Google Phone Gets Release Date

Just Watch the Movies on IMDB

In what seems like an obvious move now that it has happened, Amazon's IMDB (Internet Movie Database) has added streaming videos to the site. Sure, they offered trailers before, but now we're talking full-length movies and television shows.

YouTube Calls on Users to Build Help Center

A weekend post on the YouTube Blog is calling for users to make "informative, creative" videos to embed in the YouTube Help Center. Categories that users can make videos for include:

MySpace Reveals Advertisers for MySpace Music

In my write-up about the upcoming MySpace Music the other day, I had to leave a question mark in the "advertisers" section, because it was unknown who would be advertising as MySpace Music launched. Rumor has it that MySpace Music will launch on Thursday the 18th, and MySpace has now let the advertising cats out of the bag. The company issued a release listing the…

Online Gaming Attracting More Females

Growth in online gaming had significant user growth among teenage girls between the ages of 12 and 17 and women between the ages of 55 and 64 according to a new study from comScore.The total female online gaming audience in August 2008 grew 27 percent compared to the previous year to nearly 43 million visitors.

Can Tim Berners-Lee Change The World Again?

Close to twenty years ago Tim Berners-Lee changed the world. He may, judging by a recent speech before the Knight Foundation, amend that to say it was the developed world that was changed, and not entirely for the greater good. There is still the optimistic sense, though, that the Web is a work largely unfinished, leaving lots of good to be done.