Mainstream news needs to broaden its agenda San Sethis has done a meaty summary of these on Vecosys but notice the hefty batch of UK companies that made it including Last.fm, Zubka, Garlik, Omnifone and 7Digital. Red Herring has published its list of Europe's top 100 tech companies. Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and LG are all on board. Yahoo has signed deals with four handset makers to have its YahooGo mobile software installed on new devices, and that will include the new local search tool. The idea is to get to the information in fewer clicks, and crucially in fewer clicks than the competing service from Google. Instead of a list of raw links, results are presented with more local information such as news headlines, weather, business listings, Flickr photos and various other local web-based services. The OneSearch tool is for the US market initially as Yahoo battles Google for the mobile search space. Yahoo has introduced a new mobile search tool that offers locally relevant answers. Time Warner and AOL have repeatedly denied a sale. The background here is that the Time Warner/AOL merger is regarded as very ill-advised, to put it mildly. Bourkoff valued the company at $17bn and said potential buyers could be Microsoft, Yahoo or Google, which already owns 5% of Time Warner. His reasoning was that AOL wants to go global and the best route to that would be through a merger or partnership. Time Warner could sell off AOL this year, according to analyst Aryeh Bourkoff from UBS. In a latter distributed last week, Musicload said that DRM is holding back the development of a mass market for music downloads and that the lack of interoperability is preventing true competition. Musicload says that record companies expect sizeable margins for their artists but the costs of supporting DRM are covered solely by online retailers. ( New York Times)ĭRM is holding back the music downloads industryĭigital rights management is causing big problems for one of Europe's largest web music stores Musicload, so much so that three quarters of its customer service calls are from people with rights related problems.
Presumably that's because Rupert won't get a slice if people sell directly to their audience. MySpace's terms say that it will remove obscene or copyrighted content but also tools that allow users to sell content without authorisation, as Hooka does. Poor old Tila Tequila (who's something of a MySpace superstar.) had her new Hooka music player taken down (the name is coincidental, I think) and MySpace Tom contacted her directly to tell her she shouldn't have added it. MySpace is clamping down on the widgets that users can add to pages, thus denuding the social networking site of one of its few assets - its customisability. ValleyWag sums it up: Google goes ghetto. The small mercy is that these are optional, I suppose, but Lordy. “Neverland” is a fantastic amazing club/workout song, and its beat is amazingly addictive – I’ve never been a big fan of U-Kiss, but I’ll have to reconsider that listening to this song so extensively.The My First Website colour scheme is basic, yes, but that and the uncluttered space simply work.īut now you can personally ruin your own Google homepage by introducing all manner of headline/weather and calendar tools and - worst of all - choose from six graphic themes including the beach, a city scape and a bus stop. Just so people can’t accuse me of not including any content in this post, here’s the song I’ve been listening to nonstop lately: I currently have zero followers, which is indicative of the lack of friends I have in real life.Īnyway, have you ever noticed how much time social networking takes? After creating my account on Twitter I had to share it with all of my friends (I have friends?) on Facebook, now I’m writing this post, and then I’ll have to write a tweet or something… my quadratic equations and rhetorical analysis assignments are waiting for me! How will I survive without doing my homework!? (at this point I’m not even sure if I’m being sarcastic…) So this is a short little personal update, I wanted to let you guys know I finally created an account on Twitter! You can push the button on the right to follow me.
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