Today’s Web News – June 25, 2009

June 25, 2009 · Filed Under Facebook, FriendFeed, Microsoft, Sembang Geek, Today's Web News, Twitter, UStream.TV 

Compilation of today’s news about web.

Facebook Live Stream Box: Create Your Own CNN Obama Inauguration-Like Chat

The Facebook Live Stream Box is a social widget that lets users visiting your site or application share activity and comments in real time. The Live Stream Box works best when you are running a real-time event, like live streaming video for concerts, speeches, or webcasts, live Web chats, webinars, mass-multiplayer games, and more.

Permalink: Mashable | ReadWriteWeb | TechCrunch

Facebook Movie: Michael Cera and Shia LaBeouf Sought to Star?

Casting searches are already underway for the upcoming Facebook movie, “The Social Network” (a working title), says one report. Today CNet News fleshes out the details, claiming more insights into the potential cast…in particular, the question of who will play Facebook (Facebook) founder Mark Zuckerberg

Permalink: Mashable | CNet News

FriendFeed Now Allows File Sharing, Including MP3s

Users can click the posted links to download files. With MP3s specifically, an embedded media player appears in the post.

Permalink: FriendFeed Blog | ReadWriteWeb | TechCrunch

Facebook Adds Public Content Sharing

Facebook is announcing even more updates to Publisher, which will let users control the privacy settings around each status updates they post to Facebook. Beta testers, and eventually the rest of us, will now be able to specify whether they want to update the world or just a select group of friends.

Permalink: TechCrunch | Facebook Blog | Mashable

Microsoft, Outlook Is Broken, Says 6,000 Tweets (And Growing). Fix It.

While it is pretty much the standard email client, Microsoft Outlook has long had problems rendering HTML correctly in emails. And the latest version, Outlook 2010, due sometime in the next several months, doesn’t look like it’s going to be any better — and it actually may be worse. And a lot of users aren’t happy about it at all.

Permalink: TechCrunch | Mashable

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