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Blogger doing custom domains now

Blogger has started doing custom domains, giving many respite from the dreaded and downmarket blogspot.com domain. Google provides hosting for people who want to sign-up for this service. Add this to yet another offering from Google for your own domain! Now if people sign up … Read More »

What new goodies for webworkers at Macworld?

Good question… a wish list … and the answers will follow next week, when we visit Macworld. Read More »

 
 

Paramount to Launch Mobile Portal

Paramount Pictures and Crisp Wireless say they are launching a mobile portal for movie promotions and mobile content. Admit it, you want to get Nacho Libre ring tones on the go. Read More »

Virgin Mobile USA Reaches 4.6M

Virgin Mobile USA is saying it has 4.6 million customers, which makes it one of the most popular MVNO in the U.S. Last I heard Boost Mobile had 3.6 million customers, and readers point out Tracfone, which has 7 million. It took … Read More »

Bubbleshare gets bought, just not by FOX

So it is not FOX, but an exit is an exit, even if it is a puny one. A Canadian company, Kaboose has bought them for about $2.25 million. More @ Techcrunch Read More »

Brazil orders YouTube to shut down

At the request of model and ex-wife of Ronaldo Daniela Cicarelli — who was in a sex tape with her new boyfriend that kept cropping up on YouTube despite her requests to keep it off — a Brazilian court has ordered YouTube shut down. While that’s … Read More »

Meet Twistage, a plug-and-play YouTube

With no more opportunities left to build another YouTube, pre-launch startup Twistage wants to take advantage of everyone’s fascination with YouTube to build its functionality into other sites. Get the scoop on NewTeeVee. Read More »

Want an invite to the Venice Project?

We get hounded with requests for beta invites every time we write about the Venice Project. Want to see it for yourself? Enter our contest on NewTeeVee. Read More »

Beach Blanket WiFi

Wired News has a roundup of beaches that have WiFi access for those that want sun and an Internet connection. Too bad sand and water can be laptop kryptonite. Read More »

Start page shootout… who wins?

Webworkerdaily has a comparison of some of the top new ajaxy start pages. Find out the winner here. Read More »

Rare founders leave Microsoft

Rare co-founders, aka the Stamper brothers, have left Microsoft for parts unknown. Will the studio and its creativity survive? More Read More »

Smaller Jobster Countdown

John Cook reminds us that a smaller Jobster (from people perspective) is around the corner. I have be gathering information, for a longer piece tomorrow. Read More »

More Must Reads

The New York Times says the rental car company Avis has done a deal with auto WiFi startup AutoNet Mobile for an $11-per-day in-car WiFi service starting in March. The service uses 3G networks to create an in-car … Read More »

Web Worker Daily thinks GMail deserves to be the best Web 2.0 software for 2006. Despite all the current problems? Read More »

Mr. Blog thinks not, and writes, “Skype is doing okay as a stand-alone business, but Ebay could have done as well buying a ball-bearing manufacturer if that’s all they wanted (and for a lot less money).” Ouch. Read More »

FCC has approved Motorola A910, a Linux phone that has WiFi and is UMA capable, bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera and supports streaming video. Read More »

A comprehensive look at P2P in 2006. More Read More »

People enjoy the sense of accomplishment that a game gives them after completing set tasks, or the freedom to explore a new world… more at GigaGamez. Read More »

SEC documents show that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple over Fairplay DRM.. Read More »

Liz Gannes and Paul Kapustka have written a piece over on NewTeeVee on what to expect in 2007 when it comes to online video. Read More »

Sprint has said it is already working with Motorola and Samsung to build its $3 billion WiMAX network. Now the WSJ says Sprint is close to choosing Nokia as a third provider, among competitors Alcatel/Lucent, Nortel, ZTE, and Huawei. The report also … Read More »

Grouptivity is a free web application that promises to take the hassle out of online planning and group email decision making. And it gets half-a-thumbs up from Web Worker Daily. Read More »

We’ve gotten multiple tips today that Google’s Orkut, the social network known primarily for its popularity in countries like Brazil (and in some circles, for its unexpectedly high Alexa ranking), has had some extended downtime. A post on the Orkut homepage claims the site … Read More »

Over on NewTeeVee, we check in with the gang at Dabble and find out about a new business model they’ll be rolling out in January. It’s fun to spend time with startups over the holidays, when most everyone else we’d try to call … Read More »

Now did that get your attention! That’s the number of minutes Cingular customers spent yakking on the phone this past year. Enough of a reason for Cingular to lay the smack down on Verizon. Who’s Talking Now? Everyone! Read More »

John Edwards is running for president, or so he says on You Tube Read More »

Nintendo has sold 3 million Wiis globally, while Sony sold around 1.18 million units of PlayStation 3. Read More »

Now that Christmas is over, all eyes are on CES and of course, Macworld 2007. We hope Santa Jobs brings us the new iTV gizmo. More Read More »

Jackson West has put together a nice list of tools and hacks you can use to download online videos and take them to go on your iPod. Read More »

Burger King experimented with Advergaming. Will this become a big trend in 2007? Find out. Read More »

How to make Windows Mobile more useful? Just add some software says Judi Sohn. She has some suggestions on Web Worker Daily. Read More »

Second Life, the virtual world might go open source in 2007. More Read More »

Developers have to make some hard choices when it comes to deciding what gaming console platform to embrace. Wii or PS3? Read More »

Ten web operating systems reviewed. And we were waiting for Google OS. Anyway check out this comparison. Link Read More »

Guba CEO has resigned and left the company. He will pursue non-technology interests, and might invest in other start-ups. Read More »

Yahoo PR emailed to say users can now edit Yahoo Local listings and add their own ratings and reviews, collections, photos, and tags directly. Says the company, “For quality control purposes, these suggestions do not change a listing permanently, but are included as notes that can … Read More »

Sony Playstation has lost Virtua Fighter exclusive. More here. Read More »

As we reported yesterday, Earthlink officially launched its New Orleans network today. The company is offering its standard for-fee service as well as a temporary free service. Read More »

Ex-Rocketboomer Amanda Congdon will launch the next of her projects, a “a behind the scenes look at her life in L.A. as she juggles new projects in the traditional and new media,” tomorrow. Details here. Read More »

Mobile payment startup Obopay has another MVNO deal to announce — Helio. Obopay already linked up with Amp’d. The company will probably have a better chance with those early-adopter type subscribers that might actually use a peer-to-peer mobile payment service. Read More »

Spock, the so-called people-based search startup that we’ve written about in the past, is announcing it’s raised $7 million in a Series A funding. Clearstone Venture Partners and Opus Capital Ventures are behind the round. The startup is in … Read More »

Add another name to the growing list of companies planning on IPOs today, mobile game company Glu Mobile says it has filed to go public. It could raise up to $92 million. Man, that’s the third company today … Read More »

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Ericsson is acquiring Redback Networks, maker of broadband routing gear for $25 a share, or $2.1 B, further accelerating the consolidation of the telecom equipment-supplier market. The company just pushed out a press release and point out that they … Read More »

“The bottom line is that the page view has outgrown its usefulness. The industry needs to embrace change and develop new metrics that measure this new world more accurately,” writes Peter Daboll, Yahoo’s “Chief of Insights,” and former CEO of comScore, on the Yahoo blog. … Read More »

GigaGamez is reporting that Doublefusion, an in-game advertising network has received $26 million in fresh funding from likes of Norwest, Time Warner and Hearst. Read More »

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