Archive for August, 2007

Online storage has been a business proven useful for some time already. Having one’s essentials – and even some luxuries – available from any place and any terminal one can connect to the Web with is appealing to many. Why wouldn’t it be? For the half of the computing world that hasn’t been persuaded over [...]

About a month ago I began testing a fascinating new beta called Lumosity. The service is designed to exercise user's brains with a series of games that promote cognitive skills. According to Stanford neuroscience graduate and Co-Founder Michael Scanlon these exercises build cognitive ability in processing speed, cognitive control and attention. Playing these fun and simple [...]

There are more YouTube clones and copies on the web now than I care to keep track of. FanCovers, however, offers the same simple service with a twist for music fans. "It is a community of amateur artists who want to share their work with the world. We provide a free service that lets users [...]

Google Video was supposed to be Google's answer to the popular Apple iTunes video marketplace where users can download movies and television shows. Apple has had far more success though, while Google's lackluster offerings have kept a quiet status. Yesterday, Google announced that it would be shutting down its Google Video marketplace and that any [...]

Yesterday Microsoft began testing a new dashboard view for its Windows Live services. Windows users can now view new emails, blog postings; contact updates or use other Microsoft services including antivirus and spyware scans. Microsoft is attempting to further engage the over 300 million Windows Live users to compete with Google and Yahoo in the Internet [...]

Comcast has now opened the doors on a beta version of Fancast, its entertainment portal that will aim to be ?the one place where you can find what to watch, where to watch, when to watch it — plus all the video, photos and facts you crave.? Fancast is now open to the public and [...]

Word in the Valley has it that some execs at AOL are thinking of killing the social news system established some time ago at Netscape.com to rip off compete with Digg. Apparently, it hasn’t reached the level of success they believed it would many months back, and think it’d be better simply to direct Netscape.com [...]

Two stories concerning Universal Music emerged recently. One, an ongoing tale concerning the continuous threats of lawsuits level at Veoh by the media giant, which has in turn led a very peeved and exasperated Veoh to throw back a counter suit in which the video startup is seeking “a declaratory injunction to bar Universal from [...]

GloobTV has just emerged from beta offering their users "only the best new videos" picked by their editors. Users are invited to add comments, pictures and video responses and Gloob's editors relieve users from having to wade through "crap" video according to their about page. According to Gloob the San Francisco based media company differentiates itself [...]