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Personalized guided TV content with MeeVee

meeveeMeeVee is all about personalized navigation and patented metadata generation technology, which results in a comprehensive personalized TV search. MeeVee helps users find the programming they are looking for from new services, like internet based broadcasts. Through the online service you can program alerts, create customized TV listings, and check out recommendations. We covered MeeVee last April, and now they have recently announced some new features. When you personalize your MeeVee guide, the service will let you know about your upcoming shows, as well as online videos that match your interests. The Network and Community tabs will show you the new videos. There is also a new entertainment portal and blog central where you can keep up on all the latest news, gossip and all the latest from the entertainment world, making for one giant entertainment portal.

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MeeVee set to launch Web 2.0 features

meevee launches new featuresYou can sit at home and surf TV channels, but that's so 20th century. Sitting on your computer looking up TV channels? You might as well be using a Navigator 4.7, because the new hotness is Web 2.0 everything. In fact, MeeVee has caught the bug, and according to BetaNews, will be rolling out some very web-friendly new services today. What kind of services? The money quote from MeeVee's pres is this: "[The site] literally takes consumers by the hand and introduces them to all the new content that exists on the Internet beyond the traditional content they currently know." Really? All the new content? How is this possible? For one thing, MeeVee has developed some of their own search tools which might allow you to look for scenes with specific actors. For another, they will be rolling out forums, where users can comment on content. As a final Tivo-esque trick, MeeVee will ultimately make suggestions on content from traditional and net sources for your viewing pleasure.

MeeVee has already landed several million in VC money. And they didn't do that by being another TVGuide or TitanTV clone. In fact, MeeVee began life in 2000 as MyDTV. Since then, they've been toiling on search capabilities, sharing tools, and all those nifty things that make web 2.0 our beloved Web 2.0. Or whatever. Look, they have some search patents, experience in TV listings, and iPod/iTunes integration (you can supposedly push content to the device). Since this is a free service, what's to lose? Whenever they launch these cool new toys, I'll test them out against what I normally use (TitanTV, because I use it with my EyeTV) and see how they compare.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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