July 2008
16 posts
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Hollyoaks to launch... →
I love soaps within soaps!
London GeekDinner with Carsonified : London Geek... →
10th September 2008
Spittoon - wine drink and food. →
Nice network of wine bloggers
Cuil search engine takes on Google - vnunet.com →
A new search engine dubbed Cuil is hoping to offer a rival to the likes of Google, Yahoo and Ask.
Cuil is pronounced ‘cool’ and comes from an old Irish word meaning ‘knowledge’.
The site has indexed 120 billion web pages, which it claims is three times more than any other search engine, and results are organised by ideas rather than just rankings. Cuil also boasts...
“Which has led some to ask: hey, Hasbro, why not lighten up? Why not get, you...”
– Why Hasbro won’t buy Scrabulous: because it’s cheaper to sue it | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Institute of Contemporary Arts : Film : Two films... →
In Quiet City, a young woman arrives in New York from Atlanta. Unable to find the friend she was supposed to stay with, she ends up spending 24 hours mooching around Brooklyn with the likeable but slightly depressed Charlie, whom she meets in the subway.
Blogging’s Glass Ceiling - NYTimes.com →
Last weekend, about a thousand bloggers, almost all without the Y chromosome, attended the annual BlogHer conference, which began in 2005 to help female bloggers gain exposure. It has since evolved into a corporate-sponsored Oprah-inflected version of a ’60s consciousness-raising group.
Facebook Connect Launches with 24 Partners... →
Facebook has announced the official launch of its Facebook Connect offering, which will allow users to port their profile data to third-party Web sites. The company is announcing 24 launch partners, including Digg Digg , Six Apart, and CitySearch, who are demoing their implementations on stage at F8 this afternoon.
Blog World Expo - Home →
The 2008 BlogWorld & New Media Expo will take place September 20-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with the exclusive “Executive & Entrepreneur” conference beginning September 19th. The first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging and new media. In addition to the only industry-wide exhibition,...
News | Penguin launches second blogging service... →
Penguin is looking to engage with summer readers with the launch of its second interactive blogging platform, Blogaholidayread.com.
The platform, which goes live this week, aims to build on the success of the book publisher’s Blogapenguinclassic, which it says attracts up to 70,000 readers a month.
Blogaholidayread will tap into the summer book market and will see Penguin send out 550 free...
Historic Wreck Recovery Home Page →
Real life 21st century “pirates” who rescue buried treasure from the bottom of the sea and sell it too museums
SMS Text News » Archives » A tech evangelist’s... →
Or why all companies should have an Evangelist
mydeco - Home furniture and interior design: beds,... →
Brent Hoberman’s latest venture keeps getting better and better
The Joy of Tech comic - Fail Whale Song →
A song about the Twitter Fail Whale to be sung to the tune American Pie
“And the good old boys are saying FriendFeed or FAIL, Tweeting “This’ll be the day that whales fly”, “This’ll be the day that whales fly”
Kew Gardens Plastic Bag Free - Launch Party →
With photos of Ecologist editor Zac Goldsmith & former Lib Dem MP Jenny Tonge + Mayor of Richmond looking like she’s singing at Glastonbury.
“Some people coming out of Kew Gardens London Underground Station last night would have been surprised to walk into a crowd of people listening to musicians, drinking wine, chatting to local environmentalists (The Ecologist editor - Zac...