For most of you on here, no doubt you are aware of the rollover feature that Twitter implemented a few weeks ago:
When you hovered over a username on Twitter, a little window popped up providing you with little bits of information about the user such as their full name, location and whether you follow them or not. It seems Mark Zuckerberg liked this and has used something similar on his Facebook site.
Posted by: ChrisHulu isn’t the only online media service experimenting with adverts this week.
YouTube has revealed that they are about to roll out the skippable ads that they’ve been planning since November, enabling users to jump right past an ad a few seconds after it starts. It will go into beta testing in a few months’ time.
Well, contrary to popular opinion on the blogosphere (like UberGizmo, World TV PC and Gizmodo), I think it might actually be better for everyone. As Hulu is finding out, users absolutely despise the presence of ads in their Web video. Advertising just isn’t expected as it is with commercial TV channels. Importantly, if adverts are good enough, though, they’ll watch. That’s why Hulu has taken advantage of that by letting users rate them, but YouTube won’t need to, because it has the power of Google’s huge analytics database on its side. It’ll eventually learn which ads users are skipping most and then show them less often.
This will help advertising companies to find out which ads are working and which are not – it could even save them money on focus groups and other image management strategies. Ultimately, as well as helping users, YouTube are incentivising the business model of marketing.
Posted by: JoeFor most people nowadays, having a fast broadband connection feels like a privilege, but for those of us living in Finland; having broadband connection of at least 1MBPs is going to be a legal right!
From today, July 1st, having a legal right to at least 1MBps broadband connection in Finland is now at the same legal level as other rights such as healthcare and education!
Posted by: ChrisA group of electronic manufacturers including the likes of Sony, Samsung, LG and Valens have finalized the specifications of a new HD A/V cable standard which they name “HDBase T 1.0″.
The new cable boasts loads of exciting features such as the fact that it is based upon CAT5e/6 networking cables meaning the price will more than likely be alot cheaper than HDMI. HDBaseT will support the transmission of HD and 3D data signals, as well as data through an integrated 100MBit Ethernet connection.
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Microsoft has decided to scrap the KIN project in the UK and to focus solely on Windows Phone 7, so KIN will not launch in Autumn this year as planned.
The reason behind the dropping of the project has surely got to do with the very poor sales the device has had since it’s launch in the US only a mere six weeks ago, so sadly we wont be seeing the two hi-tech packed pieces of hardware over here.
Microsoft will be intergrating it’s current KIN team with their Windows Phone 7 team to incorporate valuable ideas and technologies from KIN into future Windows Phone releases..
Posted by: MattAfter the site being dead for around a month due to staff commitments, DigiLounge has returned better than ever! with a fresh new look and more of your favourite content from our writers. Enjoy.
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Posted by: ChrisFor those of you subscribed to our RSS feed or Feedburner here’s just a little progress update from us. The new DigiLounge site is progressing well and is on track for our 1st of July launch, the majority of the theme is complete and we are currently in the stage of making the site better in terms of features for people writing content for the site. If you would like to write for DigiLounge feel free to send us an email to digilounge@live.co.uk
Posted by: ChrisNo doubt during your time on the Internet, you’ve viewed countless videos on the extremely popular video sharing site, Youtube… In fact, it was only 5 years ago that Youtube first appeared on the Internet with a goal of letting users being able to upload and share video content. At first Youtube was unknown to most, now hasn’t that changed! Youtube released figures showing that each day they receive 2 billion video views a day and that number is always rising!
To help celebrate this monumental achievement, Youtube has created a special channel to feature some of the most popular videos and Youtubers on the site, and to show how Youtube has changed their lives! You can check out the 5 Year Channel here!
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Finally, Its come. Films, Tv shows to iTunes Ireland and France.
Now I know most of you guys reading or watching this are living in America and haven’t experienced the pain I have for the past couple of years, because you were the first to experience this in the world and still have the best opportunities . Well now Ireland and France have the chance to experience this.
I’ve tested out there service and am so happy with it. Its only around 2.99euro to rent a new release and you can download/buy movies from 2.99 up to 15euro. Now this is cheap compared to going out and only being allowed to rent a movie on iTunes for 5euro for 1 night and the video store: 48hours and 3euro.
For more information check out the video bellow and hope you enjoy.
Also subscribe for my iPod Shuffle Giveaway finishing this Sunday 23rd May.
VIDEO: Films Now In iTunes
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