Last June we got a sneak peek at nrme, a location-based message service for the iPhone. The service behaves like a regional Twitter, but is geared towards sharing information rather than chatting - it’s sort of like a neighborhood bulletin
One of the reasons why the guitar has become a staple in pop culture is its immediate accessibility. In lieu of standard notation, guitar players have developed tablature - a more intuitive representation of a song that uses numbers to
For those of you who read WSJ for the articles, the new BlackBerry-compatible WSJ.com Mobile Reader will open up the nasty walled garden that is WSJ.com. The application will be free and most of the content will be open, although
The real estate slump may still be helping to drag down the economy, but real-estate sites like Trulia and Zillow seem to be holding up just fine. In fact, the number of monthly unique visitors to Trulia has more than
We’re a gadget blog, true, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get a mean drink on when we’re cornered. Luckily, Maestro Dobel was nice enough to send us a bottle of their $74.99 Diamond Tequila, offering us entree into a
We’re seeing a lot of desktop metaphors moving to Web interfaces in the browser. The latest example to cross our inbox is Microspaces, a service in private beta that lets you organize Web pages in folder-like Microspaces. But unlike desktop
Tim O’Reilly is tearing his hair out because he thinks that we link too much to CrunchBase, our startup database. He levels the unforgivable charge of self-linking at us, and puts us in the same company as the New York
Google’s philanthropic arms, Google.org, is investing a little over $10 million into the development of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). Rather than extracting heat from the ground a few hundred feet down (or less) as traditional geothermal systems do, EGS goes
MobileCrunch has a fairly detailed look at the new Android emulator. We go through all the current apps and even crash the OS a few times for good measure.See the rest of our Android coverage here.Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets
The University of Michigan’s quarterly customer satisfaction index came out today, and in the Website category Google came out on top with a score of 86 out of 100 (up 10 percent from last year). Yahoo slipped 3 percent to
My first computer, purchased by my parents after nearly a year of begging, was an Apple II+. That was 1982. I was a Windows user for the next 20 years, but went back to Mac when they switched to Intel
NewsCred, the news aggregator that ranks stories by the credibility of their source, has launched to the public. Instead of relying on popularity as many social news sites do, NewsCred instead allows users to rate each story, author, and publication’s
The company behind the popular ICanHasCheezburger site has launched a new website, EngrishFunny, which makes fun of grammatically incorrect variations of English (often found in Asia). Users send in photos of poorly translated or written products, signs, instructions, etc. to
Buzz, Yahoo’s Digg-like effort to leverage reader gestures and third party content in determining the most popular news, removes it’s barriers to entry tonight. Until now only a hundred or so invited publishers could post news to Buzz. This was
Friendster, the social network that has seen explosive growth in Asia but continues to lag behind Facebook and MySpace elsewhere, has launched support for OpenSocial apps on its development platform. Friendster initially launched its platform last October, but has restricted
Despite using a plethora of flashy graphics and professionally designed templates, many lecturers have to grapple with one common dilemma: PowerPoint presentations are usually pretty boring. One common way in increase engagement, especially in a large group setting, is to
Now that the first Android phone has been approved by the FCC, Google figured it might be a good time to update the software development kit for the mobile OS. There were hints that this would happen earlier today, but
On Facebook, there is no shortage of apps that tell you what celebrity you look like based on your photo (FaceDouble is the most popular), but in Japan we like our vanity apps on our mobile phones. After all, the
New technologies tend to follow different trajectories of hype, hope, and despair as they are discovered by different groups of people and finally adopted (or ignored) by consumers. Gartner actually goes ahead and charts this hype cycle for different technologies.
Sosauce, the aesthetically-pleasing network designed for sharing photos and travel adventures, has rolled out two new major updates, both of which revolve around the sharing of media in an enlightening environment. Expanding on its existing travel features, Sosauce’s new Travel
Powerset, the company that was acquired by Microsoft in an attempt to shore up its search, may be more lucrative than originally thought. According to reports, Microsoft may be tapping Powerset’s technology to improve advertising in search results and in
BlastGroups is a new service that has set out to replace your casual groups on sites like Yahoo with features that combine group capabilities with email blasts, in order to easily share content with a given group of friends. BlastGroups
Many of us prefer using online note taking applications for research, bookmarking sites, or quickly jotting down ideas. While there are many online note taking applications, we searched around the Web and compiled a list of those we felt were
A new series called Model.Live is debuting this week on Bebo (see here). As you may have guessed, the show is about models. Produced by IMG Media and Vogue.TV, this made-for-Web series follows three female models, Austria Alcantara, Cato van
Frank Warren, PostSecret blogger and author of “A Lifetime of Secrets,” is now chatting live on live.yahoo.com/mashable, answering questions and comments. He will also be reading PostSecret postcards that he received this morning. This is the fourth installment of our
This is a guest post written by Michael Cerda. He blogs about startups, people and the variety hour at Cerdafied.Outsourcing product development (or parts of development) offshore sounds like a good idea at the time. After all, you can augment
Firefox can be made into so much more than just a browser via its huge extension base. Yes, this means you can replace some of your instant messenger, chat and microblogging needs by adding just a few extensions. Here are
Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.STARTUP DETAILS:Company Name:
Just last week we heard of Dell’s upcoming Latitude On feature, which allows you to immediately access certain applications on your computer upon opening your notebook, effectively bypassing the Windows boot up process. Powered by Intel, this Latitude On feature
Need your software tested for functionality, usability, and durability by a global supply chain of assessors? A company by the name of uTest, based in Ashland, Massachusetts, is today announcing the general availability of its network of service specialists for
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week and a half (and probably even if you have), you’ve undoubtedly heard the name Michael Phelps many, many times. The record setting swimmer from the US not only won
Yahoo announced today that Buzz is now open to the public and anyone who wants to submit stories is free to do so. Prior to this, only a handful of publishers were allowed to post stories as Yahoo tried to
Yesterday we saw the official release of Blogs.com. Blogs.com is making top ten lists of blogs in several categories “to help you discover the best sites that you never knew existed.” The site looks well-designed, but a question remains, what
uLocate, the location-based application provider, has teamed up with Garmin to push its Buddy Beacon feature that allows you to find your nearby friends. It works in reverse, too - your friends can find you as well. This was all
Online advertising is the key to the future for companies that want to be successful, but a small firm called Lotame has just raised $13 million in Series B funding to take aim at advertisers and provide a unique way
Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of articles pop up on my feeds and in my reading lists talking about the evils of cloud computing and several damnations of the term as being strictly something from the marketing department. For
Lately, I’ve become a big fan of the simple online mixtape creation tool Muxtape. I’ve always loved creating mixtapes for friends and this tool was the best solution out there; recently, it became so popular that several tools like Muxtape
If there is one thing that can be said for the Web 2.0 movement and social media it is that its proponents are strong believers in openness and transparency. They are such strong believers that they have no problems leaving
Security company Marshal reports that their latest survey found 29% of respondents willing to admit that they have purchased something from a spam e-mail. While that number seems pretty questionable, PCMags Appscout points to a related survey from
Apple once again had to accept defeat and has announced that it will extend all subscriptions to its bug-ridden MobileMe service for yet another 60 days. This move comes after the company already gave every subscriber
When Twitter announced they were killing SMS for anyone located outside the U.S., Canada, or India for financial reasons, many Twitter SMS users were upset as they had come to rely on that aspect of the service to
There is an infinite variety of things you can do with RSS feeds and a substantial number of those things can be done with Feed.Informer, which was formerly known as Feed Digest and just
NewsCred garnered quite a bit of attention in its initial private beta launch where ReadWriteWeb was considered by its users to be one of the most credible news sources to read. With less than
Google Sites, the Google platform for document sharing and collaboration, has been dubbed SharePoint Light by many members of the tech community. However, the platform might be getting a new name soon, and one that wont be so
The conference agenda for DEMOfall 08 has been announced. ReadWriteWeb is one of the media partners for DEMOfall 08, which is on September 7-9 in San Diego. There are 70 companies presenting and they fall into the following broad categories:
One of our favorite Australians, Lachlan Hardy, twittered an interesting question today: What are the three things online that are exciting you most? Lachlan was asked this question as part of a newspaper article in the
Yahoo! Buzz, the social news service that launched in February and delivered giant piles of traffic to the lucky few websites that were indexed by the site, is tonight opening up to submissions from any site across the
Popular playlist sharing site Muxtape is down and says that its because of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It might have been inevitable but the news will run chills down the spines of countless music sharers.
Sharing web pages in a conversation shouldnt be as tricky as it is. Sometimes youre on the phone, or speaking to a group of people and there isnt a handy way to bring people along
Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones that run in browsers. For example, a range of
Pandoras on the ropes, Imeem is taking off, Grooveshark relaunched today with recommendations and a long list of cool features, Blip.fm threatens to make Muxtape look like old news - the streaming music market online
Google today announced that it has signed up the Obama and McCain campaigns to share blog posts and news items they read on Google Reader. This program, called Power Readers in Politics also includes items shared
GraphOn, which considers itself a leading worldwide developer of server-based application publishing and Web-enabling software solutions, today announced that it is suing Google for infringing on four of GraphOns patents. According to the complaint (embedded below),
Today, the news broke that the HTC Dream, the first handset to run Android (aka the Google Phone) has been approved by the FCC. In the documents provided, it appears that we have now a release date for
When Mint.com launched, they were taking a big risk - would people trust a web app to manage their finances online? Web 2.0 apps dont necessarily have a reputation as offering hardened security. However, Mints efforts to prove
People are definitely beginning to understand just how crazy social networks are getting. Facebook, Myspace, Bebo and many more are taking off and taking the world by storm. With plenty of tools to create
We have to admit that we have a thing for AIR apps. Most of our most popular desktop tools include AIR apps. From Twhirl to Snackr, they help us do our job with style.
Pandora is an internet radio service that allows you to create your own radio station based on songs and artists that you like. While you cant necessarily pick and choose what youll hear on
We have received quite a few submissions for the startup and application LaunchPad at our Mobilize 08 conference that is scheduled to be held on September 18, 2008 in San Francisco. I wanted to remind everyone that the deadline for
Muxtape, a startup that quickly became a favorite of the Tumblr-set, has taken a nose dive, thanks to the machinations at RIAA. There are lot of folks bemoaning the loss of the service. To them, I have one word: 8Tracks.I
Earth2Tech: Bill Clinton: 10 Things the U.S. Government Should Do For Clean Power.NewTeeVee: Ultimate bloke show, Top Gear, has its own YouTube channel. Awesome!jkOnTheRun: Houston, Texas has launched city wide WiFi.NewTeeVee: Vuclip is big on mobiles. Who knew?OStatic: Waiting for
Okay that is a bit over the top! Nielsen Mobile came out a report that points out that there were 13 million mobile data cards in the US at the end of June 2008. Not a big surprise, since wireless
Who Wins: AT&T U-Verse or Verizon FiOS AT&T U-Verse Verizon FiOS Neither. Cable will still beat themVerizon recently launched its FiOS TV & fiber-based broadband service in New York City, The New York Times is taking stock of the service
Are you happy with Apple support? Absolutely! It is allright, nothing to write home about. It is quite terrible. I dont have Apple Products Earlier this evening, Apple sent out an email to Mobile Me subscribers, giving us free 60-days
National Science Foundation has put together a really great web site that tells the story of the birth of the Internet, using videos, presentations and documents from its archives. The history is divided into decades, and there is a special
Today, Google is launching a new advocacy campaign, Free The Airwave, an effort by the company to get some traction around white spaces, the tiny slivers of spectrum that resides in the 700 MHz band vacated by analog television’s switch
This past weekend at Word Camp 2008, we announced GigaOM Daily, a Twitter-style micro-newswire that is going to take editorial inputs from our team and our growing network of blogs. Some might call it the Twitterization of news. If you
A few days ago, I wrote about blogs needing to be more social and embracing new personal web services and acting as hubs for our increasingly digital lives. This week, were launching a WordPress template and plug-in set called GigaLogue,
Having followed the optical network business for over a decade, one thing I have learned is that the boom and bust cycles of the business often mask patterns that have long-term implications. The overbuilding of U.S. networks in the 1990s
We have been following the emergence of 4G technologies pretty closely, including the looming battle between WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE). As part of this continuing coverage, we are going to give you short updates on these technologies and
We have been following the emergence of 4G technologies pretty closely, including the looming battle between WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE). As part of this continuing coverage, we are going to give you short updates on these technologies and
Undersea cables might be snooze-inducing and not as exciting as, say, Google, but they also foretell a rise in economic activity — and often a boom. Continue Reading.
How would you rate NBCs coverage of Olympics A... Excellent Work B... Okay, But Not Great C... Crap Olympics? Is it a new Web 2.0 company? Warning: This story is meant for our U.S. readers only. As many of you
Could Kevin Rose be latest convert from info tech to cleantech? In a recent video blog post, the Digg founder fleshed out an idea for making managing the power consumption of your home’s many gadgets a little more eco-friendly and
Liz Miller says that these days all people are talking about is Michael Phelps, the winningest Olympian, and a former presidential candidate’s lover. Eric Schmidt, director of media and advertising evangelism at Microsoft, tells Beet.tv
It isn’t quite earth-shattering, but Intel is introducing a technology that could make computers more useful. The company has developed ways to power up PCs remotely, allowing people to, say, retrieve files, according to the Wall Street Journal. Intel calls
The iPhone 3G???s problems are a hot topic of discussion these days, with everyone trying to figure out who’s to blame. Is it the fault of the carrier? The software? Or the chips
Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:Basecamp Marketing firm BKWLD loves Basecamp because it’s “intuitive, easy to use, and easy on the eyes”“Private messages and to-do lists were a godsend for one client. This was a particularly challenging project
Design JobsObama for America is looking for a Web Designer/Developer in Chicago, IL.Apple Inc. is looking for a UI Engineer in Cupertino, CA.Best Buy Co., Inc. is looking for a Front End Web Developer in Richfield, MN.Crain Communications is looking
Compass Bank is currently running a special promotion that gives you 3 months free of Backpack Plus (normally $49/month) when you open a new Compass Business checking account.If you’re interested in offering Backpack (or Basecamp or Highrise) to your customers
The pizza at Di Fara Pizza on Avenue J in Midwood, Brooklyn is amazing (among the best in NYC). Owner Domenico DeMarco has run the place for over 40 years and makes each pie by hand.The place is a restaurant
Fellow Chicagoan, great programmer/journalist, creator of the Django framework, talented guitarist, and genuinely nice guy Adrian Holovaty and his Everyblock hyperlocal news and information site grace the cover of this Sunday’s Chicago Tribune Magazine. Adrian, his site, and his crew
Venture capitalists are glorified gamblers in the Ace-from-Casino sense of the word. They try their best to collect intel on the players, but ultimately still just places a bet. One that usually fails much harder than it succeeds. It’s the
Farhad Manjoo (who wrote a cover story on 37signals for Salon.com a few years back) is now writing for Slate. This time he wonders about the Google Black Hole.Farhad plays “Where Are They Now?” with some of Google’s recent higher-profile
Farhad Manjoo (who wrote a cover story on 37signals for Salon.com a few years back) is now writing for Slate. This time he wonders about the Google Black Hole.Farhad plays “Where Are They Now?” with some of Google’s recent higher-profile
CD Baby founder Derek Sivers interviews Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek. Fascinating stuff. Below are some of the most interesting Ferriss bits from the interview.Why you shouldn’t view changes as permanent:So what would happen if you eliminated this?
Years ago I read a book about guitar effects pedals. Something the author wrote in the intro stuck with me: “Tone is in your fingers.”He went on to explain: You can buy the same guitar, effects pedals, and amplifier that
Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:37signals suite Zendesk integrates with Highrise and Campfire“You can now lookup customer information in your Highrise CRM application directly from a Zendesk support ticket. Say you receive a support ticket from a Michael
We had a blast last week answering Q&A for about an hour during the first 37signals Live session. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Thanks to all 1000+ people who stopped by to watch or participate.Next
How’s this for tenacity? John Dane is 58 years old and has been trying out for the Olympic sailing team for 40 years. He finally made it this year with his son-in-law, Austin Sperry.Dane missed qualifying for the Olympics 4
As much as I respect Apple, Unslow, one of their new iPhone 3G television ads, has me wondering how they kept a straight face when they put this on the air. Try to follow along with your own iPhone 3G:Web
I never liked the idea of the “for Dummies” or the “complete idiot’s guide to” book series’, but their sales success have certainly demonstrated that plenty of people identify with being a dummy or a complete idiot. Self-deprecation is fine,
Some new features are sexy. They come with shiny new interfaces, extra buttons, more power. These are obvious and easy to spot. They are fun to develop and fun to release.However, there’s another side to improving a product that doesn’t
We asked our new payroll service if they could mail paystubs to employees. The company rep’s response:No, but each stub is stuffed in an envelope and sealed. If you put a stamp on it, it could be mailed easily. That
Lots of questions in yesterday’s 37signals Live chat about what’s going on with the new version of Getting Real.So here’s the deal: The book is well underway. First draft done actually, but there’s still plenty of revising to go. (Rewriting
By Nat Torkington Software above the level of a single device is Tims phrase for software that you interact with across multiple devices. The iTunes Music Store was the classic instance of that: a store on the servers, an organization
By Brady Forrest Today is a big day for the international side of Microsoft has bought UK mapping portal MultiMap, a partner of Mappoint/Virtual Earth for five years. They are also announcing the launch of Live Maps in China.
By Marc Hedlund Earlier this year, I posted about Dopplr, saying it was the coolest app I saw at ETech, by far. This morning at LeWeb in Paris, Dopplr launched, so anyone can sign up for it now. Check it
By Brady Forrest The Seattle Start-up index tracks the traffic ups and of local startups and sites. There are 231 companies in the Index. To belong the
By Brady Forrest Amazon has finally announced SImpleDB, a database in the cloud. As they say on the product description page Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. The service is now
By Brady Forrest The state of defense and enforcement technology has become something that the public should pay attention to. So I felt that it was worth sharing this announcement about the Technology in Wartime conference. Ill be there if
By Brady Forrest The online mapping space continues its march towards 3D and startup Earthmine is at the forefront. Earthmine has developed technology that enables them to
By Brady Forrest Earlier today Microsofts Live Maps launched in China (Radar post). Dr. Vincent Tao, founder of Microsoft-acquisition GeoTango and now Senior Director in the Virtual Earth org, led the project. I sent over some questions about the release
By Jesse Robbins Im happy to announce that Ive joined Etelos as its Director of Infrastructure. Etelos is refreshingly supportive of my participation here and in Velocity, which is
By Tim OReilly I mentioned the Release 2.0 issue on Web 2.0 and Wall Street in my post about Warren Buffett yesterday. I thought Id take up that theme a bit further, and explore some of the big ideas that
By Tim OReilly This morning, the New York Times published my op-ed about the need for an open phone ecosystem under the title Static on the Dream Phone. I had originally titled it Openness is not a fig leaf. In
By Tim OReilly Lifehacker just posted a great review of Wesabe. (Disclosure: OReilly AlphaTech Ventures is an investor and I am a board member at Wesabe. Marc Hedlund, also a Radar blogger, is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer. I
By Brady Forrest Ive really been enjoying this years 24 Ways, the advent calendar for web developers. Its got a great collection of informative articles on web
By Tim OReilly That least-understood principle from my original Web 2.0 manifesto, Data is the Intel Inside, is finally coming out of the closet. A post on the Google Operating System Blog entitled Google is Really About Large Amounts of
By Nat Torkington Software above the level of a single device is Tims phrase for software that you interact with across multiple devices. The iTunes Music Store was the classic instance of that: a store on the servers, an organization
By Marc Hedlund Earlier this year, I posted about Dopplr, saying it was the coolest app I saw at ETech, by far. This morning at LeWeb in Paris, Dopplr launched, so anyone can sign up for it now. Check it
By Brady Forrest The Seattle Start-up index tracks the traffic ups and of local startups and sites. There are 231 companies in the Index. To belong the
By Jesse Robbins Im happy to announce that Ive joined Etelos as its Director of Infrastructure. Etelos is refreshingly supportive of my participation here and in Velocity, which is
Ever wonder how a big web site like the New York Times moderates comments? Look no further. Marci Alboher, one of the papers bloggers, explains her responsibility in the process and points to the Times official policy on the matter.In
Despite all of its recent up-time troubles, Twitters growth has been on a tear lately. According to Google Ad Planner data, time spent is off the charts at a staggering 550 seconds per user in the US and 560 seconds
As a relatively high-profile blogger, I get to see things that others in PR, even those who blog, dont experience. One of those is my Gmail inbox. Its my barometer for how the public relations is adapting in this era
The New York Times recently made a small, but important change to stories they post on their web site. If the story ran in print, at the bottom they include a tiny footnote that says where it ran and when.
Amazon.coms Wish List feature has been around a long time - over 10 years in fact. However, recently the e-commerce site expanded it with a new feature called The Universal Wish List. Using a simple bookmarklet (drag
Its hard to remember, but there was a time back in the 1950s and 60s when cigarettes were truly glamorous. No one really considered the potential health ramifications. The images below of James Dean and Frank Sinatra are iconic representations
Google News has started to separate blogs and news links, according to the Google Operating System...When you view a cluster in Google News, theres a new option to filter sources: you can restrict news articles to blogs and to local
A few weeks ago I wrote about the perfect storm facing print media. Robert Scoble started a similar thread on Friendfeed over the weekend. This week in my AdAge column I look at the same trends, but this time through
Marketing Age magazine, which is published in Ireland, ran a profile of me in their July/August issue where I talk about my role within Edelman Digital, how I use RSS to keep in the know and trends in social networking
A few weeks ago I wrote about the perfect storm facing print media. Robert Scoble started a similar thread on Friendfeed over the weekend. This week in my AdAge column I look at the same trends, but this time through
Marketing Age magazine, which is published in Ireland, ran a profile of me in their July/August issue where I talk about my role within Edelman Digital, how I use RSS to keep in the know and trends in social networking
Its hard to remember, but there was a time back in the 1950s and 60s when cigarettes were truly glamorous. No one really considered the potential health ramifications. The images below are iconic representations of an era that is now
Google News has started to separate blogs and news links, according to the Google Operating System...When you view a cluster in Google News, theres a new option to filter sources: you can restrict news articles to blogs and to local
Photo Credit: Kaia Gets Caught! by marcus_in_nyKaia, the cat in the photo above (no, shes not mine), is symbolic. If she looks like an LOLcat thats my intention. Kaia represents consumer social networks and
Radio is Dead by super-structure The following is also my column in Advertising Age next week.All the talk about one medium replacing another, to date, has largely been just that - talk. Over time new formats tend to
Photo Credit: Kaia Gets Caught! by marcus_in_nyKaia, the cat in the photo above (no, shes not mine), is symbolic. If she looks like an LOLcat thats my intention. Kaia represents consumer social networks and
Radio is Dead by super-structure The following is also my column in Advertising Age next week.All the talk about one medium replacing another, to date, has largely been just that - talk. Over time new formats tend to
Google yesterday added a significant feature to Google Trends. You can now enter in URLs and get back rather rich site traffic data. Barry Schwartz has a great rundown. I will have more to say about this shortly as I
Study: Having 6,141 friends you dont know may be beneficialStudents using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st-century skills we want them to develop to be successful today,(tags: SocialNetworking culture teens research Stats)Were connecting - and wasting
DipityDipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive timelines about the people and things you care about.(tags: timeline tools)The Microfame Game and the New Rules of Internet Celebrity -- New York MagazineThere???s a new class of celebrity powered
TravelMob is a new startup doing for group travel what Evite does for group events. TravelMob CEO Adam Smith notes that the service includes customized trip homepage, the ability to invite people and manage
Last week I booked my first doctor appointment using the ZocDoc service. Yesterday the company announced their first round of funding. And today I actually went to the doctor so I thought
Glogster has announced a few service updates today. Glogster is like blogging but its glogging. No seriously. Basically you create "posters" using a Flash application by combining pre-made and user-generated content. Josh
Lotame has announced that they have raised $13 million in a Series B round of funding. Emergence Capital Partners, led the round with support from previous investors Battery Ventures and Hillcrest Management.
NewsCred is a new cross-web newspaper site launching today in beta. What makes NewsCred different from the other "breaking news" sites like Digg, Slashdot, Techmeme, etc. is that NewsCred uses a credibility
BienSimple is a new Spanish-language wiki produced by Fox and their Fox International division. BienSimple combines editor produced content with a open wiki format to allow site visitors to contribute as well.
Editors note: This news was embargoed for Tuesday morning but the embargo was busted this afternoon so per our embargo policy, we will post now.NY-based Appointment planning and physician review service ZocDoc has
Open source social networking platform Elgg has announced the release of their 1.0 version today. This version has been a few years in the making. The Elgg team has put together a
Over the past two weeks Ive had over 50 companies ask me for advice on launching their startups. Many of them have come to me with a launch date in early
As the online financial management space continues to heat up, two of the major players have announced redesigns of their financial management portals. Boston-based Geezeo was first up launching their redesign last month. Today Mint has announced their redesign which
Editors Note: This news was embargoed for 8am today. Another blog busted the embargo posting 7 hours ago, so per our embargo policy, we will post the news now. NY-based white label social networking provider KickApps has
ClickZ has announced that their editorial team will be moving today to a new office downtown at 120 Broadway. The company notes that various teams will be centralized including the law.com team.Search
As some of you know, I have a Samsung ACE mobile device which runs on the super fast EVDO from Sprint. Before I continue, let me just say how sorry I am
I am very excited to announce that CenterNetworks has a new look and a completely overhauled backend setup. Weve been testing the new setup over the past week and so far its
Just two weeks after our interview with Pandora founder Tim Westergren, he sat down with the Washington Post today for a very serious discussion about the future of Pandora and
On the NY Tech mailing list this week there has been a good discussion about the launch of a mobile commerce site by clothing manufacturer Polo Ralph Lauren. Dianne from mocoNews
Here are the Web tech events in NYC for the week of August 17th. Please submit other events to add to the list below. Check out Alley Reporter and NYTechEvents for more events as well. MondayEnd of Summer Mixer -
A year ago we interviewed MeeMix CEO Gilad Shlang to learn more about his personalized music service. Weve just learned that MeeMix plans to launch a Facebook application early next
CenterNetworks will be heading West from September 7-14th and will spend the majority of the time in San Francisco.I thought it would be exciting to hold the 2nd annual
Beams SMS report can be useful to keep on top of your accounts and to spot fraud.Intuit has just launched a useful but limited little financial tracking utility for your mobile phone: Quicken
Microsoft Office Labs has launched a new product called E-mail Prioritizer that will not only sort through your in box to figure out whats important, but also give you an honest-to-goodness pause button
One of the things that impressed me most during my interview with Mint CEO Aaron Patzer was his focus on iterative development and rigorously testing new features before they are rolled out. As
Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly in his 2004 Halloween costume.(Credit: Blog Southwest)A few years ago, it was trendy and transparent for CEOs to have their own blogs. But typically it didnt go this
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Microsoft believes its found a way to gain an edge against Googles dominant search engine: a deeper understanding of what people are searching for and whats on Web pages.Specifically, the company believes examining a full sequence of user
Have you noticed the ever-growing number of Google-owned sites that have crept into the search giants results? Doing a Google search for Diet Coke and Mentos will take you to a results page
Facebook has simply gotten too big for downtown Palo Alto, where it has been headquartered since founder Mark Zuckerberg uprooted the company from dorm rooms at Harvard. With over 600 employees now on
Social site Buzznet, whose CEO makes it clear that hes hoping to compete with the likes of MySpace and MTV on the pop-culture front, has nabbed a new executive from TMZ.com. Alan Citron,
Lotame, a targeted-ad start-up that focuses on social sites, announced Tuesday that it has raised $13 million in a Series B venture round. The lead investor is Emergence Capital Partners, and existing investors
For the most part, the only person you can socialize with on a handheld GPS navigator is the chick who tells you to turn left after 100 yards.Garmin wants to change that. The
Yahoos Digg-a-like Buzz is opening up to the world tonight. Until now, while anyone could see stories that had been Buzzed and vote them up or down, only about 400 publishers could contribute
If you liked Ping.fm youve got to check out Pixelpipe. Its a service thats been designed for lazy (yet ambitious) folks who want to send photos, videos, and audio clips to multiple services
Free music mixtape service Muxtape has temporarily been shut down due to pressure from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Theres not much more information about downtime besides a small note on
Glam Media has continued its international expansion, appointing former DoubleClick and Excite executive Yukihiro Yamamura as CEO of its Glam Japan division. Glam Japan hasnt actually launched yet, but is slated to go
Khosla Ventures, the venture capital firm launched in 2004 by Sun Microsystems founder Vinod Khosla, has led a $3 million Series A round for ZocDoc, a service for locating and booking doctors appointments online.
(Credit: Zoho)Sridhar Vembu, CEO of AdventNet, is not afraid of the going up against Microsoft Office or Google Apps. He is also the CEO of Zoho, which recently announced that it had achieved
I may get fired for saying this, but I miss the convenience, focus, and robustness of desktop apps. Sometimes I just want the clarity of a dedicated app--or the isolation; all too often when Im in a browser, a rogue
Google, ever eager to make some money off YouTube, is testing ads for the mobile version of the video service.You may have noticed that we started running a test of display ads on
Over the weekend I played with a very cool tool from video host GameVee. Its called Grab, and it will pull saved videos from the console hit Halo 3 and deliver them to the cloud where they can be replayed
The online personal finance service Mint is getting a fresh coat of paint today. Its a good update, led by a former designer of Apple.com. Ive been a fan and occasional user of
A Twitter mashup that will help you get your questions answered quickly; think Yahoo! Answers meets Twitter. Simply pose a question to the Twitterverse by posting a Twitter update with the following format: @ToAsk Are there any good pizza joints
Today is the launch of Blog Action Day 2008. If youre a blogger, you can register at the site. Blog Action Day itself is on October 15th and on that day we ask bloggers everywhere to publish a post on
An online language learning site with free instructional exercises, user-generated tips and flashcards, and a social community of native speakers who help one another to learn a new language.
An idea management and collaboration tool that allows you and your group to submit, collaborate and vote on ideas, comment on ideas, view ideas by popularity, invite users to join the discussion.
A hosted ticketing system thatll help any office or company never lose an email again. The system stores all your emails in one place, where you can share with colleagues, or work teams. Allows users to assign priorities, tag and
Mashes up Pandora, Last.fm, Seeqpod, and Slinkset. Just enter your Pandora or Last.fm info and Favtape instantly makes a mixtape from your bookmarked songs. With Favtape you can add any song to a mixtape just by clicking bookmark on Pandora
Find great music in your area. Provides a way to purchase the cheapest tickets for those events and can be linked into your iTunes and Last.fm favorites and recommendations. You can also receive email reminders and browse for tickets by
A feedback tool for presentations, conferences or workshops. It enables users to collect feedback (polls and messages) from their audience via mobile phone. Responses aredisplayed on a screen or monitor in real-time. This service is free/ad-supported.
A feed service provider that will help you to deal with information overload in a better way by offering new types of Feeds (Private, Community, Reminder, and RSS) with some unique features.
Start is a one-day conference in San Francisco designed for smart, talented Web people to take hold of their ideas, follow their dreams, and start their own companies.
Brightkite is a location-based social network that enables people to take their online profiles with them into the real world and make real-world friends.
A video platform that can integrate into an existing infrastructure, or be used as a stand-alone product. FiV aims to present content in an intuitive way that engages users, maximizing time spent on your site. Can be customized to achieve
Allows friends and family to record and share short video updates about what they are doing or where they are. You can use a webcam or a cellphone. Its a FREE, easy, and fun way to stay in touch. Currently
A social news reader in the form of an AIR app that isnt just about reading your news feeds on one place; its also about sharing your news in one place. With built-in AIM and Twitter support, all you have
poukkerPoukker is the way to keep you connected to the world of poker for all these small things which you would never post in any forum or blog it is as simple as to respond to this
shwupWith shwup, you can create a private online album for each event you want to share and choose to invite the people you want to share your photos or videos with. This is what we call some-to-some
Agglom(beta 3.1)Save and publish your current browser session on the web. Share the results of your web research as a multimedia web page, as a feed or as a URL slideshow. BlogAgglom : Easily Publish and Share
WeddzillaWeddzila.com is a unique new website does the dirty work of planning a wedding for you. Brides can relax knowing that Weddzilla.com will do the tedious job of finding the perfect vendors for your weddingBlog
Tatango(currently in private beta, and will be launching into public beta as of September 1st.) Connect with your group anytime, anywhere through text messaging.Blog
bedpost(email waitinglist)Simply log in after every time you have sex and fill out a few simple fields. Before long, you’ll have a rolling history of your sex life on which to reflect.
StartPREvery day hundreds of millions of people around the world are engaging in blogs, social networks, videos, photo sharing, and more. StartPR enables you to follow the conversations about your products and make sure you aren’t missing
SharaMeme(email waitinglist)ShareMeme allows you to easily communicate with your friends on their terms. Gather your friends’ contact info on one siteBlogShareMeme.com – Organize Your Friends’ Info
Last month we welcomed the new NPR API from National Public Radio (NPR), an internationally acclaimed media production and distribution non-profit best known for a wide array of non-commercial radio programs. Now they want your
UMap, provided by AFComponents, is a Flash ActionScript mapping API that allows developers to create custom map mashups with interactive data layers. Umap includes a variety of features including support for Flash/Flex versions, custom map
AOL and TopCoder have announced the winners of the Truveo Developer Challenge. As I described in May, the contestants applied AOLs Truveo Video Search API to develop a cool widget, gadget, mashup or web application. The
Last month Yahoo! announced BOSS, its Build Your Own Search Service, which allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search.
After much anticipation since its private beta release in March, Yahoo! has made Fire Eagle publicly available. Fire Eagle is an open geo-location platform that allows users to broadcast their geographic location to the Web
Last month reported on how the UK government has established the Power of Information Task Force to lead a massive data sharing effort aimed at fostering social and economic progress by enabling widespread access to
Map mashups continue to be extremely popular, as evidenced by the high percentage of mapping APIs in our API Directory and map mashups in our Mashup Directory. Whether youre just getting started with map mashups,
Dipity is an innovative web service that lets users create interactive multimedia timelines for anything from breaking news to Internet Memes. But the real action is behind the scenes with their extensive web service, which
The world of video APIs continues its impressive surge, with 40 APIS now listed on ProgrammableWeb, up from the 30 video APIs profiled in February and more than double the 19 video APIs from last fall.
Yesterday at the Yahoo! Developer Network Blog Jim Bumgardner, a front-end engineer and Yahoo! Music Nerd, announced the release of the Yahoo! Music API.
Swivel, along with its cousin IBM Researchs Many Eyes, is helping make sharing, visualizing, and discussing data on the web fun and addictive. How? Take, for example, the following Swivel-hosted graph, which shows the
SoundCloud is an online audio platform that enables people to send, receive, play, and distribute music, and also engage in conversation about the music. They now have an innovative open API.
At ProgrammableWeb we have been monitoring the emergence of mashups and APIs since 2005, and while there has always been steady growth, this year has seen an accelerating acceptance of APIs as a business strategy. The
WeatherBug announced the winners of its recent WeatherBug API Excellence Contest. As we reported last month, prizes were offered for applications developed on different WeatherBug API platforms (PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, etc.).
Back in May we reported on a deal struck between Sony and Google to integrate the YouTube API into the PlayStation 3, allowing game developers to let players record videos during gameplay and upload them
Earlier this year Google released its AJAX Libraries API as a content distribution network and loading architecture for some of the more popular open source JavaScript frameworks (our Ajax Libraries API Profile).
PostalMethods is a service that frees businesses from needing their own staff to mail out invoices, confirmations, and other messages via printed postal mail. The service is available using standard email software, but PostalMethods also offers
Freelancers can use the FreeAgent money management tool for a variety of tasks, including project management, time tracking, and invoicing. Earlier this year the UK-based company released an API (in beta) that allows developers to
Folks interested in open knowledge should check out CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network) CKAN is the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed
Tractis, which recently came out of private beta, allows you to negotiate and execute worldwide legally binding contracts online. Tractis’ focus is making e-commerce more safe by providing not only digital signing of contracts, but conflict resolution and micro-insurance services.
Diagrams play a very important role in planning and communicating a site’s architecture. They help you visualize a project before developing and piecing things together, leading to smarter design decisions. Unfortunately, for a client, Information Architecture and diagrams can be
Still tracking your car mileage with spreadsheets and scrambling to gather old gas receipts? Try MyMileMarker, a new service by Sidebar Creative that allows you to track and analyze your car mileage online through a browser or mobile phone. It’s
Released awhile ago, SnapPages is a flash powered interface that allows you to share your hobbies/interests, organize schedules, and socialize with friends. They have three applications currently, including: Friend’s Manager, Calendar Manager, and Photo Manager. Each one of these applications
Kevin Rose’s new company, Megatechtronium, launched Pownce yesterday. It was rumored to be a new instant messaging client, but I’m not too sure if that’s a good term for it. I see it more as a combination of Twitter and
L8r is a new service that lets users create an email and have it delivered at a specific time in the future. It’s similar to the popular site FutureMe where anyone can write a simple letter to themselves or a
&OpenTeams offers an interesting service that wants to reinvent the wiki. It’s designed to strengthen team collaboration and innovation while working on group projects, or as OpenTeams puts it, “initiatives”. Its interface is organized much like an email client so
BudgetPulse is a new financial management service in closed beta that aims to simplify the way you manage your money and track budgets. It allows you to manage multiple accounts and track income, expenses, assets, bills, and more. Additionally, BudgetPulse
Looking for a writeboard on steroids? Coventi is that candidate. Coventi is a writing application for the web that offers a wide variety of the features people have come to know and love. Coventi’s main focus is on group collaboration
If you’re a fan of 37signal’s Basecamp, you’ll probably like Cashboard, a new application designed to help service-oriented businesses manage estimates, invoices, timesheets and payments. It’s like a combination of SlimTimer for time tracking and Blinksale for invoicing mixed with
Can’t get enough social networks? I know I, um can’t. Anyways, here we go. MyQuire, it’s a network where you can handle a lot of different things including tasks, scheduling, projects, even photos. Of course you’ll also immediately find the
So, Tim says this is “fan-task-tic”. HiTask is a new task management solution that aims to make managing tasks easier and more fun for teams. We all know task management is a very crowded space, but HiTask has some great
First off, I apologize for the title - I couldn’t resist. (If you don’t know what the title is talking about, see this video). I am a web developer, as many of you may know. I use software on my
Social networks are sprouting across the internet faster than you can shake a stick at, however a social network for 3D artists is quite the rare find. Teapotters is that rare discovery. It’s your standard run of the mill community,
Everyone at some point in their life has an opportunity to have a space they can call their own; whether it’s a bedroom, home office, or a closet. Curbly is a web community that lets you show off, learn, and
Looking for an easy way to boost your productivity? Then turn on your instant messenger and head on over to IMified, a new service that enables users to access services like Basecamp, Google Calendar, and Remember the Milk from an
Okay, so you don’t have the time to sit down at your computer, reading what seems to be never-ending pages of reference and tutorials books to simply figure out and understand how to use all those tedious photo editing programs.
Last year I had selected the task management solution Orchestrate as a top pick in 25 To Do Lists to Stay Productive. Now Tokyo based startup Jonkenpon, creator of Orchestrate, has launched a service called 8apps which aims to be
Diagrams on paper are cool, but diagrams on the internet are cooler. This is where Bubbl.us comes into play. Bubbl.us is a mind-mapping product aimed towards literally anyone who needs help organizing their thoughts or any untidy information. Powered by
Footnote is an impressive resource which launched last week that allows users to access and annotate millions of historical documents online for the first time. Interested in the Civil War or perhaps the Bureau of Investigation? Just look it up
Today at WordCamp, a User and Developer 1-day conference for the WordPress blogging platform, Founder Matt Mullenweg announced impressive growth figures and reaffirmed Automattics focus on fixing...
The vast majority of entrepreneurs Ive spoken with whove been funded by seed stage VC/incubator Y Combinator are happy that they took the investment. And the ones that applied but werent selected...
It should have been an ideal time for Convio to go public: The startup, whose online service helps non-profits raise cash and communicate with donors, is not only part of the buzzy...
How do website readers prefer to share stories they find with friends? According to the company behind the widely used sharing widget ShareThis, after emailing a link, the most popular method of...
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