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Google Releases Top Searches of 2008
In the wake of similar lists from Yahoo and Ask.com, Google has released its Zeitgeist 2008, a comprehensive look at the top searches of 2008. Unlike the other lists, Zeitgest doesn't focus on the most popular searches, at least not in the United States. Instead the results are listed as “Fastest Rising," meaning that the popularity ...
EMI Artists Join iPhone Apps Game
You've played the iPhone app. Now get the soundtrack. EMI Music has become the first major label to line up multiple artists for an edition of Tapulous' popular iPhone game application Tap Tap Revenge. The new version of the rhythm game, called Tap Tap Dance, features songs by five EMI acts—Moby, the Chemical Brothers, Digitalism, Daft ...
Obama: Broadband Essential for Economic Recovery
President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday renewed his call for nationwide broadband access as well as more connected schools, libraries, and hospitals. “It is unacceptable that the United States ranks fifteenth in the world in broadband adoption," Obama said during his weekly address, which was posted to YouTube. “Here, in the country that invented the Internet, every ...
Youtube, Rumblefish Sign Music Licensing Deal
YouTube is awash in homemade videos featuring copyrighted music, and while much of that content is protected by fair use or is so infrequently viewed that it flies under the radar of copyright holders, some uses have resulted in legal action. Want to focus more on your video skills than crafting a defense of fair use? ...
Flickr Adds Video Playback to Mobile Site
Yahoo-owned Flickr on Friday rolled out a revamped mobile Web site that now allows users to play Flickr videos on their phones. Flickr added video capability to m.flickr.com in April, and while users could upload short videos from their cell phones, they could not actually watch them from their mobile devices. The offering has been available ...
RealNetworks' Rhapsody Cuts 130 Jobs
Streaming media company RealNetworks on Thursday eliminated 130 jobs, or 7.5 percent of its global staff. The layoffs, not surprisingly, are being chalked up to the floundering global economy. Still, Real insists that it has not been as hard hit as other companies. “The layoffs, in addition to other cost cutting measures, are part of a ...
Myspace Offers Streaming Video on Cell Phones
Need more videos on-the-go? MySpace announced Wednesday that it now testing a streaming video service for mobile phones. The video beta for MySpace Mobile is now being rolled out globally, with support for streaming-enabled phones like the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95, and Samsung Instinct. Users that access the site at ...
Pandora Tops iPhone App Store with 2m Users
Since its launch earlier this year, the iTunes App Store has boasted all manner of success stories, but none come close to that of Internet radio generator Pandora. While the Web-based version of the site has, by some accounts, fallen behind more feature-rich sites such as Last.fm and Slacker, Pandora's iPhone counterpart, which lets users stream ...
The Less Sex, the Better Youtube Likes It
Are you wearing sheer clothing and doing a provocative dance in your latest YouTube video? New policies on the video site might mean that your video could be slapped with an age restriction and demoted on the main page. Google-owned YouTube on Tuesday announced that it will be enforcing stricter standards for what constitutes mature or ...
Job Networking Sites Soar as Unemployment Does
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Janel Landon, who runs a small PR consultancy in Chicago, has long been aware of the potential of online networks: now in her mid-50s and facing a global recession, she's decided to sign up. “Given the state of the economy, I recently decided to jump on board," Landon told Reuters. “Professional networking is ...
