Google has come up with a very ambitious project named ‘Friend Connect‘. The Google Friend Connect lets you add social network features to your website with snippets of code from different websites into your own website. Seems more like web widgets which Google have named at ‘Friend Connect’.
Microsoft “Live Mesh” a data storage Web software system was announced by Microsoft of Tuesday. Live Mesh is a Microsoft’s entry to a rapidly growing market called cloud computing, where software applications & services from PC’s are send to a centralized data centers where they are made available via internet.
Flickr Add Video to its Popular Photo-Sharing Community, Flickr, a Yahoo Inc. company and one of the world’s fastest growing online photo-sharing communities, today launched video sharing.
Flickr stepping into video sharing is a definite positive step unlike many video sharing sites like YouTube, one thing flickr is tough about is moderated video content, that means the videos posted at flickr will be moderated, should be created by individuals only and should follow content policy by flickr. Apart from that flickr will only allow 90seconds of playback for the videos posted.
The video uploading is only available for Flickr pro members who can upload personal video clips and share them with friends, family
and the world.Flickr - which has grown from 27 million to 42 million monthly visitors worldwide in the past year(1) - serves as the ‘eyes of the world’ for its members globally, and with the addition of video, is giving people more ways to share what they see and experience in their everyday lives. The new enhancement is helping to advance Yahoo!’s goal to become the leading starting point on the Web by offering an even more engaging and relevant service for sharing, exploring and discovering digital imagery.
As pro members around the world upload personal video clips on Flickr, people can see, share, and experience the world in motion through the eyes of the Flickr community. Video on Flickr will be available in eight languages including English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese. This new feature provides:
Features of Flickr Video Sharing
Ref : Yahoo Press Release, Flickr Blog,
Recently Google Inc. Launched ‘Google Ad Manager’ , which is a bi product of Google’s previous accusation of Double Click for 3.1 billion. Google Ad Manager though currently in a beta phase and for invitation only is quite simple technology that enables publishers to have more options to deploy & manage there Ad’s. Recently Many publishers were not satisfied with the Adsense and revenue generated with Adsense. For more interactive Ad’s they used to either sign up with companies like Double Click & Federated Media to deliver more Ads targeted directly to there web, or they used to directly deal with advertisers for ad deployment on there website. Keeping this industry problem Google presented the world with Google Ad Manager which will definitely centralize the control of Advertisement on the web. So lets see what exactly Google Ad Manager is.
What is Google Ad Manager ?
Google Ad Manager provides an easy to use tool for Publishers to define Ad spots on there web properties where they can place ads by either directly dealing with there Advertisers. As the Google Ad Manager comes pack with statistics for the Ad i.e is Impressions, click through rate hence publishers would be able to bring there direct advertisers to those rates as well. Apart from that incase the publisher does not have ads for there spot on the web, then the Google Ad Manager will display Google Adsense Ads or other Ad Network Ads. Some of the key features
Keeping the launch of Google Ad Manager, Microsoft could not let this portion of net un avaided and today Microsoft Annouced the accusation of RAPT.
Rapt is yet another powerful Ad Management application. Though these accusations & launch clearly indicate the growth of Online Advertisement, where the power of Ad selection has been provided to publishers and Advertisers using the strong foundation of Statistics & Impression based stats & charging to further increase & enhance the Ad revenue.
AOL Today announced the accusation of Bebo an online photo sharing website for $850 million.
Bebo, a backronym for “Blog early, blog often”, is an online social media network similar in format to MySpace, Xanga, Facebook, and Yahoo! 360. The site was founded in January 2005 by husband and wife team Michael and Xochi Birch. It was given a major relaunch in July 2005.[2] Bebo can be used in many countries around the world including Ireland, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Kazakhstan and Australia. Bebo have recently launched a Polish[3] version of the site which uses a different user database. There are also plans for French[4] and German[5] versions among others.
Somehow this accusation hardly makes a difference to the US market, AOL which stands for America Online have a major standing and user base from people who are outside USA, that could be UK, Ireland etc… And as far as Bebo is concerned same is the case with Bebo there major user base is from Ireland, and in 2007 claimed to be the most popular site in Ireland.
Once i heard this news i wondered whats with AOL & Yahoo are the twin sisters or somethings, if i look even at the Main page of AOL which they launched last year was a replica of Yahoo’s main page, and keeping in view of Yahoo strategy Yahoo acquired Flickr and few years later AOL acquires Bebo a photo sharing site. I wonder if AOL is dreaming of getting a bid from Microsoft someday ….
After 18 weeks of beta testing Hulu today announced that they are now open for all, no need for invites, all you need is to sign up to Hulu and start enjoying the videos. In post made on there blog :
” In these short 18 weeks since we began private beta testing, we’ve been working hard to kick the tires and check under the hood in preparation of opening the doors to our site. With well over 10,000 pieces of user feedback, we’ve heard your suggestions, comments, criticisms and praise. Today we are excited to leave our private beta and open Hulu.com to everyone in the U.S.. Our streaming video service is free - anyone in the U.S. with a broadband internet connection and a computer can just press play to enjoy. “
Today i reviewed the famous Yahoo Buzz, the new service launched by Yahoo which in some people’s word is a close replica of Digg. Just like all the services of Yahoo, Yahoo buzz requires you to log in using a Yahoo account. Once logged in all you can do is review a story and place your vote on it. Thats it !
Unfortunately like all the new launches by Yahoo i think the Yahoo buzz also sucks, if you are a user at digg you probably would not prefer to even visit Yahoo Buzz so let me sum up why Yahoo buzz sucks: (more…)
A Google Talk chatback badge will let visitors to your web page chat with you. They’ll be able to chat with you whenever you’re signed in to Google Talk
Initially this concept was started up by skype who introduced the badge or buttons to be placed on your webpage, or myspace page and people can click to either call you or add you to there skype account, now gtalk have started the gtalk chatback badge.
Pro’s of Google gTalk Chat back Badge
Con’s of Google gTalk Chat back Badge
How it can be improved
To get your badge for gTalk visit : Create Google Chat back Badge
In the January 2008 analysis of the Top 50 properties worldwide where search activity is observed, Google Sites led with 7.7 billion searches. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with nearly 2.5 billion searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (1.1 billion), and AOL LLC (903 million).
Google Sites marginally extended its share of core searches to 58.5 percent. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 22.2 percent, followed by Microsoft Sites (9.8 percent), AOL LLC (4.9 percent), and Ask Network (4.5 percent).
Have you ever received a file and want to open it but unable to find what extension it is ? Which tool to use to open the file, well i have and it usually happens, you try to use the option search the internet to find out and still the information provided by the internet is no good as you really dont want to know what the extension is about rather you want to know which software should i use to open the file.
So now make your life easier try FilExt.com :
What is FilExt ?
FILExt is a database of file extensions and the various programs that use them. If you know the file extension you want to learn about simply enter it into the search box on the left and click on the Search button. If it’s in any of the FILExt databases the data we have on that file extension will be shown on a results page. If it’s not in any of the databases you will be given a link to a page with hints on how to do further research. Don’t search on terms; just file extensions and only one at a time please. There will be another search box on the results page if you have multiple searches to do.
