Gmail Launches Video Chat
Google launched Gmail voice and video chat, making it easier for people around the world to chat in high-quality video for free right within Gmail. To get started, open a Gmail chat window, click on the “Options” menu at the bottom, and choose “Add voice/video chat,” which will walk you through a one-time installation of a free plugin (a quick 2 MB download). When you re-open Gmail you’ll notice your “Options” link in your chat window has changed to “Video & more”. Open this menu and click “Start video chat” to see and hear your partner in high-quality video. You can pop out the video and change its size and position, or switch to full screen.
Yahoo CEO resigned
Jerry Yang, chief executive officer of Yahoo announced that he is stepping down from the position. He will stay on the board of Yahoo and will be known as Chief Yahoo. “From founding this company to guiding its growth into a trusted global brand that is indispensible to millions of people, I have always sought to do what is best for our franchise,” said Jerry Yang.
YouTube Sponsored Videos
Google launched a new advertising program on YouTube, which allows publishers to promote their video on YouTube and make it easier for people to find it. When people searching for videos, sponsored videos will be listed along side the search results. According to Google,13 hours of video has been uploaded to YouTube every minute.
Microsoft preps Office to run in a web browser
Microsoft unveiled plans to offer its Office suite in web browser. Google already offer this service through its Google docs service. Microsoft said that the Office Web apps would work with Safari and Firefox. The Office Web applications will be lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
Google Moves toward OpenID
OpenID is a shared identity service, which allows Internet users to log on to many different web sites using a single user name and password, single sign-on, eliminating the need for a different user name and password for each site. Google announced that it will become a single sign-on provider using OpenID solutions. This will allow Google users to log in with their Google account information when signing up for new accounts on other sites. Microsoft and Yahoo have already taken step to offer this service, using OpenID.
Discovering Interesting Blogs -1:
Blogosphere is a collective term encompassing all blogs and their interconnections. So how big is that?. As of this writing there are over 112 million blogs and still growing according to Technorati. But can we assume only the blogs which have great content are only popular. Of course not, there are truly hidden gems which are yet to be discovered. At Snugd we try to find one blog each week which has interesting content, a contribution for the community we all are part of. A word of caution - individual tastes may vary.Without further ado…we present…
Dismantle Civilisation -The only solution is a change of culture.
Bloggers at the endgames believes that the natural world is under attack. Our global economy & corporate capitalist system is destroying the planetary eco system at a pace that few of us can comprehend. Old growth forests are all but gone.
This blog hopes to pull together many diverging strands of information, to illustrate that the problem lies not with any one simple factor, but with the whole culture that we call civilization. The way we have been raised to view humans as superior and separate to nature, and hence how we behave in relation to our surroundings is ultimately the problem.
Online Advertising Spending will Continue to Grow
According to New Study in UK, online advertising spending will continue to grow, and approach £5 Billion ($8.7 billion) in 2012. In 2007, spending on UK Internet advertising topped £2.6 billion ($5.3 billion), up more than 30% from 2006. The growth in online advertising is due partly to growing agency expertise and advertiser understanding of digital channels.
YouTube Asks for ‘Video Your Vote’
YouTube’s Video Your Vote, a non-partisan program produced in partnership with PBS, encourages American voters to document their voting experiences. Interviews with fellow voters, first person accounts, voter enthusiasm and documenting problems are the few ideas suggested by YouTube to record a video. YouTube hopes to make ‘Vieo Your Vote’ channel a one-stop-shop to view exclusive videos from voter registration experts, election reform activists, and state officials.
Joost Launches New Video Service
Joost launched its new Flash-based, download-free global web video service. Up until now Joost offers video content from CBS, Showtime, Viacom and many other providers. The new service offer a number of ways people can interact with video and with other people on Joost. Users can voice their opinions, they can find out what their friends are watching or they may interact with others in the Joost community through groups around their favorite shows, characters or artists.
Facebook Offers Live Search
Recently,Facebook has integrated Microsoft’s Live search into its website. Visitors to the social networking site can notice when typing in the search bar on Facebook brings a drop-down menu with an option choose to search Facebook or search the Web. If the option to search the web is chose the results page contains link to do an “Advanced search on Live.com.” Microsoft already signed a $240 million advertising deal with Facebook. It is another desperate attempt by Microsoft to gain search market share.
Orkut Blocked Communities Which Support Terrorists.
Social networking site Orkut has blocked access to a community on the site that supports terrorists in India. The blocked community is known to be “Indian Mujahideen Fan Club” and which appears on a search of Orkut’s communities. The community says “Support them. They are fighting for our rights and justice”. Orkut is owned by Google. India has the third-largest number of users of Orkut.
Group Boycotts Facebook Opposing New Design
The group which opposes Facebook’s new design has gathered nearly 2.7 million supporters. The group, “1,000,000 against the new Facebook layout,” is organizing a two day boycott of the site. Among Facebook’s goals with the new design were to reduce the clutter of members’ profile pages and restore the social network’s clean and organized layout.
