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| Oct 22, 2010 | Boy, That Escalated Quickly. Chrome 8 Beta Due Shortly, Chromium Hits Version 9 | Whenever I ask Google about the versions of Chrome and Chromium, they’re quick to point out that the numbers don’t mean much these days. That said, they still show how quickly the search giant is able to get features implemented that they w... |
| Aug 18, 2010 | Google may be readying Chrome OS tablet for Black Friday release on Verizon | We’ve been hearing rumors that tablets based on Google’s Chrome OS were getting ready to hit the market for a couple of months. Now there’s word that Google is preparing a Chrome OS tablet with Verizon for release on November 26 — a day bet... |
| Aug 18, 2010 | Rumour: Google Tablet to launch November 26th on Verizon | There’s a special secret sauce source in town today, delivering special secret rumours about that special secret Google Chrome OS tablet that the anti-Apple masses have been clawing for since April. What rumours, you ask? How about that a C... |
| Aug 18, 2010 | Google may be readying Chrome OS tablet for Black Friday release on Verizon | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. We’ve been hearing rumors that tablets based on Google’s Chrome OS were getting ready to hit the market for a couple of months. Now the... |
| Aug 12, 2010 | Microsoft Begins MGS Mobile Gaming Studio Presumably For Windows 7 Phone Games | What does Pitfall! have to do with Microsoft? Nothing, I just thought it looked neat. And now it looks like Microsoft is getting into the mobile video game “space.” Redmond has posted on its careers Web site that it is looking for people to... |
| Jul 20, 2010 | iChatr yanked by Apple | iChatr, the iPhone clone of the infamous Chatroulette, has already been pulled from the Apple app store. Apparently, Apple isn’t cool with inappropriate use of anonymity and cannot condone the app. On the developer’s blog, they noted talks ... |
| Jul 8, 2010 | Homeland Security Wanted To Seize Pirate Bay And MegaUpload Domains? | There was a lot of attention paid last week to Homeland Security’s ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) decision to shut down a bunch of movie file sharing sites. There were lots of questions about the action. We focused on the incredi... |
| Jul 5, 2010 | Opera/Chrome Rivalry Gets The Hitler Video Treatment | When Opera Software last week released the final version of its Opera browser (version 10.60), it titled its press release ‘What is faster than the fastest?’. The company touts other features, like built-in geolocation and webM support, as ... |
| Jun 21, 2010 | Dell thinking about shipping Google’s Chrome OS on netbooks | reader comments 30 with 19 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit A Dell executive has revealed that the company is in talks with Google and is exploring the possibility of shipping netbook... |
| Jun 17, 2010 | Zoho Adds Workspaces, Access Controls, Widgets And More To Zoho Wiki | Zohi Wiki, which originally launched in 2006, is getting an upgrade today, with additional collaboration features, access controls and more. Zoho has added workspaces within Wiki to allow teams to have their own groups within organization w... |
| Jun 14, 2010 | Dell and HP may join Acer for first Chrome OS devices | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. While our story on Acer unveiling Chrome OS devices at Computex, the big Taiwanese trade show for computer manufacturers, didn’t pan ou... |
| Jun 14, 2010 | Dell and HP may join Acer for first Chrome OS devices | While our story on Acer unveiling Chrome OS devices at Computex, the big Taiwanese trade show for computer manufacturers, didn’t pan out the way our sources had led us to believe it would, we do know that Acer is hard at work at devices fea... |
| Jun 9, 2010 | Paid Hulu in 2 Months (or Less)? | The Hulu rumors resurface once again. This time, two sources have been cited by a Reuters report confirming, for what seems like the thousandth time, that indeed Hulu is poised to roll out a subscription service. And like the sources quoted... |
| Jun 8, 2010 | Microsoft Tackles Security And Privacy In New IE8 TV Ads | Yesterday, Microsoft launched a new wave of commercials aimed at educating consumers of their risks online. The ads, which debuted on FOX last night, can be watched here. As Brandon LeBlanc writes on the Windows blog, To prove just how vuln... |
| Jun 1, 2010 | Zoho Adds Unified Search To Productivity Suite | Web-based productivity suite Zoho is getting into the search game today. The startup is adding an “actionable” search tool to its productivity suite, allowing a user to do a keyword search across an organization’s entire suite, across multi... |
| Apr 27, 2010 | Mozilla Officially Unveils A Pre-Alpha Test Version Of Firefox For Android | Late last month, a number of sites noted that a very early build of Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox, was available to download for Android phones. However, that build wasn’t official as it was put together by an individual and optimiz... |
| Apr 12, 2010 | Microsoft to Corporate America: Fear Google | Microsoft (MSFT) has plenty of reason to fear Google (GOOG): online search dominance, enough ad revenues to fund anything, Android eating smartphone OS market share, Google Apps user-base growing at a dizzying rate, and an upcoming netbook ... |
| Apr 1, 2010 | Is this nice looking browser really Internet Explorer 9? | Seeing as today is April Fool’s Day and the source of this pic is some random Chinese site and it looks great unlike previous versions, let’s tread carefully here, m’kay. But that pic is supposed to be of IE 9. The overall design clearly fo... |
| Mar 26, 2010 | A quick look at Netflix on the Wii | The disc required to get Netflix up and running on the Wii should hit subscribers mailboxes sometime today. Here’s a quick look at the Wii -ish interface and controls. Nifty, eh? Too bad there’s no HD content on the Wii version. [via Downlo... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | Study: Mobile apps industry to hit $17.5B by 2012 with 50B in downloads | An independent study has found that the market for mobile applications will increase from $6 billion today to $17.5 billion in 2012. The study was commissioned by GetJar, the world’s second biggest mobile app store. The study also reported ... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | Study: Mobile apps industry to hit $17.5B by 2012 with 50B in downloads | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. An independent study has found that the market for mobile applications will increase from $6 billion today to $17.5 billion in 2012. Th... |
| Mar 9, 2010 | Web-Based Productivity Suite Zoho Finds A Place In The Google Apps Marketplace | Zoho, a web-based productivity suite that was called a “fake Office” by a Microsoft VP, is announcing a significant partnership with Google today. The startup will be a launch partner for Google’s recently launched Google Apps Marketplace, ... |
| Feb 23, 2010 | Zoho Adds A Social Layer To Productivity Suite With Facebook Connect | Online productivity suite Zoho has been open to allowing users to use their Google, Google Apps and Yahoo accounts to log-in to Zoho Apps. Zoho says that most of its users are using their log-ins for other applications to use Zoho’s offerin... |
| Feb 11, 2010 | Zoho Launches New Version Of Invoicing Application | In 2008, productivity suite empire Zoho launched a simple invoicing tool, unsurprisingly called Zoho Invoice. Today, the startup is releasing a new version of its Invoice, dubbed Invoice 2.0, that has a fresh user interface and provides a m... |
| Feb 5, 2010 | TVGorge Lets You Stream 120+ Popular TV Shows, With No Geo-Restriction | Yes, it’s perfectly possible to watch Hulu from outside the United States if you know how to hide your location, but there are millions of people who don’t who would love to get access to the streaming service. For them, there’s now TVGorge... |
| Jan 15, 2010 | Mozilla Drops Firefox 3.7 From Its Roadmap? | Plans to Release it as a Minor Update to 3.6 Instead Earlier today, Computerworld broke the news that Mozilla plans to “dump” Firefox 3.7 from its schedule and change the way it develops and releases its browser. We talked to Mike Beltzner,... |
| Jan 6, 2010 | Vimeo’s offers 1080p high-def video, mobile options for paying users | Vimeo, the video site that aims to offer high-quality content as an alternative to YouTube, announced today that it’s adding some features for paid members — which will help keep Vimeo ahead of most of its competition. If you’ve got a Vimeo... |
| Jan 6, 2010 | Vimeo’s offers 1080p high-def video, mobile options for paying users | 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! Vimeo, the video site that aims to offer high-qua... |
| Dec 30, 2009 | National Geographic reprints every issue to an external drive | National Geographic Magazine has been one of the most important publications ever printed. From the insightful articles to the brilliant photography, NatGeo has been the benchmark that other magazines compare themselves to. Now, you can own... |
| Dec 29, 2009 | Microsoft Cracks Down On Windows Piracy In China… So Pirating Group Offers Up Ubuntu That Looks Like XP | It’s been pointed out before how much Microsoft has benefited from having its operating system and office suites “pirated,” in that it helped make Microsoft a de facto standard, that created lock-in and network effects, that helped make Mic... |
| Dec 15, 2009 | Zoho Reports Steps Out Of Beta With Pricing Model And New Features | Zoho Reports, the web-based productivity suite’s business and data intelligence tool, is ripping off the beta tag and officially launching today with a new pricing model and set of features. Zoho Reports, which was formerly known as Zoho DB... |
| Dec 9, 2009 | Hands-on with the Blump.it Firefox plug-in on a Viliv X70 | The Blump.it Firefox plug-in just hit the blogosphere today and I had to try it. So I loaded it up on the Viliv X70 with the hope that it will improve the functionality of the small-ish touchscreen and turn it into a certain tablet computer... |
| Nov 23, 2009 | Web-Based Productivity Suite Zoho Launches Human Resources Application Zoho Recruit | Web-based productivity suite Zoho is launching a new product today, Zoho Recruit. A niche product, Zoho Recruit, is an application designed to help HR Departments and staffing agencies management recruitment. Zoho Recruit, which is an offsh... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | A Big Google Chrome Extensions Push Is Imminent (Pictures) | For some time now, Google Chrome has been working with a number of extensions — but unofficially. That’s about to change in a big way, maybe as soon as tomorrow. And some digging through backchannel chatter reveals some of Google’s intentio... |
| Nov 15, 2009 | Official Google Chrome Extension Gallery Announced Early, Launching Soon | Google’s Chrome, the fastest major browser on the internet, appears set to launch an official gallery of browser extensions in the very near future. In the latest nightly build of the app an extension logo and a link to a gallery page appea... |
| Nov 2, 2009 | Google's Chrome Browser Is Now 30 Million Users Strong | There is a perception that Google’s Chrome is a rounding error when it comes to browsers. And maybe it still is, but Google is now fighting that perception in a very public way. Today, it announced that the Chrome Team won a Founder’s Award... |
| Oct 8, 2009 | Rumor: Windows 8 Will Be 128-Bit | News Rumor: Windows 8 Will Be 128-Bit By Kurt MackieOctober 08, 2009 Microsoft's next operating system in development, Windows 8, might be designed to run on 128-bit hardware, according to accounts cobbled together by blog sleuths. Microsof... |
| Oct 8, 2009 | Rumor: Windows 8 Will Be 128-Bit | News Rumor: Windows 8 Will Be 128-Bit By Kurt MackieOctober 08, 2009 Microsoft's next operating system in development, Windows 8, might be designed to run on 128-bit hardware, according to accounts cobbled together by blog sleuths. Microsof... |
| Oct 5, 2009 | Making the Chrome Prettier: Google Launches Artist Themes | Google just launched a large number of new themes for Chrome. These ‘artist themes‘ were designed by well-known artists, architects, and designers, including Jeff Koons, Karim Rashid, Oscar de la Renta, DJ Tiesto, Kate Spade, Donna Karan, K... |
| Sep 3, 2009 | New: See Your Friends’ Birthdays in Google Calendar | Google has added a number of new social calendars to the options on Google Calender, the most notable for geeks being your friends’ birthdays. Dates are pulled from your GMail contacts that have filled in their birthdays in their Google Pro... |
| Aug 12, 2009 | Chrome For Mac Continues March Forward With Bookmarks And Better Flash | We’ve already written a half dozen times or so about how the Mac version of Google’s Chrome browser continues to surge towards being fully usable on a daily basis. And today brings another update on that front. The latest builds of Chromium... |
| Aug 6, 2009 | Confirmed: Microsoft Is The New Owner Of Office.com | We speculated about this when we first reported on Microsoft’s recent announcements regarding its software-in-the-cloud strategy, and now it’s official: istartedsomething and Download Squad have confirmed that the domain name office.com is ... |
| Jul 16, 2009 | Android gets a torrent-monitoring app, but it still has a long way to go | One of the abilities of smartphones I’ve always coveted is the ability to peek in at your torrents and see how they’re doing. Is that movie finished? Is anyone downloading that pack of videos I put up? These are questions that demand answer... |
| Jul 14, 2009 | Google Android, now on your computer | It’s not exactly the full Android experience, but if you’re wondering what it might be like to run the mobile OS on a computer about the size and speed of… well, the one you’re reading this on, then these guys have something for you. A disc... |
| Jun 20, 2009 | AOL's PoliticsDaily Quickly Surpasses Rival Politico, MediaGlow Sites Continue To Grow | AOL’s new political news and blog site, PoliticsDaily.com has surpassed rival Politico.com in unique visits in May, after being launched only a month and a half ago. According to May’s comScore results, PoliticsDaily.com received 2.4 millio... |
| Jun 15, 2009 | Video: Tom Brokaw reports on that thing called the "Internet" – circa 1994 | http://www.hulu.com/embed/BV_Mi__S3HrepdyafmX1uA “What you can do with the new systems is go directly to the international network computers called *dramatic pause* the Internet.” I wonder if he foresaw the Internet replacing him way back t... |
| Jun 10, 2009 | Aviary’s Talon: An Awesome Firefox Plug-in For Easy Image Editing | Aviary, the company behind a suite of collaborative web-based image editing software, has released a Firefox plug-in that’s a must-have. Create an account at Aviary, download the plug-in called Talon, and within minutes you’ll be joyfully c... |
| May 28, 2009 | Let's Play Some Games Today | I had some technical issues with this blog yesterday afternoon that got in the way of doing this as part of my post on our newest investment Heyzap. So I figured we can do it today instead. I’ve selected a bunch of strategy games from the H... |
| May 13, 2009 | Why did Twitter make some tweets invisible? | Twitter users, here’s the obscure but possibly important "small settings update" the company may have made to your account’s configuration: If, under the Notifications panel on the Settings page, you had changed the default settin... |
| May 6, 2009 | Control Freaks: Hulu Now Blocks Anonymous Proxies Too | There are few web services hotter than Hulu these days. It’s about to surge into the number two web video position (behind only YouTube) and it just signed a deal with Disney to give it even more great content. It’s all great — if you live ... |
| May 5, 2009 | Why XP mode is good: It runs stuff under XP | I’m down with Windows 7. I really am. It’s going to be a good, solid OS that will take us well into the next decade. Microsoft does this kind of thing every few years – they dump out a clinker (Windows ME) then amaze us all with something g... |
| May 5, 2009 | Firefox Could Be the Real Facebook Challenger | Firefox doesn’t keep track of the number of users it has but Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, said today that the company estimates that there are 270 million people using the browser. That’s 35% more users than Fac... |
| May 1, 2009 | After Tribulation, The "Sexiest" iPhone App Hits With A 12+ Rating | Last month, Sookie Solutions got the bad news that its iPhone app, Peekababe, was getting rejected from the App Store. The reason? Excessive sexual content. Well today, it’s here, sexy as ever. Here’s the gist: The app features pictures of ... |
| Apr 24, 2009 | It's everywhere: Windows 7 release candidate leaked | Flash! The Windows 7 release candidate has leaked. You can find it where you usually find such things. As it stands, this release candidate is rumored to be officially released on May 5, the same day as the second leg of the Manchester Unit... |
| Mar 20, 2009 | Here Lies SpiralFrog (2007-2009) | SpiralFrog, the ad-supported music service launched by Universal Music Group and EMI in 2007, is now defunct. To say SpiralFrog started off on the wrong foot would be an understatement. The service's launch was delayed by nearly a year due ... |
| Feb 18, 2009 | Why Hulu Should Embrace Boxee | For those that don’t know, Union Square Ventures is an investor in Boxee and I am on the board. For the past several weeks I have watched Boxee's management try their hardest to convince Hulu that Boxee is a big step forward for Hulu and Hu... |
| Feb 11, 2009 | Make your Ubuntu distro look like the Mini Mi | reader comments 7 with 5 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The GUI released by HP for its Mini Mi netbook has been winning accolades for its high design standards. The interface offers... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Windows 7 Beta Rollout Fails Without BitTorrent | With an official Windows 7 torrent, Microsoft would not have had problems at all. In fact, BitTorrent would have helped to get the Beta out faster than Microsoft servers are technically capable of. The larger the demand and the greater numb... |
| Nov 30, 2008 | YouTube Is A Global Media Property | My friend Steve Kane left an interesting comment on yesterday’s post about analog dollars and digital pennies. In it he noted the following: any case, i’m not sure what comscore is counting, but most other measurements services give youtube... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | Notify.me - real-time information update? | Real-time Information overload is finally here! Those info junkies will be happy! Notify.me is quite possibly the most Web 1.0 idea I have seen in while, despite the fact this widget is quite interactive and the service gives you "real... |
| Nov 13, 2008 | 30 Days Later: 22 Apps We’re Still Using 1 Month After Finding Them | How easy is it to launch a new web application these days? Easy enough that we see scads of new ones every day, in our tips inbox, on other blogs, raining out of the sky like cats and dogs. We love many of them, we really do, but after that... |
| Sep 24, 2008 | Third Party Comment Systems Go Mainstream | Last summer, I got an email from Paul Graham saying that one of the Y Combinator teams wanted to launch something on this blog. It was a third party comment system called Disqus. I love getting my hands on new technology, particularly new s... |
| Sep 14, 2008 | SiteMeter Receives a Visual Makeover | If you’re a user of the analytics service SiteMeter, you will now see a better interface when you check your site’s statistics. The site redesign provides a host of new features for users that could cause users of Google Analytics to do a d... |
| Aug 4, 2008 | Opinion: Can Google be bested? Not anytime soon | reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Google may be the de facto leader in search today, but will its lead last forever? With services like Mahalo and Cuil gaining a... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | Some Web Apps Work Better Together | How many new websites can you fit in a Volkswagen Beetle? Sometimes it feels like that’s what we’re trying to do these days – but all these new applications and services don’t have to be crammed into our heads and lives as separate things t... |
| Jul 7, 2008 | Ask.com’s New Strategy in Search: Focus on Answers | Ask.com isn’t a bad search engine. In fact, the company has launched some innovative features over the years that have demonstrated their ambition and drive compete with search giant, Google. From walking directions in Ask Maps to voice-act... |
| Jun 25, 2008 | Tiny XP: Everything you want, you got it | Tiny XP [Warning: Porn ads] is a stripped down yet simultaneously beefed up version of XP that includes almost all the drivers necessary to run on almost any hardware as well as a number of registry hacks that ensure that the install won’t ... |
| Apr 15, 2008 | Meme13 Tries and Fails to Solve the Techmeme Echo-Chamber Problem | Many people love to check out automated blog meme aggregator Techmeme throughout the day for the latest in tech news – but a considerable number of other people consider it a self-promoting echo chamber that poisons the tech blog discussion... |
| Apr 9, 2008 | AOL Regroups Blogs, Launches AOL Tech Network | AOL launched what they’re calling the AOL Tech Network this evening. It’s a grouping of existing blogs – the Engadget sites, Switched, TUAW and Download Squad, under a new tech content group. Unike AOL Games, AOL Entertainment and other sub... |
| Jan 21, 2008 | Defining User Generated Content; Or, Digg Is Too a UGC Site | In post on his blog today, my friend Allen Stern takes issue with Digg winning the “Best User Generated Content Site” award at Friday night’s Crunchies Awards. Allen, who provided the web with excellent live blogged coverage of the event ba... |
| Jan 20, 2008 | Music Industry Got An Injunction Against Rapidshare in 2007, Site Not Shut Down | Rapidshare is one of the world’s largest file-hosting sites, with a claimed data storage capability in excess of 4 petabytes and offering at least 110 gigabits of bandwidth. Almost exactly 1 year ago, P2PBlog reported that the German rights... |
| Jan 7, 2008 | Memo To UK: No Pandora For You | Pandora is to block users in the United Kingdom from January 15 after failing to obtain a reasonable licensing agreement. Pandora first started blocking users outside the United States in May 2007 due to licensing issues, but had continued ... |
| Dec 30, 2007 | 8Apps Rounds Out The Deadpool for 2007 | Online application provider 8Apps has announced that it will be shutting in January. 8apps offered collaborative online tools not dissimilar to those offered by 37signals. According to a post by Download Squad reviewing the site back in Jul... |
| Dec 29, 2007 | Glogster – Like Geocities (in a bad way), And In Flash | Glogster is a new service that lets users create web pages (they call them posters) using Flash elements. Upload photos, songs, text and other stuff, drag it around, and call it a day. You can embed the poster on another website, but its to... |
| Dec 18, 2007 | Majority Of Americans On Google Docs: "What You Talkin Bout Willis?" | A new survey by NPD has found that the 73% of Americans have never heard of Google Docs and other online office applications, but perhaps worst still only 0.5% of respondents have abandoned desktop office applications for an online alternat... |
| Dec 14, 2007 | The Significance of YouTube’s New Swarm Tool | YouTube has begun experimenting with a visualization of related videos that’s a poor knock-off of the Digg Swarm visualization tool. NewTeeVee says it’s more fun than Digg Swarm but I think it’s less useful and actually a bit nauseating to ... |
| Dec 7, 2007 | Twitter apparently banned in UAE, like many other sites | The United Arab Emirates has apparently banned Twitter because its content is “not consistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values” of the country. The report comes from investor Joi Ito, who posted this screenshot (belo... |
| Oct 24, 2007 | Roundup: Planet Google crowded, Verizon backs off, and more | Here’s the latest action: 1) Google facing employee overload 2) Verizon Wireless abandons legal challenge of FCC rules 3) Qualcomm comes up with competition for WiMAX 4) Could Yahoo finally be giving up social networking? 5) Google’s PageRa... |
| Oct 23, 2007 | Gmail Apparently Enabling IMAP Support | The folks over at Download Squad have stumbled across persuasive evidence that Google is adding IMAP support to Gmail. While the option to use IMAP has not showed up in my Gmail account yet (or any other bloggers’ for that matter), they poi... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | SpiralFrog Finally Emerges from Death Spiral, Launches Today | After a ten-month delay which saw the company's own high-profile organizers ousted in a management coup that to this day remains mysterious, the ad-supported music service SpiralFrog finally emerged from beta today. It's being billed as the... |
| Sep 6, 2007 | Infinite Loop welcomes fresh meat to the team | reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Some of you may have noticed a new name showing up on Infinite Loop over the last several days. David Chartier has recently joi... |
| Jun 24, 2007 | New Version Of Plaxo Launched: More Sync More Often | Plaxo has announced Plaxo 3.0, a new version that builds on its multi-point sync product by offering improved sync options as well as a feed-style people tracker. Automated “multi-way sync” under Plaxo 3.0 includes Google Calender, Microsof... |
| Jun 20, 2007 | Gmail Needs Foreign Character Filtering | DownloadSquad brings up an excellent point regarding the filtering abilities found in Gmail . While Gmail does one of the best jobs of filtering junk and spam e-mail, a lot of the time spam littered with foreign characters gets through into... |
| Jun 15, 2007 | Record Exec: Experts Cannot Criticize Our Strategies | If you want to see just how confused recording industry execs are these days, go read this exchange between Andrew Dubber and Paul Birch (via Boing Boing). Dubber is a lecturer at the University of Central England who writes a great blog ab... |
| May 23, 2007 | Avanoo, a “community wisdom bank” | Avanoo, a site that aims to tap into the “wisdom of communities” to offer answers to your questions about life, is officially launching today. There are several question and answer sites already out there, such as AllExperts and new start-u... |
| Feb 15, 2007 | Web News: Yahoo/Digg, Web 4.0, Soapbox, Gmail, Index Ventures | – Yahoo implements digg-style voting across some of its products; two opposing headlines pretty much sum this story up… Yahoo Anecdotal’s headline: It takes two to Tango (suggesting interaction between Y! developers and their users); digg’s... |
| Jan 4, 2007 | Adding Some Flare | Have you heard about "social media optimization"? It’s the thing that people who game DIgg are doing. It’s a pretty well known fact that getting picked up in Digg or Delicious popular can result in big increases in traffic. But yo... |
| Nov 21, 2006 | Cerulean Studios Previews Trillian Astra | Cerulean Studios has begun to offer some information about the next version of its popular cross-network IM tool, Trillian. The new version, called Trillian Astra, has a preview site and video now available that Jordan Running pointed us to... |
| Oct 21, 2006 | Scrybe Could Set a New Standard In Office Apps | Jason Clarke found a great new startup today called Scrybe. It hasn’t launched yet, but they’re using YouTube to showcase the product (see video below). More companies should do this – it gives the company a way to show everyone exactly wha... |
| Aug 3, 2006 | AOL/AIM users to get 5GB free storage | The one upsmanship in giving away storage continues with an announcement today from AOL that come September the company will provide 5 GB of free storage on the company’s XDrive system to anyone with as little as an AOL or AIM screen name. ... |
| Apr 19, 2006 | AOL To Launch "Myspace Killer" | AOL may be preparing to launch a Myspace-type social network sometime in the next few weeks, says Dave Winer. This went from rumor to “confirmed likely” in posts and comments by Jason Calacanis and Jordan Running (also here) (both now at AO... |
| Apr 5, 2006 | Pixrat Bookmarks Photos | Bangalore based Pixrat, founded by three ex-Yahoo employees, is Del.icio.us for photos. Functionality is straightforward: add their bookmarklet to your browser, and when you are on a page with photos and you’d like to bookmark one of them, ... |
| Mar 28, 2006 | Google v. Microsoft: New Search Interfaces | Google and Microsoft both have new search interfaces in beta. Google is testing a new “green bars” interface to the left of search results, allowing easy linking to search results for the web, images, groups, froogle and local. The green ba... |
| Jan 3, 2006 | AllPeers Is The FireFox "Killer App" | I’ve had a chance to talk to AllPeers founders Cedric Maloux and Matthew Gertner. This company is set to take the world by storm. In my opinon this single firefox extension will massively increase the attractiveness of that already popular ... |
| Oct 26, 2005 | Voice Email with WaxMail | WaxMail is a free voice email service for Outlook from the guys who created Skylook (see our profile here). WaxMail requires a small download and a quick installation with Outlook. From there, all you have to do is click a button to record ... |
| Sep 19, 2005 | Ajax Dictionary – ObjectGraph | ObjectGraph has a basic dictionary web app with ajax that’s worth mentioning. Type in a term and the results appear as you type each letter. It works much like Google Suggest. There are a number of dictionary options, and a thesaurus. From ... |
| Sep 18, 2005 | Memeorandum Is Exceptional | Company: Memeorandum Launched: September 2005 Location: Mountain View, CA I’ve been using Memeorandum for about a month (since Bar Camp in August). Gabe Rivera, the creator, gave me a private demo and set up a demo site for me (no longer ac... |
| Aug 29, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 22-28 August 2005 | sponsored by: Onfolio is offering R/WW readers a coupon code entitling the bearer to $30 off a purchase of Onfolio Professional before August 31st (a 30% saving off the normal $99.95 price). To use the coupon, enter it at the time of purcha... |
| Aug 23, 2005 | Google Talk Live, Functional | There’s been blog chatter all day about Google Talk. I didn’t write about it because I couldn’t use it (it hadn’t launched yet) and I certainly wasn’t “breaking” the story. Not only that, it seems to me that Skype already has a quite nice a... |
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