Archive for April, 2007

Whilst stationed at your cubicle, desk, or general place of work, do you ever let your mind wander? Perhaps as you stretch those fingers you silently question whether you’re more talented or overall better at your job than your colleagues are at theirs. (You know you do it.) Perhaps you already know the answer to [...]

MySpace introduced itself in China yesterday after months of speculation about the social networks entry into the 137 million user market. MySpace China will be a locally owned and operated company run by CEO Luo Chuan, a former Microsoft executive. According to Chan MySpace China will have the final decision on the operating model and product strategy [...]

Back when I was a recent college graduate freshly armed with my degree, I got my first job working in marketing communications. At that point, PR was fairly standard: press kits, press releases, press packs with glossy product brochures, and even trade show booth items were fairly standard. Launching a new product had a set [...]

Good old AOL just launched a Web portal in India that combines IM, email and local content from Bollywood and other media. AOL has set its sights on the ad revenue being gobbled up by competitors Yahoo! and MSN and India's local companies. The online ad market in India is only a fraction of the $3 billion [...]

OurStage is a well done community talent contest. Users post videos or songs and the rest of the community votes on them. The top of each channel gets a $100 prize at the end of the month, and the entry with the most votes out of all the channels gets the grand prize of $5,000 [...]

Joost, one of the most talked-about IPTV ventures in the world, is set to launch shortly – Tuesday, May 1st to be exact. It’s going to be a big day. No, not a big day for broadcast over the Internet. That’s already been done. Joost has for weeks now even streamed its fair share of [...]

Blinkx video search appears to be going public next month. The decision emanates from the Autonomy Group, which intends to exercise an option over their shares in Blinkx. Blinkx just announced the other day a partnership with National Geographic to index their acclaimed documentaries. Blinkx is currently the world's largest video search engine. Their service has endeavored to solve the [...]

We got a nice note from Twango asking us to check out their latest tweaks and features. It has been some time since our last review, so we checked it out for you guys. Twango has become a very popular media sharing site that allows users to upload photos, video or other files and then [...]

BuyYourFriendADrink explains itself with its name. Basically, when you can’t make it to where your friend is celebrating, you can send them a gift of a drink coupon for them to redeem at one of their favorite local bars. It’s a pretty cool idea that will definitely be great for people to show that they [...]