Microsoft Updates Live Mesh: Mac and Windows Mobile Clients

Today, Microsoft will release a major update for Live Mesh, its consumer oriented cloud storage and synchronization service. Among these updates are more granular permissions for sharing folders, better support for large monitors during remote connections, and support for drag and drop between the online desktop and local devices. Live Mesh is now also available for Mac OS X (10.5.1 or later) and Windows Mobile devices. Microsoft also announced the worldwide availability of Live Mesh.

Mac users can now sign in to Live Mesh, go to ‘Add Device,’ and click the “limited Mac Tech Preview now available link.” However, it looks like Microsoft is only releasing this as a limited beta so far and will only allow a limited (and unspecified) number of Mac clients to connect to Live Mesh at first.

You can find a more information on Live Mesh blog

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Google is Now an OpenID Provider

OpenID, an increasingly popular mechanism for creating and managing a single identity across the Internet. On Monday, Microsoft announced that it would give every Windows Live user an OpenID account, and today, Google announced a very similar plan.

Google will allow web services to join a limited test of an API based on the OpenID 2.0 protocol that will give Google Account users the option to sign in to websites with their Google credentials and without having to sign up for a new account at those sites.

Among the launch partners for this new API are Zoho, Plaxo, and Buxfer.

Facebook Overtakes MySpace

Facebook vs. MySpace (click image to view full size)

Facebook blew past MySpace in visitors from across the world back in April, but the global gap continues to widen. According to the latest figures from comScore, Facebook attracted 161.1 million unique visitors worldwide in September, compared 117.9 million for MySpace. For Facebook, that number was up from 4.7 percent from the 153.9 million people who visited the social network in August. Visitors to MySpace declined 1.6 percent globally from 119.8 million.

The global gap between the two is now 43.2 million visitors. To put that in perspective that is a tad more than the number of people who visit Facebook in the U.S. alone, which in September was 41.4 million. MySpace still dominates in the U.S., with 73.0 million visitors in September.

MySpace argues that it is more interested in winning globally in the top ad markets, and in general it is winning in countries such as the U.S., Germany, and Japan. But Facebook is leading in France and the UK. Those are the top five markets.

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Scate Releases Ignite 4 Home Edition – Web Videos, Social Media…

Scate Ignite 4 Home

Create Web Videos, Photo Albums and Media Presentations for YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, iPod, Blogs & More…

Scate Technologies, Inc. (Scate) has released Scate Ignite 4 Home, a personal version of its popular Scate Ignite 4 social media creation software with publishing options for dozens of social media sites and devices. Scate Ignite 4 Home users can now create HD web videos, HD web cam recordings, narrated photo albums and multi-media presentations for iPod, YouTube, podcasts, Facebook, MySpace, Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP), Blackberry, Treo, Windows Media Player, QuickTime and many more. Scate Ignite 4 Home can even be used to create syndicated podcasts from the kitchen table, den or home office!

Scate Ignite 4 Home makes it easier than ever to transform media content, such as screenshots, home movies, PowerPoint slides, digital camera pictures, webcam recordings, text, audio and music into seamless presentations, videos and tutorials and then instantly share them around the world on just about any media sharing site or player. Scate Ignite 4 Home is being offered at an affordable price of $49.97.

Scate Ignite 4 Home includes a free account at Scate’s own media sharing website (IgniteCAST.com) for podcast syndication, blog posting, message board embedding and desktop sidebars. IgniteCAST.com sharing options include iTunes, iTunes Store, iTunes U, iGoogle, WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Orkut, Friendster, Twitter, Bebo, Tagged, Xanga, Live Spaces, Windows Vista Sidebar, Yahoo Widgets and many others.

A free download and more information is available at http://www.scateignite.com