Around the voice: Yahoo to buy a video marketing company; Steve Jobs not afraid by Zune; Wikipedia cofounder launches Wikipedia alternative; The British biggest blog

Yahoo says to buy online advertising company [Reuters] “Yahoo said it will buy AdInterax, a company that specializes in offering tools to create rich media ads using video and other technologies. _[…] The deal comes as online video usage has taken off in the U.S., and comes on the heels of rival Google Inc.’s deal to buy top online video service YouTube Inc.”_

Is Steve Jobs worried about Microsoft Zune [NewsWeek] “In a word, no. I’ve seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you’ve gone through all that, the girl’s got up and left!”

Wikipedia co-founder plans ‘expert’ spinoff [News.com] “Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, says he will launch a spinoff of the free site, called Citizendium. It will include user registration and editorial controls to govern user-submitted articles, unlike the free-for-all submission process that reigns on Wikipedia.”

Blog records Briton’s daily lives [BBC] “The National Trust is encouraging people to record a diary of their day on a website, as part of what is being called “Britain’s biggest blog”.

Oct 17, 2006 | By Nuno

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