| Did Twitter Just Quietly Start Twitter Connect? If Not, It Should.
April 17, 2009 at 8:37 pm
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|   Yesterday, on it Twitter API Wiki, Twitter quietly unveiled a "Sign in with Twitter" feature. It's a very simple idea: It gives you the option to use your Twitter ID as your login for third party services. But what's more interesting is what Twitter could do with this. Basically, this could be the first step at launching a "Twitter Connect" of sorts, the same type of platform that Facebook is building with Facebook Connect and Google is building with Friend Connect. |
| Feedly Mini Learns How to Search
April 17, 2009 at 8:32 pm
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|   The social news utility Feedly announced on its blog that it just added the ability to perform a supplemental search on content it knows about on any of a number of different sites like Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Wikipedia, Amazon and more. Results from this parallel search appear in Feedly Mini, an unobtrusive pop-up notification area in the lower-right corner of the Firefox browser window. Search results are drawn from FriendFeed, Google Reader feeds and other sources.
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| A Better Calling Card: Twitter Challenges Facebook Connect
April 17, 2009 at 7:15 pm
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|  In the old days, self-important people use to carry calling cards. Now we have Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites to turn us all into mini-celebrities. So what's the new calling card online? That position's being jockeyed for as we speak, and different contenders are taking very different approaches.
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| Susan Boyle: The Most Viral Video Of All Time?
April 17, 2009 at 6:06 pm
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|   A few Friday afternoon links for your reading pleasure: - Susan Boyle: The Biggest YouTube Sensation Ever? [Mashable]
- WPP accuses Spot Runner of "Pump and Dump" Stock Scheme [AdAge]
- Gmail has a cool new "suggest more recipients" feature [Gmailblog]
- Opposition to Google Books Settlement Jells [NYT]
- Newspaper employment at lowest point since 1978 [E&P]
- Sony Ericsson: No Android phone anytime soon [Reuters]
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| New in Gmail Labs: "Suggested Recipients"
April 17, 2009 at 3:49 pm
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|  If you often send emails to multiple recipients, a new feature in Gmail Labs will now help you to ensure that you don't inadvertently forget a recipient you typically include in your group emails. After you activate it, this new feature, "Suggest more Recipients," kicks in after you add at least two recipients to your message. If you, for example, usually send out a message to your mom, dad, sister and brother together, Gmail will suggest that you add both your sister and brother to the list of recipients after you type in your mother's and father's address. |
| Android growing, says Google — but not so fast, says Motorola
April 17, 2009 at 3:39 pm
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|   Okay, it's not just tech blogs like VentureBeat that think the Google-forged Android operating system is going to have a big year. Even Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is getting bullish. In a conference call yesterday about his company's first quarter earnings, Schmidt held forth with the following: |
| Rolling Outages Frustrate Gmail Users
April 17, 2009 at 3:30 pm
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|   Gmail acting a bit flaky for you lately? You're not a lone. According to CNET, several Gmail users were unable to access their email yesterday. Ditto, according to a couple of your Lifehacker editors. In fact, we've been seeing quite a bit of flakiness from Lifehacker's Google Apps Gmail lately—another sobering reminder that reliance on the web can be problematic. The small silver lining: With Offline Gmail, you can at least continue to access any email you've got downloaded for offline access. If you've been affected by the recent Gmail outages, let's hear about it in the comments. [CNET] |
| Recession takes chunk out of Easter game sales
April 17, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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|  "Recession-proof" ain't what it used to be. First Google's secret money making machine starts coughing up smoke, and now the video games industry takes a hit. What's next, recession? Rainbows and unicorns going broke? Overall, the industry saw about $1.43bn in sales during the month, compared to $1.72bn in March 2008. Software sales dropped 17 per cent year-over-year to $792.8m and hardware sales fell 18 per cent to $455.6m. |
| Why Metered Broadband Would Work
April 17, 2009 at 1:23 pm
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|  Maybe nobody else is sad that Time Warner Cable has (for now) abandoned its foray into consumption-based Internet service pricing, but I am. I was all set for the company to become the poster child net neutrality--a topic that is hard for many people to understand--and why it really matters. The idea behind net neutrality is that the owner of the plumbing should not care what the plumbing is used for or who uses it. This means that just because you are the local cable company, you cannot discriminate in how your Internet service is priced to benefit your other businesses. This is exactly what it looked like Time Warner was planning to do. |
| Google CEO: Android To Have 'Very, Very Strong Year'
April 17, 2009 at 12:55 pm
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|  Google's (GOOG) Android mobile operating system has not taken off yet. But that's okay -- it has at least another year to prove itself. And during Google's earnings call yesterday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told us to keep paying attention:
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| Google Offers Top Tip to Help Beat Bots
April 17, 2009 at 11:30 am
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| Google has put a new spin on the CAPTCHA, a way of helping Web sites distinguish between human visitors and bots: It wants people to tell it which way is up in a series of randomly rotated images, a task that humans find easy and computers difficult. When spammers started using software to automatically create thousands of Web-mail accounts on services such as Hotmail and Gmail from which to send their spam, the Web-mail operators turned to the CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) to weed out automated applicants. |
| YouTube Moves Into Hulu Territory with Shows and Movies
April 17, 2009 at 11:00 am
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|  YouTube adds a "Shows" button to its main navigation bar, showcasing dozens of officially-licensed TV shows and movies, even if most of them are more than a decade old. The content from MGM, Sony, CBS, and a few other Hollywood firms comes with advertisements, as you might expect, and most of it seems like deep archive or under-monetized stuff—you get the full runs of The Addams Family and Married with Children, and films like the prom horror classic Carrie and the Mod Squad remake you may or may not recall from 1999. |
| Wikimedia becomes latest to ban Phorm
April 17, 2009 at 8:49 am
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| The Wikimedia Foundation has asked Phorm to exclude all its domains and websites - including Wikipedia - from Phorm's BT trials, because it considers such scanning to be an infringement of its users' privacy. Phorm's automated reply said it was likely the ban would go into effect within 48 hours. The Open Rights Group welcomed the bookseller's decision. The ORG has written to Microsoft, Google, Facebook, AOL/Bebo, Yahoo! and eBay asking them to take similar action and protect their users. |
| Google puts Chrome tabs on options list
April 17, 2009 at 8:19 am
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| Google has updated its tab feature in Chrome, allowing users of the open source browser to remove web page thumbnails. Previously the option came in default mode. The uncooked software, which is available via Google's preview channel, was given the 2.0.174.0 update yesterday. Other notable changes included the addition of "Undo Tab Close" and "New Tab" functions to the context menu on the tab bar. |
| Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Not Likely, Says Fortune
April 17, 2009 at 8:06 am
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|  Buried in Fortune's profile of new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is a rebuttal of recent reports that the company plans to sell its search business to Microsoft in exchange for Microsoft's display business:
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| YouTube Adds Movies and Shows - Goes After Hulu
April 17, 2009 at 7:51 am
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|  Google took the wraps off a partnership with Hollywood studios bringing movies and TV shows to U.S. consumers via its YouTube video network. Some of the big-named partners inking a deal with YouTube are Sony, CBS, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, BBC and independent film studio Lions Gate Entertainment. Each agreed to showcase some of their catalog content on the Google-owned video site. |
| How A Google-Twitter Partnership Would Work
April 17, 2009 at 7:31 am
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|  - Google's offline video ads now work online, too [PaidContent]
- Eric Schmidt explains how Google and Twitter could work together [PaidContent]
- The Baltimore Sun's lawyers tell blogger to stop using more than a paragraph in posts [Epicenter]
- Time Warner shelves plan to charge customers for the amount of broadband bandwidth they use [Reuters]
- Yahoo's Bartz isn't going to sell the company -- or search [Barron's]
- Parade publications gets a CEO [NYT]
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| Google Maps Shows Local Webcams
April 17, 2009 at 7:00 am
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|  Google Maps picks up a layer from webcams.travel, giving you embedded views of public webcams anywhere you want to go. After enabling the layer by clicking the "More" menu and selecting Webcams, you'll be able to find framed camera stills around the Google Maps world. Click on a thumbnail, and you'll see a still image captured within the last 15 minutes. Clicking again brings you to the camera's webcams.travel page, and clicking again gets you to to the actual live feed. Bit too many clicks, especially for someone looking to quickly assess traffic or crowds from a roaming laptop, but pretty great for those who enjoy a peek at bustling streets, or serene landscapes, from around the world. |
| Rogues besmirch F-Secure with dodgy ad campaign
April 17, 2009 at 6:37 am
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| Miscreants have attempted to trick users interested in finding out more about Finnish security firm F-secure into buying a rogue utility. Searching for "F-Secure" on Thursday lead to the rogue products, not through the usual method of black-hat Search Engine Optimization but through malicious Google ads. | | | 
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