It has been on the cards for some time, Microsoft favouring their Live brand over the MSN monocle, but recent traffic figures have now confirmed the demise of the now-not-so-trendy MSN.
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Is MSN dead and Microsoft Live?
Friday, January 19th, 2007
MyBlogLog joins Yahoo!
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Yahoo have an excellent track record of identifying new startups that are likely to set new trends across the interweb. So it comes with no suprise that Yahoo have just announced their acquisition of MyBlogLog. MyBlogLog is a wonderful tool for tracking who reads your blog, where they come from, and where they go afterwards, [...]
Write Your Own Search Results
Thursday, January 4th, 2007
Swicki has quietly launched an upgrade to their community powered search product. The upgrade allows searchers to rate individual items within search results, and allows the individual Swicki search engine creator to write their own search results into the mix. Try my Web 2.5 search engine as an example. More info can be founder over [...]
A new year, a new generation, a new web
Monday, January 1st, 2007
Happy new year everyone!
2006 Was one of the most exciting years on the web since the dot come boom at the turn of the century. The web community became more creative, more curious, more adventurous and of course more pro-active. Broadband is now mainstream in many of the internet enabled countries, which has allowed users [...]
Ask secretly launches ‘Ask X’
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Ask (formerly Ask Jeeves) today secretly launched ‘Ask X‘ a new prototype search interface for the ailing ‘find’ engine. Described on the site as a “double-secret sandbox for testing Ask experiences of the future”, it’s basically a play area for new services in development that are not not quite ready for public scrutiny. Some of [...]
Beeb embraces social networks
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
As reported by BBC News, BBC Worldwide announced today that it intends to start distributing its catalogue of old tv programmes through Zudeo, a partnered social video network. Users will be able download high-quality episodes of Red Dwarf, Doctor Who and the League of Gentleman, and classic series such as Fawlty Towers will also be [...]