YouTube YouTube Launching Live Video This Year, Chen Confirms YouTube co-founder Steve Chen has confirmed that the service will use Google's vast resources to launch live streaming functionality this year, according to a video interview on Sarah Meyer's new show Pop17. (Placemarked interview embedded below.) This appears to be the first confirmation of such plans. YouTube live is probably going to be very… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews Lifestreaming Comes to Yahoo! with MyBlogLog Overhaul Yahoo! owned MyBlogLog flipped the switch tonight on a major overhaul of user profile pages and now integrates activity data from other services around the web. Less than a week after a small investment in the ex-Googler founded FriendFeed put lifestreaming on a lot of peoples' maps - the entry of a Yahoo! property could be a game changer in a… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Contests Comment of the Day: Google Apps Still Needs the IT Dept In her post Google Sites the Next Sharepoint? Maybe Not...., Sarah Perez argues that Google's strategy with Google Apps is to "subvert the IT department altogether and appeal directly to the worker." But commenter benkepes said that IT is still key to Google Apps' success: "any success Google has within an enterprise setting [...] would seem to… Richard MacManus View comments
Social Networks LiveJournal Filled With Awesomeness: Lessig, Dyson and boyd Join Board of Advisors The social networking market and ecosystem are in major flux and the early trailblazer LiveJournal announced today the formation of an Advisory Board that puts to rest any suspicion that the site will be fading away quietly after it was sold to a big Russian media company. The new Board is made up of an all-star cast. Copyright and corruption… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Data Portability OpenID Foundation Goes International: Big News in Japan The OpenID Foundation announced the launch of its first international chapter today to big accolades in Japan. The creation of the Japanese OpenID chapter was participated in by a host of big web companies there and made the front page of Google News Japan. Giant social networking site Mixi also announced that it would soon support OpenID. OpenID… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments