The battle is on and it looks like we’ll see some pretty cool updated street view photos (movies?) in the near future. Microsoft Live Local is powered by Facet SightMap and Google may be using the LadyBug 2 from Point Grey research. More info over at Gizmodo. Microsoft’s Local SUV vs Google’s Streetview Fleet [Gizmodo]
You can finally edit your YouTube creations online. Don’t expect to be able to edit anything really serious, but if you’re just going to do some simple transitions or some pieces of text it will do just fine. Oh, and I nearly forgot. YouTube has launched a mobile version of their site letting all 3G [...]
If you have received a Powerpoint presentation in your Gmail the last couple of days, you have probably noticed that Google has added a new feature: ‘View as slideshow‘ – that’s right, a full blown flash powerpoint view is easily accessible from your inbox. Nice feature, and this also means that Google will launch their [...]
Steve Jobs announced that Apple will launch a public beta of their Safari browser for Windows Vista and Windows XP. According to a statement during the keynote, the new Safari is by far the fastest browser today on Windows. It’s twice as fast as IE7 and 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.
Apple got a lot of press a couple of days ago when they told us that YouTube will be available on Apple TV in the near future. If you got a Nintendo Wii, you can just point the built-in Opera browser to Youtube.com and start looking. Pretty neat. Nintendo Wii beats Apple TV [denver.yourhub.com] via [...]
In July ABC.com will debut streaming high definition videos through the Internet. Standard HD material distributed through the cable networks eats roughly 12 – 19 mbs, while the online videos coming through the ABC service will be compressed between 850 kilobit and 2 megabit per second. But since they are using a completely new codec [...]
If you pass by the Google Plex on Charleston Road in Mountian View, you can find a small easter egg buried inside the new Street view function on Google Maps – it’s a picture of the whole Google Map Street View team. I just thought it was kind of funny. Google Maps Street team easter [...]
In a couple of weeks you will be able to check out the most popular videos on YouTube through your AppleTV setup. Neat. I wonder how the quality of the YouTube videos will look on a decent plasma or LCD screen though… Thousands of the most current and popular YouTube videos will be available on [...]
In some cities, you can go to an Apple Store 24 hours a day, and apparently some visitors kept browsing their Myspace pages quite too long time. Apple have now blocked all acces to the domain myspace.com and it’s no longer possible to visit the domain. It’s the first domain that has been blacklisted from [...]
Google has launched a new service called Google Hot trends. The new thing about it, is that it gets updated every day. A funny example is that yesterday the Nose bidet was mentioned on the Oprah show and only a few hours after he show it appeared on the Google Hot Trends. Google Hot trends [...]
