Big Media companies, get ready for more competition, this time from Yahoo, which is finally embracing its inner media company. Yahoo is planning to launch a new News blog that will combine traditional reporting and linking, according to Andrew Golis, deputy publisher of Talking Points… Read More »
Archive for October 2009
MySpace launched a new music video portal today, aggregating licensed content from both big and independent record labels. CEO Owen Van Natta announced the news at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon. Music videos make up a huge chunk of YouTube’s playcount,… Read More »
Windows 7 doesn’t officially launch until tomorrow but as Brad Linder points out some notebook makers already have drivers available. I was lurking around the web and discovered this page from Lenovo that has “beta” Windows 7 drivers and applications. It states that these… Read More »
Carbon capture and sequestration — taking carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and other industrial facilities, and shoving them underground — represents one of the higher stakes bets in the fight against climate change. It’s unproven at large scale, yet deemed essential by the… Read More »
If you’re a freelancer, learning when to turn down a potential client is crucial to your success. The wrong client will be a drain on your resources, sapping your energy and taking time from those with whom you work well. Over on A List Apart, Greg… Read More »
Look out Intel Atom, there’s a new computing platform on the way. ARM today announced its Cortex-A5 processor and promises to deliver the “Internet everywhere with [the] most power-efficient and cost-effective multicore processor.” The new processor is application compatible with the older… Read More »
Google will include Twitter’s real-time status updates into its search results, Google VP Marissa Mayer said in a blog post released this afternoon. This comes hot off the heels of Microsoft’s announcement this morning that it will include status update feeds from Facebook… Read More »
Every icon has his or her imitators, and while The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart didn’t invent the concept of snarking at the news in a quasi-reporting format, his influence has had a profound impact not just on the television world, but on web video. And… Read More »
When Darryl Siry, former Chief Marketing Officer for electric car maker Tesla, calculated the “implied value” for secretive ultracapacitor maker EEStor at over $1.5 billion, based on the entirety of Zenn Motor’s market cap, he was being somewhat cheeky. But the reasoning behind the calculation… Read More »
Facebook’s 300 million users collectively spend more than 8 billion minutes on the site each day, according to the social network’s VP of engineering, Mike Schroepfer. He offered up the number onstage at the Web 2.0 Summit Wednesday as proof of the infrastructure challenges the… Read More »
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