This can be reminiscent of the fact that paid answer sites are destined to doom. The news is that Google has announced that Google Answers will close down sometime later this week.
Although no reason has been given for this closure, the fact that a...
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Press Complaints Commission in UK has stated that the blogs and other websites should be roofed by a voluntary code of practice like the newspapers. Technorati recently conducted a survey revealing that 100,000 new blogs are created everyday. Though...
The online video-sharing site with a focus on advertisement - ViTrue has found new investors that include Ron Conway, an original Google investor who is also known as 'Godfather of Silicon Valley'. This follows its announcement last month of a Series 'A'...
On November 3, we reported YouTube founder Chad Hurley telling an audience that by the end of 2007, YouTube can deliver user-generated short clips to mobile devices. Within days the news that the No 2 telecom company in US, Verizon and YouTube were...
The YouTube like video-sharing site Break.com has announced that they will pay handsomely for user-generated videos. They said that they would pay $400 for normal user-generated clips and up to $2,000 for animated shorts.
However, what will qualify...
A study by Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 12 percent of internet users in the US has downloaded a podcast, which is a 5 percent increase from findings earlier this year by the same group. This might seem to be a good trend for the...
Vibely is the latest kid on the block offering niche social networking. This Washington DC-based startup is an attempt to connect venues and events. It has almost everything that you can expect from a social network like profile pages with pictures,...
Web 2.0 is about users' choice and democracy. Towing the line, a new site A site ArtFaceOff offers artists to compete with each other and win a prize.
It works this way - an artist can register and upload the images his work and tag it appropriately....
Cucumis is a Paris-based online community for people who knows at least two languages. Actually it works this way - users with knowledge of two languages earn points by providing translation service in the language they know. Then they can trade the...
Sermo, the MA-based social network for doctors has received $3 million in a first round funding led by Longworth Venture Partners. You need to be a doctor to become a member of the site. However, they will open up for those who are not doctors in the...
The California Supreme Court has ruled that bloggers and Internet providers in US are not liable for posting defamatory comments posted by third parties. This follows the case regarding a San Diego woman who was sued for posting libelous comments on her...
Yahoo! is going to work with seven newspaper groups that include 176 regional newspapers. These newspapers would start using Yahoo! HotJobs classified job site from December.
The deal is much broader than that though. Both Yahoo! and the consortium...
Recently, I was enquiring about whether there was a Skype client for Symbian-operated mobiles as an online acquaintance told me that there was one out already [sic.]. I had been a bit off from VoIP watching in the last 5-6 weeks or so concentrating on...
Two months back, Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris said that YouTube and MySpace were violating copyright laws. Following that, Universal Music went on to sue video-sharing sites Grouper and Bolt.
During then I wondered why it did not sure...
This has come as a mild shocker to me. Jason Calacanis has confirmed that he is leaving AOL. His association with AOL started just over a year ago when AOL procured Calacanis' blog network Weblogs, Inc. Following that, Calacanis was the top man at...
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