Category Archives: web

Twitter will stop the external shorten URL services

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Adrian Pintilie

In a somehow, not surprise move, Twitter announced pre-announced that they will soon allow only the use of their shorten URL services. The only negative aspect i find to this action is that we will not be able to have … Continue reading →

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Bad day for the Romanian software industry

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Adrian Pintilie

A bad update on the Romanian antivirus BitDefender virus database has locked down literally thousands of users worldwide. It appears that an update on the BitDefender antivirus database has triggered the software to quarantine or delete critical Windows files making … Continue reading →

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YouTube offers automatic translation captioning to all videos

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Adrian Pintilie

YouTube will start automatically captioning videos on its site. The technology processes the audio feed, using the speech-recognition technology. At the present, YouTube can only “understand” spoken English to auto-generate the caption track. However, Google’s translation services can also take … Continue reading →

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The demise of Facebook and other social networks

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Adrian Pintilie

The great thing about any technology is that it’s obsolete. Right from the start, it has an expiration date. We don’t know the date, their creators don’t know the date, heck’ the stock brokers would pay a lot to find … Continue reading →

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Why Google Buzz will only make some szzzmall buzzzz

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Adrian Pintilie

I expected Google to get a direct interest into Facebook (less on Twitter, whom yet i don’t get it) and that because the sheer amount of potential advertising revenue. It came to late into the game and now Facebook is … Continue reading →

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