Posts Tagged with ‘news’

My great friends at Wikia forwarded me the news that Halopdedia is hosting a giveaway in honor of the massively anticipated release of Halo 3. Halopedia wants to reward all their loyal contributors with some cool Halo 3 gear. Halopedia just passed the 3,000 article mark on Wikia's gaming network which hosts some of the largest [...]

Today the New York Times announced that its TimesSelect Web service will no longer be a paid subscription. This move signals further migration by traditional media into Web 2.0 form. Now most of the Web site will be freely available to readers in what appears to be a move to gain more readers.  The TimesSelect [...]

Sooner or later I will end up suing YouTube I just know it, but in the mean time pop star Prince is next in line. The music artist plans to sue YouTube and other major Web sites for copyright infringement for using his music. According to Prince YouTube cannot claim that they have no control over [...]

The social community Gather.com just announced the launch of a political discussion and a national search for a “People's Press Corps”. Election 2008 on Gather will engage voting adults into political discussions on vital issues of the upcoming election. Seven of the presidential candidates have already committed to creating groups within the Gather community and [...]

We received a nice exclusive from Diigo the social bookmarking beta about their latest release WebSlides. This innovation is a browser based player that displays live Web pages with integrated annotation, sticky notes and highlights in an interactive slideshow. With this cool tool users can record and narrate tracks as well as add background music to [...]

What is up with China? For quite a while I was railing against Google for being so ethnocentric, and Yahoo! too. Now it seems that China's “Army hackers” are in the news again allegedly infecting German ministries with spy programs. German magazine Der Spiegel reported that German government ministries including Chancellor Angel Merkel's office have been infected [...]

It is my usual pleasure to report on the startups I am particularly fond of. That is why today I will share with you exciting news from YooRL, the web service that permits you to create a special link from any URL and share it with your friends by any means whatsoever to further track [...]

Today Streamy Co-Founder Donald Mosites provided the catalyst for further discussion about the “Digg Killer” phenomenon we touched on last night. Streamy is a news networking service that has been swept into this “Digg Killer” maelstrom. However this superbly designed platform should be classified as “Alt Digg” because it is just an alternative. I doubt CBS news [...]

I was just reading a short article by a friend about the use of the term "Digg Killer" and how it is used too often and inappropriately. We all have a tendency to compare things, but why is it that everything has to be a Digg or Google killer? I guess there is nothing wrong with comparisons and [...]