Changes To Yahoo! Show That SEO Isn’t Just About Keywords
The last week has seen major changes to the way that Yahoo! presents its search results. In many ways these changes are a response to Google’s move to, what it calls, Universal Search. Essentially this means that where there is a wide variety of content types that match a user’s search, they are all displayed […]
Joost May Have Gone Into Public Beta But It Still Takes Them 77 Days To Reply To An Email
So after what is potentially the largest private beta ever with over 1m subscribers, Joost has finally opened its doors to everyone else and gone into Public beta mode.
As I am now a full time linux user I can’t run the application but by all accounts from using it in previous version it seems […]
Radiohead Break Free
On Monday, Radiohead announced the release of their new album ‘In Rainbows‘ . Now free from their contract with EMI records, they’ve decided to release the album themselves in two separate formats; one being a ‘discbox’ edition, consisting of the new album on CD, two vinyl records and artwork, and the other being a digital […]
Chinese Olympics Adverts from Nike?
I think that these efforts from Nike are fantastic adverts. Truly. I’m not even sure if they are for the Chinese Olympics in Beijing 2008 or not (my Chinese is rather rusty) but take a look at them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EMXZNyDN4A
What’s brilliant about them is that they look almost camcorder, hand held or naturalistic in their execution (I […]
Secret Skype Conversation Leaked…
The Guardian has published “an amazing Skype Instant Messenger transcript” which seems to detail a conversation between Meg Whitman, eBay CEO, and Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom. It makes for fascinating reading.
@megwhitman: um, need to say something. You remember we paid $1.6bn for Skype and promised you up to $1.7bn in earnouts and other things for […]
Do You Digg Diggnation?
Diggnation is the video podcast (or vodcast if you must) produced by the founder of Digg.com Kevin Rose and his friend from the Tech TV days, Alex Albrecht. For those of you who don’t know Kevin and Alex basically hangout, drink beer and generally have a great time discussing some of the top stories on […]
Does Giving Music Away Make More Sense Than Selling It?
The big music news today is that The Charlatans are giving away their fourth album for free via download on Xfm’s web site. Why? They don’t make enough money via CD sales anyway, and giving away the music for free, they reckon, will give them a bigger fan base and increase the number of people […]
