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MySpace Offers Laughs with Comedy Portal
Posted by Nino Marchetti Categories: Corporate News, Internet,
MySpace is launching a comedy community as a way for comedians to share their talents and become closer with their fans. The popular lifestyle portal is teaming with The Improv, who will provide exclusive programming material including behind the scenes footage from clubs around the country. MySpace Comedy is already in use by over 7,500 comedians, with tools in place to let them post tour dates, share audio/video clips and chat with fans. The MySpace Comedy channel will also “spotlight comedy events around the country, aggregate funny viral videos from throughout the site and offer comedy specific forums where members can trade jokes and talk about artists”.
Read More 
| MySpace Comedy Web site
Gallery: MySpace Offers Laughs with Comedy Portal
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Logitech Webcam Offers 2x Image Clarity
Posted by Nino Marchetti Categories: Accessories, Corporate News, Internet,
Logitech has today unveiled their new flagship webcam, which reportedly delivers twice the image clarity offered by typical webcams. The new QuickCam Ultra Vision is priced at $129.99 and will be available in August.
The QuickCam Ultra Vision, according to Logitech, combines “an extra-large, precision-engineered glass lens with a low f-stop setting, increasing the amount of light entering the webcam and precisely focusing that light to create sharp, vivid images”. It also has on-board technology which adapts the camera’s video settings based on the environment in which the camera is used. Other features include a 1.3 megapixel sensor and HD video format support.
Read More | Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision Product Page
Gallery: Logitech Webcam Offers 2x Image Clarity
GraceNotes to Publish Song Lyrics Online
Posted by Nino Marchetti Categories: Apple, Internet, Music,
GraceNotes, which maintains the CDDB database containing music CD information on more than 55 million tracks and 4 million CDs, yesterday said they’d obtained the rights to publish song lyrics of more than 1 million songs, according to Reuters. They are now chatting with their online music partners, including Yahoo and Apple, about “plans to launch a service to offer legal and accurate lyrics for all digital media”. This service would be the first industry-sanctioned want to provide lyrics legally.
Read More | Reuters: Gracenote, music publishers in lyrics deal via iLounge
Gallery: GraceNotes to Publish Song Lyrics Online
Yahoo, Microsoft Hop in IM Bed Together
Posted by Nino Marchetti Categories: Corporate News, Internet, Microsoft,
If you’re one of those MSN Messenger (sorry…Windows Live Messenger) or Yahoo Messenger fans who is really devoted to your IM client but has friends on the other network, fear not – Microsoft and Yahoo have officially declared it safe for your IM client to now chat with your buddy. The Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger with Voice applications can now connect with one another via a limited public beta program which can be signed up for at Microsoft or Yahoo’s Web sites. Features which will be usable between the two IM clients include exchanging instant messages, seeing one’s online presence, viewing status messages, share select emoticons, viewing offline messages and adding new contacts from either service.
Read More | Microsoft Press Release
Gallery: Yahoo, Microsoft Hop in IM Bed Together
Mac OS X Browser Comparison Smackdown
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Internet, Software,
The folks over at Macintalk has done the dirty work for us, putting four major browsers to the test on Mac OS X (although, they disregard Opera completely.) They looked at things such as speed of rendering, RAM usage, Javascript loading, standards compliance, and even RSS handling. Reading through, I must say it is pretty thorough. If you have been wondering if paying for OmniWeb would give you a batter browsing experience on the Mac than sticking with the free Safari, Firefox, or Camino, give this one a read.
Read More | Macintalk
Gallery: Mac OS X Browser Comparison Smackdown
If you’ve ever wanted more of an inside look at the world of Dell, they’ve got a new corporate blog called one2one where they are posting product highlights and trying to address issues which are important to customers. While it remains to be seen if this corporate blog will be a true conversation with customers or just another PR tool, Dell’s posted commitments seem to indicate an honest attempt to establish a new avenue of listening to their user base.
Read More | BuzzMachine
Gallery: Dell Goes Blogging
Yahoo looks to have launched a new daily video show which highlights nine interesting and unusual Web find. Dubbed “The 9”, this new show is hosted by Maria Sansone. Sansone, MediaWeek reports, is a “mtvU VJ and part time CBS reporter”.
Notes on The 9’s Web site promise to “find the 9 best, weirdest and funniest photos, sites, stories and videos on the ‘net”. The show, which is shot in New York, allows users to vote on their favorite story for the day and also submit Web links for possible use as the “Pepsi 10th”.
Read More | Yahoo's The 9 via MediaWeek
Gallery: Yahoo Does Video Show About Web Finds
Clash TV: Cult Classics on Your iPod
Posted by Nino Marchetti Categories: Internet, Movies, Portable Audio / Video,
This looks to be an interesting new podcasting network for feature-length vintage content. DeSoto Entertainment, based out of Florida, has started Clash TV, a “place for classic cult movies” which they created by “culling from a library of cult-classic “B” movies and held together with a short-skirted hostess named Zoe Cosmo.”
Feeling that “Clash TV fills the niche that Vampira, Elvira and Mystery Science Theatre 3000 held in decades past”, this new podcasting network makes available for download to iPods both “full -length films along-side so-called ‘Short Stacks’, micro-cinema versions of selected scenes from cult movies”. Their initial theme is Zombie Month, featuring cult classics like “Night of the Living Dead”, “Plan 9 From Outer Space” and “The Last Man on Earth”.
Read More | Clash TV
Gallery: Clash TV: Cult Classics on Your iPod
Amazon today rolled out their new toy and baby stores, effectively replacing the failed Toys’R’Us relationship which fizzled after a court settlement in June ruled the toy store could severe their relationship with the online retail giant. This is according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Amazon’s new toy store carries a wide variety of familiar brands across 17 categories of products, including Fisher-Price, Hasbro, LeapFrog, Lego, Mattel, and VTech. Amazon’s new baby store also carries a wide array of products with everything from receiving blankets to nursery furniture to educational games.
Amazon also said they’d added a baby registry, enabling customers to “search, discover and register, from a huge selection baby products from leading brands, including Baby Bjorn, Babylicious, Evenflo and Elegant Baby”.
Read More | Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Gallery: Amazon Opens Up Toy, Baby Online Stores
The Bleeding Edge Website Gets Official
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements, Internet,
So, since January, we have been doing this weekly video show, and you guys seem to like it. We are proud of our little show, and thusly, have decided to give it it’s own home on the interwebs. So, if you want to take a look at any of our previous shows, head on over the The Bleeding Edge website to check out the full archive.
We are working on breaking all older episodes out into segments as well, and you can expect a couple of other changes over the next few days.
Read More | The Bleeding Edge
