[2005-04-28] Empire Rules the World in Star Wars Poll Revenge of the Sith hits theatres in just a couple of weeks and fans are wound up. The magazine Empire polled 40,000 followers in the U.K. of the George Lucas epic to find out which of the Star Wars movies ranks number one. [2005-04-27] American Idol Shocker: Constantine Maroulis Dumped! In a hard to believe vote tonight on Fox Television's American Idol ... it wasn't bad boy Scott and it wasn't the young kid Anthony ... it was Constantine who had the least votes and is now off the show. [2005-04-15] Tagging: It's Not Just for Your Dog Photos Anymore Yesterday I was on Google Video looking for some Simpsons quotes and found something new ... [2005-04-15] Opinity Launches First Online Reputation Service Opinity, Inc., the first personal online and social reputation services company, today announced its launch of Opinity.com. Opinity.com is for anyone who buys from, sells to, or interacts with other individuals on the Internet. [2005-04-13] Podcasting: 'Significant growth by 2010' Now that Pew Internet's data on how many people listen to podcasts has been roundly trashed as untrustworthy, would you trust any numbers from anyone else on projected growth in podcasting... [2005-04-13] RIAA Targets Internet2 P2P Sharing Although the Internet2 is not available to the public, a number of college students at different locations have certainly brought it to the forefront with their activities. [2005-04-12] VoipBuster and free phone calls My online friend Uri Levanon called me today from Israel. He called to my SkypeIn number. That's in itself isn't remarkable. What is, perhaps, is that he called that number - which is a normal landline number in London - from his internet phone service. Not Skype this time. Uri was calling from The VoipBuster. For free. [2005-04-12] Maintaining Privacy in Google One of the most common questions I see about Google is "How do I clear my search history from the Google search box?" What's everybody guilty of :) ? If you're one of the many it seems that have search terms you'd prefer to hide from other users of your computer, this article is for you. [2005-04-11] Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch Satelitte View through Google Maps I just can't get enough of Google Maps satellite view! Everyone I tell about it is consumed with looking up their childhood neighborhoods, their friends' homes, favorite destinations and the homes of celebrities. [2005-04-11] Microsoft's Channel 9 and Cultural Rules Channel 9, the social networking blog and wiki for Microsoft's developer community and the outside world run by '5 guys from Redmond', celebrated its first birthday last Wednesday. [2005-04-11] Broadband in the UK leads the world Daily Telegraph: [In the UK,] Southern Railway and T-Mobile will unveil details [this] week of the world's first train wireless broadband service. The T-Mobile HotSpot service will allow up to 8,000 daily commuters on the London to Brighton route to access the internet. It will be launched in the summer. [2005-04-11] Map Wars heat up There's a community being built around Google's Maps. Very cool I'm jealous. Now, I've seen Microsoft's future mapping strategy and I've been sworn to secrecy. Don't count us out yet. After all, we have TerraServer and a few other things that work well on maps. [2005-04-07] Sony Patent Real Life Matrix Sony has filed a patent that protects technology developed to implement something closely resembling a real-life Matrix. [2005-04-06] Reputation Destruction and Crisis Management Jim Horton is talking about reputation destruction, and his post on ruined CEO reputation coincides with a story a friend told me recently of how he suspected one of his competitors might be spreading rumours about his company to damaging effect. Both are offline examples, so what of online reputation crisis management? [2005-04-06] Yahoo! 360 gets Parodied, Beautifully... Yahoo! 360 the new blog meets social network service from Yahoo! get's sent up beautifully by SixFoo 660, in fact, it quite litterally had me laughing out loud. [2005-04-02] Sony To Be The iTunes of Film? Sony wants to be for the downloadable movie industry what Apple is to the downloadable music industry.