July 2009
51 posts
Live Web, Real Time . . . Call It What You Will,... →
This guest post is written by Mary Hodder, the founder Dabble. Prior to Dabble, Hodder consulted for a number of startups, did research at Technorati and wrote her masters thesis at Berkeley…
Say What? ‘Dial Directions’ Acquired By Arabic... →
Bet you didn’t see this one coming. Back in 2007 we wrote about a service called Dial Directions which lets you call a special phone number and verbally ask for directions, which are…
June 2009
106 posts
Twitter Rolls Out UI Changes To Simplify Your... →
Twitter has just quietly rolled out a set of changes to its user interface on the “Following” and “Followers” sections of its website. These changes will clearly make it easier to manage who…
iPhone OS 3.1 Beta And SDK Already Rolling Out To... →
It looks like Apple has already started sending out the beta version and SDK for the next iteration of the iPhone OS, 3.1, to developers.
The iPhone 3.0 software was released just about two…
Meebo Tries to Fill “Moments Of Boredom” With An... →
How do you advertise on a Web-based instant messaging service without interrupting conversations and annoying the hell out of users? Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg thinks he has the answer: “There…
SkyGrid Links Its Financial Firehose To Twitter →
SkyGrid, the nifty, free financial news aggregator, is now publishing a stream of news on Twitter, letting users follow breaking business news headlines via the microblogging network.
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Web Site Story: CollegeHumor’s Epic Internet... →
CollegeHumor has outdone itself again. Just a few days after unveiling Bing, the better way to Google, the site has released Web Site Story, a five minute musical tribute to some of the web’s…
YouTube To Broadly Release Call-To-Action... →
Tomorrow, YouTube is going to release a very important addition to its suite of advertising products, and it has the potential to have a huge impact for politicians, brands, and charities alike….
The iPhone 3GS: Should You Get It? →
Disclosure: I have not bought an iPhone 3GS — I’m still unsure if I will. Apple gave me a review unit to play with for 60 days.
I’ve had the new iPhone 3GS for a little over a week now….
Social Browser Extension Yoono Adds OneRiot’s... →
Yoono, an extension built to enhance both the Firefox and IE browser experience that comes in pretty handy when you go on the Internet mainly to interact socially with your peers and friends,…
Ricoh Launches Visual Online Storage Service quanp →
If you’re like me, you always try to avoid storing or backing up files, even those that are important to you. It’s too boring, time-consuming and cumbersome to remember doing it regularly.
…
Swedish Software Firm Acquires The Pirate Bay For... →
Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X this morning announced it has agreed to buy file-sharing service The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish crowns (which currently converts to…
MIT’s EurekaFest Showcases High School Students’... →
EurekaFest is a yearly event held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that showcases the prototype inventions of high school students from around the country. The inventions consist of…
Birdfeed: Finally, An iPhone Twitter Client To... →
If you own an iPhone, chances are you have at least one Twitter client on it. And while everyday seems to bring new ones into the App Store, at the end of the day, Tweetie always seems to…
Sense Of Fashion Is A Social Marketplace For Indie... →
Sense of Fashion is an Israeli startup that aims to be a marketplace for both Indie fashion designers to sell their designs and for consumers to be able to access clothes made by aspiring…
Venture Capitalists V. Founders: Battle At Mochi... →
Mochi Media, the fast growing Flash game advertising network and payments platform that we covered last week, is in the midst of an internal battle over the fate of the company.
The…
Can Open Government Be Gamed? →
If information is power, the first step to gaining power is to get the right data. The Obama administration is a big proponent of opening up government data and making it digitally available….
The MySpace Exodus Continues: SVP Engineering... →
Around this time last year we saw a stream of high ranking employees leaving Yahoo as the web portal reached new lows following the fumbled Microsoft deal. Now, we’re beginning to see a similar…
MojoPages Raises $5 Million For White Label Local... →
MojoPages, a local listings search engine, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Austin Ventures. MojoPages’s search technology powers local business listing search engines for…
Recommend Your Favorite iPhone Apps With AppsFire →
A couple weeks ago, we wrote a post detailing why there needs to be some sort of iPhone app recommendation system. Just like iTunes has its “Genius” feature for music and movies, with over
6rounds Launches Video Communication Platform With... →
With a webcam built into or sold together with nearly every computer that goes over the counter nowadays you’d expect direct video-based communication to have massively taken off by now, but the…
$6 Million For Sense Networks? Makes Sense. →
Intel Capital has led a Series B funding round in Sense Networks, a NY-based developer of nifty machine-learning technology that allows for digital indexing and ranking of real world…
TBD’s Deadpool Date Finally Determined →
Back in 2007 I did a column on TeeBeeDee, a social network aimed at baby boomers. I’d spent some time looking at the space, and thought TBD was the best designed site, avoiding Eons age…
Attention Executives: 73% of You Need to Fire... →
I still think “Enterprise 2.0” is a meh business trend with a horrible name. It’s not that social media/collaboration tools don’t have a role in business, and I agree there are some…
Firefox 3.5 Soars Past A Million Downloads.... →
Mozilla today released Firefox 3.5 into the wild. Not surprisingly, it’s flying off the virtual shelves. And unlike when Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 last year, its servers are staying up…
What Went Down At Rackspace Yesterday? A Power... →
As many of you know, a lot of the sites that use Rackspace as their hosting provider were down for about an hour yesterday. That’s because Rackspace went down. Apparently, it was a power…
FriendFeed Feels Pretty, Oh So Pretty →
FriendFeed now lets you individualize your account with six new designer themes. When you select a theme, your FriendFeed account will always include your theme, and other people looking at…
High Gear Media Scores $5.5 Million For Auto Media... →
High Gear Media, the publisher of automotive media sites, has secured $5.5 million in Series B funding led by DAG Ventures with Accel Partners and Greylock Partners participating. The…
Flickr And Twitter are Now Officially Sucking Face →
Earlier this month, Flickr started flirting with Twitter integration by allowing users to link their Flickr accounts to their Twitter accounts. The experiment was only for email uploads,…
ClackPoint Brings Voice, Document Sharing To... →
Over the last six months Google has been ramping up Friend Connect, its social online identity platform that’s a direct rival of Facebook Connect (both products opened up to the public last…
Digg Tries Again To Bury Dupes →
Since its inception, one of the biggest problems with Digg has been that users often submit the same content over and over again. This makes it harder for cool content to become popular…
TEDTalks : Gever Tulley teaches life lessons... →
Gever Tulley uses engaging photos and footage to demonstrate the valuable lessons kids learn at his Tinkering School. When given tools, materials and guidance, these young imaginations run wild and…
TEDTalks : Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing... →
Someone always asks the math teacher, “Am I going to use calculus in real life?” And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is no. He offers a bold proposal on how to make math education…
Digg Tries Again To Bury Dupes →
Since its inception, one of the biggest problems with Digg has been that users often submit the same content over and over again. This makes it harder for cool content to become popular…
Flickr And Twitter are Now Officially Sucking Face →
Earlier this month, Flickr started flirting with Twitter integration by allowing users to link their Flickr accounts to their Twitter accounts. The experiment was only for email uploads,…
What Went Down At Rackspace Yesterday? A Power... →
As many of you know, a lot of the sites that use Rackspace as their hosting provider were down for about an hour yesterday. That’s because Rackspace went down. Apparently, it was a power…
FriendFeed Feels Pretty, Oh So Pretty →
FriendFeed now lets you individualize your account with six new designer themes. When you select a theme, your FriendFeed account will always include your theme, and other people looking at…
High Gear Media Scores $5.5 Million For Auto Media... →
High Gear Media, the publisher of automotive media sites, has secured $5.5 million in Series B funding led by DAG Ventures with Accel Partners and Greylock Partners participating. The…
ClackPoint Brings Voice, Document Sharing To... →
Over the last six months Google has been ramping up Friend Connect, its social online identity platform that’s a direct rival of Facebook Connect (both products opened up to the public last…
Attention Executives: 73% of You Need to Fire... →
I still think “Enterprise 2.0” is a meh business trend with a horrible name. It’s not that social media/collaboration tools don’t have a role in business, and I agree there are some…
The MySpace Exodus Continues: SVP Engineering... →
Around this time last year we saw a stream of high ranking employees leaving Yahoo as the web portal reached new lows following the fumbled Microsoft deal. Now, we’re beginning to see a similar…
Firefox 3.5 Soars Past A Million Downloads.... →
Mozilla today released Firefox 3.5 into the wild. Not surprisingly, it’s flying off the virtual shelves. And unlike when Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 last year, its servers are staying up…
TBD’s Deadpool Date Finally Determined →
Back in 2007 I did a column on TeeBeeDee, a social network aimed at baby boomers. I’d spent some time looking at the space, and thought TBD was the best designed site, avoiding Eons age…
Can Open Government Be Gamed? →
If information is power, the first step to gaining power is to get the right data. The Obama administration is a big proponent of opening up government data and making it digitally available….
MojoPages Raises $5 Million For White Label Local... →
MojoPages, a local listings search engine, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Austin Ventures. MojoPages’s search technology powers local business listing search engines for…
$6 Million For Sense Networks? Makes Sense. →
Intel Capital has led a Series B funding round in Sense Networks, a NY-based developer of nifty machine-learning technology that allows for digital indexing and ranking of real world…
Ricoh Launches Visual Online Storage Service quanp →
If you’re like me, you always try to avoid storing or backing up files, even those that are important to you. It’s too boring, time-consuming and cumbersome to remember doing it regularly.
…
Recommend Your Favorite iPhone Apps With AppsFire →
A couple weeks ago, we wrote a post detailing why there needs to be some sort of iPhone app recommendation system. Just like iTunes has its “Genius” feature for music and movies, with over
6rounds Launches Video Communication Platform With... →
With a webcam built into or sold together with nearly every computer that goes over the counter nowadays you’d expect direct video-based communication to have massively taken off by now, but the…