Archive for October, 2008

After all, we can not constantly talk about the economic turmoil, there must be some bright spots in the daily flow of gloomy news – and here we have one with Britney Spear arriving to the social media scene with a blog of her own offering ways to befriend Britney on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and [...]

There’s no doubt that the economic crisis we are now in now will damage some industries and change others. And of course internet will be one of the industries affected. I think it is already obvious that if there is one thing that needs to be changed and will probably change, it is the way [...]

CloudContacts is a new startup launched this week that works in the field of contacts management by taking your contacts to the cloud and helping you manage and access all of them from any place in the world – all of that without carrying piles of business cards with you everywhere or struggling with a [...]

comScore has just released its usual monthly report on the most popular US online properties and everything is more than predictable here as our offline life and concerns influence what is getting more and more popular online. As a result, the most popular sites are focused on finance, trading (because of the economic turmoil we [...]

I think Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo is one of the longest stories of the year that some people think is already boring enough to continue discussing. But Steve Ballmer definitely does not think it is really that boring already as he continues offering his unexpected ideas on relations of the corporation he heads with Yahoo [...]

I often find it depressing how little we know about the web as it is in Asia – their projects and web celebrities or trends maybe. Most often we hear from Asia is when some of the western internet companies (Google anyone?) buys a local company or a startup in Asia – otherwise Asia seems [...]

Google has reported its Q3 revenues today and the industry seems to have exhaled in relief. Yesterday we heard lots of talks that if Google reported anything even remotely negative, the entire web industry would be significantly hurt as everyone would start questioning reliability of ad-supported business model. But fortunately for the industry, Google seems [...]

After all the talks yesterday about Yahoo’s ridiculous valuation, I have just noticed an incredibly interesting thing: Yahoo stock jumped all of a sudden by 9% to $12.76 as of writing this. It is absolutely understandable that Google Finance users are at a loss and can hardly understand what is the reason for someone to [...]

Back in September T-Mobile presented a long-awaited first phone manufactured by HTC and powered with Google’s Android mobile operating system. We were offered some images and videos of what the phone was capable of doing and those present at the T-Mobile event in New York were able to take a closer look and play with [...]