TechCrunch:
Yesterday, Facebook’s Dave Recordon commented on the service that he just finished a marathon session of The West Wing, a great show about the inner-workings of a fictional White House that ended its run on NBC in 2006. I agreed with Recordon, it was a great show. You know who else agreed? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.S (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Online photo service Pixable, which lets you print albums from your Facebook content, is launching its Calendar Creator feature today. The new feature will let you print out calendars to remember important dates from your information stored on Facebook, which is where many of us now have all of our photos (Facebook claims m (Read More)
Gizmodo:
For the first time ever, every major carrier in the US actually has smartphones worth buying, meaning you don't have to break up to get a good phone. Here's the best phones on each one, along with the best deals. If you hate the gallery format, click here. All pricing shown is with a new year 2-year contract, and some deals (Read More)
paidContent:UK:
Channel 4’s 4iP fund is continuing its pattern of investing in projects that “keep an eye on money and power” by funding Northern Ireland’s best-known political blog, Slugger O’Toole, paidContent:UK has learned.It’s 4iP’s first joint investment with media agency Northern Irela (Read More)
Mashable!:
With such strong competition from Mozilla and Microsoft, the only thing Opera can do to stay competitive is to innovate. And one has to hand it to them: although it doesn’t have a huge user base in the desktop web browser space, Opera is always one step ahead of the rest, for better or for worse. With version 10.10, Opera h (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Chip design firm Telegent has filed for a $250 million public offering, capping off an exciting few days of IPO action. Last week, network security provider Fortinet sold 12.5 million shares of common stock for $12.50, raising just over $156.2 million. And web marketer QuinStreet filed for its own $250 million IPO.Based in (Read More)
WebProNews Feed:
Compete has shared some findings from a new study on consumer holiday shopping behavior. According to the firm, active online buyers (consumers who intend to spend over 30% of their holiday budgets online) have bigger budgets than other shoppers. Furthermore, they are more likely to spend that money on Black Friday. The stu (Read More)
Mashable!:
Shira Lazar is the co-host of Yahoo! TV’s recently launched “What’s So Funny?“, a daily 3-minute show that takes a look at the funniest moments from last night’s TV lineup and lets viewers vote on their favorites.The convergence between the small and even smaller screen continues, as some of our favorite TV shows find new w (Read More)
Engadget:
Adding insult to Sony Ericsson's injurious bottom line, Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U shops (the UK's largest mobile phone retailers) have halted sales of the SE's Symbian-powered Satio handset after a high number of customer returns and complaints. A "software glitch" reportedly causes Sony Ericsson's flagship device to (Read More)
WebProNews Feed:
Google has introduced a feature that lets you send attachments in Gmail while you're offline. It works the same way as it would online, except that you can't include inline images. "If you have Offline Gmail enabled, you'll notice that all your mail now goes through the outbox, regardless of whether you're online or offline (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The argument over file sharing is redundant: creative businesses must change, and the social value of free must be recognisedStewart Brand, during the first Hackers' Conference in 1984, uttered the infamous maxim, "Information wants to be free". The implication was that any attempt to control and limit the free disseminatio (Read More)
The Guardian:
BBC management accused of paying lip service to letting other broadcasters join Project Canvas on-demand ventureBSkyB has accused the BBC of paying no more than "lip service" to allowing other broadcasters to join Project Canvas, the joint venture to bring on-demand programming to Freeview and Freesat, and again called for (Read More)
The Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch's talks with Microsoft about removing his newspapers' stories from Google, and giving index rights to Bing instead could be a pivotal moment in internet economics, writes John Gapper.He believes that Murdoch is willing to sacrifice traffic volume at his newspapers' websites in return for a payment from Micros (Read More)
The Guardian:
Maybe you can't judge AOL's new identity until you see the animated version. It's here. How much difference does it make?First AOL released a static picture of its new brand identity, which commentators enjoyed, but perhaps not in the way it was intended. Now they have published the full animated version, which is meant to (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[Spain] Nvivo.es has been around for 3 years now here in Spain. It’s a name most of the online scene is quite familiar with, especially those that frequent concerts. Nvivo, which sounds like “en vivo” or “live” in Spanish, is a social network for concert goers, the place to discover upcoming music venues, follow artists, m (Read More)