Amazon hooks up with music website Sellaband
The web retail giant is partnering with music community site SellaBand to offer aspiring bands and new musicians a high-profile launchpad. Source: Guardian
Channel 4 to premiere Shameless episode on MySpace
Channel 4 wants to repeat the success of its tie-up with the social networking website for Skins earlier this year. Source: Guardian
Founders Fund has $220m to invest
Silicon Valley investment firm has raised $220m to invest in 15-to-20 early stage start-ups. Source: GigaOm
Sony Walkman offers free music for three months
Sony has struck five partnerships with music download services across Europe to give away free music. New Media Age
Digg hires bank, hoping to sell for $300 million or more
The company has hired influential investment firm Allen & Company to help broker a deal. Source: VentureBeat
Facebook suing Ontario porn firm
A Canadian company is being sued by Facebook amid allegations it tried to hack Facebook's computers and access the personal information of users. Source: The Star.com
Mags sites more effective than digital editions
Readers and advertisers still sceptical abotu digitised print titles. Source: Media Week US
Ashley Highfield on the new iPlayer
Yes - you do need a TV licence. Source: FT.com
20 things I learnt from Le Web 3.0 in Paris
VCs aren't spending, everyone has a video site and no one loves Facebook anymore. Source: Tech Digest
Google adding blogs to Universal Search
Blogs get indexed alongside multimedia search results. Source: TechCrunch UK
BBC staff rewrote Wikipedia pages to water down criticism
BBC officials repeatedly altered the Wikipedia internet encyclopaedia to water down attacks on the corporation. Source: Independent on Sunday
Weblogs rack up a decade of posts
The word 'weblog' celebrates the 10th anniversary of it being coined on 17 December 1997. Source: BBC
O2 plans broadband battle in pay-TV market
O2 plans to go head to head with BT, Sky and Virgin Media next year by extending deals with Warner Bros, HBO and Paramount in the Czech Republic. Source: Guardian
Danny Baker puts podcast on ice
Wippit and the BBC London fall out over exclusivity. Source: Guardian
Facebook climbs the social scale
The networking site continues to grow as a platform for building business, though Google has still seized the lion's share of online advertising. Source: Guardian
Online video ads - a price list
Rates can vary from $10-$90 per thousand clicks. Source: paidContent
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