Posts tagged “technology”

Google rolls out IMAP support for GMail

Google has just added IMAP support for Gmail. This is something I’ve been waiting for a long time, ever since I signed up with GMail. The problem from the user’s point of view has of course been that you can’t really sync your devices in a useful way. You can try to read it through [...]

YouTube and no RSS?

Why doesn’t YouTube support RSS-feeds? This is really weird because it would make perfect sense for Google to enable this feature so people could follow video streams through Google Reader, for example. I have been experimenting with some videos and it would be really cool to be able to follow other people doing similar things [...]

Seesmic

Loic’s new company is called Seesmic. I love the way he is launching the company – through short videos, keeping people hooked, always coming out (and giving users) with something new. If you ever look into starting a company, be sure to watch these. There’s more on the sites of Techcrunch and Ben Metcalfe.

Sony switches to Microsoft’s DRM

Sony has made a strategic move in it’s online music business and has decided to adopt Microsoft’s DRM as a technology for its online content. Sony had been trying push its proprietary ATRAC along with its own music player for PCs. Smart move, although I don’t support DRM that much. I guess Sony was trying [...]

Flickr and its “cashpoint”

I let my Flickr pro account expire on purpose to see how the change would affect me. After the expiration I realised just how much I am into the service – although I don’t use it that much to be honest. Flickr has put its cashpoint (a term I coined for this) into an excellent [...]