Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social News and Social Bookmarking
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007News Corp Acquiring LinkedIn: Rumors Confirmed?
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007The rumors of News Corp’s possible acquisition of LinkedIn appear to be substantiated. The two companies have been in serious talks about a deal. Further, Venturebeat speaks of reports also hinting at how News Corp. may be looking to integrate LinkedIn into its larger company–it may be fit ...
The Daily Poll: Do You Care About Facebook/ABC News?
Monday, November 26th, 2007ABC News has teamed up with Facebook to offer political news and interactive features on the “it” social network of the moment. As we reported earlier, users can read the latest headlines from ABCNews.com and participate in polls, see which candidates their friend’s support, and track a politician’s popularity, ...
News Corp’s Expanding Ad Network
Monday, November 26th, 2007Weeks after announcing the FIM ad network for MySpace and other sites included in the News Corp. umbrella, the ad network is being extended even further into Murdoch’s empire. It will be selling ads across News Corp’s online media properties, in a manner similar to what we’ve seen with several ...
MySpace News Feeds, Coming to a Profile Near You
Monday, November 26th, 2007Newsfeeds. Everybody’s got them, and MySpace wants them too. You’ll find them added to your account in the next month or so, alerting you to all of your friends’ activities. This isn’t the only time MySpace has moved to better emulate Facebook, which seems to have ...
ABC News + Facebook = Epic Fail
Monday, November 26th, 2007We noted this weekend that ABC would be joint venturing with Facebook on the politics section of the site, showcasing ABC News’ political coverage of the campaign. I assumed (incorrectly, it would appear) that Facebook would be the big winner in the partnership, as ABC wouldn’t be getting any ad ...
Breaking News: People Use Zunes
Monday, November 19th, 2007No one is as surprised as me at the news, but as it turns out, people do use Zunes. I just caught a tweet from Todd Cochrane at RawVoice where he credited the brand new Zune Marketplace for providing 10% of the traffic received to his podcast for the last ...
PHP News Catchup
Monday, April 24th, 2006Because I've been busy with work and travel in the last few weeks, there's a lot I haven't had the time to blog about. So, I decided to try to summarize the important stuff I've missed in one rushed, disorganized post. (Maybe you missed some stuff, too...
PHP News Roundup
Friday, February 24th, 2006I've been away for a week, and a lot has happened in the PHP world during that time. Tim Bray sparked a debate with his discussion On PHP. Greg and Marcus were quick to point out how silly it is to be comparing tools. It reminds me of soccer players w...
