Techcrunch.com’s Michael Arrington today announced his merger with FuckedCompany.com - a leading technology blog that documents failing web and software companies. I’m sure the two blogs will compliment each other, as they operate in two different ends of the publishing spectrum. Techcrunch.com tends to focus on new companies before and after launch - often using [...]
In a campaign that’s reminiscent of Apples famous attempt to throw Big Blue (IBM) from their 1980’s monopoly of PCs, Ask.com (remember Ask Jeeves?) have started a gorilla marketing campaign questioning Google’s dominance of the worldwide search market. The campaign started earlier this week features a serious on unbranded London Underground posters with the [...]
Magnum Photos have finally launched their long awaited blog. In the words of Magnum Photographer Jonas Bendiksen
“The blog will illuminate the stories behind the images, explore the motivations behind the projects, discuss the systematic issues that affect all photographers, and explore the industrial and societal changes that inform our expectations of photography. The blog will [...]
Commentful, the online service that tracks conversations through comments on blogs, has been quietly acquired by Bloggy Network. Kailash Nadh writes on his blog “I am positive that the new owners will take Commentful to the next level and make all the ‘blink’ lovers happy“. I hope his wish holds true, Commentful is by [...]
As reported by Vecosys, Emap, one of the UK’s largest publishing houses has acquired YoSpace. YoSpace maintains the platform used by both 3’s SeeMeTV and 02’s Look AT Me TV services - both sites reward users for submitting user generated content (ugc). The deal was said to be worth just under £9m, with a further [...]
The eagerly anticipated lesbian and gay social publishing network QueensSpeech, has finally reached private beta. Individuals who pre-registered before 30th January 2007 will be sent their beta testing instructions on a random basis over the next three weeks.