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Interview With Jyri Engeström, Co-Founder of Jaiku

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With the explosive growth of Twitter, all the similar me-too services come as no surprise. According to Kristen Nicole, Jaiku is Twitter’s most relevant rival. Check out her very thorough interview with the co-founder of Jaiku, that covers the conception and future of the service and attempts to trace the general path of online behavioral trends.

We believe that online social behavior as a whole is moving towards groups who are in a state of constant connectedness.

Originally posted on April 8, 2007 @ 6:50 pm

Google Announces TV Ads Trial

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In what is being labeled as the next step towards improving user experience and bringing value to advertisers, publishers, and partners, Google has announced today that they are launching a trial-run of Google TV ads.

Users spend a lot of time watching TV so improving the relevance of advertising information on that medium is important…Working closely with our partners, EchoStar and Astound Cable, we are currently running a trial to deliver better ads to viewers and help advertisers, operators and programmers more efficiently buy, schedule, deliver and measure ads on television.

Check out the press release.

Originally posted on April 3, 2007 @ 8:37 am

Downtime in 2007 for the Alexa top 20 websites

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Royal Pingdom has just released a report that measures the Alexa top 20 websites in terms of the downtime their users experienced in 2007.

    Site		Downtime
 1  yahoo.com		   0m
 2  google.com		   7m
 3  myspace.com		1h 0m
 4  msn.com		2h 45m
 5  ebay.com		   6m
 6  youtube.com		4h 44m
 7  facebook.com	   25m
 8  wikipedia.org	2h 23m
 9  craigslist.org	1h 9m
10  live.com		1h 48m
11  amazon.com		   21m
12  blogger.com		4h 47m
13  go.com		   8m
14  aol.com		   3m
15  microsoft.com	   13m
16  cnn.com		   22m
17  comcast.net	   	   3m
18  imdb.com		   29m
19  flickr.com		   30m
20  photobucket.com	1h 23m

Originally posted on April 2, 2007 @ 1:05 pm

No DRM, Soon To Be A Reality?

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According to Macworld UK , Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs is set to appear at a joint EMI and Apple press conference at 1pm tomorrow.

The invitation reads: “Please join EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli at EMI’s headquarters on Monday 2 April at 1pm London/8am New York time to hear about an exciting new digital offering, with special guest, Apple CEO Steve Jobs.”

Could this mean that EMI heard Steve Jobs’ plea to drop Digital Rights Management? I wonder how The Sex Pistols would react.

Read more [via Mac Rumors]

Originally posted on April 1, 2007 @ 2:32 pm