Category: Websites
MySpace soon to be for sale again?
News Corporation are looking into either selling social network MySpace or entering into a partnership in a bid to make the flailing site profitable, according to News Corp Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey. Seeing its user numbers fall dramatically following…
Qwiki: Automatic Wiki Presentations
Qwiki is a new web service that aims to change the way we get information and make Wikipedia more exciting. The service generates on-the-fly a short informative presentation of images, video and graphics narrated by a kind of crazy…
Myspace to Connect with Facebook: usurped network finally admitting defeat?
Reports are coming in that MySpace are to add the Facebook Connect button to their pages, a move that would see the once popular friendship site more or less leaving the social networking scene for good. Once the most popular…
LinkedIn professionals' network help users to brand themselves
LinkedIn, the social network for professional types, are looking to help their users understand the importance of personal branding in an increasingly competitive job market. No, not the burning-poker farming type of branding, but the idea of turning your skills…
Three Mobile Broadband users getting free The Times subscriptions
Three Mobile Broadband users will today be offered free subscriptions to The Times newspaper's raft of web content. Now sitting behind a paywall, Three Mobile Broadband subscribers will get three months free access to the news sites, including the Sunday…
The Times experiences massive loss in readers after introducing paywall
The Times and Sunday Times websites have experienced a huge drop in their readership after parent company News Corporation introduced a paywall, requiring readers to subscribe before accessing the content on the site. As of June 15th, readers were asked…
BBC website revamp: new-look News and social integration
It's been a busy day over on the BBC website. A host of new look pages have been launched, and each now has full social network sharing support added too. Jump over to the BBC News page and you'll see…
We7 music streaming service adds radio news updates
Browser-based music streaming service We7 have teamed up with the Guardian Media Group to offer their listeners integrated news bulletins between songs. The radio news addition is an optional feature, and will offer real-time news broadcasts, updated to take into…
Amazon: Do your weekly big shop with us online!
If you're looking to buy something online, it's likely that your first port of call will be giant e-tailer Amazon, especially if you're after a good read or electrical items. But how about for your groceries? Well, from now…
The Times goes behind a paywall today
Readers of The Times website, the online presence of one the UK's oldest and most well respected papers goes behind a paywall today. Long gone is free-browsing of The Times articles, with access now restricted to those willing to…