YouTube getting a redesign, sunglasses needed  —  The YouTube team has a surprise in store, a YouTube redesign is in the works.  Please get your sunglasses ready though, it tends to be a little hard on the eyes.  —  YouTube will incorporate user feedback into the changes throughout the site.

Source:   Download Squad
Author:   Chris […]

All about Leopard: gallery, apps, impressions  —  We’ve been poring over Leopard since getting our copy, and no doubt about it, there’s just way too much to say.  The number of fixes, updates, and new features in this release is astounding.  Granted, many aren’t major (and some aren’t even …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Ryan Block
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Comcast’s “We Don’t Throttle BitTorrent” Internal Talking Points Memo [Leaks]  —  A Comcast employee supplied The Consumerist with the following internal email sent out to all the customer service staff at the Maryland call center.  It’s regarding recent reports that the cable company disrupts …

Source:   Consumerist
Author:   Ben Popken
Link:   http://consumerist.com/consumer/leaks/comcasts-we…

Facebook: Committed to the sanctity of the social graph  —  Just 24 hours after Facebook received $240 million from Microsoft for 1.6 percent of the company, Ami Vora, senior platform manager at Facebook, said that investment news (which probably wasn’t any surprise to Facebook employees) wasn’t a big deal for anyone she talked to.

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The Future is Cloudy  —  When Google this week announced IMAP support for Gmail, it really got me thinking about finally outsourcing my e-mail.  At $50 per year per address, Google Apps Premier Edition is pretty compelling.  For one thing, there are only three cringely.com addresses …

Source:   I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS
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A Cautionary Tale for Old Media  —  Early on, the Mercury News saw the Web threat coming.  It’s still struggling to survive  —  On Jan. 19, 1990, Robert D. Ingle, then executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News, wrote a remarkably prescient memo to his bosses at the newspaper chain Knight Ridder.

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Mac OSX Leopard: Worth The Wait  —  The long wait for the latest version of Apple’ OSX operating system comes to an end today for millions of Mac fans worldwide.  OSX Leopard goes on sale in retail stores at 6pm, although others will receive it earlier by pre-order and courier delivery.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Duncan […]

The Pirate Bay To Bring Back OiNK  —  BOiNK will be a little different from OiNK.  For instance, the tracker will be public and it will start out with a lot less torrents than OiNK had when it was raided.  The success of BOiNK will mainly depend on the former OiNK community, who will be […]

Student’s Ad Gets a Remake, and Makes the Big Time  —  The idea that you do not have to be a professional to create a good commercial is becoming widespread, in a trend known as consumer-generated content.  Leave it to Apple to — paraphrasing the company’s old slogan a bit — think differently.

Source:   New […]

Senate OKs 7 more years of tax-free Net access, e-mail  —  Scarcely a week before an existing ban on Internet access taxes is set to expire, the U.S. Senate late on Thursday voted to let it live on for seven more years.  —  The compromise bill, which was approved by a voice vote …

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