drag2share: eHo.st Is an Image Hosting Service That Gives Image Authors Due Credit [Webapps]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5836570/ehost-is-an-image-hosting-service-that-gives-image-authors-due-credit

There's no shortage of image hosting and photo sharing websites, but newcomer eHo.st is worth a look for its ethical strong author attribution features, no image size limits, and clean design.

eHo.st has a very unique feature that credits the original author by using Tin Eye to verify the original creators of any image that gets over 10,000 views—a plus for people who are frustrated when their images get stolen. The site seems very dedicated to helping image creators:

If you can prove you are the author and your image receives more than 1,000 views, we will both link to your page with the new Google rel=author tag AND put a canonical tag on the page to point to your page so any link value gets passed onto your site.

For all users, the site's clean design—you can add a "?mode=blank" to any image to only focus on the image, and ads only load after the image finishes loading—is also a nice draw.

As a "Community Owned" image hosting site, eHo.st is selling "nodes" of the service for $10 a month and will in return share revenues with owners. Learn more about this interesting and different image hosting service by hitting up the link below.

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drag2share: Queued.at Lets You Schedule Updates to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn [Webapps]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5836873/queuedat-lets-you-schedule-updates-to-twitter-facebook-and-linkedin

If you use social networks to share news or update friends on where you'll be and what's going on with you, it can be tempting to overwhelm your followers on Twitter or colleagues on LinkedIn with updates. Instead use Queued.at to schedule and stagger those updates so no one gets sick of you.

Queued.at is similar to previously mentioned Buffer, another service that allows you to stagger and schedule your updates over a period of time. The difference is that while Buffer makes it easy to snip and save items from the Web, Queued.at makes you add entries manually, one at a time. At the same time, Queued.at is free (at least during beta,) tracks clicks and retweets so you can see how well your message is getting out, and you can schedule as many updates as you choose.

They do offer an "enterprise" plan for $99/month, which allows you the ability to post to multiple Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, and offers more analytics. Still, the free plan will be enough for almost all users who just want an easy way to schedule posts without overwhelming their friends and followers.

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drag2share: Toshiba's Wireless SD Goes Both Ways [Storage]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5836569/toshibas-wireless-sd-goes-both-ways

Wireless SD cards are a smart product for forgetful/lazy/busy people. Toshiba's new FlashAir card is the first which allows you to transfer data both to and from the card—an idea that's got a lot of potential.

Eye-Fi's wireless cards are awesome. They allow you to automatically beam photos to your computer over Wi-Fi, and in the absence of a wireless network, to blast them directly to any device that can connect to Wi-Fi. Toshiba's FlashAir card does the same, but can both send and receive data wirelessly. If the technology catches on and there are two compliant devices—cameras for example—in range, they'll be able to exchange data as well.

The FlashAir is a logical evolution of wireless SD. The question is what exactly would you use it for? Toshiba clearly envisions people sharing photos between cameras, but that's actually not the best idea. Pro photographers will tell you that shooting photos with multiple cameras on one card can lead to corrupt files. Wireless hard drives already exist. Perhaps these cards could be useful as more tablets with expandable memory are released. We've got some time to figure it out: Toshiba has only demoed a 8GB version, pricing and availability are TBA. [Toshiba]

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drag2share: Some Guy Pranked YouTube Into Taking Down Justin Bieber's Official Videos Because of a Fake Copyright Claim [YouTube]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5836751/some-guy-pranked-youtube-into-taking-down-justin-biebers-official-videos-because-of-a-fake-copyright-claim

YouTube is big fat no fun having missy when it comes to copyright rules. They're so afraid of pissing somebody off (and getting a lawsuit) that they'll even pull official videos now. Like today, when a prankster submitted a copyright claim against Justin Bieber's Vevo and YouTube took down his page.

It effected more than little Biebs too, iLCreation filed copyright claims against Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Bruno Mars and other artists and some of their videos were pulled immediately too. How does this happen? Well, YouTube didn't even need to see any form of verification that iLCreation had the right to request the take downs.

Vevo's statement:

"Someone is making false copyright claims against the Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga channels and YouTube has blocked access to the videos as a result. We are working with YouTube to resolve ASAP."

It took a few hours for the videos to be restored but it's amazing YouTube's system allowed the videos to be taken down in the first place. It's VEVO! It's Justin Bieber! What will all the tweenies do without their boytoy's videos? [DMW Media via Geekosystem, Image Credit: Popblerd]

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drag2share: Would You Read The News While Brushing Your Teeth? [Science]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5836773/would-you-read-the-news-while-brushing-your-teeth

The New York Times Company's Research and Development Lab studies novel ways to deliver news to people. Their latest creation is a bathroom mirror that uses Microsoft Kinect to detect motion and deliver a stream of news while you comb your hair or put on your makeup.

Besides news, the technology will let you send emails, shop online or add calendar entries via your mirror. And it uses the Kinect to interact with the user via motion and voice commands. It's an interesting concept, but, really, is the bathroom the best place to use this technology?

The average person spends a total of one hour per day in the bathroom and most of that time is spent on the commode or in the shower, not in front of the mirror. The amount of time you spend brushing your teeth is just a tiny part of your day.

The bathroom is also a huge breeding ground for microorganisms, especially if you flush with the seat up. Every flush release a plume of virus and bacteria into the air that disperse and land on your sink, walls and your newly installed interactive mirror. Kinda gross, no? [Nieman Journalism Lab]

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