Diginews - Youtube testing 3D videos - Facebook releases 3 new ad filters - Wiki painting row - Amazon remotely deletes books on Kindle - Icahn backs new Yahoo MS deal
Ramakrishnan Laxman
Youtube testing 3D videos
a YouTube
engineer is playing around with the addition of 3D viewing capabilities
to web videos on the insanely popular video destination site, reports Search Engine Roundtable.
The news site's Barry Schwartz discovered a recent thread on the YouTube help forum and found out an employee named Pete is experimenting with the 3D viewing feature on his 20% free fiddling time:
Facebook releases 3 new ad filters
Facebook has released three new filters for its ads program, equipping advertisers to make addressable audiences more granular.
Connections lets advertisers target the members of groups, pages, or events they own. They can also target users that aren't already members, meaning ads encouraging either participation in a group, or joining a group, go directly to the most relevant user without any overlap.
The other two filters empower advertisers to target by Location and Birthday. Locations lets you target by country or multiple countries; and Birthday lets you send specific messages to users on their birthdays. more
Wikipedia painting row escalates
The battle over Wikipedia's use of images from a British art gallery's website has intensified. The online encyclopaedia has accused the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) of betraying its public service mission. But the gallery has said it needs to recoup the £1m cost of its digitisation programme and claims Wikipedia has misrepresented its position. more
Amazon Remotely Deletes Unauthorized Kindle E-books
In a move that angered customers and generated waves of online pique, Amazon remotely deleted some digital editions of the books from the Kindle devices of readers who had bought them.
An Amazon spokesman, Drew Herdener, said in an e-mail message that the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function. "When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers' devices, and refunded customers," he said. more