Archive for September, 2007

September 25th, 2007.

Taser dude dedication http://youtube.com/watch?v=6bva6jn4rpe&mode=related&search=

Yahoo! acquires Zimbra

GodTube Named Augusts Fastest Growing Site

http://mashable.com/2007/09/18/godtube-comscore/

diggspacebooks? http://mashable.com/2007/09/18/digg-social-network/

nyt now offering their info for free, removing the subscription model and adding the ad supported model. Could be pressure from Murdoch’s newly acquired WSJ who is expected to drop their subscription model for an ad supported one.

Presentlying: Google Presentations

Jobs says Apple will fight iPhone unlocking hacks’It’s a cat-and-mouse game,’ says CEO in London

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewarticlebasic&articleid=9037398

around THE WORLD WIDE WEB
The UK can expect iPhones on November the 9th through the O2 network for 269 pounds

The country of Belgium was put up for sale on ebay.http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/ebay-halts-sale-of-belgium/2007/09/18/1189881479834.html

microsoft vs. EU – Schmidt facedThe Court of First Instance (CFI) delivered its final judgement on the aged lawsuit between the European Union (EU) and Microsoft. The court upheld the earlier victory for the European Union, requiring Microsoft to enable third-party integration to its rivals through documentation and support, to release a version of Windows without Media Player, to pay a substantial fine and to pay the majority of the legal costs of the case.

YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SHIT, IF YOU DON”T IGGS’LL TELL YOU
We’re celebrating 25 years of the smiley face emoticon. Iggs has more.

TECH IT OUT

Trent Rezner, the outspoken frontman for NiN is speaking out against the RIAA, encouraging fans to “Steal it. Steal away. Steal, steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealing,” calling Universal and the RIAA “greedy fucking assholes”, Said the music industry reps in response “no comment”.AOL are NYC bound in an attempt to become more hip to what the kiddies are doing these days. http://www.nytimes.com

Yep. SpongeAdam SquarePlantes, originally uploaded by Drew Olanoff.

Things that happen at the Best Damn Tech Show, Period. don’t always stay at the Best Damn Tech Show, Period.

Plante’s bringin’ preschool back. Yeah.

Twitter / Mr. Web2.0: just got a sneak peek at we…, originally uploaded by seanbonner.

So Digg.com is down and going under some renovations. What are they doing you ask?

Blowing the doors off of this mother, I say. Digg users have been up at arms at a recent story about Digg’s upcoming social networking features. I call bullcrap. I think Digg is an automatic player in social networking, because what is social networking? It’s finding likeminded people and hanging out with them.

Digg = Tons of Techy Geeks = My kind of people = Better interaction than any other normal social network (ie: Facebook, etc) for me.

I think it’s awesome. You’ll be able to send “shouts” to friends, asking for diggs and such. Profiles are more robust. I really can’t wait.

We’ll have a full review once its up, and we covered it during the tech show taping tonight.

Check out the Digg blog for more info.

_drew

Just when you thought Blu-ray was becoming the studio darling comes word that Paramount and Dreamworks will be distributing solely on HD-DVD. They cite cheaper players and discs as being the primary reason and determined that the quality was higher.

Skype has recovered and apologized for their gaff, offering users a bonus 7 days of service

Gotta love the MPAA. A 19 year old Virginia gal has pleaded guilty (to avoid a year of jail) to taking a 20 second clip of Transformers movie to show her younger brother. She was turned in by the movie owners

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/teen-cops-guilt.html

youtube has started displaying overlay ads as opposed to the very annoying pre-rolls., The viewer is offered 10 second text ads over the bottom third of the viewer. It looks as though advertisers will be charged by the CPM rather than the click

GEEK CHICK
MetroNaps Energypod is the tool for powernapping at work

DREW SPEWS NEWS

SITE OF THE WEEK
www.moanmyip.com

Twitter PoPo is in full effect, yo!, originally uploaded by Drew Olanoff.

“Bad boys bad boys whatcha gonna do, twitter police is gonna change your user name on you without your consent thus causing Drew to love web 2.0 even more!”

http://twitter.com/NotTechcrunch40/statuses/277809542

It’s no surprise to Fanatical Botanicals that Plante loves his Yahoo! But they may be interested to learn that he is a bit of a Zimbra fan as well. The open source email and collaboration software that is widely used for small business and universities has been given the big thumbs up by Plante.

It wouldn’t surprise us that Yahoo! has been quietly consulting with Plante and their latest acquisition of Zimbra has us even more suspicious of Plante’s activities.

We like Zimbra, hopefully this will not prove to be the kiss of death for them as has happened with several other decent services that Yahoo! has acquired. If it is, we know who to blame.