A shameless bit of self promotion perhaps but in the off chance there is some SoccerManager.com players reading this then it might be of use.
I created a quick Firefox plugin to enable you to search the Soccer Manager database when scouting players. You can get it here.
Just a quick note – if ever someone needs to find a publisher its this guy. Check out Nik Daum’s ‘dordles‘ (not quite drawings/not quite doodles) and be pleasantly entertained by his fantastic art and wicked sense of humour.
He is currently looking for a publisher and I am looking for books for my coffee table so if you know one, help me and him out!
Michael over at Techcrunch gives a good write up on Yahoo Video, another video hosting site gunning for YouTube. In what’s turning into a crowded market place, Yahoo’s chances look good with the resources and personnel available to them since the Flickr acquisition. Interestingly Yahoo video is based around Microsoft’s Windows Media format and doesn’t just offer their own but aggregates video from other sites (just presumably not YouTube’s).
It’s a sensible move from Yahoo, establishing itself in the video market which will potentially become another form of revenue through advertising and paid video. Further as bandwidth becomes bigger the growth in this market will be immense as high quality video on demand becomes reality.
It seems EBay and Yahoo are pairing up, in what looks a mutually beneficial venture. Certainly if the share prices are to be regarded at least the investors believe so.
Under the terms of the agreement, EBay will incorporate Yahoo into their toolbar which has been downloaded over 4 million times. Further Yahoo will become the sole source for ‘graphical advertising’ on the site and provide some search based advertising. In return Yahoo will use Paypal, Ebays online payment service, as the preferred solution to their storefronts, shopping and subscription services. There is also a likely collaboration into click based advertising using the recently acquired Skype telephony service.
Please be patient if things randomly don’t work for a while. Thanks.
