Microsoft has replaced the original blue favicon on Bing.com with a yellow design. The Bing homepage looks so beautiful everyday but can’t say the same about their new favicon image.
Please take this quick poll to share your own opinion on Bing’s new favicon:
[Poll] Do You Like Bing’s New Favicon?
Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.
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We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Mitchell, who couldn’t care less if you have a problem with his question. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
“I just got a new laptop and am looking for a WiFi detector. The catch is that I want one that will tell me if the network it is detecting is open or not. I can’t fathom the point of one that doesn’t tell you that information. If posted, this will probably generate a lot of snark, but whatever, I just want to be able to find open networks!”
You know, we appreciate the honesty here. And we totally feel you. If anyone out there has found a fantastically useful WiFi detector, throw your recommendation(s) in comments below!
Ask Engadget: Best (useful) WiFi network detector? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Isn’t Italy a place of contrast? After the country’s judiciary slammed Google for failing to keep a tight enough leash on user-uploaded content, we’re now hearing that its local version of Wired magazine is putting forward the internet as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its contributions to “helping advance dialogue, debate and consensus.” Right then. Just in case you think this is all a bit silly — and you should — we’re also hearing Nicholas Negroponte and 2003 Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi are both in support of the idea, which has been described as “a Nobel for each and every one of us” by Internet for Peace, an organization set up specifically to promote the web’s candidacy. That’s a pretty succinct way of putting it, but it also shows what’s wrong with the idea: nothing devalues a prize’s worth and meaning quite like handing it out to everyone. Just imagine icanhascheezburger.com slapping a legitimate Nobel laureate badge up on its homepage and you’ll know what we mean.
The internet earns a nomination for 2010 Nobel Prize originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Remember those network investments that AT&T was talking up just days before Time Warner slipped over an offer for help? Looks as if the firm wasn’t kidding around, but there’s still nothing here that should get you excited about more available bandwidth in the coming days. Utilizing that fancy new Cisco router, the carrier recently completed a live network environmental trial of 100-Gigabit backbone network technology (far more hasty than that 40-Gigabit stuff that’s around today), but we’re told that the tech isn’t expected to be ready for “commercial deployment” until the “next few years.” ‘Course, we suspect we should be struck by the notion that the internet may actually have the proper infrastructure to keep on keepin’ on once Hulu really does take over the world, but for now, we’ll just have to extract a bit more joy from those vague “little things” in life.
AT&T completes 100-Gigabit Ethernet field trial using new Cisco gear, proves it does care originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The mad scientists at Google Labs have unleashed their latest concoction: Google Reader Play, a new way to look at your feeds one Google-suggested site at a time. It’s actually pretty neat! And would be perfect for the iPad. More »
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Google Calendar now supports pop-up reminders just like your favorite desktop email client.
If you keep Google Calendar open all day long, you probably end up seeing quite a few reminders every day. Browser alerts are okay, but I tried to find a way for Calendar notifications to integrate smoothly with everything else.
Turn on "Gentle Reminders," and when you get a notification, the title of your Calendar window or tab will start blinking and the event details will stay in Calendar.
This is a Labs feature so you’ll have to add it manually to your Google Calendar account through the Labs tab under Calendar Settings.
And if you are using Google Chrome on Windows, you can also set Google Calendar to display desktop notifications that will appear even if your browser is minimized.
Pop-up Reminders in Google Calendar
Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.
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The people behind Common Craft are masters at explaining complex new media topics like Wikis, RSS, Social Media, etc. in plain English. One of their videos explaining Twitter has so far been viewed over 1.7 million times on YouTube while the one on Google Docs has been viewed over 2.7 million times.
Common Craft had an interesting business model. They would upload all their videos to YouTube and allowed other sites to embed them for free.
If anyone wants to download a high-resolution version of the video for offline presentations or for intranets, they can buy a license per video from Common Craft. Some of their illustrations also available as Kindle books.
Now you’ll have to pay to Embed Videos
The good old YouTube days are over as Common Craft has created a new “web license” for their videos that would require bloggers and websites to pay a monthly subscription fee for embedding videos on their site. And this is not a small amount.
For instance, if you plan to embed a video on a website that gets moderate traffic, your monthly bill for embedding that video can be around $104. And if the embedded video gets played more than 1,200 times on your site during that same month, you’ll have to pay an additional 8¢ per play.
The video will still be hosted on Common Craft web servers and you’ll be given a unique embed code that you can add to your website for serving the video.
I am huge fan of the entire Common Craft series and admire the fact that they have come up with such a unique business model to distribute their “high value” content online. At the same time, stories published on blogs, unlike the newswires, stay forever so the cost of embedding a single video could easily run into a few thousand dollars over time and that may not make lot of business sense.
For instance, if a popular site like BoingBoing or TechCrunch decides to embed one video from Common Craft, their annual fee could be more than $4,000. I don’t know if the writer salaries and advertising revenues in the $20-30 CPM range will be enough to offset that cost.
Common Craft Video Collection on YouTube
Will You Pay $100 per Month to Embed a Video on your Website?
Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.
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Will Facebook help drive more traffic to your website or Twitter? Are incoming links from Digg more valuable for improving your site’s organic rankings than than from YouTube or Flickr? Which is the best social site for engaging with people who are already in love with your brand?
For answers and ideas, check this handy chart (PDF) from cmo.com that compares the benefits of sharing content on various social media websites and whether they are worth your time or your (limited) social media marketing budget.
Some of the points mentioned in the chart aren’t valid anymore like your site won’t derive any SEO benefits from Flickr or delicious.com as they nofollow all external links. On the other hand, Facebook has a huge potential for driving traffic especially if you have a public page (example) that is indexed by search engines.
Thanks Steven Finch for the tip.
Which Social Websites are Good for your own Site?
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• After a spate of phishing scams and attacks, Twitter is cranking up safety for users by blocking all dubious links. Essentially it routes all links through Twitter’s filter and eliminates the bad ones before potential victims reach the destination. Looks like good news for users – but possibly bad news for the URL shortening services that have emerged in Twitter’s wake?
• If you’re looking for some fun reading, it’s worth taking some time to look through the blog of Jonathan Schwartz. Now liberated from his job at Sun Microsystems, Schwartz is delivering a few stories of his time at the company – the sort of things he couldn’t say while there. The latest morsel? Tales of patent bluster with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others. And there are fighting words in there: while he says he gets the value of patents, he also believes that “for a technology company, going on offense with software patents seems like an act of desperation”.
• And it’s time to tune in again to the latest edition of our Tech Weekly podcast, headed by the effervescent Aleks Krotoski. the latest show features a dissection of the BBC’s apparently contradictory digital plans – is it pushing out or pulling back? – and a look inside San Francisco’s wonderful mechanical museum. Click here to listen now.
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Charles Arthur, Rick Wray and Aleks Krotoski take on the BBC in this week’s podcast, picking apart the latest news on the corporation – from the director general’s strategy review to the battles with iPhone app developers. What’s behind the BBC’s contradictory new media messaging? Is digital really the future, or will they abandon a decade of investment to the archives?
Meanwhile Bobbie Johnson takes the team through the Musee Mecanique in San Francisco, the leading collection of pre-digital entertainment machines; and Mercedes Bunz speaks with Blaise Aguera y Arcas, the man behind Bing Maps.
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