iLike and LaLa Pull the Strings Behind Major Music Initiatives

I’ve never really paid much attention to iLike or LaLa in the past, but it seems these two services are going to play an important role making music available to fans on the web, regardless of where they actually hang out. Myspace, Facebook, and Google are all using iLike and LaLa to power their latest music initiatives and expand their offerings.

Tech Week In Review 10-2-09

Tech Week In Review

Well, a lot of people got invites, but I wasn’t one of them. According to many who actually did get invites, Wave is not all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, it’s an awesome service for collaboration, but it’s not something that’s going to replace Twitter, FriendFeed, or Facebook. Seems like it’s just a little too realtime and comes up a little short in providing the user with tools to manage it effectively. Some think Wave is overhyped while others are begging for invites like the crackhead in Menace to Society. Check out Wayne’s Wave screencast . (Wave details)

Tech Week in Review 9-11-09

Tech Week In Review

Call 911 in An Emergency? Nah, Just Update Your Facebook Status

Two young girls, lost in a drain, chose to update their Facebook status rather than call for help.

The 10- and 12-year-old girls updated a Facebook status to say they were lost in a drain on Honeypot Road at Hackham in Adelaide’s southern suburbs on Sunday night.

Tech Week in Review 7/17/09

The primary motivation for many Firefox users to stick with Firefox is the add-ons. Ubiquity, Feedly, and Firebug just to name a few. Seems that Mozilla realizes how important those developers are. Especially since they’ve been pretty much working for free. So, they have instituted a method for add-on developers to get paid for their work.

MySpace Eliminates 30 Percent of its “Bloated” Staff

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MySpace, a division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, announced that it has cut 30 percent or approximately 400 people from its payroll in effort to return to a “startup culture.” The layoffs will reduce the number of MySpace employees to around 1000.