Arik Litvin

"My favorite online music service Last.fm is currently ungoing a semi-public re-design, available to Last.fm subscribers ($3 per month) at beta.last.fm. Bearing in mind that last.fm is now owned by mega media company CBS, it is great to see last.fm continuing to evolve fast. In this post we review the new design and see if it's ready for primetime. The short answer is no. The beta feedback so far has been mixed and comparisons to Facebook have been common. A reminder that last.fm is an online music service, which can be enjoyed via a desktop software app or within the browser. Last.fm is built on top of a very impressive music recommendation database called AudioScrobbler. See our February '08 post about last.fm for full details on how last.fm works. What's New? The re-design project was announced on the last.fm blog on 21 May. Its stated mission was "to make online music easier, better and more discoverable." The most noticeable change so far is a new-look UI (more on that below), but here some of " - Dan N. Moldovan

Advertising budgets have not been directly connected to the computer and technology before the Web 2.0 companies started attracting advertising dollars. The massive reach of Google has attracted to advertising dollars into the computer industry. Even thought the proportion of total advertising spending on Internet advertising is relatively low, the impact on the computer industry is large. - FaceySpacey

From the page: "A must tool for a daily work on the computer, is a screen-capture that gives you the ability to snap or crop something from your desktop or web, then share it with co-workers, friends, family, etc. There are some good old softwares that can help you with that, such as: Snagit and FastStone, but if you're looking for a simpler solution, free of charge, and one that can connect you with your social life, check out this list:" - Orli Yakuel

From the page: "AlertThingy, the Adobe AIR desktop application for FriendFeed that we previewed last month, has just launched. It is one of the first applications built on the new FriendFeed API." - Orli Yakuel