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Wixi’s Optimized but Limited iPhone Version
Posted by Kristen Nicole under Mashable
Wixi, the personal webtop and file-sharing tool, now has an optimized version for the iPhone. It gives you yet another remote way in which to access the files you’ve uploaded to Wixi, in a mobile manner. As the new iPhone version is rather specified, it means that all your media, including photos, music and video, will be converted for use on the handset. You’ll also be able to access user pages through user-specific URLs, which lets you then navigate through their media and their friends. Search for other media by keyword. The biggest limitation of the Wixi iPhone version is the inability to share media.
This version is currently for mobile viewing purposes only. Wixi has indicated that it will be considering users’ feedback to guide their next steps on the continued development of the iPhone version, but file submission and sharing options seems like a no-brainer to me. Hopefully this functionality will be layered in soon. Several iPhone applications begin as view-only upon their launch, so it shouldn’t be too much of a hindrance either.
Wixi is a private, invite-only network where users can create their own “desktops” for accessing and sharing media with friends, very similar to Jooce. What’s interesting about the iPhone application is that it doesn’t seem to be restricted at all. I can access files and profiles on the iPhone version, but not on the website.
Seeing as the iPhone version has viewing options only, the extended privacy for iPhone use may not be as much of a concern for Wixi, especially as the iPhone view-only version is very similar to a static version of the Wixi player, which users can create on the main website and export to their websites, blogs and social networking profiles. Or it could also be in part due to the open registration status of Wixi’s iPhone version for the first 5,000 users. See here for details on signing up.
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30th
The Daily Poll: Is Google Losing its Focus?
Posted by Adam Ostrow under Mashable
I was just watching a CNBC segment where a pundit who happens to own Google stock was voicing his concern that the company is losing focus on its core search business. His argument was that if Google’s management team wants to invest in things like wireless spectrum and renewable energy (even though that was done through Google’s non-profit arm), they should do it with their own personal fortunes instead of risking shareholder’s earnings. Does he have a valid argument? Today’s poll question:
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30th
The Daily Poll: Is Google Losing its Focus?
Posted by Adam Ostrow under Mashable
I was just watching a CNBC segment where a pundit who happens to own Google stock was voicing his concern that the company is losing focus on its core search business. His argument was that if Google’s management team wants to invest in things like wireless spectrum and renewable energy (even though that was done through Google’s non-profit arm), they should do it with their own personal fortunes instead of risking shareholder’s earnings. Does he have a valid argument? Today’s poll question:
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30th
The Daily Poll: Is Google Losing its Focus?
Posted by Adam Ostrow under Mashable
I was just watching a CNBC segment where a pundit who happens to own Google stock was voicing his concern that the company is losing focus on its core search business. His argument was that if Google’s management team wants to invest in things like wireless spectrum and renewable energy (even though that was done through Google’s non-profit arm), they should do it with their own personal fortunes instead of risking shareholder’s earnings. Does he have a valid argument? Today’s poll question:
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30th
The Tribune Launches Several YouTube Channels
Posted by Kristen Nicole under Mashable
As many content providers have done in the past year, The Tribune is launching branded YouTube channels for its newspapers and television stations. This initiative comes from Tribune Interactive, which is a division of Tribune Company. The group is launching a branded channel for the Chicago Tribune newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, and its television stations WGN, KTLA and WPIX, located in Chicago, L.A. and NYC respectively. All the channels will offer somewhat localized content as well.
The branded YouTube channel has been a feather in the hat of many content providers as of late, especially in the television network sector, and even online video sectors, as the channel enables furthered distribution capabilities for web content. But the insertion of newspaper content into more popular social networking sites is a more recent development that’s taking shape in different manners across the varied options out there, such as Facebook sponsored pages.
Additionally, the inclusion of more videos to accompany newspaper content, distributed in this manner, gives content providers a multimedia way to attract users and advertisers. As we’ve seen with CondeNet, which is also launching a YouTube-specific campaign, it’s important for printed media companies to diversify and spread content deeper throughout the web.
These branded YouTube channels aren’t the only ways in which Tribune Interactive is hoping to grow its online presence. The company is also working on the national expansion of Metromix, a local event-promotions site.
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30th
The Tribune Launches Several YouTube Channels
Posted by Kristen Nicole under Mashable
As many content providers have done in the past year, The Tribune is launching branded YouTube channels for its newspapers and television stations. This initiative comes from Tribune Interactive, which is a division of Tribune Company. The group is launching a branded channel for the Chicago Tribune newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, and its television stations WGN, KTLA and WPIX, located in Chicago, L.A. and NYC respectively. All the channels will offer somewhat localized content as well.
The branded YouTube channel has been a feather in the hat of many content providers as of late, especially in the television network sector, and even online video sectors, as the channel enables furthered distribution capabilities for web content. But the insertion of newspaper content into more popular social networking sites is a more recent development that’s taking shape in different manners across the varied options out there, such as Facebook sponsored pages.
Additionally, the inclusion of more videos to accompany newspaper content, distributed in this manner, gives content providers a multimedia way to attract users and advertisers. As we’ve seen with CondeNet, which is also launching a YouTube-specific campaign, it’s important for printed media companies to diversify and spread content deeper throughout the web.
These branded YouTube channels aren’t the only ways in which Tribune Interactive is hoping to grow its online presence. The company is also working on the national expansion of Metromix, a local event-promotions site.
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30th
Xing’s Business Social Network Gets a News Feed
Posted by Adam Ostrow under Mashable
Xing, often referred to as “The European LinkedIn,” will be launching its own version of the Facebook News Feed on Monday. Called “What’s New in My Network,” Xing’s new feature will keep you posted on profile updates your connections make, as well as new additions to their networks. According to the company, there are around 10 million such events occurring on the site every day.
Like Facebook, Xing will give users control over what updates they see and what information about them will be published.
News feed functionality is becoming a pretty standard social networking feature – LinkedIn added it just a couple weeks ago while on the consumer side, MySpace rolled out their own feed just yesterday and Hi5 recently made similar updates.
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30th
Blogger Beta Gets OpenID Support
Posted by Stan Schroeder under Mashable
Google has announced that Blogger beta (or Blogger in Draft, as they call it) now supports OpenID commenting. Until now, you could comment on Blogger blogs as an anonymous user or with your Blogger identity; now you can also comment using your OpenID identity. Let’s add that to our list of 14 useful things you can do with OpenID.
Google claims that this feature is in beta stage because they would “like to hear feedback about the implementation” and “test it further before moving it to Blogger’s main site,” which means that we can expect this one on regular Blogger soon.
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30th
Blogger Beta Gets OpenID Support
Posted by Stan Schroeder under Mashable
Google has announced that Blogger beta (or Blogger in Draft, as they call it) now supports OpenID commenting. Until now, you could comment on Blogger blogs as an anonymous user or with your Blogger identity; now you can also comment using your OpenID identity. Let’s add that to our list of 14 useful things you can do with OpenID.
Google claims that this feature is in beta stage because they would “like to hear feedback about the implementation” and “test it further before moving it to Blogger’s main site,” which means that we can expect this one on regular Blogger soon.
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30th
Best of Mashable: WordPress
Posted by Sean P. Aune under Mashable
It’s hard to throw a rock now without hitting a WordPress powered blog. For those of you running your own installs of the popular platform, there is a world of plugins and themes out there for you to use. Enjoy some of our news and toolboxes covering this mega-popular blogging platform.
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30th
Best of Mashable: WordPress
Posted by Sean P. Aune under Mashable
It’s hard to throw a rock now without hitting a WordPress powered blog. For those of you running your own installs of the popular platform, there is a world of plugins and themes out there for you to use. Enjoy some of our news and toolboxes covering this mega-popular blogging platform.
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30th
Google To Bid For Wireless Spectrum
Posted by Stan Schroeder under Mashable
According to WSJ, Google will apply to bid for the 700 MHz spectrum in a January Federal Communications Commission auction. This confirms frequent speculations that Google is interested in the wireless spectrum, but some claim that they will bid low on purpose, not to actually win the bid but merely to put pressure on the FCC.
The reasoning behind this makes sense: if Google is interested in building their own mobile network, it might run into trouble with their current mobile partners: AT&T, as well as Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. If they partner with one of these companies, they’re sure to alienate other partners. We’ll know more when and if the bid actually happens, and according to WSJ’s sources, it should happen on Friday.
[via WSJ]
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30th
YouTube-CNN Republican Debate Reflects Poorly on New Media
Posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins under Mashable
Politics are a touchy subject. American politics, doubly so.
Wednesday night, CNN and YouTube played host to a Republican debate that, as it turns out, has stirred up a bit of controversy. It would appear that either CNN has the worst screening process known to man, or that there is indeed a liberal bias in the media. Whichever theory you ascribe to, the process of political debates utilizing social media has been significantly tarnished.
Michelle Malkin has been the blogger most closely advancing the research on exactly who asked the questions at the debate, and at present count, nearly 30% of all questions asked were from planted questioners. That is to say, the various Democratic Presidential campaigns put out questions to the Republican candidates, and instead of picking questions from the constituency of the Republican base, CNN decided to wave through folks into the debate who would never vote for any of the candidates in an effort to shape their image in what they hoped would be an embarrassing way.
The first one discovered was actually addressed by Anderson Cooper on air: Retired Brig. Gen. Keith H. Kerr asked candidates “why you think that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians.” It was later found out that Kerr was named a co-chairman of the group this month, according to a campaign press release, and was also active in John F. Kerry’s 2004 campaign for president.
Sparking suspicion amongst the conservative blogosphere, Malkin and many others began investigating the other questioners (with really clever techniques, like clicking on their YouTube profile links). Redstate blog had this to say about the initial discover:
This is the second time in the past few weeks that CNN has had itself a debate scandal–the most recent scandal being CNN’s failure to disclose that James Carville, who was invited to comment on the last Democratic Presidential debate, is an adviser to Hillary Clinton. Either the organization has to clean up its act or it has to stand convicted of rampant dishonesty in its presentation of news and views. And unless heads roll, the latter option becomes the most likely one for CNN.
CNN then scrubbed the question from their online replay version of the debate; the show played as if the question was never asked:
An eagle-eyed commenter at the Hot Air overflow thread is claiming CNN is trying to erase history vis-a-vis the Hillary plant. When are they going to learn that scrubbing after the fact doesn’t work.
YouTube reportedly removed the video as well, but as of the writing of this article, it appears to be back up. Regardless, in a matter of hours, about a third of the questioners were discovered to be plants as well:
Abortion Questioner: Declared Edwards supporter.
Log Cabin Republican Questioner: Declared Obama supporter.
Lead Toy Questioner: Prominent union activist, and endorser of John Edwards.
Muslim Questioner: former CAIR intern (CAIR is an organization with known ties to Islamic terrorist networks).
Social Security Questioner: Adam Florzak quit his job with Caterpillar to work with Dick Durbin on Social Security reform.
“PaulBot” Questioner: Mark Strauss, a declared Bill Richardson supporter.
Corn Subsidies Questioner: Ted Faturos, a former intern for Rep. Jane Harman (D-California)
Black Republicans Questioner: David McMillan, declared Obama supporter and “Uncle-Tom” hunter.
This whole debacle may be the fault of Old Media, and CNN’s lousy vetting process. Unfortunately, just as Dan Rather’s personal biases led him down the primrose path of accepting a producer’s made-up research that ultimately ended his career, YouTube’s biases led them to trust CNN with their reputation. Without having a hand in any of the question selection process, Old Media struck a blow back at New.
As you may recall, the Republican YouTube-CNN debate almost didn’t happen. Many Republican candidates were afraid that the response from the Internet would be goofy, degrading, and inherently biased. When I’ve made personal note of this fact here in the past, the flood of comments tended to support the notion that we in tech have a liberal reputation.
This debacle certainly isn’t going to help that perception, and it could set back significant engagement with conservative candidates for quite a time, if it isn’t rectified. Polls are saying, at least at this point, we’ll probably end up with a Republican president here in America. Do we really need another four to eight years of a disengaged government when it comes to issues important to the technology constituency? It may be that groups like the RIAA and MPAA could end up going away, and thus cease to set the agenda for issues that matter to us.
That doesn’t mean that AT&T or Comcast’s lobby couldn’t step up to fill the void, and influence even more dumb laws that set technology back significantly. By disenfranchising the conservative community from the tech community with hare-brained stunts like this, we’re virtually assuring ourselves that we’ll never get the government we want.
We are turning the disconnection of conservative and Republican leadership from the tech community into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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30th
Google Reader Adds Drag and Drop
Posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins under Mashable
Of all the Web 2.0 and social media tools I’ve adopted over the last year or so, the one that has changed the way I function on the internet most significantly would have to be Google Reader. I’ve always collected RSS feeds, and as a podcaster, they’re central to my bread and butter. Google Reader however, more than any other tool, has made me more productive in my media consumption than anything else I’ve adopted (not to mention afforded me all the extra hours in the day now devoted to twittering and Facebooking).
Google Reader is getting a good upgrade today, in case you haven’t noticed: recommendations and drag and drop functionality. One of the kludgiest parts of using the service was the actual process of adding and organizing the feeds. Getting them into the service is fine and dandy; either input them one at a time, or bring them in en masse with an OPML file.
The process of sorting them once their in was a bit of a pain though. Thankfully those days are gone, with the ability to drag and drop feeds into folders.
I’m going to imagine that the reccomendations system works fairly well for others - I’ll leave that for you to find out. I’m presently subscribed to around 600 feeds in Google Reader, and all the reccomendations for new feeds to try out were already in my subscriptions list.
Another word of caution: Marshall Kirkpatrick, as I’m writing this, is having trouble getting Google Reader to load after the upgrade. He has around 1,500 subscriptions in his reader, so keep in mind your mileage may vary.
[via Google and Paris Lemon]
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30th
Confirmed: Facebook Caves, Changes Coming to Beacon
Posted by Adam Ostrow under Mashable
It looks like Facebook has listened to the outcry from users and privacy groups about Beacon. Nick O’Neill has received word from the company that they will be making updates that will make user’s much more aware of information that could be published to their feeds based on actions they take on third-party sites.
Here’s the statement from Facebook:
Stories about actions users take on external websites will continue to be presented to users at the top of their News Feed the next time they return to Facebook. These stories will now always be expanded on their home page so they can see and read them clearly.
Users must click on “OK” in a new initial notification on their Facebook home page before the first Beacon story is published to their friends from each participating site. We recognize that users need to clearly understand Beacon before they first have a story published, and we will continue to refine this approach to give users choice.
If a user does nothing with the initial notification on Facebook, it will hide after some duration without a story being published. When a user takes a future action on a Beacon site, it will reappear and display all the potential stories along with the opportunity to click “OK” to publish or click “remove” to not publish.
Users will have clear options in ongoing notifications to either delete or publish. No stories will be published if users navigate away from their home page. If they delay in making this decision, the notification will hide and they can make a decision at a later time.
Clicking the “Help” link next to the story will take users to a full tutorial that explains exactly how Beacon works, with screenshots showing each step in the process.
While it falls short of the global opt-out feature that our readers seemed to think Facebook would announce in today’s poll, this seems like a reasonable change that will make Beacon much more transparent. On the other hand, as Beacon adds more partners, being notified of all of these actions each time you login to Facebook could be a huge nuisance.
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30th
Confirmed: Facebook Caves, Changes Coming to Beacon
Posted by Adam Ostrow under Mashable
It looks like Facebook has listened to the outcry from users and privacy groups about Beacon. Nick O’Neill has received word from the company that they will be making updates that will make user’s much more aware of information that could be published to their feeds based on actions they take on third-party sites.
Here’s the statement from Facebook:
Stories about actions users take on external websites will continue to be presented to users at the top of their News Feed the next time they return to Facebook. These stories will now always be expanded on their home page so they can see and read them clearly.
Users must click on “OK” in a new initial notification on their Facebook home page before the first Beacon story is published to their friends from each participating site. We recognize that users need to clearly understand Beacon before they first have a story published, and we will continue to refine this approach to give users choice.
If a user does nothing with the initial notification on Facebook, it will hide after some duration without a story being published. When a user takes a future action on a Beacon site, it will reappear and display all the potential stories along with the opportunity to click “OK” to publish or click “remove” to not publish.
Users will have clear options in ongoing notifications to either delete or publish. No stories will be published if users navigate away from their home page. If they delay in making this decision, the notification will hide and they can make a decision at a later time.
Clicking the “Help” link next to the story will take users to a full tutorial that explains exactly how Beacon works, with screenshots showing each step in the process.
While it falls short of the global opt-out feature that our readers seemed to think Facebook would announce in today’s poll, this seems like a reasonable change that will make Beacon much more transparent. On the other hand, as Beacon adds more partners, being notified of all of these actions each time you login to Facebook could be a huge nuisance.
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