Since bands often post their tour schedules on MySpace (and sometimes nowhere else), I decided to do some detective work to see if I could find some useful RSS feeds on News Corporation’s erstwhile social networking site. Much to my unastonishment, MySpace seems to have no RSS feeds whatsoever, (if you know of some that…
Category: Tech
Microsoft Bids to Buy Yahoo!
In an effort to shore up it’s world wide dominance and fight the unevil empire called Google, Microsoft has made an unsolicited takeover bid to acquire rival search engine/portal Yahoo. Microsoft Corp. on Friday offered to buy search-engine operator Yahoo Inc. for $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, in an effort to better compete with…
USB “Mix Tape”
Do you miss the days of making your very own mix tapes? Do mix CD’s just not feel right to you? Well then, maybe the USB “mix tape” is more your speed. Decked out in its very own retro packaging, the USB mix tape, is a 64MB (really, that’s it?) USB key inside of a…
HBO Content Coming to the Internets
Premium cable channel HBO is set to finally offer its wares on the Internet, but only to those who are already part of the “Time Warner Family”. This is kind of good news for me because I recently dropped HBO-ver, but I’m still a Roadrunner subscriber. HBO on Broadband, as the service is called, will…
The Face of Facebook Is…
umm, socially awkard? Check out the 60 minutes piece on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over here. Dude, I am so making friends with Lesley. PS You can also view some additional videos over at 60minutes.yahoo.com.
Showtime’s This American Life Season 1 Available for Video Download
While I’m on the subject of iTunes, I also noticed (much to my surprise) that season 1 of This American Life is available for (pay) download via the iTunes store and amazon unbox. If you’re as TV starved as I am right now, this could be just what the doctor ordered (according to Netflix, the…