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August 2010
YouTube Adds a Vuvuzela Button
The vuvuzela has now cracked the big time: nearly every movie on YouTube can be, um, enhanced!
Press on the tiny soccer ball located on the bottom right corner of any YouTube video and you'll be greeted with the sound of the vuvuzelas, and possibly prompted to bang your head against the surface of your desk. What is it about these annoying little horns that has us so amused?
Google TV
How Google TV will make money still up in the air
Google made a big splash in May announcing its entrance to the TV business, but how the company plans to make money for Google TV and for its content partners is still a bit muddled.
Google TV is the search giant's platform that will allow people to search on their home television to find videos from anywhere on the Web or a channel service provider. At the DisplaySearch TV Ecosystem Conference here Wednesday, Shalini Govil-Pai, the group manager for partnerships at YouTube and Google TV, told attendees that "monetization models are still being discussed. Obviously advertising is going to play a big role."Read more
Facebook Places: One check-in to rule them all
There was something very much in the vein of Utopian science-fiction fantasies to Facebook's announcement of "Places," its location-based "check-in" product that it launched on Wednesday night. (CNET was the first to report its impending debut last week.) In short, Facebook not only wants to be the digital sovereignty toward which all other geolocation apps direct their figurative roads, it also wants to be the Web's own omniscient historian.
"Too many of our human stories are still collecting dust on the shelves of our collections at home," Facebook vice president of product Christopher Cox said as he explained the sociological rationale behind Facebook Places, a "check-in" service that more or less replicates the basic functionality of existing location-sharing start-ups like Foursquare and Gowalla, as well as lets those services tap into Facebook's new Places API to integrate with it. Facebook Places will not just collect location check-ins, it'll allow for messages and comments and pictures to be aggregated around them, creating a sort of "collective memory" that places a layer of Facebook-published narrative atop the physical world. Read more
Office 2010
Microsoft made the Office 2010 retail launch official, and the software is now available in more than 35,000 retail stores worldwide; including Best Buy, Office Depot, Fnac, Harvey Norman, and PC World.
Office 2010's beta phase was dramatically larger than it had been with previous versions, with some 9 million downloads from MSDN and TechNet.
Some highlights of Office 2010:
- All Office 2010 applications now use the "Ribbon" interface.
- Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and Publisher all have picture editing tools: crop, control brightness and contrast, sharpen or soften, and visual effects, and Powerpoint now has the ability to edit and embed videos.
- PowerPoint Broadcast Slideshow: lets you deliver presentations over the Web to up to 100 people.
- Increased synchronization with Office Live "cloud" tools such as SkyDrive, letting you collaborate and edit Office documents online with co-authoring functionality.
- "Backstage View": save, share, print and publish documents across different Office applications from a single interface, vastly improving printing functionality.
- Improved Outlook interface and integration with third-party Web services such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Read more
Intel surprises Wall Street with $7.7bn purchase of McAfee
Intel, the world's largest maker of microchips, is paying $7.7bn for the software company McAfee, in a deal analysts described as "weird", "out of left field" and "not the combination investors were expecting to wake up to". Read more
Cameron Diaz 'most dangerous web celebrity'
She may be known for her playful giggles and killer looks, but now movie star Cameron Diaz has become the most dangerous celebrity on the Internet.
Diaz, 37, is top of the list of the most dangerous celebrities to search for online, above second-placed Julia Roberts, according to computer security company McAfee. Last year's most dangerous Web celebrity, Jessica Biel, fell to third. Read more..
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