Many people probably do not realize what is going on right now in the world of the internet, or its inner workings anyhow…SOPA the Stop Online Piracy Act, which is being heavily pushed by many Hollywood studios and other media production companies to allow government to basically make websites accused of housing illegal materials such as copyrighted media illegal and allow them to force the websites to be blocked.

Essentially this bill will allow the government to control what is allow and not allowed on the internet, long story short. Many people and organizations are opposing these bills as they fear they will cause severe damage to the internet’s inner mechanics as well as the fact that it doesn’t actually solve the problem at hand.

With SOPA the initial bill allowed government to force ISPs and other DN providers to remove DNS entries to websites accused of hosting pirated material. While this may sound okay it is cause for concern on many levels. One of which is the fact the simply removing the DNS entry is not going to correct the problem because the website can still be browsed to via its actual IP.

While I am not going to go into much detail on the bills for lack of time…it should be said that people need to be pushing their congressman to vote this down just the same as the many organizations are pushing against it. Many organizations are planning protests against the bills. Some of those companies are Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, etc. There is currently a list of some 500+ websites that will be shutting their websites off tomorrow in an effort to protest these bills.

To read more about Googles stance and others on SOPA and PIPA click here.

To read more about Wikipedias stance on SOPA click here.

To view the ever growing list of companies also joining in on the blackout tomorrow click here.

Samsung just released a concept video of their new “Flexible Display Technology” that though it isn’t expected to be out until 2012 (which is actually pretty soon…) is very impressive and may become the new standard for mobile devices according to many different articles I’ve read over the last few months.

Even though Samsung has not officially released this technology it is very impressive and the possible uses are endless. If you have a spare moment check out the video released by them that is designed to portray the devices possibilities. This device being flexible is very durable. Those of you that always drop devices, such as phones, tablets, etc. don’t need to worry about dropping one of these. One of the cool possibilities this device will offer is augmented reality which allows the user to basically see an image in 3D off of the tablet itself.

Pretty interesting technology that could also have benefits in many different fields when it comes to training with the use of augmented reality. Surgeons could learn about various surgeries via the augmented reality and would be able to see what should happen in a surgery without actually having to be present in a surgery.

If you want to read more click here or check out the video from Samsung below!

One of the best new ways to share YouTube videos with friends is with Google+ Hangout feature.  Hangout’s let you do video and voice chatting with your friends and now you are able to embed a YouTube video in your conversations.

How to watch YouTube Videos on Google Plus hangout with friends?

1. Start a Hangout session and invite friends.
2. Visit YouTube’s live stream page and select a feed.
3. Copy the YouTube video I.D. of the stream.
4. Search for the I.D. in the Hangouts video tab.
5. Once the stream is found, click play.

This is cumbersome, and is not how Google intends for the feature to be used in the future. Instead, live streams will be added to Hangout’s existing YouTube tab.  This feature is planned to be updated in the future.

If your already a member of Google+ why not give it a try? 

Netflix Subscribers could be looking for an alternative source for their movie streaming and DVD rentals.  Netflix has sent out an E-mail to all Subscribers telling of their plan to raise prices of their Streaming and DVD services.  Currently subscribers are paying $9.99 to watch an unlimited number of movies online and rent 1 DVD at-a-time (Other subscription plans include receiving multiple DVDs at-a-time).  Subscribers who want this combination will now have to pay a total of $15.98 a month.  That is $7.99 for Netflix Instant streaming and $7.99 to receive DVDs in the mail (1 at-a-time).  Reactions to Netflix's biggest-ever price increases were swift and overwhelmingly negative.  More than 10,000 people had responded to the news on Netflix's Facebook page by late Tuesday, nearly all of them critical.  Will Netflix keep this price change?  Or will they lower their prices to satisfy consumers?