Today Sam Sethi launched Techcrunch UK’s events calendar on Upcoming.org. I’m a fan of Upcoming, so i’m pleased to see that Sam has decided to take advantage of Yahoo’s social events network rather than try and create his own. Upcoming is already become a hot bed of new tech events for London, so i look [...]
The end of video sharing as we know it is officially over.
Following Google’s acquisition of YouTube, several stories have come to light that suggest that the video sharing free for all has come to a close. Two of YouTube’s biggest competitors are being sued by Universal Music. YouTube has escaped this lawsuit. Just before YouTube [...]
As reported over on Guardian Unlimited, Google are reported to be in talks with the board of YouTube, the web’s most popular and controversial talked about social video sharing work. In a deal that could be worth over £800 million, YouTube would become part of the Google family and effectively merge into the existing Google [...]
OpenBC, the German equivalent of LinkedIn, is to rebrand as Xing. Although I welcome this move, I somehow feel that OpenBC is selling itselve short. By rebranding itself with a funky new ‘web 2.0′ name and logo i think they will alienate a lot of their existing users. OpenBC is primarily a serious business network, [...]