YouTube Now Lets You Mark Embarrassing Videos As "Unlisted" [YouTube]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5537469/youtube-now-lets-you-mark-embarrassing-videos-as-unlisted

In the past, the only way to make YouTube videos semi-private was to limit them to being viewed by 25 people. Now you can mark your clips as "unlisted" and have a "secret" link instead. Here's how it works:

Now, you can mark your videos as "unlisted." This means only people who have the link to the video will be able to watch it. It won't appear in any of YouTube's public pages, in search results, on your personal channel or on the browse page. It's a private video, except you don't need a YouTube account to watch it and there is no limit to the number of people who can view it. You'll get a link when you upload the video and then it's up to you to decide whom to share it with. Unlisted is the perfect option for that class project, video from last summer's family reunion or your secret Broadway audition tape.

Of course, it sounds like you're still out of luck if your friends decide to share the link, but this is still a neat—and rather logical—privacy option to offer users. [YouTube Blog]

Update: Whoops! Looks like the feature hasn't gone live yet, so don't rush to upload videos you want to keep semi-private already.

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Diaspora: The Student-Made, Privacy-Respecting Facebook Alternative [Socialmedia]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5537502/diaspora-the-student+made-privacy+respecting-facebook-alternative

As Facebook completes its Galactic Senate-to-Imperial Empire transformation, four enterprising NYU students thought the world could do with a social networking service that wouldn't treat your personal information like advertiser catnip. So they started building Diaspora.

They conceive of it as the "privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network," one on which people share strictly on their own terms. Every user will have their own encrypted, customizable "node" on the Diaspora network, and personal data will reside on that user's computer, as opposed to a centralized hub.

The team members, who are profiled in today's New York Times*, posted a description of their idea on Kickstarter, a website that connects internet donors with underfunded projects, and they quickly met their goal of raising $10,000. As of now, the number's closer to $24,000.

The demand is clearly there; now what about the service? The team already has a skeletal version of the site running on their own machines, and now that school's wrapping up they're starting their "first sprint"—three months of intense coding with the aim of launching a working version of Diaspora by September, complete with:

* Full-fledged communications between Seeds (Diaspora instances)
* Complete PGP encryption
* External Service Scraping of most major services (reclaim your data)
* Version 1 of Diaspora's API with documentation
* Public GitHub repository of all Diaspora code

Of course, building a social network from the ground up is a tremendous task, and one that's much easier said than done. But Facebook's first lines of code were written in a dorm room, and it makes perfect sense that Diaspora—a project that looks to get back to social media's roots: sharing—would see its start there, too. Find out more about the project at JoinDiaspora.

*Bonus points to these mischievous fellows for sneaking some naughty bits of UNIX command line jokery into the New York Times, which the publication has cropped out of the online photo.

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Fourth generation iPhone teardown reveals A4 microprocessor

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/12/fourth-generation-iphone-teardown-reveals-a4-microprocessor/

See the marking on that chip with the Apple logo. No, not the "N90" codename indicating that it's from Apple's next generation GSM iPhone, the other text. If we're not mistaken then we're seeing "339S0084" on that chip from today's fourth-generation iPhone teardown. Guess what? According to Chipworks, that's the Apple A4 microprocessor fabricated by Samsung and the presumed work of Apple's acquired PA Semi and Intrinsity engineers. The "APL0398" text is also the same as that found on the iPad's speedy and power sipping A4 system-on-chip. The other markings differ however. What that means isn't entirely clear yet but we're digging.

Fourth generation iPhone teardown reveals A4 microprocessor originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 06:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Intel is down with tablets and razor thin netbooks, yo

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/12/intel-is-down-with-tablets-and-razor-thin-netbooks-yo/

With Microsoft's Courier canned, and HP's Slate suffering a debilitating identity crisis, what's a WinTel fan to do? Easy, wait for Computex set to kickoff on June 1st in Taipei. According to Intel's Mooly Eden, Vice President of PC Client Group and all around hip dude, that's when Intel will respond to ARM and its Apple iPad lovechild. Speaking at the Intel Investor Meeting on Tuesday, Mooly rapped:

"People ask me, are you serious about trying to participate in the tablet market? The answer is yes, we are going to have tablets... stay tuned for Computex. We are going to design silicon for this category and we are going to actively participate in this category."

Gauntlet, thrown. Mooly also took the opportunity to show off a razor thin netbook reference design that he expects to see on the market "sooner or later" sporting a hard working dual-core Pineview-class Atom CPU to support heavy-duty multi-tasking OSes -- the same chips that are apparently at the heart of Intel's tablet ambitions. See the incredibly thin netbook prototype after the break along with a few choice grabs of Mooly raising the roof.

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Intel is down with tablets and razor thin netbooks, yo originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 07:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Opera Mobile 10 lands on Maemo thanks to pro hobbyists

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/12/opera-mobile-10-lands-on-maemo-thanks-to-pro-hobbyists/

What do you know, even professional coders like to develop things on the side. Opera's mobile dev team has been working on a "hobby project" to bring its browser to the Maemo-sporting Nokia N900 and N8x0 devices, and today sees the first fruit of that labor in the form of a "preview build" release. Fredrik Ohrn warns us that there might not ever be a final version, since this is being done just for fun -- and particularly in light of the MeeGo future that awaits the platform -- but for now it's yet another option for your versatile mini-computer. Click the source for the download.

[Thanks, Jesus]

Opera Mobile 10 lands on Maemo thanks to pro hobbyists originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 08:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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