang yang berlabel ‘made in Indonesia’. Betapa tidak, mulai dari barang-barang yang simpel dan murah sampai barang elektronik, otomotif, dll bukanlah buatan dalam negeri. Sebagai contoh barang yang simpel adalah seperti ballpoint, silet, kertas dan lain sebagainya yang merupakan buatan China. Begitu juga dengan barang elektronik apalagi komputer, negara Amerika, Jepang, China bertebaran di Indonesia.

Pertanyaanya adalah apakah memang Indonesia tidak bisa secara mandiri memproduksi barang-barang itu?tentu tidak, Indonesia masih mempunyai SDM yang berkualitas meskipun jumlahnya tidak banyak. Indonesia masih mempunyai insinyur yang juga bertebaran di luar negeri. Namun memang kini rakyat telah dinina bobokkan sehingga telah merasa nyaman dengan kondisi yang ada. Dan begitu juga dengan pemerintah yang juga ikut larut dalam permainan globalisasi yang dilakukan oleh negara-negara maju serta lembaga-lembaga keungan Indonesia seprti  IMF, WTO dan IFIs lainnya.

Learned via NewTeeVee that Jaman had a serious round of layoffs, leaving just a small team.

That sucks. 

Jaman was one of the pioneers in the paid content space. Their product was great and film buffs really appreciated their high-quality product. They had a series of tie-ups with providers of content all over the world, including Bollywood, our target segment. 

Yet, here they are, three years later. What went wrong ?

There is a lot of punditry about what customers are ready and not ready to do, whether they are more intersted in subscription models vs. pay per view, and whether free content is the way to go.

Let’s be clear about one thing : free legal content will never sustain any business. Let’s assume even if we go with premium content and pre-roll ads, like Hulu, and get $100 CPMs . That’s $0.1 per view. And what’s the cost of acquisition ? Typically, it’s at least $0.5 . That alone will send your business under, leaving aside the cost of procuring, encoding and serving content. Serving free content reminds me of that old chestnut ” Yes, we lose money on every customer, but we make it up in scale.”

The only way this works is if you are somehow able to get customers for free, and in droves.  And even then, it’s doubtful whether that how sustainable that service is without the deep pockets of an investor who needs your traffic and coolness factor. I present exhibit one: YouTube, Flickr and Facebook . 

If you argue that people want free content, I would say that people want free anything, including BMWs, diamonds and vacation homes in the Costa Smerelda. Free is not a business, and in the long term it doesn’t serve anyone. Not even customers – for every operation that tries free content and fails, it’s that much harder for the next one .For a while there’s a bloodbath until someone like Apple or Netflix comes in and grabs the whole segment, ending up in the paid category.

The key is to provide a service that people really find value in. And to discover what that is, you need to try a variety of things, and keep your costs low so you live to fight another day. Maybe the innovation is in the pricing, the product , the marketing or in the delivery. There’s plenty of scope to tinker.  

Jaman did try a  variety of things, but I guess they were done in by their overheads and grew ahead of their demand. Their 5,000 titles for 50,000 visitors a month was perhaps a bit too much. Their staff wasn’t big, but all that investment in high-quality video is expensive.

The second thing was that their brand wasn’t very strong. The choice of their titles confusing to me. There really wasn’t anything in common with La Fabri_k and Ashoka, the former being a Cuban hip-hop thingy and the latter being a rotten Bollywood flick pretending to be a Hollywood epic . The film festival crowd, with whom they started, might not have been big enough , viral enough, or passionate enough to sustain them. In the end it was not clear who Jaman really was for. 

The third thing could just be that they were ahead of their time. A lot of factors really seem to point to the inflection point of video consumption online right about now, including the MediaMetrix reports, the Nielsen Three Screen reports and the evidence of our own changing lives.

I wish their team all the best. And I’d love to hear from anyone with Jaman tales.

Di jaman seperti sekarang ini pergaulan semakin bebas. Banyak anak muda yang tidak memperhatikan cara pergaulannya. AIDS merupakan penyakit yang banyak di derita oleh kalangan muda. Tanda dan Gejala Penyakit AIDSSeseorang yang terkena virus HIV pada awal permulaan umumnya tidak memberikan tanda dan gejala yang khas, penderita hanya mengalami demam selama 3 sampai 6 minggu tergantung daya tahan tubuh saat mendapat kontak virus HIV tersebut. Setelah kondisi membaik, orang yang terkena virus HIV akan tetap sehat dalam beberapa tahun dan perlahan kekebelan tubuhnya menurun/lemah hingga jatuh sakit karena serangan demam yang berulang. Satu cara untuk mendapat kepastian adalah dengan menjalani Uji Antibodi HIV terutamanya jika seseorang merasa telah melakukan aktivitas yang berisiko terkena virus HIV.

Adapun tanda dan gejala yang tampak pada penderita penyakit AIDS diantaranya adalah seperti dibawah ini :

1. Saluran pernafasan. Penderita mengalami nafas pendek, henti nafas sejenak, batuk, nyeri dada dan demam seprti terserang infeksi virus lainnya (Pneumonia). Tidak jarang diagnosa pada stadium awal penyakit HIV AIDS diduga sebagai TBC.

2. Saluran Pencernaan. Penderita penyakit AIDS menampakkan tanda dan gejala seperti hilangnya nafsu makan, mual dan muntah, kerap mengalami penyakit jamur pada rongga mulut dan kerongkongan, serta mengalami diarhea yang kronik.

3. Berat badan tubuh. Penderita mengalami hal yang disebut juga wasting syndrome, yaitu kehilangan berat badan tubuh hingga 10% dibawah normal karena gangguan pada sistem protein dan energy didalam tubuh seperti yang dikenal sebagai Malnutrisi termasuk juga karena gangguan absorbsi/penyerapan makanan pada sistem pencernaan yang mengakibatkan diarhea kronik, kondisi letih dan lemah kurang bertenaga.

4. System Persyarafan. Terjadinya gangguan pada persyarafan central yang mengakibatkan kurang ingatan, sakit kepala, susah berkonsentrasi, sering tampak kebingungan dan respon anggota gerak melambat. Pada system persyarafan ujung (Peripheral) akan menimbulkan nyeri dan kesemutan pada telapak tangan dan kaki, reflek tendon yang kurang, selalu mengalami tensi darah rendah dan Impoten.

5. System Integument (Jaringan kulit). Penderita mengalami serangan virus cacar air (herpes simplex) atau carar api (herpes zoster) dan berbagai macam penyakit kulit yang menimbulkan rasa nyeri pada jaringan kulit. Lainnya adalah mengalami infeksi jaringan rambut pada kulit (Folliculities), kulit kering berbercak (kulit lapisan luar retak-retak) serta Eczema atau psoriasis.

6. Saluran kemih dan Reproduksi pada wanita. Penderita seringkali mengalami penyakit jamur pada vagina, hal ini sebagai tanda awal terinfeksi virus HIV. Luka pada saluran kemih, menderita penyakit syphillis dan dibandingkan Pria maka wanita lebih banyak jumlahnya yang menderita penyakit cacar. Lainnya adalah penderita AIDS wanita banyak yang mengalami peradangan rongga (tulang) pelvic dikenal sebagai istilah ‘pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)’ dan mengalami masa haid yang tidak teratur (abnormal).

Ingin tambah sukses ?? Ayo gabung peluang usaha warnet, balik modal dalam satu tahun, garansi modal kembali !!!