Apparently today
is "annoy busy people" Friday an interesting follow to Valentines which saw
along with the traditional google altered logo, and altered
colour scheme for google docs (to a particularly eyebleeding shade of neon
pink), and an altered logo
for youtube.
My
friend Rob Scoble is getting
emotional about something new coming out of Microsoft soon leading to quite
a
bit of speculation about what it might be.
Also make
sure you breathe while you email.
The obligatory Microsoft Yahoo Newscorp stuff:
With the news that googles ad revenue is slowing, they are trying something
new and testing
video ads on search results pages. Also there's a comscore
report telling us that 6% of ad clicks are generated by 6% of surfers. The
average heavy clicker spends lots of time (but not lots of money) online
frequenting gambling sites auctions and job boards.
The WSJ
has it from Nielsen Online that women watch more TV on the web, where as men
prefer web clips.
Plaxo is rumoured to have been bought
by comcast.
You can add stuff to MySpace with the
new "Post to MySpace" button, which may start turning up beside the digg and
del.icio.us buttons you see around the place.
Loic Le Meur, the entrepreneur and founder of the hugely successful Le Web 3
conference, has wrote a
blog about how his company seesmic just raised $6 million in VC funding.
So while the Wii is still winning the console race, the Sony PS3 is expected
to start outselling
it in 2008. The increasing
strength of Sony's Blu-Ray format will likely boost the populatiry of the
PS3. The BBC
has a piece about how the PS3 plans to take on slingbox. That extra
computing power seems to be slowly coming good.
Chris Kohler at
wired also has a piece about why the forthcoming game Spore will be huge.
Given the man behind the project is Will Wright, creator of the SIMs, got a
phenomenal reception when he announced the game concept at the GDC, I'm inclined
to agree.
My spam have been upgraded to links.