Remains of the Day: Windows 7 Hits the “Airwaves” Edition [For What It's Worth]
Windows 7 commercials make their way to YouTube, AT&T wastes a little less of your time when you’ve got to leave a voicemail, Bing 2.0 release is on the horizon, and student’s earn credit while playing Wii.
- Is this the first Windows 7 commercial?
Microsoft drops the first Windows 7 commercial we’ve seen to YouTube, and our siblings over at Gizmodo even get a blurb. [Ars Technica; Thanks Slimy!] - AT&T Relents, Drops Paging Instructions from Voicemail
AT&T is wasting a little less of your time in their voicemail dialog by dropping the paging instructions. Sorry page lovers, but it had to happen sometime. [NYT] - Google Internet Stats
Google’s launched a new page devoted to their collection of searchable internet statistics, sporting goodies like: “Nearly three in five (57%) of youth consumers logged on to YouTube to watch a music video in the last 12 months, compared to 56% who watched a music TV channel.” - Microsoft’s Bing 2.0: Coming this fall (maybe even next week)
A big Bing update may hit the fledgling Microsoft search engine as early as next week. [ZDNet] - The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed’s web server
FriendFeed and Facebook are open-sourcing the technology that powers its real-time web services. [Bret Taylor] - UH fitness courses reach a whole new level
Students at the University of Houston can now earn college credits on their Wiis. [Houston Chronicle] - ‘One in 10 conned’ by ticket sites
A whole lot of people end up getting fleeced when they try buying tickets online. [BBC] - Facebook Lite
Facebook launches a new lightweight, extremely fast experimental homepage called Facebook Lite. [via TechCrunch] - Tag Friends in Your Status and Posts
If you like the @user convention on Twitter, now you can start using it on Facebook as well. [Facebook Blog]
Original post by Adam Pash
