The new Star Trek movie hasn’t evened opened yet, but Paramount Pictures has already started working on a sequel. “Obviously we discussed ideas, but we are waiting to see how audiences respond next month,” Alex Kurtzman said. “With a franchise rebirth, the first movie has to be about origin. But with a second, you have [...]
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MySpace might have Microsft, but Facebook scores Flash for the knockout blow! Facebook and Flash have now officially joined forces to make developing Flash applications much easier with the ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform. This will basically enable anyone to create their own modified version of the insanely viral Inauguration Day mashup. It [...]
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It’s not a good day at hi5. No, it’s not an early April Fool’s joke either. The large social network is laying off about half of its staff today. hi5 previously employed about 100 people, so you can do the math. VP of Marketing, Mike Trigg, said the layoffs were the result of a “realignment [...]
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The Wall Street Journal has confirmed that Facebook is losing CFO Gideon Yu. Part of the reasoning is throught to be that Facebook could be getting ready for an early bid at an IPO and wants a CFO with a bit more public company experience. Yu was previously the CFO of YouTube. A Facebook spokesperson [...]
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YouTube has just announced that it will offer short-form, in-stream content from the Disney/ABC Television Group. The deal will include many ad-supported YouTube channels with professional content from Disney. This content is to include various teasers and recaps for popular ABC programs. Visitors will be able to view teasers and recaps of hit ABC program [...]
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Today is Christopher Walken’s 66th birthday. What better way to celebrate than by learning how to get your Christopher Walken impersonation on…
Google has finally announced Google Ventures, a venture capital fund that will “seek to discover and grow great companies” in a “broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care.” Currently, the fund has two managing partners. One is Bill Maris, founder of web hosting company Burlee.com. The other is [...]
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The virtual world that is Second Life continues to stretch the boundaries of our imaginations. Now, a London medical school is having its med students practice on patients within Second Life. Imperial College London is utilizing the virtual playground to allow its pupils to diagnose “patients.” The pilot program hopes to provide a “more engaging [...]
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No recession here – not on the internet anyway. The Interactive Advertising Bureau reported yesteray that U.S. web advertising increased by 10.6 percent to $23.4 billion in 2008. Not only that, but the $6.1 billion 4th quarter was the very first time web advertising exceeded $6 billion. The rate of growth did drop, however, both [...]
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Sedo is having another good month. The domain parking and selling company has just sold the domain names Results.com for $500,000 and BabyShop.com for $85,000. Results.com currently resolves to a business coaching company, however that site has been on the domain since last December. The e-mail address is that of Sedo but the DNS and [...]
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While my feelings on the service are mixed, Google Health is taking some pretty advanced leaps ahead in technology when it comes to coordinating your medical records online. Today, Google announced that it is working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on a pilot program in Utah and Arizona that will allow [...]
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