Tuesday, November 28, 2006

DJ 'Fluff' Freeman dies aged 79

Veteran DJ Alan "Fluff" Freeman, whose "Not 'arf" catchphrase made him a household name, has died aged 79.

Taken from BBC News.

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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Microsoft vs Google Heats Up

Google CEO Eric Schmidt wrote an article for The Economist, in which he takes aim at Microsoft... And now Microsoft is talking tough in return via a Reuters article.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

GoogleOS: What To Expect

Read/WriteWeb offers 3 scenarios for a GoogleOS and suggests it could be less than 6 months away. They say it may be a web based desktop (i.e. operating system), a full featured Linux distribution, or a lightweight Linux distro and/or BIOS.

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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Yahoo: Time to Kill Off Flickr, del.icio.us and Other Web 2.0 Brands

In light of the Yahoo Peanut Butter Manifesto, Richard MacManus suggests it's time to kill off the smaller brands, because it's the technology in Flickr, del.icio.us, etc which is of most value to Yahoo now.

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Myfabrik - The YouTube and Flickr of Online Storage?

Myfabrik is being positioned for use by bloggers and social networkers, as well as creative types. It was described as "like having a combination of YouTube, Flickr, .Mac and G Drive all wrapped up into one."

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3 Trumpets Mobile Web Breakthrough with X-Series

The BBC wonders if British mobile operator 3 has "discovered the holy grail of the mobile phone industry", simply by bundling some mobile web services together and making it flat rate pricing.

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Thursday, November 09, 2006

The Lime Project

Helping Heather too kick cancer's ass. Buy a calendar of naked ladies to help Heather.

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Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" to be available on AOL.com Monday, VH1 Wed.

His hilarious parody of "Ridin' Dirty", "White and Nerdy", will soon have the video released on AOL.com and in "large rotations" on VH1 starting Wednesday. This is listed on the front page of Weirdal.com, down below his promos for his new CD "Straight out of Lynwood" and "The Weird Al Show DVD."

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LOST Game & Experiment

NOT the TV Show - LOST is a game. The aim of LOST is to reach 3.5 million players and break the record for the game with the most players ever!

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