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YouTube offers publishers Adsense in videos 2007-09-30 13:06:54 Enhance your site with high quality, relevant video content from YouTube
partners, and earn extra revenue along the way…. That’s the whole idea of Google.
YouTube now offers website publishers to create a custom video player and add their adsense code to deliver targeted ads atop the video being played. Web Publishers can also choose the category of video to be shown, or let Google automatically target ads based on the content. The text-based ads would be shown above the video player, which can also be customized to match the look and feel of the publisher’s website.
At the time of writing this post, this feature is available only for a select few registered YouTube users.
You’ll need to sign up for an AdSense account to start using Video Units.
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Google checkout free for non-profits upto 2008 2007-09-28 22:27:20 Google Checkout is now free for Non-Profits in the US. These organizations can accept online donations without paying transaction fees. Donors can send a payment to Non-profits
for free by just by entering their Google login, which gives you access to your Checkout account and tracks incoming and outgoing payments.
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Google pursuing new technologies to protect the privacy of Internet users 2007-09-28 06:58:23 Google
’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, testified that the company was looking at the Internet
display advertising business with a “fresh eye and evaluating whether changes can be made to innovate on user privacy in this space.”
Critics say Google’s $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick, an advertising tools supplier, may give the company too much power over online advertising. Google stores mounds of data on Internet-surfing habits of users
and uses the information to make money by selling advertisements.
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Windows XP will keep selling for 5 more months 2007-09-28 06:47:36 Microsoft announced that it will keep selling
its Windows
XP operating system until the end of June 2008. Microsoft said it decided to extend XP sales in response to feedback from computer manufacturers who said there were customers who still wanted to buy the older operating system.
Some customers have voiced displeasure with Vista due to a lack of compatibility with existing software programs and devices. The hardware requirements needed to run Vista also are a significant upgrade from many older computers. Microsoft, however, downplayed any dissatisfaction with Vista, saying it is the fastest-selling operating system in the history of Microsoft. As of the end of June, Microsoft had sold more than 60 million Windows Vista licenses.
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Armani opens virtual store in Second Life 2007-09-28 05:36:23
Fashion designer Giorgio Armani
has opened up shop in virtual
world Second
Life, with a store modeled on his flagship location in Milan. Second Life
residents will be able to buy items virtually with Linden Dollars — the currency of the virtual world - or they can connect directly from there to his recently-launched online store at www.emporioarmani.com for non-virtual vestments.
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Google celebrates it’s 9th birthday 2007-09-27 07:48:29 Google
has turned 9 today. It was on September 27, 1998, that two Ph.D. students at Stanford gave the world a new search engine.
Today google indexes over over 25 billion web pages, 1.3 billion images, and over one billion Usenet messages and still gives us lightning fast results. The word ‘Google’ has even made it to the Oxford dictionary.
Think you know all about google ? Check out the History of Google.
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Google acquires Jaiku 2007-10-11 09:25:08
Jaiku, the social micro blogging service, has been acquired by Google
.
Not much information on the takeover has been published yet. Jaiku has been a popular service amongst the mobile community, though it has a smaller user base of online users.
The registration has been temporarily frozen and users can request for an invitation.
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Rendering Halo’s Master Cheif in MS Paint 2007-10-09 10:13:47
SamohtVII is great with his mouse and painting skills. His latest creation is Halo’s master cheif.. and it’s done completely in Microsoft Paint
brush.. If you thought Paint was just a tool for kids, you oughta take a look at this ..
Videos after the Jump. (more…)
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Most terrible NES video game endings 2007-10-06 09:16:32 Imagine how you’d feel when you spent countless hours playing that video
game just to know in the end, that pushing “B” would allow you to play the game all over again …
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Microsoft Windows Live Coolhotmail.com review 2007-10-03 07:36:19
“Get a unique e-mail ID that reflects your personality” says Microsoft
’s new coolhotmail.com - an endeavor to lure more Indians into using Hotmail.
There are in all, over 250 custom domains ( like yourname@bangalorerocks.in , you@ilovecricket.in etc. ) Although the idea is a novel one, i don’t find many takers. Mostly everyone would prefer to use an existing ID. And like Thilak said, anyone serious enough about a unique email ID would get their own domain name.
Visit Coolhotmail.com for a unique email ID
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ATi Catalyst Drivers 7.10 released 2007-10-16 12:40:00
There’s some new CatalystDrivers
(7.10) at AMD’s site.. To begin with, the new catalyst driver will have Adaptive Anti-Aliasing enabled for Radeon X1000 series of graphics cards. This release of Catalyst™ also introduces software CrossFire™ support for the ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series.
Also, one pretty important fix with this release of Catalyst drivers is the “CrossFire Undo”. There was an issue where CrossFire mode would disable on its own, even if everything was ok. Now, the drivers would detect if something is wrong with the CrossFire cable, and if everything is ok, Crossfire mode will be activated.
[ DRIVER DOWNLOADS PAGE ]
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A google vanity ring ? 2007-10-15 12:28:53
It shows the number of Google hits you get, when you search for the name of the person who wears it.
VanityRing : A project by Markus Kison.
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Shutdown Windows XP faster 2007-10-14 13:31:12 It gets on one’s nerve when you have to wait for minutes for XP to shutdown, when it takes lesser time for a boot.
The reason that the shutdown times increase over the days is due to the services and applications that keep increasing as you install new software. Windows
waits for each service to terminate and only then does it shutdown.
Here are some simple registry tweaks that will reduce the shutdown time of your PC running XP considerably.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop]
“HungAppTimeout”=”200″ (ms)
“WaitToKillAppTimeout”=”200″ (ms)
“AutoEndTasks”=”1″ (Yes)
Run kill_app.reg
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl]
“WaitToKillServiceTimeout”=”200″ (ms)
Run kill_service.reg
Another way for a quick shutdown is to make a shortcut to “shutdown -s -t 0″. Make a shortcut or a batch file and place it in your desktop. Since this eliminates the need to Read more:Shutdown
Disabling Windows Security Center Alerts in XP 2007-10-20 08:33:14
If you’re running Windows
XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) Windows Security Center
should tell you the status of your antivirus software, firewall, and automatic updates. Security Center will alert you if your antivirus is out of date or turned off, firewall is turned off, or if Automatic Update is not turned on.
This can get quite annoying after a while. To turn off Security Center alerts :
1. Click Start and then click Control Panel.
2. Double-click Security Center.
3. In the Security Center, under Resources, click Change the way Security Center alerts me.
4. In the Alert Settings dialog box, clear the Firewall, Automatic Updates, or Virus Protection check boxes, and then click OK.
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Google docs for your mobile 2007-10-20 00:38:20 Google docs users can now view their docs on the move.
This compact version of GoogleDocs will neatly show up on your cell phone display. Documents opens up as a text page, while spreadsheets can either be viewed in HTML or be downloaded in XLS format.
The Help Center mentions that only iPhone and Blackberry are supported officially.
“We haven’t tested it across all mobile devices, a good rule of thumb is that the more advanced your phone’s browsing capabilities, the more seamlessly Google Docs will work”.
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Blu-ray has a 2:1 lead over HD DVDs 2007-10-24 09:19:31 Blu-ray outsells HD-DVD in U.S. for first 9 months. According to Home Media Research, sales of Blu-ray titles from January 1st to September 30th of this year now total 2.6-million units, while the HD DVD camp has moved some 1.4-million flicks in the same period.
Paramount Home Video said that “Transformers” had the biggest debut of any high-definition titles, selling over 100,000 HD-DVDs on Oct 16, its first day of release.
Tom Adams, president of Adams Media Research, also said the 18-month period of exclusivity for HD-DVDs by Paramount and DreamWorks should strengthen HD-DVD’s hand this quarter.
“This definitely smooths out the edge that Blu-ray had in exclusive titles and it very much strengthens HD-DVD’s hand in the fourth quarter,” he said, but still expects Blu-ray will lead for the year overall. Adams predicts that for 2007 overall, consumers will spend $186 million purchasing Blu-ray discs, versus $91 million for HD-DVD.
One big facto
Automattic acquires GRAVATAR 2007-10-23 08:51:28
Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatars) has been acquired by Automattic. Changes to Gravatar over the past few days :
Automattic transferred the Rails application and most of the avatar serving to WordPress.com infrastructure and servers.
Avatar serving is now more than three times as fast, and works every time.
All the Premium Services like Multiple email id’s and avatars are now free. Everyone who paid for a premium account in the past 60 days will be refunded.
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iPod celebrates it’s 6th birthday 2007-10-23 08:46:06 It was six years ago, on this very day, that the iPod
was officially brought into the world at a Steve Jobs Special Event. Over the past six years, the iPod has reduced in size and increased in capacity as hard-disk technology progressed.
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dontclick.it - Can you survive without mouse clicks ? 2007-10-22 11:50:30 How long can you go without clicking the mouse button ? That is what Institute for Interactive research wants to find out.
http://dontclick.it is a website using an interface offering a type of navigation, where you just don’t need to click anymore. Check it out
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Make Mac OS X Leopard run on an x86 PC 2007-10-29 09:38:47
Apple officially released their latest Mac OS X Leopard
on the 26th of October. A hacked version of Leopard that works on the x86 IBM PC has been released just 2 days after apple’s official release. Now, you don’t have to practically own a Mac to install and experience the Leopard.
An entry at dailyapps provides you with an easy 3 step guide on how to install Leopard on your PC.
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Facebook may soon overtake MySpace 2007-10-27 11:57:48 MySpace and Facebook
continue to lead the pack as the two most popular social networking sites but for the first time, it also seems fairly clear that Facebook will soon overtake MySpace in overall usage, particularly as it offers a richer overall platform powered by a large and vibrant community of 3rd party application developers.
Facebook’s open architecture takes this concept to a whole new level and allows existing Web businesses to plug directly into their social infrastructure with their own Facebook applications. These apps can be standalone or integrated across the Web from Facebook back to the online business. The interest in integrating with Facebook has been high. As a result, over 5,100 Facebook applications have been developed to date that run the gamut from games and fashion to education and productivity software.
[Via ZDNET blogs]
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Wordpress 2.3.1 released 2007-10-27 11:42:38 WordPress 2.3.1 is now available. 2.3.1 is a bug-fix and security release for the 2.3 series.
2.3.1 fixes over twenty bugs. Some of the notable fixes are:
Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than
their WordPress Address
Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
Link importer fixes
Get 2.3.1 from the download page at wordpress.org
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Easy to remember DNS servers 2007-10-27 00:55:42 There are days when your DNS servers
go bad and makes you wait for many a seconds before the domain-name to IP conversion takes place. Here are some alternative DNS server IP addresse, just in case your DNS servers fail and you urgently need to get some work done or your present DNS servers takes ages for the host lookup..
AT&T / Level 3 : 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, 4.2.2.3, 4.2.2.4, 4.2.2.5, 4.2.2.6
OpenDNS servers : 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220
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Cisco acquires Webex for $3.2 Billion 2007-10-26 14:31:41 Cisco has agreed to aquire WebEx, the leading web meetings solution for video conferencing, webinars, online training and remote support, for $3.2 billion in cash. In 2006, WebEx generated nearly $50 million in profit on $380 million in revenue. They have $300 million or so in cash on hand, so the net deal value is $2.9 billion.
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Google’s PageRank update 2007-10-26 14:25:18 The latest updation of PageRank
hasnt been good to bloggers. Google
has started penalizing blogs and websites which sell text links.
The primary audience for many of these sites are bloggers. These sites derive their popularity from others who are quite likely being penalized. Now that the algorithm has been changed and all those links have lost their juice, the popular blogging niche sites are losing Page Rank as a byproduct.
It is unclear if this is due to a change in the algorithm or due to intentional penalization for selling text links on the sites.
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Microsoft to invest $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook 2007-10-25 12:02:29 Microsoft just announced that it would invest
$240 million
for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook
. The social networking site is now valued at $15 billion.
As part of the deal, Microsoft will start selling ads for Facebook worldwide. By investing $240 million, Microsoft is not really going to have any control over Facebook or even any better chance than anyone else to acquire it if its backers decide to sell.
[ Via NYtimes ]
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Google shares cross 700$ mark 2007-11-03 10:31:04 Google’s shares
have passed $700 for the first time, lifted by reports it plans to enter the mobile phone market.
Google (GOOG) is now the fifth largest US company by market capitalisation, worth a total $219bn (£105bn), surpassed by only Exxon Mobile, General Electric, Microsoft and AT&T.
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Funny Contra trailer from collegehumor 2007-11-03 10:14:00 I always loved this video game as a kid. The guys over at collegehumor came up with this great spoof.
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OpenSocial - The unified open web API 2007-11-01 12:50:58 Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo, Oracle, Flixster, iLike, RockYou and Slide under one roof ? Google headed OpenSocial aims exactly at that and much more.
Google wants to create an easy way for developers to create an application that works on all social networks. What Google hasn’t done is launch yet another social network platform.
OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners , viz :
Profile Info.
Friends Information
Activities / Feeds etc.
Open Social is an open web API that can be supported by two kinds of developers:
“Containers” — social networking systems like Ning, Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, and Friendster, and…
“Apps” — applications that want to be embedded within containers — for example, the kinds of applications built by iLike, Flixster, Rockyou, and Slide
Facebook requires the use of FBML (FaceBook Markup Language) for security reasons. O
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