Today was the day of acquisitions. Plaxo was acquired by Comcast, Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com were acquired by Ask.com and CNET was acquired by CBS. (Via Twitter)
sevenload, the German image, audio and video portal, provides a REST-style API now.
Google Doctype is an encyclopaedia of web development written by web developers, for web developers, including articles on web security, HTML, CSS, DOM and more. (Via Simon Willison)
Amazon.com has launched Amazon TextBuyIt that allows customers to buy via mobile phone text message.
The German iTunes Store finally offers TV shows. Now waiting for films to show up too, but seems to work stable now.
Shortly after WordPress 2.5 Automattic released bbPress 0.9, the new version of the plain and simple forum software.
German based photo and video hosting service sevenload relaunched it’s website at the weekend. Already announced to go live on monday the service was unavaiable most of the day. On tuesday the site still had severe hickups, but seems to work stable now.