Category: Web 2.0
Around one third of UK bloggers risk getting the sack
Be warned – your employers might be reading your blog. And if you’re not careful, your posting could get you the sack.
DailyLit gives you the world of the mind in bite-sized chunks
No, DailyLit is not encouraging you to become a zombie, stalking the streets. It’s emailing you controlled doses of the great (read, so to speak, big) books of literature, the kind that are so unwieldy that the very sight makes you want to use them to press flowers so you have an excuse to never disturb their leaves again. Various services have tried this in the past (and DailyLit itself is not exactly new) but screens have improved enough now that the idea of reading for pleasure on one is increasingly attractive. Feed your head something more than ephemera, give it timeless beauty. (Then come back for more blog posts.) [GT]
DailyLit [via OhGizmo]
How Geoffrey Chaucer invented Twitter
And you thought he was just some old guy whose smutty old-English verse is used to torture GCSE students…
Microsoft: "Twitter has a long way to go"
For all the hype around micro-blogging service Twitter, it’s still got to prove its worth as a genuinely useful tool, says Kris Hoet, Microsoft’s European ‘blogging ambassador.
Will ad-funded TV streams kill off the video download market?
Stuart Dredge writes…
There’s no shortage of big firms trying to sell us video downloads, including Apple and Microsoft. In theory, they should be pushing at an open door. Faster broadband connections are more widespread, devices like Apple TV make it easy to watch these downloads on our proper TVs, and more people have video iPods or PMPs to watch these vids on the go, too.
BBC demonstrates Web 2.0 possibilities for Radio 1
Not content with developing video online, the BBC is now advancing its musical output, demonstrating the possibilities for Radio 1 in a Web 2.0 world. At the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas, the corporation is showing off a prototype to…
BBC demos Web 2.0 style Radio 1 personalisation service
The BBC has been showing off a prototype system dripping with Web 2.0 social networking interaction goodness at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas. Using Microsoft's Silverlight software and Windows Live Messenger, the BBC has created a prototype system that…
Sony launches Vaio Nation – online community for music and film industry
Sony is pushing its Vaio range of computers as the tool of the creative – and launching Vaio Nation as the place for music and film folk to meet and share ideas.
Adopting a child Web 2.0 style: Couple turns to MySpace
A couple from Michigan who have spent five years trying to conceive has now turned to the MySpace social network to try to find suitable birth parents so that they can adopt a child.
Top 10 celebrities most likely to do a Justin.tv
It’s ironic really. The Orwellian idea of Big Brother had a state dictatorship spying on its citizens, while more recently The Truman Show had one man’s life being broadcast to millions as entertainment, without his knowledge. That’s not how it’s going to work, though. Soon, us proles will be queuing up to stream our daily lives online.
