Yahoo’s Big Redesign Emerges
Yahoo is in the process of rolling out its new home page design. The design has been widely discussed since last year, but is finally making its way throughout the US.
While the design does not appear to be available to all of us yet, some have been fortunate enough to experience it, and consider it an improvement.
ESPN Taking Their News To The Local Market
As a sports fan I don’t get to write much about sports and Internet marketing. Now that I think about it, I’m not sure why that is but I’ll work on that later. What we have covered extensively here at Marketing Pilgrim is the decline and fall of the Printed Empire; the newspaper. Today, in fact stands to be a rough day again as the Boston Globe workers agrees to more cuts to keep the paper in print.
Twitcam Takes Live Streaming Video to Twitter
LiveStream, which counts Gannett Co. as a shareholder and investor, has introduced what it is calling the first service to stream live video on Twitter. This would be called Twitcam.com.
Gmail Makes it Easier to See Pics From Family/Friends
In the past Gmail has hidden images in email messages by default. If a user wanted to see images contained within a message, they had to click "display images below" to get them to show up.
This policy is still in place for messages from unknown recipients, but now images will automatically be displayed if they come from a contact. More specifically, if you have emailed a person at least twice, you will see images from them without having to click the "display images below" link.
Barnes & Noble Launches Digital Bookstore
Barnes & Noble has announced the launch of its own ebookstore and it will make content available on a variety of devices including the iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry, as well as most laptops and desktop computers.
Adobe Open Sources 2 Flash Frameworks
Adobe has announced two new Flash Platform open source initiatives: Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) and the Text Layout Framework (TLF). The former is part of the project previously known as Strobe.
Convenience Driving Online Banking Growth
More than two million U.S. households used online banking and bill payment last year, according to a survey sponsored by Fiserv and conducted by Harris Interactive.
A total of 69.7 million households with Internet access now use online banking services to access balance, account history and to transfer money between accounts. In addition, 64.4 million households pay at least one bill online at a bank website or at a company website.
A 3D Future for YouTube?
Google is testing 3D videos on YouTube. An interesting post in the YouTube Help Center was discovered by Search Engine Roundtable’s Barry Schwartz, and a Google employee is apparently using his "20% time" to work on the "stereoscopic player".
There is even a test video (at least one) that is live:
Google Adds Moon Data To Earth Software
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, and Google seems to have goofed up the scheduling of a commemorative doodle for its homepage. But the search giant’s arguably made up for that oversight (and then some) by launching Moon in Google Earth.
FriendFeed Launches New API
FriendFeed announced today that it has released version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. The focus, according to the company, is making the API simpler to use.