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Last.fm Launches New Features - Including Flash Player, Events and Free MP3s
Written by Richard MacManus / October 31, 2006 7:11 PM / 17 Comments
Last.fm, one of my favorite online music recommendation and listening services, today announced a website relaunch. The London-based company has added four new features: Events system (e.g. concerts), Free MP3s, Continue reading »


Wired Acquires Reddit (instead of just white labeling it)
Written by Richard MacManus / October 31, 2006 12:03 PM / 2 Comments
In other acquisition news today, Techcrunch reported that Cond√© Nast, owner of Wired and other magazines/websites, has acquired Boston-based Reddit. I pinged Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian about this and he Continue reading »


Google Acquires JotSpot: Adding to Google's Web Office Armory
Written by Richard MacManus / October 31, 2006 11:45 AM / 4 Comments
News this morning that JotSpot, a favorite Web Office contender of mine, has been acquired by Google. I've spoken to co-founder and CEO Joe Kraus several times over the past Continue reading »


Compete Takes On Alexa - Launches SnapShot and Social Search
Written by Richard MacManus / October 31, 2006 2:30 AM / 9 Comments
US analytics firm Compete, a company formed in 2000 by Bill Gross of Overture fame, has quietly released a new search engine and at the same time opened up some Continue reading »


Top Web Apps in Australia
Written by Guest Author / October 30, 2006 10:50 PM / 48 Comments
Written by Vishal Sharma and edited by Richard MacManus Richard's intro: Australia is a country of 20.75 million people, 14,663,622 of whom are Internet users according to a Nielsen//NR report Continue reading »


Web TV News: Skype Founders Going For Hat-Trick; Brightcove Launches Network
Written by Richard MacManus / October 30, 2006 2:57 PM / 2 Comments
As if we needed any further proof that the online video market is white hot right now, the founders of Skype have now set their sites on a Web TV


Metacafe's Online Video Revenue Sharing Goes Live
Written by Richard MacManus / October 30, 2006 2:56 AM / 8 Comments
Metacafe, a YouTube-like video sharing site originally from Israel, has just gone live with a revenue sharing program called Producer Rewards. The payments are on a sliding scale and based Continue reading »


Microsoft's Live Search - Next Generation, or Competitive Bluster?
Written by Richard MacManus / October 30, 2006 12:44 AM / 4 Comments
"Why on earth does the world need another search engine?", asks the new Live Search promotional site. In addition to that website, as John Battelle's Searchblog reports, Microsoft has launched Continue reading »


Weekly Wrapup
Written by Richard MacManus / October 29, 2006 4:02 AM
Dominating the Web Tech world this week was the release of the Firefox 2.0 browser. Read/WriteWeb covered the launch extensively - including an interview with Chris Beard (Mozilla Vice President


Pluck RSS Reader Shuts Down: Consumer RSS Readers a Dead Market Now
Written by Richard MacManus / October 27, 2006 9:53 PM / 10 Comments
The Pluck RSS Reader is shutting down, according to a message posted on the Pluck website: "All versions of Pluck's RSS readers for Internet Explorer, FireFox and Pluck's web


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