Valley-based PR company Edelmann and The Electric Sheep Company are teaming up to sponsor what is most probably the first business plan competition for entrepreneurs in the virtual world of Second Life. according to the official announcement, applications are expected to be focused on improving the SL community, including business ideas like development of products, [...]
while O’Reilly’s web 2.0 summit is almost over, PodTech’s John Furrier published a bootlegged video of Eric Schmidt’s keynote given on tuesday:
An overflow crowd waits for the Eric Schmidt Web 2.0 keynote. At $3,500 per conference attendee, and a full plate of sponsors, it looks like they made some serious bank. Speaking [...]
earlier today, Google’s press-center confirmed what probably will be this years hottest and most controversial aquistion in IT-land: YouTube, 65 employees strong and searching for a business-model in business for less than 2 years, was sold to Google in an $1.65 billion all stock transaction (TechCruch has more details). besides the self-evident decision to continue [...]
now that’s what I’ld call ‘news’ – of course if it turns out to be true… Michael Arrington reports on rumors whispering that Google might be about to close aquisition of YouTube for $1.6 billion. Arrington ponders that these rumours are “40% likely to be at least partially true”…;)
update: the rumor is still around, backed [...]
Competitious is a collaborative tool, helping project-teams to track competing websites in their market. just enter URL and name of a site and watch Competitious automatically collect traffic-data and related blog-posts both from the companies’ blog and from all over the web. users can create feature-lists to compare several services in a feature matrix. comparative [...]
while Apple is almost certainly quite likely going to announce feature-movie downloads for the iTunes Music Store on next tuesdays special event, Amazon is first off the mark by having launched their movie download-service Unbox.com tonight. Unbox offers TV-episodes for $2 USD and movies in the range from $8 to 20$ for download, movies are [...]
SpiralFrog is in the news again. after last weeks major announcement on their deal with Universal Music (entitling SpiralFrog to start distribution of free music-downloads from Universal’s catalog by the end of 2006), a yesterday announced partnership unveils a similar venture between SpiralFrog and EMI Music Publishing. with two major labels on board and Universal [...]
in what could turn out to be the beginning-of-the-end for current digital-music business-models, newcomer SpiralFrog yesterday announced a major deal with the Universal Music Group, authorizing SpiralFrog to distribute UMG’s extensive catalog as free – though DRM’ed – and legal downloads within the United States & Canada. the free music-service is an attempt to offer [...]
according to this Yahoo! Finance-article, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was elected to Apple’s board of directors earlier today. after announcing Google Apps, this looks like Google’s second slap in Microsoft’s face within a few days. Steve Jobs on Apple’s latest reinforcement:
“Like Apple, Google is very focused on innovation and we think Eric’s insights and experience [...]
Richard White, member of the team that created Kiko, wrote an honest post on the lessons he learned from Kiko’s failure. Kiko is an early – if not the first – AJAX-calendar (way before Google Calendar and 30boxes). yesterday, TechCrunch among others broke the news that Kiko Software decided to discontinue the service and put [...]
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