Week in review: Microhoo, Yahoogle, and Microspace, oh my!

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CNET's Robert Vamosi offered his take on the echo-boom generation's social-media hacking game, including how security experts are using social networks and other Web 2.0 tools to shut the young kids down.

There was also talk of the persistent security problems plaguing electronic voting systems, and author Malcolm Gladwell's message for conference attendees was that too much information can impair your judgment. "The ability to show judgment, to exercise judgment is just about the most important thing any decision maker can possess," he said in his keynote addresses.

As the Web 2.0 world turns
Meanwhile, the Web 2.0 world was busy with new releases such as Google's Solutions Marketplace, an online shop for third-party Google Apps add-ons. Solutions Marketplace may make more people take Web widgets more seriously--even enterprise developers.

Also this week, Microsoft's Live Maps team launched a new version of its service that offers new features like exporting to GPS devices, improved 3D imagery, and Clearflow, an option that will alter driving directions based on traffic. CNET Webware's Rafe Needleman analyzed Clearflow, and found it of "only marginal usefulness on a PC."

And in a bid to broaden Flickr if not actually crush YouTube, Yahoo announced this week that it's adding videos to what has just been a photo-sharing site.

The change is a modest but significant extension of Flickr's features. The videos, limited to 90 seconds and 150MB, will be shown as thumbnails alongside users' photos, and will inherit all the features of photos stored on the site: users can add comments, captions, comments, geotags, and privacy restrictions so only friends or family may view the videos, the company said.

The move left some Flickr purists up in arms. The No Video on Flickr group amassed more than 4,000 members just a few hours after the new feature launched.

In the online music world, there was talk this week from Last.fm about how free streaming turns people on to new music and encourages them to buy. And in an industry that has been decimated by digital technology, EMI shows us how it's putting such technology to work through digital music promotions.

Also on the Web front, site operators have enjoyed a broad legal shield against lawsuits filed over material posted by their users. But that may be about to change, due to a pair of recent rulings by federal district judges.

Also of note
The physics of baseball (blog and video)...Next year's H-1B visa limit met...FCC fines retailers over DTV violations...Nokia shows off an iPhone lookalike...HP jumps on mini-notebook bandwagon...IBM's racetrack memory seeks 100x boost in density...Blockbuster considering set-top box for movie downloads...and bridging the digital divide in Colombia and Brazil.

[n3td3v]

yahoo coverage

too much yahoo coverage on the site guys, its turning into yahoo overload.

keep up the good work,

n3td3v

[mikalg]

Too much coverage?!?

How about all the SAME coverage. Almost sounds like a joke:

How many c/net "news writers" does it take to report on a SINGLE story?

Every G'damn one of 'em!!!!

How's that for a punch line....too bad it is also SO true.

Not only that, but all we hear is the same (even mention in THIS story) information in a different format (picture flowcharts?!?)or by a different author.

All the while wasting our time with, what I have to describe as, childish nursery titles.

We have a Microhoo here
We have a Yahoogle there
Here a Microspace, there a Microspace, EVERYWHERE a Microspace......


It sickens me to the core!
I completely understand that if this were a REAL news media outlet (don't lie to me, and the rest if us and say it is more than what it is)this type of "reporting' wouldn't pass muster with REAL editors.

Here, it does, and it will. I like the "news" about technology.....but this is old hate, stale news that is akin to:

NEWSFLASH:
New York Harbor still home of Statue of Liberty!

No kidding? The old gal hasn't skipped off for a drink at a pub DC? Wonderful news! Now, if only it could be repeated for weeks on end, and in every way imaginable....by every writer on staff, and off.

Thank you for forcing me to digest another heaping load of NO NEW NEWS. Thank you very much for that!

Now I sound exactly like so many other posters I see on the net. I am sorry, so,so,so, sorry....but I can't take this anymore!

How on Earth can you?

[mikekrause]

What about GooYa?

You know - like Boo-ya?

[atulkumthekar]

shows technology is run by lawyers!

no wonders they say -
science comes first, then repeatition is engineering and then on the third waves when it hits technology it must be lawyers that take on.
The capitalist 'gundas' - pirates of silicon valley!
I heard someone saying she was very happy to not to have internet and TV for two months when she moved. She could give time to herself rather than contributing to fill pockets of these pirates.

[Fil0403]

Week in review: Microhoo and no one else, yay!

It's just a matter of time until Microsoft buys Yahoo! and shuts all the mouths that every year ignorantly predict Microsoft's end, LOL.