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Ukuleles Have Gone Viral
Mike DaSilva of Berkeley ended his software career to make ukuleles. Now the waiting list for his instruments is more than a year long. YouTube videos, online how-tos and social networking fuel the musical instrument's renewed popularity. Thanks to the Internet, the humble ukulele is pushing its recent popularity well beyond anything that old-time performers Don ...
Pirate Bay Deal Surrounded by Hollywood-Style Headaches
Global Gaming Factory says it has the money to buy the file-sharing website. But Grokster ex-President Wayne Rosso quit his consulting post abruptly, and legal issues keep developing. The company that's hoping to turn Pirate Bay into a legal distributor of movies, TV and music says it now has the cash to purchase the online file-sharing ...
Robot Band Plays Music, Obsesses About Its Online Followers
Like an aspiring indie band, the Cybraphon has many instruments, plays them on an irregular schedule, likes to have an audience around it — and obsesses over comments on its blog, the number of friends it has on Facebook and how many fans follow it on MySpace. The difference is that it is a handcrafted musical ...
ArtistData Opens Platform to Outside Developers
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: For more than a year ArtistData has created tools that help artists from the smallest garage band to the roster of labels like Universal Republic and Rounder enter data once and spread it across multiple platforms from MySpace to concert databases. But understanding that they've solved only one piece of ...
Niche Social Sites Battle Facebook
What do you do when you're a small online social network trying to compete against a behemoth like Facebook? The answer may be to try to carve out a separate path by becoming a niche website for a specific audience base that advertisers, hopefully, want to target. While this is no easy challenge—given Facebook's intention to ...
Twitter Unveils New Start Page
The micro-blogging site has once again moved away from its initial mission statement of utter simplicity, cramming a good deal of information onto the shiny new homepage. New additions include a search bar, a list of trending topics divided by the minute, day, and week, and the tagline, “share and discover what's happening right now, anywhere ...
An Early Look at Firefox 4?
Firefox 3.5 just went gold, but that hasn't stopped Mozilla from showing vehemently non-final mockup screenshots of Firefox 4. Of the two design candidates, one bears a striking resemblance to new competitor Google's Chrome browser, with the tab controls way up above everything else. It's a design that Apple tried for Safari 4 beta and then ...
Online Video Usage Exploding, Study Says
Hold on to your bandwidth – online video is growing in popularity, according to Wednesday data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. About 62 percent of adults who use the Internet have watched video online, up from 33 percent in December 2006. Not surprisingly, online video is most popular among those aged 18 to ...
Barnes and Noble Stores to Provide Free WI-Fi
Barnes & Noble customers have had access to paid Wi-Fi hotspots at individual outlets of the popular nationwide bookseller since 2005. The company announced Tuesday, however, that it has signed a strategic agreement with AT&T to implement free and unlimited access to all of its 777 stores' wireless networks. This move seems to be intended, at ...
Time Warner Buys Google's Stake in AOL For $283m
Time Warner Inc paid $283 million for Google Inc's 5 percent stake in AOL, the Internet company said in a U.S. regulatory filing on Monday. Time Warner, which plans to spin off AOL by the end of the year, bought the stake from Google on July 8, AOL said in the filing with the U.S. Securities ...
