Tuesday Top Ten: Most common reactions to Google buying YouTube
1. “YouTube would be NOTHING without the videos I made of me lip-synching to Shakira while wearing a nightie and miner's helmet. Where's my cut of the cash?" 2. "Darling, we better order that speedboat…" [only applies to three blokes…
Bush launches IP001 iPod Speaker System
Bush has added to the large number of docking systems battling for your Christmas cash with the IP001, which, as you'd expect, plays your tunes whilst charging your player. Output is via 2 x 5W RMS speakers, which provide…
Tuesday interview: Intuitive Media's Robert Hart on educational social networking
With all the hoo-ha over the dangers posed for kids by sites like MySpace and Bebo – you know, cyber-bullying, paedophiles lurking on every virtual corner, etc – it’s easy to forget the positive aspects of social networking for children. One company that hasn’t is Intuitive Media, which is trying to bring the benefits without some of the risks feared by many parents.
Intuitive Media is an education firm providing what it describes as protected online learning communities for children. It currently runs two main communities: SuperClubsPLUS for kids aged 6-12, and GoldStar Cafe, for ages 11-14. They’ve signed up over 120,000 children so far in the UK, along with over 12,000 teachers.
AIC-AI Cookingrobot cooks and Robot Waiter 1 serves
We’re nearing a golden age for lazybones in the kitchen: the AIC-AI Cookingrobot prepares Sichuan, Shandong and Canton cuisines, meaning it can make spring rolls, Mongolian beef, fried wonton, and butterfly shrimp. It steams, bakes, broils, fries and sautés….
Website of the Day: Home made pipe organ
Today's website of the day is Matthias's home made pipe organ: He writes: It all began in the fall of 1992, in my final year of university. For lack of a better arts elective to take, I decided to take…
MySpace squaring up to YouTube by pushing video features?
TechCrunch has picked up on a fairly small, but possibly significant, change on the MySpace social networking home page that pushes MySpace videos more prominent and accessible. It reports "The top-left of the homepage now has 4 videos that entice…
Vodafone unveils 3G Christmas mobile line-up
Vodafone has unveiled a large range of 3G handsets in time for the busy Christmas season. 10 of the mobile phones are made exclusively for Vodafone include 6 HSDPA phones from Motorola and Samsung for accessing the web at broadband…
Jobs on Zune? He's not bovvered
In possibly the least spectacular news announcement today, CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, has said that he really isn't concerned by the imminent launch of Microsoft's Zune portable music player. In a Newsweek exclusive on the eve of the iPod's…
Schoolboy humour courtesy of stock spammers: the exploding ARSS
Thanks to The Register (who else) for this gem of schoolboy toilet humour courtesy of those annoying stock spammers we're all too painfully aware of: There's too many jokes in there, of varying degrees of puerility. They write themselves: "Get…
Reuters to open a news bureau in Second Life
Reuters is the latest company clamouring to be a part of the Second Life virtual world (some say parallel universe), with an announcement that it will begin publishing text, phono and video news from the real world within Second Life…