I can’t remember how I ran across it but this is a very cool tool. uvLayer is downloadable AIR application to manipulate lots of video media on a desktop canvas. For those that arn’t aware of the cool new Adobe technology AIR, it is basically a cross-platform, Windows and Mac, downloadable desktop application framework. AIR allows applications written in either HTML with lots of Javascript and AJAX loveliness or Flash Flex. AIR applications are designed not only to be the desktop application to the connected web but to work when you are offline.

uvLyare is one cool AIR application. It’s a video/media search application which allows you to search for videos then drag them on to the canvas for later viewing

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I was sure it was going to happen, but my previous predictions of a surge in technology buyouts for the second half of 2008 came way earlier than expected. But i’m not talking about any of these little web2.0 technology snap ups with money Google found down the back of their software, this is old-school big software company consolidation

For those that don’t digest the tech news on ZDNet or get a regular dose of Digging you might have missed these two big stories:

Sun Microsystems buys MySQL. A cool 1 billion dollars.

Oracle buys BEA Systems. A whopping 8.5 billion dollars.

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Someone just pointed out Apple’s great new advert on the home page of non-other than The NY Times (go right now, quick while it’s still showing). It’s the second Apple ad I’ve seen that plays around with the concept of multiple ad units on a single page to create ad content which is, well, better than the content of the page it is sitting on.

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