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babooo404 writes:
MySpace and Skype will announce a deal on Wednesday which will bring the Skype chat/voice client to MySpace and the MySpace IM client. What about the business model? That's easy — premium services from Skype (voicemail/international calling) to integrate into their MySpace profiles and IM. CenterNetworks believes this hookup is a one night stand.
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babooo404 writes:
I hate the Wordpress post editor. In fact, I'm not too fond of the entire admin area, but I love wordpress as a whole package. But with these 5 desktop blogging tools, I now love Wordpress all over again.
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babooo404 writes:
The un-named online video venture from News Corp. and NBC Universal now has a name: Hulu. Check out the announcement details on the name and the public beta opening in September. This venture will feature the most popular tv shows from Fox and NBC.
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babooo404 writes:
Disney has announced plans to acquire Club Penguin for $350 million in cash plus another potential $350 million if certain revenue targets are met. Founded by three Canadian fathers in late 2005, Club Penguin has quickly rocketed to prominence by offering kids the ability to customize their own virtual penguin in an online community. Armed with their penguin avatars, kids can chat with friends, play games and earn coins to buy items such as furnishings for their igloo home.
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babooo404 writes:
Nokia and Twango have announced that Nokia has acquired the assets of Twango. The price of the transaction is undisclosed but the WSJ believes it was less than $96 million. Twango is a place to share and save your photos, videos and audio files. The company will remain in Seattle.
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babooo404 writes:
Just in from Google HQ — news that Google has acquired Postini for $625 million. Postini has 300 employes and handles message security, archiving, encryption, and policy enforcement. Postini will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google and the deal should close by the end of the 3rd quarter 2007. More information on the deal.
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babooo404 writes:
Kevin Rose of Digg fame has launched his latest startup. Check out the first video review of Pownce. It's like Twitter, only better. It combines IM, file sharing and event planning into one tool. The reply feature alone makes it 100x better than Twitter.
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babooo404 writes:
A story out of the U.K. this morning shows Bebo being used in part to coordinate a fight at a school in the town of Tiverton. Over 80 students it appears were involved. "Police said the arrangements appear to have been made on the social networking website Bebo and by emails, mobile phones and text messages."
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babooo404 writes:
Could the AT&T announcement today to go after customers who use their service to download illegal movies and music be part of the Apple deal? Even if Apple is not part of the reasoning, they should certainly see a lift in sales.
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babooo404 writes:
Great breakdown of the " real cost " of owning an Apple iPhone for one year... get ready folks, the math comes to $1936! The data plan alone is overwhelming. For the same money, you could buy: 2,129 McDonalds hamburgers or a Macbook Pro.
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babooo404 writes:
Are you curious as to what type of site Mahalo was before it became Jason Calacanis' "new human search engine"? It appears it was a porn site.
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babooo404 writes:
Jason Calacanis has launched his new search engine/directory called "Mahalo" this afternoon. While called a search engine, it is more of a human directory whereby his paid human robots will look for content about the top 10k search topics (plus other friends and important people) and show full wiki-pages about them. Check out the full review which I must say is quite critical about the service.
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Tefen writes
"CNN Money posted this story about Kevin Ham, who has made a fortune gobbling up lapsed domain names and has recently launched a lucrative business partnership with Cameroon, the country which controls the .cm TLD. Since 2000 he has quietly cobbled together a portfolio of some 300,000 domains that, combined with several other ventures, generate an estimated $70 million a year in revenue."
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babooo404 writes:
Ask.com, the search engine to the stars has decided to go " all-in " vs. Google by creating absolutely insane advertisements, spending tens of millions of dollars on a campaign that no one will get. Allen attempts to break down why this is a bad move for Ask and offers 5 suggestions for Ask to help them get to superpower status. The best suggestion is his idea to have Ask get bloggers and web content sites to change their default search engines to Ask for monetary compensation.
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el_flynn writes:
You thought that polythylene was cool? The Star Malaysia is reporting on a bulletproof vest made out of coconut husk and fibreglass! The invention, which bagged a gold at the 35th Geneva International Exhibitions of Inventions, New Techniques and Products last April, had taken two years to invent, and claims to be able to stop a 9mm bullet at a 5m range. The extra benefits are its weight and cost — it claims to be up to 5 or 6 kilograms lighter than conventional, Kevlar-based jackets, and can be produced at a fraction of the cost.
