Category: Web 2.0
Google bags FeedBurner – Google ad money for all?
For many bloggers or indeed website owners, FeedBurner is a rather useful site for promoting content via feeds and emails and a good place to track your reach. Google obviously thinks so too, as it has just bought the site for an undisclosed amount, but rumoured to be around $100 million.
Are video remixes the future for online music?
We live in the age of the mash-up – I’m eating a Snickers bolognese with jam on top as I write this, and very nice it is too. And nowhere is that more applicable than in the online video world, where thousands of YouTubers are splicing real songs and music videos with their own footage.
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 31-May-07: Tiscali, Firefox, Wi-Fi, iTunes
– Tiscali has admitted it will take at least 10 days to restore their customers’ email addresses to full functionality, after being blacklisted as spam by various ISPs. At least we’ve got Big Brother now to distract us…
– Web browser junkies will be jonesing for the fifth alpha release of Firefox 3 from Mozilla set for release tomorrow, sadly syringes aren’t included.
– Apparently Londoners aren’t interested in free internet and the plethora of potential Bittorrents possible, as only 6,000 people have registered to use the free City of London…
Me TV: How Ustream.tv and BlogTV will turn us all into broadcasters
In the week that Big Brother’s latest series kicks off here in the UK, there are probably 873 media commentators already wheeling out Andy Warhol’s ‘Famous for 15 minutes’ maxim, so I won’t labour the point. However, people always assume that there has to be Someone Else making us famous for that quarter of an hour – usually a broadcaster.
eBay buys StumbleUpon social bookmarking website
It’s a good week to be a Web 2.0 startup. Yesterday, personalised music service Last.fm got bought by CBS for $280 million, and today eBay has bought social bookmarking site StumbleUpon for $75 million.
Daily Telegraph recreates its Chelsea Flower Show garden in Second Life
Though the real Chelsea Flower Show is now over for another year, the Daily Telegraph has recreated its garden in Second Life, claiming it to be the first of its kind in the virtual 3D world.
Inhabitants of Second Life can view the virtual garden by logging on and visiting the Kensington and Chelsea area of the virtual world (where else?)
CBS to buy Last.fm for $280 million
If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em. That’s increasingly the strategy being adopted by Big Media companies grappling with the implications of Web 2.0. Hot news today is that CBS is about to buy UK-based personalised radio service Last.fm for an impressive $280 million.
Could Facebook's third-party applications be a MySpace killer?
That’s what top venture capitalist Josh Kopelman reckons, anyway. Okay, so he doesn’t say the phrase ‘MySpace killer’, but he suggests that Facebook’s new third-party applications could leave MySpace looking like Prodigy or AOL from the early days of the internet, who tried to hang onto their roles as proprietary gatekeepers until they realised everyone else had moved on.
YouTube video player gets a revamp
With about, ooh, 837 different video-sharing services out there, you can’t rest on your laurels even if you’re the top banana. It seems Google has been beavering away on an all-new YouTube video player, with some subtle yet welcome tweaks to make it a bit more interactive.
