the official Google blog just has announced the aquisition of JotSpot, a well-known player in the market of collaborative wiki- & online-office products reviewed some time ago. as for the deal, I’m not sure what to make of it: while few key-modules of JotSpot (spreadsheets, word processing) are already part of Google’s web-office offering (in [...]
this is probably not news, but I just recognized that Gmail/Calendar seems to handle event-invitations via email (like typically sent by Microsoft Outlook/Exchange-users) quite well. not only does Gmail offer to create an event-entry in Google Calendar (I was aware of that), but it also allows to give direct response (“Are you coming? Yes/NoMaybe…”) to [...]
this weeks issue of austrian news-weekly Profil features (afaik) the first major story on Second Life (german language, obviously) in traditional austrian mass media (thegap, of course, published my own article on the matter few months ago, but I wouldn’t consider thegap ‘traditional’ or ‘general interest’ per se). good work, Sebastian Hofer! (and that’s not [...]
in case you’re not reading this with your favorite RSS-reader, you might have noticed the ‘Recent Readers’ widget – courtesy of MyBlogLog – I recently have added to the sidebar of this blog. MyBlogLog is a social network for blog-readers & -authors, giving a face to the largely anonymous crowd of the blogosphere. besides tracking [...]
though Pandora and Last.fm have been dominating the market of web-based music recommendation- & streaming-services during the past two years, we’ve seen some interesting new products emerging these days. while recently reviewed SpotDJ enters new ground, turning listeners into content-producers by recording their comments on tracks, iLike is unique in terms of the particular music [...]
wow, this looks like some awesome patchwork of technology! News At Seven is a video news-show, 100% automatically generated from content-bits all over the net. claimed to work totally autonomous, the engine fetches news-stories from various blogs and websites, runs the text through speech-synthesis, mixes it with matching still-images and video-clips and add’s a Halflife-character [...]
less than a week after allofmp3.com has released their whole catalogue in a free offering called “MusicForMasses”, the DRM-system in use – preventing the 128kbit mp3’s from being played on mobile players or outside the MusicForMasses Windows-software – already has been cracked. downloadsquad links to MusicForMe, the utitlity used to remove the copy-protection by “dumping [...]
in case you haven’t spent the day under a rock you probably already heard the news about Google Co-op. the freshly rolled-out service allows everyone to build customized frontends to Google’s search-index for integration on their own website, similar to established services like Rollyo but with greater flexibility. users can restrict search-results to their own [...]
want to receive all the latest news, blogposts, tourdates, videos of your favorite artists? earFeeder (beta) scans your local harddrive for media-files and builds a customized RSS-feed syndicating various sources matching the artists found in your library. since the media-scan is based on a Java-applet, earFeeder doesn’t require local installation.
update: after being subscribed to my [...]
those crazy russians! after Mastercard and Visa have been shutting down allofmp3.com’s creditcard-processing earlier this week (therefor virtually destroying the russians controversial business model), allofmp3 now strikes back with a new offering at least as outrageous as their past ones: titled “Music for Masses”, the service allows registered users to download the entire allofmp3-catalogue for [...]
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