As a European, I’m always happy to see web companies translate their interfaces in other languages besides English. It’s common business sense, since a lot of potential users simply won’t even take a look if the application is not available in their local tongue, and they certainly won’t stay long when all their local friends start trying out a competing service that is. Anyway, FriendFeed understands this too, which is why they’re opening up to a bunch of new users by translating their lifestreaming interface into German (will that be the end of Freundefeed?), French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian and simplified...
WowOwow.com, the site launched earlier this year by five female media stars—including 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl, conservative pundit Peggy Noonan and gossip maven Liz Smith—has received an addition $1.5 million in funding, MediaMemo reports. The round was led by Bob Pittman's Pilot Group and the Rhime Group. The site was launched in March with $1 million in funding from the five founders, who also include ad exec Mary Wells and publisher Joni Evans. With this funding, MediaMemo says WowOWow, which is targeted to women over 40, has raised a total of $3.1 million thanks to $600,000 contributions from the sites...
I have heard from numerous sources over the past few weeks that O2/Telefonica are considering removing all handset subsidies next year. Would this be a good thing? If you look at the global market I think the only market for subsidized handsets should be the countries where the carriers are just developing the market other than that I am in agreement with it as I look forward to my bill dropping a minimum of 50%. In case you didn’t know it I am paying for your handset. I don’t buy network looked handsets and since you do at a substantial...
Compete.com just released their November statistics and Facebook has closed the gap with the U.S. social network leader, MySpace. According to Compete.com Facebook grew 10 percent to just under 50 million visitors in the United States versus MySpace who reached approximately 56.5 million visitors. At this rate Facebook will overtake MySpace for the largest social network in the United States within the next month or two. Facebook continues to have impressive growth domestically in addition to substantial international growth. Facebook’s own statistics provided by their advertising platform suggests that the company has approximately 45 million registered users which have profiles...
Online web video streaming outfit Mogulus launched their premium offerings today with the availability of Mogulus Pro. The new professional service allows users to remove the ads that are inserted by the company (though you can put your own in, if you choose), gives you detailed analytics, HD and Widescreen streaming capabilities, and the removal of all Mogulus company branding. Mogulus offered the following demonstration of the technology on their “ProShowcase”: All the pro accounts start at around $350 a month, and go on up into the thousands depending on how many channels you choose to launch...
Techmeme is adding a human touch to its news aggregator, by appointing Megan McCarthy as editor. She’ll rearrange and moderate the news on Techmeme, to keep them more up to date and avoid old and outdated one. She’ll also handle all the pissed off journos who thinks they are bypassed, something that might be a daily issue for her if you read between the lines in the VentureBeat post. I don’t know about that, but it’s not the most grateful position to have, when some cranky tech blogger feel passed over for the 20th time… So what will change? This:...
Mobile television service provider MobiTV announced today that it had passed the 5-million-subscribers mark. This caught our eye, because back in August the service had 4 million subscribers, and at the time we wondered if growth was slowing. According to MobiTV, the opposite is true. Whereas it took the company 10 months to get from 3 million to 4 million subscribers, it took half that time to add an another million. What gives? MobiTV co-founder and president Paul Scanlan told me in a phone interview today that the number counts people who actually pay for the service — but it...
Yahoo experienced downtime this afternoon with reports that the outage affected Yahoo services including Messenger and Yahoo.com. The Yahoo outage occurred at around 12:30pm PST Tuesday for at least 30 minutes possibly longer. Reports were mixed on location, so it may have been localized as opposed to universal. An unconfirmed report has Yahoo experiencing a DNS outage due to their “anycast configuration failing after a router blew up.” More if we hear anything, although it appears to be up for me at the moment. If Yahoo is still down for you, leave a comment below with details. Related PostsInternet...
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By Taylor Pratt According to a report from MediaPost, a California court has dismissed a lawsuit against Google and Yahoo for displaying gambling ads in their search results. The California Superior Court Judge, Richard Kramer, has granted immunity from liability based on the federal Communications Decency Act (CDA) to search engines. Section 230 of the CDA says that operators of Internet services (in this case, search engines) are not to be held liable for words of third parties who use their services (i.e. AdWords). What isn’t immediately clear (to me, anyway) is whether or not the sites that advertise on...
