Daily Archives: July 21, 2008

Qik Goes Public

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“Qik, the video service that streams live feeds from your mobile phone, has finally launched its public beta. The site has also introduced a number of new features to the service, including support for restricted group access to videos, self-service event streams, and a new embeddable player.

“The beta will support a wide variety of phones on AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint, including support for software on the Windows Mobile platform that began testing in June. Qik says that it will be continually adding new phones to the supported list, which you can view here.

“The site has also implemented support for Groups, which allow users to select who can upload and view selected clips. Among the included privacy options are allowance for public groups, which anyone can post to, restricted groups, which allow anyone to view (but only select users to post), and a private view, which restricts viewing and uploading to a specified group of users.” (thanks to Techcrunch)

PS: Hmm, Qik’s certainly fashionable right now.

 

The Friendfeedization Of Facebook

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“As Facebook continues to roll out the full version of its new user profiles, it’s becoming clear that their primary goal isn’t, as they said in May, to simply create a cleaner user experience and allow developers to have more meaningful engagement points with users. It’s more about highlighting new content relevant to the user and fostering conversations about that content. And the result is that the Facebook home page looks an awful lot like the exponentially smaller activity stream aggregation service called Friendfeed.

“The new site will likely launch publicly on Monday. Until then, anyone can log in at www.new.facebook.com to see the new profile. The biggest visual change people will see on the home page – the combination of status updates, wall posts and news feed items into a single content stream. On the profile page status updates and other mini-feed items are also combined, and users are shown a big text box at the top encouraging them to update their status. For more details on the updates, see Inside Facebook and All Facebook.

“This is just the beginning of the news for Facebook this week as they prepare for their second developer conference on Wednesday. The company is clearly looking to fine tune the Facebook experience to spur growth, particularly in the U.S. and other mature markets where they still trail MySpace.” (thanks once again to the great people at Techcrunch for this report)

Hmm, sounds interesting.

Helping me, helping you with tax

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HMRC website fault might result in unnecessary tax worries

18 July 2008

“The ICAEW warns people to take care sending their second payment of tax owed to the HMRC for the 2006/2007 tax year if they have already filed their 2007/2008 self-assessment tax return.”

And from me, on a smaller scale:

1. The employer helpline number times incorrectly states its open to 22:00 when it should be 20:00, on the website within online services, once you’ve logged in, and then sought help.

2. Looking forward to see how HMRC re-calculate my tax/NI seeing as both my P45s were incorrect.