Posts Tagged with ‘ESPN’

If some of the latest funding news is any indication, widgets are the newest must-have for every content-driven site as well as Web 2.0 apps. Widgetbox allows users to create their own widgets, which can then be used on blogs and other web pages for everything from highlighting the RSS feed of another blog to running games in a sidebar.
And while widgets are the darlings of Web 2.0 companies from MyBlogLog to Flickr, even old-school companies are jumping on the [...]

The mobile web is quickly surging in popularity, as the recent launch of AdSense for Mobile and resumed Firefox mobile development have shown.
FeedM8, a unique service that converts RSS feeds into a mobile-friendly format, is now the latest to experience the rush to go mobile first-hand, having announced that its publisher network has seen a massive increase in member sites, having added 1,000 new websites within the last 30 days alone.
The Toronto-based company officially launched the service in August [...]

TV Networks apparently have their eyes on Twitter as a new marketing strategy. According to the Wall Street Journal, ABC, CBS, MTV and NBC have started to experiment with the year-old service as a way to communicate with potential viewers and consumers. This seems like a potentially lucrative idea, considering that users are able to receive messages via SMS, IM, email or the Twitter website.
MTV personalities used the service to keep Twitterers updated about the MTV Music Awards directly from the red [...]

I bet you never suspected that this January 27th was Thomas Crapper Day! I mean here we have been so focused on the CES, DEMO 07 and other events that we nearly missed "Crapper" Day! According to a press release by Roto-Rooter via Yahoo! News, the average person spends 11,862 hours in the bathroom, or 1 year - 4 months - 5 days in a lifetime.
Thomas Crapper perfected the flushable toilet in 1898, and everyday people now have luxuries once [...]