Alex McFarlane - Web Developer

More than half (59%) of internet users worldwide view at least one video clip every week, according to Universal McCann

However you feel about Google’s implementation of software within YouTube to combat the publication of copyrighted content on the video site sans content owners’ express permission, the company has chosen to apply the technology as an aid to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to help identify ...

Flickr’s been getting some headlines these past few weeks, mostly due to the vocal outcry resulting from the backlash against video on Flickr. The company even opted to placate donut crazies as a sort of pseudo damage-control measure. (Not really. It was mostly humor. Done in jest. But the story ...

Google Earth, the 3D global mapping application that has grown to become one of the most popular and freely-accessible software developments to come out of Mountain View not directly affiliated with its search engine nor its advertising business, has just today received an update. Google Earth 4.3 (Beta) is now ...

Users of Google Earth have been allowed to geo-tag videos since October 2007 and view the results on the service’s YouTube layer. Some searching today will show quite a lot of clips already tacked onto the virtual globe since the option became available. Well, Google is now building on its ...

McCann Worldgroup's Momentum Worldwide has acquired Greenroom Digital and its sister media agency Entertainment Intelligence. The digital agency will be rebranded as Momentum and its 50 staff will be moved into the Momentum offices. Full Article: Brand Republic Url: Momentum Worldwide

The BBC iPlayer is set to launch on the Nintendo Wii as latest figures reveal more than 42m BBC shows have been viewed via the service since its Christmas Day launch. The first-quarter figures reveal iPlayer usage grew by 25% each month, from 11.2m streams or downloads in January to ...

I’ve been instead dozens of corporate headquarters. Interviewed hundreds of executives. But Rackspace is now at the top of my list of favorite companies. Here’s a tour of their new headquarters. They are turning a mall into a data center. Really great stories. Video: Here’s a tour of their new headquarters Full ...

Adobe has launched Adobe Media Player 1.0 and a Adobe TV. Adobe Media Player is a cross-platform Adobe AIR application that offers content discovery and interaction. Companies that are offering content for the player include CBS, MTV Networks, Universal Music Group, PBS, CondéNet, and Scripps Networks. The media player can be downloaded ...

In case you didn’t know, terraforming Mars and sending people to live up there (or down there, depending on how you look at it) is only about cash, nothing else. Kim Stanley Robinson hasn’t got a clue. Now, three guys that have cash in abundance, Virgin founder Richard Branson and ...

WordPress 2.5 has been released with a major overhaul to the interface and a range of new features. The biggest change is in the appearance of the administration backend, which is described as being a “Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard.” The WordPress dashboard is now widget friendly, and users can include ...

I’ve tried out nearly all online photo editors, and although some were good, I wasn’t perfectly satisfied with any of them. Adobe’s online, lightweight version of Photoshop, dubbed Adobe Photoshop Express, unfortunately falls under the same category, although it’s one of the sleekest such applications out there. Application: Adobe Photoshop Express Full ...

Google has announced that YouTube users will now have access to in depth statistics for their videos. Stats include how often videos are viewed in different geographic regions and how popular they are relative to all videos in that market over a given period of time. The lifecycle of videos is ...

OK, it’s officially Facebook vs. everyone else when it comes to OpenSocial. Yahoo has announced its support for Google’s OpenSocial initiative, and it has joined forces with MySpace and Google to form non-profit OpenSocial Foundation. Full Article: TechCrunch Related Articles: Mashible, NMA

Instead of fighting BitTorrent and sites like Allsp, South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are simply going to try to make them irrelevant by offering something better. Along with Comedy Central, they’ve expanded South Park Studios, where viewers can stream any episode of South Park from the show’s ...

No sooner does Google exit the FCC’s 700Mhz spectrum auction with its $4.6 billion still in its pocket and its rules imposed on its competitors than it throws up yet another ball in the broadband wireless game. Earlier today, it proposed to the FCC that the unused “white spaces” ...

Earlier today Facebook held a press conference to talk about new privacy controls and to confirm that they are launching a web chat product in the coming weeks. Full Article: TechCrunch

A really interesting campaign for the 2008 Olympics. The Lost Ring an "alternate reality game". Allegedly it is funded by McDonalds. http://www.thelostring.com/index.html FindTheLostRing.com/Community/Ariadne http://olympics.wikibruce.com/Beginners_Guide http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/2008/03/05/the_lost_ring.html

MySpace has gone live with its first set of applications today. A reported 12,000 installations were made within the first few hours of the MySpace Platform opening. Full Article: NMA Related Articles:  9 MySpace Apps Worth A Look (Mashible), Gigaom

As this was going to be featured in this months entries, and I have not been able to find time to research it as much as I would have liked. Here is a  quick link to all things ning. Link: http://mashable.com/?s=ning.com&searchbutton=go%21