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Archive for February 21st, 2008

Welcome to the bigger, better, faster SkyDrive! (Windows Live SkyDrive Team Blog)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Windows Live SkyDrive Team Blog:
Welcome to the bigger, better, faster SkyDrive!  —  We know it’s been mighty quiet on the SkyDrive blog, but we’ve been hard at work on a new version that we’re proud to announce today!  —  You’ve made two things clear since our first release: You want more space; and you […]

Microsoft pledges (yet again) that it wants to be interoperable (Mary Jo Foley/All about Microsoft)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft pledges (yet again) that it wants to be interoperable  —  Microsoft’s “significant” announcement on February 21 turns out to be not so significant at all.  Microsoft is promising — for the umpteenth time — that it will share all the protocols and programming interfaces needed …

Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices … (Microsoft)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Microsoft:
Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability  —  New interoperability principles and actions will increase openness of key products.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices …

Linkin Park Rocks Apple Store At Secret Show (Billboard)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Billboard:
Linkin Park Rocks Apple Store At Secret Show  —  Linkin Park rocked a crowd of contest winners and industry personnel just after midnight Thursday (Feb. 21) at the Apple Store in New York’s Soho neighborhood, in what served as an intimate warm-up for a show tonight at the city’s Madison Square Garden.

Facebook Moves to Curtail Application Spam: What Took So Long? (Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Facebook Moves to Curtail Application Spam: What Took So Long?  —  One of the biggest problems with the Facebook user experience today is the amount of spam from applications that are trying to leverage its social networks to “grow virally”.  For this reason, it is unsurprising to read …

Fueling creativity in online video - with AdSense for video beta (Inside AdSense)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Inside AdSense:
Fueling creativity in online video - with AdSense for video beta  —  We know that publishers are quickly adding video to their sites and looking for ways to earn additional revenue.  If this sounds like you, look no further than AdSense for video, our solution for qualifying publishers.

Adobe is pushing DRM into Flash (Jack Schofield/Guardian Unlimited)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Adobe is pushing DRM into Flash  —  The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted a story that says Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash, and obviously they’re against it.  The story says: … The DMCA bans tools that help “circumvent” any DRM system (as well as the act of circumvention) so this […]

Facebook sees first dip in UK users (Mark Sweney/Guardian)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Facebook sees first dip in UK users  —  Facebook has suffered its first fall in UK users, with a 5% drop between December and January, according to new figures.  —  However, Facebook still had 8.5 million unique users in January and remains the most popular social networking website in the UK […]

Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain (Stephanie Rosenbloom/New York Times)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain  —  THE prototypical computer whiz of popular imagination — pasty, geeky, male — has failed to live up to his reputation.  —  Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) …

Google Health Begins Its Preseason at Cleveland Clinic (Steve Lohr/Bits)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Steve Lohr / Bits:
Google Health Begins Its Preseason at Cleveland Clinic  —  For 18 months, Google has been working to come up with a product offering and a strategy in the promising field of consumer health information.  Until now, the search giant hasn’t had anything to show for its labors other than bumps along […]