Inside Google’s Manhattan Office October 3, 2006
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Great pictures of the newly built Googleplex in New York. An insiders look to what it means to be googley ! Looks like a fun place to work. Some Inside Pics…
New Look For Netvibes October 3, 2006
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Netvibes quietly released an updated look and feel this evening. Read about the release on the Netvibes blog here
Key additions to the service include:
- Module search
- New web/blog /video search with results within netvibes
- Customization of look and feel
- MySpace module
Netvibes says in their blog entry that the new release “will change the way you use and view the web” and includes user interface enhancements as well as a bunch of new modules. Putting the question of whether or not this update is as significant as the blog post suggests aside, Netvibes has certainly had a big impact on its users. They have collected over 5 million passionate users and $15 million in venture capital during its brief year of existence.
Moblogging purse takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize October 3, 2006
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Yahoo opened its corporate headquarters to hordes of hackers, press and others on Friday and Saturday for its open Hack Day. After 24 hours of hacking (with a break for a private Beck concert in the Yahoo courtyard the first evening), 54 projects were demo’d to the crowd of about 400 people. Over 3,000 pictures from the event tagged (‘HackDay06″) are on Flickr here.
Black Box Nation, a team of three fashion designers turned hardware hackers, unanimously swept our first open Hack Day event by mashing together a purse fitted with a Nokia camera phone, Bluetooth GPS, a pedometer and Flickr’s Zonetag API. Every few steps, the purse snaps a photo and moblogs it, creating a photo diary of the day. Creators Diana Eng, Emily Albinski and Audrey Roy all get to fight over the 32″ plasma TV they won. And if Diana looks familiar to you, she was the nerdy aspiring fashion designer on Project Runway.
Shutterfly: The online photo sharing Co. shares soar 11 percent on IPO October 1, 2006
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Online photo sharing and printing service Shutterfly raised $87 million in an IPO today, closing up 3.7% at $15.55 per share. VentureBeat points out that the price climbed as high as $16.73 at one point in the day. Shutterfly started business in 1999 and since then has posted about 1 billion photos on its Web photo storage site, filling 12 million customer orders, according to the prospectus of the stock offering. It also has printed 370 million photos.
What does Shutterfly offer in user experience? A product that clearly appeals to mainstream users.
- Unlimited free storage.
- Good bulk uploaders for both Windows and Mac (though not Intel Mac).
- Public and private albums.
- Group collaboration on shared collections.
- Clean URLs, comments on photos, basic crop, border, red eye removal and color change effects.
- They’ve also got business solutions for resellers.
Its hard to say it would succeed or not as it’s gone public but its inflow of cash & strong user base definitely look good . read more..
Yahoo buys Jumpcut Online Video-Editing Company September 28, 2006
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Yahoo has Acquired Jumpcut, a San Francisco video-sharing start-up that offers consumers the ability to not only upload clips, but also to edit them online. Jumpcut is similar to Yahoo Video (and YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, Revver, etc…) in that it is a social video sharing site. The part that’s different than any other offer out there is the ability for users to edit their videos right on the web – or Remix others’. Yahoo’s plans likely involve integrating Jumpcut’s editing and Remix software with their own Yahoo Video. Yahoo said San Francisco-based Jumpcut, which will retain its brand name, will become “bunk-mates” with its other Web 2.0 services Flickr, del.icio.us, and Upcoming. Jumpcut also makes out well, gaining access to Yahoo’s 500 million monthly visitors. “As part of Yahoo, we’ll be working on bringing video editing and remixing to everyone with an Internet connection, ” Jumpcut said on its blog today.
uplayme an I play you September 26, 2006
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Now there’s a simple way to meet people and find new music just by playing songs on your computer with iTunes (for now – many more players coming soon) and your iPod! As you play music, uPlayMe finds people who are playing the same music and shows you what they’re listening to. You can chat with them, visit their pages on other sites like MySpace, or just find new music to listen to. Learn more at uPlayMe .
Del.icio.us – Now serving: 1,000,000 September 26, 2006
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Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter just posted in the del.icio.us blog that the service has registered its 1 millionth user.
Moreover he confirms it’s more than triple the number of users it had just nine months ago. Maybe acquired by Yahoo! may have brought some more users to Del.icio.us. The company was acquired by Yahoo! ten months ago, in December of 2005. I am quite used to use it for my bookmarking & I must say it’s quite a nice bookmarking tool . Nway congratulations to Schachter, del.cio.us and Yahoo! for passing this milestone in social bookmarking.. Infact I also feel excited to be one of the users… They were going to celebrate it’s 3rd birthday bash on October 3 at Yahoo!HQ at Sunnyvale & now I hope the party will be much bigger after crossing this milestone 
Yahoo Launches Online Video Service!! September 26, 2006
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As the popularity of YouTube grows, many sites are jumping on the video content bandwagon, after Google & Yahoo now it’s the turn of Yahoo .It announced a joint venture Wednesday with Current TV, the cable network co-founded by Gore. The two companies are launching the Yahoo! Current Network, an online video site featuring user-generated content as well as professional videos from the staffs of the two companies. So the big question is YouTube will continue to dominate the market position or people are going to try out many of the clone sites after being fed up with the poor video quality of the videos. read more …
Warner to send videos through YouTube.. September 18, 2006
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Warner Music Group Corp. has agreed to distribute and license its copyrighted songs and other material through online video trendsetter YouTube Inc., marking another significant step in the entertainment industry’s migration to the Internet.
Microsoft to Launch iPod Rival Before Christmas September 18, 2006
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Zune Digital media player & online music and online media store coming soon,software giant says. The first Microsoft Zune products will hit U.S retailers in time for the busy Christmas holiday season, with a 30 GB digital media player & a Zune Marketplace online service the first to reach the customers, Microsoft said today.It seems the giant is awake again.. 
