Digg’s new look
December 18, 2006
I just logged on to digg, and noticed the new design. Looks good!
They have also added Podcasts, which looks quite interesting, but I don’t have time now to look into it more.
Time announces Person of the Year: You
December 17, 2006
TIME announced today that 2006’s Person of the Year was “you.”
But look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story, one that isn’t about conflict or great men. It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It’s about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.
Featured are the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, among others.
Goodies from the link blog
December 14, 2006
Adobe to release Photoshop CS3 Beta
December 14, 2006
Today, Adobe announced that they were preparing to release the beta version of Photoshop CS3 tommorow, December 15 at Adobe Labs. The beta will be available with Universal Binary support for Macs, along with versions for Windows XP and Vista.
It is expected to be fully released some time this spring.
Packed with new features, Photoshop CS3 beta also includes a pre-release version of a major upgrade to Adobe Bridge, as well as a preview release of the all-new Adobe Device Central. Photoshop customers can use Adobe Device Central to design, preview, and test compelling mobile content, created specifically for smaller screens. This new tool, integrated in the Photoshop CS3 beta, simplifies and accelerates the creation of mobile content through a preview environment and built-in device profiles.
“This is an exciting time for the Mac, and Adobe wanted to ease the move to new Intel-based systems with a preview release of Photoshop CS3,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe. “We didn’t want to leave Windows customers out of the party, so the beta is available to everyone in the creative industry’s most passionate user community — no matter what their platform choice. We still have some surprises in store, but this beta gives customers an early chance to see the power of another great Photoshop release, optimized and tuned to run natively on the latest hardware and operating systems.”
Read the offical Adobe press release.
Update
It’s now available for download:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs3/
Flickr boosts up limit for users
December 12, 2006
Flickr has just majorly upped the monthly upload limits for both pro and free account users:
[pro accounts] will get unlimited uploads — the two gigabyte monthly limit is no more (yep, pro users have no limits on how many photos they can upload)! At the same time, we’ve upped the limit for free account members as well, from 20MB per month up to 100MB (yep, five times more)!
In a comparison with rival Zooomr, Flickr has now set the limits that free accounts will recieve the same upload limit as Zooomr free accounts (100MB), but the limit for pros has reached the level of unbeatable! Founder and lead developer Kristopher Tate announced Zooomr’s move in early November. 
More from the FlickrBlog.
