The internet is aflutter with rumors that Google is closing in on a deal to nab Twitter, following a report on TechCrunch last week. The idea isn't so far fetched, given Twitter's popularity as a real-time search engine that can pull users away from Google. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone addressed the rumor in the company blog las Friday. He neither confirmed nor denied it, but he did try to reassure users that the company would remain independent. (more…)
It must be a Friday revelation. I was talking to the new Matt, and on the wonders of trying to get websites to render correctly in the splendor of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7, and it hit me. IE7 comes from Microsoft, which is loosely based out of the Seattle region of Washington. Working with IE7 can be exhausting. When you are exhausted, what can help pick you up? Caffeine! What has caffeine? Coffee! Where do you get coffee? Starbucks! Where…
Alex ChousmithApril 3, 2009
The Walt Disney Company announced a far-reaching agreement with YouTube to launch multiple ad-supported channels featuring clips and other short-form content from ESPN and the Disney/ABC Television empire including ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC Family and SOAPnet. Under the terms of the deal Disney Media Networks will have the option to sell its own ad inventory to the content, the traditional model, or take advantage of Google's more innovative approaches. ESPN's video player will be integrated on its YouTube channel to showcase sports…
Jeromy StallingsMarch 31, 2009
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr NY: WW Norton, 2009. 224 pp.; $16.95 We first heard about this book from a tweet by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who recently found a new medium with which to express his anger at NBA officials: Twitter. He was fined $25,000 last Friday by league officials for his tweets. "Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now," Cuban said, which has tto be the quote of the week. (The whole…
Jeromy StallingsMarch 31, 2009