EU Wants Price Caps On Text Messages

The European Commission is lobbying mobile phone operators to discount their rates for text messages and is threatening to put price caps in place if they don't comply. Recently price caps were put in place for roaming charges.

Calacanis: Web 3.0 is Whatever I Say it is

Humpty Dumpty: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.” Alice: “The question is, whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

Google Sees Positive Changes In China

When Google’s U.S. market share changes by a percentage point or two, it doesn’t turn many heads - Google has been ahead, is ahead, and will presumably stay ahead, regardless.  But as Google’s Chinese share changes, a lot of eyes are watching to see what will happen.

Track Your Friends Web Activities with Friendfeed

Friendfeed is a cool new service by ex-Gmail and “don’t be evil” inventor Paul Buchheit. Friendfeed (which partly looks Google-like, too) tries to solve the problem of keeping track of your friends activities on the multitude of social networks, blogging tools, photo upload sites and so on... a kind of meta aggregator, sitting on top of popular websites watching for news.

E-Tailers Enhance User Experience

I read a great article from RarePlay.com last week titled: "Searching For A Perfect Fit" which talks about online clothing retailers offering virtual fitting rooms to further entice visitors to remain on the site and potentially purchase a product.