Like a squabbling couple finally realizing they can’t live without eachother — or a parasite fusing with its host — Photobucket has concluded terms of a sale to Myspace, News Corporation’s social network. The photo sharing service, which had a quarrelsome but symbiotic relationship with Myspace, may announce the deal as early as this morning. After final negotiations at the end of last week, Photobucket has called an all-hands staff meeting for 10am PST this morning. We don’t have the financial details of the deal, but Photobucket, and its bankers Lehman Brothers, were looking for at least $300m.
Photobucket, founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal, took off in 2005 as users on social network sites such as Myspace began to use the service to store and display pictures of themselves and their friends.
That’s been both a blessing and a curse. The popularity of Photobucket’s free service among users of the News Corporation social network took the service to 17m unique visitors per month, according to Comscore, making it the web’s most popular photo site, ahead of rivals such as Yahoo’s Flickr.
Source : valleywag.com
SpaceTime is a new, innovative way to search the Internet … in 3D. In its current state you can 3D search on eBay, Google, Yahoo!, Flickr, but it seems that soon there will be integrated search for Amazon, YouTube, Email, MySpace, Music, RSS, Live.
Image search is also possible :
Currently it’s supported only on Windows, but a Mac version is in development. Current features include :
Current minimum system specifications are :
For more information visit their community.
TorrentSpy, one of the world’s largest torrent dump sites, has been ordered by a federal judge to monitor its users in order to create detailed logs of their activities which must then be handed over to the MPAA.
Blizzard does it again !
After last week Blizzard kept all the fans waiting for the announcement of their following project, finally saturday they stunned the fans by announcing the development of Starcraft 2.
The announcement was made during an event organized in Seul, South Coreea, in front of thousands of fans.
In their own words :
StarCraft II continues the epic saga of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg. These three distinct and powerful races will clash once again in the fast-paced real-time strategy sequel to the legendary original, StarCraft. Legions of veteran, upgraded, and brand-new unit types will do battle across the galaxy, as each faction struggles for survival.
Featuring a unique single-player campaign that picks up where StarCraft: Brood War left off, StarCraft II will present a cast of new heroes and familiar faces in an edgy sci-fi story filled with adventure and intrigue. In addition, Blizzard will again offer unparalleled online play through Battle.net, the company’s world-renowned gaming service, with several enhancements and new features to make StarCraft II the ultimate competitive real-time strategy game.
All the 3 races will receive new units and gameplay mechanics, the game will have vibrant new 3D-graphics engine with support for dazzling visual effects and massive unit and army sizes, full multiplayer support, with new competitive features and matchmaking utilities available through Battle.net, and full map-making and scripting tools to give players incredible freedom in customizing and personalizing their gameplay experience.
The game will be available for PC and Mac with full support for Windows XP and Windows Vista, thus it will probably use OpenGL instead of DirectX 10.
Additional information on Starcraft2.com
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. has announced the launch of Windows Live Messenger on Xbox 360, connecting people across Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft Windows-based PCs and Windows Mobile-powered devices.
With this update to Xbox 360, people can connect and chat directly from their television using Windows Live Messenger, a network of more than 20 billion relationships and more than 260 million active accounts.
Beginning the week of May 7, the Xbox 360 spring update will provide Xbox 360 owners worldwide with access to Windows Live Messenger features, broadening the communication options on the Xbox LIVE social network.
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