Seesmic’s Acquisition of Twhirl
What I like about the Seesmic's acquisition of Twhirl isn't that I'm using it as my default client for Twitter. Or that…
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What I like about the Seesmic's acquisition of Twhirl isn't that I'm using it as my default client for Twitter. Or that…
If you watched the lead-in to "My Name is Earl" last night, you know that (a) Jeff Zucker, the president and CEO of NBC Universal, isn't terribly funny, and (b) his network is pushing online video. But even with Zucker's "The Office"-gone-bad awkwardness, it seems the act of watching television online is becoming more popular.
Verizon said this morning the company will launch its next-generation wireless broadband network, dubbed Long Term Evolution (LTE) after sometime in 2010, approximately a year after the large swath of C-block 700 MHz spectrum the company won in a recent FCC auction becomes available.
To some people, the Summer Olympics are little more than a nuisance - their television viewing schedules get messed up, don'tcha know. But those who really enjoy the Games may be glad for the chance to watch the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay in Google Maps and Google Earth.
Twhirl's service will remain free to users, so onlookers need not look to their wallets. Loic Le Meur presumably did a little digging, however, as the Twitter client has been acquired by his video chat company, Seesmic.
A year ago I blogged about the 25 sites that were on my Firefox bookmarks toolbar. These represented the 25 sites that I used the most in my day in day out online life. I thought here now one year later I'd refresh this post showing which bookmarks were removed from my toolbar over the past year and which ones were added. I've also added…