Tech News: September 2007 Archives

Not much of a "technology" news, but a good thing to know and a good thing to use:  Amazon launched its online MP3 store at www.amazonmp3.com.  There are two good things about it:  Everything is DRM free, so you're not locked in, and everything is MP3 at 256KHz.  Since I have been ripping my CDs at 192KHz after experimenting with quality I can tell for sure that 256KHz is more than satisfactory.

TechCrunch reports of Google's plans for making an "even more open" API for social applications on top of their social graph.  I had posted Brad Fitzpatrick's long article here on this blog, which was the herald of a very open architecture for inter-social networking.  With him leading LiveJournal, SixApart, and now the social platform I have to say I'm not surprised at the news (although I have to say I'm impressed at How Michael Arrington puts his hands on this kind of information, but well, this is not the first time!)

From Forbes - and yes Bill Gates is still number one.  This is a nice slide show with pictures and all:

http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/18/richlist07_The-Richest-Americans_slide_2.html?thisSpeed=15000

And Google co-founders have made their way to the top ten!

This is funny because I have been looking at this issue for some time now, and I was feeling the need for it, and I even had a prototype of something like this in the making.  Another one of those ideas that feels like a good service and a few months down the road is launched by one of the big gus...  Oh well.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9782108-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

TechCrunch reports of a Game Company founded by a 12 years old, receiving $6.5M in VC funding.  I remember a while ago we saw 17-year CEOs and company founders.  Seriously, how young is too young for having a business?!

Here's the competition for Powerpoint:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/our-feature-presentation.html

Been an eventful today... Aside from the Facebook news, a number of other things were announced:

Google AdSense for Mobile

$3M in seed funding for Penelope - open source Thunderbird related company

And finally...

Yahoo! buys Zimbra for $350M.

Oh, and did I mention - this is a few days old though - that Yahoo! launched its own social networking site?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=377634011

We just released this feature in Frucall - albeit our product collections or "Lists" are more general and cover everything including books:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/collect-share-and-discover-books.html