Cops use YouTube?

Look at this intresting new use of You Tube.
A video clip posted on YouTube has helped Canadian police in the investigation of a nightclub murder.

The Cops from the southern Canadian city of Hamilton posted a clip from club surveillance cameras onto YouTube in an appeal for information.

The clip was subsequently viewed by more the 34,000 people. The footage showed people arriving for a Sean Price hip-hop concert last month. Ryan Milner, 22, was knifed to death in a car park after the concert.

On Tuesday a baseball cap-wearing man seen on the clip, wanted for questioning, turned himself into the authorities. George Gallow, 24, of Hamilton, has subsequently been charged with the manslaughter of Milner and the attempted murder of another unnamed man, The Canadian Press reports.

"This is the first time Hamilton police have utilised video web posting in an investigation, and to the best of its knowledge, the first time that law enforcement has ever used it as a direct investigative tool," staff sergeant Jorge Lasso told reporters at a news conference during which the arrest was announced, Reuters reports. "There is little doubt that the extra media generated by the use of YouTube contributed to the fact that this man turned himself in," he added.
Canadian police said they used YouTube rather than more conventional Crimewatch-style TV programs because of its popularity with young people, such as the concert goers they were seeking to help them as witnesses. The surveillance footage has since been pulled from the site.

So is this the beginning of a new use of You Tube?

So many Websites!

How big is the Internet? How many websites are there?
According to Netcraft.com's December 2006 Web Server Survey, there are a cool, 105,244,649 sites and the total sites for 2006 are 30.9 million in number , while it was a mere 17.5 million the previous year.
In percentage terms, the Web grew by 41.5 percent this year.




BLOGS
The Technorati State of the Blogosphere in August reported that they are now tracking over 50 Million Blogs, the Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago and is doubling in size every 200 days!

Amazing how the web grows.

Do we need another search engine?

Jimmy Wales , the founder of Wikipedia has announced plans for Wikiasari, an Internet search engine which will compete with Yahoo and Google.

But the main point in question is wether we need a new search engine, when we have the likes of Google and Yahoo? .
The search engine market is quite crowded with players like Google, Yahoo, Overture, Alltheweb, Altavista....crowding the web, and then comes this announcement.




What present day search engines have is an algorithmic searches that can sometimes be easily manipulated(through Keywords..etc..
).
Wiksari,proposes a new approach, It will be something like Wikipedia in that user-based human judgment will play an important role.
So I think it will be upon the users to select which site is usefull and all. Sounds Good.
Supporting this is the experience of Wales in managing the huge database of Wikipedia.

A provisional launch is planned for the first quarter of 2007, according to Wales.

Contrary to what was reported in The Times, the Wikiasari project is not partnered with Amazon.com. Wikia, another project with Wales at the helm, has received project funding from Amazon.com.

What do you people think? will " Wikia" be able to sustain in the market?

A pic I liked!

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