Can you trust Facebook to be your Social Operating System?
Quite a few people have been asking why they should use other social networking sites now that Facebook is the platform of choice. It’s the new Microsoft, the new empowering development platform and Facebook apps are the greatest and every company should have one. Everything is ultimately on Facebook so there is no need to [...]
Babelgum builds out its content
Babelgum, a company quickly adding independent content for its Internet TV service has added an area to their site highlighting some of their new offerings. Getting the premium treatment is “GONG” a network devoted to anime. Babelgum is certainly ambitious in their aim to “transform a thriving niche business to a mass-market.” [...]
How much of an impact will Semantic Search have?
Do we really need a better search for the Internet? And when it exists will anyone choose to use it?
There has been a lot of press lately about challengers to the current keyword search kings: Google Yahoo and Microsoft. There are a variety of different approaches being taken but a lot of the debate has [...]
New version of Babelgum tweaks its flavor
Earlier today Babelgum pushed out an updated version of their Internet TV application. Version 0.9.1 tweaks the user interface and addresses a few of the glaring problems that were mentioned in my Joost vs. Babelgum comparison. The automated update ability included in Babelgum was pretty smooth aside from adding an extra Windows desktop [...]
Babelgum’s New CEO and New Plans
The Internet TV service Babelgum announced the appointment of new CEO Valerio Zingarelli earlier today on their blog. Zingarelli, a former CTO of Italian mobile network provider Omnitel now part of Vodafone, will take over for co-founder Erik Lumer. This change marks Babelgum’s transition from building out their technical capabilities to focusing on content acquisition, [...]
Ebay takes Craigslist on in the US with Kijiji
Not content with owning just 25% of online classified ad site Craigslist, Ebay has launched competitor Kijiji in the United States. Kijiji, which means “village” in Swahili, has been available in many parts of the world for awhile now but Ebay hadn’t felt that it could gain much marketshare on its home shores. [...]
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