DEMOfall 2007 SceneCaster Launching 3D Scene Creation App at DEMOfall Yesterday, when we published our companies to watch list for DEMOfall 2007, Robert Scoble commented that we should have included a company called SceneCaster on our list. "SceneCaster is aimed at Second Life," he wrote. "But it gets rid of some of the real negatives that Second Life has." SceneCaster, which will launch later today, was on our… Josh Catone View comments
mobile NPR Launches Nice Mobile Site US public broadcaster National Public Radio has released a new mobile site that allows listeners to stream local, national and international radio pieces over their mobile phones. Available at m.npr.org, I used this service throughout the weekend and am very impressed. It's simple, powerful and it works. NPR worked with mobile site developers… Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Amazon Amazon MP3 Launches DRM-Free Music Store Amazon's long awaited DRM-free online music store launched today. The service is called Amazon MP3. There's an estimated 2 million MP3 files there, for the low price of 89 or 99 cents each. I tried it out and am happy to report that there were four CocoRosie albums available for sale there - the desktop downloader worked well on my MacBook (see… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Microsoft Microsoft's Halo 3 Strategy - Beyond Gaming Read/WriteWeb network blog Last100, has an interesting piece out this morning about Microsoft's launch of the latest game in its popular Halo series. Last100 writes that Halo 3 has two features that push the game into new territory beyond video gaming and break new ground. One of those features is a sophisticated demo recording system that… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis WebEx WebOffice: It's a Web Office Jim, But Not As We Know It We cover the trend of Web Office closely here on Read/WriteWeb. Google Apps, Salesforce.com, Zoho, ThinkFree, Zimbra - these are some of the leading vendors of web-based office software. And last week came the big news that Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! for $350M (read our analysis of why), so the market for this software is hot. Another company… Richard MacManus View comments