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28 August 2007
HELSINKI, Finland - A 15-year-old schoolboy was fined Friday for posting a video on YouTube showing a karaoke performance of his teacher and for claiming she was a lunatic.
In the first case of its kind in Finland, Nurmes District Court found Toni Vesikko guilty of intentional defamation and fined him 90 euros, or about $120. He also was ordered to pay 800 euros ($1,000) in damages for "causing harm and suffering" and 2,200 euros ($3,000) in court costs.
Vesikko, who took the video of his teacher singing karaoke at a school party...
27 August 2007
SYDNEY (AFP) - The Australian government Monday admitted no Internet child safeguards were foolproof after a teenager claimed he was able to break through its multi-million dollar pornography filter in minutes.
Sixteen-year-old Melbourne teenager Tom Wood said it took him less than 30 minutes to override the cyber barrier technology which was launched by Prime Minister John Howard earlier this month.
"I downloaded it on Tuesday to see how good it was, because for 84 million dollars (69 million US), I would have expected a pretty...
23 August 2007
Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings… and now you can explore the sky too using this mapping software. With about a hundred million stars and two hundred million galaxies, Sky in Google Earth lets you explore the heavens…
Google launched Sky in Google Earth that lets you view and navigate through 100 million individual stars and 200 million galaxies. High resolution imagery and informative overlays offer a creative learning about space. Google is introducing...
23 August 2007
If you’ve gotten used to an ad-free YouTube player, things are set to change. Today marks the official launch of YouTube’s overlay ads, which have been in testing for a number of months.
Around 15 seconds into a video, an 80% transparent overlay appears in the bottom 20% of the video. If ignored, it disappears after 10 seconds; if clicked, it plays the video ad over the top of the existing clip, then resumes your original clip when complete. It’s a smart idea from Google, which realized that pre-roll ads are a major...
23 August 2007
Saying that users are tired of being inundated by information, the company seeks to offer 'better, richer answers' to search queries.
Google's recently introduced universal search model represents a major change for the company, a Google official said at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose on Thursday.
Unveiled May 16, universal search is intended to break down silos of information on the Web and provide the best answer every time a user enters a query. The company’s vision for universal search is to search across...
20 August 2007
From Slashdot, is news of new upcoming science 2.0 hotness called SciVee. Think of it as YouTube for Science. It comes by way of a partnership between the National Science Foundation, Public Library of Science and the San Diego Supercomputing Center.
This is such an awesome idea, and I hope it will revolutionize the way we communicate science.
Why is it such a good idea? Well, in the past, I’ve uploaded science videos, such as footage of chimpanzees doing what chimps do, to accompany reviews of research papers directly to YouTube...
18 August 2007
Last month, was found an interesting post about how you can refine your Google Image search results to show only faces. For example, by adding "&imgtype=face" to the end of a search string, you could find only faces of people.
But interestingly enough, the Cre8asite Forums goes further to show how you can refine search results to show only news items. Simply append "&imgtype=news" to your search results.
Here are the various breakdowns of the searches:
Paris (no filter)
Paris (face filter)
Paris...
18 August 2007
The Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center is designed to be a centralized resource center for all of Google's information about click fraud.
Google has unveiled a Web site "resource center" focused on the thorny issue of click fraud, which many consider a potential threat to the company's main source of revenue: Pay-per-click advertising.
Google developed the new Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center primarily to give its advertisers a single place to find Google's information about click fraud, said Shuman Ghosemajumder, business...
16 August 2007
NEW YORK, NY -- August 13, 2007 -- Internet users are spending nearly half their online time visiting content, a 37% increase in share of time from four years ago, according to the Online Publishers Association (OPA). The OPA today announced a four-year analysis of its Internet Activity Index (IAI), a monthly gauge of the time being spent with e-commerce, communications, content and search.
"When the OPA created the IAI, our goal was to provide a reliable, ongoing measure of the time being spent with key online activities," said...
16 August 2007
New search tool traces the IP address of people who make edits anonymously to Wikipedia.
A word of caution about editing entries "anonymously" in Wikipedia: a tool has been developed that can show who made the changes.
Virgil Griffith, who will be a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology starting in September, has developed Wikipedia Scanner, a search tool that traces the IP (Internet Protocol) address of people who make edits to the online encyclopedia.
While Wikipedia allows anyone to make edits, it keeps...
