| Hey everybody, Microsoft’s putting together a Flickr competitor! Yes, it’s true. Haven’t you heard? Shocking it is that the world has so far failed to take notice of this revelation. Much notice, anyway. As reported in CNET’s Webware publication – and not many news outlets elsewhere – Redmond has let known its intentions (via a [...] |
Posts Tagged with ‘Youtube’
Microsoft To Challenge Flickr, Among Other Web Media Outfits, With New Service
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on November 13, 2007
NPR Music Launches To Offer The Best Public Radio Music
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on November 05, 2007
| National Public Radio, better known as NPR, has today launched its multi-genre music service known as NPR Music, which is a joint project between NPR and 12 other public radio partners. "NPR Music aims to be as diverse as our audience’s interests and curiosity," explained Maria Thomas, Senior VP and GM of NPR Digital Media. [...] |
Revver Redesigns Homepage And Enhances User Experience
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on November 01, 2007
| Visitors of online video sharing service Revver will notice some major changes now active on the site. Now, with its new layout and features, Revver is looking more like the most popular video site, YouTube (but with less bold colors), which is currently in the process of being redesigned. Making much better use of space, [...] |
Hulu – More Promising Now That It’s Available
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on October 29, 2007
| Just to freshen your memories in case anyone forgot about Hulu, it is the joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal that was announced in March, unnamed until the end of August, and delayed from a September private beta launch until now, the end of October. As expected, the online video service launched today [...] |
YouTube Offers Preview Of Upcoming Redesign
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on October 26, 2007
| In a blog post written yesterday, YouTube announced that the look of its website will be undergoing some changes in the coming months. To showcase the redesign to users and obtain critical feedback, YouTube has also elected to provide a sneak preview of what the 'Videos' page will soon look like. When compared to the [...] |
Flock 1.0 – Is More of a Good Thing Enough?
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on October 21, 2007
| Flock version 1.0 was just released Friday after a succesful debut at TechCrunch 40. This feature loaded browser has met with moderate success this year, and this version adds social networking functions to an already feature rich browsing experience. I covered Flock version 0.9 for ReadWriteWeb back in September and it was greatly enhanced over [...] |
Tubecast – Kicked Back TV Development
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on October 17, 2007
| On a slow news day I stumbled across a great find at the Museum of modern betas (MOMB). Tubecaset.tv is an Internet video/TV startup in alpha testing. This sexy little development essentially grabs content from other sites like YouTube and my old buddy Dmitry at Veoh and layers an user interface atop the content. The [...] |
Tech Bubble #2: To Burst, Or Not To Burst?
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on October 17, 2007
| So Bubble 2.0 isn’t news to anyone’s ears any longer. Talk of it is downright tired and redundant. So what? How 'bout we look it over once more, for kicks, m’kay? The New York Times today published – on its front page, above the fold – a story delineating some points that back some solid [...] |
Google Finally Launches YouTube Anti-Piracy Tool
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on October 15, 2007
| Back in July, amidst the controversy of copyright lawsuits, Google hinted at the development of a video recognition technology for YouTube that would help the curb the posting of copyrighted material onto the video community. Originally planned for a September release, the antipiracy tool has finally made its way onto YouTube, according to Webware. This [...] |
Is It Too Late For A MySpace Developer Platform?
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on October 10, 2007
| Today, Michael Arrington has suggested at TechCrunch that MySpace's developer platform will launch as soon as next week, most likely coinciding with the Web 2.0 Summit taking place in San Francisco from October 17-19. Not only that, but developers will reportedly have the ability to serve their own advertising within applications and keep 100% of [...] |



