Analysis Facebook is the Winner of MySpace-Yahoo! Talks On Monday, shortly after Terry Semel stepped down as CEO of Yahoo! CNBC Wall Street correspondent David Faber floated a rumor that News Corp. might be interested in offloading MySpace for a sizeable stake in Yahoo! -- about 25%, he said. This morning, News Corp. seemed to confirm the deal via an article in one of its own newspapers, the Times of… Josh Catone View comments
Video Services VeohTV Launches - Taking Direct Aim at Joost Dmitry Shapiro CEO of Veoh invited me to a GoToMeeting webinar today to unveil a serious challenger in the Web TV market. VeohTV Beta, subtly billed as a "Joost Killer", is actually an amazing development in online video viewing. The impetus for the Veoh TV service is characterized by a Veoh slogan Dmitry related during the webinar: “Video… Phil Butler View comments
Search The Great Debates: Meta Search One of the new features on AltSearchEngines, the R/WW Network blog edited by Charles Knight, is The Great Debates. Every Tuesday night at 8pm EST / 5pm PST, ASE hosts a discussion between various alternative search engines. Their first debate was on Continuous Search and featured Swamii, Searchbots, and Allth.at. The second debate was on Meta… Richard MacManus View comments
Digital Lifestyle Digital Lifestyle Roundup: BitTorrent SDK, 7digital Music Downloads, Microsoft Mediaroom Plenty happening in the digital lifestyle space this week. R/WW Network blog last100 reports on the following 3 stories: BitTorrent releases SDK for set-top-boxes and other devices: BitTorrent, the company behind the popular peer-to-peer file sharing technology, has announced the availability of its Software Development Kit (SDK) for consumer… Richard MacManus View comments
enterprise Google Acquires Zenter - Web Office Suite Now 99% Complete Less than 12 hours after we posted our review of the Web Office Suite space, Google has seemingly put the last piece of the jigsaw in place for their suite. Today Google announced it has acquired the assets of Zenter, "a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations." This technology will be added to Tonic Systems, a… Richard MacManus View comments