YouTube just announced to interesting new features for those of us who regularly embed YouTube videos. Starting today, the preview images that you see before a video starts will be displayed in a higher resolution that makes them look less grainy than the current embeds. In addition, Google is also launching the option to see embeds without the YouTube logo in the bottom right corner.
Tomorrow, the State of Alaska will release 24,000 emails that Sarah Palin sent during her tenure as governor of Alaska. A number of media organizations and individuals made record requests for these documents in September 2008. Even though these are emails, though, the State of Alaska will only make them available on paper. In total,…
Display ads are everywhere on the Web these days (chances are you’re seeing two right here on this page). It’s no secret, however, that while these ads account for a large part of income for most publishers, Internet users are slowly learning to ignore them. Google, which obviously has a vested interest in online advertising,…
Google tends to feature a few different of its trademark doodles on its homepage every week, but every now and then, the company goes all out and does interactive doodles. This week, the honor to be featured in one of these goes to Les Paul, the legendary musician and inventor Les Paul who passed away…
Theoretically, only developers currently have access to the latest version of Apple’s iOS 5 software for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. In reality, however, getting access to beta versions of iOS has never been easier for non-developers. Getting the software (which is easily available if you know how to use Google), is just one part of the process, though. Your phone’s UDID also has to be registered with Apple. The easiest way to do that is to get a $99 developer account, but for most people, that’s a lot of money just to try out some beta software. Because of this, a large market for rogue iOS activations that allows virtually anyone who is wiling to risk $5 to $10 is currently flourishing. Some of these services have been around for a while, though most started around the time of the lengthy iOS 4 beta test.
AddThis, the popular service that allows publishers to monitor how their content is shared on over 300 different social media sites, just introduced a new service that displays sharing activity as it occurs in real time. Whenever a user now uses the embedded AddThis links in a story to share your content on any of…