Archive for the ‘Network News’ Category
AdBrite Makes Interesting Video Product
Sunday, January 7th, 2007
The new product is called In Video. Adbrite has created an embeddable video player similar to YouTube, Photobucket, etc. Anyone who takes the content and embeds it on their own site will show the same video, with the same ads and watermark (revenue goes to the original video creator). And all click backs on the video go to the original site (whereas with YouTube all click backs go the original YouTube site).
Writely Moving to Google Accounts
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006Writely Switching To Google Account Logins
Writely, the online word processing system acquired by Google earlier this year, has taken one extra step into becoming a breathing member of the Google Borg by requiring that their userbase make the switch from their old Writely user login to that of Google Accounts.
The Google Account program is a unified username & password login which spreads over Google News, Personalized Google Search, AdWords and Google Checkout among other Google Services.
Warner warms up to YouTube Agreement
Monday, September 18th, 2006
New York (NY) - Warner Music Group (WMG) and YouTube today announced a joint partnership in which Warner will distribute its copyrighted content through the increasingly popular video sharing site. Warner is the first company to announce support for YouTube’s new “content identification and royalty reporting” system, which YouTube says will be generally available by the end of the year. (more…)
Apple & Google side-by-side on iTV
Monday, September 18th, 2006
Google and Apple could be snuggling together after rumours circulated about them working together on Apple’s new iTV project.
iTV, which is due for release early next year priced $299, will allow users to watch content stored on their PC on their home television. The service offered is quite similar to products already on the market such as Wintal set top boxes and even Microsoft’s Xbox 360, which can work in conjunction with Vista or Media Centre to play content from your networked PC. (more…)
Quickie Links for all #4
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Here are a couple of links I found useful for everyone that visits B4P they are on a spreaded category, but im sure most of you can find it useful and some entertaining.
Adobe Photoshop CS2 Update
Microsoft Unveils ZUNE Today
Problogger - Communication Skills for Bloggers
B4P On Adsense Tips for the newbie
Tabblo - Photo Sharing Community
bLaugh.com - The (UN)Official Comic of the Blogosphere
InTuIt & Google Combined…
Thursday, September 14th, 2006INTUIT is to feature several of Google’s products, including search and advertising, in its QuickBooks accounting software aimed at small businesses.
The deal between the two Silicon Valley companies marks the latest in a string of business partnerships where hardware and software makers have agreed to feature Google software. (more…)
Watching U.S. Open- Here are some Quickie Links
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
Google Image Labler
You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see.
This is a great addition, entertaining and fun!
ReactOS - Open Source, Windows Based OS
Free to use, still in Alpha (testing phase) - A new operating system named ReactOS, Similar to Windows, can run “some” windows app’s for now, but still in testing mode. Go and check it out. Give it a try!
Microsoft: ‘We Are watching You Google’
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Maybe it was back in 1999 when Google took its Web site out of beta.
Or maybe it was in 2002, when the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant launched the Google Search Appliance.
Or perhaps it was when Google launched Gmail in 2004.
If it’s none of the above, then surely, Google officially threw Microsoft the gauntlet this week when it announced Google Apps for Your Domain.
“We are very serious and committed to the enterprise space,” noted Matt Glotzbach, head of enterprise products at Google. [read more]
Microsoft Responds to Google with Online Apps Bundle…
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Microsoft is understood to have invited beta testers to try out a new product offering a series of online applications in a single bundle.
News of the forthcoming Windows Live Essentials has leaked onto the web via independent blogs. A post on the ActiveWin.com website apparently quotes a Microsoft e-mail inviting people to apply to beta test the new product.
It describes Windows Live Essentials as a way to get the bundle of Windows Live online services - e-mail, instant messaging and security – as a single, simple download. Comments added by readers compare the product to the Google Pack bundle of free software.
The product also includes a Windows Live Dashboard, offering a view of the services the user already has and any new services available.
The emerging product looks set to step up rivalry with Google, which this week launched a beta of its new Apps for Your Domain service, adding free productivity applications – including instant messaging, a calendar application and website design software – to its hosted domain service.
Source: activewin.com
