web Grooveshark - Paying Users to Share Music on a P2P Network Grooveshark, a startup from a group of University of Florida students, is aiming to shake up the music industry by compensating file sharers for putting their music libraries on a peer-to-peer network. Their interesting approach, which is currently in a closed alpha test, is one part Last.fm, one part Limewire, and one part iTunes store. On… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Text and Banner Ads on Amazon: Has the World Gone Mad? I was shopping for a digital camera this weekend and my first stop was naturally Amazon. While browsing pages I noticed the new look and feel: There is even more information on each page, the reviews are displayed in a new way and tags are being leveraged more. These changes ranged from useful to interesting to perhaps a bit too much. But there… Alex Iskold View comments
News Google Launches Answers in China Google China has released a Q&A site, in partnership with Tianya Club. The Make Meaning blog notes that Tianya Club was founded in 1999 and is one of the most popular discussion forums in China. Tianya has almost 20 million registered users, 80% of whom are 18-35 years old. Richard MacManus View comments
web Skype's Extras: Desktop Sharing With Unyte By Guest Blogger Mark O'Neill Much has been written about Internet Telephony product Skype and its potential to completely revolutionize the telecommunications market (when it's not suffering major outages!), but as yet not much has been written about Skype's extras. When you download Skype, you are given a basic shell of a program and it's up to… Guest Author View comments
Polls Poll: Where Do You Watch or Download Online Video? A July Pew report indicated that 57% of U.S. internet users have watched videos online and most of them share what they find with others. The 18-29 age group, at 76%, watches the most online video. Our network blog last100 further reported that 19% of adults watch online video on a typical day. News is the most popular genre of online video with… Richard MacManus View comments