YouTube ups upload limit for well-behaved users

Video-sharing site has decided to remove its 15-minute cap on video uploads for users who comply with the company’s community guidelines and copyright rules. Originally posted at The Digital Home Link to this post!

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Bing now maps the inside of your mall

Bing Maps now lets you see all the businesses that are inside of large malls. So far, it is available only at a handful of locations–and on computers rather than mobile devices. Originally posted at News – Microsoft Link to this post!

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New virus tweets its way into Twitter

The virus spreading through URLs shortened with goo.gl is making the rounds of the Twittersphere, as uncovered by TechCrunch, which reports that Twitter is investigating. Originally posted at News – Digital Media Link to this post!

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Twitter translates into Spanish

So how do you say “fail whale” en español? Twitter has launched a Spanish translation, according to a blog post Tuesday (in Spanish) by co-founder Biz Stone. It’s the first of multiple volunteer-assisted translations for the microblogging site, the post explained. A look at Twitter’s public timeline will show that it’s used in many languages [...]

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Report: Yahoo joins OneRiot for real-time search

Yahoo could be ready to add OneRiot’s real-time search results into its own search pages. (Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET) Updated 2:40 p.m. PDT with responses from OneRiot and Yahoo. Not to be outdone by the rest of the search market, Yahoo apparently has a plan for getting in on the real-time search game itself, [...]

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Reporters’ Roundtable: ‘Dangers’ of cloud computing

This week we are covering the dangers of cloud computing. Get it? With the major loss of consumer data for the Sidekick smartphone users–the Sidekick is made by Danger, a Microsoft company–the whole idea of “cloud” safety has been brought front and center for consumers. Businesses, likewise, are wondering if they are exposed to similar [...]

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Coming to Google Labs: Social search results

SAN FRANCISCO–Google Vice President Marissa Mayer made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday: “Social Search,” a new Google Labs experiment that will bring in search results from a member’s social-network contact circle. It’ll be launching as an opt-in project in the next few weeks. Then, you’ll need to [...]

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Facebook 3.0 for iPhone pours on the features

Facebook 3.0 introduces new navigation, notifications, events, and more. (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) The third major edition of Facebook for iPhone has just crept into the iTunes App Store. It’s a huge update, with numerous advanced features that make Facebook more interactive than before and which bring the app as close to the desktop [...]

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Report: Wolfram Alpha to offer API for data feeds

SF weather (Credit: Screenshot by Dave Rosenberg/CNET) Wolfram Alpha, the “computational knowledge engine” developed by Mathematica, will soon allow its dynamic search results to be queried and mashed up in a variety of new ways. According to the Guardian, Wolfram will be opening its curated data to be queried via an application programming interface, or [...]

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It’s time to go hyperlocal with these resources

Monday’s news that MSNBC acquired EveryBlock, a “hyperlocal” news service just a few months after AOL acquired a competing service, Patch, had me thinking about all the start-ups that are vying for your attention by targeting your neighborhood. Of course, many of these sites don’t work with every neighborhood, so your mileage will vary. Regardless, [...]

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