Wikipedia reaches $6,200,000 fundraising goal
As we all know Wikipedia is a completely free resource and contains no advertising or paid content whatsoever. This has been the goal of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. So how do they survive? Well they have a fund raising event each year where they set a target and you can donate toi the appeal. This years target was $6.2 Million.
Meebo now supports MySpace and Facebook
Meebo, the site where you can login to almost all popular IM systems has been steadily growing in traffic since it launched untill recently. Their traffic curve has flattened out a bit to about 7 million unique visitors a month. But I think that is all about to change. Meebo has now introduced support for the MySpace and Facebook instant messenger systems.
W3C introduces mobile friendliness check
The Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) obviously have their site validator (you can see validator buttons on the bottom of some websites) that can check your HTML markup, CSS markup and RSS feeds to see if they match the standards defined in the doctype declaration at the top of your web page. But there hasn’t been a tool that allows you to see if a site you design would actually work well on a small screen like a PDA or mobile phone. But now the W3C have now added a new section to their validator engine called mobileOK.
Fancy becoming the Twitter business product manager?
After so much buzzing about the Twitter business model coming next year it wasn’t a suprise that Twitter is now advertising for a Business Product Manager. To me the suprise is that it has come so close to an announcement on the future of Twitters business.
YouTube launches massive HD video player
After YouTube embracing HD with open arms and allowing users to watch HD video in a small video player, they have given us a massive video player to watch these HD videos. When you view a YouTube video that has a “watch in HD” link, click it and the video will expand to fill the width of the YouTube template.
BBC iPlayer AIR application launches
The BBC iPlayer has had a lot of criticism from Mac and Linux users for not being compatible with their operating systems. But the BBC has now launched a solution. They have developed an Adobe Integrated Runtime application that obviously runs on on all three platforms. Windows, Mac and Linux.
Joost give up on their desktop application
Joost was in the limelight a few years ago for their fantastic desktop application that allows you to chat with people watching the same video channel as you. But the problem since then is that YouTube have increased in side and Hulu came onto the market and took a good sized market share. Joost was still in beta and therefore having a desktop app made the process of watching YouTube or Hulu look incredibly easy. So they have decided to stop the desktop application.
Revision3 stops official torrent download options
A good few months ago Revision3 had some trouble with torrents. The reason was that a security company sent a Denial of Service attack at them for apparently hosting illegal torrent files. I believe that Revision3 could and should have sued over the loss of revenue as a whole weekends of content could not be distributed. Luckily because the content is “new media” it can be downloaded at any time.
