The CBS deal seems big on the outside, but it’s kind of like two giant old media outlets merging, but into what? I read an interesting article talking about Cnet being the king of the Web 1.0 world that just has not made the transition to web 2.0 or beyond. CBS is such a big company I don’t see it really helping Cnet to grow it’s audience. It will be interesting to see how that plays out.

The first thing that popped into my head though was CBS’s ability to market and advertise CNET to mainstream audiences. They could probably give the site quite a boost if they through in TV commercials here and there targeting things that people would be looking for, such as cameras.

No Dictionary.com for me; for me it’s OneLook [onelook.com]

You know, there are so many good dictionary services out there, but my problem is I can never remember them so I automatically turn to dictionary.com because that is at least easy to remember.

The CBS deal seems big on the outside, but it’s kind of like two giant old media outlets merging, but into what? I read an interesting article talking about Cnet being the king of the Web 1.0 world that just has not made the transition to web 2.0 or beyond. CBS is such a big company I don’t see it really helping Cnet to grow it’s audience. It will be interesting to see how that plays out.

No Dictionary.com for me; for me it’s OneLook [onelook.com]

I _used_ to use Dictionary.com until I found WordWeb. Now checking definitions or spelling is one-click easy.

[wordweb.info]

I have been using WordWeb for more than a year with fantabulous results. It’s use is so intuitive that my fingers automatically go for the icon on the Task Bar to look for a word meaning or for a synonym.

I would encourage Ryan to write a review about this very useful application.

Good to see you guys back, hope you had a good time!

We definitely had a good time, but it did end up being a rather hectic trip. Lots of running around to do in a short amount of time.

CBS actually has a press release on it themselves, so it is pretty much official:
[cbscorporation.com]
From what I gather they’ve agreed upon a price and the details, and so all that’s left is for them to sign on the dotted line.

Personally I don’t like to see the “big guys” making all of these acquisitions. It makes it that much harder for the little guys to succeed since they don’t have the funding that these large corporations do.

Very cool program! Almost reminds me of Mac’s built-in dictionary/Wikipedia lookup. I’ll have to give that a spin and see if it’s worth writing about. Thanks!

[wordweb.info]

I didn’t know the CBS-CNET deal was officially completed already. Not sure if I like to see all these media giants grow bigger and bigger, leaving less and less space to real competition (not status quo).

I definitely like the changes to the Digg comment system! Great to see they keep improving, in a good way. I do hope they will get rid of the comment digging though, and go for average instead. I suppose they won’t because it sort of copies the article digging, which makes the site be “digg.com”