Music Last.fm Launches New Features - Including Flash Player, Events and Free MP3s Last.fm, one of my favorite online music recommendation and listening services, today announced a website relaunch. The London-based company has added four new features: Events system (e.g. concerts), Free MP3s, Flash player radio, and a Taste-o-meter. Last.fm hopes these new features, plus the re-design, will make it easier to find and share music… Play Richard MacManus View comments
New Media Wired Acquires Reddit (instead of just white labeling it) In other acquisition news today, Techcrunch reported that Cond?© Nast, owner of Wired and other magazines/websites, has acquired Boston-based Reddit. I pinged Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian about this and he confirmed to me that they have been acquired, "for an undisclosed sum". Reddit is another to have been extensively profiled by… Richard MacManus View comments
Web Office Google Acquires JotSpot: Adding to Google's Web Office Armory News this morning that JotSpot, a favorite Web Office contender of mine, has been acquired by Google. I've spoken to co-founder and CEO Joe Kraus several times over the past year or so and have found him to be one of the most eloquent people on the topic of Web Office. Here's what he wrote this morning on the Google blog: "As we built the… Richard MacManus View comments
Statistics Compete Takes On Alexa - Launches SnapShot and Social Search US analytics firm Compete, a company formed in 2000 by Bill Gross of Overture fame, has quietly released a new search engine and at the same time opened up some of its analytics data to the public. What's more, there is an e-commerce component that displays special shopping deals next to search results. I spoke to Compete CEO Don McLagan and… Richard MacManus View comments
International Top Web Apps in Australia Written by Vishal Sharma and edited by Richard MacManus Richard's intro: Australia is a country of 20.75 million people, 14,663,622 of whom are Internet users according to a Nielsen//NR report from August 2006. That gives Australia an Internet penetration of 70.7%, which is about average for the Western world. Not as high as New Zealand's though… Guest Author View comments