Flock 1.2 Released With Digg and Pownce Integration
Flock, after weeks of beta testing, has finally released the version 1.2 of its popular social web-browser. Flock is known for integrating some of the most popular web 2.0 social networking services. Like we saw in in the beta version, the final version also has Digg and Pownce support, making Flock more social than it really was! Another announcement that Flock made for everyone is that they will soon be releasing the first beta of Flock 2.0, which will be based on Firefox 3.
Within the coming weeks Flock will release it’s first beta of Flock 2.0, which incorporates the Mozilla technology that powers Firefox 3. So get ready to have all of the latest performance (memory management), security and feature enhancements found in the latest Firefox 3 release along with the unique user experience innovations only delivered by the Flock browser.
Adobe Launches Acrobat.com
Adobe is one of the leading webtop providers and after its recent launch of an online version of Photoshop as Adobe Photoshop Express, and an online media player as AdobeTV, it has now launched Acrobat.com. Word processing, meetings and file sharing all-in-one. It is another big step towards providing more desktop-like applications online.
Acrobat.com integrates the three recently launched online services by Adobe: Brio, Buzzword and Share. Currently, it is only the public beta, the final launch is yet to come. With Acrobat.com’s launch, Adobe takes on Google Docs, Microsoft Office Live Workspace, WebEx, and GoTo Meeting, Scribd and DocStoc, all at the same time.
Mini-Feed Expanded To Include More Social Data
Facebook has again expanded Mini-Feed, and this time it’s not that they have disabled the collapse feature, but have added features to include more social data from other sites. Now you can add your profile links from YouTube, StumbleUpon, Hulu, Pandora, Last.fm, Google Reader, and your personal blog to the list of sites that can share data to Facebook. Facebook’s import feature already had Flickr, Picasa, Digg, Yelp and del.icio.us.
Since this is all part of their upcoming profile design, we could expect to see more sites being added. The mini-feed is also part of it, because it is now non-collapsible, and as you have seen it in their upcoming profile design, mini-feed will use almost the whole of front page. This will help your profile visitors (friends, family etc.) to see all your updates on other sites from one place.
50 Rapidshare Search Engines
Rapidshare currently has about 230GBit/s of Internet connectivity and 4.5 Petabytes of storage. This makes them one of the world’s biggest and the fastest web hosts around the world. If you see carefully, Rapidshare is a gold mine of its own. I mean, thousands of files are being uploaded everyday. I can bet, there will be hundreds or maybe thousands of files that will be of some use to us, that are available on Rapidshare. But just because it doesn’t have a search engine of its own, we couldn’t search them.
Still some people use complex search queries and try to Google out the files stored on Rapidshare. I have collected a very big list of Rapidshare search engines. Compiled with the help of friends and my best friend, Google.com.
Rapidshare search engines are popping up everyday, but not all index files regularly and updates their database. You can use the following list of search engines to search files on Rapidshare.
RapidZilla (My favourite!)
Phew! That’s all I know. If there is any other site that you use and would like to share, then drop a comment below and I’ll add it above. And if you already use any of the above, do let me know your favourites.
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Upload Files To Multiple File Hosts At Once
by Haris on May 20, 2008
in General, Internet, Tips and Tricks, Web 2.0
If you upload and share a lot of files using free file hosts, then you will find this service quite interesting and useful. TinyLoad allows you to upload files to multiple hosts at the same time. This gives your file downloaders a choice whether they want to download the file from RapidShare or from MegaUpload, SendSpace etc.
File hosts that are supported by TinyLoad are MegaUpload, RapidShare, FileFactory, DivShare, BestSharing, SendSpace, Uploading, FileSend, Easy Share, Bandongo, zShare and Amazon S3. The maximum file size that you can upload is 100MB. You get the links almost instantly, but sometimes due to server load, it might take a while to appear. No need to panic, patience pays off! ;)
Adobe Rolls Out Flash Player 10 Beta
Adobe has recently released a beta version of it’s upcoming Adobe Flash Player 10 (code-named as Astro). It has some new expressive features and visual performance improvements that will allow designers and developers to build the richest and enhance the Web experience to a greater extent than it previously was. One thing I like in this beta, is its support for Ubuntu!
Adobe Flash Player 10 will take creativity and interactivity to a new level. It includes better support for 3D animation and video hardware acceleration, among other improvements. This early beta has been released for developers to test and give feedback about the player to Adobe.
Download Flock 1.2 Beta
Flock (web-browser) is known for integrating some of the most popular web 2.0 social networking services. Recently, they released Flock 1.2 Beta, and guess what, it’s now even more social! Hard to believe, eh? They have added support for keeping up with your friend’s activities on Digg and Pownce, and now you can also instantly get your AOL emails notifications.
Photobucket Introduces Group Albums
Photobucket is one of the world’s most visited websites and it’s members have stored billions of photos. Recently, they introduced a new feature dubbed as ”Group Albums.” This feature allows multiple Photobucket members to add their photos and videos to a shared album, that can be password-protected and is moderated by the group owner. This new feature isn’t currently active. According to Photobucket, it is expected to go live by today (Wednesday) morning.
Messenger TV – Social Video By Microsoft
Microsoft really doesn’t want to stay behind, and let Google win everything. Today they announced the launch of a new social video service called Messenger TV. It is integrated Microsoft’s leading instant messaging application, Windows Live Messenger. Messenger TV is now up and running in about 20 countries.
Windows Live Messenger users in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Mexico and more can now enjoy the collection of videos pooled from MSN Video’s collection, including shows, music videos, and the best of the web’s viral content from countless providers. For some reason, US has been excluded from the initial release.
Microsoft has tried a lot to gain MSN Video some popularity by heavily integrating popular videos from MSN Video in the form of constant ads in Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Today, but is still struggling to gain ground there. They are hopeful that further integration in their popular IM application will help to bolster its online video presence.
John Mangelaars, the vice-president, EMEA, of consumer and online for Microsoft, told Reuters:
“Online video has exploded in popularity over the last year, but to date it has been something people watch on their own. Messenger TV is set to change all that,”
He also added:
“Watching video online can now be a social experience, as people watch videos together, make comments and share reactions.”
So, with this, we can sum up that Microsoft is trying to change the video sharing experience. And is doing everything it can to make MSN Video stand with YouTube.
Here are the first two pictures that I’ve been able to find and as my browser’s country is set to United States, I can’t try it out myself.
And oh yeah, if you don’t have any friends online and still want to try this out, then add MessengerTV@live.com as a friend and start chatting. It will invite you to start Messenger TV itself.
If you’ve already tried it, do tell us about it. I would love to know if there is anything special in Messenger TV.
