When people ask what I do, I usually say “I’m a writer.” But I do so much more than writing articles and posting content on blogs. Since I first got online in 1987, I’ve been using the Internet (or at that time, Bulletin Board Systems) for […] Read more »
MySpace and NBC Join Forces for Campaign Coverage; Decision ’08 to provide daily videos from NBC and MSNBC, as well as user-generated content. (Reuters) MediaScrape Raises $3.16 Million; Montreal-based news video aggregator, syndicator and translator gets money from undisclosed investors. (paidContent) BayTSP and NTT Partner for […] Read more »
Widgets are taking social media by storm and becoming a valuable online marketing platform for interaction with consumers. Last June, comScore estimated that widgets reach 177 million people every month, or 21 percent of the worldwide online audience. ComScore’s tracking methods are debated (see also Techcrunch: […] Read more »
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There go the social networking neighborhoods! Google, Yahoo and MySpace are taking a page from the Mozilla Foundation by creating a nonprofit foundation to control and maintain the OpenSocial code, which allows developers to build applications that work on a variety of social networks. The core […] Read more »
Almost a year after Facebook opened up its social network to developers, MySpace is launching its own developer platform in public beta with an application Gallery Page available to users. It’s based on Google’s OpenSocial platform, which MySpace helped develop. MySpace announced the platform in late […] Read more »
This morning after AOL said it would spend $850 million to buy social networking site Bebo, I had a chance to chat with Ron Grant, AOL’s chief operating officer. What follows is an edited version of our conversation. OM: Why Bebo? GRANT: Bebo is one of […] Read more »
Following last week’s move by Dailymotion to bring high-definition video to the Web, MySpaceTV is launching an HD video player for the social network with a trailer for Iron Man. The trailer for the Marvel movie starring Robert Downey Jr. as the comic book hero, can […] Read more »
Today’s Question of the Day comes from early Found|READ contributor, Sanchit Bhatnagar, cofounder of a New Delhi-based webshop called Toufee, where consumers can make Flash-based movies. (Obviously, San’s been burning the candle!) Here is San’s MySpace profile, too. San wants advice on what kind of membership […] Read more »
Editor’s Note: This is the latest installment in Larry Chiang’s series on “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School.” (He’s turning it into a book.) What could founders do with “Man-Charm,” you ask? Answers Larry: “Founders can use man-to-man charm to grow their good […] Read more »
The Register: Qualcomm and the Real Story Behind The Mobile World Congress ArsTechnica: Amazon Hopes to Chill Steam With Game Downloads EETimes: Alliance Formed to Promote Gaming on PC NYTimes: Microsoft Said to Plan Proxy Fight for Yahoo Reuters: Garmin Results Beat Wall Street CNet: New […] Read more »
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Data Center Knowledge: Microsoft Considering Iowa Data Center Ars Technica: Net Neutrality Bill Poised to Surface in House Light Reading: China Mobile Joins LTE Threesome BusinessWeek: Rupert Murdoch’s New Startup Incubator Marketwatch: Nortel Sees 4G as Opportunity to Leapfrog Rivals The News Market: Google Asks U.S. […] Read more »
Following on the Open Social support of the MySpace Developer Platform, Google has launched services for programmers planning to use Open Social to build applications for its Orkut social network, including a hackathon scheduled for Feb. 14-15 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., as well […] Read more »
Thank you Lenovo! Is it me or is everyone sick and tired of one AC adapter for every single device they own? I’m sure there’s a few of you out there. You can join me in my glee over Lenovo’s new Slim AC/DC combo adapter. The […] Read more »
As we’ve already noted, MySpace plans to hold a meeting for developers interested in building applications for the No. 1 social network. MySpace CTO Aber Whitcomb told us the company expects about 250 developers to show up to learn about the new development platform. Read more »
There has been a lot of buzz lately around the term data portability. Recently web heavyweights such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Plaxo, and other online identity providers have been joining the Dataportability.org organization, but it’s unclear to most people what Data Portability is all about. This […] Read more »
The world’s top social network has finally bought its ticket for the third-party developer party. In a switch from its early days as a Fox subsidiary, MySpace has fallen in line with its competitors — it plans to ask programmers to its San Francisco development office […] Read more »
Christos Cotsakos, former CEO of E*TRADE, the online brokerage firm that revolutionized stock trading in Web 1.0, will unveil his Web 2.0 company called MOLI tomorrow at DEMO. And surprise, surprise — it’s a social network! Yet Cotsakos is undetered by what is an arguably overcrowded […] Read more »
Last week I got to speak with Microsoft’s Dan’l Lewin, an Apple alumnus who now leads the software giant’s Emerging Business Team, meaning he’s Microsoft’s chief embassador to VCs and startups — Ballmer’s “Man in the Valley.” (Here he is giving a keynote at GigaOM’s NewTeeVee […] Read more »
I’m not even close to catching up on RSS feeds I missed last week. I was about to declare “RSS bankruptcy” and mark ‘em all as read, but then I would have skipped over this press release from Electrovaya. Seems that nobody told them that the […] Read more »
MySpace’s growth may have peaked. Annual page views for the social network fell 7 percent from December of 2006 to the same month in 2007, according to the latest site rankings from comScore — the first time the site’s page views have declined year-over-year. And MySpace […] Read more »
Social networking site MySpace is continuing its push into the gaming space with plans to launch a game portal. Casual gaming is a popular activity, with tons of competition. There are independents with their own web sites, those creating games such as Scrabulous for social networks, […] Read more »
Juntoons: the latest entry into the new frontier of semi-surreptitious online movie marketing, or legit fan fiction? Thrillingly weird mashup of sex ed and Adult Swim, or questionable propaganda designed to cover Fox Searchlight’s butt for releasing a film that implicitly condones unsafe teen sex? I […] Read more »
It just might be sheer coincidence, but Silicon Valley’s Facebook lovefest has brought a certain feistiness to Fox Interactive and its flagship property, MySpace. The largest social network has been rolling out one feature after another, partnering with others where it lacks the oomph, and keeping […] Read more »
If there was ever any doubt that competition is a good thing, witness the case of MySpace. The social networking site has been on a tear recently, signing partnerships with the likes of Skype and AOL, and expanding into new avenues such as OpenSocial and, more […] Read more »
I’m probably just being reactionary, but the first thing that struck me as being a little off the mark about the first episode of quarterlife is the guiding assumption that videoblogging and writing are interchangeable, that speaking into a webcam is a natural extension of stringing […] Read more »
This being the week of ad:tech, news of online advertising has dominated the conversation: from MySpace’s hyper- targeted ads to Facebook’s new ad system to broadband advertising systems introduced by companies such as AnchorFree. The advertising, of course, is becoming social, mobile, and behavioral. If you […] Read more »
Lets Be Friends, AdFriends Engagement & The Future of Online Advertising Is Facebook Beacon a privacy nightmare? Why is Google afraid of Facebook? OpenSocial advertising for all Will privacy concerns take boom out of the online ads? Read more »
Mark Zuckerberg & Co. stood up in front of the advertising community in New York today and unveiled Facebook Ads, an ad system that allows companies to use the Facebook social graph and to develop highly targeted ads. Large brands such as Coca-Cola (KO), Sony Pictures […] Read more »
[qi:036] A group of physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have made the world’s smallest FM radio, crafted out of a single carbon nanotube that is about one ten-thousandth the diameter of a single human hair. In the nanotube radio, a single carbon nanotube works […] Read more »
Microsoft (MSFT) has invested $240 million in Facebook at a valuation of $15 billion and gets the rights to sell third-party ads on the Facebook network. That’s about 2 percent stake. Not as crazy as the $900 million that MySpace (NWS) pried out of Google (GOOG), […] Read more »
I am currently reading “Reality Show,” a new book by The Washington Post columnist and TV commentator, Howard Kurtz. The book is about Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Charles Gibson, the evening news show anchors, their gigantic (and sometimes creaky) news machine and of course, their […] Read more »
[qi:020] First it was music, then web video, and now it is time for MySpace to turn the attention of its 100-million plus members to casual games. The company has signed a deal with Oberon Media, and two companies will create a new casual gaming channel […] Read more »
* WebWorkerDaily: Turn on the TV and get to work * NewTeeVee: MySpace gets in bed with Roommates. * Earth2Tech: BT bets half-a-billion on wind power * FoundRead: What are a startup’s key assets? Read more »
comScore is about to issue September 2007 user engagement and page views data, and it seems like the SVFurby, I mean Facebook unique visitors took a little dip. See the little decline on the red line. I can’t exactly tell how many and how accurate the […] Read more »
Erm, Santa Monica, actually. Popular destination for the weird and wonderful on the web BoingBoing has enlisted the services of production company DECA (which we profiled last week) to produce the new BoingBoing web show. Federated Media, which already brokered ads for the BoingBoing blog and […] Read more »
So lets face it. Sometimes we all just need to kill a little time. It’s relaxing. Whether you’re on your lunch break at work (or not) or if you are just bored one night and can’t sleep…this list should help you cure your boredom. I’ve compiled […] Read more »
This almost makes me wish I was a Sprint customer, but hopefully Pandora’s new partnership will trickle across carriers. My favorite music service (and how could it not be?) will now be available on Sprint handsets: free for the first 30 days and just $3 a […] Read more »
RIM people tell me that they now have 3 million users, last six months bringing in a cool million, Great news for the company, but just wanted to do a little valuation check on the company. Stock market values RIM at $13.04 billion, or roughly $4347 […] Read more »
The noise and fury around broadband over powerline has started to resemble hype around WiMAX and VoIP. However, there seems to be some serious problems with this technology, which we have often talked about. Even those who are in the business are saying that it is […] Read more »
The New York Times, has a piece about the challenges facing the combined Cingular & AT&T Wireless. Nothing new, except, now that the Times has published this story, it must be important. Its really a nothing new piece. And the real good stuff is at the […] Read more »
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