03.28.07

Yahoo! Mail to offer unlimited storage

Posted in News at 10:24 pm by Paloma Cruz

Starting in May 2007 Yahoo! Mail will begin offering unlimited storage. From their announcement:

We’re psyched to be breaking new ground in the digital storage frontier by giving our users the freedom to never worry about deleting old messages again. And, like any responsible webmail service, we have anti-abuse limits in place to protect our users. BTW: As much as we’d like to just flip a switch and “unlimit” everyone on the same day, we’ll be rolling this out over a few months to facilitate a smooth transition — we know there’s virtually nothing more precious than your inbox.

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03.26.07

10 things to make your Web site a success

Posted in News at 10:59 pm by Paloma Cruz

Ten Things That Will Make or Break Your Web Site, found at TechSoup:

  1. EASY is the most important feature of any Web site, Web application, or program.
  2. Visual design and copy are extremely important.
  3. Open up your data as much possible.
  4. Test, test, test.
  5. Release features early and often.
  6. Be special.
  7. Don’t be special.
  8. If you plan on developing a successful Web application, plan for scalability from the ground up.
  9. Identify the tools you need.
  10. Keep abreast of user-generated content and social software trends.

This is just a shortlist; their has lots more info. :-)

03.14.07

YouTube sued

Posted in News at 10:42 pm by Paloma Cruz

Viacom sues YouTube over copyright infringement
– reported by the Houston Chronicle

Viacom Inc. has negotiated with the video-sharing site YouTube for months over what the media company says is the widespread illegal use of video clips featuring its marquee names, including Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Now, Viacom is taking YouTube to court, claiming in a $1 billion lawsuit filed today that the wildly popular Web site has been building a business by using digital technology to “willfully infringe copyrights on a huge scale.”

The lawsuit could be the first in many salvos from broadcasters and other media companies against YouTube, which was a quirky and fast-growing startup until the deep-pocketed Internet search behemoth Google Inc. bought the company in November for $1.76 billion.

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