The New York Times: Video Catching Up to Photos When It Comes to Sharing

From The New York Times on the Web © The New York Times Company.
Reprinted with Permission.

By DAVID A. KELLY
Published: June 29, 2006

For Robert Levitan, the revelation came after a summer hiking trip on Mount Washington in New Hampshire with his twin brother. During the five-day trip in 2004, he used his digital Canon Elph camera to snap 80 pictures and 6 video clips. After the trip, his brother asked him to e-mail copies of the video.

“I said no, I’ll have to make a DVD,” Mr. Levitan said. “The file sizes are too big to easily send via e-mail.”

That got him thinking: Why couldn’t someone just

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Google Apps, the suite that is often compared to Microsoft’s Office, gets a new update that adds communication features to the pack of programs. Basically, the interoperability could be done with ease because the parent company implemented only the Google Talk Gadget that is compatible with the Personalized Homepage, recently-renamed to iGoogle. A few weeks ago, the search giant improved the Gadget with several new features, numerous users sustaining that there is no reason to install the downloadable application since this tiny tool is even more powerful.

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The recently-acquired FeedBurner might become free for all the users because the PRO version is already offering an attractive promotion for the interested consumers. As blogger Ionut Alex Chitu noticed, FeedBuner PRO can be used for free for a period up to 15 days but you still have to pay approximately $5 per month after the trial period ends. However, this is an interesting step because it’s not the first time when Google acquires a company and before making them 100 percent free, it offers a short trial to attract consumers. Ionut Alex Chitu offered as examples Google Earth, Picasa and SketchUp, the 3D modelling tool that was bought by Google on March 14, 2006.

“By default, FeedBurner already enabled the reach metrics for everyone. “Reach is the total number of people who have taken action — viewed or clicked — on the content in your feed. Subscribers is a measure of how many people are subscribed to your feed. At any given time, you can expect that a certain percentage of this subscriber base is actively engaging with your content…

The Windows Ultimate Extras Team today posted a short notice on the Windows Vista Ultimate site updating the community on the status of Ultimate Extras; go here to read their post.
The team recognizes that they’ve been dark for some time on the topic of Ultimate Extras, but want to go on record that they plan to deliver pending DreamScene and Language Pack Extras by summer’s end, and expect to disclose a schedule of further Extras releases after that milestone.
The reason for the Extras’ delay has been the team’s staunch devotion to final quality; your feedback, on DreamScene in particular, has been key to ensuring their focus on meeting the community’s exacting standards.
They plan to add to the Extras line up from then on out to make Ultimate the only version of Windows Vista you’ll want to use.

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