The BBC is collaborating with some of the big names in the radio industry to launch a new platform, codenamed as the “UK Radioplayer”, a software application which would allow users to search and store as many as 400 UK radio stations over the internet.
Microsoft has said that over two million Xbox Live users logged into Facebook from their consoles within the first week of the social networking site being integrated with the system. Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm integration went live last week and, according to Microsoft data, have already been accessed by millions of users. Over half a million Last.fm accounts were created in the initial 24 hours...
Microsoft has released its first figures on how well Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm have done on Xbox Live. They show substantial, though not huge, engagement.
For the last month and a half, AT&T and Verizon have been at war . Verizon launched ads tearing down AT&T’s 3G coverage, AT&T countered with a lawsuit and ads starring Luke Wilson . Hell, even Apple is getting involved in this messy affair. With the two largest mobile networks making headlines, we thought it would be appropriate to make them the subject of this week’s Web Faceoff...
Microsoft on Monday said that millions of Xbox Live members have used the new social-media features that the company pushed live a week ago. In June, Microsoft announced it would begin offering Xbox Live users access to Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm. And while the manifestation of each of those services is scaled down on Xbox [...] Related posts: Analyst: Xbox Live a ‘Gold Mine’ for Netflix...
Filed under: Audio , Internet , Web services , Yahoo! , Social Software , web 2.0 , Web It's been a number of months (if not longer) since Yahoo showed any love to its Upcoming events service . Since acquiring the service in October 2005, the service has seen just one re-design - and few additional features since. However, in a largely-uncovered announcement earlier in the week, Upcoming now offers...
Martha Argerich is just an amazing piano virtuoso – you can read her biography at last.fm for some basic details. Her debut recital, performed at age 24 (!) in 1960 includes a performance of Chopin’s Scherzo No. 3 that is legendary. I bought the Deutsche Grammophon CD of that recital a day or two ago [...]
Want a taste for a rich "radio" experience that fits its medium like a glove? Sample CBS-owned Last.fm on XBOX Live - or watch this video. This is an example of something I talk about all the time: When you...
I have a Nokia 5800 mobile phone, which I really love. It's easily the best mobile I've ever had. I've recently been playing with the podcast client, which is pretty good, and also the Last.fm client, Mobbler, which is great. But until Spotify release their client for my phone, something ...
We’ve been matching up popular web services, applications and mobile apps against each other in heated one-on-one battles here in our weekly Faceoff Series . Last week Microsoft Office bested Google Docs in a head to head race for the title of office suite champion. This week we turned our attention to a rather timely battle being waged on the mobile front, between Apple’s still wildly-selling...
Microsoft drops its Xbox LIVE Gold cover charge for the weekend to let the masses sample services like online multiplayer, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and Last.FM.
Ommm: Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA Brilliant music from Meghdol , a theatrical(!) band from Bangladesh. Listen to their albums here . More information about them can be found in their Last.fm page : The word Meghdol is actually borrowed from a poem by Baudelair. By Meghdol, the band mean their desire to surrender themselves to infinity in the most desirable way. And also, the...