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Friday, December 9, 2005
Yahoo! buys del.icio.us
Another good idea gets bought. Much like the flickr deal, this one makes sense. Unlike the flickr deal, we shouldn't hear a lot of whining from existing users. Yahoo is unlikely to start charging for bookmarking service, instead working to integrate it into all their other services. And the backing of a BigCo like the Y! means delicious is likely to be around for a long time, so I don't have to worry about my bookmarks disappearing one day.Yahoo! buys del.icio.us
Yahoo! has bought social bookmarking site del.icio.us for an undisclosed amount. Joshua Schachter posted an announcement to the del.icio.us blog and mentions Yahoo!'s ability to help del.icio.us scale and keep pace with it's growing user base and site usage. Jeremy Zawodny welcomed the del.icio.us team on the Yahoo! Search blog and notes Yahoo! properties My Web and Flickr are natural matches for Joshua and del.icio.us.
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Monday, December 5, 2005
Euan Semple Discusses Real-world Use of Blogs, Wikis, and Social Software in Business
Just had a listen to Euan Semple, International Information Industry Awards 2005 Information Professional Of The Year, on BBC Radio Five Live talking about the process of managing internal blogs and wikis within the BBC. Interesting stuff.I listened to the show live. I guess we'll have to wait a bit for the archive link to be posted. I listened to a little bit of the subsequent segments out of curiosity - a bit on Indian music podcasts and some news about UK taxes on oil companies. Pretty good stuff. I rarely listen to news anymore, or watch it on TV. Just too tiresome.Me on the radio
I have just been interviewed by Chris Vallance for the Pods and Blogs section of Up All Night on BBC Radio Five Live. It is meant to be going out live at 2.50 am GMT but when it gets to "Listen Again" I'll post a link.
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Monday, November 28, 2005
Skype 1.4.0.84 Offers Improved Performance and Stability
The latest Skype version, 1.4.0.84, appears to have addressed several performance and stability issues. I've only just installed it this weekend on both my desktop PC and my ThinkPad, so experience is limited, but the annoying system lockups and 100% CPU usage while doing nothing in particular seem to be gone.For some reason, I'm still amazed when tech support tells me repeatedly that they've never heard of my problem, never seen it before, have no idea why it happens, and are absolutely certain it has to do with software on my machine. Then all the problems magically disappear when they do some upgrade. Fascinating, that.
Anyway, I'll be turning Skype back on for a while to see how it holds up under use.
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