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Sep 02 2008

Google Chrome - New Browser from Google

Published by Karl Ufert under Announcements, Web News, web 2.0

Google Chrome IconIn its never-ending quest to deliver technical innovation, renewed behaviors and refreshed revenue streams, today Google launched a Beta version of their new “open source” Internet browser.

The browser is called Google Chrome. Promises are faster browsing, integration with the open source community Google Gears and a Javascript VM. The browser will also change the way users browse content–with a revised tab structure and a ready-at-hand gallery of your most visited sites as you launch the browser.

On the heels of the launch of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, also in Beta format and available for public download, Google Chrome is following suit with special new privacy features; principally an “incognito” session/window which enables users to browse without passing browsing data to a computer.

This certainly creates a lot of dialogue about the future of browsers

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Aug 25 2008

Big News for Conviva

Published by Karl Ufert under Announcements, Digital Media, Web News, video, web 2.0

Conviva Graphic

Today’s Contentinople announced that the video/multimedia platform, CONVIVA, received a $20M B Round funding. See the article by Contentinople writer, Ryan Lawler.

According to the article, Conviva received the funding to “target broadcasters and sports leagues that want to broadcast live video on the Internet” with “a brand new and built from the ground up” platform for live web video delivery. This is important news for digital distribution. It demonstrates significant movement in the henceforth slow-to-market aim to make the Internet the central vehicle for complex media access.

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Aug 01 2008

Mitra Creative Launches Lizalde Design Website — Ricky Lizalde of “Project Runway” Season 4 (Bravo TV)

Lizalde Design Website Homepage

Our firm, Mitra Creative,  just launched a small but important site for Ricky Lizalde, one of the Season 4 participants on Bravo TV’s celebrated Fashion Design show, “Project Runway”. The site is for Ricky’s new Fashion Lingerie line, LIZALDE.

Ricky Lizalde

Ricky succeeded to progress through “Project Runway” Season 4 until late in the season and was distinguished by his win of the show’s “Levi’s Challenge”. The launch of his new Lingerie line follows his work for such fashion giants as Vera Wang, Oscar De La Renta and others.

We wish Ricky luck on the new line and are thrilled to have begun what we hope to be a long and strategic business alliance with the design of his website.

See Ricky’s video intro. from Bravo TV’s ”Project Runway” website:

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Jul 28 2008

Cuil - New Search Engine by Ex-Googlers

Published by Karl Ufert under Announcements, Search Marketing, Web News, web 2.0

Cuil Homepage

Former Google employees just launched a new Search Engine–Cuil (www.cuil.com). According to a Reuters article today, Cuil, which is being launched to compete with the Search giant, “goes beyond prevailing search techniques that focus on Web links and audience traffic patterns and instead analyzes the context of each page and the concepts behind each user search request.”

There is new layout and “psychology” to Cuil. It enables searchers to reference cross-topics in a more graphically engaging, social networking-intelligent manner.

Read more of the Reuters article (via Yahoo! Tech News) here.

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Jul 10 2008

Yahoo! Search 2.0

Published by Karl Ufert under Announcements, Web News, web 2.0

Contentinople announced today that Yahoo! will open its search to external developers as “search-as-service”. This is an important trend: opening their search code and enabling search customization. Access to tools which will support truly personalized search is revolutionary, similar to the social media phenomenon of YouTube where video content became inherently socialized.

Read the article on Contentinople here.

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