Photo of the Week: I took this photo of Red Sox on the gates of Fenway Park while visiting Boston this weekend
for TECH cocktail Boston.
Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 09.09.2007
Chinese
military hacked into Pentagon
The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in
the most successful cyber attack on the US defense department, say
American officials. Wow, this makes me sleep better at night.
Apple Offers New Gear; Screws Early Adopters
Apple announced some pretty significant price breaks on the still very
new iPhone this week, I bought mine in June and was a little miffed by
the quick drop in price - that will teach us all to buy an Apple
product the day it comes out. However, Apple is offering some iPhone
buyers $100 back, so that might stop the negative karma with Apple
loyalists a little bit. Apple also announced the new iPod Touch and a
new iPod nano among tweaks in the iPod line-up.
Facebook
Opens
Profiles To Tap Into Google Traffic
Google is getting a bit more like Facebook by enabling a Facebook-style
news feed within its Orkut social networking site, while the king of
the walled gardens Facebook acknowledges in actions (rather than words)
that it really can't go it alone and decided to make Facebook profiles
indexable by search engines. With all the people search products
(Spock, Gleamd, etc)
popping up it will be interesting to see what happens. Facebook could
come in and dominate.
10
Future Web Trends
What then can we expect from the next 10 or so
years on the Web? Read/Write Web takes a crack at some of the Web
trends.
Delicious
Preview
A new version of Delicious the
social bookmarking product owned by Yahoo was released as a private
preview this week. With a more updated design, Yahoo may be positioning
Delicious, who has dropped its cleaver dot US URL, as Yahoo's next
generation search product.
MyStrands
Launches Music Video Discovery Service, MyStrands.tv
MyStrands, provider of a music recommendation service, has launched a
slick new website at MyStrands.tv for finding music videos hosted on
YouTube. MyStrands leverages collaborative filtering and some pretty
sophisticated algorithms to offer music recommendations, so it only
makes sense that they put them to use on other areas like videos.
Netscape
Digg Clone Is Gone
Like
the Jack Johnson tune Gone and after much speculation, the Netscape Digg
Clone is gone. AOL has announced the end of Netscape as a
social news portal and redirected traffic from the portal to
netscape.aol.com.
DNAStream
= Joost Online
DNAStream is the Spanish answer to Joost. It is a Web based application
that allows you to watch video clips and shows streaming from your
browser. Orli Yakuel took a look at it and like it.
Geek
Marketing
HorsePigCow runs through a list of how to market a product a geek crowd.
Google
Reader Adds Search
Google Reader has continued to roll out new
features and has now added search to its feed reader product.
Create
movies and slideshows with JayCut
This online location gives users the ability to create, edit and
publish online movies and slide shows using a set of easy controls. A
handful of effect and transitions are also available and music can be
uploaded and added to shows.
