Twitter, the popular microblogging site (which TECHGEEK.com.au has an account up to allow you to follow the news), has released a brand new redesign, with new tools that allow you to customise your profile and a brand new profile design – which includes a sidebar.
News in Brief: TechCrunch is reporting that eBay is set to sell recommendation StumbleUpon, after acquiring the site over a year ago in May 2007 for $75 million, after quoting a source with knowledge of the sale. They have hired Deutsche Bank to find a buyer for the site, but did not know the asking price for the site.
Yahoo has begun offering some of its users into a brand new design that hopes to increase the number of users who use the service, and will start by making the site more open to many different services – including those from external sources.
The new design features a “dashboard” that will report any activity that is linked to your account, like Flickr, Yahoo! Mail and eBay. As well, it will allow you to see what emails have arrived from your Yahoo! Mail, AOL and GMail accounts. The new design is also more slimmer, with one portion of the site devoted to featured content, and below that: news stories.
The right hand side will list all of its services, and the search bar is now aligned to the logo. Users, however, are randomly selected to test out the service, and you cannot sign up to see the test page – this is to make sure it can get an accurate response from those who are testing it.
After three ads, Microsoft has ditched its commercials that featured Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, but will refocus its efforts to ‘redefine’ the popular “I’m a PC” line on the current Apple ads for their Mac computers.
According to the New York Times, one of the commercials will begin with a company engineer who resembles John Hodgman, the famous comedian who portrays that PC character in the Apple ads.
The theme is said to be “Windows. Life without walls.”
Source & Image : New York Times
From the creators of “Texting Your Way To Love“, Current.TV has a brand new technology-related video - about your relationship with internet pornography. Video is below.
After Stewart posting the first Microsoft ad featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld - there happens to be another one, launched today. This new one features them connecting with “real people”, to show that Microsoft has connected with over a billion people.
Video is below:
Here is something I found on the Microsoft Site… I hope you enjoy.
Yahoo has decided to shut down its social-networking experiment, Yahoo Mash, after launching it a year ago, saying to all members via an email from community manager Matt Warburton reading: Thank you for trying out our Mash Beta service. We hope you had fun with it. Please note that we will shut down Mash on September 29, 2008. As a result, your current profile on Mash will no longer be available."
I’ve used Mash before, and it didn’t add any new features, instead you inviting friends that you created profiles for; and was created to provide a better version of Yahoo 360. Too bad it never caught on.
Source: The Social
The Beijing Olympics saw many technological advances on the coverage, but also saw the end of an era - with Channel Seven no longer the rights holder for the Olympics.
It’s been almost a week after the Olympics have finished and we can now review all the news about the coverage of the Olympics here in Australia, and they did not get a good response. While some came from incorrect information, many were upset about the sports being delayed, not played or even pre-empted by the AFL.
Current.TV’s SuperNews! has been the major source of tech parodies on the internet, and this one is no different. Follow these steps and you can get some love just by texting - that or lose your virginity/have sex.
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