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More than a week back, Google decided to shut down the web rentals and sales of Google Video. Google also announced that it will compensate the customers who will no longer be able to watch their purchased videos. This announcement kick started a huge backlash against Google. Today, Bindu Reddy, Google Video Product Manager, made [...]

Adobe fights back against Microsoft in the online video market with the support for H.264 video codec on its Flash Player. H.264 format will offer a HD quality video and it is based on open standards. The update will also support a superior AAC audio codec. Microsoft recently announced Microsoft Silverlight, a cross browser, cross [...]

We saw a major Skype outage that kept consumers without an important communication tool for more than 24 hours. The blogosphere had its own reaction to this outage. There were rumors about Russian hackers compromising the Skype service, which was promptly denied by Skype. This outage definitely brings into focus the question about whether VOIP [...]

Paul Kedrosky points to a Financial Times piece on bloggers and niche job boards. A niche job board was something that I first saw by way of 37signals, but very soon a number of influential bloggers had started their own job boards with the help of companies like SimplyHired and JobThread.