pb30
RSSLively no more
Despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we’ve decided to shut Lively down at the end of the year. It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business. Lively.com will be discontinued at the end of December, and everyone who has worked on the project will then move on to other teams.
URLs for iPhone-Optimized Google Sites
Google’s interfaces optimized for iPhone, Android and WebKit-based browsers look extremely well and they have more features than the standard mobile versions.
MySpace, Auditude, And MTV Have Just Figured Out How To Monetize Online Video
The new platform will automatically identify any uploaded video clips from a number of shows produced by MTV Networks (including my personal favorite “The Daily Show”), and will display an overlay when the clip is played that shows which episode the clip originally came from, its original air-date, and links to online stores where users can buy the entire episode.
YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos
To specify a point, append a tag to the end of your video link with the following syntax: “#t=1m45s” (you can change the numbers before the ‘m’ and ’s’ to edit the minutes and seconds, respectively.
Here’s an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bibCui3lFM#t=1m45s
New in Labs: Canned Responses
If you’re sick of typing out the same reply every time someone emails you with a common question, now you can compose your reply once and save the message text with the “Canned responses” button. Later, you can open that same message and send it again and again.
Alerting webmasters to webserver vulnerabilities
A new blog post on the Google webmaster blog mentions that we’re alerting webmasters to vulnerable webserver software.
About pb30
