Another 60 days of free MobileMe

Apple should keep this up, people don’t complain as much if it’s free.
Anyway, this is the email I got as I woke up this morning detailing the free 60 days I received as thanks to waiting it out over the .Mac to MobileMe switchover, which totally didn’t bug me in the slightest.

Scrabulous Shut Down on Facebook

I know it’s not their intellectual property but I really wish Hasbro thought about buying the game out from the developers rather than screwing it up for a load of people who lost their game in the process of the IP battle.
The official version of the scrabble game might actually get some people playing it, [...]

Ticketmaster and iTunes have bigger plans.

 
Now, on ticketmaster’s site you can, when ordering a song, get an option to buy an album from the specific artist you’re going to see via iTunes, a very nice collaboration of web apps. 
“The ability to connect live and recorded music, concert tickets and album sales is the future of the music business,” stated David Marcus, SVP [...]

Jaiku gets bought out, I’m still sticking to Twitter

 
 So, i got the email today, saying that Jaiku was “joining” google. By joining I really mean “being swallowed” Still, this doesn’t sound much like the online “presence” company is doing anything of substance with them yet. Twitter still gets me, easier to understand and far less directed solely for profit.
Plans between the two companies [...]

BT teaming with FON for wifi routers

Fon and BT are partnering together for a service most likely to involve BT’s current arsenal of WiFi hotspots and Fon’s ability to make money off people who want free WiFi at the hotspots. Sounds like a great plan, but what sounds really nice is the La Fonero router that Fon supplies. It’s perfect for DD-WRT.

Joost goes public

Joost got unlocked to the public today, just a day after the upgrade to a beta of its 1.0. Looks like I’ll be getting less email from people asking for an invite, but it’s good to see it open :]

Joost hits 1.0: still in beta

 
The IPTV software, Joost hit 1.0 today, but oddly still kept it’s beta tag. Wether this is just to keep some of the web 2.0 venture capital money or just to keep it invite-only is unclear, but this has to be the biggest update to it in it’s history.
The user interface has been very well [...]

4chan is 4: today

Home of the internet meme; 4chan is 4 today. With over 41Million get on it’s /b/ board, it’s the largest dump of images on the net. Not much more to say on the subject, other than expect slowpoke to get the news next week.