YouTube this morning made its live streaming plans official and indicated that it would start trials. The testing starts at 11AM Eastern today with a live broadcast of Rocketboom and will run through only until late Tuesday. Google has been late to live video with Youtube and hasn’t said when it expects to make live […]
Altoids has announced the launch of Tune Out for Desktop, a free app allowing you to keep up with your favorite — and only your favorite — people on Facebook. Tune Out is a new way for to view and comment on recent updates from your favorites on a single, scrolling screen — so you’ll […]
ScuttlePad, which is designed to be the first social network for kids with a safe -” and cool -” environment to learn and truly interact online while building language skills was lauched recently. Whether adults like it or not, social networking has become an everyday part of a kid’s life. At a time when 27% […]
As the 2010 Major League Baseball regular season enters the pennant race push, MLB.com is debuting a pair of new interactive features to its MLB.TV media player, natural sound audio selection and batter-by-batter highlight navigation, while lowering the prices for new subscribers. Subscribers can utilize the current clickable linescore functionality to jump to any half […]
Yoogli has announced the release of its new indie artist discovery site at www.YoogliMusic.com. The iPad compatible music search engine discovery site includes automated playlists, blog, new artist recommendations, aggregate news feeds, wiki-generated artists’ pages, and social networking capabilities all on one site! Yoogli Music seamlessly synchronizes with iTunes and Apple’s iPad. The new music […]
Whether a ‘newbie’ or a ‘mayor,’ Chili’s Grill & Bar is giving something to everyone checking in at its restaurants on Foursquare, a location-based social media platform for smartphones. At participating locations nationwide for a limited time only, Foursquare subscribers who check in at Chili’s will receive a free order of chips and house-made salsa. […]
Rackspace Hosting has announced the launch of OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. Rackspace, the leading specialist in the hosting and cloud hosting industry, is donating the code that powers its Cloud Files and Cloud Servers public-cloud offerings to the OpenStack project. The project will […]
YouTube today started testing a new form of embedding code that would support both Flash and HTML5. Using iframes, the site will either use the Flash plugin or switch to HTML5 depending on the browser and device. It will only force Flash when the video requires features HTML5 can’t yet handle, such as ad overlays. […]
CouponMap.com recently launched a new feature to make it even easier for its users to get coupons and deals for merchants in their neighborhood. Launched last summer, CouponMap.com enables users to enter their zip code, address or landmark to view a map of printable coupons for nearby merchants. CouponMap.com’s new alerts feature allows users to […]
1.7 million consumers bought iPhone 4s in its first three days of sale, sending Apple more than $1 billion in revenue. Research from Yankee Group shows that those same consumers will be worth more than $1.8 billion to AT&T this year, and more than $9 billion to it over the next five years. “Why iPhones […]