Via Read/Write/Web (“YouTube Launching Live Video This Year, Chen Confirms“, 28 February 2008):
“YouTube co-founder Steve Chen has confirmed that the service will use Google’s vast resources to launch live streaming functionality this year, according to a video interview on Sarah Meyer’s new show Pop17.”
This is definitely a story to keep an eye on. With YouTube slated to enter the rapidly crowding live streaming niche later this year, currently populated by the likes of Yahoo! Live and Ustream.tv, the field is going to top out extremely quickly and will give …

Via @kolson29:
“here’s a video of the twitter craziness from last night http://s3.jeremybanks.ca/cr… about 1 hour ago from web“
The video is titled simply “Crazy Twitter” and what it depicts is simply astonishing. This screen capture was made during yet another Twitter meltdown last night in which users were randomly gaining access to each other’s accounts. Posts could be made, account details viewed, and passwords changed; anything was possible.
This is a security nightmare for the application to the extent …

Please Note: This post relates to an Edublogs outage that took place in 2008, not the one from December 2009.
The last 24 hours have not been kind to Edublogs.org. James Farmer has indicated that over a period of 4 to 6 hours “a bug between the new forums features and caching caused quite a few blogs to time-out.”  This prevented some users from viewing their blogs.
[NB: My initial introduction indicated the outage lasted 24 hours.  Farmer has since clarified this is not the case.  Apologies for the misprint.]
This is …

Via Faces of Web 2.0 (“Odiogo translates your blog posts into podcasts“, 22 February 2008) I’ve just discovered the amazing Odiogo (pronounced “audio-go”).
Odiogo is an amazing innovation which enables you to have your text-based blog posts automatically translated into spoken audio recordings. The posts are then made available online as streaming audio or MP3 download.
In light of its feed-based nature, the recordings are also recognised by media players such as iTunes, Juice, and Windows Media Player. So your readers now have the option of listening to your posts …

Via Mashable (“Google Talk Turns Into a Chat Widget“, 27 February 2008):
“A new Google Talk feature called Chatback lets you put up a widget on your website which lets visitors send messages directly to your Google Talk account. Your visitors, however, don’t need a Google talk account; they can simply start writing messages directly into the widget. The chat opens up in a new window, so visitors can leave the actual site and keep chatting.”
Mashable’s statement that the new Google Talk feature “lets visitors send messages directly to your Google …