Web curation for December 21st 2009 through December 24th 2009
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for December 21st 2009 through December 24th 2009:
- How long have you been tweeting? Find out the age of your Twitter account. -
drew: Tweeting 3 years, 2 months, 9 hours, 45 minutes, 26 seconds (Oct. 23, 2006). How about you? http://bit.ly/eC942 #howlong
- Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month -
5 years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January, we’re hearing from sources close to the project. MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites.
MyBlogLog was a wildly innovative service that grew fast after launching and was acquired in January 2007 by Yahoo! for $10 million. It made a deal with users: give us your pe.. show all textsamharrelson: Wow. Like the end of an era… RT @marshallk: R.I.P. MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Will Kill Innovative Social Network Next Month c http://bit.ly/7JlSF7 - TED2010: Program Guide -
- Updated Haali Splitter (MKV) – The release notes only claim support for TrueHD, but DTS-MA seems to output correctly as well.
- From Twitter – RT @JustBecauseiCan Awesome mashup of Fern Gully and the Avatar trailer! http://bit.ly/5ca4GS
- New Facebook Clickjacking Attack Is on the Loose [WARNING] -
A new Facebook clickjacking attack is making the rounds, and this one is as sly as they come. The attack spreads through a malicious website, http://fb.59.to, leading users to this YouTube video.
The method used to spread the link is particularly interesting. A Facebook user sees a post on a friend’s wall, with a thumbnail and the caption “New Pix.” Clicking on this link will lead you to the aforementioned video, but it will also spread by posting the same link on your own wall, seemingly w.. show all textsusanbeebe: RT @mashable: New Facebook Clickjacking Attack is on the Loose [WARNING] - http://bit.ly/8nFV9P - From Twitter – RT @geektonic RT @Kindle_UpdatezIsraeli programmer breaks Kindle DRM protection http://bit.ly/8l7InP #Amazon #Kindle
- YouTube – Broadcast Yourself. -
steverubel: YouTube launches short URL service – youtu.be http://j.mp/4XtYew
- Twitter Is Already Profitable! -
Beyond talking about how fast it was growing, one of the hottest topics surrounding Twitter in 2009 was “how does it make money?” Perhaps that was the wrong question to be asking, though, because as it turns out, Twitter already makes money.
According to Bloomberg, the microblogging service will make a small profit this year off of $25 million in revenue, thanks to the search deals it completed with Google and Microsoft, which were reportedly worth $15 and $10 million, respectively. Those d.. show all textShellyKramer: RT @bkmacdaddy: Twitter Is Already Profitable! http://bit.ly/7lt5UJ - Lightning 1.0beta1 release candidate is available – This is excellent news if you want to use a calendar with Thunderbird 3. Mozilla changed a lot of things so the old version of Lightning no longer worked in Thunderbird 3. Looking forward to testing this.
