Archive for February, 2007

More news from video sharing services – this time about money. Today I got a scoop from a credible source in the financial industry that gofish.com has hired JMP Securities of San Francisco effectively to attempt to buy WeWin - the incentive based video sharing community. The source told me that WeWin's rewards program fills a void that exists [...]

A new release currently out in beta, PlayInterChange.com takes on Netflix, GameFly, la la and a little bit of Amazon all in one online service. Blending pieces of old-school start-up and Web 2.0 company, PlayInterChange.com offers users a peer-to-peer option for buying and renting both new and used videos and games. Registration on the site [...]

Rollback prices! Maybe we rolled too far! Mobile phone firm Bharti Enterprises is aiming to start a chain of retail stores in India with US based Wal-Mart, and is reported to be prepared to invest $2.5 Billion dollars by 2015. Bharti Enterprises owns India's largest private phone firm and intends to open stores in cities [...]

Though Google wants to cozy up to Big Media as best it can, the monster from Mountain View is suiting up in the finest armor just in case a battle ensues between itself and its stubborn, reclusive Hollywood “partners.” Friday, news hit Red Herring, a technology weekly, about Google’s quest for a “high-level legal eagle.” [...]

We all know what ?too much? means. For instance, there is too much information for one individual to sift through on sites like Digg, Reddit, and Slashdot. One can even say there are too many sites that offer very similar or identical services. Well, maybe not Slashdot, which really is separate in its mission, but [...]

Robot ornithologists search for rare bird! Birdwatchers have a new high-tech weapon in their arsenal, an automated birdwatcher-robot. According to the press release, the new device has been placed in a US wildlife reserve in Arkansas to catch a fleeting glimpse of the elusive Ivory Billed Woodpecker (not to be confuse with its cousin Woody). [...]

A specialty of Web 2.0 is the wisdom of many rather than the knowledge of one. Many ones come together to form one big pile of many, but the pile is quite organized. That’s the kind of thinking that seems to have jumpstarted a site called Wis.dm, a social network – small at the moment [...]

Hakia, the Internet's new meaning based search engine announced the development of hakia GalleriesTM, a new unique feature of the search engine. The galleries categorize search results to short queries by delivering 10 relevant results for just one short query. These categories are meaning based aspects of the topic searched for. hakia GalleriesTM is now [...]

24-7PressRelease – February 16, 2007 – On Valentine's day bigmouthmedia and Global Media finally integrated the two companies for a match made in …Well made in the UK, which I suppose is heaven to my pals on those beautiful Islands. So now Global is part of bigmouthmedia and all their UK and USA clients will now [...]