Thursday, January 25, 2007
Since Google announced its acquisition of YouTube last October, there have been questions about the fate of its own site, Google Video, and how it would either complement or conflict with its much sexier rival-turned-ally. Today, the company gave its first indication of what it has planned going forward. The company realizes it doesn't make much sense to continue to bifurcate its video offerings, and because YouTube is currently the runaway leader in the space, all of the company's videos will basically be hosted and distributed through that site. But it's not going to mothball Google Video. Instead, the site will basically become a video search engine that will help users find videos all over the internet. This seems like an elegant solution. Video search is a natural offering for the company, and it's smart of the company to realize there's more to online video than just what's hosted at YouTube. Some companies, after shelling out $1.6 billion and change for an acquisition might be tempted to milk it for all its worth, and corral users onto just that site, but the company has always recognized there's a lot of money to be made in getting people off its site.
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
New Google AdSense Layout and Features From the AdSense blog: You can now access all AdSense products from the AdSense Setup tab within your account — edit your color palettes, get code snippets, access your channels, and more. As we add even more products and features, they’ll all share a consistent style to keep AdSense easy [...]
Kodak teams up with Kwiat Diamonds to reveal Kodak V570 cameras decorated with 75 brilliant-cut diamonds. Kodak and Kwiat are giving a personalized Kodak V570 to each Best Actress Nominee at the Oscars. The initials of the actresses will be set in ...
When you start seeing 3.2-megapixel imagers in 3G phones, along with the "CyberShot" brand, you know mobile photography has finally come of age. Long gone are the blurry, small and out-of-focus VGA shots from most other mass cameraphones - Sony Ericsson wants to take mobile photography to the masses in a different way. Rish Brome over at phonescoop. com has a great review of these new units from Sony Ericsson, which has been transforming their wireless game over the last few years to really nice, higher-end handsets (very few mass-appeal phones).
it has pictures of really attractive women on the site it is a textbook example of Ajax, search and social networking. It caters to models, photographers and agents.
They offer a seven day free trial for people interested in trying out the service. Solomodels is all business though. The site warns:
Our members are not here for dating.
Contacting our members for anything other than legitimate modeling related work is strictly prohibited and will result in immediate account cancellation. If you are looking for a date, please sign up for a dating site instead.
So don’t even think about it.
What a great site to demonstrate the awesomeness of web 2.0. 
Driven by ubiquitous broadband, cheap hardware, and open-source software, the Web is mutating into a radically different beast than it has been. And that is leading to the creation of entirely new kinds of companies, new business models, and oceans of new opportunity.
We have spliced this list into five categories - Social Media, Mash-Up & Filters, The New Phone, The Web Top and Under The Hood. The VoIP Companies we picked for this category include Fonality, SIPphone, iotum, Vivox with Skype (eBay) as the incumbent to watch.
PMA 2006: Yesterday we got our hands on the Lumix DMC-L1 and had a detailed discussion with Panasonic executives and product planners about their exciting new digital SLR. The DMC-L1 is Panasonic's first digital SLR, its design ethos is clearly clean, simple, functional and very 'Leica like'. There are lots of touches in the design of this camera which make it more appealing that most other digital SLRs, these include the shutter speed dial and aperture ring (on the lens) which give very quick access to manual exposure creativity and encourage the photographer to experiment more. We also got the low down on just how much of this camera is shared with the Olympus E-330.
Cingo is a suite of online tools to help you get your family organized.
We believe that consumers and particularly families are really struggling with the trash, clutter, adware and spyware they must sift through to get the information they want on the internet. With Cingo, it doesn't have to be that way. We built Cingo to help families make the internet work for them, not against them.
When you boot up your Xbox 360 today and log in you might notice your friends list has received a minor make-over. The new Xbox Live friends list includes the Gamerscore for each of your friends.
Major Nelson points out that this is an important addition for all of your Gamerscore whores out there. Man, how embarrassing. I don't think I've even cracked one thousand.
A little warning would have been nice Microsoft, this is like someone walking in on you while you're playing air guitar in the nude… not that I've ever done that or anything.
Updated Xbox Live Friends List [Major Nelson]
Blog: All geeks love a good freebie. Heck, our industry could practically keep the squishy ball industry in business singlehanded.But...
AndrewRUK writes "At 23:09 UTC, the one-millionth article was created in the English-language Wikipedia. The milestone was reached with the creation of an article about Jordanhill railway station in Scotland. Congratulations to all the Wikipedians, especially Nach0king who wrote the millionth article and Mészáros András who in November 2004 correctly predicted that it would be created today
