3D fly-through a social network

Beautiful visualisation via infosthetics and Open showing the network relationships of groups, members and content, plus the 'long tail' gets a mention.

New York Times on the iPhone hype

David Pogue of The New York Times looks at the features of the new iPhone, as furtively as possible.

Sam Sethi launches Blognation across 16 countries

Today ex-TechCrunchUK publisher, and more recently Vecosys editor Sam Sethi launches his ambitious Blognation network covering the startup/ web 2.0 space.

With 16 editors onboard already Blognation will initially launch in : United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Denmark Portugal, Italy, Iceland, Netherlands, Japan, China / Taiwan / Hong Kong, Australia, Brazil, South America.

Deliberately the US is not being covered by Blognation as Sam says 'because there are already enough excellent blogs reporting on the start-up ecosystem over there and one more wouldn’t make the slightest difference.'

Future expansion of Blognation is planned to cover Canada, Russia, India, South Africa, South Korea, South-East Asia, Poland, Czech Republic, Turkey and Greece.

Blognation's About Us page states ' blognation is backed by undisclosed venture capital funding, by vendor advertising and through affiliate advertising.'



Best of luck Sam and to all involved.

Thanks to Antony Mayfield at Open for consistently sourcing some of the most interesting and thought provoking content: Below Seth Godin speaking at TED reflects on which marketing works and why.

CBS buys Last.fm

Big news for the UK tech scene as CBS today bought London-based Lastfm for £140m ($280m). The Guardian describes this as 'the largest UK web2.0 acquisition to date'.


With 15 million current users in 200 countries, the founders Martin Stiksel, Richard Jones and Felix Miller write on their blog about what a good match working with CBS will be.

And how they understood "putting the listener in charge, the vibrant and vocal community, the obsession with music stats, and our determination to offer every song ever recorded."

Martin Stiksel said "We have a lot more ideas in the pipeline that we can now put into effect and also we have a strong partner on our side."

'The day the web changed' :: Scoble on Silverlight

Robert Scoble talks with Scott Guthrie, who runs several teams at Microsoft who develop developer tools and platforms. He gave a keynote at Mix where he got a lot of attention with Silverlight and other developer initiatives.

Guthrie recommened seeing the Top Banana video which is a new starter kit that lets developers add sophisticated and streamlined video editing to their content sites. It lets their users easily upload and edit video snippets into movies in a fun and free-form manner.

Tony Blair (en français) on YouTube