News CBS Expands Its Audience Network As we reported, CBS' new online strategy is to court web 2.0 sites and allow their content to spread virally across social media sites. The CBS Audience Network initiative already includes deals with AOL, Microsoft, CNET Networks, Comcast, Joost, Bebo, Brightcove, Netvibes, Sling Media, Veoh, and Amazon, Apple and Yahoo. Today, CBS is adding to… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Facebook, The Mighty Pipe, Could Crush Yahoo Today Facebook is going to formally announce its plans to become an open platform. We know that the platform will allow companies to offer their products and services to Facebook users, but the details haven't yet been 'exposed'. So all of us bloggers are waiting for the news to be announced today, on the edges of our seats. In the meantime, I… Richard MacManus View comments
Events Guide The OpenCoffee Club Movement The OpenCoffee Club is "a place for people who love startups to hang out and meet" according to their recently launched social site on Ning.com. From Cork to Capetown, Seattle to Sydney, and Paris to Palo Alto, people are getting together on a weekly basis to discuss all things startup and to meet and pitch their ideas to VCs. For an idea that… David Lenehan View comments
Google How Alt Search Engines Implemented Universal Search...Well Before Google Did Written by Nitin Karandikar At the Searchology press conference last week, Google announced a slew of new features that are getting integrated into their main search engine. The key focus was on a new feature called Universal Search. Google's Marissa Mayer explained this feature as follows on the Official Google blog: "... [this is] the… Guest Author View comments
Digital Lifestyle Digital Lifestyle News: AppleTV Hacks and Pandora for Mobile & Living Room Over on our new network blog, last100, Steve O'Hear has covered two interesting developments in the 'digital home' space. Firstly Steve posted that there has been quite a bit of development activity around AppleTV - but not by Apple itself, rather by hackers. Wrote Steve: "...[the hackers] have been hard at work building plug-ins and… Richard MacManus View comments