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Archive for July 29th, 2010

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Jul 29

YouTube increased the video length limit from 10 to 15 minutes "we're pleased to announce that we've increased the upload limit to 15 minutes," informs YouTube. "Tag your video with "yt15minutes," upload it by August 4, and we'll select a handful of people to truly gain their 15 minutes of fame by featuring them on YouTube

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Back in 2006, Matt Cutts suggested that by adding [-inurl:html -inurl:htm] to your query you can restrict Google search results to homepages.Now, Google allows to restrict search results to homepages for blogs: "We've updated Google Blog Search to make it easier to find blogs that match your query, instead of just

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Visual Studio team released updated VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters. These posters are print-ready documents (that now support standard paper sizes), and provide nice "cheat sheet" tables that can help you quickly lookup (and eventually memorize) common keystroke commands within Visual Studio. "Reference posters for the default keybindings in Visual Studio 2010 for Visual Basic, Visual

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The In-Q-Tel (CIA investment firm) and Google are both backing a company "Recorded Future," that scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, company says its temporal analytics engine "goes beyond search" by "looking

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Lookout Inc., a mobile-phone security firm, scanned nearly 300,000 free applications built for Apple's iPhone and Google's Android smartphones. "It found that nearly a quarter of iPhone apps and almost half Android apps contained software code that secretly pull sensitive data off users' phones and ship them off to third parties without notification." The data can

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Google IPv6 service now added to all domains on "ghs.google.com". If your App Engine app runs on your own domain using Google Apps, refer App Engine joined Google IPv6, which discusses "caveats of parsing client IP addresses, and how to use SixXS Gateway to test site over IPv6."Currently, Google over IPv6 program presents AAAA

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Despite the big push that Ask.com's latest relaunch, its parent company IAC doesn't expect it to set the world on fire. CEO Barry Diller thought his Ask.com search engine could take on Google, but acknowledged that feature already faces existing challenges from expanding search and community Google and Facebook."But one thing I want to make

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If you love data visualization, this one's sure going to blow your mind: an incredible IBM demo, called "World Factbook Dashboard".

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Google introduced a new "mobile display ads" which can be geo-targeted for iPhone, Android, and mobile devices with full Internet browsers. "The ad appears as a banner text ad on mobile websites and GDN apps with a business icon that expands to show your business location on a Google map along with your ad creative,

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Amazon launched the latest generation of its popular 6" Kindle e-book reader. In addition to 20% smaller, 15% lighter enclosure and 50% higher-contrast E ink screen, the third generation Kindle has double the storage of its predecessor, built-in Wi-Fi in addition to its free international 3G wireless, and 20% faster page.Amazon also

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"When you maximize or minimize Windows Media Player window while playing contents on Windows 7 running Windows XP Mode, you may receive an "unexpected network error occurred" error message, which causes Windows Media Player to stop playing. This behavior is by design," explains Microsoft.And while there won't be an update or a hotfix enabling the full

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Intended for broadcast journalists: analysts get a first-hand look at Microsoft technologies with CEO Steve Ballmer, Chief Research & Strategy Officer Craig Mundie, Interactive Entertainment Senior Vice President Don Mattrick and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie during the 2010 Financial Analyst Meeting, Redmond, Wash.

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YouTube displaying a "persistent bar" of "videos from active playlist" at the bottom of the page. "When you click a video from your subscriptions, the bar lists other recent uploads. Clicking your favorite videos, populates the bar with rest all videos. The bar can be useful if you add videos to queue, a temporary playlist built

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Earlier in the day, Reuters reported that "Google is blocked in China" — And, Google's Mainland China service availablility chart also said that Google is blocked in Mainland China. But tweets from Beijing and Shanghai say "they've full access to Google through regular DSL connections.Google via email responded "Because of the way we measure

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Blekko, a new search engine entered private beta; "blekko is introducing a novel search syntax called "slashtags". Using simple tags to refine your queries (e.g. /date, /demblogs, /people, /health, /satire, etc.), you can quickly filter search results to just the sites you want, change the way results are sorted, and more. We've hundreds of slashtags you

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