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YouTube Tests HD Videos
According to a report by Wired's Meghan Keane, YouTube is testing stereo sound as a default option for videos and is also offering very high quality HD versions of a small selection of clips. We weren ....... read more
1 day ago
Inventor of the Wiki Responds to Google Search Wiki
Google put on a full court media push tonight for a major change the company is making to its search experience. According to the Official Google Blog and a very unusual email the company sent out to ....... read more
19 hours ago
Mozilla: One Billion Addons Served - Here Are Some of Our Favorites
Mozilla today announced that it has served its 1 billionth addon download since they started keeping track of these downloads in 2005. Currently, Mozilla's users are downloading close to 1.5 million a ....... read more
1 day ago
Gmail Gets Themes
Gmail's interface was revolutionary when it was first released, but the design was a bit too plain for a lot of users. After a short while, users started to develop Greasemonkey scripts and Firefox pl ....... read more
1 day ago
The Slow Death of Print: RIP PC Magazine
PC Magazine, Ziff Davis' flagship print publication, has announced that it will go 100% digital. The January 2008 issue will mark the end of PC Magazine's print edition after 27 years of continuous pu ....... read more
2 days ago
Six Apart Gives Journalists Free Blogs
San Francisco-based blogging startup Six Apart has announced they will be giving away free accounts on their TypePad blogging system for professional bloggers and journalists who recently lost their j ....... read more
2 days ago
Report: Millennials Will Route Around IT Departments
According to a new report by Accenture, a large number of Millennials (those born between 1977 and 1997), expect their companies to accommodate their IT preferences, including their preferred computer ....... read more
3 days ago
Boxee Raises $4 Million for Open-Source Media Center
These are clearly not the easiest times to secure financing for a startup, but Boxee, which makes an open-source media center application that works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and the Apple TV, just ....... read more
3 days ago
Citysearch Becomes More Social and Mobile
Citysearch, the popular local restaurant and shopping guide, announced a new beta version of its service tonight. The new version provides a better local search experience, with the ability to search ....... read more
2 days ago
Facebook to Verify Trustworthy Apps - Stupid Ones Still Welcome
Facebook announced this afternoon that the company will now offer more high-profile placement for applications that are verified as trustworthy and pay an application fee for the honor. The biggest pr ....... read more
3 days ago
Motrin Bows to Social Media Pressure From Moms - Removes Controversial Ad
One would think that few ads could be less controversial than ads for painkillers, but over the weekend, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the maker of Motrin, found itself in the middle of a major controve ....... read more
4 days ago
German Wikipedia Back Online After Controversial Shutdown
After it had been unavailable in Germany for more than two days, the Wikipedia's German portal is finally back online. The local German version of the Wikipedia had become unavailable after a member o ....... read more
4 days ago
Mark Cuban Charged With Insider Trading of Search Engine Mamma.com
Four years ago, an eternity in internet time, Dallas Mavericks owner and controversial web thought leader Mark Cuban allegedly used inside information to dump all his stock in meta search engine Mamma ....... read more
4 days ago
Online Advertising: Hulu Catching Up With YouTube?
According to the Financial Times, Hulu, the online video service backed by NBC Universal and News Corp. is slowly catching up to YouTube in terms of advertising revenue. Screen Digest's Arash Amel for ....... read more
4 days ago
President Elect Obama's FireWire Chats: Transparency Redefined?
Yesterday, President Elect Obama's transition team announced the weekly Democratic address will be posted on YouTube. Today we saw the first of these fireside chats go live on the new video wire (vide ....... read more
5 days ago
Compete: Google Docs & Spreadsheets Keeps Growing, But User Engagment is Flat
It's been a little bit more than two years now since Google merged Google Spreadsheets with Writely, and while there has been a lot of talk about online office suites, the latest data from Compete ind ....... read more
7 days ago
Mozilla Asks Add-On Developers to Prepare For Firefox 3.1
Mozilla has cultivated one of the most interesting and healthiest ecosystems for extension developers around its popular Firefox browser. The problems with this, of course, is that whenever Mozilla re ....... read more
7 days ago
Yahoo Tests New Front Page - May Eventually Replace My Yahoo!
Yahoo today announced that it is bucket testing a new design of its front page. The new design was built on top of the latest version of Yahoo's UI Library, which, according to Yahoo, will accelerate ....... read more
9 days ago
NYT's Vivian Schiller Leaves to Become New CEO of NPR: Sam Whitmore Responds
What do you get when you move the head of digital media at one of the world's leading old-school press outfits into the CEO's office of an even hipper large music and News organization? We don't know, ....... read more
10 days ago
Sun to Distribute MSN Toolbar with Java
We have written a lot about Microsoft's struggle to gain back market share from Google in the search engine market. Microsoft's latest attempt at this is a distribution deal with Sun. Starting today, ....... read more
11 days ago