YouTube Will Allow Revenue Sharing

BBC reports that YouTube will allow revenue sharing, but only for uncopyrighted videos.

YouTube
founder Chad Hurley confirmed to the BBC that his team was working on a
revenue-sharing mechanism that would "reward creativity".



The
system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, and use a
mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual
film.

The system should be launched after YouTube manages to develop the content identification software
that will "scan a digital file, such as an MP3 or video, and compare
the electronic fingerprints to databases of copyright material". This way they'll be able to see if a video uses copyrighted material or if it's just a duplicate of another video.

Google Image Search Has a Cleaner Look

Another important change for Google today: Google Image Search
has a cleaner look. As you can see in the screenshot below, Google only
shows the thumbnail and a short snippet for each result. To read more
information about the image, hover over the image and get: the file
size, pixel dimension, format and the domain.

I like the change, because the most important factor when you
decide if an image result is OK is the thumbnail, not the source of the
image or its format. If you want a certain format or only big images,
you can always the advanced search.

This new design, heavily inspired by Windows Live Search, uses JavaScript, so if you disable JavaScript in your browser, you'll get the old version.

The New Google Groups Is Out Of Beta

From Google Operating System Ionut Alex. Chitu

The slick new Google Groups launched in October last year and available at groups-beta.google.com is now out of beta and moves to groups.google.com.

You'll find a cleaner homepage, search results that look more like
web search results, topics that borrow a lot from Gmail's
conversations. Each group has 100 MB storage space you can use to
upload files or to collaboratively edit documents. Groups are much more
customizable: you can change the colors and add welcome messages.

Now Google should focus on creating some filters for spam posts and a way to discover potentially interesting groups.

Blu-ray cracked too?

It's still early on to tell whether this is actually true, but HD DVD cracker muslix64 is back,
and with the help of another anti-DRM cracker, Janvitos, claims to have
also broken the Blu-ray's implementation of AACS. Although their
protection does not yet account for BD+ copy-protection, they claim to
have been able to implement the same key-grabbing known-plaintext
attack as muslix64 used to crack HD DVD in order to successfully to
crack Blu-ray without even using a disc or drive (apparently they just
used a raw encrypted data file and nothing more). Unfortunately they
haven't yet posted code for us to test this out, so we'll have to take
their word for it for the time being.

Yahoo World Explorer - TagMaps

Yahoo World Explorer is a sample Flash application implemented with the help of the new Yahoo TagMaps API. It displays Flickr tags on a Yahoo map, and clicking on a specific tag will show the associated photos to the right side. Unfortunately, the link to open these photos in full size on Flickr didn’t work here.

PayPal To Offer Security Key Fobs

Engadget - "PayPal is readying a VeriSign security key that will resemble the RSA SecureID we corporate workers are all too familiar with with, and will sport a monochrome LCD screen that rotates a six-digit password every 30 seconds. Clients who opt to use this device will be able to enter it along with their usual username / password credentials when logging in, which would prevent scammers from accessing their account without the key fob in hand. The firm has been testing the device with employees for "several months," and plans to start trialing it with customers "within a month or so." Personal account owners in America, Germany, and Australia will eventually have the option of picking one up for a one-time fee of $5, while business accounts will receive the unit gratis, but if you're not savvy enough to pass on by those tempting scams, five bucks could be a small price to pay to keep your cash out of strangers' hands".

Firefox 3 Alpha 1 - The First Taste

Project code name "Gran Paradiso", is the version 3 of the popular mozilla browser Firefox 3. The new generation of the Firefox browser introduces several new features which can be tested in the first alpha 1. Notice that some of the changes in Gecko 1.9 Alpha 1 will affect the web and platform compatibility of Gran Paradiso Alpha 1:

* Cairo is now being used as the default graphics library, affecting all graphic and text rendering
* Cocoa Widgets are now used in OS X builds
* An updated threading model
* Changes to how DOM events are dispatched
* Changes to how elements are loaded
* Changes to how web pages are painted
* New SVG elements and filters, and improved SVG specification compliance
* Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME are no longer supported platforms
* OS X 10.2 is no longer supported, and OS X 10.3.9 or higher is recommended
* Moving DOM nodes between documents now requires a call to importNode or adoptNode as per the DOM specification.

iPhone - Close Look At CBS (Video)

As you know Apple introduced their iPhone cellphone a few days ago and i gotta say its pretty impressive, even i got very impressed, and i'm really not a big fan of cellphones and it's kind (i got my first cellphone only 3 years ago).
but i tell you that, the minute it gets out on sell here in israel, even with a price tag of 499$ - I Will Get It !

Here is a video from CBS showing off the features in the iPhone:

Pixelotto Isn't Doing So Good

About few weeks ago i posted a story about new site called Pixelotto.com by the (millionaire) owner of the legendary site MillionDollarHomepage.com, so i decided to check back again and see how his new project is doing, as expected the site ain't doing so good.

he managed to raise only 146,900$ by now (it haven't changed for the past week), about a month since it took off, and who knows how much of this amount he actually sold out and how much he had to fabricate or give away to warm up his pixel-board so advertisers can see their money is not wasted on an empty/unvisited site.

my guess is this site ain't gonna make any more million $$$ for the owner who made his first million in his previous project that got about a million sites copying the idea and turning it to something we (the surfers) want to avoid.. too boring.

nLite v1.3 RC - Released!

nLite is a tool for permanent Windows components removal and pre-installation Windows configuration. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on cd or testing in virtual machines.
With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install does not include, or even contain on cd, the unwanted components.

Changes in this version:

• new: Tweak - Minimal Power Management
• update: 'Save Dump' upgraded to 'Symbolic Debugger'
• fix: Erase then burn stuck at erase
• fix: Users creation (with spaces in names)
• fix: Missing nhelper (at conservative usage)
• fix: ExtraFileEdits addon entry support (multiple lines)
• fix: x64 Help removal (could cause many components to fail)
• fix: Integrate themes selection (theme removed from the list)
• fix: USBPort patch (if duplicate file in cabinets)

as a computer technician i use this program quite often to make faster installation of windows, i managed to reduce installation time from 60 minutes (including third-party programs such as winrar, klite, anti-virus, etc,..) to as much as 20 minutes!

A Handy Little CSS Cheat Sheet

On this page you can find a great little CSS cheat sheet if your just starting your way with CSS.
take a look at the box diagram, should make your life a lot more easier if you're a newbie !