Some quite mentionable facts are happening these days in the webosphere.
Let’s start with the locals:
- The highly acclaimed online award of Grimme institut went to a private blog network, a collective blog of weird and brilliant authors (not even a year online now), as well as to a link-recommending video webcast, that was integrated only weeks before into one of germany’s most important newssite. What a change from awarding tv-funded website specials and commercial sites in the previous years.
- The german chancellorette started a vlogging career with a vodcast nearly free of content which was even noticed by the daily and exciting rocketboom in its yesterday release.
- The Football World Cup is now a Firefox extension.
What else? A lot:
- Web 2.0 firststop newsblog TechCrunch hits the one year line. If you are among the >65000 subscribers to Michael Arringtons feed you will already know most of the following.
- Problogger Tara Hunt went away from photocommunity riya to follow Prodesigner Chris Messina into freelance consulting or something.
- Evangelist Robert Scoble left microsoft to join podtech. See and hear more coverage around here.
- Om Malik is reported to leave Business 2.0 to follow own ventures
- PubSub, a nice and handy monitoring site, seems to soon go the way of gtalkr, a nice and flashy launchpad site. But for diffrent more unfriendly reasons.
- Collaborative technews recommendation site Digg leaks some screenshots of the next relaunch, that show expansion into the less technews fields of link recommendation. And thats while AOL boom bang releases the beta of a digg clone as the future replacement for the netscape portal.
- Flock, the browser for the prosumer, is released as a first public beta. Finally. Check out the interview on talkcrunch. In fact I am writing this post inside of flocks blogeditor.
My personal highlights:
- Thanks to Rupert I discovered a ugly designed and brilliant working mashup of last.fm and pandora. music recommendation deluxe.
- ShoZu invited me to betatest their new mobile client that includes subscriptions to multimediacasts from rocketboom and webshots as well as posting from your mobile to bcc and cnn, whatever that means. More later.
- And, yeah: Microshaft released a video for their brand new Web 2.0 framework. It covers all! Watch it!
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