14.08.07 > Internet::online communities

Facebook lets friends share private view of Web

Facebook, which started out offering simple Web profile pages for users to update personal details and link to their friends, has since late May provided an easy way to enhance profiles with a growing menu of 1,400 applications from virtual horoscopes to music video players.

Membership has exploded to more than 29 million active users, up one million users in just the past week and 5 million fro...

13.08.07 > Television

U.S. consumers continue watching video from their living rooms

While digital video continues to grab headlines with the growing prominence of streaming and downloading video files among online adults, today's entertainment enthusiasts remain largely steadfast in their love of traditional viewing options, according to recent findings released by Ipsos Insight. Among those adults that actively stream and download video content, just 11% of the video content the...

10.08.07 > Consumer generated content

Wikipedia still number one site for online news

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. In May, Wikipedia had 46.8 million unique visitors, up 72 percent from June 2006, NetRatings said. Wikipedia also has finished on top of the news and information category every month this year.

The site is ...

09.08.07 > Smart moves

TiVo to sell movies straight to TV sets

TiVo broadband customers can now order pay-per-view movies and television shows from Amazon.com's download service directly from their TV, without a personal computer. TiVo upgraded the "Amazon Unbox on TiVo" service to allow customers with high-speed Internet connections to select one of about 10,000 movies, shows or other video, using the TiVo remote control.

The programs, priced on average at...

08.08.07 > Internet

Recruiting real talent in a virtual world

Faced with fierce competition for technologically skilled workers, a growing number of organizations are turning to virtual online communities to find employees for real-life positions. But companies, such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, that are experimenting with recruiting and interviewing candidates in the virtual world are finding they need to adjust to new rules of conduct and accept that ...

07.08.07 > Internet::new services

Perspectives about the news from people in the news

Google wants to give a heads-up on a new, experimental feature it'll be trying out on the Google News home page. Starting this week, you'll see reader comments on stories in Google News, but with a bit of a twist... Google is trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question. Google's...

06.08.07 > Consumer::in control

Apple gets into social music scene

iTunes is giving you an effortless way to keep your friends up-to-date with your favorite music, TV shows, movies, and more. My iTunes widgets are simple, self-updating add-ons for your web page, social-networking profile, or blog. Use My iTunes to share your top reviews, favorite artists, and new music, movies, and TV shows from the iTunes Store with anyone who visits your site.

03.08.07 > Last minute

More cities get Google Maps street view

Google has added four more cities to its Maps street view: San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando. Google Maps' street view was launched in late May for the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami.

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02.08.07 > Internet::online advertising

Record, watch, understand

ClickTale is a brand new approach to website analysis and optimization. While traditional web analytics provide aggregated visitor data across web pages, ClickTale provides information about individual visitor behavior inside the web page, showing website owners movies of browsing sessions, as well as meaningful reports of behavior inside their webpage by aggregating thousands of visitor sessions....

01.08.07 > Internet::online video

Debate brings YouTube to centre of U.S presidential campaign

The Internet is shifting into a central position in this campaign in terms of disseminating ideas, fundraising and mobilising support, particularly among the young. YouTube, which did not exist during the last presidential campaign, has already had an impact on this one.

To go a step further, CNN and YouTube are holding a joint debate in which the public have sent in video-recorded questions for...