"What if they [users] too could share their likes and dislikes via a social layer inside Amazon.com? Or what if I could follow my favorite authors and get updates on their books?"
Lessons that Blinkx could learn for Cheep?
Monday, 6 September 2010
Friday, 3 September 2010
Round-up of news links about Android tabs and social media
Chinese Tech Firms Plan More Android Devices
All Things Digital
Toshiba: Portable video on tablets ‘is the future
BBC News
Samsung Galaxy Tab preview
Engadget
Toshiba touts £329 Folio Android tablet
The Register
Ping Averts Its Gaze: Apple’s New Social Network Doesn’t Really Want to Know Much About You
All Things Digital
Social Music Mystery! What Happened to Apple’s Ping-Facebook Connection?
All Things Digital
Ongoing by Tom Bray - Galaxy Tab
7" Android Tablet Touch PC, indeed.
BoingBoing
All Things Digital
Toshiba: Portable video on tablets ‘is the future
BBC News
Samsung Galaxy Tab preview
Engadget
Toshiba touts £329 Folio Android tablet
The Register
Ping Averts Its Gaze: Apple’s New Social Network Doesn’t Really Want to Know Much About You
All Things Digital
Social Music Mystery! What Happened to Apple’s Ping-Facebook Connection?
All Things Digital
Ongoing by Tom Bray - Galaxy Tab
7" Android Tablet Touch PC, indeed.
BoingBoing
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Galaxy Tab unveiled as Samsung's first tablet computer
Samsung has become the latest challenger to into the tablet computer battle, unveiling its Galaxy Tab at the IFA conference in Berlin.
The device will run on Google's Android operating system, with a capacity of 16 or 32Gb, expandable by 32Gb more.
It weighs 380g (14oz), and has an 18cm (7in) screen - smaller and lighter than its principal rival the iPad.
Vodafone has announced that it will distribute the device in European markets including the UK in October.
The tablet can connect via 3G networks, as well as wi-fi and Bluetooth.
It will employ Samsung's "Reader's Hub" for e-books and the "Media Hub" for music and videos. It supports Flash video and will be able to stream content to a TV...
from BBC News
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Comment: '...supports Flash video' - I don't know (yet) whether the Blinkx Beat app is on the Tab, but it's on the Galaxy S smartphone, so here's hoping...
The device will run on Google's Android operating system, with a capacity of 16 or 32Gb, expandable by 32Gb more.
It weighs 380g (14oz), and has an 18cm (7in) screen - smaller and lighter than its principal rival the iPad.
Vodafone has announced that it will distribute the device in European markets including the UK in October.
The tablet can connect via 3G networks, as well as wi-fi and Bluetooth.
It will employ Samsung's "Reader's Hub" for e-books and the "Media Hub" for music and videos. It supports Flash video and will be able to stream content to a TV...
from BBC News
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Comment: '...supports Flash video' - I don't know (yet) whether the Blinkx Beat app is on the Tab, but it's on the Galaxy S smartphone, so here's hoping...
Samsung Galaxy Tab Video Teaser Reveals A Would-Be iPad Killer
"The first of the would-be, Android-toting iPad killers is about to arrive in the Samsung Galaxy Tab. It’s set to debut at next week’s IFA conference in Berlin, but as you can see, Samsung’s already teasing the device..."
from Cult of Mac
from Cult of Mac
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Nice deal...
ITN signs Metro web video deal
Metro.co.uk to take news, sport and showbiz video clips as freesheet looks to expand its online offering
ITN has struck a deal to provide video clips to the free daily newspaper Metro.
From today, ITN will syndicate video including UK news, world news, sports and showbiz to Metro.co.uk, as the title, which is owned by the Daily Mail & General Trust, looks to expand its digital offering.
Metro distributes 1.3m copies every weekday in 16 cities across the UK, while Metro.co.uk publishes to 2.5 million monthly unique users in the UK.
Jamie Walters, digital director of the Metro, said: "We are really excited to be able to offer our users of Metro.co.uk more choice in the way they consume their online news."
Metro joins a host of UK publishers taking video content from ITN, in which DMGT has a 20% stake. Earlier this year the broadcaster began providing video news to AOL UK, syndicating hundreds of hours of video news to the company which has pledged to be the "largest net hirer of journalists in the world". It also added local newspaper company Iliffe News & Media to its Premium News Network video syndication package, which includes advertising provided by Blinkx.
Metro.co.uk to take news, sport and showbiz video clips as freesheet looks to expand its online offering
ITN has struck a deal to provide video clips to the free daily newspaper Metro.
From today, ITN will syndicate video including UK news, world news, sports and showbiz to Metro.co.uk, as the title, which is owned by the Daily Mail & General Trust, looks to expand its digital offering.
Metro distributes 1.3m copies every weekday in 16 cities across the UK, while Metro.co.uk publishes to 2.5 million monthly unique users in the UK.
Jamie Walters, digital director of the Metro, said: "We are really excited to be able to offer our users of Metro.co.uk more choice in the way they consume their online news."
Metro joins a host of UK publishers taking video content from ITN, in which DMGT has a 20% stake. Earlier this year the broadcaster began providing video news to AOL UK, syndicating hundreds of hours of video news to the company which has pledged to be the "largest net hirer of journalists in the world". It also added local newspaper company Iliffe News & Media to its Premium News Network video syndication package, which includes advertising provided by Blinkx.
from The Guardian
Mike Lynch of Autonomy in October 2010 Wired magazine
[click image for larger version]
...in an article entitled "Europe's Next Billion Dollar Start-Ups". Of course Autonomy is hardly a start-up, but still...
Microsoft Launches Advertising Platform In China
09/01/2010 07:42:52 - Microsoft Launches Advertising Platform In China
BEIJING (AFP)--Microsoft Corp.(MSFT) has launched an advertising platform in China in an attempt to grab market share from rival Google Inc. (GOOG), which has been wrangling with Beijing over censorsip, state media said Wednesday.
The U.S. Internet titan's adCenter will target Chinese exporters wanting to advertise overseas, said Anderson Liu, general manager of Microsoft's domestic joint venture MSN China.
"It's time to join the market and let Chinese advertisers have more choices," Liu was quoted by the China Daily as saying.
AdCenter helps businesses place advertisements online, on places such as Microsoft's Bing search engine.
Microsoft hopes revenue from the pay-per-click ads will account for half of MSN China's business in the future, Liu said, without providing further details.
In July, Google parted ways with two Chinese advertisers following its standoff with Beijing over censorsip and cyberattacks the U.S. search giant claims originated in China.
Google cut ties with Universal Internet Media and Xi'an Weihua Network, two major advertising agencies that worked in eastern and northwestern China, the China Daily said, citing Marsa Wang, Google China spokeswoman.
In January, Google said it wouldn't buckle to Chinese government pressure to censor its content, and threatened to pull out of the country entirely.
It later effectively shut down its Chinese site google.cn, re-routing mainland users to its uncensored site in Hong Kong.
In March, a group of 27 Chinese advertising agencies sent Google a letter calling for talks over compensation for possible business losses amid the censorsip wrangle.
Google's share of China's online market fell to 24.2% in the three months to June, from 30.9% in the first quarter, research firm Analysys International said in a recent report.
BEIJING (AFP)--Microsoft Corp.(MSFT) has launched an advertising platform in China in an attempt to grab market share from rival Google Inc. (GOOG), which has been wrangling with Beijing over censorsip, state media said Wednesday.
The U.S. Internet titan's adCenter will target Chinese exporters wanting to advertise overseas, said Anderson Liu, general manager of Microsoft's domestic joint venture MSN China.
"It's time to join the market and let Chinese advertisers have more choices," Liu was quoted by the China Daily as saying.
AdCenter helps businesses place advertisements online, on places such as Microsoft's Bing search engine.
Microsoft hopes revenue from the pay-per-click ads will account for half of MSN China's business in the future, Liu said, without providing further details.
In July, Google parted ways with two Chinese advertisers following its standoff with Beijing over censorsip and cyberattacks the U.S. search giant claims originated in China.
Google cut ties with Universal Internet Media and Xi'an Weihua Network, two major advertising agencies that worked in eastern and northwestern China, the China Daily said, citing Marsa Wang, Google China spokeswoman.
In January, Google said it wouldn't buckle to Chinese government pressure to censor its content, and threatened to pull out of the country entirely.
It later effectively shut down its Chinese site google.cn, re-routing mainland users to its uncensored site in Hong Kong.
In March, a group of 27 Chinese advertising agencies sent Google a letter calling for talks over compensation for possible business losses amid the censorsip wrangle.
Google's share of China's online market fell to 24.2% in the three months to June, from 30.9% in the first quarter, research firm Analysys International said in a recent report.
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Comment: sure sounds like MS could use Blinkx's tech... Only problem is I think they're (that is, Blinkx) barred from using the technology they licensed from Autonomy in China.
Maybe MS should just have done with it and take over both Autonomy and Blinkx. Might cost 'em $10bn for the two, but not very high price for leapfrogging Google in what will soon be the world's largest market...
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