Who knew? Today is BlogDay 2007.
Here are the ‘rules:’
BlogDay posting instructions:
Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2007
Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs
Post the BlogDay Post (on [...]
The New York Times today reports that NBC Universal will not remove its contract with iTunes, effectively removing all NBC shows from the service. The reason cited in the article is that NBC wanted to raise the prices and Apple refused.
How stupid a move is this? Wasn’t it sales on iTunes that saved “The Office”? [...]
Via Kings of A&R and Billboard.
SoundExchange has reached a deal with commerical webcasters, including Pandora, Yahoo Radio and AOL. They will not have to pay the proposed fees and will not have to implement technology that prevents the streamed music from being ripped.
The deal was reached late today in New York during a meeting at which [...]
Right on schedule with it’s roughly bi-monthly reappearance, the much rumored GPhone is making it’s round through the blogosphere today.
This time, Indian news outlet Rediff News “reveals” that the phone will be announced within a month.
Sources close to the development said a simultaneous launch across the US and Europe is expected, and announcements would be [...]
Every few years I get that itch to build myself a new computer. Because I am neither a “serious gamer” nor editing video on my computers, I can usually use my machines for quite a while without any major upgrades. A few weeks ago, however, I tried to watch some HD video on the ABC [...]
(Via Ars Technica) Walmart is now selling DRM free mp3s from EMI and Universal for 94 cents. Of course, you have to use the Internet Explorer to actually use the service, but still.
The songs are encode with 256kBit/s. According to Walmart, the catalog features a few hundred-thousand DRM free songs at this point.
Good news for [...]
According to German edition of the Financial Times, T-Mobile will get to sell the iPhone in Germany. According to the newspaper, T-Mobile will have to had over 10% of the money made on sales and monthly service fees to Apple.
The deal will most likely be announced at the Internationale Funkausstellung in Berlin (a great tech [...]
Hugh just posted some very interesting thoughts about the relationship between blogging and the world of Twitter/Facebook/Jaiku etc.:
I remember Robert Hughes, the great art critic saying in his wonderful book, “The Shock Of The New” that the Conceptual Art scene that emerged in the 1960s-1970s was actually good for “Painting”.
Why? Because with everybody [...]
My Skype account just logged me back in. There are a paltry 600.000 people online right now…
Ahhh… forget about that… it just logged me out again.
Oh well – at least I had 30 seconds worth of fun.
Friday Morning Update: Techmeme is full of Skype stories. Looks like it is working for some. For me up [...]
Allen Stern of CenterNetworks uses the current Skype failure to dump on Jason Calacanis‘ human-powered search engine Mahalo:
As nearly everyone online knows by now, Skype is out of commission. It’s down for the count. I was one of the first people to post about the Skype outage this morning, and since then, hundreds of others [...]
Looks like Skype is having a major outage today. While this is quite unusual, I am sure it has brought a few Web 2.0 companies to scramble for a landline.
Skype posted the following on its blog:
UPDATED 14:02 GMT: Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype. Our engineering team has determined that [...]
(Via CNN) A Russian court today acquitted the owner of AllOfMp3.com today. Apparently, the infamous company was working within the legal framework, as much as the music industry disliked it:
Kvasov always said he was within the law because the site paid part of its income to ROMS, a Russian organisation which collects and distributes fees [...]
I guess I woke up late to this meme, but even if you have seen it before, you can never have enough Tay Zonday…
