Archive for April 20th, 2008

Twitter hiccups through a semi-outage

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

The Twitter community may not be paying much heed to your posts this weekend, but it’s not your fault.

The company behind the messaging service and Web 2.0 darling acknowledged late Saturday that some back-end changes had been failing to show tweets from a number of people. A …

Britannica makes content free with widgets, publisher registration

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Before there was Wikipedia, there was Britannica.

Really, young whippersnappers, having an organized stack of the neatly bound heavy encyclopedia volumes on library shelves was a status-making must in many U.S. households as recently as the 1990s.

With the invention of the CD-ROM came Encarta, owned by Microsoft, which …

Speculation mounts over Six Apart acquisition

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Software maker Six Apart has made a “significant” acquisition, according to sources cited by TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington.

While the purchase may not be large in size, it possibly will mark a strategic shift for the company behind popular blogging platforms TypePad, Movable Type, and Vox, Arrington said, adding that …

VC investors show signs of constraint

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Companies seeking venture capital dollars have had a bit less luck in the past year, according to research released Saturday by Dow Jones VentureSource and Ernst & Young.

Overall United States-based VC spending in the first quarter of 2008, totaling $6.8 billion in 603 deals, is down 7 percent …

Former deputy PM admits to bulimia

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

BRITAIN’S former deputy prime minister has confessed to having suffered from the binge eating disorder bulimia for over 20 years.

Kevin Rudd’s aplogy now a song

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

THE Australian PM’s stollen generation speech has been put to music with help from stars such as Missy Higgins and Paul Kelly.

No butts for bubs of 2009

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

SMOKING will be banned and we’ll all take a fitness test if some 2020 summit delegates have their way.

Harry Potter’s search for Aussie mystery girl

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

IT reads like a Hollywood film script. Famous rich boy sees not-so-famous girl across a room, their gaze lovingly locks but the girl is suddenly whisked away and that’s the last time he sees her.

Former deputy PM admits to bulimia

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

FORMER British deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has confessed to having suffered from the binge eating disorder bulimia for over 20 years.

Nick D’Arcy to appeal his Olympic ban

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

SWIMMER Nick Darcy is opting for legal fights against his assault charge and the AOC’s decision to boot him off the Beijing team.