Update: Mat Ingram also notices it, but now it looks like its been (manually?) removed from Techmeme.
Either that, or its not always perfect. :)
In Toronto, it seems like almost everyone’s on Facebook. Good thing too, as when some local public health officials were looking for a certain woman who had contact with a bat who had rabies, they *didn’t* turn to other venerable online institutions to find people … they turned to Facebook.
Which, ironically, is actually banned [...]
Headlines that I thought were otherwise interesting today.
Amanda Congdon leaves ABC: Mat Ingram has the best explanation so far — her considerable “assets” were special as a vlogger, but on a mainstream outfit, they’re quite … flat. Now, Ms. Congdon claims she’s got something great lined up, although it will only start “next year”. [...]
Even though the Google top secret conference had its members sign NDAs, that hasn’t stopped at least three of them from blabbing to Mike “Mr. Access” Arrington about it. Details of course at TechCrunch, but it sounds like Google is secretly rallying its resources to build a social network that is going to “100%” open.
Again, [...]
Well, not *completely* free, but word comes from the LA Times that Fox is following the footsteps of other major US TV networks in a move to make their primetime shows more accessible — and more important, freely *available* — via a variety of online schemes.
Fox is planning to use iTunes, to showcase the premiere [...]
In a bit of blogging-centric news, TechCrunch has recently hired Erick Schonfeld as its co-editor, Mr. Schonfeld being the former editor of the late Business 2.0 magazine. It does beg the question with the hiring earlier this year of Heather Harde, who was then the SVP of Mergers and Acquisitions at Fox Interactive, how [...]
You may have heard that Google is launching a social bookmarking-type service today, called Google Shares. Loads of coverage from the usual suspects, most of whom aren’t all that impressed, as its a pretty unsophisticated service that “even” allows you to bookmark *other* socially driven sites like Del.icio.us amongst other sites.
What’s the bloody point [...]
