Category: Web 2.0

Microsoft Buys Facebook

Microsoft Buys Facebook

What if you could merge two companies, one that is seen to some as evil – the other one that is seen as a breath of fresh air…

In the coming months, we’ll find out the answer to that question as Microsoft invested $240 million into Facebook.com today. Facebook is being valued at $15 billion dollars! If StuffWeLike.com ever receives that kind of estimate, I’d shit in my pants and eat it. (don’t quote me on that)

All the fine details have yet to be made public, but what is known is that Microsoft will be controlling the ad content shown on Facebook. Bottom line is, be prepared to see Microsoft only products – no iPhones, iPods, and other crap.

If you really want to read more details on this amazing twist of events, click here. But I’ll warn you that I’ve said the most juicy details in this post. So if you could careless, resume your life watching Prank David videos.

Youtube Ads

After much debate, Youtube ads are now here for good. It appears that Google is trying to listen to all sides on how exactly it should include ads around the players. Anyone can create a ad based player if they have a Google Adsense. We’ve embedded the Youtube ad player in our Forum. We’re actually having issues including it in this post.

It’s great to know that content publishers can finally start making money off of their creations. Of course not all are welcomed. At this time only certain videos will be shown. Most of these videos are the highest viewed and rated, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But if you’re a content publisher like StuffWeLike and haven’t had that break out video hit, you’re videos won’t be featured in other’s players. But if you have a website, you can still profit off of other people’s work.

Hopefully this will encourage users to improve the quality of their videos. Most likely it won’t, but again I did say hopefully.

Don’t edit Wikipedia at Work

Wikipedia

Don’t edit Wikipedia at work, unless you want to get fired. When you’re a fanboy that works at a boring job, you’ve got to find ways to entertain yourself, but spending hours editing Wiki articles is not the way to go about finding that glimer of fun in your job.

Japan’s Agricultural Ministry reprimanded six officials who did just that. They let their geekdom for Gundam and other cartoon robot stories get in their way. In total they made 408 entries since 2003 on the ministries computers.

Companies have the right to monitor everything you do using their equipment! Usually it says this in your job’s contract.

Wikipedia is a great resource, but remember children work is work so just do it and get out of the office as quickly as possible.

[Source: Yahoo]

Internet TV is FINALLY Here

Internet TV

For Windows Vista users that have Media Center, Microsoft has released a new addition called Internet TV. This new section includes tons of TV shows, news, trailers and so much more. It’s great because it’s relatively high quality and it’s all free! Watching entertaining ads for 5-10 seconds and having the video load almost instantaneously is amazing.

Now another cool feature with this is the ability to sync with a Media Extender such as your Xbox 360. You can now watch TV shows on your Xbox 360 without paying for them.

I’ve talked about IPTV previously and as I said it totally rocks.

Halo 3 World-Wide Launch Event Coverage

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