links for 2008-01-22

"Entertaining blogs and an interesting idea. Haven't been back in NZ long enough to know if anything similar happens on any of the news sites here. Does it?"

"Ever had a party ruined by the host's atrocious music? Smart Party is a system that polls the tastes of party-goers and creates a playlist to keep everyone happy. It copies and play tracks from guests Wi-Fi-enabled devices".

For some users, a search will now show whether a page listed in Yahoo results is also on Delicious and how it has been tagged. It brings back memories of Yahoo My Web integration and before that, how the Yahoo Directory used to work. More below.

"It's a thoroughly professional piece of work. Boris himself, however, seems to have had no input whatsoever and I'm left knowing precisely nothing more about the personality of the man they’re trying to persuade me to vote for". Close, but no cigar.

"The prospect for advertisers is clear: like Facebook, We7 promises its ads will be closely targeted because of the personal info it gathers about users. The labels, meanwhile, are reassured that they will begin to lose less through illegal downloading".

"A study by web measurement firm comScore for November 2007 found that the Daily Mail's network of websites had the highest overseas use, with 69% or 5.1 million users from outside the UK". Cue 'Now foreigners are stealing *our* news!' outrage, no?

"After police consultation about the impact on the investigation were the theft to become public, I decided not to make a statement last Thursday. Unfortunately, news of the laptop theft was reported in the media on Friday evening". Pesky free media.

"Has the time has come to ditch the Windows/Kontiki iPlayer client, and the millions of pounds of development and software licenses that went into it, or at the very least communicate more openly the costs [of the Microsoft dominated] project?"