MySpace Parent Company Laying Off 100 Jobs
In a move that won’t surprise as many people as it would have this time last year, Fox Interactive Media has announced it will be cutting its workforce by as many as 100 jobs. Fox is the parent company of social network site MySpace as well as Photobucket and various mobile sites.
Arrington To Take Break After Spitting Incident
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington had an unfortunate encounter at the Digital, Life, Design Conference he was attending in Munich, Germany yesterday.He describes the incident in post titled "Some Things Need To Change" where an anonymous person walked up to him and spat in his face.
Gmail Goes Offline (In A Good Way)
As frequent travelers, folks with bad ISPs, and laptop lovers can agree, it’s not always easy to connect to the Internet, and being cut off from the world is a real nuisance. But now Google’s solving one aspect of the problem by making Gmail accessible to people who are offline.
Chrome Ads Hit YouTube, Facebook
The main competitors in the browser war may still be Internet Explorer and Firefox, but it looks like Google’s found another way or two in which to give Chrome an advantage. YouTube and Facebook users have started to notice promotions for Chrome pop up left and right.
Do Online Communities Have a Decay Rate?
Does the “decay rate” at community sites like Epinions.com spell eventual doom for Wikipedia? Technology and Marketing Law blogger Eric Goldman thinks so, and, not to put any more pressure on him, is working on an academic paper to show why. The site’s decay rate—the rate at which community members become less devoted to a site over time—is just one part of Goldman’s larger argument. At his blog he pulls up some data regarding Epinions, which relies on paid community member reviews.
Best Buy Remixes Online Presence
Best Buy is changing the way it does business online and surprise, surprise – it involves social media and APIs. The company has introduced what it is calling the "Best Buy Remix Developer Network." "We’re working to give you the tools you need to make Best Buy into what you need it to be," the company says.
Intel My WiFi Tech Set To Make Connectivity Effortless
Don’t be surprised if college students, business travelers, and people who simply have a lot of tech at home suddenly become a lot more fond of Intel. The company has introduced something called My WiFi that aims make wireless communication between devices a lot simpler.
Everybody’s a Critic
For years now, the blog has been viewed as a necessary evil from a PR perspective and a direct channel for bad news traveling at light speed. That’s a fair assessment, but the Internet should be viewed as a boon to another aspect of business: quality control. It used to be there were official critics and official criticisms were published in print, read by subset of subscribers to a specific publication. Now, critics are pretty much everywhere and can publish anywhere, any time.
Addressing the State of the White House Technology
Since President Obama was sworn in and Whitehouse.gov has switched to a new interface, there has been an endless amount of chatter about the state of the White House’s technology. Some discuss the shortcomings, while others defend it as just fine. Tradition and Transition
Hate Mail Drives Controversial Website Offline
It’s either a brilliant publicity stunt or one of the gutsiest t-shirt sellers on the Web really lost his nerve. The proprietor (undertaker?) of TshirtHell.com is closing up shop because he’s tired of dealing with hate mail. As a Web writer whose been on the receiving end of more than a few nasty comments, I can say, if you give in to hate mail the terrorists win. Regardless, “Sunshine Megatron” is just tired of it all.