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Bits: Four Privacy Protections the Online Ad Industry Left Out The Internet advertising industry's 'new' privacy principles are essentially unchanged from the old ones. Trade groups rejected the enhanced disclosures and protections suggested by Google and other industry players. New York TimesYahoo Search Pad Exits Beta to Boost Web Research Yahoo Search Pad is the Web services company's latest attempt to keep users within its search engine. Users will be able to do research on Yahoo Search and save links and other content in a note pad within the search application instead of juggling multiple methods of annotation. The move is Yahoo's latest bid to better compete with Web services powers Google, microsoft, Facebook and Twitter. - Yahoo July 7 plans to roll out a Web-based annotation tool for its search engine that lets users grab content and sock it away in one page for quick and dirty reference. Yahoo Search Pad, in beta since February, is designed to alleviate the pain points users have in taking content ... eWEEKFour Missed Opportunities for Privacy The NY Times has a blog posting on the occasion of the Internet advertising industry's release (PDF) of what it describes as tough new standards governing the collection and use of data about users' behavior. The Time's Saul Hansell describes these 'new' standards as more of the same old status quo, and outlines four privacy-enhancing ideas, being discussed by Google, Yahoo, the FTC, and Congress, that the IAB has completely ignored. These principles are: every ad should explain itself, users should be able to see data collected about them, browsers should help enforce user choices about tracking, and some information (medical and financial) is simply too sensitive to track. of this story at Slashdot. SlashdotGoogle CEO hails company`s new PC operating system SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) -- Eric Schmidt spent his first six years as Google's CEO resisting a push by the company's co-founders to develop their own operating system for personal computers.... The Arizona RepublicMicrosoft Bing Travel Back Online After Fire Microsoft Bing's travel site was knocked out at the beginning of the holiday weekend by an electrical fire at a Seattle-area data center. No other portions of Bing were affected. In June, the search engine made incremental gains in the market against ultra-competitors Yahoo and Google, as microsoft continued to support it with a massive ad campaign. - Microsoft Bing is fully running again after a July 2 fire at a Seattle data center that took down the Travel portion of the search engine. The electrical fire, whose cause is under investigation but has not yet been determined, started quot;in a garage-level electrical room, quot; according... eWEEKReports: Nokia says no Android phone in the works Nokia has denied today reports that the Finnish company is working on a mobile phone running on Google's Android mobile operating system. MacworldCameron: Patients should store health records with Google or Microsoft Lib Dems complain that plan could give Google undue commercial advantagePatients would be encouraged to store their medical records with companies like Google and microsoft under plans being drawn up by the Conservatives.David Cameron wants people to use services like Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, which both operate in the US, as an alternative to the £12bn national patient record database ordered by the government.But the Liberal Democrats have complained that the plan could give Google undue commercial advantage.Cameron has repeatedly cited Labour's planned electronic patient record database as an example of how centralised government programmes can go wrong. The database is not due to be ready until 2014, four years behind schedule.At the recent Conservative spring conference in Cheltenham, the Tory leader said that his party would have adopted a different approach to the issue of how to improve access to patient records in the internet era.'We would have said, 'Today you GuardianNokia denies plans phone running Google`s Android TALLINN (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it was not working on introducing a phone running on Google's Android operating system. ReutersExamining the HTML 5 Video Codec Debate Ars Technica has a great breakdown of the codec debate for the HTML 5 video element. Support for the new video element seems to be split into two main camps, Ogg Theora and H.264, and the inability to find a solution has HTML 5 spec editor Ian Hickson throwing in the towel. 'Hickson outlined the positions of each major browser vendor and explained how the present impasse will influence the HTML 5 standard. Apple and Google favor H.264 while Mozilla and Opera favor Ogg Theora. Google intends to ship its browser with support for both codecs, which means that Apple is the only vendor that will not be supporting Ogg. 'After an inordinate amount of discussions, both in public and privately, on the situation regarding codecs for and in HTML5, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that there is no suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement and ship,' Hickson wrote. 'I have therefore removed the two subsections in the HTML5 spec in which codecs would have been required, and h SlashdotGoogle Will Star In New Dow Jones News Model An anonymous reader writes 'Dow Jones is getting set to launch a new aggregator, akin to Google News, which will charge web users for access to high-quality journalism. 'The Journal is one of the many newspapers you might buy in one place and with one payment [...] Watch for it,' said Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton. However, rather than posing a threat to Google News, Andrew Keen, author and entrepreneur, says the aggregator will use Google as a critical partner. The only people who should be worried about this new model, says Keen, 'are all those lucky consumers who, over the last 15 years, have been getting their news for free.'' of this story at Slashdot. Slashdot1 2 |
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Feedzilla is a news aggregator which categorizes news stories by topic. It is a platform where webmasters and bloggers can find an unmatched selection of easy to use, automatically updating and professional news widgets for their sites. Feedzilla supports the building of widgets in various formats, as well as allowing the addition of news widgets to different blogging platforms and social networks.
Feedzilla manually aggregates news summaries found in RSS feeds, and redistributes them in either RSS format or as a news widget. Content is collected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from an ever-growing list of providers.
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9th of September 2009 - Interview of Feedzilla's founder at the IFA in Berlin. [More]