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YouTube Personalized Homepages Now Live
Posted by Kristen Nicole under Mashable
You may have noticed that it’s a pretty big week for social networking profile pages. Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube…well, that’s about it, but still. It’s kind of a big deal. YouTube announced its new profile page a few days before it was actually available, but the new personalized profile page is finally here.
After logging in, click here to activate the new homepage. Unlike LinkedIn, it’s not made painfully obvious that you’re testing out a new personalized homepage, and the actual layout of the page itself isn’t all that different from what the normal homepage looks like. Replace the editor picks with personalized recommendations, and the featured videos with recent activity from your friends, and you can pretty well understand how the new personalization comes into play.
Below the new videos from your friends, you’ll also see the latest activity from your friends. There’s still room for promotional clips, like the video ad for Will Ferrell’s latest, or the other promoted clips from elsewhere on the site, as well as popular clips that show at the very bottom of the page. Check it out and let us know if you find the new layout to be helpful and more engaging.
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29th
NME says format war still on, it totally made out with a girl last summer in Niagara Falls
Posted by Nilay Patel under Engadget
Filed under: Home Entertainment
Just when the members of the Blu-ray Disc Association were settling down to enjoy the fruits of victory, another challenger has entered the ring — oh wait, it’s just NME, makers of VMD, so it’s really more like “remained in the ring and basically ignored.” The company just issued a press release saying “All indications are that VMD can fill the void left by HD DVD,” and that “The way is now clear for VMD to be embraced by the industry.” We suppose that’s true — the Asian bootlegging industry really hasn’t weighed in with a format choice yet, has it? In any event, VMD players have apparently been shipping to the US for a month now, so all you HD DVD fans out there looking to back yet another losing horse can probably find one — start at the shadiest retailer you can think of, and then move downwards.
[Thanks, Chris]
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29th
Worst parents in the world punk kid into thinking he got an Xbox 360
Posted by Ryan Block under Engadget
Filed under: Gaming
Your parents ever do anything mean to you for their own amusement when you were a kid? Whatever it was, something tells us it wasn’t as evil as what Jonathan’s (above) family did, having him unwrap an empty Xbox box with some shirts inside — while on video, mind you — and then laughing at him when he got upset and cried that he’d been hoodwinked. For the love of all that is holy in the gadget-loving world, that is so wrong. The person who uploaded the video, supposedly the kid’s shining example of an older brother, claims that despite the fact they told Jonathan multiple times in the video, “C’mon, you know we can’t afford an Xbox!” the family actually did get him the console and that he’d eventually upload the video of the real unwrapping — he never did. (Original video after the break.)
Jonathan, you out there? Screw those people, they clearly don’t understand what it is to be a kid and to want an awesome gadget so badly you can taste it. We’ve been there our whole lives. Since, as a publication, we can’t just adopt you and raise you as our own, I will personally send you an Xbox 360 — only on the condition that you swear to us your douchebag family doesn’t ever get to play it. Hit me up at engadget at gmail dotcom, make sure you can identify yourself so I know I’ve got the right person.
[Thanks, Greg]
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29th
Red Octane lets loose separate Wii Guitar Hero III controller
Posted by Donald Melanson under Engadget
Filed under: Gaming
Read - Red Octane
Read - Toys R Us
[Thanks, Nic]
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29th
Red Octane lets loose separate Wii Guitar Hero III controller
Posted by Donald Melanson under Engadget
Filed under: Gaming
Read - Red Octane
Read - Toys R Us
[Thanks, Nic]
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29th
Alcatel-Lucent sends data 1600 miles at 16.4Tbps
Posted by Nilay Patel under Engadget
Filed under: Networking
Sure, the researchers at Alcatel-Lucent have already sent data 50 miles at 25.6Tbps, but it looks like now they’re going for distance rather than speed: the company announced yesterday that it’s now pumped bits over a 1584-mile long link at 16.4Tbps. Sure, that’s slightly slower than the record, but being able to firehose bits at distances like that is even more impressive, if you ask us (you didn’t). The core tech is essentially the same as used in the earlier speed record: bundling several 100Gbps optical signals at different wavelengths into one multiplexed transmission, shooting it down fiber, and splitting it up at the end. This latest test used 164 different channels and updated transmitters and multiplexers to hit the record — which is fine and all, but guys, if you’re using that old school 25.6Tbps gear anymore we know a few people who are interested.
[Via Slashdot]
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29th
Alcatel-Lucent sends data 1600 miles at 16.4Tbps
Posted by Nilay Patel under Engadget
Filed under: Networking
Sure, the researchers at Alcatel-Lucent have already sent data 50 miles at 25.6Tbps, but it looks like now they’re going for distance rather than speed: the company announced yesterday that it’s now pumped bits over a 1584-mile long link at 16.4Tbps. Sure, that’s slightly slower than the record, but being able to firehose bits at distances like that is even more impressive, if you ask us (you didn’t). The core tech is essentially the same as used in the earlier speed record: bundling several 100Gbps optical signals at different wavelengths into one multiplexed transmission, shooting it down fiber, and splitting it up at the end. This latest test used 164 different channels and updated transmitters and multiplexers to hit the record — which is fine and all, but guys, if you’re using that old school 25.6Tbps gear anymore we know a few people who are interested.
[Via Slashdot]
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29th
Alcatel-Lucent sends data 1600 miles at 16.4Tbps
Posted by Nilay Patel under Engadget
Filed under: Networking
Sure, the researchers at Alcatel-Lucent have already sent data 50 miles at 25.6Tbps, but it looks like now they’re going for distance rather than speed: the company announced yesterday that it’s now pumped bits over a 1584-mile long link at 16.4Tbps. Sure, that’s slightly slower than the record, but being able to firehose bits at distances like that is even more impressive, if you ask us (you didn’t). The core tech is essentially the same as used in the earlier speed record: bundling several 100Gbps optical signals at different wavelengths into one multiplexed transmission, shooting it down fiber, and splitting it up at the end. This latest test used 164 different channels and updated transmitters and multiplexers to hit the record — which is fine and all, but guys, if you’re using that old school 25.6Tbps gear anymore we know a few people who are interested.
[Via Slashdot]
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29th
Time Capsule first impressions
Posted by Nilay Patel under Engadget
Filed under: Wireless, Storage
Okay, so we’ve got our Time Capsule up and running here — we’ll be back with a full review once our full 516GB backup is completed, but here are some quick first impressions:
- You can definitely hear the disks spin up and access. It also sounds like there’s a fan in there, but there are no obvious vents for one and we can’t feel any air coming out, so the drives might just be that loud.
- The top is getting quite warm during the backup — we’ll see if it cools down once we stop hitting the drive this hard, but if there really isn’t a fan we’re a little concerned. Hope those server-grade hard drives like being cooked.
- You can’t transfer an existing Time Machine backup to Time Capsule. Sure, it’s easy enough to switch back and get at your old data, but it’s still a pain — and now we have a 1TB drive sitting here with months of backups on it that we can’t erase and reuse.
- Time Machine doesn’t prioritize network activity on your machine, so it’s slamming our network connection right now as it backs up. That’s not a huge problem since we’re backing up over Ethernet, but we’ll see what happens when we try this over WiFi later.
- We tried to back up a second machine while the first was in progress, and not much happened — it created the disk image and got to “Preparing…” and then did nothing. We’re assuming these can only happen one at a time.
- The wireless side of things is basically the same as the Airport Extreme, nothing shocking there, although the setup assistant has been substantially revised to make things easier.
- The setup assistant now asks if you already have a 2.4GHz network and offers to create a 5GHz secondary network, which is interesting.
That’s about it for now — there’s not much we can try out while this backup is in progress. Anything else you guys want to know?
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29th
Mitsubishi develops corrosion-resistant DVD-Rs for the long haul
Posted by Darren Murph under Engadget
Filed under: Storage
Yeah, companies have been trumpeting their ability to crank out discs that will last long after Martians come and evaporate our minds here on Earth for some time, but for archive junkies out there, more is always better. On deck today is Mitsubishi’s ARLEDIA DVD-Rs, which reportedly feature corrosion-resistant coatings made from gold and silver. ‘Course, you can only write to these at 8x, but they are expected to last about twice as long as traditional recordable discs. Not like you’ll be around to prove ‘em wrong, though.
[Via Impress]
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29th
How RockYou’s New MySpace App Spammed All of My Friends
Posted by Adam Ostrow under Mashable
I just tested a new RockYou application for the pending MySpace Developer Platform, and the results may raise a few eyebrows about the spaminess of what appears to be possible.
The “Likeness” application, which you can access here, seems simple enough. Order 10 things you like from most to least favorite, provide your MySpace credentials, and post a widget to your MySpace profile or send your friends a bulletin.
But what happened next – without my consent – was the application posting a comment on all of my friend’s profiles, shown here:
Is this good viral marketing? Of course. But it was done completely without my consent, and frankly, is somewhat embarrassing for a 25-year-old that’s trying to maintain a professional image. While the login screen on RockYou does note that it will post a bulletin and comment, this should be an explicit action, like it is when RockYou asks if you want to post the widget to your profile (which, isn’t spammy at all). My next action was to send an apology bulletin to all of my friends.
This type of thing has been going on with shadier MySpace “bling” sites for some time, but I expect more from a platform that is trying to eliminate spam and should have learned some lessons from Facebook, and from a supposedly legitimate application provider like RockYou.
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29th
How RockYou’s New MySpace App Spammed All of My Friends
Posted by Adam Ostrow under Mashable
I just tested a new RockYou application for the pending MySpace Developer Platform, and the results may raise a few eyebrows about the spaminess of what appears to be possible.
The “Likeness” application, which you can access here, seems simple enough. Order 10 things you like from most to least favorite, provide your MySpace credentials, and post a widget to your MySpace profile or send your friends a bulletin.
But what happened next – without my consent – was the application posting a comment on all of my friend’s profiles, shown here:
Is this good viral marketing? Of course. But it was done completely without my consent, and frankly, is somewhat embarrassing for a 25-year-old that’s trying to maintain a professional image. While the login screen on RockYou does note that it will post a bulletin and comment, this should be an explicit action, like it is when RockYou asks if you want to post the widget to your profile (which, isn’t spammy at all). My next action was to send an apology bulletin to all of my friends.
This type of thing has been going on with shadier MySpace “bling” sites for some time, but I expect more from a platform that is trying to eliminate spam and should have learned some lessons from Facebook, and from a supposedly legitimate application provider like RockYou.
Popularity: unranked [?]
29th
Minox slims down with the DC 7411
Posted by Paul Miller under Engadget
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Let’s not get carried away here, Minox. We can understand the slim, 18.5mm-thick form factor, and the 7.2 megapixel sensor and 3x zoom seem certainly par for the course, but a 3-inch LCD? It’s almost like you guys are trying to build a competitive camera here. Electronic image stabilization and face detection? Let’s all keep heads here, people! No need to do anything rash. There’s no word on price or availability yet, so perhaps you guys can still manage to work in some true lameness between then and now.
[Via LetsGoDigital]
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29th
iriver E100 hits Europe
Posted by Paul Miller under Engadget
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
iriver unveiled a whole bunch of hotness at this year’s CES, so you’ll have to pick your next player from them wisely… lest you end up buying the whole lot. That said, we’re not sure the E100 would be our first choice, but it’s certainly no slouch in the looks or specs departments, and it’s hitting the market well before most of those fancier players. There’s a 2.4-inch QVGA display, built-in stereo speakers and a microSD slot to supplement the included memory. Audio codec support includes FLAC, MP3, WMA, ASF and OGG, while you can manage MPEG-4, WMV9 and XVID for video. There’s also a mic, FM radio and line-in for acquiring audio. The E100 is available now, with prices starting at €79.00 ($119 US) for a 2GB player, and ramping on up to €129.00 ($194 US) for the 8GB.
[Via Generation MP3]
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29th
YourTrumanShow Officially Launches VideoMap
Posted by Kristen Nicole under Mashable
We first caught wind of the YourTrumanShow video aggregator widgets at DEMOfall 2007, and the cross-platform video aggregator is finally ready to be launched to the public. When I first got a chance to check out the YourTrumanShow video aggregator, I was impressed with the visual mapping that it provides you across your network, consisting of your friends and the friends of friends.
From there, you can explore clips across this ever-growing network directly from the widget. This has integration for Facebook and YouTube on different levels, granting you access via your Facebook account, and letting you keep track of YouTube clips from wherever you’ve accessed the YourTrumanShow VideoMap.
Interestingly enough, YouTube has since come out with a tool that is similar to the VideoMap, called Bubbles, which lets you explore related videos from within the player, further than you might if you simply clicked on the bottom-running icons or the related clips sidebar. That’s because Bubbles, just like VideoMap, lets you explore across a myriad of related content, continually branching off more videos in a dynamic yet stationary application that doesn’t require you to navigate away from a page, or even reload a page.
As I mentioned in my initial review, this portable network can come in handy for exploratory reasons, and will only get better once features like commenting, etc. are added to this VideoMap tool.
Popularity: unranked [?]
29th
YourTrumanShow Officially Launches VideoMap
Posted by Kristen Nicole under Mashable
We first caught wind of the YourTrumanShow video aggregator widgets at DEMOfall 2007, and the cross-platform video aggregator is finally ready to be launched to the public. When I first got a chance to check out the YourTrumanShow video aggregator, I was impressed with the visual mapping that it provides you across your network, consisting of your friends and the friends of friends.
From there, you can explore clips across this ever-growing network directly from the widget. This has integration for Facebook and YouTube on different levels, granting you access via your Facebook account, and letting you keep track of YouTube clips from wherever you’ve accessed the YourTrumanShow VideoMap.
Interestingly enough, YouTube has since come out with a tool that is similar to the VideoMap, called Bubbles, which lets you explore related videos from within the player, further than you might if you simply clicked on the bottom-running icons or the related clips sidebar. That’s because Bubbles, just like VideoMap, lets you explore across a myriad of related content, continually branching off more videos in a dynamic yet stationary application that doesn’t require you to navigate away from a page, or even reload a page.
As I mentioned in my initial review, this portable network can come in handy for exploratory reasons, and will only get better once features like commenting, etc. are added to this VideoMap tool.
Popularity: unranked [?]
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