Twitter. The. Answer. BBC video embedding - proof of commodity news? I’ve had little time to mull over the implications of the announcement that the BBC is to share its video content with Daily Mail & General Trust, Guardian News & Media, Telegraph Media Group and Independent News & Media.
Yet, in the moments when I have, I have this nagging worry that it is not a good sign. I can completely see the benefits: additional video content that can really enrich a story, but at no real cost to the newspaper groups involved. Plus, if you’re getting BBC content on your favourite newspaper website, perhaps you might switch your homepage allegiance.
Why Facebook needs DST in Russia. Updated at 8:30 p.m.: to correct that DST has no funding from the Russian government.
As reported earlier, Facebook is taking a $200 million round of funding from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment company. While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a conference call Tuesday morning that Facebook revenue numbers were up, that the company was growing, and that Facebook was, "on track to creating a nice, self-sustaining business," he explained that at Facebook, "we're open to interesting offers. " With many companies wanting to invest in Facebook, what made the DST offer so interesting?
Regional knowledge Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told me that Facebook was "not actively seeking investments. " Ch-ch-ch-changes: A visual history of Firefox. The official release of Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is due this week.
It's a significant milestone in the open-source browser's history. Putting pure features aside, let's take a look at some of the big design changes Mozilla has made over the years, beginning with version 0.8 when Mozilla renamed it from Firebird to Firefox. For the sake of simplicity we're keeping it limited to just the Windows and Mac versions. And for certain features where there is little, if any, difference between the platforms--we're sticking to the Windows version. The four things we're comparing are navigation, tabs, bookmarks, and the settings menu: Navigation Navigation has experienced subtle changes over the years, with the exception of version 3.
Note: To see the full-size versions of these images just click on them. Tabs. '#CNNFail': Twitterverse slams network's Iran abs. As the Iranian election aftermath unfolded in Tehran--thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to express their anger at perceived electoral irregularities--an unexpected hashtag began to explode through the Twitterverse: "CNNFail.
" Even as Twitter became the best source for rapid-fire news developments from the front lines of the riots in Tehran, a growing number of users of the microblogging service were incredulous at the near total lack of coverage of the story on CNN, a network that cut its teeth with on-the-spot reporting from the Middle East. Microsoft veteran launches Twitter search engine. The former head of Microsoft's search unit may have left Redmond, but he is still very much in the search game.
Ken Moss, who led the search engineering team at Microsoft for five years, has spent the last months building CrowdEye, a real-time search engine that aims to allow users to better mine Twitter to get a pulse on hot topics. The service, which is going into public beta on Thursday, offers up not only the latest tweets on a topic, but also a list of the most popular links on a topic and a tag cloud of associated terms. "I think that real-time search is the next big thing in search," Moss said in a telephone interview. Tweecious turns Twittered links into Delicious bookmarks. If you're looking for a really simple way to feed your Delicious account and keep track of all the links you've shared over Twitter, Tweecious is a fantastic tool for the lazy.
This new Firefox add-on turns links you've included in Twitter messages into bookmarks for your Delicious library, and even tags everything for you. Once you've logged into both accounts to provision Tweecious with access, it simply keeps an eye on what you've posted in Twitter and will send it over to Delicious. This also works retroactively, so you can have it slurp up all the links from your previous 1,000 tweets and send them over. For me that whole process took about 10 minutes after I had installed it and provisioned my accounts. Twitterverse working to confuse Iranian censors. Yesterday, I got an e-mail from a reader who had seen my story about Twitter users slamming CNN for its initial absence on the post-Iranian election protests, urging me to remove an image in the story.
Hands-on with Tweetdeck 0.26. Update: The "Multiple-account support" section has been rewritten to correct my original misunderstanding of how it works.
The new version of Tweetdeck is out, a bit ahead of schedule. (You can also download Tweetdeck from Download.com.) As discussed previously , this version adds cloud synchronization and other features. But I found the implementation rough in spots. Here's a quick hands-on overview of the main new features: Synchronization: The big feature: searches and groups are saved to your online Tweetdeck account, and setting up the account is easy.