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May 08, 2006

Telegraph Podcast

The Telegraph has redesigned it's website and added a daily podcast, hosted by Guy Ruddle, featuring many of their best-known columnists, correspondents and feature writers.

May 05, 2006

Observer Food Podcasts

The Observer have a food podcast by Giorgio Locatelli who cooks some of his favourite recipes in his own kitchen at home.

May 03, 2006

Sphere.com - Blog Search Engine

Sphere.com is a new blog search engine which launched on Monday. Although not perfect it seems pretty useful.

May 02, 2006

Fox Corp Buys More Web 2.0 Companies

News Corporation has bought two more Web 2.0 companies that specialize in user-generated content - Newroo offers users a content aggregator tool and kSolo.com is an online karaoke site.

MySpace Has Unnecessary Clicks

Mike Davidson, chief executive of Newsvine believes that if MySpace was designed along the lines of Google it would have far less page impressions:

1. Click over to "GoogSpace", or whatever we want to call it. (+1 page view)
2. Click through to read and reply to all mail (0)
3. Visit a few friends' pages (+3)
4. Edit my profile page (+1)

That's about 5 registered page views. The rest of the interaction comes from XML/HTTP requests.

Here's the same sequence on MySpace:

1. Click over to MySpace. (+1 page view)
2. Log in, because MySpace doesn't remember logins very well. (+2)
3. Click through to read and reply to all mail… about three per mail. (+21)
4. Visit a few friends' pages. (+3)
5. Reload a few pages because of server errors. (+3)
5. Edit my profile page. (+10)