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Bebo, D&D, Social Wars & More

Sorry if we’ve been a bit quiet recently; to say that we’ve all been as busy as a Web 1.0 giant scurrying round looking for social networks to snap up, would be putting it mildly.
So yes, AOL bought Bebo. It took a lot of people by suprise, but TechCrunch mentioned it as a possibility last […]

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Is There A Company That Yahoo! Isn’t Merging With?

First Microsoft approached Yahoo! about a merger/take-over. Then Google gave the guys at Yahoo! a call to see if maybe they could hook up.
And whilst Information Week thought that Nokia would be the perfect partner for Yahoo! lots of other people think that they should consider getting together with AOL. But of course that was […]

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So Long Netscape, Thanks For All The Fish

Fifteen years ago Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), developed the first popular web browser “Mosaic“. The funding for this work came from the “High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991“, an act created by one Senator Al Gore. President George Bush Snr. predicted that the […]

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AOL & MSN Should Be Very Scared: The BBC Is Coming

Amongst all of the coverage of the BBC’s plans to cut thousands of jobs and sell off Television Centre, one point seems to have slipped through with almost no mention. And that is, as The Telegraph puts it, the decision to:
[Sell] Advertising for the first time on the BBC’s website.
Now I’m assuming that this news […]

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