There’s more confusion over .eu domain assignments than stinkeye at the French Embassy. Lumbering American giants were beat out by smaller, quicker natives for domain dibs, as the same natives are crying foul over American speculators in a domain gold rush.
Google Musical Opens; English Books Close
It’s official. Google geek-chic has become so sexy they’ve made a musical tribute. Google: The Musical opens next week inMinnesota? In the spirit of l337 and Internet English, it may promise satisfactorily deplorable language mechanics.
National Geographic Shows Musical Inclination
When you think of online music stores, what do comes to mind? iTunes? Napster? How about National Geographic? That’s right – the company known for their focus on animals, landscapes, and remote tribes is getting into the music business.
Sports Can Gain On Musical Content
The new hot content that will drive more online video usage will be from the big game instead of from rapper “The Game.”
Search Engine Musical Chairs
News broke this week that Yahoo has purchased the Inktomi search engine for around US$235 million. This is an interesting development in the search engine industry that may impact greatly on exactly where sites get their traffic from. Another new development in the past few weeks is the change to the HotBot service but first, I’d like to look at the ramifications of the Yahoo/Inktomi deal.