YouTube is making it easier to upload all those webcam videos you’ve got sitting around on your desktop. The video sharing site has released a new tool that lets users upload more than one video at a time. The application comes in the form of a small download that works with your web browser. Once [...]
Ever wonder what celebrities look most like you, or what your chances are of finding someone who looks like Angelina Jolie on Match.com? Eyealike is a new application from ActiveSymbols, a company working on facial recognition and image search technologies. While Eyealike is a fully functioning (if a bit quirky) service, it’s mostly a demonstration [...]
Not sure who to trust in this crazy world? TrustPlus, a browser plug-in, looks to solve your trust issues with some social networking mojo. The plug-in, available for both IE and Firefox, adds an overlay to sites where trust can be an important decision factor, like Craigslist, eBay, Backpage, Gumtree or Facebook. The overlay [...]
You know those 15,274 friends you have on Facebook, MySpace and other social networks? We know you’re going to find this hard to believe. But they’re not actually your friends. Well, not close friends anyway. We know, it’s shocking, but it turns out that if you asked 15,268 of them if you could borrow a [...]
As August draws to a close, the young uns are getting ready to head back to school. And you know what that means. Lots and lots of displays at the local drug store featuring pencils, 3 ring binders and headphones.
Well, Mozilla isn’t trying to sell you anything with their upcoming Campus Edition of Firefox. It’s [...]
How often have you stumbled across a killer coupon or deal on the web, only to discover - sometimes too late - that the offer expired months or even years ago? If you’re still counting, you might be happy to hear that a new meta tag from Google seems to be the first step in [...]
It always seems to happen once a company gets as big as Facebook, people sue.
Facebook’s creator Mark Zuckerberg first saw a lawsuit alleging that the idea for the 30 million user social network was stolen from a few College friends. Now the team has been hit with a patent lawsuit claiming that the system for [...]
“Our church wants to take the audio CD from our pastor’s weekly sermon and put it on-line. How do I take a sermon saved to a CD and put it on-line so visitors can stream the audio straight to their computer or download it as a podcast?” - Michelle Y.
Thanks for writing in Michelle.
Non-secular and [...]
MySpace news is like a stereotypical ghost town from the old west. Hitching posts with no horses attached. Saloons with no old west prostitutes. Tumbleweeds everywhere. Ok, so maybe it’s not that much like a ghost town, but the point is that there doesn’t seem to be anyone there. They use a user voting system [...]
How do you get people to stop posting television clips and full episodes to the internet? You probably don’t. But a government panel in Japan has an interesting take on that idea: don’t try to stop internet pirates, just regulate them.
The Intellectual Property Rights Policy Work Group is expected to issue its recommendation this week. [...]