Category: Websites
Fairshare Music gives half download profits to charity
Download music legally and do your bit for charidee at the same time. You can't really get more virtuous than that can you? Well that's the proposition of new music download service FairshareMusic.com Billed as the home of 'feelgood…
Website of the Day: Marca World Cup 2010 calendar
If you're anything like me, World Cup calendars are probably two-a-penny in your house at the moment. I've got about 5 wall sized ones, and a handful of little pocket charts for various bags and trousers. Despite all these, I…
David Beckham becomes Yahoo! football pundit for the World Cup
Looks like David Beckham will be playing for Yahoo! next season after signing a deal that will see him become the website's public face for football coverage. Beckham will be rolled out for Yahoo! coverage of the World Cup in…
Yahoo and Facebook partnership steps up a gear
Yahoo are to introduce further Facebook integration across their sites following the announced partnership between the pair. Yahoo users will be able to view their Facebook "news feed" within Yahoo Mail and Yahoo.com "in the coming days" according to the…
Picklive real-time fantasy football network launches in time for the World Cup!
Picklive, the world's first real-time online fantasy football game, has just left the beta stage and is now open to all comers. Just in time for the World Cup too! Picklive takes the traditional fantasy football idea and condenses it…
Video Preview: A look at of BBC iPlayer's new features
The BBC today launched a pretty substantial re-vamp of their iPlayer video-on demand service. Adding customisable modules and integrating social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, the BBC look to have really paid attention to what the public have asked…
Virgin Media World Cup microsite teams up with Sir Bobby Robson cancer fund
Virgin Media's World Cup microsite isn't just a great way to hype yourself up for the world's greatest football tournament, it's also doing its part in the fight against cancer. Every time a user watches a video on the…
Hotmail to get extensive update this summer
Long since migrated from Microsoft's Hotmail webmail service to Google's Gmail? Well Microsoft are looking to rein you back in over the course of the summer, as they today revealed details of a major update. Taking a leaf out of…
YouTube users now watching 2 billion videos a day
Plenty of reasons to celebrate over at YouTube HQ today. Not only is it the 5th birthday of the launch of the service's beta site, but the video streaming site has also announced a massive landmark in that its…
General election leads to "unprecedented" traffic for BBC website
After one of the most closely-run election races in recent history, it looks like the UK is headed for a hung parliament. With a massive turnout, voters have turned in their droves to the BBC website, who are reporting incredibly…