WebbAlert is the website and daily videocast of the popular TV host Morgan Webb, covering the day's developments in tech news, video gaming, gadgetry, and digital culture. Succinct, articulate, and visually engaging, it's engineered to keep the busy tech executive and the avid tech consumer current on industry news and trends with a small investment of just a few minutes per day. Morgan Webb also hosts the popular TV program X-Play. Available in over 62 million homes and well past its 500th episode, X-Play is TV's longest-running and most-watched series focused on videogames. A web engineer before stumbling into a career in television, Ms. Webb has been building and modifying her own computers for years, and is a lifelong hardcore gamer. Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Radiohead's digital album is now available. Nine Inch Nails is following them in ditching the labels. Oasis and Jamiroquai may be taking a page out of their book as well. Whatever the sales, Radiohead's new approach has gotten them a lot of Internet mindshare. For things that didn't exist fifteen years ago, search engines sure get a lot of use. We did 61 billion online searches in August. If they'd cost a buck a pop, that'd be enough to bankrupt even this guy.
eBay is recovering from jumping on the last next big thing by being the latest company to get into social networking. To build friendships on the solid foundation of a shared passion for bidding on weary old GameCubes click here.
Also saying "Me Too!" in the social networking world this week is MySpace. TechCrunch reports they'll be releasing an open API, following the masses who are following Facebook in making this move. We'll see if third party application developers will embrace a company that was recently trying to strangle them.