Tuesday 22 May 2007

Voice to text technology for bloggers

guardian article here - "SpinVox to let bloggers send posts from street to screen"

Also on recent reports that Yahoo! have offered $1 billion for Bebo. They were rejected; as they were when they tried to buy facebook for a reported $1.6 billion. Why do you think Yahoo! is so keen to get its teeth into the social networking sites?

Sunday 13 May 2007

Web 2.0 - a counter argument

Interesting article about Web 2.0 and 'digital narcissism' - essential reading for the exam. So, what are you waiting for, read it!

Is Andrew Keen, author of 'The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy', actually on to something? Your comments...

Japanese Marketers Target Gamer Girls, Moms


Article from Wired here about Nintendo trying to expand it's female audience.
An untapped market? Is Sony missing out on the female gamers market? Is the DS more accesible than the PSP? Any female gamers out there? Got a DS? Miss Berry swears by her DS! Anyones' parents playing the brain game?

Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life

A great piece of net satire....angry little pirates!

Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life

Should Google censor?


Are google hypocrites? Their informal corporate motto is "Don't Be Evil". Does this run against what they are doing in certain countries where governments are attempting to censor the internet? Article here about how money for shareholders wins all the moral arguments...
What do you think? Google helping repressive regimes or just making an honest buck?

Internet TV - A sign of things to come?



From the people who brought you Skype - Joost is a advertising-supported Internet TV service. Read about the extra £22.6 million worth of new venture capital money they've just secured from Viacom and CBS.

Anyone currently watching telly over the internet? Anyone using Channel 4's 4OD service - what's it like? Content, quality etc...