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“If it means being more conservative out of the gate, that’s fine,” Srivastava said. “We want to maintain consistency of the feel and experience on Flickr. We don’t want to be the biggest video site day one, but the most interesting.”

The addition of video content doesn’t disrupt the simplicity and utility of Flickr. It offers the same privacy controls, user interface, licensing options, and comments, captions, tags, APIs, etc.

Interview with Kakul Srivastava on Yahoo Video–the longer version:

After a few years of waiting, Flickr videos have finally arrived. As a long-time Flickr user, I have been wondering what took so long to add videos (more on Techmeme) to the service. In the meantime, YouTube managed to sprint way ahead, leaving Yahoo Video and the nascent Flickr Video in the dust.

Flickr videos live along side photos

Interview with Kakul Srivastava on Flickr Video–the shorter version:

Despite taking the gestation period of an elephant to appear, I like the Flickr Video experience, except for the limitation to 90 seconds of video. It’s the video analog of Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters. It’s a fine communications constraint, but it doesn’t apply as easily to video content.

According to Kakul Srivastava, Flickr’s director of product management, Flickr Video is intended to capture the “little moments of life.” She told me that the goal was not to invent a new kind of video site or take on YouTube, but to focus on “authentic user-generated and personal content.”

If you compare the number of people posting more commercial videos on sites like YouTube and Yahoo Video, people capturing the little moments is a huge unmet need and taps into existing behaviors, Srivastava added. Users can directly upload videos from their phones. She expects that the addition of video will bring in a new audience, although uploading videos is limited today to paying Flickr users.

“It’s not our desire to be biggest site. We are not going after the hour-long wedding videos,” she said. “People are taking videos on still cameras and mobile devices, and they are not doing much in terms of sharing videos.”

Maintaining the differentiation will be difficult. Users are putting long and short videos on a variety of other sites, including new sites such as Seesmic and Qik. But, the Flickr experience has attracted 25 million active users, and they will appreciate the addition of video.

The 90-second limit on playing time and 150MB maximum file size for upload will encourage users to post their little moments, but it will also be a cause of frustration. For example, I did an interview with Srivastava with my Flip Video camera that was 156 seconds in length. To post it on Flickr I had to go through the pain of editing it, which I would rather avoid for shorter pieces. I expect that the Flickr team and community will think seriously about raising the limit on playing time.

She explained the difference between Yahoo Video (which is the underlying technology for Flickr Video) and Flickr Video as follows: “Yahoo Video is about the broadcast experience, while Flickr is more personal content that you want to share with friends and family…and the world, but it’s more personal and authentic.” Yahoo will be patrolling Flickr Video and relying on the community to eliminate inappropriate and copyrighted content, she said.

Another Twitter helper in the news today: Quotably threads Twitter chat.

FriendFeed in reverse now exists, by the way: Ping.fm, a service that sends items to multiple microblog services at once.

You can only reply to Twitter posts in FriendFeed. Your post will start @(username), which is the standard for a reply on Twitter. You can’t create a new Twitter item without the reply text. So FriendFeed is still not the new Twitter.

FriendFeed now feeds back to Twitter.

A new feature in the personal feed aggregator FriendFeed lets users reply to Twitter posts that show up on the service, and have those replies posted to Twitter itself. Previously, what happened in FriendFeed stayed in FriendFeed.

Updated 11:10 a.m. PST Thursday May 8 with information that laptops were located

Hundreds of laptops used by the U.S. Department of State that were missing have been located, according to a report in the Congressional Quarterly.

Auditors found that the State Department had lost track of about $30 million worth of equipment, most of it laptops, the initial Congressional Quarterly report says.

Given the sensitive and often secret nature of data the State Department workers deal with, officials had been bracing for repercussions like congressional hearings, according to CQ. That’s what happened when a Veterans Administration official had a laptop stolen in 2006, IRS laptops went missing in 2001, and a State Department laptop containing the names of foreign agents working for the U.S. government was stolen in 1999.

News of the missing laptops first surfaced in late March in an anonymous post on the Dead Men Working blog written by foreign service officers.

Last year I ranted about how Classmates.com nickels-and-dimes its users. While every other social networking site (at least that I’ve seen) doesn’t charge its members to read messages, Classmates.com does. If you have a free membership (as I did), and some long lost high school friend decides to contact you, you can’t read their message until you pay up for a “gold membership.” As if.
After thinking about it, I decided to cancel my membership. Here is where it gets really good. While there appeared to be an online option for canceling, I kept getting an “internal service error.” I tried canceling online a few times. I was successful only after I e-mailing a representative. However, “gold members” can only cancel by asking the Classmates customer service team to do it.

To me, none of these policies make Classmates.com customer friendly, or easy to use. I contacted Classmates’ media representative in November for comment, but I have not received a response. To top it off, I received spam from the company today. Nowhere in the e-mail did the company give an option to “unsubscribe.” Argh!

Home alone: The Ligne Roset collection you can afford.

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Sony)

In an interview with GameDaily, Sony’s senior marketing vice president Peter Dille has revealed some stats on
PlayStation Home, Sony’s online virtual community, which was greeted with a rather lukewarm reception when it launched late last year. Word is 4 million people have come into Home and those who do stick around stick around for 55 minutes on average.

Sony doesn’t differentiate between active and idle users (by idle, I mean you’ve gone in once, checked it out, and never gone back), so it’s hard to say how many folks are really hard-core Home dwellers. However, what’s clear is that now that it’s had an opportunity to mature a bit, the company is making a push to publicize the virtual world that Sony officials have admitted has been a challenge to build and maintain.

The biggest gripe that critics have had about PlayStation Home is that it’s long on Sony marketing and short on fun. But Dille says Sony is learning and will “nurture” and “develop” Home.

He says that while micro-transactions are a big part of what Home is all about, users aren’t just spending money on the cheap stuff. “Surprisingly, some of the more popular items aren’t the cheapest things,” he says. “They’re things that cost a little bit more, like an apartment upgrade.”

Anybody out there a fan of Home? Or did you just check it out and never come back?

(Source: GameDaily via Kotaku)

Google is expanding its advertising business into a new domain: graphical ads that appear on mobile devices.

As with the company’s text-based mobile ads, the Google image ads are displayed on the basis of keywords that appear on Web sites that people visit with their mobile phones, Google said Wednesday.

Google offers a variety of small display ad sizes.

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Mobile devices are a new frontier for the Internet in general and for the advertising business that Google and many others are building atop it. The mobile Web has been hobbled by tiny screens, slow and unreliable connections, and carriers’ data-access fees, but a new era is arriving.

Apple’s
iPhone has shown what’s possible. Increasingly widespread Wi-Fi makes it possible to bypass mobile-phone network operators. And initiatives such as Intel’s Mobile Internet Device and Google’s Android could lead to a new generation of devices.

During last week’s conference call to discuss quarterly financial results, Google co-founder Sergey Brin was bullish about the opportunity to bring advertising to the mobile Web.

“The mobile ads work very well,” Brin said. “There’s nothing to dissuade me it would be any worse than traditional desktop search.”

Google’s mobile image ads are similar to those appearing on ordinary Web sites, Google said, but are smaller and are limited to one per page. Advertisers will pay only when users click on an ad, as with the company’s text ads that appear next to search ads. Google requires only one ad per page, and the ads must link to mobile-specific Web pages.

This pay-per-click model is popular among advertisers who want to match expenses to active expressions of interest in their ads, though “click fraud” can mean some of that activity is bogus.

Google works to identify fraudulent or accidental clicks and doesn’t charge for what it deems to be invalid clicks.

Yahoo may have had some bumps in its second quarter, but it’s not backing down from forecast for the rest of the year.

The Internet pioneer edged below analyst expectations for its second quarter for both revenue and earnings per share. Specifically, revenue excluding commissions increased 8 percent to $1.346 billion, shy of the $1.37 billion analysts had expected, and net income was 10 cents per share excluding various items, compared with 11 cents expected by analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.

Nothing major went wrong, but the company’s performance ended up on the low end of a number of financial measurements. One big factor was economic troubles, which Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen said resulted in “softness” for ads in the finance, travel, and retail sectors.

With that in mind, and given that even Google is starting to sound worried about the economy, it’s notable that Yahoo wasn’t more cautious with its forecast.

Yahoo narrowed its expected full-year revenue from the range of $7.2 billion to $8 billion it issued three months ago to $7.35 billion to $7.85 billion.

Apparently, Wall Street was willing to hear the overtones of optimism in Chief Executive Jerry Yang’s words Thursday. Yahoo stock rose 59 cents, or nearly 3 percent, to $21.99 in after-hours trading.

Don’t read too much into that, though. The trouble with measuring Yahoo by stock performance is that it’s in a foaming sea of possibilities right now with Microsoft’s attempt to acquire Yahoo, a deal under which top rival Google will supply search ads and as much as $800 million in new revenue, a major reorganization and executive exodus, and the company settling its differences with activist investor Carl Icahn. Watching the stock is enough to make you seasick, and who can say how many expectations and counter-expectations have been baked into the price?

Frankly, it’s remarkable given the number and scale of distractions that Yahoo managed to make an earnings announcement at all. Such complications take a toll on employees, but Yahoo quantified the challenge, too: it spent $22 million on advisers and legal defense costs dealing with Microsoft and Icahn.

One reason that President Sue Decker sounded optimistic is that the company believes it’s narrowing the gap with Google in how much money it makes off each search ad.

There are two basic varieties of online ads, the text ads that appear next to search results and the more traditional graphical “display” ads that mirror what you’d see on TV or in a magazine. With the former, advertisers pay only when a user clicks on the ad, but with the latter, the advertiser generally pays when it’s shown. Yahoo’s hope is to bring the two realms together with unified tools for advertisers and to make it easier to control the complexities of display-ad campaigns.

Yahoo does better than Google in display ads, so it’s natural for the company to try to press its advantage there. But even if Yahoo does manage to fire up the display-ad market with better tools, don’t expect Google to be left in the dust.

For one thing, Google has fired up its own display-ad work with the DoubleClick acquisition. For another, the search-ad market is twice as big, according to analysis firm eMarketer, which projects U.S. spending on online ads will increase from $25.9 billion this year to $41 billion in 2011. But display ads are a relatively small part of that, increasing from $5.5 billion to $7.9 billion over the same period while search ads–the market Google dominates–rises from $10.4 billion to $16 billion.

One interesting note on the call came with the discussion of the Google advertising partnership. It doesn’t look like Yahoo is counting on money from that partnership this year.

To recap its expected effects, Yahoo expects up to $800 million in revenue and $250 million to $450 million in operating cash flow from the Google deal, it said when it announced the deal. Yang said Tuesday that the money will be used to “enhance financial results and be reinvested in the company.”

But the Google deal is under antitrust scrutiny right now from the Justice Department, Congress, and the states, and Yang also used a conspicuously cautious term–”if” not “when”–to describe the expected schedule for the deal’s going into effect.

“If we implement (it), it would be some time in the fourth quarter, it looks like,” he said. That contrasts with the company’s earlier statements that it needs nobody’s permission to go ahead with the deal and that its three-and-a-half-month delay for antitrust review is purely voluntary.

Nvidia has announced it will release a graphics chip that matches Advanced Micro Device’s manufacturing process–an advantage that the latter has often touted.

Board using Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ chip

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Nvidia)

The Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+, announced Thursday, is made on a 55-nanometer process. Current Nvidia processors–including the just-released GTX 200 series–are made on a slightly “fatter” 65nm process. AMD has moved most of its graphics chips to a 55nm process.

Typically, the smaller the process, the more energy-efficient a processor is. Smaller processes also typically offer better performance. Tech Web site PC Perspective
has photos showing that the chip package is smaller than a 65nm Nvidia part.

The GeForce 9800 GTX+ will be competitively priced. “It’s an enthusiast category graphics product, but it’s going to be offered at $229 when it hits retail next month,” said Ken Brown, an Nvidia spokesperson. It is slated to hit retail shelves on July 14.

AMD introduced new Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 graphics chips on Monday. These will start at just less than $200 and range up to about $300, making the 9800 GTX+ a direct competitor.

(Update: PC Perspective had this to say about the HD 4850 versus the 9800 GTX+: “The AMD Radeon HD 4850 and the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ appear to be nearly equally matched in price and performance.” The HD 4850 is now being offered by resellers. Prices range roughly from $189 to $220.)

“We’ve come to expect these cunningly timed product announcements from Nvidia every time AMD announces a new Radeon graphics card, said CNET’s Rich Brown in a post.

Specifications for the 9800 GTX+ include a core clock speed of 738MHz, a shader clock running at 1836MHz, and 512MB GDDR3 memory rated at 1100MHz. The prior-generation 9800 model had a core clock speed of 675MHz and a shader clock speed of 1688MHz.

The platform also supports adding a second or third 9800 GTX+ board using the Scalable Link Interface.

Support for game physics and transcoding is also key to the product. “One of the key differentiators is something we introduced with the GTX 260 and 280 (just released Monday) and is moving down through the rest of our product offerings–support for Physics and, with CUDA, it supports transcoding,” Brown said.

CUDA is Nvidia’s C language programming environment. Transcoding is the conversion of a movie, for example, from one format to another.

Welcome, Gateway!

So, you’re doing the colored/crazy-designed notebook thing now, huh? Yeah, so is, well, everyone else.

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Gateway)

It’s pretty well-established now that the masses see their computer as an extension of their personalities. First, it was the brightly hued notebook trend that all the top-tier PC makers were latching on to, including Gateway. Now as a laptop vendor, it seems you have to offer some artsy-looking version of a standard notebook to even get noticed anymore. (With the exception of Apple, which garners plenty of attention with its commitment to minimalism.)

Cases in point: Sony, which already has a deserved reputation for making good-looking laptops, did these limited-edition artist-designed notebooks last fall. Hewlett-Packard had this eye-catching one on display at the Consumer Electronics Show last week–designed by a 21-year-old kid, no less. Even conservative, buttoned-up Dell has been experimenting in color and customized lids–OK, so World of Warcraft themes aren’t exactly high art, but they count–for the last six months. Heck, start-ups like NVousPC are trying to make a business out of the unique-looking laptop trend.

Will this year's notebook trend be textured lids?

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Lenovo)

Gateway’s addition to the pack is taking its M- and T-series notebooks, slathering them in more colors–besides Garnet Red and Pacific Blue there will also be Merlot and Silver options–and adding a new design called Arctic Bloom. Gateway says there will be no price premium if you order one of the notebooks (which cost between $800 and $1,400) with that design. All new colors and designs will be available beginning Thursday.

For this year, I’d venture to guess that interesting textures are going to be the next must-have design detail. Lenovo threw down the gauntlet with its striking red, vine-patterned 11-inch IdeaPad earlier this month.

So…who’s next?