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Entries for December 2nd, 2008

Aww, Say It Ain’t So, Pownce!

Well, I don’t know about you guys, but I’m a little bit bummed about this news: it looks like my favorite little micro-blogging platform, Pownce, will be shutting its doors. The company was bought by Six Apart Media, who are keeping its talent but dismantling its service.
To be honest, I feared this might be coming [...]

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Yahoo Still On The Market

Yahoo Stock went up eight points today as reports from the Wall Street Journal indicated that Johnathan Miller, a former AOL Chief exec, is looking to put together a team of private investors interested in buying Yahoo.
Who is he? Johnathan Miller heads Velocity Interactive, which is a successful venture capital company. He is, as noted [...]

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YouTube Offering Online Symphony Contest

YouTube has announced plans for a YouTube Symphony Orchestra which would bring together aspiring musicians, composers and conductors.
For the contest, musicians have until January 28 to submit 2 entries per person, displaying their talents and variations on the works of the award winning ‘Crouching tiger, Hidden Dragon’ composer Tan Dun.
A group of worldwide experts will [...]

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Top Ten Searches Of 2008 Surprise

Say what you want about Britney Spears, but no one can dispute that people are interested in her. Not after the top Yahoo searches of 2008 were released, at least.
Yahoo has come out with their stats for the top ten most frequently searched terms of 2008, and number one, as she was in seven of [...]

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A Look At Firefox’s Piece Of The Pie

Some good news for Mozilla and, more specifically, their Firefox browser, as it appears the web-browser has hit a new milestone — a twenty percent hold on the internet browser market. This is the biggest piece of the browser-pie that Firefox has enjoyed yet to date, and even more positively, it appears that their growth [...]

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