As we reported, CBS' new online strategy is to court web 2.0 sites and allow their content to spread virally across social media sites. The CBS Audience Network initiative already Continue reading »

Techcrunch is reporting that last week's rumors about Google being close to acquiring RSS feed management and advertising firm Feedburner have been confirmed. The purchase price is in the ball Continue reading »

Technorati announced a major relaunch this morning, 6-months in the making. The new Technorati has evolved from a blog search to, as the site puts it, an "everythinging in the Continue reading »

Personalized start page service Pageflakes today announced that their "Pagecasts" feature, which allows users to share their Pageflakes pages with the public or a specific group of users, has been Continue reading »

Google today launched an improvement to their Trends service, Hot Trends, which lists the top 100 break out searches of each day. These are not the top searches, but the Continue reading »

The BBC reports that EMI Group has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Terra Firma for ¬£3.2bn including debt, which is around US$6.3B. The deal isn't confirmed yet, Continue reading »

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal today, social networking site Facebook will announce later this week that it is opening inward (my term, not theirs) and allowing Continue reading »

Last week Amazon clamped down on Zlio and told the service that they could no longer promote Amazon products in the United States. Amazon informed the site of the decision Continue reading »

Yesterday, a lot of people thought Microsoft had missed out on 24/7 Real Media, a display ad network that was purchased by communications group WPP for $649 million, just a Continue reading »

On Monday, the US Department of Defense announced that a number of social networking and media sites would be blocked on its network, citing bandwidth concerns. "This is a bandwidth Continue reading »