Online photo sharing site Flickr today launched support for video upload, allowing users to post videos of up to 90 seconds long to the site.Flickr said it is launching videos “gently” on the site. For example, it said that the videos will show up anywhere that photos do, such as search results, photo streams and RSS feeds, but they won’t play automatically. Only pro members of the site will be allowed to upload videos.

Source: www.computerworld.com

Google and the New York Times, it has been announced, have collaborated to create a mashup that shows not only when breaking news forms, but where.  The New York Times includes ‘geocodes’ in all their news stories, apparently, and that data has been utilized by some engineers in what is presumably their 20% time to create a map layer that shows headlines and story summaries pointing to various points on the map.

With the new layer, you can zoom in on an area of the map, and see what news is being made in that area, or as they suggest in the announcement, use it in conjunction with other layers that show videos or photographs.

El 1ro de Abirl Amazon lanzó para los usuarios de US , la compra a traves de SMS, a través de enviar AMAZON (262966) nombre y/o número de producto, luego de lo cual recibe una respuesta que le da detalle del mismo y lo lleva directo a una opción para comprar.

http://experiencematters.criticalmass.com/2008/04/02/amazon-launches-sms-shopping-extends-brand-utility/

Last week at its annual meeting, Starbucks announced the launch of My Starbucks Idea, a social network where consumers can post ideas for how the company can improve its service and products or comment and vote on others’ ideas. Voting will be tallied online, with each idea assigned a point value.

Fuente: http://adage.com/article.php?article_id=125882 

“There are great realms of activity that digital approach has not yet touched on,” Gates said.

Among Gates’ predictions for the coming decade:

- Television will be married with the internet, allowing for personalised news and commercials. People will watch more of their home movies on their TV screens, and TV sets and computers will be increasingly connected. Television will be an “utterly different thing,” he said.

- Telephone sets will increasingly be able to handle video, email and other digital media. Speech recognition will allow telephone users to ask for information such as nearby restaurants.

Fuente: http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/index.cfm?newsid=20725&pagtype=allchandate