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Flickr launches videos for pro accounts

Joshua — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:08:11 +0000

A post on the official Flickr blog today announced the launch a new feature offering the ability to include short video clips in your sets. The blog post explains that the feature is available to pro members only currently, and that clips are to be limited to 90 seconds.

The had this to say regarding the time limit;

90 seconds? While this might seem like an arbitrary limit, we thought long and hard about how video would complement the flickrverse. If you’ve memorized the Community Guidelines, you know that Flickr is all about sharing photos that you yourself have taken. Video will be no different and so what quickly bubbled up was the idea of “long photos,” of capturing slices of life to share.

Much more information is available on the official announcement and further on the video help page.

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Hot Trends Launched by Google

Joshua — Mon, 28 May 2007 11:20:27 +0000

Hot Trends is a new feature out of Google Labs that shows the top 100 topics that people are searching for in great numbers. The list is updated in almost real time so you can keep right on the pulse.

Google Zeitgeist is a list of popular searches that has been in the making for more than six years. This has highlighted the sorts of queries people type into the Google search box every day. Google Trends shows the popularity of search terms in relation to each other over time, and how different cities or regions may care (or not) about the trends.

Hot Trends is the latest feature to be added. Clicking on one of the hot topics takes you to a page of nifty info including related searches, blog results, news clippings and the top web results.

Over on Problogger they write;

This should be exciting bloggers on at least two fronts.

1. It’s another chance to be found once you’re in their Blog Search system.
2. It could be a useful tool for those writing blogs on current hot topics.

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Valleywag’s Hottest Web2.0 Startups Chart

Joshua — Thu, 17 May 2007 04:00:41 +0000

Valleywag has compiled a pie chart of the Hottest Startup companies of today. The chart is compiled based on data gathered from threads running on LinkedIn and VentureBeat and tends to be aimed simply at people’s opinions rather than actual traffic, membership stats or revenue, etc. Still from a social point of view it is interesting to see what “the community” thinks is hot.

Check out the chart here.

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del.icio.us bookmarks extension for Firefox updated

Joshua — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:16:00 +0000

The del.icio.us blog has announced the launch of an updated Firefox extension including improvements such as;

Searching and browsing your bookmarks from directly within your Firefox browser
Edit your bookmarks within Firefox
Define which tags to display in the Firefox toolbar

More information on the extension can be found here.

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