Darwars Ambush - a video combat training game that you will never play…

… unless, hmmmm, you’ll join the US Army just for the fun of playing it. ;-)

DARWARS Ambush! provides military training based on experiences of personnel in the field, and includes capabilities to ensure the fast capture and dissemination of lessons learned. The initial application has involved convoy-operations training, but Ambush! is beginning to be applied in other areas, including platoon level mounted infantry tactics, dismounted operations, Rules-of-Engagement training, cross-cultural communications training, and has the flexibliity to apply in other areas as well.

DARWARS Ambush!

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Youtube player goes wide

We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. This new, wider player is in a widescreen aspect ratio which we hope will provide you with a cleaner, more powerful viewing experience. And don’t worry, your 4:3 aspect ratio videos will play just fine in this new player.

Source youtube blog.

For 2-3 years we heard more and more about wide. Hardware (as in laptops, monitors and teleisions) is going widescreen. Many online tvs are talking and imprementing the wide format. DVD Movies are wide. Even Adobe Premiere is working with wide formats! :-)

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Youtube is going LIVE in 4 hours!

I don’t know about you but I think this is historical. Registered on 15-Feb-2005 Youtube succeeded to be one of the top3 world wide websites, based on Alexa’s reports.

Youtube Live Page

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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King sold 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours last week!

Ladies and gentleman, we have a new all-time record for PC games! World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King sold 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours last week!

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

Before going public with the official press release quote, I remind you that you can download WOW - Wrath of the Lich King Fan Site Kit and play it for free ;-).

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inLinks.com - a brand new advertising product for those interested in selling text links on their blogs

Just arrived in my inbox from TLA Pub Services .

TLA Pub Services text-link-ads.com

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Gmail goes color adding 30 themes!

Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven’t been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we’re launching today, there’s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company.
Source GMail blog.

Gmail Themes

[video] Voice Search on Google Mobile App for iPhone will be available today!

Google’s voice search software works only with iPhones, but the company plans to make it available to other phones.
via NYTimes.

Google’s voice search software works only with iPhones

Youtube’s beta uploader and Multi-Video Upload tool

Youtube launched in september the beta uploader. You would say “hey! why do we need another uploader tool?”.

Youtube - broadcast yourself

Well, the answers are simple and are coming from Youtube itself.

Upload up to 10 videos at a time

Any video format

Up to 1 GB in size.

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Gmail voice and video chat

“Say hello to Gmail voice and video chat” is the latest article on Gmail Official Blog posted next to the Google Software Engineer Justin Uberti’s foto, testing the new GMail plugin.

Gmail voice and video chat

Download GMail voice and video chat.

This is an interesting but normal move for Gmail. It’s interesting because they integrate this plugin with the small Gmail chat window instead of (the dead) GTalk application as every internet person could think, but in the end it’s normal because, hey!, the video-era begun couple of years ago. There was about time!

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