Mobile phone giant Vodafone has announced a temporary link up with social-networking website MySpace in a move which could see both firms reap dividends.
While Vodafone hopes the affiliation will encourage customers to use their mobile phones as a way of accessing the internet, MySpace is using the tie as a way of creating awareness of its product in Europe. …continue reading the story
called Vodafone and MySpace Reveal Link-Up
An exciting opportunity for budding photo journalists has emerged in the form of a website which lets people showcase their images to prospective buyers and, hopefully, sell them.
ScoopLive has already reined in some 2,500 reporters in 60 different countries – and it has already helped broker big deals such as one for an image which ended up on the cover of Voici, an influential French magazine. …continue reading the story
called Sell you’re Scoops for Money!
The BBC is in discussions with Google about the possibility of promoting and selling its programmes on the influential YouTube website, which was acquired by the search engine firm late last year.
While the BBC would not comment specifically on any deal, the Telegraph reports a spokesman as saying that talks are underway with a view to the corporation showing programmes on YouTube – whose popularity has soared as users post their own clips and compilations on the site – and other video sharing sites run by Google. …continue reading the story
called BBC and Google set for Video Deal
Blogs, podcasts�.what’s next when it comes to getting your message across to the widest audience possible? It could just be that the new trend for ‘moblogging’ rises inexorably - with at least one high-profile provider now ready to roll this out to the awaiting masses.YouTube, fresh from its takeover by Google, is that firm - having stated that it will spread its video-share capabilities to mobile phones amid high public demand. This could have interesting implications for businesses which have already chosen to capitalise on YouTube’s ability to snare internet users, with mobile phone customers potentially very amenable to viewing short, sharp clips which can be loaded up by doing little more by putting their hands in their pockets. …continue reading the story
called Moblogging - The Next Step?
Names: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Dates of birth: 26/3/1973 (Page); 21/8/1973 (Brin)
Mini CV: - Met in 1995 as PhD computer science students at Stanford University
- Created Google as a research project early the next year
- Still co-running the company along with - since 2001 - Eric Schmidt
Larry Page and Sergey Brin provide the classic example of a pair of entrepreneurs who latched onto an existing concept and took it further than anybody else could imagine - creating what is now ranked as the world’s third most valuable technology company. Seeing a gap in the nascent search engine market of the mid 1990s (essentially that search engines might better analyse the relationships between website than rank according to search term occurrences), they created Google after using its concept as a base for their research theses, seeing its popularity and profitability mushroom soon after. …continue reading the story
called Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Founders of Google) - Entrepreneur Profile
The world of online video has been growing at an enormous rate over the past year and many online companies have been trying to get in on what is the next big thing.
One of the major attractions for companies to video sites is simply the sheer number of people now using them. Websites such as YouTube and MySpace have seen a massive uptake in popularity and it is therefore little surprise that the industry is seeing considerable consolidation, with search engine rivals Google and Yahoo! among those moving into the arena. …continue reading the story
called Yahoo! Takes A Hard Look At Rich Media Advertising
Google’s acquisition of YouTube, the video-sharing website, for £883 million this week has thrust the role of internet TV and videos firmly into the spotlight - bringing into view the exciting possibility of an organised and archived video library which would be easily searchable. …continue reading the story
called Google and YouTube - What Might They Do For You?
