BBC plans online children's world
A virtual world which children can inhabit and interact with is being planned by the BBC. — CBBC, the channel for 7-12 year olds, said it would allow digitally literate children the access to charac...
TellMe Launches a Killer Mobile Product
If you have a cell phone that supports the new TellMe mobile application, you will never use 411 again to find a business. It launches today at 5 AM PST. — TellMe mobile is a free Java application ...
In The Time Of "Me First": IBM Slowr?
Social applications are likely to be the major theme in software this year. IBM has been pushing hard in recent years, building on the huge installed base and share-of-mind in the enterprise software...
Google to Fund Indian Startups
Early-stage fund, Seedfund, will help Google sow the seeds of a future buyout. — Google's style is usually to pay huge dollops for the startups it finds interesting. In India, though, it has chosen...
Record Labels Contemplate Unrestricted Digital Music
As even digital music revenue growth falters because of rampant file-sharing by consumers, the major record labels are moving closer to releasing music on the Internet with no copying restrictions — a...
E-mail from the grave? Microsoft seeks patent on 'immortal computing'
In this culture of instant information, some Microsoft Corp. researchers are pursuing a radical notion — the concept of saving messages for delivery in decades, centuries or more. — The project, dub...
Throwaway Identities
Written by Jitendra Gupta of KarmaWeb and edited by Richard MacManus — Social Media researcher danah boyd recently recently wrote in her blog about throwaway identities in MySpace: … danah notes tha...
Vista Service Pack 1 is coming
Reckon you won't upgrade to Vista until the first service pack is released? That's looking likely to be the second half of this year, according to Microsoft's latest email blast. — The company has ...
Find Out If Your Social Security or Credit Card Numbers are on the Internet
Silicon Valley based Trusted ID, which launched IDFreeze last year to help protect people from identity theft, released their second product this evening - Stolen ID Search. — Type a social security...
Forget ABCs - The Social Media Alphabet Is DNRS
Many search marketers know their search engine alphabet, A for Ask.com; G for Google; M for Microsoft Live.com and Y for Yahoo. But how many know the important letters of the social media alphabet, D...
Best Practices for Title Tags
It's been a while since I provided some straightforward, back to basics style advice and there can be little doubt that the title tag is worthy of attention for beginners and experts alike. And so I ...
The Connection Between Short, Modular and Open
How did we get from the two-hour film to the 24-minute TV sitcom? Why is it that the Academy award-winning short film of yesteryear was watched by a few thousand, while a YouTube clip shot on a camer...
Report: Google Doesn't Renew Google.de, Site Goes Down
Reports are coming in from Germany that Google.de was down "for many hours" yesterday, and has now gone live again. We're trying to confirm the reason, but it appears to be because Google forgot to r...