Virtual Interactive Agency featured in Oakland Business Review

Way to go Joey and the Virtual Interactive Agency for getting featured on the front page of the Oakland Business Review for their work on Second Life (and we did not only the website for their agency but the site for the Virtual Security Pavilion, virtualsecurity1.com

Check it out after the jump (linked to viaagency.net which has the full page pdfs of the article)

HD DVD and Blu-Ray Encryption Already Started to Be Hacked

Remember how I've said DRM (Digital Rights Management) is useless? Well, more proof.

All of this hub-bub about "It can't be decrypted" and "It will take too much time" and all of the ridiculous restraints that the content industry puts on us through onerous acts such as the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) as well as reaching into our computers through hardware and software.

Well, the latest episode of Security Now! talks about the fact that already both of those next generation DVD formats are already on their way to being cracked by sliding through the memory (I know, a little propeller-head, but they do a good job of explaining on the show).

The business model of content and media is changing at a breakneck pace because it is a whole new world out there... so it's time to adapt, and technology won't - and can't - save the old business model.

Hilarious iPhone Skit

Tip of the hat to Veronica Belmonts' Music and Medicine Blog on this one.. awesome!

Congratulations VIA!

We're proud to have launched today viaagency.net

The Virtual Interactive Agency has a history of building and being involved in really cool interactive items at auto shows (such as The Jeep Experience Simulator) and has various interesting clientele such as Mattel, Ford, and General Motors.

We're honored to have built their new online site, utilizing Flash, CSS, HTML and other tricks to make a cool hybrid site that is still visible to search engines. Thanks to Joey Silvian for working with us and being a great client to work with!

http://www.viaagency.net

iPhone thoughts, AppleTV

There has been a million iPhone reviews. I think that it's a beaten, dead horse - except I'll add this.

Please, make one without phone capability. I want a mac PDA - and if we could add some pages capability, or something like that, I'll get rid of my much loved hipster PDA/iPod. Cingular, being in downtown Detroit, and I are not friends... I couldn't hold onto a call for more than a couple minutes... it's why I switched to Verizon. More expensive, but, client calls are priceless.

Also, I think the AppleTV has tons of potential. The idea that a podcaster can create content and have it be right on their television is awesome... Alex Lindsay at the Pixel Corps (and TWiT) has it right on the head that it's a brand new market that many smaller players can jump into with low distribution costs.

More later... friend is writing a fascinating article on localization of web site content, I'll be sure to post it up for you folks as soon as I get it.