Forget going to Europe — how about giving us more money? That’s the message from several U.S. partner channels involved in YouTube’s premium content initiative, responding to reports in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday that Google-owned YouTube plans to expand the initiative to the U.K. and France. “We’re not really funded enough to win,” griped...
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Google nixes Nexus Q launch, gives away free units to people who pre-ordered
Google won’t be competing with Sonos after all – or not any time soon, anyway: The company just informed people who had pre-ordered the its Nexus Q device that it has “decided to postpone the consumer launch of Nexus Q while we work on making it even better,” according to an email first spotted...
Let’s Take A Second To Applaud The Generosity And Vision Of Yuri Milner, Tech’s Own Alfred Nobel
See Also Jarring Images Show Japanese Gymnast Handing $100 Bills To Judges To Appeal A Score 50 Things You Didn’t Know About Marilyn In His Best Letter In A Long Time, Bill Gross Explains Why Stocks Are Going To Be Horrible Investments DST CEO Yuri Milner, best known for his late stage investments in...
Hijacked Walmart Facebook Promotion Holds a Lesson in Local Marketing
Call it a rare win-win-win for online corporate marketing: Internet pranksters successfully hijacked Walmart’s Sheets Energy Strips campaign, Walmart and Sheets reaped all the publicity they could have hoped for – and the citizens of Kodiak, Alaska, got a rare visit from an international rap star. Does that mean Walmart ran a brilliant social...
Apple CEO Tim Cook Likes These 7 Beautiful Things
A few weeks ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook created an account on The Fancy, a Pinterest-like image sharing site that’s backed by Jack Dorsey and other super angels. It could be a fake account but, like Twitter, The Fancy verifies high-profile users, and Cook’s account has been verified. Since he signed up mid-month, he’s...
Twitter Drives New Insights in the Social Sciences
Twitter, Facebook and other online social networks are letting scientists take their research out of the lab and into the real world. Their research could radically change the way we view ourselves and the people around us. In the past, scientists studying the web of relationships between individual humans and how they affect behavior...
Twitter Apologizes for Banning Reporter, But Free Speech Questions Linger
The weekend’s fire storm over NBC’s handling of its Olympics broadcast had barely died down yesterday when online critics found a new target: Twitter. In response to a complaint from NBC, the microblogging service suspended the account of Guy Adams, a reporter who tweeted a harshly critical comment about NBC’s Olympics coverage. Adams was...
Facebook’s read it later comes from Spool
Facebook is going to introduce “read it later” type features into its mobile app, published reports say. It is not a surprise for this was one of the core offerings of Spool, a tiny start-up Facebook acquired earlier this summer. Many believed that it was an acqu-hire type acquisition, but I disagreed for Facebook wanted the technology...
Here’s Proof That Apple’s Latest Mac Ads Aren’t Its Worst Ads Ever (AAPL)
When Apple released its latest Mac ads, the overwhelming response was negative. A common refrain about the ads is that Steve Jobs would have never approved such dreck. Well, guess what Jobs did approve dreck. Here’s video evidence of some terrible Apple ads from the Jobs’ era, via Steve Troughton Smith on Twitter.
Solar startups innovate around financing models
Exchanges where companies and investors can buy and sell renewable energy credits has helped to boost solar in states such as New Jersey. And the idea has now enticed a San Francisco, venture capital-backed startup, Clean Power Finance, to adopt the model to launch a new type of credit trading service to fund home...