Monday Links: Second Thoughts
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Written By Reprise Media | August 28, 2006 | Share This
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On Friday, we mentioned that an MSN search index update was causing some strange bugs. It turns out that the problems were severe enough to warrant a rollback of the update Friday night, as Barry Schwartz explains, a tactic MSN also had to use way back in February. So any weirdness you noticed in the MSN listings over the weekend? That’s old weirdness. Now, on to some link goodness:
The best ‘Geo’ product since the Metro Photo-sharing site Flickr updated today with a very cool new GeoTagging feature, which allows you to sort pics according to location by dragging and dropping them on points in an interactive map. Okay, we admit it; we geek out pretty much whenever anyone adds an interactive map to anything, but this map has a satellite view and…it’s just really cool, OK? But if you don’t take our word for it, you can check out this very filmstrip-sounding presentation called “GeoTags and You.”
Look for this plot on Law & Order in about 4 years What do you get when you plug up the computers of a hospital and the Defense Department with debilitating adware? About three years, says this AP story. Young Christopher Maxwell, whose botnet hijinx ‘unintentionally’ got a bit out of hand, now faces three years in the slammer and another three of “supervised release” for unleashing his hacker assaults on tens of thousands of unwitting computers. Just as we always say, kids: crime doesn’t pay (except for the hundred thousand bucks Maxwell and his friends netted before they were nabbed).
Bangs, Bangs, you’re dead… Blog Search wasn’t the only thing Yahoo! pulled the plug on over the weekend. The original Yahoo! web series Richard Bangs Adventures, a year-old travel show, also met its demise, says MediaPost. Cause of death: failure to build an audience. Yahoo hasn’t given up on original video content entirely, though…yet; they’ve still got the front lines war reports of Kevin Sites in the Hotzone, and they say they’re looking for an Adventures replacement.
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