Archive for August, 2007

Skype and Dailymotion, an online video commuity, have created a partnership to coincide with the release of Skype 3.5 for Windows, which was released to the public today. This new version adds videos from the video-sharing sites Dailymotion and Metacafe to Skype and will establish an exclusive Dailymotion channel on Skype. This will allow Skype [...]

Despite all the censorship, and even the threat of prison time (for some fairly outspoken bloggers), more and more Chinese can’t seem to help but spend more and more time on the Internet. The surge in Net-based activity on the mainland has even grabbed the attention of the national government in the past couple of [...]

Looks like a lawsuit against Google concerning the alleged encouragement of copyright infringement just became a group effort. In addition to the two original plaintiffs in the case – England’s Premier League football organization and a music publisher by the name of Bourne & Co. – eight parties jumped onto the anti-GOOG bandwagon, stating that [...]

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the possibility of a labor union for bloggers. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal found that there is a "coalition of left-wing bloggers" trying to form a labor union with hopes that such a group will aid them in the process of receiving health [...]

Familiar with DailyKos? Of course you are. You might like the blog; you might not. But you definitely know the name. Well, this past Saturday the 2007 edition of the YearlyKos Convention, an annual gathering of bloggers, politicians, and various other influentials brought together under one roof by Markos Moulitsas, a civil puppeteer of sorts, [...]

Curious to know just how many minds are needed to start a Web 2.0 company? Well, if the structure of Social Media, Ltd. is anything to go by, just one’s enough. Yep, one. Uno. Commandeered by a Mr. Todd Palmer, Social Media Ltd. is a solo effort we think very deserving of a mention here [...]

I am pleased to announce that we already have the second winner in our iPhone contest. And this time the prize goes to Allan Herman, Owner of Creative Visual Marketing Services, photography consultant and author of The Color Blind Photographer. For the contest Allan offered his Ramblings of a Mad Man describing his personal experience [...]

Today Me.dium is announcing full compatibility with IE-7. Me.dium has been available for Firefox and Flock since February and the Explorer version has been much anticipated. In addition, the developers have created a widget that applies Me.dium's “real time” window to blogs and other pages. The new widget may well steal the news, as this tool [...]

Wikia is currently home to a great number of popular video gaming communities like Starcraft, Final Fantasy and Halo. Wikia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales demonstrated the new Wikia/Playxpert in-game toolbar at Wikimania Taipei last week. The toolbar allows users to search, read and contribute to Wikia's gaming community from inside the games. The new Wikia – PlayXpert toolbar also features [...]