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CAUTION: TwitViewer is a possible phishing scam.
Blip.tv Partners With YouTube, Roku
Online video company blip.tv has announced distribution partnerships with YouTube, Vimeo, NBC Local Media New York and Roku, makers of the Roku digital video player.
The new partnership with YouTube allows shows creators to send content to YouTube. Blip.tv will also serve its own ads on shows syndicated on YouTube sharing revenue with creators after giving YouTube a slice of the ad profit.
Chicago Resident Sued Over Moldy Tweet
UPDATE: Horizon Realty, the company suing their former tenant over a tweet, is now a trending topic on Twitter. Some Twitterers feel the company has effectively killed their reputation. What do you think?
Yahoo Syncs the New Homepage to Mobile
Today Yahoo announced that PC to mobile sync of the new Yahoo homepage is available on over 400 devices in 17 countries. This means if you set up your customized version of the new Yahoo homepage on your computer, you can easily set it up to be the same way on your phone.
Barnes & Noble Offering Free Wi-Fi
Barnes & Noble said today it would offer free wireless Internet access at all its bookstores nationwide.
Barnes & Noble has offered Wi-Fi access via AT&T since 2005, but that was a subscription-based service. Customers shopping in the bookstore will now be able to preview over 700,000 eBook titles along with thousands of public domain titles available from Google, on their Wi-Fi enabled devices. The company says its number of eBook titles is on track to reach the one million mark soon.
AT&T Combines Facebook, Twitter, MySpace in New App
AT&T has launched a new social networking app, which combines access to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and customizable news feeds. It’s called the AT&T Social Net App, and it’s available as a free download.
Google Voice Completely Banned From Apple’s App Store
UPDATE: There is a Twitition floating around asking "Apple to unblock Google Voice App".
If you wish to sign it, go here.
Majority Find Online Health Information Reliable
The number of people looking for health information online has reached 154 million, representing 67 percent of the U.S. adult population, according to a new poll from Harris Interactive.
The majority (83%) of people looking for health information online indicate their search was successful and almost half (45%) say it was "very successful."
An even larger majority (87%) believes that this information was reliable, but only 28 percent said it was "very reliable."
Google Provides Tool for Speeding Up Web Pages
Last month Google spoke about an initiative it was kicking off to call upon webmasters to help make the web faster. Larry Page once said he envisioned a web that could be surfed as easily as flipping through the pages of a magazine. This initiative is kind of an extension of that way of thinking.
Yahoo Provides Means for “Easy” Mobile Site Creation
Earlier this year Yahoo announced that the Yahoo Blueprint Platform was being extended from several hundred mobile devices in several thousand. Now the company has opened it up to third party developers.
The BluePrint is a platform on which developers can create mobile websites. It uses simple XML, and is the same technology Yahoo used to build oneSearch and the Yahoo.com mobile home page.