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The Future of Broadband: Building It Out
Portfolio.com investigates whether it’s possible to design a nervous system for the planet without having a nervous breakdown. The Internet is 75 times larger than it was just five years ago, and shows no sign of stopping until every last person on the planet has, effectively, infinite bandwidth. Despite the burden of surging traffic and attacks ...
Twitter to Offer Business Accounts in Bid for Revenue
Twitter is taking a much-anticipated first-step in its quest to parlay popularity into revenue by offering business customers an expanded range of fee-based services. The company is preparing to offer commercial accounts in which corporations and other types of businesses pay a fee to receive an enhanced version of Twitter, a free service that allows ...
Twitter T
There's Twitter the company, and twitter the medium Leo Laporte at the controls during a recent episode of This Week in Tech (TWiT). In the background is Digg founder Kevin Rose. Credit: insidetwit / Flickr Last year, Leo Laporte became a Twitter quitter. The host of one of Silicon Valley’s most popular podcasts was none too ...
Warner Music Group Pulls Music from Last.FM
Warner Music Group has confirmed that its music is no longer available through Last.fm's on-demand music streaming service. Last.fm users can still stream music from Warner's artists via their artist-based radio stations (see below), because those songs are licensed under a different deal. However, Last.fm users will no longer be able to stream songs on-demand from ...
Grooveshark Launched a New Web Property
Grooveshark launched a new web property today, this time with the artist in focus. Grooveshark Artists will complement our on-demand streaming property (Grooveshark.com), and we believe it will help artists leverage their content in new and exciting ways not possible until now. We've lined up numerous unique partnerships and integrated tools to offer in addition to ...
Last.FM Radio to Charge Outside U.S., U.K., Germany
Last.fm Radio will soon require a monthly subscription fee of €3.00, unless you live in Germany, Britain or the United States. The site has long offered a paid subscription option ($3 per month in the United States) that removes advertising and adds playback flexibility. Soon, that fee will be mandatory for listeners in unsupported countries who ...
China Blocks YouTube, Google Tries to Reinstate Access
On Monday, traffic from China to YouTube began dwindling until it dried up nearly completely today, due to a site-wide block of the popular video sharing site in that country. Google says it has no idea why it's being blocked. China has demonstrated the ability to block access only to certain YouTube URLs as part of ...
Mixtape.me Strikes a Chord with Music Junkies
The new web service MixTape.me fills a gap left by MuxTape. You can't upload your own tracks, but you can pull MP3s from all over the web, build a playlist and share it with your friends. We still miss MuxTape. The popular MP3-streaming service was shut down by the RIAA last year, and while ...
Austin Sound Guys Share Secrets of Knob-Twiddling
While musicians soak up applause at South by Southwest, the unsung heroes of the festival make them sound as good as possible. Austin's thriving club scene attracts some of the best sound engineers in the business, and these world-class console jockeys get a real workout during SXSW. The annual festival brings thousands of musicians and ...
Playboy Posts Unedited Back Issues Online, for Free
Sex sells, especially when it's free. Through a partnership between Microsoft and Bondi Digital Publishing, Playboy Enterprises has put 53 back issues of Playboy on the Web, viewable through Microsoft's Silverlight viewer. The images are free to access at PlayboyArchive.com, with no age verification required. The issues cover the years 1954 through 2007, and appear as ...
