Tech Week in Review 11-13-09
Google Launches It’s Own Systems Programming Language Dubbed ‘Go’, @ShitMyDadSays Inks TV Deal with CBS, Razorfish Survey Shows How People Interact with Brands in Social Media, and Photo Tagger Alerts You When People Put Your Face on the Web.
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Google Music is a Reality
Google has partnered with LaLa and iLike (owned by MySpace) to bring you enhanced music search. Not only can you preview and purchase music from artists you already like, but you can also use it to discover new artists.
Read MoreTech Week in Review 10-23-09
No clue what took them so long, but photo sharing site Flickr has finally added the ability to tag people in your photos. You should be familiar with this feature from Facebook, but you have also probably been highly annoyed by this feature on Facebook as well. What makes Flickr’s tagging features superior to Facebook’s is the controls offered to the user.
Read MoreTech Week in Review 10-16-09
Twitter Doing Video Tweets? Uh…No. For some odd reason, Britain’s Telegraph suggested that Twitter would be adding the ability to upload and host video on the site. Never mind the fact that there are several services that integrate closely with Twitter to provide just such a service. Duplicating those features would only hurt Twitter. The [...]
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Leveraging Adobe’s Real Time Media Flow Protocol, TinyChat now allows rooms with only 2 participants to connect directly with each other for video chat. This allows them to take a little load off their services in those specific cases. Chats with more than 2 people will still have to go through their servers, but they should come out ahead overall. One advantage of using this new Adobe protocol is that most users won’t even need to install any new plugins. (via RWW)
Read MoreTech Week In Review 10-2-09
Well, a lot of people got invites, but I wasn’t one of them. According to many who actually did get invites, Wave is not all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, it’s an awesome service for collaboration, but it’s not something that’s going to replace Twitter, FriendFeed, or Facebook. Seems like it’s just a little too realtime and comes up a little short in providing the user with tools to manage it effectively. Some think Wave is overhyped while others are begging for invites like the crackhead in Menace to Society. Check out Wayne’s Wave screencast . (Wave details)
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