Mac News: Web 2.0

Court Gives Viacom Window on YouTube User Activities

Thursday - July 3, 2008

A new ruling in Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against Google has privacy advocates fretting that the case may further erode privacy online, even if it's eventually settled. Judge Louis Stanton of the U.S. District Court for Southern New York ruled that Google must provide Viacom with information from its database, including users' YouTube login IDs, the videos they watched, and the time they watched them. Viacom wants the data in order to rebut Google's claim that user traffic to copyrighted content on YouTube is just a small part of the site's overall traffic. [More...]

Google, Yahoo Shine Searchlight on Adobe Flash

Tuesday - July 1, 2008

Adobe, Google and Yahoo have joined forces to add dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications to search results. The two search companies will use an optimized version of Adobe's Flash Player technology to improve their engines' abilities to index the Flash file format and scan information contained within the files. [More...]

iTunes U Graduates Across the Atlantic

Tuesday - July 1, 2008

The Open University is making course material available on Apple's download site. Apple's iTunes Store has built its reputation on music downloads, but it could be about to usher in a new era of learning on the move. In the not-too-distant future, when you see someone transfixed to their iPod, they may be enjoying a quick burst of environmental studies or English literature. [More...]

Headed for an E-Commerce Upgrade? Take the 2.0 Track

Tuesday - July 1, 2008

With the advent of new personalization technologies and the integration of user-generated content, social networking, RSS feeds, multichannel interaction and Ajax-based user interfaces, online retailers are rushing to upgrade their e-commerce sites to provide better user experiences and increase customer acquisition, retention and loyalty. [More...]

Flying Colors

Tuesday - July 1, 2008

Microsoft CRM 4.0 Applications certification is partly a way for Microsoft to quantify its relationships with its business partners and partly a credential to attract clients. The latter is particularly important, as 4.0 is proving to be Microsoft's most popular customer relationship management app yet. [More...]

Rhapsody Tries to Drown Out iTunes

Monday - June 30, 2008

RealNetworks' Rhapsody thinks it knows how to end Apple's dominance of the online music distribution scene: remove the digital locks on its songs; make key deals with A-list names in media, wireless providers and social networks; and let consumers preview entire songs, not just 30-second snippets. [More...]

Linuxy Declarations of Independence

Monday - June 30, 2008

Well, the Fourth of July is just a few days away, and all good citizens of the nation we call America must naturally be thinking of the birth of this great land. Not content to be just great, our founding fathers wanted independence as well, and that value is still held dear today. [More...]

HuffPo Local: Boon or Bane to Traditional Media?

Sunday - June 29, 2008

Arianna Huffington is planting her flag -- or at least a Post -- in Chicago this summer. Reached last Friday in London, Huffington said she looked last week to finalize plans for a Chicago version of The Huffington Post Web site, the first of what the writer/Internet entrepreneur hopes will be dozens of localized news sites throughout the United States. [More...]

Packing It In: The Evolution of Online Video and Audio Tech, Part 2

Sunday - June 29, 2008

The choice of particular audio-video compression technology is of vital interest to commercial and not-for-profit organizations involved in producing and delivering digital multimedia products and services. New York-based Paltalk's choice is a case in point. "Our codec choice proved to be wise indeed," Paltalk founder and Chief Technical Officer Perry Scherer told LinuxInsider. [More...]

The Web Knows How

Saturday - June 28, 2008

Terri Rossman considers herself a visual learner. So when the 52-year-old marketing professional wanted to learn a new knitting stitch, she turned to the Web. "I searched for 'knit bobble stitch' on Google and I found a video of someone doing it," said Rossman, who lives in the Detroit area. "It was perfect for me." The Web has become the place where people go to learn new tricks. [More...]

Packing It In: The Evolution of Online Video and Audio Tech, Part 1

Saturday - June 28, 2008

The explosion in Web-delivered music and video we're seeing today just wouldn't be possible without the use of sophisticated encoded compression algorithms, or codecs, and the file storage formats in which compressed audio, images and data are saved. As Internet bandwidth and broadband access has expanded, so has the transmission of much denser digital audio and video files. [More...]

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