Alex McFarlane - Web Developer

A nice advertising campaign for Vodafone. There seems to be a problem with the momentum website. Big Bug: http://www.momentumww.com http://www.vodafone-myway.com.au/webstreaker/index.html

According to the BBC, websites will have to implement age verification for downloadable videos or video games. Online video services and video on demand services will be required to have age verification or “gate-keeping systems” which enable parents to monitor and control underage usage. The implementation will be overssen by the ...

eBay and by proxy Skype wants to do just more than IM and voice chats. And that is why they’re pushing the service, and its clients, into new directions — from telepresence to video to whatever they can think of next. (My inner skeptic says they have to keep that ...

The BBC has received more than 75m requests to stream or download BBC programmes via the iPlayer since its launch.

As go celebrities, so go other things in our culture. Today Seesmic got a HUGE win. The Indiana Jones crew, including famous movie stars and movie directors, are on Seesmic. Here, check them out: http://seesmic.com/cate http://seesmic.com/georgelucas http://seesmic.com/harrison http://seesmic.com/steven http://seesmic.com/karen There’s a lot more on this over on TechMeme this morning. These celebrities are so well known ...

AM TV using embed code from Widgetbox.

If you’re a videogame buff, and have the desire to share captures of the action via the Web, chances are you’ll like this story. Now, as far as online video hosts are concerned, YouTube is king. No question about that. But in the realm of video game clips, some players may ...

iStockphoto moved beyond images last year with the inclusion of video for its stock media site, and today, it’s looking to move even further beyond images with the inclusion of audio tracks. These audio tracks will be royalty-free, and available for download starting this September. iStockphoto will also be applying ...

Seattle based wiki startup Wetpaint has always been ahead of the pack in terms of design and usability. Now, a couple of years after launch, they’re starting to see real usage traction as well. The product isn’t just about wikis - they also have social features (profiles, friends, etc.), and added ...

Sprout, the WYSIWYG tool for creating flash applications and widgets, has raised a $5 million Series B round led by Polaris Venture Partners. The company launched back in January at DEMO, and has since rolled out an SDK to allow developers to build their own components for the Sprout ...

As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own data portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details about the preview later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms: Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — ...

As expected, Facebook has conveyed its plans for the upcoming profile redesign to the developer community in order that they better prepare for the way in which these changes will affect the applications built on Facebook’s platform. What’s also expected, is the fact that nearly half of these changes revolve around ...

The channel, which was previously in beta, is now being promoted across the social network's homepage.

I’m justifying this gadget profile with the fact that it’s got a bit of social networking built in (or at least that’s how it was pitched to me by the tipster who sent me Conner Flynn’s writeup at Slippery Brick). This Lego mindstorm looking device is a new terrestrial radio ...

Rackspace’s Mosso cloud hosting has introduced a new product named CloudFS, their own scalable storage solution to take on Amazon’s S3 service. The motto is very straight forward that you pay only for what you use, and the pricing is slightly below Amazon’s that went into effect on May 1st, but ...

A new app from the American Social Health Association aims to spread Chlamydia on Facebook to raise awareness of the disease. The Morph Monkey Facebook app looks fairly benign at the start. Users can select pictures of their friends to see what their combined child will look like. As the user ...

Hollywood Newsroom noted that Google ads are now popping up for searches on “Tom Cruise” that say “Official Tom Cruise Site. Stay Tuned for the Official Launch of TomCruise.com. Check it out!” or alternatively “Official Tom Cruise Site. The Countdown is On. TomCruise.com launches May 5th. Get the scoop!” and ...

Apple iTunes is to offer movie downloads on the same day as their DVD releases after securing deals with major US film studios

The number of Britons joining a social network is expected to treble from 9.6m to 27m by 2012, according to Datamonitor

Google AdWords has just made a major announcement: they are launching Google TV Ads, an all-digital system that lets you place your ads into TV program. The service has been available as a trial program for over a year now, and now Google has opened it up for everyone. Using TV ...