The Land of Tunage

This is pretty swish. Gracenote – those lovely people who make the track names pop up when you put a CD in your drive (assuming you’re online at the time) have done a lovely map of the world where you can click on each individual country and find out what top ten artists they’re into. [...]

Second Life is for Paedophiles

Well, not quite. But I’ve always felt there was something intrinsically sinister about creating an image of yourself and spending hours and hours looking for weird friends when you could just be making new, real (and possibly not so weird) ones. Anyhoo, it appears paedophile activity is happening in that some adults are posing as [...]

Google to bring the pain to Facebook & Co.

As discussed within these pages over two weeks ago it seemed a little nonsensical that Google should be asked to value Facebook at $18 billion when the social network is making relatively little cash. It seems that Google quickly came to same conclusion and have acted fast to put together a social networking platform that [...]

Facebook and MySpace to hit peak by around 2009

Last Wednesday I wrote on these pages that sooner or later Facebook was probably in for a  rude awakening due to the inevitable drop in users once everyone got bored. Quite frankly, the interface is so dull I immediately got bored first time I looked at it and quickly left, forgot all about it and [...]

Napster to drop stand alone app for web based store

Napster U.S. announced yesterday that it plans to drop it’s standalone application subscription model in favour of a new web based subscription model.
Christopher Allen, Chief Operating Officer at Napster, said, “With this new platform, Napster can easily be integrated into consumer electronics devices or integrated into other Web sites such as social networking sites.”
What this [...]

Skype/MySpace reality check: Facebook next?

The whole MySpace/Skype get together as reported in your national newspaper makes total commercial sense for both parties. What I find most interesting about this story however is is not how each side is going exploit the new opportunities now afforded to them in linking up but the wider picture that’s being presented, namely [...]

For those you can’t stand to Face… log on to Hatebook

This is good. Even though it’s absolutely no different to any of the other crappy social networks that I have to work with every single day of my social and professional life I am sad enough to experience a visceral thrill at the possibility of begin able to demonstrate my utter disdain for social networks [...]

Has Sony BMG/MySpace deal just opened up the flood gates?

In addition to the deal announced with Honda this day last week, Sony BMG have just announced that they’ve set up an ad supported deal with MySpace. The interesting point here is that unlike the deal with Honda who were essentially paying Sony to have a bit of stardust rub off on their car, MySpace [...]

Google ads YouTube function to Google Earth

Ater news that Google will be aggressively rolling out YouTube across its adsense partnerships they ahve now added YouTube functionality to Google Earth.  You will now be able to watch videos of the place you are going to visit.
It will now not only be the most awesome Atlas ever made but will now ad ‘encyclopedia’ [...]

Arcade Fire: very clever

Arcade Fire have just done what could only be described as an interactive music video for their new single ‘Neon Bible’. It’s bloody clever. Scenes are played out within certain segments of a song and you manipulate the elements (Win Butler’s face and hands) within each scene.
If you want to mess with it please click [...]