Posterous Implements Facebook Likes
Choosing to waste no time, simple blogging-by-email platform Posterous has implemented Facebook Likes on all blogs via the new Open Graph API. You don’t have to actually do anything to benefit. The like button appears after each post (depending on your theme) and, when clicked, will share a link back to your blog on that visitor’s Facebook page. Great way to get new eyeballs on your content.
Regator Gets a Fresh New Design
Regator has a new layout in the works that takes the site to a whole different level. It’s cleaner, much easier and intuitive to navigate, and it just pops. Regator helps you find all the hottest blogs on the topics you’re interested in. It’s a very useful tool for finding quality blogs. To get the invite code for the preview, check out the coverage on Mashable.
YouTube Rolls Out New Flash Player
As Apple and Adobe continue to argue about Flash support on Apple devices, Google has quietly revamped their Flash player. First , Google changed the site layout entirely and created a new HTML5 player for YouTube. Now, they are enhancing the existing Flash player. New features include and auto-hiding progress bar and technical details about the video you’re watching. Check NewTeevee for more details.
AOL Sells ICQ
Remember ICQ? It was Instant Messaging before IM’ing was popular. It was how many people talked to each other long before Twitter came along. You didn’t even get a username, just an ID number that people would use to connect with you. AOL bought it for $287 million in 1998 and has finally been able to sell it for $188 million. The new owner is DST, a Russian Telecom company. ICQ, while pretty much dead here in the US, is still hot in Russia and DST’s CEO Yuri Millner had this to say:
“The acquisition of ICQ is a strategic enhancement of our business in Russia and Eastern Europe. ICQ’s long-standing brand name and its sizeable loyal customer base together represent a very attractive opportunity to further strengthen our position in the region.”
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Steve Jobs Tells Us How He Really Feels About Flash
If you were ever curious about why there is no Flash on the iPad or why it’s not supported on your iPhone, this letter by Jobs should explain. He really goes in on Flash in detail, starting from the beginning of the relationship between Adobe and Apple. You read the entire letter here.
I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they say we want to protect our App Store – but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain.