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- Lonelygirl15 gets some "exclusive" MySpace company
- The season finale of the hit web video series, Lonelygirl15, is to be available exclusively on MySpace. Lonelygirl15 already has an ad-revenue sharing deal with YouTube and Revver, so this is a major coup for the News Corp-owed social networking site. And in an interesting and innovative twist, the final...
- Tags: YouTube, Video Sharing, Social Networks, MySpace, Bebo
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Viacom to buy Last.fm?; Sony launches YouTube competitor; Atari plans its own virtual world; USAToday's social strategy sees results
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…Viacom to buy Last.fm? The rumor mill is buzzing with news that Viacom is far in negotiations to purchase London web 2.0 poster-child, Last.fm (the leading music-based social network). "The...
- Tags: Music, Second Life, Social Networks, The Social Web weekly, Virtual Worlds, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- YouTube spotlights presidential candidates; CBS excludes YouTube/MySpace from content deals; Can YouTube Hear Me? (update); and more
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…YouTube invites presidential candidates into the spotlight. YouTube is putting each of the US presidential hopefuls into the Spotlight; a weekly event on the video sharing site where each candidate...
- Tags: YouTube, Widgets, Video Sharing, Social Networks, Politics 2.0, MySpace, Joost, Friendster
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Google Maps goes social; Copyright infringement on YouTube exaggerated? Washingtonpost.com to embrace UGC; Facebook Diaries goes live
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Google Maps goes social. Google Maps has launched a new feature called MyMaps which the company says "makes it quick and easy to create your own custom Google Maps...
- Tags: YouTube, The Social Web weekly, Google, Facebook, Video Sharing, Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Digg gets more political; USA Today disowns readers; Wordpress supports OpenID
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…Digg gets more political. Not sure how I missed this, but the social news site, Digg, has added a new section dedicated to stories covering the 08 US presidential election....
- Tags: Social networking, Blogging, OpenID, USA Today, Wordpress, Digg
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Barack Obama launches social network
- Barack Obama, the Democrat presidential hopeful, has launched his own social network which hes calling MyBarackObama.com. The site invites supporters to create a profile, blog their campaign experiences, plan and attend events, find other supporters, and help raise funds for the campaign. Obama already has an official presence of Facebook...
- Tags: Video Sharing, YouTube, Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook, social networking, Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
- YouTube on the campaign trail
- Theres no doubt that much of the 2008 US presidential election is going to be fought out on the Internet -- and specifically through online video. For example, Democrat potential candidate Barack Obama has a channel on Brightcove, along with Republican Sam Brownback, while others such as Chris Dodd Democrat...
- Tags: video, YouTube Inc., voter
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- Will MySpace try to monetize its ecosystem?
- Over the last year or so, many companies and products have sprung up which attempt to feed off of MySpaces success - widgets, embeddable media players etc. Some of which have been blocked by MySpace, while others such as YouTube have been met with direct competition from the social network...
- Tags: YouTube, Social Networks, MySpace, Widgets
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- Universal does YouTube a favor, and sues MySpace
- Yesterdays news that Universal Music Group is suing MySpace for copyright infringement signifies the latest round of MySpace vs YouTube - and this time YouTube comes out on top.A quick recap of the fight so far:MySpace blocks access to YouTube videos, only to reinstate them after a user backlash. (Dec...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., YouTube, Social Networks, MySpace
- Blog posts 2006-11-18
- iLike brings social networking to iTunes
- iLike is a social network focussed on music recommendations which launched only last month, and will inevitably draw comparisons with the much older Last.fm. And its true, there are quite a few similarities. Just like Last.fm, in order to get the most out of the service, users are required to...
- Tags: YouTube, Social Networks, Music, iLike
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
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- Wireless soil sensors to help farmers
- A research team at Iowa State University ISU is developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming while minimizing environmental impacts. ISU says that 'the prototype sensors are designed to collect and send data about soil moisture -- and eventually soil temperature and nutrient content -- while working completely underground.' According...
- Tags: Iowa State University, Sensor, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'
- I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...
- Tags: Tablet PC, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
- Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee
- News items 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Facebook: Revenue plan by 2011; Growth is key for now.
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's more focused on growing the social networking site than he is in finding a way to monetize it - at least for now. In a Q&A interview with German blog Netzökonom, Zuckerberg has basically given himself and the company three years to come up...
- Tags: Revenue, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Operational Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Laptops with mobile WiMax now available
- Laptops with mobile WiMax now availableWimax,wireless,mobile,This Wimax thing is getting interesting,Devices are rolling out,Networks are being built,And consumers don't know how much this will benefit the way they play.WOW World of wimax.RE: Laptops with mobile WiMax now availableWOW,World of wimax,IT just keeps getting better. Keep up the good work manufacturing...
- Tags: Notebooks, mobile-WiMax, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Microsoft Live Labs launches politically focused social-media site
- Microsoft's Live Labs released on October 9 "Poltical Streams," which the company is describing as a way for individuals to receive "at a glance, a more complete picture of the information and opinions on the Web on a single page." by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?
- Digg faces two big challenges going forward. How to expand its user-base and therefore content beyond its geeky roots, and in turn, how to increase ad revenue. Addressing the latter, co-founder Kevin Rose says the social news site is exploring "Diggable ads". by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Digg, Advertisement, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?Not realy, their flaw isThey honestly believe they know vastly more than everyone else, refuse to listen, and miss major oportunities.Not a fatal flaw, but MS recognizes the need to change.MS became dominant, the big dog with selling it's and only it's OS on PCs...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., fatal flaw, flaw, computer, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- YouTube teams with iTunes, Amazon to offer e-commerce feature
- YouTube teams with iTunes, Amazon to offer e-commerce featureTV, TV, TVDoesn't anyone realize that new ideas like Vending machines are great and all, but Impulse is a downward trend these days! Use common sense modeling... Folks are getting lazier even as the economies go lower. So, WHERE are...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Team management, Web technology, YouTube team, e-commerce feature, TV, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iTunes, YouTube Inc., e-business, team
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
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