Google turned on a new feature in its feed reader that lets you share posts with anyone in your Gmail or Gtalk contact list (assuming you use either of those other Google services as well). The problem is that sharing is an all-or-nothing proposition. You either share posts with all of your contacts (who also use Google Reader) or with nobody. In other words, sharing is the same as making your selections public. There is no way to pick and choose with whom exactly you want to share particular posts or feeds.

Isn't Googel Reader Sharing too Much?

You can share anything from a cock ring, a vibrating cock ring and sex toys! omg! That would be - uhmmmm I dunno. Down right odd, isn't it?

EntreCard Secret! I just read on the entrecard forum a way to see the last 98 bloggers that dropped their card on yours.

Here is a link to that post EntreCard Secret from inttt and onidex.

There have been talks on the world wide web that Nokia, a very popular company from Finland that produces mobile phones and other wireless solutions is considering the possibility of investing in FaceBook. As we all know, facebook is one of the leading social-networking sites in the world today.

Lets wait and see for more news about this.

MixerCast , an embeddable widget provider has taken $6 million Series B in a round led by Intel Capital that included ONSET Ventures and Velocity Interactive Group.

MixerCast allows users to mix together personal and licensed media into a slide show via one of their 18 customizable templates. Content for shows can be uploaded from a computer, recorded on a web cam, pulled in via url, or selected from an extensive library that includes content from Getty images, Nature & Wildlife, Muze Music, Muze Reels, and Pump Audio.

MixerCast’s next release, the MCast Suite, will offer content publishers and brand marketers

“tools to combine and package practically any type of media and even third party widgets from the likes of Clearspring, RockYou and Slide into a single embeddable application.”

A new part of MySpace was just launched recently called Transmissions. This new extension will feature candid session videos and recordings of musicians.

The only thing on the page right now are a few session recordings from James Blunt and a video interview of him sitting at a piano. The level indicators are looking fine. Five songs for $14 is a bit hmmm...

MySpace obviously wants this to become the MTV Unplugged for today’s music fans. Session recordings are perfect for MySpace because of their intimate nature and immediacy. Fans can get involved by leaving comments or going to the forums. Soon it looks like they will be able to vote for their favorite songs in each session, and request musicians to be featured in upcoming “transmissions.” This would be great for live performances as well.

Shareapic is simple. It offers the same basic service other free hosting sites offer; upload your pic, get an embed code then display the pic on your site of choice. But Shareapic believes that their success in hosting files and profiting from this should be rewarded. Every registered Shareapic user gets a cut of any advertising revenues Shareapic makes. Primarily this isn’t based on advertising revenue made against each image (although users can add their Adsense code for some revenue via Google), payments are calculated based on image views.

If in month one Shareapic calculates to distribute $1,000 to our members, we will first tally up the total number of image views for that month. Using these two numbers we can determine the respective payouts for each user. If there were a total of 500,000 image views for the month, image views will equate to $0.002 each (1,000 divided by 500,000), or $2 per 1000 image views. If you’re posting lots of pics in forums, MySpace or eBay, you can see how easy it is to earn quite a bit of money!

YouTube now haring revenues from their ads but is only limited to persons living in the United States and Canada.

What you need to have to get accepted aside from the one mentioned above.

—You create original videos suitable for online streaming.
—You own the copyrights and distribution rights for all audio and video content that you upload — no exceptions.
—You regularly upload videos that are viewed by thousands of YouTube users.
—You live in the United States or Canada.

Agloco now dead, this email says it all:

We would like to update you on the status of AGLOCO’s operations. We continue to believe in the AGLOCO concept, but our revenue is currently not sufficient to give Members a meaningful distribution. And though there are increases in membership, the resulting revenue is not enough to support operating costs. As a development team we are unable to continue to use our savings to fund the operations. If any Member would like to pursue continuing the operations of AGLOCO, you may contact us at agloco1@live.com .

We would like to thank every Member for supporting our effort to bring a piece of the Internet directly to the user. We hope that we can find a way to keep the operations going.

50 Cent's thoughts on file sharing

Q: “How are G-Unit Records doing in these times of file-sharing?

“Not so good….The advances in technology impacts everyone, and we all must adapt. Most of all hip-hop, a style of music dependent upon a youthful audience. This market consists of individuals embracing innovations faster than the fans of classical and jazz music.”

“What is important for the music industry to understand is that this really doesn’t hurt the artists.”

“A young fan may be just as devout and dedicated no matter if he bought it or stole it.”

“The concerts are crowded and the industry must understand that they have to manage all the 360 degrees around an artist. They, (the industry), have to maximize their income from concerts and merchandise. It is the only way they can get their marketing money back.”

“The main problem is that the artists are not getting as much help developing as before file-sharing. They are now learning to peddle ringtones, not records..They don’t understand the value of a perfect piece of art.”

It’s a social network and content site for Christians. Yes! The name of the site is LifeInTheFishBowl. Again, You heard that right! It’s still in development but you can already sign up for the site. Try visiting their homepage for more details on it.

You’ll enjoy the site if you want to hang out with like minded people and debate Darwin vs the bible.

The two businesses will be the Dish Network satellite TV service and its set-top box business.

The satellite TV business will change its name to DISH Network, and the TV technology company will be called EchoStar Holding Company. Charlie Ergen will remain CEO of both the company branches.

An OpenID startup called Vidoop aims to replace your usernames and passwords with a grid of pictures that may contain visual advertisements. To encourage adoption of its user authentication technology, Vidoop will announce today at the Internet Identity Workshop its intention to pay affiliates, starting January 1st. Logins to their site will be with it.

MyVidoop serves as both a password keychain for all of the sites you log into across the web, as well as an OpenID account provider. Signing into an OpenID-enabled site with myVidoop, or retrieving all of the passwords in your myVidoop keychain, involves not a username and password, but rather a visual grid of images that fall into particular categories. When you first create a myVidoop account, you pick 3-5 types of images (e.g. birds, skyscrapers, flowers, cars). Then whenever you need to authenticate with myVidoop, you simply type the letters of the images in a randomly generated grid that fall into your chosen categories.

WebVibes has been recently acquired by Microsoft.

WebFives was initially founded in 2004 by former Microsoft engineer Mike Toutonghi as Vizrea and offers social networking with a focus of mobile media, including video, music and photos. Users are provided with standard social networking profile pages complete with blogging, and have the option of accessing their sites via computer or via a WAP specific page.

Toutonghi told WebFives users that the service will stop at the end of the year because of the Microsoft acquisition, making the acquisition a technology buy as opposed to a community buy. Toutonghi went on to encourage users to sign up to MSN Spaces and/or Windows Live for their social networking experience.

Google gadgets came to the Mac today and now Yahoo is releasing an update of their own. They’ve upgraded their Konfabulator widget platform. They also completely changed their site's interface.

The highlights are support for Flash and HTML and the addition of some new partners. Flash and HTML support mean that widget development won’t only be more familiar to web developers, but also more easily support new applications such as video.

Yahoo is now releasing the latest version of their popular messaging software. There really is nothing revolutionary new on this new version but there you will see a few good additions on it.

You can now add embed objects - such as movies, images, and maps - into chat conversations. Also handy: you can synchronize the playback of online videos and share Flickr photos in a slideshow, although only with one friend at a time.

Yahoo has also redesigned the user interface of Messenger’s friends list, bumped up file transfer limits to 2GB per-file, begun automatically scanning transfered files with Norton AntiVirus, added call forwarding to its VoIP offering, and designed new skins. Users can now send SMS messages to their friends’ cell phones with the desktop client. And Messenger has been localized for six new markets - the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India (in Hindi), and Vietnam - raising the sum of localized versions to 25.

Google will be launching a new advertising program, AdSense for Mobile, a contextually targeted ad platform for mobile website content.

AdSense for Mobile gives the ability to AdSense publishing partners to earn revenue from their mobile websites through the targeted placement of mobile text ads.

According to Google.com

“advertisers can connect with the growing number of mobile publishers, ultimately providing users with an enhanced mobile experience that helps them find what they are looking for more quickly and efficiently on the go.”

AdSense for Mobile is focused on AdSense users who have websites that are specifically for mobile browsers, and who want to monetize their mobile content via contextual advertising.

Adsense Mobile text ads run on an auction model, in the same fashion as to the regular Adsense / Adwords ads setting.

AdSense for Mobile will be available in the US, England, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Russia, Netherlands, Australia, India, China, and Japan (shortly).

Yahoo Podcast, a comprehensive podcasting search, directory and listening service that was launched way back October 2005 is closing at the end of October, a fraction past its second birthday.

There is no official word from Yahoo as to why the site is shutting, aside from a message at the top of Yahoo Podcasts that reads “Yahoo! apologizes deeply, but we will be closing down the Podcasts site on Oct. 31, 2007.”

Yahoo Podcasts joins the ever growing Yahoo graveyard along with Yahoo Bill Pay and Yahoo Photos.

As of September 10, 2007, Wikipedia now has 2,000,000 number of pages. Thats right folks! 2 million english articles has now been written on the site.

The 2 millionth articles was written by Zzxc is El Hormiguero.

A little bit of info, Wikipedia was founded way way way back January 2001 which makes it 6 years old. WOW!

Framed pages of blogs and news sites, complete with MySpace News branding and MySpace URL, are being indexed by Google as original content, stealing search engine placement and direct links from content creators.

The practice may also be in breach of Google’s TOS; MySpace is leveraging its position of strength to promote your content branded as their content in the Google search results, a practice that looks like search engine manipulation from a distance.

So do you want your contents on MySpace News?

Youtube is on shaky ground in Germany after seeing a few violent reactions from a German Paliamentarian. The source of the problem was that Youtube was found hosting Nazi related material uploaded by users.

This was quoted

“amounts to aiding and abetting incitement of these people.”

Clips include scenes from the 1940 Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Suess and music videos from German far-right rock band Landser.

The display of Nazi imagery or logos, or supporting Nazi ideals is illegal in Germany and punishable by jail time as well as severe fines.