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| Apr 4, 2011 | Milk: Kevin Rose's New Company Aims to Solve Big Problems on the Mobile Web | Well by Silicon Valley standards, that certainly wasn’t a long “stealth” period. Just weeks after he quit Digg, Kevin Rose is announcing details of his new startup. Knowing Rose, I can tell why he’s so excited to get started. He’s construct... |
| Apr 6, 2010 | Founders & CEOs: Who Is More Expendable? | Monday’s sudden departure of Jay Adelson as CEO of social news aggregator Digg has raised a few eyebrows in the tech community as some rumors imply that it may have been a decision made by the company’s board. Regardless of the nature of th... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | Six Apart Opens Up TypePad APIs, Relaunches Pownce As TypePad Motion | Blogging software pioneer Six Apart this morning announced that it’s debuting TypePad Cloud Platform, a new service that enables developers to use the service’s API to build social applications while leaving the storage, infrastructure and ... |
| Mar 18, 2009 | Movable Type Launches Motion | In December, Movable Type announced a new product called “Motion,” which integrates activity streams, microblogging, and portable identities into a software package that can be installed into the company’s hosted publishing platform, Movabl... |
| Jan 25, 2009 | Twitter: Possibly Valued at $250 Million | Twitter may have signed a term sheet with Institutional Venture Partners according to a recent report on TechCrunch; a deal that will place the valuation of the rapidly growing microblogging service at $250 million.
At first glance the deal... |
| Dec 3, 2008 | Micro-messaging goes live | Micro-messaging goes live
Traction Software has introduced Live Blog micro-messaging for TeamPage 4.0. The new offering enables users to write brief notes from wherever they are and share them instantly over Traction's TeamPage enterprise w... |
| Dec 1, 2008 | SixApart Hires Pownce Founders, Closes Service | The team behind microblogging service Pownce announced on the company blog today that it is joining blog software company SixApart and closing Pownce in two weeks. Pownce left private beta with a big launch just 11 months ago but the servic... |
| Dec 1, 2008 | Six Apart acquires and shuts down Pownce | Blogging company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging startup Pownce for undisclosed financial terms. It looks like one of those acquisitions where the buyer was more interested in the people than the product — the Pownce service will shut... |
| Dec 1, 2008 | Pownce Deadpooled, Team Moves To Six Apart | Pownce, the media-rich Twitter competitor once labeled by the New York Times as “the hottest startup in Silicon Valley”, is headed to the deadpool after being acquired by Six Apart. The service, which was co-founded by Digg’s Kevin Rose alo... |
| Oct 20, 2008 | Twitter - I'm followed, therefore I am | CEO Jack Dorsey, who says Twitter captures the 'status of everything,' talks about monetization
(Note: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stepped down in October. Many have said that Twitter needs to find a business model, hence the need for Jack to m... |
| Oct 7, 2008 | Mozilla Geode Released With Support From Pownce and Fire Eagle | Mozilla has posted more information about Geode, the Labs plugin we foreshadowed yesterday that helps websites detect your current location. Geode is also now available for download here.
Geode is a forerunner to Firefox’s future implementa... |
| Sep 11, 2008 | Ars at DjangoCon: Day two round-up | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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The second day of DjangoCon spent more of the morning in panel sessions after a keynote by TurboGears' ... |
| Sep 5, 2008 | Ars at DjangoCon: All hail the 1.0! | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Times are good in the world of Django. The Python web framework has slowly been coming into its own over the past three years.
... |
| Aug 12, 2008 | Yahoo Fire Eagle Launches Geo-Location Platform To The Public | Today at Yahoo’s Brickhouse, a team of developers, press, and Yahoo execs including co-founder David Filo converged for the release of Fire Eagle, Yahoo’s geo-location platform. Fire Eagle allows allows developers to include positional data... |
| Jul 18, 2008 | BlogHer: Who Are Your Favorite Women Bloggers? | The Blogher conference for and about women bloggers kicks off today in San Francisco and in honor of this important event, we decided to share some links to some of our favorite women bloggers here at RWW.
Gender is an important lens throug... |
| Jul 10, 2008 | PostRank Filters Your Info Overload for Popularity | AideRSS, the marvelous service that filters items in any RSS feed for popularity with readers, has spun out its core technology PostRank as an Application Programing Interface (API) for integration into any other application. We love a good... |
| Jun 24, 2008 | Socialbrowse: Y Combinator Startup is Twitter For Links | Y Combinator-funded Socialbrowse has just launched in private beta. The service could best be described as a Twitter for links, but with a few unique twists that could make it an essential tool for web browsers. The first 500 TechCrunch rea... |
| May 25, 2008 | Alternatives to Twitter | With all the frustration, confusion, and support going towards Twitter this week, a break from Twitter might be just want the doctor ordered. This weekend users have been asking for alternatives to Twitter. In this post we answer that quest... |
| May 25, 2008 | PR Secrets for Startups | Editor’s Note: At a time when anyone can broadcast their opinions about your startup to the world, public relations requires a new level of engagement on the part of companies and entrepreneurs. But what are the new rules of PR? Guest autho... |
| May 23, 2008 | Twitter is Down – Come Join Us in Our FriendFeed Room | “Goodnight ma!” “Goodnight pa!” “Goodnight, John Boy!” That’s what they used to say in every episode of the TV classic The Waltons (see below). That same kind of repetitive chorus has grown more frequent around the web announcing that yes, ... |
| May 9, 2008 | Is Pownce Developing A MP3 Player? | Daniel Burka, co-founder and head designer for Pownce, has generated some buzz by posting a screenshot teaser of an upcoming release (shown above).
From what we can see in the shot – a search box, an upload link, and parts of the words “Art... |
| May 6, 2008 | Twitter Leads Social Networks in Downtime, But Still Up Near 99% | A new report from Royal Pingdom reveals that Twitter unsurprisingly led social networks in downtime for the first four months of 2008 with a total of 37 hours and 16 minutes. The good news is that even with all that downtime, that’s still a... |
| Mar 10, 2008 | Watch Out FriendFeed: Socialthing! Is Even Easier to Use | Update: Head over to InviteShare to help others get into Socialthing! Each user is given 10 invites to hand out.
There are a bazillion social network aggregators out there (Mike attempted to round up some of the most notable ones here). Fri... |
| Mar 9, 2008 | MoodBlast 3.1 brings Pownce support, better performance | reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating
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Microblogging and "social status" services like Twitter, Facebook, and Pownce are growing in usefulness and popular... |
| Feb 29, 2008 | SXSW Breakout App of 2008: What Will it Be? | The SXSW extravaganza in Austin has been an application king maker for the last two years at least; Google’s Dodgeball blew up there in 2006 and Twitter went from elite-chic to massively popular there in 2007.
Who’s it going to be in 2008? ... |
| Feb 27, 2008 | Pownce to Release More Complete API this Friday | Leah Culver, the lead programmer of Pownce, has informed us that the messaging/social networking service will release a more complete API this Friday, one with substantial improvements over the first version released late last October.
This... |
| Jan 28, 2008 | WordPress’s Prologue: part Twitter, part Basecamp, all business | updated
Automattic, the parent company of blogging platform WordPress, has just introduced what at first glance is a messaging system like Twitter, but for groups.
Instead of individuals twittering away on universal platform, this one lets ... |
| Jan 21, 2008 | Pownce Opens To Public Tonight At Midnight; Early Screen Shots Of New Features | Pownce, a service that lets users send messages, files, links, and events to friends, first launched into private beta over six months ago. It was founded by Leah Culver, Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka (Rose and Burka of Digg fame).
Tonight at... |
| Dec 20, 2007 | Is Pownce Going To The DeadPool? | Uncov has a very funny post on the demise of Kevin-Rose-founded-Twitter-clone Pownce, noting that their traffic seems to have fallen to the point that “Even TechCrunch can’t save you now.” The image above is taken from their post.
That may ... |
| Nov 13, 2007 | GeekBrief.TV #257 | Download
We had an amazing night Sunday night on Ustream. Geoff Smith twittered that he was on and working in his studio. I twittered that people should stop by, and we wound up having an amazing ones and zeros party. If you don’t want to m... |
| Oct 30, 2007 | Better Late Than Never: Pownce Gets A Public API | The Kevin Rose/ Leah Culver Twitter meets file sharing network Pownce has finally launched a public API, 3 months after first announcing that an API was coming.
Pownce launched in late June to a surge of interest based around the involvment... |
| Oct 9, 2007 | Google buys Jaiku, Twitter losing ground | Jaiku, the popular service that lets you blast short blog updates to friends about you’re doing, has been snapped up by Google for an undisclosed amount.
Jaiku, based in Helsinki, Finland, has been a fierce rival to Twitter, a San Francisco... |
| Sep 24, 2007 | Tubes, offering Web site editing offline, now works on mobile | Tubes, a service that lets you recreate entire Web sites for viewing and editing offline, has launched with new mobile features.
Tubes, based in Boston, is useful because many people like to work offline — for example on planes, trains or o... |
| Sep 3, 2007 | Pownce Offers New Features, Still No API | Kevin Rose’s microblogging startup Pownce has announced a number of new user focused features.
New features include incoming event notifications, inline video playback, the ability to display social networking links and new preference setti... |
| Aug 21, 2007 | Received This Message On Pownce | From Jake:
Starting now, I’m collapsing every app I see on any Facebook profile.
Probably sounds ridiculous coming from an app developer but it has
become way too overwhelming to scroll through an average profile.
Facebook feels cleaner alr... |
| Aug 2, 2007 | 5 New Ways to Share Files | These days, PCs are often about storing large media files—and sharing them.
If you’ve ever had an email inbox clogged with attachments from friends or coworkers, you’ve probably experienced an inbox slowdown or run up against its storage li... |
| Jul 25, 2007 | Pownce Moving To Open API…Eventually | Pownce has announced the launch of a group that will work towards the implementation of a public Pownce API.
As Pownce puts it so well on their blog “the lack of an API has been a major criticism levelled against Pownce from day one.” Deskt... |
| Jul 25, 2007 | Cloning Web 2.0: A Look at Copycat Applications | I know I recently railed against copycat sites — I assure you that the irony of this post isn’t lost on me. But as they say, “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” As I said in my post 3 weeks ago, “if you do feel the need to borrow... |
| Jul 23, 2007 | Satisfaction, putting consumers in charge of customer service | [Disclosure: Satisfaction was developed by a team led by Thor Muller, who is an advisor to VentureBeat. We have a close relationship with Thor. Since other sources have started writing about Satisfaction, you should read that too, since we ... |
| Jul 16, 2007 | Pownce: ‘Send stuff to friends’ | Pownce is the hot new kid on the social networking block. Digg’s Kevin Rose is involved and that has been enough to generate considerable buzz, but is it deserved?
Pownce is self-described as ‘a way to send stuff to your friends.’ You can s... |
| Jul 12, 2007 | Top 5 Hottest Product Launches of 2007 | So far in 2007 we’ve seen some exceptional web app launches. From video to
micro-blogging, new startups have transformed the web landscape. So what defines a ‘hot
launch’? Obviously, a great product is essential, but also the ability to gen... |
| Jun 27, 2007 | Kevin Rose's New Startup: Pownce | There have been rumors that Digg’s Kevin Rose has been working on a new startup for some time, but he wasn’t talking. I spent a good amount of time this last weekend at FOO Camp trying to get some of the details out of him, but all he would... |
| Yahoo Meme e a escassez de tempo | Ontem o Yahoo! Brasil lançou o Meme (versão alpha), uma espécie de Twitter misturado com Tumblr e blogs. O serviço aparece certamente na cola do Twitter que está em crescimento acelerado há pelo menos 1 ano. O Yahoo! Meme tem a intenção de ... |