Sunday, January 31, 2010
According to Twitter its still 2009
Twitter is yet to change there copyright notice it currently says © 2009 Twitter Twitter either doesn't have copyright for 2010 yet or they just haven't noticed it yet, either way they need to change it before someone goes after the name "Twitter."
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Google Swirl
We were looking around Google labs when we ran across something pretty cool, its called Google images swirl it is an advanced image search. Below is a photo explaining it as best as we could in a photo because remember a photo is worth 1,000 words!
Friday, January 29, 2010
New settings bar!
Twitter has re designed the bar that has options such as "Account" Password" "Notices" etc.. They have made it a little bit fancyer and allot more colorful.
Chirp and SHOUTIE
Twitter a few weeks ago announced they would have there first ever conference called the Chirp conference for developers. Well, Shoutitout has come out with a Awards ceremony called the SHOUTIE awards they will give awards such as most badges earned this year the day is in July. Which one will you go to?
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Plurk adds badges
Plurk has added badges such as Foursquare has when you make so many post have so much karama are a member for 100 days. We like this because there the only mocriblog with badges and we already have 3!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Question of the day
Ask has launched "question of the day" when you go on the Ask homepage from the logo a bubble has a question of the day, you can click the link to get an answer for the question. We believe that this is a comback for Bings changed background. They also added a nav bar that tells what people are helping, how to help Haiti, and advertising there change your skin option.
Happy Birthday Orkut!
Did you re-do your hair or is it the nav bar?
Bebo the social network owned by AOL has re-done there nav bar. Its a little more fancy and it is darker black but the thing I noticed the most was the logo is different. This nav bar change is most likely an attempt to compete with something such as changing design of a profile, although not as nice, it is still and nice little touch.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Hoogle is bought
Hoogle.com the closest domain name to Google.com has been bought by a new site only known as hypocrite.com. It apears to be some kind of fan site with servral videos and blog post. It was originally owned by a small social network known as Beaver Network. This will most likely raise the Fan site by allot of views and decrees the Beaver Networks visiting.
Creating a social netowork just got even more fancy!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Shoutitout login updated BEFORE v.2.0
Shoutitout is coming out with a V.2.0 as we all know, BUT before they do this they added a new feature to there login, you can login with your email OR nick! For example ours would be Nick: uhhmmnews Password: Hyväyritysmuttaeikerrosinulle this will make it so much easier to log onto Shoutitout they might just get a little bit more popular!
3 Reasons why Friendfeed isn't fun anymore
1. It isn't very busy.
Friendfeed isn't fun because no one is on it. When you go an ask everyone you know if they have a Friendfeed you might get 3 yeses and the rest would be noes.
2. Friendfeed isn't "in" right now
Friendfeed just isn't in right now. Its owned by Facebook but people use Facebook not Friendfeed and its just not really "in."
3. There NOTHING NEW!
Friendfeed never comes out with anything new. There last big feature was the buy by Facebook and thats all they have mentioned recently, if Friendfeed wants to stay popular they have to come out with some new features.
Friendfeed isn't fun because no one is on it. When you go an ask everyone you know if they have a Friendfeed you might get 3 yeses and the rest would be noes.
2. Friendfeed isn't "in" right now
Friendfeed just isn't in right now. Its owned by Facebook but people use Facebook not Friendfeed and its just not really "in."
3. There NOTHING NEW!
Friendfeed never comes out with anything new. There last big feature was the buy by Facebook and thats all they have mentioned recently, if Friendfeed wants to stay popular they have to come out with some new features.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
(Rumor) Its about to be a 4 way war!
As you all know over the last few weeks aside from maybe link shortening Check-in has been the most competitive topic. First Foursquare came out, Then Gowalla, afterwards Yelp came out with it on there iPhone app. Well, now Shoutitout has decided that they want in on the wars (as usual) Therefore, if our source is right, Shoutitout will reales Check-ins with their up coming V.2.0! So I guess the question is How will this effect Yelp, Foursquare, and Gowalla? Well, our guess is Foursquare will not be happy about it and it will take a few users from them as for Yelp we doubt they will care much since they just released there iPhone app to compete with Foursquare they will probably welcome the extra attack on Foursquare, as for the start up Gowalla we think they will have to come back with something our it may put them out of business.
Only if you like the newspaper THAT much
The New York times is going to start chagrining for there site. That means you have to pay for certain features on there site so heres my question, will you pay to use the New York Times website?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Whats wrong with China you ask? They don't like porn
Chinese mobile providers will monitor text messages in the country for “illegal or unhealthy content” and suspend service when a customer inadvertently sends up a red flag, according to a report in The New York Times.
Companies like China Mobile will turn the potentially offending messages over to the authorities to be reviewed. If the customer is cleared of any wrongdoing, his or her service will be restored, but it doesn’t look like the mobile providers or authorities are going out of their way to clearly define what constitutes an offense.
Police will provide words to scan for to catch potential criminals in the name of fighting pornography. We reported a couple of weeks ago that more than 5,000 arrests were made on pornography charges in 2009 to prevent the scourge from “overwhelming the country’s Internet and threatening the emotional health of children.”
We’re not sure which words are on the list, but the Times quotes Beijing University telecommunications professor Kan Kaili who claims that “they are doing wide-ranging checks, checking anything and everything, even if it is between a husband and wife.”
Married couples? That could be a problem for the pornography flags, people. This seems to be par for the course if we’re getting the full story here in the West, though — Google has threatened to leave the country if China doesn’t make an effort to improve freedom of speech.
Monday, January 18, 2010
They strike again
(Update): You can now acssess Shoutitout however it is still very laggy
The Iranian cyber army, everyones favorite hackers have striked again this time hitting Shoutitout. About 20 minutes ago it start we're Shoutitout was kine'vd laggy, now its laggy and 3 seconds after you go on Shoutitout you redirect to a page as the picture below shows.
Some people just REALLY love MS paint (Video)
An 15 year old youtuber known as scorpiongold has created a jinormus MS paint "world" he claims it is 2.3 by 2.5 meeter's and that it took 4 years to make. He admits he didn't work on it everyday but once a week. And here is the result:
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Firefox seems to have caught Shoutitouts login on fire
Shoutitout has been having login issues as they stated in a blog post and several Shouts. We are not sure why they are having theses issues but it seems when people try to login if they are using Firefox they are redirected to thier profile page but are not logged in. Users have been complaining about this for a few days now and have only gotten limited information from Shoutitout. We have tried Shoutitout login on Firefox and had the same issue, so if emily or any Shoutitout staff is reading this post please tell us whats going.
A song about everything that matters
We will skip her details since you all know who she is, anyway iJustine and popular blogger, youtuber, twitter-er and many other things has realesed a remix of the song Tik tok by Kesha in a tech form so here it is!
First China now Germany
When the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology issued a public
warning to not use Internet Explorer earlier this week, I was proud of my country.
That did not last long.
Yesterday, Google Germany confirmed that the German newspaper publishers association (BDZV), Microsoft owned Ciao and online maps service Euro-Cities AG called the German cartel authorities to investigate Google’s business practices, for various different reasons.
At the heart of their complaint they sing along the well-known Rupert Murdoch idea: “We have no clue how to innovate our own business model, so we’d love to get a share of Google’s ads revenues!”
The rationale behind it is the assertion, by grabbing parts of their “valuable content”, created at “extremely high production costs” and inserting it into search results, Google would violate the publishers’ intellectual property rights.
Someone has yet to explain to me, how Google could potentially do this with only some two to three lines of text displayed underneath each link in their result listings.
Euro-Cities AG, a company offering an online maps service and one that I’ve never ever heard of before, additionally feels unhappy with Google delivering its own Maps services for free.
With ad revenues rapidly decreasing in traditional print over here, simply trying to reach out for Google’s pockets seems outrageous to me.
Would intellectual property rights be the real driver, simple technical means to prevent Google’s crawlers from indexing a site exist since more than a decade. But then again, publishers obviously do like that part of Google’s business. Being found by millions of daily Google users is okay, while Google making money by providing the best search service in the world is not?
A clear case of double standards.
To make matters worse our ministry of justice, a lady named Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, on Thursday stated, she is not too happy about the “megalomania” and is ready to act. “If this does not occur, then perhaps we will be required to step in as lawmakers,” she said.
Google Germany spokesman Kay Oberbeck remains relaxed:
“We would be happy to explain our products and business practices to the German authorities and are confident, that they fully comply with German and European law.”
Hopefully, our anti-trust officials will act commonsensical and deny to take action. Maybe we can also find somebody, who takes a few hours to explain Mrs. Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, the basics of how the Internet works.
As an immediate action to boost their own credibility, I’d like to recommend to the German newspaper publishers association, to remove the embedded Google Map from their driving directions page and maybe pay for one from Euro-Cities AG.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Mr money Fish under investigation
Mrmoneyfish.com the free advertising site is under investigation for stealing credit card and email information. This some what popular free advertising service has been in legal trouble for a while and as of today there site has been suspended several times.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Monthly site review (Link Shorterners)
We though with all the recent link shorterner drama we would review well, link sourterners.
5. Su.pr
Su.pr is a great URL shorterner it is owned and runned by Stumbleupon. You can post a message to forward to sites like Twitter and Facebook along with your link which is why we like it so much!
4. Ruly
Ruly is a smaller link shorterner, we like it manly because you can look and see what are popular links shortened by Ruly, as well a recent links. You can also click random and it will show you a list of random links shortened by Ruly.
3. is.gd
Is.gd allows you to shorten links quickly and easly, it is a great service because of its customer service it also tells you how many links have been shortened toatle.
2. ow.ly
Ow.ly is a great shorterner because it lets you shorten a link without an account or you can create an account and shorten photos videos and servral other links. You can alos log in using your Twitter and share the link on Twitter.
1. Go2.me
Go2.me has very easy sharing option as well as the fact you can start a discussion while your shorteneing a link. They also tell you the days most popular link and amout of links shortened that day.
5. Su.pr
Su.pr is a great URL shorterner it is owned and runned by Stumbleupon. You can post a message to forward to sites like Twitter and Facebook along with your link which is why we like it so much!
4. Ruly
Ruly is a smaller link shorterner, we like it manly because you can look and see what are popular links shortened by Ruly, as well a recent links. You can also click random and it will show you a list of random links shortened by Ruly.
3. is.gd
Is.gd allows you to shorten links quickly and easly, it is a great service because of its customer service it also tells you how many links have been shortened toatle.
2. ow.ly
Ow.ly is a great shorterner because it lets you shorten a link without an account or you can create an account and shorten photos videos and servral other links. You can alos log in using your Twitter and share the link on Twitter.
1. Go2.me
Go2.me has very easy sharing option as well as the fact you can start a discussion while your shorteneing a link. They also tell you the days most popular link and amout of links shortened that day.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Microblogs, they always like to mess up at the same time
Earlier today Twitter the microbloging leader had SMS issues were double post. Then hours later and minutes ago Shoutitout announced that if you have a PC 96 and you use Firefox you will not be able to log on.
Oops is right!
Formspring.me the forum designed to allow users to ask questions and then the owner of the account to answer them has apparently stopped working. At lest when you try to sign up. If you try and sign up one you fill out all the fields you will get the message saying "Oops, something broke we're working to fix it!" we tried it 4 times and got the same thing over and over. Never the less Formspring.me is still and amazing service.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Googles search for iPhone and Android are down.
Update: We’re getting reports that some people can access Google Mobile Search, and others cannot. We think it may be regional, but we’re not sure. We will update you when we learn more.
This is a strange anomaly that we’ve just come across. It looks as if Google Mobile search has taken a tumble. Our attempts to search for anything on three different phones (two iPhones and a Nexus One) have come up empty. Tweets are rolling in about the problem too. However, it looks like other phones, including the BlackBerry, can still access Google Search. Google web search is also still up.
Google is having some type of issue, but whether it’s a server issue, a bug, or something else, we don’t know. We’ve contacted Google and will get back to you when we learn more about the outage.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Mashable: Its makeover time!
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Ding and Bing = Cha Ching
Bing the Microsoft search engine started off in a bolt dominating everything and being said that it could downthrow Google. It has over 28,000,000 separate visitors after 3 months of being on the web. Well, it looks like another search engine that rhymes with Bing, Ding has done the same. Ding, is a social media search. It searches site like Twitter, Facebook, Myspace etc... it is also believed they will also be search sites like Digg and Lala. The site got somewhere between 100,000 and 120,00 visits today alone almost as much as sites like Bing do. It has gotten an estimate of $10,000 in today alone as well, and had caught the eye of many large companies.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
LEAKED: Possible chat bar and new share feature!
Leaked information has been given out that Shoutitout could be getting a chat bar similar to Facebooks or Myspaces. This information was leaked when someone asked what the "test" they were doing were and then Shoutitout staff told them. "A chat bar and new share options." We have no word on how long till you might see these feature just "not to expect them in the near future."
Friday, January 1, 2010
Google countdown reaches zero
Posting links just got a little harder
Facebook as you know has always done the same as Myspace, Bebo, Friendster, Tagged, hi5, and Ning. They put those confusing letters to make sure your not a bot when you post a link, Frankly, I think its annoying. But anyway well Facebook has upgraded theirs making it actually easier they put to dots on part of the word and the word goes into them changing colors. Screen Shot below. The question is, is this Facebooks and Facebooks alone or will other networks like the ones we listed earlier start doing this to.
Can you tell us what it says in the comments below?
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