Friday Digital Flames
The “Can’t Live Without It” Edition
Earlier this yearLance Armstrong was hoping to sneak into the country to do his firstcome back race, The Tour Down Under but failed miserably. Lance is aprolific tweeter (@lancearmstrong)and was brought undone by a clever journo who worked out he must havebeen on a plane on his way, because he stopped tweeting for more than afew hours.
Well as of next year, Lance will be safe as airlinesstart offering internet services on long-haul flights. There’s also aninteresting article on the stoush brewing between Rupert Murdochamongst others and the big search engines. He’s saying it’s time to payup for using his content. Sounds like fighting talk!
Lufthansa has announced plans to reintroduce internet service on a number of long-distance flights by the first half of 2010.
Whenit comes to dating, the difference between sucess and failure oftencomes down to delivery. And as PepsiCo. learned this week, even a goodbit of self-deprecation can’t fix a poorly executed pick up line.
Bloggersand Twitter users thwarted a legal attempt Tuesday to stop Britain’smedia from reporting the questions posed by a lawmaker in aparliamentary debate, spotlighting the power of new media to influencepublic policy.
Googlewants to own the search experience across every mobile media platform,and its latest offering is a universal search box that lets users ofAndroid-based smartphones look for apps, contact information and webcontent right from the device’s home screens.
Surpassingrival Microsoft’s 547 million in total number of videos served, thethree-year old YouTube says they’ve now passed the 1 billion per daymark.
In Era of Democratized Media, Dull Entertainment Reigns; Give Consumers Reason to Think You’re Hip…
Theleaders of two of the world’s major news organisations said that it istime for search engines and others who use news content for free to payup.