Spotify/DCTF
Licensing agreements are what’s keeping Spotify from becoming available sooner in the U.S. and other major markets. The company, which employs about 90, expects to launch in the U.S. by the end of the year or early 2010.
Sat, September 12 2009 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
The role of #votereport, iReport and other sites on Election Day
Ira Socol noticed election workers at his polling place in Holland, Mich., Tuesday telling voters the address on their ID card had to match the one on their voter registration. Otherwise, they couldn’t use the voting machines.
The 52-year-old doctoral student believed this discouraged some from his low-income district from voting.
In Birmingham, Ala., Joy Heard, a [...]
Wed, November 5 2008 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
The art on, and about, the Internet
The Web is full of content that only its creator could love. Witness the office-party photos, blogs about people’s pets and bad lip-synched videos that turn up in a few minutes of Google-fueled procrastination.
To Guthrie Lonergan, however, Web junk is the basis of his most popular online art. “I’m sort of interested in that boringness,” [...]
Wed, December 19 2007 » Wall Street Journal » Comments Off
Dealing with porn on your user-generated-content site
When a group of college students launched the document-sharing Web site Scribd.com, they envisioned it as a place where they and others could publish term papers online.
Scribd, which allows anyone to upload documents much like YouTube lets users post videos online, has grown quickly since its September 2006 debut. Users have added more than 350,000 [...]
Fri, November 16 2007 » Wall Street Journal » Comments Off
At Some Schools, Facebook Evolves From Time Waster to Academic Study
As recent graduates, several of Hung Truong’s classmates will be headed for typical next steps in their technology careers: working as programmers or pursuing master’s degrees in computer science.
But the 23-year-old, who received his undergraduate degree from the University of New Mexico, instead plans to study the growth of social-networking sites like Facebook and why [...]
Tue, May 29 2007 » Wall Street Journal » Comments Off
Friends Swap Twitters, and Frustration
New Real-Time Messaging Services Overwhelm Some Users With Mundane Updates From Friends
Though she already has a blog, a podcast and a character in the virtual world of Second Life, Kera Richard has recently become obsessed with a new online tool for connecting with friends. For the past three weeks, she has joined the crowds on [...]
Fri, March 16 2007 » Wall Street Journal » Comments Off
Churches Embrace the Web in Bid to Attract Members
Looking to attract more young people to his church, the Rev. Patrick Gray turned to an unlikely marketing tool: MySpace, a social-networking Web site that draws millions of teens and young adults every day.
Father Gray, a 35-year-old Episcopal priest at Boston’s Church of the Advent, was sold on MySpace by a congregant whose rock band [...]
Wed, May 17 2006 » Wall Street Journal » Comments Off
