"Murdoch's News Corp. paid $580 million for MySpace last year, and now Google's agreed to pay it $900 million over three and half years to provide search services and advertising on it. Not a bad return on investment."
Not bad, indeed. Jeezle!
Tuesday, August 8, 2006
MySpace deal gives Google access to "oblivious teenager" demographic
Duran Duran to give virtual gigs
"Duran Duran are to create a virtual island within online game Second Life, on which they will perform actual live concerts."
Well, does life get any better than this?
AOL offers disturbing glimpse into users' lives
"AOL user 9486162 appears to live near Edisto Beach, S.C., and could be a poker aficionado who's a fan of the University of Kentucky's football team" -- and suicidal. Being a fan of UK football can do that to you....
Monday, August 7, 2006
Live from WWDC 2006: Steve Jobs keynote
Engadget has the best recap of the WWDC Stevenote I've seen so far; includes photos. Also, be sure to check out Apple's preview of Leopard, complete with video demonstrations.
Sunday, August 6, 2006
AOL Proudly Releases Massive Amounts of Private Data
Holy shit! What were they thinking? This is going to be one large class-action lawsuit. Lawyers everywhere will be fighting over who gets to represent the 17.7 million U.S. subscribers AOL reported having in the second quarter.
And why, if you were going to release this data, would you do it for FREE? With business acumen like this, it's no wonder they're losing customers faster than they can count them.
UPDATE: AOL: Breach of privacy was a mistake "'This was a screw up, and we're angry and upset about it,' AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein said." I bet.
Keep an eye on Government: WashingtonWatch
This looks to be an excellent application of Web 2.0 tools to a task that seems insurmountable to most people -- making sense of federal legislation. Unfortunately, it's also subject to certain biases of the designers, or at least of over-simplification of the issues. Be sure to check the TechCrunch comments for a solid (and, so far, brief) discussion.
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