Googlified – The Google LatLong Blog announced several updates to the images of Manhanttan used in Google Street View. Among the updates, I find their new move to blur out people’s faces to be quite interesting.
We’re also taking this opportunity to test our new face-blurring technology on the busy streets of Manhattan. This effort has been a [...] read more
InternetGeeks are Sexy Technology News – This is potentially huge. Viacom, which owns MTV and Paramount Pictures, has been involved in a legal battle with YouTube (and now Google) over what Viacom alleges is massive copyright infringement of their property. Viacom claims to have identified 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes.
Now, a US court has told Google that it must hand [...] read more
Digital Inspiration – Bloggers and journalists in China are using a novel approach to bypass Internet filters in their country – they write backwards or from right to left. The content therefore remains readable by human beings but defeats the web filtering software [...] read more
DailyApps – This is a guest post by Sumesh.
Bookmarklets are bookmarks whose URLs contain small bits of JavaScript code, that can accomplish specific tasks. These range from the crazy and wacky to useful and time-saving bookmarklets. Since we’re using bookmarklets to save time, we shall leave the crazy and wacky ones for another post.
To save these [...] read more
