Monthly Archives: May 2007

CBS buys last.fm for $280 million wowee zowee! “CBS is moving to remake itself into a content distributor across virtually every medium as media usage becomes increasingly fragmented.” (tags: music Acquisitions socialsoftware Business web2.0) The Future Of Television: TBS Taking … Continue reading →

Spring 2.1: TheServerSide Video Interview Part I “We ran into Rod Johnson, founder of the Spring Framework, at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. Rod talks to us about Spring 2.1, Spring Web Flow, and Spring Batch in … Continue reading →

wingerz: Learning how to use your DSLR’s manual controls “One of the big advantages to using a SLR over a point-and-shoot is being able to shoot in manual mode, opening the doors to more creative photography.” (tags: Photography Camera tips) … Continue reading →

Web 2.0 free buttons maker! – The program (Photoshop, hosting php-gd2) “My Cool Button is an excellent online tool for creating Web 2.0 style aqua buttons with rounded corners and color gradients. It generates the final image in PNG format.” … Continue reading →

Andy Kessler: WSJ: A Future For Newspapers “I really believe that the copy protection mechanism for newspapers is their consumer interface, in the form of ink spurted on newsprint.” (tags: News Print media) Facebook aims to be Social OS; Waiting … Continue reading →

Hivelogic – The Narrative – Railsconf 2007 Slides “Building Community Focused Web Apps with Rails” (tags: Ruby rails Web presentation community development architecture) idproxy.net – use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID idproxy.net lets you use your Yahoo! account to … Continue reading →

What’s Next? Marching Bands? | Digital Daily | John Paczkowski | AllThingsD “the RIAA is pressing Congress to repeal a federal law that exempts broadcast radio stations from paying performance royalties” (tags: Music copyright media Laws) Google (hot) Trends What … Continue reading →

Google May Launch Mobile Service In UK Google may be preparing to launch its own branded mobile network in the UK… [to] become a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) via a deal with UK mobile phone company O2 (tags: Google … Continue reading →

Yahoo may net Bebo owners $1bn | Markets | Business | Money | Telegraph “Yahoo is rumoured to be working on an attempted takeover of Bebo, Britain’s most popular social networking site, which could turn its British-born founder into the … Continue reading →

Google Buying FeedBurner for $100 Million? | Threadwatch.org “Google is buying FeedBurner and that the price is in the $100 Million range. So, why would Google pay such a high multiple, about 10 times revenues, for the startup?” (tags: feeds … Continue reading →

Official Google Blog: Google Apps Partner Edition “…releasing a version of Google Apps specifically designed for ISPs, portals, and other service providers” (tags: Google SaaS ondemand Web applications Enterprise) How to Maintain a Mountain Bike A good overview (tags: Cycling … Continue reading →

To Create Buzz, TV Networks Try A Little ‘Blogola’ – WSJ.com “TV feature writers, studios and networks are flooding bloggers with free stuff in hopes the flattered recipients will reward them with positive coverage.” (tags: TV PR media Blogs podcasts) … Continue reading →

Rails Envy: Hi, I’m Ruby on Rails… “What do you get when you cross the Mac vs PC commercials and Rails Envy? Ruby on Rails ads to get everyone hyped for Railsconf, that’s what!” (tags: ruby rails humor java video … Continue reading →

Web Performance Presentation (PPT) “Steve Souders of Yahoo’s “Exceptional Performance Team” gave an insanely great presentation at Web 2.0 about optimizing website performance by focusing on front end issues. “ (tags: Web performance web2.0 Yahoo Development Webdesign scalability CSS JavaScript … Continue reading →

Are You Paying Attention?: Life after pageviews: Proposing AudientStream and AttentStream “A LifeStream is … an outgoing channel/record of everything you do/produce aggregated into a single feed.” (tags: Attention aggregator feeds identity AxL media) EETimes.com – Xuuk’s eye-counting technology mimics … Continue reading →