links for 2007-10-30
Links October 30th, 2007
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“Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.”
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Google coupon search
links for 2007-10-27
Links October 27th, 2007
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“View real-time data and statistics from any logfile on any server with SSH, in an intuitive and entertaining way.”
links for 2007-10-25
Links October 25th, 2007
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“more significant addition, is the opening of Facebook’s SMS platform, which will let applications and users interact with each other on Facebook over SMS. SMS integration is key as Facebook takes on international aspirations.”
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“The software giant said yesterday that it will buy a 1.6% stake in Facebook, beating out Google Inc. after intense lobbying. The deal places a $15 billion valuation on the closely held Palo Alto, Calif., start-up.”
links for 2007-10-24
Links October 24th, 2007
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the always great Eric Rochow
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“FriendCSV can pull out a lot of information about your friends and store it in a comma-separated values (CSV) file that you can then load into a spreadsheet program like Excel.”
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“BluePulse, backed with $6 million from VantagePoint Venture Partners, is the latest to focus on building a mobile network around SMS — by bringing SMS, email, and phone all into one interface.”
links for 2007-10-20
Links October 20th, 2007
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“The Relationship Update Stream is an endless feed of social relationship data, designed for web services to be able to send and receive information when changes to social relationships on their service occur.”
links for 2007-10-19
Links October 19th, 2007
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“Facebook Inc. wants to make the data its members enter into the social network’s profiles portable, so that they can move that data to other online services if they want, the company’s CEO said Wednesday.”
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“According to one source, the remaining Skype/eBay management team is holing up in London this week to try to figure out how to actually make money from Skype.”
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“$300 million in profit next year for MySpace? In response to a question, Murdoch said News Corp. should generate $5 billion or so in ebitda next year “if the economy half holds up.” He then said MySpace should contribute “$200-$300 million” of th
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“Despite the potentially free download, over 240,000 users got the album from peer to peer BitTorrent networks on the first day of release, according to Forbes. Since then, the album was downloaded about 100,000 more times each day, totaling more than 500
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“Such changing habits could have implications for the Internet portals, which rely on email for much of their traffic and to bring in consumers who will use their other Web services.”
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“DRM-Free Tracks with Higher Quality 256 kbps AAC Encoding — Apple® today announced that it has expanded its iTunes® Plus offering to over two million tracks and lowered the price of all iTunes Plus tracks to just 99 cents.”
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“Video Identification is the next step in a long list of content policies and tools that we have provided copyright owners so that they can more easily identify their content and manage how it is made available on YouTube.”
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“Digital downloads of songs from the band’s eight studio albums and other recordings are expected to be available through Verizon and digital-music services, including iTunes, on Nov. 13.”
links for 2007-10-17
Links October 17th, 2007
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‘The Amazon EC2 team just added Large and Extra Large instance types to EC2. The former “one size fits all” instance type is now known as a Small instance.”
links for 2007-10-16
Links October 16th, 2007
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“Citizen Journalism space - Newsvine was acquired by MSNBC, the Microsoft/NBC joint venture, for an undisclosed sum. Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson said that “Newsvine will continue operating independently, just as it has been since launching in March of 2006
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“We have no interest in doing it like Facebook with an open A.P.I. letting people do whatever they want,” Mr. Nye said. “We’re not going to have people sending electronic hamburgers to each other.”
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Beth pulled data pulled from a number of sources regarding Facebook’s current (10/2007) Demographics
links for 2007-10-15
Links October 15th, 2007
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Google Maps NYC Subway Transit Map (point-to-point directions)
links for 2007-10-13
Links October 13th, 2007
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“Oracle (Charts, Fortune 500) is offering $17 a share for BEA (Charts), a leading provider of application software for computer servers. That’s worth about $6.7 billion, based on BEA’s total shares outstanding.”
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“A growing number of employers, including U.S. Cellular, Deloitte & Touche and Intel, are imposing or trying out “no email” Fridays or weekends. While the bans typically allow emailing clients and customers or responding to urgent matters, the normal
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“Snocap, the music-licensing company best known for being the follow-up act of Napster founder Shawn Fanning, has cut its staff by 60 percent, a spokeswoman for the company said Thursday evening.”
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“Stuart Collville and Ed Eliot just launched a new CSS Sprite Generator tool, which is the first of many in a series of web-site performance tools.”
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“Total Music is likely to be a total failure, unless the music industry can find a way to use the service to introduce new users - people that aren’t familiar with the ease of ripping and handling digital music files - to the world of digital music.”
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“he big music labels are in trouble, but not because Radiohead is giving its music away — they’re in trouble because they can’t sell CDs by artists who want to sell them.”
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“According to [readwriteweb] poll US$5-9 is the most popular price range that people are willing to pay for the digital download version.”
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