| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.06.2011 | TV check-in app GetGlue gets a mobile web app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
AdaptiveBlue, a New York City startup that lets users “check in” to TV shows to share what they’re watching with their friends, has unv... |
| 11.12.2010 | How GetGlue plans to dominate TV check-ins (and more) | AdaptiveBlue, a New York City startup that lets users “check in” to TV shows to share what they’re watching with their friends, recently raised $6 million in funding Time Warner and others. I’ve seen a ton of TV check-in apps in the last fe... |
| 03.12.2010 | Time Warner Leads $6 Million Round For Media Check-In App Maker AdaptiveBlue | AdaptiveBlue, the developer of social recommendations app GetGlue, has just raised $6 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing. From the looks of the filing, it appears that Time Warner, RRE and Union Square Ventures all participa... |
| 17.09.2010 | PBS Rolls Out Extensive GetGlue Sticker Promotion for Fall Lineup | Earlier this summer, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) partnered with social check-in app GetGlue to offer rewards for a few of its shows. GetGlue has seen strong engagement numbers from its sticker promotions, and not long ago announce... |
| 17.08.2010 | 5M Monthly Check-Ins Later, GetGlue Comes to Android | Check-in apps are all the rage in the mobile space, but these days users aren’t just checking into business and landmarks. Apps like Miso and Facebook’s recent acquisition Hot Potato, which allow users to check-in to movies, TV shows, books... |
| 24.06.2010 | GetGlue Blends Check-Ins With Social Recommendations In New iPhone App | GetGlue, a social browsing assistant that shows ratings and recommendations of movies, books, restaurants, stocks, and more on the web, is going mobile today with the launch of a free iPhone app. You can find the app here.
With the new app ... |
| 18.03.2010 | GetGlue helps you find Taste Neighbors who like the same books, movies, and music | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
GetGlue, the social recommendation service from s... |
| 18.03.2010 | GetGlue helps you find Taste Neighbors who like the same books, movies, and music | GetGlue, the social recommendation service from startup Adaptive Blue, has been collecting data about what its users like since its launch in November. Now it’s using that data to help those users find others who like the same things.
To do... |
| 03.02.2010 | Rewards and monetization | Thoughts on Glue announcing its new rewarding system for its "gurus" I really like what Dennis Crowley, founder and CEO of Foursquare, said about "rewarding checkins" in this post on Business Insider:
Foursquare's [succe... |
| 03.02.2010 | Rewards and Monetization | I really like what Dennis Crowley, founder and CEO of Foursquare, said about "rewarding checkins" in this post on Business Insider:
Foursquare's [success] depends on providing "the most incentive for a user to check-in."... |
| 26.10.2009 | Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service | I've thought a lot about whether you can build a business via a browser plugin. I wrote a post a while back on that exact topic. I have seen web services successfully use browser plugins to increase the engagement with users. Delicious did ... |
| 08.06.2009 | Social Plugin Glue Comes to Internet Explorer | Today from AdaptiveBlue there comes a new version of the semantic browser extension Glue (previous coverage) which allows you to create a browser-based social network around the things you and your friends find online. This latest release, ... |
| 02.05.2009 | Smart Links Are Back On This Blog | When we did the redesign last summer, we nuked most everything that was on this blog in favor of a light and clean blog. I hope we've kept it light and clean since then.
One thing that went was smart links. Smart links are provided by our p... |
| 29.04.2009 | Union Square Ventures: The Best of the Valley in New York (RWS Interview) | Disclosure: I love Fred Wilson’s blog. Union Square Ventures (USV) has invested in some amazing ventures that were far from obvious (i.e. they took risks), and they have invested in my friend Alex Iskold’s venture. So, I am a fan. Hopefully... |
| 10.04.2009 | Veoh's Hail Mary: Spreading Video Search Across The Web With Video Compass | As video sites on the Web struggle to find a business model that will pay their mounting bandwidth and storage bills, many of them are trying to reinvent themselves. Veoh, which has raised a total of $70 million, had to cut 35 percent of it... |
| 02.04.2009 | Glue Gets Stickier With Conversations and Recommendations | AdaptiveBlue, creators of the contextual social network Glue, announced today the immediate availability of an updated version of their semantic browser extension that adds several powerful new features. The updated Glue plugin adds connect... |
| 12.03.2009 | The Semantic Web: A Treasure Trove for Marketers | Editor’s note:This guest post was written by Aaron Strout and John Cass, two marketing professionals who are monitoring how the semantic web will help companies and marketers help consumers.
What is the semantic web, you wonder? Don’t worry... |
| 26.12.2008 | Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies | In this article, we’ll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We’ll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds.
In a recent interview Tim Bern... |
| 23.12.2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| 22.12.2008 | A Guide to The Contextual Web | It’s the end of 2008 and everyone on the Web is hurting due to the economy. But we know that things will get better, because slow-downs eventually bury the old and give birth to new evolutionary ways of doing things.
One of these evolutions... |
| 11.12.2008 | The Business of Browser Add-ons | Today’s opening keynote at the Add-on-Con conference in Mountain View CA highlighted the similarities between monetizing add-ons and monetizing Web sites. Although distribution channels and products differ, according to moderator Jeremy Lie... |
| 02.12.2008 | Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008 | In 2008 we saw the Semantic Web gain traction, giving us plenty of choice when selecting the 10 best Semantic Web products of 2008.
This is the first in a series of posts we’ll publish over December, listing our choices for the top web prod... |
| 25.11.2008 | Making Twitter Smarter | Soren and Howard have been busy building out stocktwits and today they sent me a link to a firefox extension that makes twitter a bit smarter. When you add the stocktwits extension to firefox, a stock tweet will look like this:
Those ticker... |
| 25.11.2008 | StockTwits creates another way to unlock Twitter’s potential | StockTwits, a startup that aggregates stock-related “tweets” on micro-messaging service Twitter, has released a Firefox extension that links stock tickers to the StockTwits site. Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures (a Twitter investor) say... |
| 17.11.2008 | 10 Semantic Apps to Watch – One Year Later | In November 2007, we listed and reviewed 10 promising Semantic Web apps. A lot can happen in one year on the Internet, so we thought we’d check back in with each of the 10 products and see how they’re progressing. What’s changed over the pa... |
| 01.11.2008 | Funding roundup: Playfish, Helium raise $17M | Playfish, Helium, TuneCore, and iStores receive funding this week Here's a roundup of companies in the mobile, video, digital media, social network, and advertising sectors that announced their funding this past week.
Playfish raised $17 mi... |
| 28.10.2008 | Glue: A Social Net That Lives In Your Browser | Full disclosure – this post is a about a new service from our portfolio company Adaptive Blue. I have a vested interest in the success of Adaptive Blue and the new Glue service.
What if you could join a social net that you don’t have to che... |
| 16.10.2008 | Semantinet adds useful information to web sites | Semantinet, a company that hopes to give users more information about topics on web pages without them having to perform a search or leave the site they’re on, is launching a product called Headup into private beta this morning at the Web 3... |
| 13.10.2008 | AdaptiveBlue brings in $4.5M for browsing plugins | AdaptiveBlue, developer of the Firefox add-on BlueOrganizer, announced that it raised $4.5 million in second-round financing to continue developing semantic-based browsing tools. Union Square Ventures and Biltmore Ventures contributed to th... |
| 13.10.2008 | MashLogic adds links to ‘take back the web’ | Updated
A new browser plugin called MashLogic launched in invite-only testing today, and it has a pretty lofty goal — in the words of David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners — which incubated the company — MashLogic is “a startup to save t... |
| 12.10.2008 | MashLogic: Take Back The Web (By Getting Awesome Links) | Bessemer Venture Partners is launching an incubated startup called MashLogic into private beta today, with the audacious promise of helping people “take back the web.”
They say (and they’re not alone) that the web today is driven by page vi... |
| 09.10.2008 | Capital Efficiency Finds Its Moment | My partner Albert calculated early last year that it takes about 1/10th the hardware, software, bandwidth, storage, and other expenses to build a web service compared to what it took in the 99/2000 time period. That was just as services lik... |
| 24.09.2008 | Thomson Reuters’ Calais goes commercial, offering a starting point for semantic web startups | Until about a year ago, you were in an unenviable position if you wanted to build a web site that used or created semantic data: You pretty much had to build all your tools from scratch. Calais, a semantic web service being developed by inf... |
| 15.09.2008 | Zemanta | We’ve invested in a number of blogging related applications and services; Adaptive Blue, Delicious, Disqus, FeedBurner, Outside.in, Twitter, and Tumblr. We’ve been attracted to this sector for a number of reason; because an increasing amoun... |
| 15.09.2008 | Union Square’s blogging VC backs blogging tool Zemanta | Updated
Zemanta says it can make the arduous job of blogging a little easier by suggesting relevant content worth linking to or adding to your posts. It looks like well-known blogger and venture capitalist Fred Wilson has been making good u... |
| 05.07.2008 | Can You Build A Business On Browser Extensions? | This is something I’ve been pondering a bit lately. Certainly there are some notable successes with browser extensions:
– StumbleUpon – one of the most popular Firefox extensions was sold to eBay last year for a price in the neighborhood of... |
| 21.06.2008 | So Long, Farewell, auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye | So, yesterday was officially my last day at ReadWriteWeb. I know what you’re all thinking: “Uh, so why are you posting today? Just get outta here already!” Okay, okay, you got me. But this is my 747th post at ReadWriteWeb, and I just couldn... |
| 16.06.2008 | Firefox 3 Launch Tomorrow (and Party) | Image via Wikipedia
I suspect everybody knows by now that tomorrow is the official launch of Firefox 3. For me, there is no other browser. I’ve tried them all and Firefox (despite all of its issues) is the browser for me.
A couple things to... |
| 07.06.2008 | Trying Zemanta | Image via Wikipedia
One of my favorite VC quotes comes from Bill Kaiser of Greylock. He once said, "when I hear about a company once, I often ignore it, when I hear about it twice, I pay attention, when I hear about it for the third ti... |
| 22.05.2008 | SemTech Panel: Investor Opportunities and Pitfalls | What sort of funding opportunities exist in the budding Semantic Web space? What are VCs looking for and how much are they will to invest? That was the topic of a panel at the SemTech 2008 Conference that just concluded in San Jose.
The pan... |
| 22.04.2008 | AB Meta | Yesterday, our portfolio company Adaptive Blue announced a "a simple and open format for annotating pages that are about things" that they call AB Meta. My partner Brad who is on Adaptive Blue’s board, posted about it today on the... |
| 21.04.2008 | AB Meta | Over the last two years, our portfolio company Adaptive Blue has become known for its ability to automatically recognize things like books, movies, stocks, and wines on the web. By using semantic analysis to figure out the difference betwee... |
| 13.04.2008 | The American Dream: 17 Years of Engineering Software | Seventeen years ago, on April 10th 1991, a plane landed in John F. Kennedy airport. That plane
had just crossed the Atlantic carrying, amongst others, passengers escaping the crumbling Soviet empire.
One of whom was me. I walked off that pl... |
| 26.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: Semantic Marketing | Today’s winning comment comes from Alex Iskold’s must-read post Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies. In the post Alex identifies the patterns that are beginning to emerge in the Semantic Web, classifies the different tre... |
| 26.03.2008 | A Primer In Semantic Technologies | Alex Iskold, founder and CEO of our portfolio company Adaptive Blue, wrote this on Read Write Web yesterday. It’s a great primer on semantic web technologies and the companies that are working in the sector, including Adaptive Blue.
As alwa... |
| 25.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: Facebook Security Lapse is Weeks Old | Today’s winning comment comes from our post about a Facebook security flaw that allowed people to access private photos – including some from Paris Hilton at the Emmys and others from Facebook founding CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vacation in Nove... |
| 25.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: Despite Concerns, OpenSocial Foundation a Positive Move | The big news today was the announcement of the OpenSocial Foundation, a joint effort by Google, Yahoo! and MySpace’s Newscorp. As we reported earlier today, the creation of an open, non-profit organization will assuage concerns about whethe... |
| 23.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: Oprah, Jericho, & The Mainstreaming of Online Media | We have another 2 Comment of the Day prizes to give away and both of them relate to the mainstreaming of online media (specifically video and audio). The first is from our post Is Oprah Going to Save the Internet?, in which Marshall Kirkpat... |
| 21.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: Lifestreaming Helps Blog Comments | Today we have 2 prizes to give away. They both come from a very appropriate post from Sarah Perez: The Conversation Has Left the Blogosphere. In it, Sarah noted that “a lot of new aggregation services and lifestreaming applications [have] c... |
| 19.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: Time For iTunes to Become More Social | In our post Social Networks Will Be Tomorrow’s iTunes, Sarah Perez reported on new research indicating that social networks have the potential to be the content distribution platforms of tomorrow. “MySpace the next iTunes?”, said Sarah, “It... |
| 18.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: WiMax is The Future of Web Access | Today’s winning comment comes from Aziz Poonawalla, from our post What Happens When WiFi Goes Away? Aziz wrote that “the future of web access will be 802.11n in the home and office (assuming it ever gets out of draft!) and WiMax everywhere ... |
| 17.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: Reading (and Writing) Online | Sarah Perez wrote today: “When Amazon introduced their e-book reader, the Kindle, Steve Jobs made a strong proclamation regarding the book industry that received a lot of attention: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fac... |
| 17.03.2008 | Looking For A Great Interaction Designer | Our portfolio company Adaptive Blue is looking for a great interaction designer to join their team.
Here are the specific skills they are looking for:
* 5+ years of experience: from system-wide interactive interfaces to the smallest of prod... |
| 16.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: OpenEMR (Electronic Medical Record) | Today’s winning comment comes from Brad Garland, from our post Health Care at SXSW – Health Getting Hot With Tech Crowd. Brad asked an open question: “Why can’t we do an OpenEMR system like we are doing for authentication (OpenID). Be able ... |
| 15.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: More Sites for Finding Wonderful Things | We have 2 comment of the day prizes to give out today, and they both come from our post Ten Sites for Finding Wonderful Things. Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick, it was a list of 10 “online bricolage” websites – i.e. the art of assembling di... |
| 13.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: Visualizing the Real Time Web | Over the past couple of days we’ve had two in-depth posts on the theme of visualization. This is one of our trends to watch this year; and so these posts are well worth your time reading (and viewing!). Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote User Inter... |
| 12.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: Could Sting Play Ray Ozzie? | Today’s winning comment goes to Kamyar, from our post The Beast of Redmond is Roaring (& Thinking) Again. Kamyar’s comment was a super-geeky reference to the classic sci-fi novel and movie, Dune. I’m not sure I can picture Sting as Ray ... |
| 11.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: iPhone No Match For Windows Mobile on Exchange Features | Alex Iskold’s post from last night, Why Apple Will Dominate Next Gen Computing, has generated over 70 comments as of writing. Many of them challenged the article – but it was also interesting to see some commenters fact-checking other comme... |
| 11.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: All We Are Saying is Give Twine a Chance… | Today Marshall Kirkpatrick posted a less than favorable review of Twine, the semantic web knowledge management system that is currently in private beta. Marshall made some great points; and ultimately his post will serve as both excellent f... |
| 09.03.2008 | 3 Comment of the Day Winners | Due to the Ed traveling end of last week, we didn’t announce any Comment of the Day winners. To catch up, we’ve selected 3 random commenters to win: Frandall, YItna Firdyiwek, Jez.
Congratulations to those 3 people, you’ve each won a $30 Am... |
| 06.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: IE8 As Much About Google as Firefox | The comment of the day for yesterday was from our post Internet Explorer 8 Has Arrived. Sarah Perez noted that IE8 “showcases many new features and improvements, like Facebook and eBay integration, standards compliance, and the ability to w... |
| 04.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: GoogleLookUp is “Wow” | Today’s winning comment comes from our feature-by-feature comparison of Office Live Workspace and Google Docs. In the post Sarah Perez concluded that “Google Docs, although limited in its capabilities, offers real-time collaboration”, while... |
| 04.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: Family Twitters | We have two $30 Amazon vouchers to give away today – and both come from our current poll: Will Your Mom & Dad Ever Use Twitter? Our two winners are: Merredith and Nick Nichols, who both wrote about how their family members use Twitter. ... |
| 01.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: Socialthing! Could be SXSW Breakout App | In our post SXSW Breakout App of 2008: What Will it Be?, Marshall Kirkpatrick looks at five possible contenders for SXSW breakout app. Last year it was Twitter, the year before Dodgeball. Commenter Rob nominatedsocialthing! as a contender: ... |
| 29.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: Lifestreaming Irony | In our post 35 Ways to Stream Your Life, Josh Catone listed 35 apps that aggregate all the little bits of your online life. Commenter matthewvb sees some irony in the current craze for lifestreaming, pointing out that “a little over a year ... |
| 28.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: Google Apps Still Needs the IT Dept | In her post Google Sites the Next Sharepoint? Maybe Not…., Sarah Perez argues that Google’s strategy with Google Apps is to “subvert the IT department altogether and appeal directly to the worker.” But commenter benkepes said that IT is sti... |
| 27.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: Bee-ware of Freeconomics | In our post Beware of Freeconomics, Alex Iskold explained why the ‘free’ economy proposed by Wired’s Chris Anderson may not be a bed of roses. Commenter SJones had an interesting ‘bee’ metaphor that furthered the discussion. “It is not enou... |
| 27.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: First Base With Semantic Web | In our post Tim Berners-Lee Says the Time for the Semantic Web is Now, the Web’s inventor is quoted as saying that “people are realizing its time to just go do it.” But commenter Gregory isn’t getting as excited – he thinks that “we haven’... |
| 26.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: Build an Offline Browser | We have two winning comments today, from Michael Lambie and Vibhu Norby. Michael’s comment was on our post The Best Things About Adobe’s AIR Platform. He suggested that AIR could be used to create an offline browser. Vibhu’s comment was on ... |
| 23.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: Health 2.0 Web Apps | Today’s winning comment comes from our post Top Health 2.0 Web Apps. At the end of that post we asked for your suggestions of innovative, potentially ground-breaking web apps that will change how healthcare is done. One came from Dr. Anri K... |
| 22.02.2008 | New Smartlink Icons | Some of you may have noticed little music icons next to the links to artists and records in my "three records" post from yesterday. That is if you cleared your cache. Otherwise you might have seen the old smartlink icons.
These ar... |
| 22.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: “Google Docs is Chock Full of Fail” | In his post Why Google Apps is a Serious Threat to Microsoft Office, Bernard Lunn argued that the collaboration features in Google Apps are good enough to take on Microsoft. Commenter Karim took him on, with a well-written defense of MS Off... |
| 21.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: Google Vulnerable, But Not From Lack of Features | We had a lot of great comments today, but the winner is from our post How Vulnerable is Google on Search?. The premise was that Google hasn’t changed search in 7 or 8 years, so they are vulnerable to search innovators – like the companies p... |
| 20.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: Castro News… Ho Hum | Late last night Marshall Kirkpatrick published an epic post entitled Fail: Social News on World Events, Like Cuba. It is a great analysis of how web 2.0 news services covered a big mainstream news story. And the comments to the post are jus... |
| 19.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: Medical Diagnosis via Internet Coming Soon | Our 9th daily Comments Competition winner is Falafulu Fisi, for his comment on our post Web 2.0 Meets Medicine. Falafulu told us that the “current state of the art in medicine 2.0 of today is the automated online CDSS (Clinical Decision Sup... |
| 19.02.2008 | My Head Is In The Cloud This Morning | Last week I posted the following to twitter:
We’ve assembled 8 of the top developers we know and are talking about the future of the lamp stack
That was not entirely accurate. We put together an impromptu lunch last week and invited some of... |
| 18.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: Hey You, Back Up My Cloud! | We have two prize winners to announce, for yesterday and today. Our 7th and 8th daily Comments Competition winners come from two different posts. The first is one from Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds. It came from martin eng... |
| 17.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: Semantic Web “Great For Diddling” | Our 6th daily Comments Competition winner comes from a comment on our post 11 Things To Know About Semantic Web. It came from Alan Wilensky, who wrote that “all of the [Semantic Web] tech that has been so promised is great for diddling, but... |
| 15.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: R.E.M. Video = Open Source As In Linux | Our 5th daily Comments Competition winner comes via a trackback. It’s from Risa Dickens of the blog Indyish, in response to our post R.E.M. Releases New Videos Under Open Source License. Congratulations Risa, you’ve won a $30 Amazon voucher... |
| 14.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: Sync Kindle With iPhone | Our fourth daily Comments Competition winner is Chuck Lawson, for his comment on our post Is the iPhone the Ultimate eBook Reader?. Congratulations Chuck, you’ve won a $30 Amazon voucher, courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue an... |
| 13.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: Facebook’s Lip Service to Data Portability | Our third daily Comments Competition winner is rick gregory, for his comment on our post Facebook Makes it Easier to Delete Your Account, Sort Of. Congratulations rick, you’ve won a $30 Amazon voucher, courtesy of our competition sponsors A... |
| 12.02.2008 | Blue Organizer's Latest Indigo Release Lets You Surf Things Instead of Web Pages | Semantic search applications are finally starting to gel this year. Tonight, Adaptive Blue is releasing the latest version (dubbed Indigo) of its FireFox add-on, Blue Organizer. Put simply, Blue Organizer lets you surf things instead of Web... |
| 12.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: OpenSocial is a “Social Cloud” For Developers, Not Users | Our second daily Comments Competition winner is theharmonyguy, for an insightful explanation of Googler Kevin Marks’ “Social Cloud” theory. Congratulations theharmonyguy, you’ve won a $30 Amazon voucher, courtesy of our competition sponsors... |
| 12.02.2008 | BlueOrganizer releases new version of semantic web plug-in | The so called “semantic web” is on its way — or, according to Adaptive Blue CEO Alex Iskold, already here, and just waiting for the right applications to exploit it.
With the latest release of his company’s application BlueOrganizer, a Fire... |
| 11.02.2008 | Comment of the Day: Advice for Big Media | Our first daily Comments Competition winner is Dan from BlogMinistry, who left this comment on Josh Catone’s post CNN to Launch Completely User Generated News Site. Congratulations Dan, you’ve won a $30 Amazon voucher, courtesy of our compe... |
| 10.02.2008 | Comments Competition: Win a Daily Prize! | As many of you know, we recently underwent a re-design at ReadWriteWeb and upgraded our publishing system at the same time. Unfortunately that resulted in some frustrating technical glitches with our comments system. However, we’re now plea... |
| 03.02.2008 | Smart Profiles | Yes, today seems to be a day to blog about cool stuff coming out of our portfolio. I’ll continue if you don’t mind.
If you look just below the music player on the upper right of this blog, you’ll see something that looks like this:
My Smart... |
| 23.01.2008 | Live Semantic Service Inform.com Takes $15m Investment | Semantic analysis service Inform.comannounced today that the company has received a $15 million investment from Spark Capital. Inform analyzes content from online publishers and inserts links from a publisher’s own content archives, affilia... |
| 09.01.2008 | Semantic Web: What Is The Killer App? | The Semantic Web has been in the making for some time and people think it is nearing maturity.
We have written about this trend extensively, with our two most notable posts being an analysis of the challenges of the classic bottom-up approa... |
| 02.01.2008 | CrunchBoard Jobs | Here are some of the Latest Jobs on CrunchBoard.
Business Systems Analyst at MRU Holdings in New York, NY.
Web Design Specialist at George Fox University in Newberg, OR.
MySQL DBA at Piczo in San Francisco, CA.
Java Programmer at Sun Run Ge... |
| 26.12.2007 | 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! | This is a collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup. We hope that you will find these tips useful, but also please r... |
| 19.12.2007 | CrunchBoard Jobs | Here are some of the latest jobs on CrunchBoard. Note that we’re also looking for a full time replacement for me, Ben, since I decided to stab Mike in the back and go to Facebook (Mike made me add that last part).
Senior Information Designe... |
| 28.11.2007 | 10 Semantic Apps to Watch | One of the highlights of October’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was the emergence of ‘Semantic Apps’ as a force. Note that we’re not necessarily talking about the Semantic Web, which is the Tim Berners-Lee W3C led initiative that touts t... |
| 23.10.2007 | Roundup: Google’s space-algae plans, Visto’s cries IPO, more | Here’s the latest action:
1)Google’s hires astronaut, funds algae-in-space research
2) Google slowly but surely moves apps to work offline
3) AdaptiveBlue makes its “Smart Links” smarter
4) YieldBuild wants to improve the placement and colo... |
| 23.10.2007 | Auto Smartlinks | If you read this blog regularly, you certainly should have noticed the little blue square icons next to certain words on this blog. There’s one in the prior post on The Eels.
That little blue square next to the link to The Eels is called a ... |
| 22.10.2007 | AdaptiveBlue Feeds the Top-Down Semantic Web with Automatic SmartLinks | AdaptiveBlue makers of the popular Firefox plugin, BlueOrganizer, has launched a new version of their SmartLinks product that makes it easy for blog and web site publishers to include the links automatically within their pages. Previously, ... |
| 23.08.2007 | AdaptiveBlue Makes SmartLinks Feeds Viral | AdaptiveBlue has announced that their SmartLink Feeds for books, music, movies, and stocks are now “viral.”
The new SmartLink Feeds from the companies flagship Blue Organizer Firefox Add-on now include a “Grab Me” button that allows anyone ... |
| 30.07.2007 | Alex On Conferences | Alex Iskold is blogging his way through the startup experience. His company, Adaptive Blue, is a Union Square Ventures portfolio company. But you might know him better from his insightful posts at Read Write Web.
Today, Alex has a post on t... |
| 28.07.2007 | TechCrunch 9 At August Capital: Thank You for Coming | http://www.viddler.com/player/4a41a3d2/
Well, it’s over. TechCrunch 9 At August Capital last night was a blast, with 900 or so people demo’ing products, drinking wine and, if the video above is any indication, looking for the man of their d... |
| 22.06.2007 | Supernova: Connected Innovators | This afternoon at Supernova thirteen companies selected by TechCrunch and Supernova,
from 130 applicants, presented at the Connected Innovators
Session. The companies presented to a panel of experts including Mike Arrington from
TechCrunch,... |