The Masters of Media (MofM) blog is a collaborative initiative from the New Media Master’s students of the University of Amsterdam. The blog was constructed in September 2006 as part of the New Media Practices course, taught by Geert Lovink. It strives to become a recognized authority on what’s going on in the wide world [...]
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Saregama India, part of the Gramophone Company of India and owners of the pioneering HamaraCD.com are planning to launch a portal from where users would be able to download over 27,000 hours of music at Rs. 12 per song. HamaraCD was one of the first Indian sites which gave the user the option to create [...]
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Make way for the new breed of search engines. Take Mahalo for instance which claims to be the world’s first human-powered search engine, and thus giving only highly relevant categorised results. Being human powered, would of course have implications on scale as Ask.com had discovered, but without doubt, this would be one way to cut [...]
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Incuby is aiming to build a community where inventors can display their inventions to the general public, entrepreneurs and investors. The site is still in development and will move to a closed beta test in the coming weeks with a broad number of inventors already signed up to test the site. The focus is on [...]
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According to the new Telephia Premium SMS Report, Premium SMS revenues totaled more than $273 million, making up 32 percent of mobile content revenue in Q1 2007. This report includes content purchased via premium SMS from off-portal storefronts as well as premium text messaging services, like voting/sweepstakes and chat. Download purchases paid for via premium [...]
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Changing the world, one startup at a time. This Business 2.0 compilation showcases the innovations that have either changed the world of threaten to do so. Probably their answer to the TED Talks.
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