GraphOn, a software maker based in Santa Cruz, California, has filed a law suit against Google, alleging that Google’s Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites and Youtube services violate GraphOn’s patents.
The patents in question were acquired by GraphOn as a result of its acquisition of Network Engineering Software, which was privately held software company. The acquisition was completed in 2005. GraphOn’s law suit has been filed in United States District Court in the Eastern District of Texas.
Bimbl, an instant blog platform where you can create an account and write about anything you like. So simply, a blog space to talk about you and your interests.
So, the account is pretty fast to make, Bimbl says that it takes upto 6.2 seconds of you typing in your details. It’s a SEO-friendly blog space, where you can also create microsites to compliment other sites you own, or create a personal space or maybe an extra space on the web for your business.
Bimbl offers these options in addition with your posts:
We have just learned that MeeMix has launched its new MeeVideo Application for Facebook. The new application is set to bring MeeMix personalized YouTube music videos directly to the users of Facebook. It guarantees users of saving their time by bringing to them music that matches their taste.
MeeVideo lets users share music videos from their favorite by using the application box available on their profile page. How could this be a good application for Facebook, well in our opinion this could relieve the users of manually refreshing their playlist and leaving the job for MeeVideo instead.
Beijing Olympics 2008 is one of the most discussed event nowadays. Every one has caught its fever and is trying to have a scoop of it by re-defining their services. People are carving ways to stay tuned with the events’ latest trends and many of the services like Google, YouTube, Lego, Veetle, BitTorrent are joining the amaranthine race of fostering latest Olympics Highlights and News. Zoho, an online office suite provider, is yet another service to join the Olympics wagon.
Zoho has built a Live Olympics 2008 Dashboard that will keep on updating all sports fans with the latest trends of the games. The dashboard will serve as a concrete platform where you can have wholesome information about Olympics’ competition via charts, diagrams, reports and graphs. Folks at Zoho would be generating periodic reports and results through Zoho DB while the Live dashboard is created using Zoho Wiki.
LA Times has reported of RushmoreDrive chanting slogans for a black Google. Now that doesn’t mean anyone’s heading off for a controversy but at a growing concern how Google ranks its pages and how the system pushes down searches that might be the priority o the rest of the population which isn’t white.
Johnny C. Taylor, who launched RushmoreDrive, a search engine that emphasis its targets at the black community makes sure that these users get what they want. As he mentioned to the LA Times:
The International Olympic Committee has withdrawn its Copyright infringement claim on YouTube regarding its videos showing Tibetan protests. According to Electronic Frontier Foundation’s attorney, Corynne McSherry, the IOC, earlier this week demanded that the video sharing site removed the video portraying protests for a free Tibet. The video was posted under the heading of “Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony“.
The video showed world wide protests in favour of Tibet. It also contained olympic rings footage but it wasn’t more than twice.
With Yahoo making Fire Eagle’s launch (of beta version) in March 2008; it is now open to public with 22 launch partners providing their services. Fire Eagle allows developers to build services tailored to the user’s geographic area, using its location-based middleware.
The process for enabling location-based service is such that it begins by asking the user for their location (country or even global coordinates), thereby completing Fire Eagle’s job – from there onwards, the applications built upon the service take command.
Last time we had reported that Italy has blocked The Pirate Bay. Though the company had decided to fight against this irrational point, it was expected that IFIP will gradually ruin world’s largest BitTorrent’s image. But, instead of decrease in the traffic from Italy, the ‘bay has noticed a drastic increase in its traffic.
According to Alexa, the site has jumped almost 10 places this week which is quiet noticeable. Its not been long when the pirate bay’s co-founder protest against the attempted block and slapped Italy by changing its IP and domain name. Furthermore, Peter Sunder, co-founder of the great BitTorrent said that they are used to these types of access blocking actions from ‘fascist countries’. Countries like Italy cannot afford the freedom of speech and this kind of info greatly harm their (dictator’s) ego.
RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has been involved in a number of cases in the U.S. related to file sharing. One of the most famous cases of RIAA was against Jammie Thomas. The case created a lot of hype due to the volume of fines. The news was covered on a national scale. What people may not know is that there are a lot of cases which were not won by RIAA. The only reason behind it is that those cases were not given that much coverage; you can call it RIAA’s strong lobby with the media or ignorance on media’s part.
One of such cases was Atlantic Vs Tanya Anderson. The case took more than 3 years to finish. In the end RIAA dropped the case with prejudice. This means that the RIAA admitted they were wrong on the case. Similarly there was another case against Foster, an alleged file sharer. Both of these cases saw negligence from the media.
It has been quite a long bit since the last we hoped Six Apart doing something with their domain blogs.com and the news is out that they have decided to bring it to life as another blog directory.
The purpose for this is to create a directory that is edited by a team of five human editors, unlike most directories that are automated by use choice and thumbs up etc. plus it isn’t much comprehensive as its present coverage lies with about 1200 blogs as Erick Schonfeld reports.
