offering

A few weeks ago I made the mistake of wondering aloud when someone would start offering cash prizes for twitter followers. I had seen people offering physical prizes before, but never cash. A few random people decided to have some fun with me and start saying I was offering cash, so I just decided to run with it.Since this wasn’t a planned event I don’t have the exact numbers but you can see from the graph below I gained about 300 followers

An early  April Fool’s Day joke, or the real deal? You judge.

Skype has introduced a new feature that converts voicemail to text via speech technology firm SpinVox. SpinVox converts voice messages to text in English, Spanish, French, and German. The messages are sent by Skype as an SMS text directly to a mobile phone for users to read.

Today Microsoft announced the creation of the Publisher Leadership Council, a group of Web publishers who will consult on the development of Microsoft PubCenter, its next-generation advertising platform for digital media publishers.

YouTube is now allowing downloads of some of the videos it hosts. While competing sites have offered the ability to download videos for some time, this is not a feature that YouTube has made available.

YouTube's at it again. Monetization that is. They're now offering Sponsored videos.

With the launch of a single site, MTV has apparently put my biggest knock against the network to bed. That's the lack of music videos of course.

Google has added a number of new emoticons for Gmail. You know, smilies. But that's not all there is. Let's just cut to the chase. There's an animated pile of feces.