Phenomenally popular photo sharing site Flickr, today announced that they are going to allow video sharing for their pro users - normal users can view and comment of course, but only pro can upload. What’s the twist? Well read on:
Every one is talking about it and so I have to as well. After all, this blog is about observing the Internet. Google has finally launched their version the cloud computing infrastructure offering that Amazon has. It’s called the Google App Engine. It is dubbed to be a developer tool that allows you to build web applications that will run on the same infrastructure as Google’s own applications do - in two words, this should translate to scalability and availability.
However, having said that, it is to be seen how ‘available’ the platform actually remains. Amazon has been having a bad time with the uptime of their services. Ok, so what’s new and different about the Google App Engine:
Feedburner (a service I use to publish my RSS feeds) has a feature which allows you to embed a feed count as an image in your blog or anywhere you want. The image looks like this: 
However, I have been noticing that all the blogs I visit no longer show the feed count, where they previously used to. Here are some screen shots from some of these blogs.
I posted about Adobe Photoshop Express earlier as the new kid on the block for online photo storage (really, it’s not a serious photo editing tool and calling it Photoshop is probably insulting). It’s still nice. Anyway, I digress.
There is a big problem in the terms of service:
As can be seen in the above text captured from the TOS, by posting your photos on the service, you basically give up all rights on it. Adobe is simply saying that they can do whatever they want with the photos posted on their service.
I am thinking that most people should basically hold on till Adobe works this out. Thanks to Aaron Hockley for pointing this out.
Google Docs (Google’s online office system) added offline support to their online offering. Google Docs allows you to create documents, spread sheets, and presentations online. This is a free service that anyone can use.
Till recently, the service was only available online, but now with the help of the Google Gears framework, the service is available offline. Of course Google Gears would only work with IE and Firefox, so you are out of luck if you use anything else.
Here’s a link to the Google Blog post which details the features of this new development.
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