Archive for May, 2008
Google’s owner thinks that Viacom $1billion lawsuit against YouTube is a threat to the Internet.
The lawsuit has been filed by Viacom, as it thinks that YouTube has abused the copyright laws and has allowed countless copies of popular television programming and movies; posting them on their site and viewed endlessly.
Viacom claims to have identified at least 150,000 such abuses that include clips from shows like South Park and MTV Unplugged.
AltaBlogs is a site which lets you create your own blogs. It contains several features which lets you write and edit your posts.
You can edit colours, fonts, header images, comment options, themes, layouts and many more.
The Internet does make things easy (no I had realized that in my school days) but with this new shipping website my faith in the Internet gets firmer. SHIPtool is the tool that allows you to keep a track of all the shipment procedures on the web.
SHIPtool gives you an edge by allowing you to compare the pricing and delivery options of various shippers; all from one page.
Chilirec is an online radio recording service. It allows you to record your favourite music from hundreds of different channels.
You can discover new music. Searching is very easy as you have the option to search through artist, title, genre or all.
Another good thing is that the files are saved online so you don’t have to increase storage capacity of your system.
You can create your own playlist which can be stored online. You can see your recordings through ‘History’ option in the navigator.
Other than recording, you can also listen to the music. You can save personal copy on your disk, iPod or any other device.
If you have recorded a lot of music, you can search in your directory as well.
When you start the recorder, you have to wait for 5 minutes until you start recording. After 2 days of your visit, you will be able to see the ‘Toplist’ which will display a list of songs most frequently played on the radio.
This new service seems a nice idea (as you don’t have to worry about the storage on your system), but what if your Internet is down at some point? You won’t be able to listen anything. Relying only on Internet is not such a good idea. On the other hand if you are on the go or on vacations, you don’t have to cater your storage device with you, all you require is a good Internet connection to play your favourite music.
Chilirec is currently running its beta version but they have done an excellent job with their service. English and Swedish are the two languages supported currently. Probably we will see more fascinating stuff in their final version.
With the word Digital on every tongue and even newspapers circulating over the Internet; United States’ most widely circulated (and respected) newspaper, the New York Times is taking strides to increase its online readership.
Currently the top news source at Memeorandum and the third on Techmeme , the stats show that bloggers are serious about its reporting. New York Times is now working out a way to make the newspaper programmable, with an API.
According to Javier Olivan, international manager at Facebook, Facebook plans to add language capabilities by manifesting itself in Dutch, Norwegian, Polish and Italian. Future strategy also spans over adding another 20 languages including Chinese.
Finally Facebook is gearing up to take on challenge to resolve cultural diversity through an innovative set of features. For any social networking system, bringing a "home feel" to its users in a manner that is coherent with their culture has always been a major challenge. Although MySpace captures over 80% of market share, we have yet to see the global acceptance of social networking system. A system that addresses diversity across regions in a consistent manner.
Microsoft has been the king of the browser market with over 75% of market in its pocket. But tides seem to be shifting into a heating competition with an advent of innovation over standard and age old outlooks of web browsers.
Mozilla, after spending three years in developing and another six months of public testing is ready to launch FireFox 3.0. It is said to have tricks that would revolutionize the way people browse and organize the sites they most often visit.
Apple, itself plans at moving out of the nutshell into the global arena of PCs with its browser, Safari (a pretty hard push). And amidst all this rapid expansion and development within its rivals, Microsoft launched the public test version of its latest Explorer with the finished Internet Explorer 8 to be in market by the end of this year.
GameSkoot is a game search engine. It is a platform where one can find information about games on different genres.
There is a ‘News’ section where you can find the latest information about any specific game. In the ‘Test’ section you can find reviews about different games. Cheats can also be found in the secific section. You can discuss your gaming issues in the ‘Forum’. In the ‘Hot Stuff’ section you can find the hottest news regarding any game.
All the information you can find over here will be of different consoles i.e. Play Station, X-box/360, PC etc. Read More »
moblf, a San Francisco based company, has launched a new service which lets you interact with the web using SMS.
The best thing about this service is that it incorporates with published APIs of web services like Twitter and FriendFeed. You can see what your friends are up to through updates on mobile phones which means that you can access this service from anywhere at anytime.
Currently their beta version lets you see 5 recent updates from websites like Twitter, FriendFeed etc. Soon they will let you reply your friend’s activities through SMS which will appear as a comment on those sites.
