Graham Charlton
Graham Charlton is Editor of the Econsultancy blog, covering e-commerce, SEO, and more. He also contributes to our Best Practice Guides and other reports. You can contact him at graham.charlton@econsultancy.com.
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Thomas Cook has bought package holiday firm MyTravel, creating the second largest package holiday firm in Europe, with combined annual revenues of £8bn.
The travel group, which will be based in the UK, will be 52% owned by KarstadtQuelle, the German retailer that owns Thomas Cook, and will trade under that name.
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by Graham Charlton
12 February 2007 17:57pm
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MySpace is experimenting with a content-filtering system in a bid to prevent the site's members from uploading videos containing copyrighted material.
News Corp's popular social network will use technology from Audible Magic, which examines the audio tracks of video clips to create a unique signature.
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by Graham Charlton
12 February 2007 13:46pm
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Vodafone has cut a deal with News Corporation's MySpace to allow users of its mobile network to access the social network via their mobiles.
The service will launch first in the UK, followed by other major European markets, believed to be France, Italy and Germany.
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by Graham Charlton
07 February 2007 15:16pm
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Google has announced that its free, web-based email service Googlemail will now be universally available, rather than invitation only, as it has been since 2004.
From today, any UK will be able to sign up for an account. Google is also launching a new, downloadable version of Googlemail for use with mobiles.
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by Graham Charlton
07 February 2007 12:46pm
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Last.fm has teamed up with Warner Music Group in its first deal with a major music company.
The agreement will see Warner's music catalogue made available to the Last.fm's listeners. It will initially roll out in the US, with Europe to follow shortly after.
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by Graham Charlton
07 February 2007 13:06pm
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Bebo has announced that it is conducting a series of workshops to raise understanding among teachers and schools staff about social networks and the internet.
These 'Knowledge Transfer Workshops' are part of the campaign to highlight the risks of internet use, and coincide with today's European Safer Internet Day.
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by Graham Charlton
06 February 2007 12:53pm
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The new look Times Online site launched yesterday, ditching the old black and white design, in favour of colour-coding, though the site has been experiencing teething problems so far.
The Times' website, which was redesigned in-house by Tomaso Capuano and Jon Warden, now features lime green in the masthead, and green, blue and grey throughout the rest of the site. The information architecture was designed by Melissa Fleck.
Obvious font issues aside, we think it looks pretty good...
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by Graham Charlton
06 February 2007 10:59am
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Auction giant eBay has prevented the sale of virtual goods for online games such as
EverQuest
and
World of Warcraft
on its site.
All listings related to these virtual goods, which include currency, characters, weapons, and online game accounts are being removed by eBay due to legal concerns.
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by Graham Charlton
05 February 2007 17:48pm
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Plazes, a social networking site based in Berlin, has announced that it has raised £1.8m in a first round of founding led by Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures.
Plazes is a social network site with the added dimension of location tracking. Plazes automatically detects your location and connects you with people or places nearby.
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by Graham Charlton
05 February 2007 12:46pm
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Viacom, the parent company of MTV and Comedy Central, has requested YouTube to remove 100,000 clips of its programming.
Viacom had been negotiating with Google over a deal that would allow the clips to be shown on YouTube in return for a share of ad revenues, but pulled out of talks after failing to reach an agreement.
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by Graham Charlton
05 February 2007 12:26pm
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