Today, Google is announcing a new technology called Google Gears. The technology enables web applications to work both online and offline. One of the first applications of Google Gears that I have seen is its integration with Google Reader. Previously, you could only read your feeds while you were online. For those that are constantly [...]
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Do you work in the PR industry? No? Do you have your own startup? At some point you are going to have to face the facts and reach out to bloggers if you want to get some press. So how do you get a positive response after reaching out to a blogger? While it is [...]
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According to the Los Angeles Times, CBS is buying Last.fm for $280 million dollars. When I first heard this I was somewhat surprised because I was expecting a record label to snap it up sometime soon. According to a CBS executive, Last.fm is being purchased for its community, not just its well know audio (and [...]
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Yesterday morning i was reading a post about Internet Service Providers (ISPs) potentially putting an end to the boom in online video. Supposedly, there are currently ISPs in the UK that are placing a 1 gigabyte cap on users each month. I definitely would flip out if that was the case give that I download [...]
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While Joost may have pulled a fast one on the TV industry, their application is pretty slick. I finally decided to test it out last night and I was impressed. Video streamed pretty much flawlessly with the exception of a few seconds of choppy audio. In comparison to alternative video solutions that I have used, [...]
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Overnight Facebook’s only exit strategy for its current investors has become IPO. Why? They have ultimately created their site as the secure business platform for hundreds if not thousands of businesses that currently exist in an unstable environment as Josh Kopelman highlights. In the next week there will be hundreds of new applications built on [...]
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Facebook audio mysteriously disappears – Eric Eldon covers how a new Audio feature that was created has disappeared from the applications list. My thoughts? Facebook will be launching a new music feature and has other partners that are heavily invested in launching the new feature. As of now adding music to your profile doesn’t seem [...]
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Facebook has officially launched a new platform to take on all other social networks. This is beyond the scope of any other social network on the web. They are providing developers unrestricted access to their accessing and updating Facebook data.Some of you might remember that I mentioned something about Facebook music. Well, while it hasn’t [...]
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Yesterday Techcrunch verified a rumor that was started by an ex-Techcrunch writer. Terrific! According to Mike Arrington, “The information we have is that the deal is now under a binding term sheet and will close in 2-3 weeks, and there is nothing that can really derail it at this point.” So now we have to [...]
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Social shopping is something that e-commerce companies (Amazon, eBay, etc) have been trying to perfect since the birth of e-commerce. Years ago, a couple of friends and I were sitting around questioning how can social networks (at the time Friendster) monetize their users effectively? As of now large social networks (Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Orkut, Hi5, [...]
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