Here’s a good virtual parlor game. Pick any two or three Twitter users, and Twiangulate which friends or followers they have in common. Twiangulate is a site that shows the overlap between your social graph and any tow other people on Twitter. It shows the resulting names as a list or an interactive social map.
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Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting. It’s built right into Gmail, so you don’t have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch — it just works. Start conversations about the things you find interesting. Share updates, photos, videos, and more.
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YouTube is again introduced some useful new features. The most notable player is renewed, in which the video quality is marked by a concrete indication of the resolution (e.g. 360p, 480p, 720p), so that when you switch to a higher resolution now see real data on the number of points and not just “HQ” or “HD”, as it was before. Other notable new feature is the button to switch between more and less the size of the window to play.
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It was a principal element of the Day 2 keynote at Microsoft’s PDC 2009 conference last week in Los Angeles: an early demonstration of code being worked into Internet Explorer 9 that replaces the browser’s outdated reliance upon the (very) old GDI rendering library, with new code utilizing Direct2D — a library that borrows processing power from the GPU. But with the project only having begun last October, it could still be several months before Microsoft creates still more features to make IE9 worthy of a point-release.
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You have the latest hardware PC and now you want to know how the latest web browsers stack up? Well PCWizKid takes a quick look at how ready Internet Explorer 8 is compared to Firefox 3.1 Beta.
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Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox, sent out the call Tuesday afternoon on mozilla.dev.planning: It’s time to lock the trees and land the bugs on beta 3 of the 3.1 version of the browser.
As of 3pm PST, just nine bug landings stood between the development team and handoff of mozilla-1.9.1 to the Release Engineering crew according to the mozilla.dev.planning thread on Google Groups. Beltzner noted in his Twitter stream that he “is hoping we get done with beta 3 code for Firefox tonight” after a day so busy he was wondering if he needed to block off time for bathroom breaks.
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Facebook users rejoice its mobile feature. GigaOm explained why Facebook’s future is mobile:
With nearly 2,000 “friends” on Facebook, I should be a regular visitor to the site. I am not. Instead, I prefer to use Facebook’s mobile application on my iPhone to send messages, update my status, upload photos taken on the go and sometime even scroll through the news feed to see what my friends are up to. The ad- and clutter-free interface has fewer distractions and makes using Facebook a breeze.
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In recent weeks, a number of YouTube members stayed without their user accounts and downloaded video clips.
The reason – in terms of the U.S. DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), the manager of the website (in this case, YouTube) requires the immediate response to the notification of copyright infringement.
Law of DMCA requires that administrator of web page immediately withdraw the controversial content, if it receives the copyright infringement complaint.
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