Kevin Harrington

Tag: web 2.0

  • Music site Last.fm bought by CBS for $280m

    BBC NEWS Technology Music site Last.fm bought by CBS So, another mammoth price for an online media business. Last.fm has been bought by CBS Corporation for $280m, making it the largest-ever UK Web 2.0 acquisition…so far. Last.fm was founded in the UK in 2002 and claims it has more than 15 million active users. I’ve…

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  • Bing, It Bounced

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    I was rather enthused about Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. I Tweeted about this a few days ago saying, “Giving Bing www.bing.com a go. It’s good and localisation seems to work well. I also like the ‘format to phone’ feature; ace on Blackberry.” Today I was further impressed by the following email that I received: Hi…

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  • Doing Business on the Web

    There’s tons of stuff on the internet about web 2.0. This extract from Positively Glorius! is part of a very good article. The basic point is that if you are there interacting with people, finding ways to help them, then the rest will fall into place. It’s not marketing, it’s involvement. If you tell me…

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