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 …