WizbangTech: July 2007 Archives

YouTube to begin filtering copyrighted material

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 31, 2007

This news from the Times Online. The timeline given by Google says they're on pace to start implementing the technology in September. What that means for you is that you'll lose that ability to post your "Lazy Sunday" videos faster than ever before. The MPAA and RIAA must be licking... [Full Story]

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Microsoft Works to become a free, ad-funded product

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 30, 2007

So says Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet.com: Microsoft’s next version of its small-business/home productivity suite, due imminently, will be free and ad-funded. That seems unequivocal, huh? It seems they can still make enough money just from ads to continue development of the product. That's probably how Google can afford to... [Full Story]

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Apple sells 270,000 iPhones

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 25, 2007

Unlike some wild estimates that had the numbers up to 1,000,000 units sold, it appears Apple only sold 270,000 of the next–generation cell phone in the first weekend of sales. This is not, however, a bad thing, as Apple expected to sell its 1,000,000th unit in the next year.... [Full Story]

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Movable Tweak: Movable Type 3 vs. Movable Type 4: A Modular Site Approach

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 24, 2007

It's no secret I'm a bit of news hound for all things Movable Type. So to say finding this from Movable Tweak would be a huge understatement. I can't tell you how many times I've been working in a template, and hated the fact that I was going to have... [Full Story]

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Philippine prison does Thiller

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 20, 2007

This is what happens when you run out of blogging steam. Video posts. Thus, um, pretty much this whole week, then? From YouTube, the home of all time–wasting.... [Full Story]

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YouTube adds custom players

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 19, 2007

Although they can be somewhat hideous, YouTube has rolled out a way to create custom players that let you, as Brad Linder says, "ecorate your player in one of nine unattractive color schemes." Using your videos or your favorites, you create a playlist in the Custom Player in your... [Full Story]

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The world's coolest email program

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 18, 2007

Is not this. Before you think this is some sort of fake video for the voice–over, take a look at the 3D Mailbox website. They're totally serial, you guys. [Thanks, TechCrunch] On another, more sane, note, there's a new site called Sentenc.es. Yes, that's the top level domain for Spain,... [Full Story]

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Coding templates in Movable Type

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 17, 2007

It should be no shock to you that we use Movable Type here on the Wizbang family of blogs, and we're proud to tell everybody we do. Yes, there's a great sense of pride using an anonymous pseudonym as extol the virtues of the blogging platform we use. While we're... [Full Story]

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AppleHound posts iPhone bugs

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 16, 2007

Mac site AppleHound.com has published its iPhone v1.0 Bugs list. Predictably, you'll get the usual collection of people telling us that nothing comes from Mt. Cuptertino without the blessing of brave St. Jobs, the people who hate people like that and think that Apple is the center of all... [Full Story]

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The Internet in 1994

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 13, 2007 · Comments (4)

Back when it was still the big 'i' Internet. [via]... [Full Story]

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Get your Warner fix on imeem.com

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 12, 2007

VentureBeat is reporting Warner has opened its catalog to stream for free on imeem.com: Warner Music Group is offering its entire music and video catalog for free streaming on imeem, a Web site focused on letting users share music playlists.The music is currently live on the San Francisco startup’s Web... [Full Story]

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Movable Type beta 6 out now

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 11, 2007

While many in the blogosphere moved to WordPress, Six Apart's been working to improve the very application we use on the Wizbang! Network. Their latest offering is Movable Type 4, and they're going to release it as open source…some time in the future. For now, we're helping knock out... [Full Story]

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Facebook registers thirty million

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 10, 2007

We knew social network (and anti–MySpace) phenomena Facebook was growing like wildfire, we just weren't sure how much. Apparently, by a lot. Carolyn Abram on the Facebook blog reported they registered their 30 millionth active user. And not much else.: Early this morning, Facebook hit a new milestone—we now... [Full Story]

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