Category: Websites
How to sign up for a Google Wave invitation
Here's where you go to register
Guardian paid for iPhone app on its way
Digital director Emily Bell told the blog. "It's still in development, but we are working on an app which I can't give you too much more detail on at the moment, although we are likely to charge."
The Next Big Sound – the website that might just be the future of music charts
It does this by collating plays, views, fans, comments, and other data for almost half a million artists across major online properties, including iTunes, Last.fm, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.
Posterous ups the blogging ante
Now Posterous users can add their banners, choose from different types of layout, adopt a theme and even create their own themes via HTML and CSS.
Only 5% of Britons would pay a subscription to read online news sites
Bizarrely younger, poorer and lower class readers are more likely to pay the subs than older, richer and posher ones.
Now you can stream the Beatles – well sort of
So while there's no Strawberry Fields or any other John classics, we7 users can stream Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby and Yesterday and even embed them on other sites too
Get your domain name on a matchbox – of course
Perhaps the strangest, certainly the most unusual, Christmas gift I’ve heard of since that company that produced certificates for buying a chunk of the moon. Yes this Chrimbo you can get your very own matchbox with your domain name written on it. Simply open up your matchbox to find a unique activation code, then type it into the Mr Site website to register your domain name. Well I guess it beats socks – just about.
As long as your choice is still available, ‘Dot Com in a Matchbox’ can offer the following domains for one whole year: .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .co.uk, .org.uk. Visit www.mrsite.com for more information and to buy online. To build a website for your name, Mr Site also offers Website Beginner (£19.99), Standard (£34.99) or Pro (£99.99)? No matchbox required.
Now it has hit 300 million users how much bigger can Facebook get?
One of the problems it faces is that in key territories there are already local social networking sites that have a Facebook style stranglehold already. In Korea Cyworld, with its 24 million members, has managed to keep Facebook and its rivals at bay. In Central America the big player is Sonico and further south in countries like Argentina Hi5 sets the agenda
Twitter's new rival Woofer might be a joke, but it may have a use or two
Just maybe the Woofer crew are on to something here. Maybe there is space for a Twitter type site where people add slightly longer posts. How about come classic bits of comedy? Some cool song lyrics? Anyone got any other cool ideas.
HMV snaps up 50% of online music retailer 7Digital
In some ways this should be no surprise as over the past couple of years 7Digital has been establishing itself as a solid alternative to the likes of iTunes and Amazon, especially by offering tracks as MP3s without any DRM. It has also struck innovative deals with companies like Last FM, Spotify and Songbird.
