Tech-pundits have droned on for years that print is dead. It sure started to seem that way this year, with report after report of lost newspaper revenue and subscribers. Cooler heads all along have countered the impending doom theory with the idea that nothing worth anything dies—it only evolves. The LA Times puts itself up an example of the latter idea.
Idol Winner Has Download Success
Since "American Idol" for the first time has made downloads of performers songs available on iTunes, winner, David Cook has enjoyed great success.Cook’s "The Time of My Life," has been downloaded 236,000 times, reaching the number 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot Digital Songs chart and reaching the number three position on the Billboard Hot 100.
Jeopardy, Google Announce Contest Winner
It’s been a while since I’ve watched Jeopardy, but it seems like $25,000 was about as much as a person was likely to win in a single show. And now Shirley Seaman has won that amount after participating in “the first-ever Jeopardy! Google Daily Challenge.”
Who is the winner in the Plazes-Next Web Kerfuffle?
One of the great things about the internet generally and some of the cool tools you have at your disposal is that everything is instant and very transparent.
The inter-connected world can know the minutest detail about your life, sometimes whether you want it to or not.
And sometimes the instant-ness of it all can result in huge and very public embarrassment.
Take this scenario:
Winner Gives All
Rich Skrenta’s analysis of Google’s winner take all positioning in search and advertising is a highly recommended read.
Yahoo! Talent Show Crowns Winner
Yahoo! announced the winner of their first-ever Talent Show contest last week: comedic music video maker Rex Hermogino.
Hosted Gmail a Winner for Google
I use Gmail for both my personal and business e-mail. The business side of things is relatively new (within the last month or so).
FreeNews is a Winner
Over the past several months I have been playing around with mobile RSS readers. These include Newsgator Mobile Edition, Bloglines Mobile and My Yahoo! Mobile.
Microsoft’s Team 99 May Not Be a Winner?
Did I say that this is the only effort Microsoft is making to engage with customers about Longhorn? No.
Microsoft Announces Winner of Tablet PC Contest
Microsoft announced that New Zealand-based Ambient Design Ltd., creator of ArtRage, is the $100,000 grand prize winner of the Microsoft Tablet PC Does Your Application Think in Ink? contest, a competition challenging developers to utilize the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Software Developer Kit (SDK) 1.7 to create new applications or ink-enable existing Windows XP-based applications.