Gooogle – OneBox, Many Beats, More Profit

Right.
Reading the Beeb News again (the source of many a good story) and learn that Google is getting into the online music market with the launch of OneBox, an alliance with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike.
When users search using OneBox, a pop-up widget powered by iLike or Lala offers to play the entire song.
Interesting [...]

Darklight Film Festival

The Darklight Festival is approaching soon.
It takes place from the 8th-11th October 2009, and, now in its 10th year, attracts artists and filmmakers whose work explores the convergence of art, film & technology.
This year, perhaps to converge with the Irish Lisbon Treaty vote, the organizers have asked for short film submissions based around the theme [...]

Everything’s Public & Visible on Facebook II

We had posted about Privacy concerns on Facebook earlier this year.  It seems that this debate has started again, though it may have come from unfounded sources.
There was an invitation floating around Facebook some time back, asking if we wanted to install and run ‘Facebook Premium’.  This has been blogged by early adopters and geek [...]

MySpace Acquires iLike

We wrote before on the ailing health of MySpace.  It seems that this week they have taken measures to confront their loss of network share, and get back to doing what they do best (music) with the acquisition of music discovery service iLike.
According to the beeb:
‘iLike reportedly turned down an offer from rival Facebook, where [...]