One morning, Agarwal got an e-mail offering “4 figures” for the sale of his Chrome extension. The extension was only about an hour’s worth of work, so Agarwal agreed to the deal, the money was sent over PayPal, and he transferred ownership of the extension to another Google account. A month later, the new extension owners released their first (and so far only) update, which injected adware on all webpages and started redirecting links. Chrome’s extension auto-update mechanism silently pushed out the update to all 30,000 Add to Feedly users, and the ad revenue likely started rolling in.
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« Amazon.com knows you so well it wants to ship your next package before you order it ». (via Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It – Digits – WSJ)
Offrir l’illimité pour YouTube, et faire payer la consommation des autres services (Dailymotion, Vimeo, Wat…), c’est imposer de fait une barrière à l’entrée, et pénaliser les consommateurs qui font d’autres choix que celui de YouTube pour la consultation ou l’envoi de vidéos.
« Chalet Jade, dans l’Oberland bernois, où la star ne passe pas assez de temps, à en croire des images publiées par Johnny et Laetitia sur les réseaux sociaux ». (via LeTemps.ch | La présence de Johnny Hallyday à Gstaad soulève de nouveaux doutes)
Twitter is close to letting its users purchase products directly through the social network and is nearing a deal with payments startup Stripe to help it accept credit card payments from its users
« Today, we’re releasing a visualization to show which music has stood the test of time, and how genres and artists have risen and fallen in popularity. The Music Timeline uses aggregated data from Google Play Music to show the changes in music genres over the decades ». (via Explore the history of Pop — and Punk, Jazz, and Folk — with the Music Timeline)
Une vidéo de Dieudonné mise en ligne sur YouTube et dans laquelle on voyait l’humoriste chanter Shoananas, se moquant de la Shoah, a été mise hors ligne, a annoncé jeudi 16 janvier à l’AFP une source proche du dossier.
A San Diego traffic court has thrown out the case against a woman who authorities said was driving while wearing Google Glass.
« We’re now testing a smart contact lens that’s built to measure glucose levels in tears using a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor that are embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material. We’re testing prototypes that can generate a reading once per second. We’re also investigating the potential for this to serve as an early warning for the wearer, so we’re exploring integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed above or below certain thresholds ». (via Official Blog: Introducing our smart contact lens project)
Pipeline Winter 2013 (par Eric Sterman) (with DJI | Phantom 2 Vision)
(Source: http://vimeo.com/)