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When going open is the word across the web then New York Times got to give in big for the countless Internet users it has. And today its the entire movie archive, having more than 22,000 movies since 1924. This would enable outside developers to associate their reviews and sort them using the Movie Review API.

This would be greatly helpful as various services can utilize the reviews posted on movies, be they on any date and link them to their listings. Although the current step wont fill in NYT’s treasure box with cash, but it ill prove helpful over time. Why waste those precious reviews from history when you can have them monetized the open way?

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The video conversation site, Seesmic, has completed the update and it all went well. According to the site, the update include improvements to the way the Seesmic site handles the user sessions. With this update, users won’t have to face much problems while staying logged in. YouTube videos on Seesmic are still not running. Though the video conversation site says that it is due to the changes on YouTube’s end, the solution is yet to be tracked.

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Social networking site, Orkut, contains over 600 apps and growing. Now if you want to add any of these apps then what is the best way to do it? The Orkut team has inducted a new feature to the apps directory that lets you see and add the apps which are being used by your friends. Now when you go to the application directory, you will be able to see the most popular apps, the newly added apps and also three apps which are popular among your friends. To access the apps, just go to the add apps section that appears at the left sidebar of the profile and view the apps.

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Lenovo and Splashtop manufacturer DeviceVM join hands to provide a one-of-a-kind ‘instant-on’ netbook. The product allows users to run applications such as browsers, email clients and other Internet-based utilities with just a press of the power button, even before the OS loads! DeviceVM’s project is part of its working of expansion to reach further into global markets.

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When I read Mark Cuban calling Jerry Yang a nice guy, I sort of agreed on a personal note; the guy, no matter how hard he tries to be a kung-fu master fails to be a threat to anyone. Perhaps that’s one reason why the company keeps falling down in value, lack of iron-fisted leadership. And then we have almost 2000 employees counting their last days.

They would definitely be having all sorts of cruel words to define how cruel Jerry is. But wait, is it his fault? Given the crashing reputation of Yahoo as a business, his decisions are largely influenced by pressure from the board members and investors in particular. What made Cuban call Jerry nice was actually the way he had been with Google, which according to Cuban deserves to be dealt the tough way:

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Washington, D.C, based blog network SportsBlog Nation (SB Nation) has raised cash in a round of funding. The network contains 150 blogs, all of them dedicated to a specific college or professional team. The round was led by Accel Partners and was participated by others including Providence Equity Partners and Ted Leonsis. The network has been under development for about an year. The exact amount of the fund raised is not yet known.

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Now here’s a app that’s handy for all, PocketFinder by Location Based Technologies, a service that delivers real-time updates providing location info, speed of travel and travel history to whoever you want to share with. Location Based Tech brings this app to Google’s Android platform with the aim of providing easiness to parents and loved ones, as it delivers location zone and speed alerts through the Web, cell phone or a landline. The app is available on a 15-day free trial after which users are asked to pay $4.95/month to continue. CEO, Location Based Technologies, Dave Morse states:

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Google’s G1 phone has been out on T-Mobile but now less prominent companies are also going to introduce it. According to a website the Android phone will be released by a company called ASUStek by the first half of next year. Another company OpenMoko is said to develop its own Android phone. If it really happens then it will give clients a variety of options to choose from. Also it would be interesting to see companies such as LG, SonyEricson and Samsung jumping into the Google mobile scene.

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A web-based app, Pixolu, lets you look for images by their similarity to one another. As previously reviewed, the service works by searching image indexes of Google, Yahoo and Flickr, and returns results which you can further refine. Drag images to Pixolu’s ‘holding area’ to further refine your search. For example, if you’re looking for pictures of lots of pumpkins gathered together in particular, search for it with Pixolu; drag and drop pictures of multiple pumpkins from your initial search (into the sidebar) thereby refining your search. Pixolu then narrows down the remaining images and gets you just the right photo you’re looking for.

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According to a study by oDesk, Apple iPhone developers demand has gone up by 500% over the past six months, as iPhone programming jobs keep on coming in. Apple has not looked back after its introduction of the iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0 platform, increasing the demand for freelance iPhone developers. oDesk, a Menlo Park, CA-based company, caters in providing jobs to certified, freelance developers skilled in iPhone apps. The company has representation in over 100 countries worldwide, including U.S., Russia, India, Ukraine, China & Pakistan.

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