The popular social bookmarking service Del.icio.us launched today. It’s a complete redesign of its service. The company added very few new features since when it was bought by Yahoo in 2005. The new site is mostly focused on enhancing the speed of the service and improving its search capabilities. Del.icio.us can also now be reached at delicious.com and will start using this as its standard URL.
Yuil is a mashup of Yahoo search results (using their BOSS platform). The interface looks like that of the alleged Google killer cuil. The service runs on Google App Engine. BOSS is unique among search engine APIs, giving developers full level of control over results generated by Yahoo’s search engine.
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Music lovers who can not attend the Newport Folk and Jazz festival will be able to watch part of the concert online. NPR Music, part of National Public Radio, announced Wednesday that it would stream selected portion from both festivals online. The webcasts will be archived and available on-demand for future use.
Symantec on Monday opened public beta testing of a new plug-in called Norton Safe Web. The tool is used to rate a website that will let people easily see what sites are legitimate and which are malicious. It is also going to warn the users before they are able to open a malicious site. The software itself is available only for Norton users, but they are also offering a manual service in which you can submit a site to see if any information is available on it.
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Aol is cutting down some of its internet services in order to boost the finances. The company is going to put out Bluestring, a site to share videos, music, and photos; Xdrive, a general-purpose online storage service; and AOL Pictures, where people could store and share photos, according to a July 14 memo from Kevin Conroy, AOL’s executive vice president of products and marketing. These services with AIM World and MyMobile will be discontinued because they didn’t get much popularity.
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Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), a provider of online movie rental subscription services, reported a 4% growth in its second-quarter profit, as the company added more subscribers and incurred lower subscriber acquisition costs. Further, the movie rental company raised its earnings target for the full-year, while providing financial forecasts for its third and fourth quarters.
Comcast subscribers that wanted to share files with the aid of BitTorrent trackers found that the Internet provider had imposed a certain traffic limit. Kevin J. Martin, Chairman of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) said that the previously mentioned company will not be fined, but measures will be taken to ensure such a thing will not happen again.
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