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Mikogo launches free screen sharing for Skype

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Free online meeting tool Mikogo announced its partnership with Skype with the launch of the Mikogo Skype Extra. A simple download, with no installations and at no cost, allows Skype users to collaborate with their contacts via four forms of communication: voice, chat, video, and now screen sharing.

Organizing or joining a free Mikogo Skype online meeting is a simple straight-forward process with no registrations, installations, or configurations.

The addition of Mikogo’s free screen sharing to Skype is expected to impact on the way people and businesses worldwide go about their correspondence and Internet collaboration.

Originally posted on September 19, 2008 @ 7:16 am

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Stack Overflow Launches

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Joel Spolsky has recently announced the launch of Stack Overflow, a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers.

Every question in Stack Overflow is like the Wikipedia article for some extremely narrow, specific programming question. How do I enlarge a fizzbar without overwriting the user’s snibbit? This question should only appear once in the site. Duplicates should be cleaned up quickly and redirected to the original question.

Some people propose answers. Others vote on those answers. If you see the right answer, vote it up. If an answer is obviously wrong (or inferior in some way), you vote it down. Very quickly, the best answers bubble to the top. The person who asked the question in the first place also has the ability to designate one answer as the “accepted” answer, but this isn’t required. The accepted answer floats above all the other answers.

The site looks like a mashup between Digg, Yahoo! Answers, Wikipedia and developer forums, not only in appearance, but also in its purpose. Stack Overflow was conceptualized with the aim of helping programmers quickly find valid and reasonable answers to the most pressing development concerns.

Joel cited the concern of finding the best answers without having to wade through pages and pages of information that are either no longer valid (because of how software and development platforms evolve through time), incorrect, or simply not the best way of doing things.

Stack Overflow has been running in beta for a few weeks, and is now open to the public. Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood also have a regular Stack Overflow podcast on software development.

Originally posted on September 16, 2008 @ 9:55 pm

LinkedIn launches LinkedIn Audience Network

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LinkedIn has launched the LinkedIn Audience Network, helping marketers reach specific audiences of influential and affluent professionals across hundreds of high quality brand-name publishers.

Hundreds of top-tier advertisers have already run campaigns on LinkedIn.com to deliver advertising based on the rich and accurate information that LinkedIn members publicly share in their LinkedIn profiles including company size, industry, profession, and seniority. Advertisers can target LinkedIn’s inCrowds – pre-defined and scalable audience segments such as Corporate Executives, Small Business Professionals and IT Professionals – or they can work with LinkedIn to define their own custom audience segments. The LinkedIn Audience Network allows advertisers to extend their reach and build frequency across a wider set of sites.

The LinkedIn Audience Network will benefit partner publishers as well as LinkedIn members. Publishers will enjoy strong monetization of their unsold inventory based on the premium prices afforded by the rich targeting capabilities. LinkedIn members will benefit from a relevant and well-targeted advertising experience across the web.

Originally posted on September 15, 2008 @ 4:40 pm

Disney.com break all-time traffic records in August

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Disney.com broke records this summer with new site traffic and “time spent online” records in August.

Last month the Disney Online network of sites scored more than 32.3 million unique visitors according to comScore Media Metrix, beating the most recent site record set in June by more than two million unique visitors and representing a 26 percent increase over the prior year.

Disney Online also set new all-time records in August in total time spent on the site and total visits with:

• More than 1.7 billion total minutes spent on Disney Online in August besting the site’s previous record set in July by 16 percent and representing a 55 percent increase over the prior year.

• Record breaking site visits totaling close to 152 million, topping Disney Online’s previous record set in June by 12 million and representing 49 percent year-over-year growth.

That must be a lot of kids looking for Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers.

Originally posted on September 17, 2008 @ 11:36 am

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Are you the world’s biggest electronophiles?

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Does your significant other wake up to find you Twittering in the middle of the night from your iPhone? Have you been caught playing your DS at the family dinner table? Have you drained your children’s college fund to pimp out the family room entertainment center? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you may be suffering from electronophilia.

Ciao.com, a multi-million-strong online community that critically reviews and rates millions of products and services for the benefit of its members and users, is looking for the world’s biggest electronophiles to win cool prizes from Apple, Nintendo and Sony.

Ciao is challenging tech lovers to prove their electronophilia by submitting video reviews (as well as original text reviews) of favorite tech gadgets – anything from video games to MP3 players and everything in between.

A committee of professional electronophiles will be monitoring the Ciao.com community for extraordinary reviews. Entrants must include the word “electronophile” in the title of their video and text reviews in order to be eligible.

Three of Ciao.com’s “Electronophile” contest winners will receive one of the following prizes: An Apple 8G iPod Touch, an approximate $299 retail value; A Nintendo DS Light handheld gaming console, an approximate $299 retail value; A Sony Cybershot DSC-W120 digital camera, an approximate $179 retail value.

Originally posted on September 16, 2008 @ 9:27 am