links for 2007-05-24

Telecom Asia – Ringtones and caller ringbacks get personal: Nametones are not that different from "true tones" that wireless subscribers with MMS-enabled handsets can download and use as either ringtones or caller ringback tones. But instead of a song having its usual lyrics, a nametone seamlessly integrates a user’s name into the song.

If you are a food and/or drink blogger, check out the plan for Cork & Knife Food Blogger Dinners, coming soon to a restaurant in a city near you.

Have the people at ESPN.com have lost their minds or am I missing something here?!?!? Apparently Jason Calacanis and I both missed the story a while back that ESPN.com was refusing to stream video to customers of certain ISP’s that would not pay them (tags: onlinevideo) Social Information Overload in many respects, social network overload…

Time magazine was apparently motivated by the Google blog search announcement and decided to run a short piece on how to become a blogger and how to find blog posts.  They decided this somehow amounts to the next version of blogging.  The article itself seems to contradict the headline: "Google’s effort, while useful, is not…

With the start of the new year, Conversations resumes with a slate of interesting guests and topics already scheduled.

The Washington Post has started a blog dedicated to the campaign to confirm Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court to replace Sandra Day O’Connor.