The Morning Reboot:
- The media giants are making good on their promise to deliver a YouTube knock-off. The LATimes reports that News Corp. and NBC plan to announce a new video service today that sounds pretty much like YouTube — pro production shows plus clips that users can remix and share with friends. Expect this to be in the news again inside of year when it collapses from lack of interest.
- The KDE developers have released a timeline/roadmap for KDE 4.0. The first betas will be available toward the end of June with the final release scheduled for October 23. KDE 4 will feature, among other things, improved speed through Qt 4, integration of hardware through Solid, and completely new artwork experience called Oxygen.
- Google's Picasa web photo service has added a data API. The Picasa Web Albums data API is part of the GData family so if you're familiar with other GData APIs you should be able to use the Picasa API with no trouble. The API isn't quite as robust as the Flickr API, but it's a step in the right direction.
- Zoho has launched a new feature, Zoho Meeting, currently in private beta, that lets users conduct meetings online. Most of the key features mirror those of WebEx including the ability to control remote desktops, chat, email the host, and view meeting details. The new service is cross platform and utilizes ActiveX on Windows, and Java and Flash on Mac and Linux.
