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Sunday, October 14th, 2007When it comes to decide where and how to host your files on the web you ask yourself two main questions: Are you ready to pay for it? What is the best service for a the type of file you need. File hosting/sharing is a totally crowded space with both vertical solutions (think Flickr or [...]
Windows Live SkyDrive Doubles Storage to 1GB, Still Can’t Keep Up With Gmail
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Microsoft doubled the online storage consumers can get for free in Windows Live SkyDrive. It’s hard to get excited about that when Gmail is already giving me 2.9 GB of storage, with more on the way—4GB by the end of the month, and 6GB by early January, according to one [...]
The Clock is Ticking for Joost
Sunday, October 14th, 2007There’s a time bomb out there with Joost’s name on it. Full-screen, broadcast-quality video streams—the main selling point of Joost’s peer-to-peer Internet TV client software—is quickly coming to the Web. Brightcove will soon be offering such streams to its video publishers using BitTorrent DNA. But the real threat to Joost will [...]
Answers.com Partners with Wordpress to Offer AnswersLink Button
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Answers.com has partnered with Wordpress (and its parent company Automattic) to offer an official Wordpress plugin for the Wordpress.org software and addition to the Wordpress.com blogging service, which will let bloggers link words in their posts to definitions and explanations from Answers.com with the click of a button.
“We’re particular about the [...]
Google to show YouTube videos on other Web sites
Thursday, October 11th, 2007October 09, 2007 (Computerworld) — Google Inc.’s AdSense is offering Web publishers who participate in the program the ability to start displaying ad-supported video clips from Google’s YouTube on their sites.
Google sees the new program as a win for all involved.
The program allows advertisers to distribute their video-based ads across the AdSense [...]
Blinkx Launches Another Way for Video Publishers to Make Money
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Blinkx, a video search engine, has launched their advertising program to allow publishers to earn revenue on their uploads. Much like AdSense for YouTube, which was revealed earlier this week, Blinkx’s solution matches ads contextually with videos. Ads are displayed either in a transparent window at the bottom of the video screen, or in a [...]
Google Acquisitions by Year, 2001-2007
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Below, I’ve embedded a table of all the Google acquisitions from 2001-2007 (acquisitions, not investments). It’s essentially Wikipedia’s data on Google acquisitions, with a couple of additions from Stan Schroeder’s big list. Considering that even Wikipedia has missed out a couple, you can see how hard it is to get good data here. But the [...]
Yahoo Buying 10% of Alibaba IPO, Expanding its Role in China
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Yahoo has announced that it plans to acquire 10% of the shares which are being offered by Alibaba.com in an IPO which is expected to raise $1 Billion. Yahoo already owns 40% of Alibaba, and Alibaba owns 100% of Yahoo China… which can get complicated.
To make everything a bit more complicated, the company which owns [...]
BitTorrent DNA: Torrenting No Longer A Dirty Word
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007BitTorrent has been getting somewhat of a bad rap. Although BitTorrent itself sells copyrighted content over its P2P file sharing protocol, the service has become better known for less than legal downloads from sites like “The Pirate Bay”. It has been particularly popular for pirating because it easily distributes the cost of transmitting files across [...]
Mixaloo: Share Mixtapes and Make Money While Doing It
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Poughkeepsie, NY startup Mixaloo wants to make the experience of purchasing music online more social and rewarding, both emotionally and financially.
The company is taking a phenomenon - the mixtape - that has spanned several decades and media formats - 8 tracks, audio cassettes, CDs, and MP3 players - and bringing it to the web.
As a [...]