Two pioneers have joined hands - one the venerable media giant BBC and the other Microsoft, the technology monolith. Why? To develop and provide Web 2.0 solutions!
BBC boss Mark Thompson met Microsoft boss Bill Gates last Wednesday to sign the...
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LiveJournal has announced that they will soon start offering sponsored communities with participation benefits for users. It will also have sponsored features by other companies.
The sponsored communities will actually be groups sponsored by...
The US has given Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or Icann, the organization formed in 1998 that oversees the Internet's future more liberty for the next three years.
Icaan boss Dr Paul Twomey described the deal as a 'major step...
Facebook is planning to launch a new ad unit in a few weeks that it says will harness Facebook's social networking dynamic.
The new unit called Sponsored Stories will appear within Facebook's News Feed platform. It is the same News Feed that stirred...
I spotted the link on the BBCNews.com homepage. It was about if MySpace is going to be worth $10-20 billion in the coming few years. The debate started when RBC analyst Jordan Rohan said that MySpace could hit the $15 billion dollar mark in valuation in...
According to a Shanghai Daily report, eBay has sold its China div and its PayPal to Tom.com. Incidentally, Tom.com distributes eBay's Skype service in China.
Two reasons are cited. First, eBay, which had as much as 90% market share in China for C2C...
Void Communications LLC, a startup is promising a level of secrecy in emailing and IMs that leaves no traces.
The system named VaporStream works this way. Suppose A wants to discuss something with B privately, A calls up a VaporStream web page which...
In a bid to challenge YouTube, MySpace and Yahoo!, Microsoft has announced yesterday that it is going to stream live concerts to its users in a big way. This follows the signing of the exclusive worldwide deal with Control Room (previously known as...
Ex-Rocketboomer Amanda Congdon is back with her new podcasting venture called Amanda Across America. This time, she is traveling across America and with a few causes. She is meeting people, talking to them and interviewing a few personalities.
She has...
Well, this kind of things do happen in life, especially if you are young. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's mate in Harvard when he was studying psychology (good that he dropped out), Aaron Greenspan seems to be envious of the fame of his...
The new domain extension .mobi is up for general sale for today. The domain is an attempt to boost the use of mobile devices as Web surfing platforms.
Already over 13,000 names have been registered in the period that was reserved for trademark...
This had to happen sooner or later. The AOL search data release scam after which specific users were identified has resulted in a class action suit against AOL. This is despite AOL made the CTO and a few others face the guillotine.
The class action...
At the MIXX Conference and Expo VideoEgg, NYC, today, the online video-enabling platform has announced the launch of the Eggnetwork that will offer advertisers to place ads within user-generated video.
For this it has entered into deals with some of...
The founders of Digg Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson are preparing for their Act II in Web 2.0 ventures. Act I had been a resounding success with the popularity of Digg known to everyone. Now they are about to announce that their Internet video production...
Mashable reports that MySpace is going to announce an online safety campaign today in collaboration with National School Board Association, the National Association of Independent Schools and Seventeen magazine.
MySpace, as we know, had been in the...
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