Alex McFarlane - Web Developer

Via CrunchGear the above video is allegedly being used by Microsoft as an internal promotion tool for encouraging sales of Vista. We’ve defended Microsoft’s takeover offer for Yahoo a number of times previously, but watching this you sort of understand why Yahoo employees are scared. Update: Long Zheng notes that this ...

Google Earth, the 3D global mapping application that has grown to become one of the most popular and freely-accessible software developments to come out of Mountain View not directly affiliated with its search engine nor its advertising business, has just today received an update. Google Earth 4.3 (Beta) is now ...

Exit Reality from Duncan Riley on Vimeo. ExitReality promises to transform the social networking experience by offering virtual versions of every social network site profile. I caught up with CTO Danny Stefanic and CEO Dean Jones today for a walkthrough, video above. The London, UK headquartered (the dev team, founder and CEO ...

Users of Google Earth have been allowed to geo-tag videos since October 2007 and view the results on the service’s YouTube layer. Some searching today will show quite a lot of clips already tacked onto the virtual globe since the option became available. Well, Google is now building on its ...

McCann Worldgroup's Momentum Worldwide has acquired Greenroom Digital and its sister media agency Entertainment Intelligence. The digital agency will be rebranded as Momentum and its 50 staff will be moved into the Momentum offices. Full Article: Brand Republic Url: Momentum Worldwide

The BBC iPlayer is set to launch on the Nintendo Wii as latest figures reveal more than 42m BBC shows have been viewed via the service since its Christmas Day launch. The first-quarter figures reveal iPlayer usage grew by 25% each month, from 11.2m streams or downloads in January to ...

I’ve been instead dozens of corporate headquarters. Interviewed hundreds of executives. But Rackspace is now at the top of my list of favorite companies. Here’s a tour of their new headquarters. They are turning a mall into a data center. Really great stories. Video: Here’s a tour of their new headquarters Full ...

So the big news of the midnight is that Google has launched their application cloud service. It has hands down the cartooniest looking logo of any Google service I’ve laid eyes on. It has the promise of being game-changing. Given that Robert was at the Google Campfire event, it could ...

Adobe has launched Adobe Media Player 1.0 and a Adobe TV. Adobe Media Player is a cross-platform Adobe AIR application that offers content discovery and interaction. Companies that are offering content for the player include CBS, MTV Networks, Universal Music Group, PBS, CondéNet, and Scripps Networks. The media player can be downloaded ...

An experiment using the new Google cromeless player API. The videos are loaded from a playlist within YouTube which when updated will be updated within the widget. The current playlist is from Pathe UK's Be Kind Rewind Playlist (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0DFE75E6C0EEAC1B). This could be updated to include playback controls, packshots, embed links, film ...