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LifeLock Identity Theft Protection
LifeLock provides a proactive identity theft service, specializing in the prevention of identity theft rather than the reporting of it.
Lifelock Identify Theft Protection services provide you early notification of identity threats, search the web for the illegal selling of your information, help cancel and replace the contents of your lost or stolen wallet, [...]
Google Buzz
Google has introduced its new service: Google Buzz .This online service gives users social networking tools such as link sharing and status updates through Gmail. Shared links and messages show up integrated in Gmail inbox.When the service is accessed through a mobile phone, it tags posts with the user’s current location in English.
Google Buzz is not [...]
OOizit – Social Network for UK Music
In a world first, OOiZiT.com offers unsigned artists the chance to have a hit. OOiZiT.com combines the capabilities of sites such as Spotify, MySpace, iTunes, Twitter and Facebook under one banner, but with a key difference: the ability to propel users into the charts. Every track sold on OOiZiT.com counts towards the UK charts, including the UK top [...]
TVGorge – Free TV Shows in Streaming
TVGorge is a new site wich mission is to bring high quality streaming television shows to the masses. TVGorge search and indexes TV streaming websites around internet. You can access to thousands of TV episodes for free.
In TVGorge you will find virtually all the currently aired series, including 24, Dexter, CSI, Flashforward, Californication, [...]
How to Create iPhone Apps – Free Standford Course
Standford popular iPhone Apps development course has arrive to iTunes Store. The first class of the 10-week session is available as a free download on iTunes U.
Users of the iTunes Store may subscribe to and download each week’s lecture videos and accompanying materials for the 10-week course, iPhone Application Development, which is taught by Apple engineers.
“We’ve [...]
Guerrilla Filmmaking
Howcast and Youtube Creator’s Corner will present “Guerrilla Filmmaking: Learn the Secrets to Low-Budget, High-Creativity Filmmaking” on Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 5 PM (ET).
In their special event, Howcast is bringing together some of their most talented filmmakers for a live-streamed conversation during which they’ll reveal the secrets to being a self-reliant filmmaker known for maximum [...]
How Data and New Media Helped Obama Win
Former Google executive, Dan Siroker left the search giant to work on the Obama presidential campaign. He specifically worked on the analytics side and explains how they used data and new media to win the Presidential election.
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Stream Direct TV PC – Online TV Software
StreamDirect TV is a revolutionary software will allow you to watch over 4500 Digital HD channels via optimized streaming technology. You will have full access to all the aforementioned channels from any location on the globe.
You won’t need any dishes or boxes to activate this service. All you need is our software a computer and [...]
Make Money Blogging with PayPerPost
The new version of PayPerPost has arrived. PayperPost v.4.0
PayPerPost is a well know and effective marketing platform. Advertiser can generate buzz for their products, increasing traffic and improving their search engine ranking. Advertise on blogs are the best way to promote any service.
Bloggers can make money reviewing products or services from the advertisers. [...]
Google Buys AdMob
Google has buyed AdMob, which sells targeted ads on mobile-optimized websites. Google has paid about $750 million for AdMob.
Google said: ““Google could have built this itself, but this gives them a head start,” says mobile analyst Greg Sterling of Sterling Market Intelligence. “It will thrust Google into the forefront of mobile display ads.” … ““We [...]
Wastedge – Waste Management Software
Wastedge is the provider of the industry leading Waste Management Software package.
This unique software is sold on a Software as a Service basis. Wastedge is hosting online for you and is available for a low monthly fee. The software is always available online and can be setup easily in your own time without the expensive [...]
Ask.com for Sale
Ask could be sold. Ask.com, formerly AskJeeves.com, was bought in March 2005 for $1.85bn in stock and has failed to gain significant ground on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing search engine market.
“The big steps we’ve been out and after for the last several years in search have not been achieved and you’d have to say [...]
Youtube broadcast live U2 concert in Los Angeles
Youtube broadcast live U2 concert in Los Angeles
Great news from Google-Youtube. The concert by the band U2 in Los Angeles will be officially broadcast via webcast by Youtube. The concert will be broadcasted from official U2 channel in Youtube on October 25 to 16 countries, at 20h30m schedule in Los Angeles.
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Heroes of Newerth
Heroes of Newerth is a new, upcoming in the same vein of Defense of the Anceints (DoTA). Heroes of Newerth, currently in beta testing, is an amazing real-time strategy online game with stunning visuals. The game has been developed by renowned company S2 Games.
Rugger Nerds (www.ruggernerds.com) is a new discussion board about Heroes of Newerth. [...]
Yahoo Redesigns Homepage
Yahoo unveiled a redesigned front page on Tuesday. Yahoo has called the changes “the portal’s most significant redesign ever”. The new homepage is gives users a way to personalize Yahoo.com so they can integrate with social media sites and online services, such as Facebook or Gmail using a new “My Favorites” section. Yahoo [...]
Yahoo gets a face wash
Yahoo has relaunched its web portal, supported by a $100m global advertising campaign.yahoo_logo
The company hopes the website refresh will boost both traffic and revenues.
Yahoo will also open its home page to rivals, allowing users to integrate third-party web services like Facebook or Hotmail into its portal.
Disney acquires Marvel
Worldwide leader in family entertainment agrees to acquire Marvel and its portfolio of over 5,000 characters
Acquisition highlights Disney’s strategic focus on quality branded content, technological innovation and international expansion to build long-term shareholder value
Building on its strategy of delivering quality branded content to people around the world, The Walt Disney Company (DIS) has agreed to [...]
Microsoft and Yahoo Close the Deal
Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an huge agreement. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search -via Bing- while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.
For Web users and advertisers, this deal will accelerate the pace and breadth of innovation by combining both companies’ complementary strengths and [...]
MSN Soapbox Closing Down
Microsoft loses the battle against Youtube. MSN will no longer offer Soapbox, the user generated video service within MSN Video, as of August 31, 2009. Beginning on July 29, users will no longer be able to upload videos to Soapbox.
People who have uploaded videos to Soapbox will have until August 31, 2009 to download them. [...]
Google Chrome OS is coming
Google has announced the Google Chrome Operating System.
Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, [...]
Google Voice is coming
Google Voice is the new revolutionary service coming out of Google. Basically, what they are doing is allowing you to centralize your multiple phone numbers -work, home and cell-. In the process they have come up with all kinds of handy tools and features that give end users more control over their [...]
Google Books 2.0
Google has announced great improvements on Google Books. The most prominent changee is the new embeddability feature. -This new toolbar option allows you to embed a preview of a full view or partner book in any of your websites or blogs with a simple html snippet.
Programmers comfortable with API tools could accomplish this via their [...]
Wolfram Alpha, the computational search engine
Wolfram Alpha, the new, long-awaited search engine, also known as ‘computational knowledge engine’, was officially launched on Monday.
According to creators, Wolfram Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.
“Fifty years ago, when computers were young, people assumed that they’d be able to ask a computer any factual [...]
Google Wave Preview
Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.
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Google New Search Options
Google’s Search options let you slice and dice your search results, explore your search and generate different views of your results page to more easily and quickly find what you need. Watch the video for further detail.
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Webby Awards 2009 Winners
The Webby Awards have been announced and some of the lucky winners are …
Webby Artist of the Year: Trent Reznor
Webby Person of the Year: Jimmy Fallon
Webby Breakout of the Year: Twitter
Best Actress: Sarah Silverman
Outstanding Comedic Performance: Lisa Kudrow
Film & Video Person of the Year: Seth MacFarlane
Other notable winners: in the Automotive category the Webby [...]
Youtube University – Free Online University Courses on Youtube
YouTube Edu streams lectures and full courses from more than 100 universities including Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale, among many others. Courses may be browsed by subject, university, or instructor.
More than 150 universities from six continents participate in the OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement, offering approximately 5,000 courses for free. OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based [...]
Duck Duck Go, a new search engine
Duck Duck Go is a new general search engine with an inusual name.
This new search engine combine results from Yahoo with even better results from human powered sources like Wikipedia .
Duck Duck Go claims major differences with other search engines including Zero-click Information, Category Pages, ambiguous keyword detection, semantic topic detection (for more relevant results), [...]
Wikia Search Closes
Wikia Search, a Search Engine launched a few months ago, has been discontinued. The service was intended to be a user-generated search engine, through which users could influence the rankings of results for all other users.
Wikipedia and Wikia’s founder Jimmy Wales has said” Wikia Search, has not been enjoying the kind of success that we [...]
HotJobs for Sale
Hotbjobs, the popular employment portal and web property of Yahoo has already been designated for sale to lessen the impact of a slowing Internet advertising market.
Yahoo! has closed a number of products recently.
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Encarta Dead
Encarta, Microsoft’s popular encyclopedia will be discontinuing later this year. Microsoft has made this announcement confirmating that Wikipedia is the world’s definitive reference guide.
Microsoft has said “Encarta has been a popular product around the world for many years. However, the category of traditional encyclopedias and reference material has changed. People today seek and consume information [...]
123People, People Search Engine
123people is a real time people search engine that looks into nearly every corner of the Web. Using our proprietary search algorithm, you can find comprehensive and centralized people related information consisting of images, videos, phone numbers, email addresses, social networking and Wikipedia profiles and much more. All of this rich media profile content is [...]
Wolfram Alpha, a New Search Engine
A new search engine described as an “electronic brain” could make searching the Internet more intelligent. Called Wolfram Alpha, the search engine computes its own answers rather than looking them up in a large database, as Google and many other search engines currently do. With its computational abilities, Wolfram Alpha could lead to new types [...]
Yauba – New Privacy Safe Search Engine
Yauba is a new search engine claiming to be “The World’s First Privacy Safe Search Engine”.
Yauba is a new, experimental, Indian search engine that seeks to transform the way people find information online, while providing maximum protection for their safety, security and privacy. Launched in “early beta/late alpha” mode on March 2009 after stealth development [...]
Stumpedia Launches Paid Content Platform
Stumpedia is launching a new kind of paid content service -similar to Google’s Knol- called Stumpedia Articles that allows content creators to publish authoritative articles about a specific topic and earn 100% of the advertising revenue. Unlike most other publishing platforms where advertising revenue is shared, Stumpedia allows content creators complete control and management [...]
Fabchannel Stops
Online concert channel Fabchannel.com ceases its activities as of today, due to bad economic prospects within the music and online advertising market.
During the last nine years, Fabchannel have been successfully promoting concert recordings of national and international artists online among a large international audience.
The Fabchannel business model bases itself on two essential ingredients: international [...]
