Media Text bites the dust

by psionmark on September 29, 2008

Media Text, who offered “advertisers the ability to target consumers through keywords and deliver text, image, video or flash animated advertisements” appear to have bitten the dust. I just received this email from them:
Dear Publisher,

We regret to inform you that we have decided not to continue the MediaText project.

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Google Alerts get graphics

by psionmark on September 25, 2008

I noticed the other day that Google have introduced graphics to their Alerts, as can be seen below.

I use Google Alerts a lot. They’re tremendously useful for gathering sources of news and it’s good to see it’s still being worked on and developed. I’m not so sure the graphics [...] Continue Reading…


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IntenseDebate acquired by Automattic

by psionmark on September 23, 2008

IntenseDebate, the threaded commenting system that can be used on Wordpress and other types of blogs, has been acquired by Automattic.

Here’s their press release:
We’re extremely pleased to announce that IntenseDebate will now be joining the Automattic team! This is a big day for us and we couldn’t be more stoked about [...] Continue Reading…


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A couple of days ago, I purchased a FireWire 1Tb external hard drive with the intention of partitioning it so I could use it with both my MacBook Pro and my BootCamp Windows XP installation.

After 2 days of frustration trying to get it to work, I finally found a [...] Continue Reading…


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A new blog network on the block

by psionmark on September 20, 2008

WidgetBox have launched their own Blog Network and introduced a shiny new widget to go with it.

Being a sucker for these things, you can see an example in my sidebar. The process is pretty simple - you add a “Blidget” pointing to your blog, they give you a snippet [...] Continue Reading…


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