Archive for November 30th, 2007
I blogged about the new ElectionLink vehicle that Fox News is rolling out to cover the campaign trail. Friday during the hostage standoff at the Clinton campaign office, Fox News used the vehicle and was live while on the way to the scene. At one point police cars could be seen racing past the camera. It was very impressive and pretty good quality video.
Note: The video makes it look like there was an audio syncing problem, but there wasn’t. (Thanks AG for helping get the video!)
November 30th, 2007
MySpace has launched its latest… um… innovation - the News Feed! OK, so it’s very smiliar to Facebook’s. Anyway, MySpacers can now opt-in or out of the system - deciding who they want to subscribe to, and who they want to block. Personally, I know several people who have turned it all off (me included). This is what has kept me from diding into Facebook - I don’t like to broadcast every little change in my MySpace life. Here’s a preview story from Reuters.
November 30th, 2007
It’s a new service that alerts your Facebook friends (via the news feed) when you buy something on sites like Travelocity, Fandango and Overstock, but after 50,000 Facebook members signed a petition dissing the new service over privacy concerns, Facebook now asks if users want to participate. “Beacon crosses the line to being Big Brother,” said Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research, “It’s a very, very thin line.”
November 30th, 2007
