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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

IE8 Beta Microsoft in a surprise move released IE8 yesterday to the internet world. It is still in beta but the new version seems to have some great enhancements. The first thing I noticed is it loads up quicker than IE7. In IE8 there is something called webslices which lets you subscribe to individual portions of a page. Also in the new release you have live maps integration and better support for Ajax. So far I haven’t had any problems with the new version after a few hours of using it. But I just don’t see myself switching to Internet Explorer anytime soon. Firefox will still be my choice when it comes to my preferred browser.
If you would like to give IE8 beta a test drive of your own you can download it at the following url.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm

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2008: 03/06
POSTED BY: smojo
CATEGORY: internet
TAGS: ajax
beta
browsers
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eight
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Y! Live open to public. What impact will it have?

Yahoo! Live or also known now as Y! Live made its debut to the public yesterday. Many people were late to the party and got there when the party was at maximum capacity. Everyone included myself were greeted by the image above. The most visited site on the net could not handle a few hundred people going to live.yahoo.com to watch some live streams. It seems that the Yahoo! Live team were not expecting this many people and it makes me wonder why they didn’t have some sort of private beta to help test this thing out before it was open to everyone. One thing that is safe to say is the service will run smoothly once they throw some servers at.

Having a major internet brand like Yahoo! jump into the live streaming business is going have a major impact on some of the live video sites. If Y! Live becomes slightly popular you could see other major companies such as Google and News Corp joining in and trying to play catch up. The easiest way to play catch up would be to buy a startup. So is it possible that in the future we could see such sites as Justin.tv, Ustream or even BlogTV being bought up. Guess we will just to wait and see what the future holds. I’m anxious to see what happens.

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2008: 02/08
POSTED BY: smojo
CATEGORY: Justin.tv
ustream
video
yahoo
TAGS: blogtv
broadcasting
camera
chat
google
impact
internet
Justin.tv
LifeCast
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newscorp
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My ooVoo Day, Video chat with your favorite bloggers

My ooVoo Day is going to be a week-long event beginning February 10th. During this time you will be able to video chat with some high profile podcasters, bloggers and some girl with an i in front of her name. You will be able to do this using ooVoo.

ooVoo which officially launched back in June of 2007 gives you the ability to video chat with up to 6 people at a time. It has many more features though then just video. Personally I have been using it because you are able to make free phone calls which is saving me lots of money since all I have right now is a cell phone. Some other features of ooVoo are the ability to send video messages and files. Oh they also have text chatting as well for all of us who don’t want to be on camera at 10 in the morning. Feel free to add me on ooVoo my username is smojo12.

But lets get back to My ooVoo Day…Some of my favorite internet people are going to be participating in this. People like Chris Brogan, Irina Slutsky, iJustine and the list goes on and on. Being able to interact with some of these people is going to a fun time and I hope everyone joins in on the fun. Just the fact that you will have 6 video chatters at once will make it pretty interesting. Below is all linkage to join the fun.

Signup for My ooVoo Day
ooVoo.com

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2008: 02/06
POSTED BY: smojo
CATEGORY: iJustine
internet
TAGS: blogger
chat
chatters
event
features
iJustine
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Yahoo! jumps into “lifecasting”

Rumors are flying around the internet that Yahoo is going to offer a “lifecasting” service. It is reported that the service is only open to Yahoo employees for the moment. The url for the new service looks like it will be http://live.yahoo.com/. It is currently giving a 403 forbidden error when you go to that address so we are all blocked out. I’m hoping Yahoo will make a formal announcement about the service. We need more details.

One thing that is kind of annoying me is everyone using the term “lifecasting”. This new service will have very little lifecasting going on. My predictions are that this new Yahoo service will be just another chatcasting site. What I mean by chatcasting is users will be sitting in front of their computer with the web cam on them and they will be chatting with viewers. This is not lifecasting! Lifecasting to me is broadcasting your everyday events. It is about being mobile and letting others peek in to what you are doing for the day. This is going to be just another web cam site where 15 year old girls fire up their cam and dance around while a bunch of horny guys say immature and stupid comments. We will have to wait and see but I don’t think anything new or innovative will be coming from Yahoo’s new service. What do you think about it?

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