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 [...]

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 [...]

What we lack in ambition…

I just finished watching Charlie Wilson’s War, and we’ll plagiarize wikipedia to tell you it is a “a 2007 biographical drama film based on the true story of Democratic Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson, who conspired with “bare knuckle attitude” CIA operative Gust Avrakotos to launch Operation Cyclone, which initiated and organized the Afghan Mujahideen in [...]

Myspace cuts staff by a third

Myspace has announced that it will cut almost a third of its staff to compete with competition from Facebook and Twitter.
There is more on this on the beeb site if you need all the gory details.
The cuts total about 400 staff, leaving 1,000 people at the struggling unit of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.
MySpace said it [...]