Yahoo Launches Video On Flickr
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 03:53 PM - Internet
Flickr members can now upload video to the popular photo-sharing site.
Yahoo launched video-sharing this week. Flickr boasts 42 million visitors a month. The company said it hopes the feature will help attain Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)'s goal of being Internet users' main starting point on the Web.
Flickr will make video available in eight languages: English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese.
Users can upload up to 90 seconds of footage, with a maximum size of 150 MB, from any recording device. They can organize and share videos the same way they handle photos, using tags, geotags, sets, and privacy settings. Videos can be uploaded to photo streams, alongside photos, and embedded on third-party Web sites.
Members can search videos by tags and descriptions and view them on full screens. Creators can mark videos with "All Rights Reserved" or designate a license through Creative Commons. Third-party developers can use an application programming interface to create programs or services using authorized video submitted to Flickr.
A Flickr team and community members will moderate video to spot abuse, Yahoo said.
"Video on Flickr is an extension of what Flickr is already doing with more than 2 billion photos worldwide -- providing a place where people capture and share life's daily moments," Kakul Srivastava, general manager of Flickr at Yahoo, said in a news announcement. "Digital media has led to a new behavior emerging in the market, and people are much more likely to shoot short video clips, essentially "long photos," with their digital still cameras and mobile phones. There is a great resonance between this new category of content and with the kind of authentic, personal moments already being shared on Flickr." - See Yahoo Launches Video On Flickr for the complete article.
add comment Yahoo introduces Shine, a site for women
Monday, March 31, 2008, 07:03 PM - Internet
Yahoo Inc is introducing a new media site focused on women's daily lives, the latest in a string of sites that include ones for gadget enthusiasts and food lovers, the company said on Sunday.
The Sunnyvale, California-based company said the new site, called "Shine", offers nine categories ranging from Fashion & Beauty to Parenting. It syndicates material from popular lifestyle publishers including Conde Nast and Hearst Corp.
The site is aimed at roughly 40 million women between the ages of 25 and 54 and aims to make Yahoo more relevant to this demographic, which is highly appealing to brand advertisers. - See Yahoo introduces Shine, a site for women for the complete report.
AOL will buy Bebo, a popular social networking site in U.K.
Thursday, March 13, 2008, 02:54 PM - Internet
AOL, looking for friends on the Internet, has found one in Bebo, an online social network popular with millions of British teenagers.
On Thursday, AOL said it had agreed to buy Bebo for $850 million and planned to turn it into the "cornerstone" of its efforts to attract more Internet users and advertisers, said Randy Falco, chief executive of AOL.
"This is a tremendous acquisition, one that I think is game-changing for AOL," Falco said. "We will be a social media powerhouse."
That would be a big shift for AOL, which has been struggling to reinvent itself from a business largely based on selling online access to one that generates the bulk of its revenue from advertising.
The acquisition reflects the high hopes that big media companies like Time Warner have for social networking, which they see as a potentially lucrative way to bring together online consumers, media owners and advertisers. News Corp. started the trend by buying MySpace and Microsoft has since then taken a stake in Facebook in an effort to bolster its Internet business. - See AOL will buy Bebo, a popular social networking site in U.K. for the full report.
Virginia Supreme Court: No First Amendment Right To Spam
Monday, March 3, 2008, 03:04 PM - Internet
The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday narrowly upheld the felony conviction of Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, North Carolina, for illegal spamming, rejecting his claims that falsifying message headers is protected under the First Amendment right of free speech.
As a result of the 4-to-3 vote, Jaynes will serve nine years in prison for sending millions of illegal spam messages in 2003, absent an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Spamming itself is not illegal. It is allowed under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. However, the law prohibits the use of false or misleading message headers and deceptive subject lines. It requires a way to opt-out, a valid postal address, and that the message is identified as an advertisement.
When police searched Jaynes' home, they found a cache of CDs containing 176 million full e-mail addresses and 107 million AOL e-mail addresses, according to the court's ruling.
Virginia prosecutors estimated Jaynes' net worth to be about $24 million. In 2004, when the initial verdict was handed down, prosecutors said Jaynes was earning $500,000 per month from spamming. Jaynes' conviction was the first felony conviction in the U.S. for illegal spamming.
Jaynes was convicted of falsifying message headers and message routing information under the Virginia Computer Crimes Act, which contains prohibitions similar to CAN-SPAM. He appealed his conviction by asserting that his activities were protected by commerce laws and the First Amendment. - Virginia Supreme Court: No First Amendment Right To Spam for the full report.
Microsoft Releases Massive Set of Security Updates
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 02:31 PM - Internet
Microsoft released 11 security updates today that fix critical flaws in its products, including a publicly known ActiveX bug that affects users of the Visual FoxPro database.
In total, 17 individual software flaws were patched in the updates. Microsoft rates six updates as critical, meaning they should be installed as soon as possible, while the remaining five updates are considered "important." Last month was an easier month on IT administrators, when Microsoft released just two updates.
Microsoft surprised some by releasing one less update than expected. Last Thursday the software vendor had said that it was readying a fix for critical VBScript and JScript flaws in Windows 2000, XP, and Windows Server 2003. That update wasn't included in this week's patches, but Microsoft today wouldn't confirm that it had actually dropped the update because "this could put customers at risk," according a spokeswoman for the company's public relations agency. - See Microsoft Releases Massive Set of Security Updates for the complete report.
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Wikia Search Launches
Monday, January 7, 2008, 05:02 PM - Internet
Wikia Search launched live Monday in its first publicly accessible form.
The search engine, backed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is an open source search tool that allows collaboration.
Wikipedia and Wikia operate independently and are unrelated except for Wales' involvement in each.
Wales announced plans for the project last year and said he wanted to provide an open alternative to Google (NSDQ: GOOG).
Wikia Search uses a social networking model, allowing users to create profiles, select friends, share photos, and manage privacy preferences in addition to providing traditional search capabilities. Users can click on an option to start or participate in discussions about search rankings and write mini-articles about search terms. - See Wikia Search Launches for the full report.
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