Its been another harsh day in the CES trenches, and as usual the CrunchGear team has put out a veritable cornucopia of content. Today was particularly notable for interviews: we got Mark Cuban and Bud Mayo, Dr.
Tonights Crunchies award ceremony in San Francisco is now totally sold out. Were sorry if you didnt get a chance to grab a ticket, but youll still be able to watch the show streamed live via Ustream
Theres not a lot of information to be found about YourNight.com, a currently invite-only portal thats slated for launch this quarter, but the information weve received about its parent company Extreme Enterprises raising a relatively small
Peter and Greg got a chance to sit down with Dr. Dre on the first night of CES. We asked him when his next album would drop, what he though of DRM, and if he could help us
Storyblender, the casual animation site that launched at TechCrunch40 that lets you put together customized goofy video clips, has just opened up a fun new side project called Make Me Talk. The new web app lets you
From the developer who brought us twtpoll, Felipe Coimbra, now there is twtvite, an easy way to use Twitter or Facebook to create a micro-invite for your friends and followers. You create an invite on the twtvite site,
Portland-based AboutUs has secured a $2.5 million Series B round of financing from Voyager Capital with the VC firms managing director Erik Benson joining its board, reports TechFlash. The company operates a wiki for information primarily
Although Google keeps gaining search engine market share, peoples loyalties are far from locked in. J.P. Morgan Internet analyst Imran Khan recently conducted a survey to see if Web consumers would be willing to switch search engines. He
Generally when a site changes its favicon (the tiny image that typically appears next to your URL in the browser) nobody really notices or cares. Unless youre Google.Back in June the company unveiled a brand new stylized g icon with
Corkin is a new web service that combines classifieds listings with a set of social tools that the company says differentiates it from juggernauts such as Craigslist and eBays Kijiji. Like corkboards youd find outside of
We had a chance to chat with billionaire entrepreneur, Mark Cuban, and CEO of Cinedigm, Bud Mayo, about their work together to bring live 3D entertainment into movie theaters across the country. The technology promises to be a
Tapulous CEO Bart Decrem sent out an email to investors yesterday updating them on the status of the iPhone/Android focused company. It was forwarded to us, and we reprint it below.The company makes the popular
New site Tweetvisor, created by Nelu Lazar, offers users an alternate interface to view and interact with Twitter that some users will really like. (unlike Tweetree, for example, which I think lacks unique and compelling
Weve been getting quite a few tips about this, and German media outlets are picking up the story like crazy, so here goes: if you were ever in the market for a German blog, now
Last month meebo, the web-based chat startup that supports nearly every IM protocol, announced that it had added support for both MySpace and Facebook Chat. Meebos post on the new features was a little strange - while
MySpace, like YouTube, is holding a contest to send one MySpace user to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland later this month. MySpace has teamed with the Wall Street Journal on the contest, which
LogRhythm just joined the Payment Card Industry Security Council (PCI) with the goal of making log info more secure.While the PCI group is focused on payment security--it was founded by American Express,
Trustys is a new local search engine/review database for blue collar service workers, aiming to help small businesses establish reputations while giving consumers an easy way to find the services theyre looking for. While there are a
Hungry for some Slacker streaming radio on your iPhone? The BlackBerry app just became available earlier today, and it looks like theyre already prepped to go live on Apples finest. We ran into a Slacker rep tonight
CrunchGears Doug Aamoth is competing in tonights Comp USA/Tiger Charity PC Race at CES. Watch the whole thing live as he beats 29 other competitors in this heart pounding race to be King of CES (or
There’s little doubt that Twitter was one of the most talked about startups over the past year. But just how much did it grow in 2008? The final numbers are in, and according to Compete, they’re astounding: 752%, for a
One intriguing prediction made by several pundits for 2009 is that the worldwide distribution for phones running Google’s Android mobile operating system could actually surpass that of iPhone. That hypothesis may be getting a considerable boost, as a handset is
MeetingWave is an interesting new twist on the MeetUp concept. As opposed to organizing group events, the idea is to specify who you’d like to meet, post an invite, and accept or reject requests to attend. For example, let’s say
Burger King has introduced a new Facebook application that is getting lots of attention – “Whopper Sacrifice.” The concept is essentially this: delete 10 of your Facebook friends and get a free Whopper. Each time you remove someone, that action
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Whitney Hess is an independent user experience designer, writer and consultant based in New York City. She authors the blog Pleasure and Pain.When I tell people that I am a user experience designer, I usually get a blank stare. I
Multitasking.I’ve been reading coverage of Palm’s new device, Pre, which is being presented at CES this morning, trying to figure out whether this thing can be a real iPhone competitor (or killer). Because, you know, it’s not about the hardware
Ever tried out Facebook Lexicon? It’s a nifty tool that looks for occurrences of certain terms on Facebook users’ walls and creates a graph that shows how often is the term mentioned over time. The Lexicon has been around for
In a post earlier this week, we mentioned the concept of “Tweetbacks” – essentially the idea of showing Twitter activity relating to blog posts in the same way that comments are displayed on most blogs today. Much to our delight,
Brian Wallace is a social media consultant. He authors a blog at nowsourcing.com/blog.With the economy showing no signs of bouncing back in 2009, consumers will inevitably be searching for channels of escapism, means to momentarily forget their everyday woes, financial
I’m not at MacWorld or CES, but there have been enough tweets about the event that it almost feels like I’m there. Trendrr has done some analysis of the buzz surrounding the events using its graphing tools, displaying how many
MySpace, Yahoo, and Intel have unveiled a joint plan on CES to offer consumers a way to use their favorite social network directly on the TV. Imagine a tiny application that shows up on TVs and other devices equipped with
Most people think of Google Maps in terms of finding a place or business, or getting directions from one point to another. Others use the satellite images and terrain mapping features. But there are tons of other uses out there
For those hoping to attend Barack Obama’s inauguration in Washington DC on January 20th, hotel rooms have long been sold out. But Air Bed & Breakfast, which lets individuals rent out their house, a room, or even just a couch,
Fair use laws, which, among other things, allow for people to take clips from broadcast TV and add their own commentary, have been an important part of the development of the political blogopshere. Alas, Fox News doesn’t find it amusing,
FlyCast is a nifty little iPhone application that lets you stream over 1200 radio channels, with a little twist: it can preload music while you have an internet connection and then play it even while you’re offline. Today at CES
Nine Inch Nails are probably one of the most important music groups in the world, currently, simply because they’re paving a new way of treating their fans and understanding how the internet works and how it can be used to
Dana Oshiro is an irreverent writer with a love of mahjong, the internets & niu ro mien. She authors a blog at hiyaablog.com.Anyone with a smartphone can scan and read QR codes with the click of a camera, and anyone
Just 18 months ago, WallStrip represented the ideals of all that was possible in new media. A small startup producing a daily online video show and leveraging social media for distribution was sold to CBS for a rumored $5 million,
Mashable’s job boards are currently open for business and we at Mashable firmly believe that one of the lucky recipients of a new job can be you. This week and every week, Mashable will be featuring its coveted job board
Lets say youre a butcher, a baker or a candlestick maker. You want to get up to speed on the social media activity in your market, as fast as you can. Or perhaps you
Last night at the offices of blogging software company Six Apart, engineers and social media specialists from a number of companies large and small met to discuss proposed standards for the future of activity
AboutUs, the wiki thats working to capture detailed information about every site on the Web, has secured $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Voyager Capital with a $2.5 million
When Steve Ballmer announced that the first public beta of Windows 7 would be available today, it was already clear that there would be a tremendous demand for the next version of Windows. The last we
Amazon today announced its new web-based AWS Management Console, which makes it very easy for users of Amazon EC2 cloud computing service to set up and manage their servers. As cloud computing companies are starting to
Forrester released a report today about the community platforms market. They evaluated nine vendors, concluding that Jive Software and Telligent Systems "lead the pack because of their strong administrative and platform features." KickApps and Pluck were also
Today, searching through social media sites is much like the days of searching the Web before the advent of Google. Many of us are performing a series of loosely associated searches, and then aggregating
Web 2.0 is pretty cool - so cool in fact that its got its own buzzwords and lingo that not everybody knows. Everybody has a lot to gain from participation in this new cultural phenomenon,
The Google Chrome team keeps releasing updates to Googles browser on an almost weekly basis, but it is interesting that the latest version in the developer channel is now already being called 2.0. This comes just
This weeks RWW Live podcast show was on the topic of how startups can navigate through the choppy waters of the current economy. Weve already posted today on a two year old life-story repository startup called Dandelife,
In March 2003, Rich Kaarlgaard wrote a great article in Forbes detailing how the coming decade was all about massive reductions in costs and prices, driven by technology. We had grown accustomed to Moores Law
Like every other innovative industry before it, Web 2.0, too, has developed its own language. Our friends over at the Royal Pingdom blog took a close look at the buzzwords around Web 2.0 today and found
Two year old life-story repository Dandelife seemed to have everything going for it. It launched to praise from some of the biggest tech blogs on the web, it built a wildly loyal user base and
Microsoft today released Microsoft Tag, its own barcode technology for mobile phones. For this, Microsoft developed its own High Capacity Color Barcodes which can store a lot more information than the QRCode or Datamatrix barcodes we
Like to sing in the shower or in the car? Want to subject others to your incoherent warblings as if they were a real song? Microsoft Songsmith may be for you. And if youre
Just about everyone has been exposed to the concept of flashcards. Whether trying to study for a geography quiz or learning a foreign language, the method of using Q&A cards to train your brain
The latest data from AdMob, the worlds largest mobile advertising marketplace, shows that Apple now dominates the mobile web in the U.S. with a 48% market share. This growth, interestingly enough, does not just come from
At the end of last year we presented our list of the top 10 Semantic Web Apps of 2008. ReadWriteWeb reader Zoltán Andrejkovics wrote in to us afterwards, suggesting that we do a post looking at what
If youve ever wondered how the Internet was born, but cant be bothered reading a whole book on the subject, check out this short animated documentary from Milah Bilgil. Entitled History of the internet, it does a
Phishing, the highly illegal scam of tricking people into revealing their logins and passwords by creating fake emails, Twitter messages, and/or websites, does not actually make phishers a lot of money. A new paper (PDF) by
Yesterday AMD announced that it was building a specialty supercomputer to deliver gaming through a computing cloud. Aside from the coolness of being able to play your video games on an iPhone, pause them, and pick them up at home,
In 2008, Cisco Systems, typically one of the biggest shoppers in Silicon Valley bought only four companies, down from about 14 in 2007. In 2009, that stinginess might be coming to an end. In an interview with Barron’s Eric Savitz,
Today, Amazon ( s AMZN) Web Services announced a management console that illustrates how carefully Amazon is playing its role as a platform provider. The new console competes in part with products from RightScale, Elastra (which has backing from Amazon)
Skype, which has a long standing relationship with Boingo, is making it simpler (and easier) to get access to Boingo hotspots around the world. It announced a new plan that allows Skype users to pay for Boingo Wi-Fi hotspots using
President-elect Barack Obama is asking Congress to delay the transition that will force the nation’s TV broadcasts to switch from analog to digital signals. Depending on how long the delay is, it could affect the deployment of several services destined
President-elect Barack Obama is asking Congress to delay the transition that will force the nation’s TV broadcasts to switch from analog to digital signals. Depending on how long the delay is, it could affect the deployment of several services destined
The pain the recession is currently causing for the semiconductor industry has been well documented, but it may also escalate tensions between chip equipment vendors and their customers. An ongoing debate over the need to invest in the next cycle
The pain the recession is currently causing for the semiconductor industry has been well documented, but it may also escalate tensions between chip equipment vendors and their customers. An ongoing debate over the need to invest in the next cycle
Today, after a nearly year-long delay, Palm announced WebOS, a brand-new web-centric mobile operating system, and the Palm Pre, its first WebOS-powered device. With this twin release Palm hopes to stage a comeback in the mobile business. But while most
Today, after a nearly year-long delay, Palm announced WebOS, a brand-new web-centric mobile operating system, and the Palm Pre, its first WebOS-powered device. With this twin release Palm hopes to stage a comeback in the mobile business. But while most
Congressman Edward Markey, a key proponent of net neutrality and online privacy, will leave his position on the committee that deals with telecommunications regulation to chair the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment. House watchers had
Sun Microsystems has acquired Q-Layer, a Belgium-based infrastructure management company that has technology to automate the deployment and management of both public and private clouds, for an undisclosed amount of money. This is a smart tactical move, and Q-Layer also
Verizon is following the herd with a broadband backup and sharing product for home PCs announced today. Just drag and drop your files into a folder on your PC, and Verizon will store them online for you — no matter
With the economic downturn in full swing, it’s no surprise people are staying home. And in doing so, they are watching more and more video online. At the same time, the advertising market is slumping, making it harder for online
Congressman Edward Markey, a key proponent of net neutrality and online privacy, will leave his position on the committee that deals with telecommunications regulation to chair the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment. House watchers had
Sun Microsystems has acquired Q-Layer, a Belgium-based infrastructure management company that has technology to automate the deployment and management of both public and private clouds, for an undisclosed amount of money. This is a smart tactical move, and Q-Layer also
Verizon is following the herd with a broadband backup and sharing product for home PCs announced today. Just drag and drop your files into a folder on your PC, and Verizon will store them online for you — no matter
With the economic downturn in full swing, it’s no surprise people are staying home. And in doing so, they are watching more and more video online. At the same time, the advertising market is slumping, making it harder for online
Qualcomm said today it is running Google’s Android platform on its Snapdragon chipset designed for netbooks and mobile Internet devices. This isn’t earth-shattering since Snapgragon is an ARM-based chip, and another Qualcomm ARM-based chip powers the G1 Android phone. Qualcomm
More and more people are using their iPod Touch devices to access the Internet, making it one of the fastest growing mobile Internet devices. Together, with iPod Touch and iPhone, Apple is becoming the king of the Mobile Web. At
People think entrepreneurs are risk-loving. Really what you find is successful entrepreneurs hate risk, because the founding of the enterprise is already so risky that what they do is take their early resources, the small amounts of capital that they
My first thought after looking at this DSLR collage is: Why hasn’t anyone made a white SLR? Why are all SLR’s black or dark grey? Seems like an opportunity for someone to stand out.
The financial crisis in America is really a moral crisis, caused by the series of proofs which the American public has received that the leading financiers who control banks, trust companies and industrial corporations are often imprudent, and not seldom
Gordon Segal, founder and CEO of Crate and Barrel, says lack of wisdom is the reason his store got off the ground.“We didn’t know anything about retail,” Segal recalled. “I had grown up in the restaurant business, so I knew
Sharding is a database technique where you break up a big database into many smaller ones. Instead of having 1 million customers on a single, big iron machine, you perhaps have 100,000 customers on 10 different, smaller machines.The general advise
Last week I took you through the Highrise signup chart redesign.This week I want to talk about part of the Highrise home page redesign that we’ve already redesigned. The design is alive – we’re making a lot of small tweaks
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. —Phil KarltonKarlton’s quote isn’t just for techies. Interface designers are in the business of naming things too. We’re copywriters. It matters if we call something an
Last week I set out to improve the performance of the Dashboard and Contacts tabs in Highrise. Both tabs would frequently be much too slow. Especially the Contacts tab, which for our own account some times could take upwards two
Where should we take 37signals Live? We’d like to do more live audio/video content, but what sort of topics or content or concepts would you like to see us cover in 2009?
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.—David Gelernter, Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology
Learning grammar has to be one of the most boring parts of studying language, especially studying the grammar of your native tongue. There are always exceptions of course—perhaps grammar is your cup of tea—but I’d bet it’s safe to say
Have you noticed how everything is trademarked these days? Company and product names I get, and some taglines I understand too, but some of this stuff just seems a bit much.A few days ago I picked up some new shampoo.
I’ve only known one method for approaching a Design project. There are many variations out there, but it can essentially be broken down into 4 steps: Discover, Plan, Design/Develop, and Deploy. It didn’t matter where I worked—agency or internal design
Charlie Rose interviewed Malcolm Gladwell recently. They had the following discussion on meaningful work (at 26:00 into interview).Gladwell: Meaningful work is one of the most important things we can impart to children. Meaningful work is work that is autonomous. Work
A couple weeks ago we launched the new Highrise marketing site. We’re still iterating that design post-launch, and we have a big post brewing about that design process, but today I wanted to share some of the iterations we explored
A conversation with Raven Zachary at Macworld prompted me to dig into the state of new apps on the (U.S.) iTunes App store. First, I looked into the number of new apps that become available on a weekly basis. In
Four questions, one per link: what next, can it solve a big problem, whats the final boss for Python programming, and why on earth would anyone want yogurt that glows in the dark?End Times - gloomy piece on the future
Four quickies from databases, telephone history, botnets, and disaster tech.MemCacheDB - a persistent storage engine for fast and reliable key-value based object storage and retrieval, with transactions and replication (via stinky). Joining Cassandra, Prophet, CouchDB, and many others in the
Draw closer around the flickering firescreen, and hear four tales of brains, words, medical improvement, and the sharp ache of the wisdom teeth of the future poking through the soft gum of the 21st century as diagnosed by Dr Sterling.Mind
Its nice to be back after the holidays. I just watched a series of short videos from the Wall Street Journals Digital Network. The series is called the End of Wall Street. It is a short oral history of the
Since Bernie Madoff has put Ponzi schemes back onto the front pages, its worth considering whether we are all complicit in the biggest Ponzi scheme of them all, the idea that the global economy can grow indefinitely. I grew up
Four thought-provoking links from the worlds of disaster tech, multicore, bioengineering, and 17th century French nobility.Techies: Volunteering to Save the World - article on NGO work being the new black for technology. In particular, this caught my eye: Earlier this
Regular Radar contributor Linda Stone sent this in to be posted today.What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see? The Internet, television, antibiotics, automobiles, electricity, nuclear power, space travel, and cloning - these inventions were
Regular Radar contributor Linda Stone sent this in to be posted today.What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see? The Internet, television, antibiotics, automobiles, electricity, nuclear power, space travel, and cloning - these inventions were
In this interview Mike Mathieu, founder of Frontseat.org, discusses how he is helping to build “software for civic life”. Using publicly available data and web services (many of their applications use S3 and EC2) Frontseat creates simple, highly functional tools
Laurel Ruma (@laurelatoreilly) just did a quick census of the number of OReilly employees on twitter. She came up with 74 twitter accounts out of about 300 employees worldwide, plus five people who were controlling departmental or project-based OReilly twitter
In this interview Mike Mathieu, founder of Frontseat.org, discusses how he is helping to build “software for civic life”. Using publicly available data and web services (many of their applications use S3 and EC2) Frontseat creates simple, highly functional tools
Laurel Ruma (@laurelatoreilly) just did a quick census of the number of OReilly employees on twitter. She came up with 74 twitter accounts out of about 300 employees worldwide, plus five people who were controlling departmental or project-based OReilly twitter
Im just reading a Wendell Berry essay from 2000, entitled In Distrust of Movements, reprinted on a blog with the inspired name The Irresistible Fleet of Bicycles. I was going to just tweet the link, but realized that more people
Hahlo - a very sweet-looking mobile (iPhone in the particular) optimised Twitter interface. Although, as I said, every time a Twitter API-consuming web site makes me type in my username and password, a little piece of my soul dies. Thanks
2009 marks another year when Macworld and CES are scheduled for the same week. Itll be a great week for product announcements, but itll also be a week of information overload. RSS feeds will overflow with gadget coverage. For those
What do Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com have in common, besides their extraordinary success? They are organizations that are infused with IT in such a way that it leads to a qualitative change in their entire business.I get frustrated when I
Dare I say this on OReilly Radar? I admire Bill Gates. If I had a vote for Person of the Year, Gates would get mine. Let me explain why.This year, Gates made an important and potentially difficult transition at age
I enjoyed this interview with Richard Jefferson (caution: PDF) from Com Ci??ncia No. 102, October 05, 2008. Richard runs CAMBIA, a group that fights for open innovation in biological sciences. Hes particularly cautionary about the potential for patents to greatly
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter“Settling in to watch the big showdown tonight between the Cavs and the Celtics. Great rivalry.”24 minutes ago -Comment -Like
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter“@erdoland I am friends with both Penelope and Tim so my only hope is that they can iron things out. I respect them both.”8 hours ago -Comment -Like
Steve Rubel posted a linkChimpFeedr mashes up RSS feeds into one7 hours ago -Comment -Likejesse wright, Ali R. Babaoğlan, Håkan Dahlström and Tim Chemacki liked this
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter“Ouch! Penelope Trunk rips Tim Ferriss on her blog. She held nothing back. http://bit.ly/nCiv”10 hours ago -Comment -LikeRob Diana, Bill Rice, Wayne Schulz and 4
Steve Rubel posted an entry on Micro PersuasionBuild an Annotated IM Feed Reader with Friendfeed5 hours ago -Comment -LikeRob Diana, Dominic/IRWebReport, Bill Romanos and 4 other people liked this
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter“@whatsnext Google Trends was Google Bombed earlier this week.”5 hours ago -Comment -LikeAli R. Babaoğlan liked this
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter“Google Trends is on a four hour delay. Bet its tied to this weeks incident. http://ping.fm/SWEc5”6 hours ago -Comment -Like
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter“Free white paper on consumer trends from Edelman - 9 on 9 (PDF) http://ping.fm/hHuUp”6 hours ago -Comment -Like
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter“Blagojevich impeached http://ping.fm/ukP5W”6 hours ago -Comment -LikeAli R. Babaoğlan and Nicholas Martini liked this
Steve Rubel shared an item on Google ReaderAre All These Face to Face Meetings Necessary?11 hours ago -Comment -LikePierG, Daniel J. Pritchett, Dean and 6 other people liked this
Steve Rubel shared an item on FacebookFacebook for iPhone and iPod touch updated to version 2.1 - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)47 minutes ago -Comment -Like
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I dont know about you, but Ive had enough of Twitter for a while. So I have created a NO TWITTER" zone around these parts through next week.I dont care if
NY-based CoTweet provides an application that allows multiple people to access one Twitter account. The idea is that this works best with "brand" Twitter accounts not for individual users. They describe the
Earlier this week we reported that wireless digital memory card maker Eye-Fi launched an iPhone photo upload application. Today Eye-Fi is announcing that they are close to launching a way
The founder of the Shorty Awards explained that the awards are similar to the emmy and oscar awards but for Twitter messages. Get this - Twitter is such a great medium
Late last year there was a lot of talk and bitchmemes (fake and real) about measuring "influence" for a Twitter account. A new startup believes they have the answer for actually measuring
NY-based Botanicalls offers a service that lets your house plants talk to you. Basically your plants can tell you when they need water, sun, food, etc. The service explores the relationship between
The popular German blog Basic Thinking will be put up for auction on eBay over the coming week. You can read the translated version of the blog post here. Basic Thinking
I really feel for the Twitter team these last few weeks. Its one problem after another. Last weekend it was the Twply marketing messaging, then the phishing scam, then we moved to
This morning I met with TechStars Co-Founder David Cohen in Manhattan. David is in town for some meetings and also for a welcome session this evening for startups interested in TechStars. TechStars
NY-based online video hoster blip.tv has announced a new partnership today with ActiveVideo Networks. The partnership will bring blip.tv content to the TV via the ActiveVideo Distribution Network. Financial terms of
Before the holidays I was asked to be on a podcast with Kipp and Wayne of Talk Social News. Kipp and Wayne are located in North Carolina and its interesting
Just a quick update for some upcoming happenings around these parts. Tomorrow morning I will be interviewing David Cohen from TechStars. Later in the week I will sit down with Darren Herman of the newly launched HermanFund.Tomorrow is also the
We reported this past weekend about the Twitter phishing scam that was hitting the circuit hard. This morning we received reports via Tamar Weinberg and Ron Hekier on Twitter of what appears to be
Not only are most of the hottest Web 2.0 startups unprofitable, quite a few lack viable revenue models altogether. This has led cynics like me to criticize these startups quite harshly over the past several years.Twitter, for instance, is the
Beet.tv sat down with NY-based For Your Imagination CEO Paul Kontonis this week to discuss their plans for 2009 and about the state of online video advertising and sponsorships. For
Weve covered a number of event planning tools on CN including Zipiko, MyPunchbowl, Evite, and Coordinatr. Tonight I came across a new event planning tool that might be one of the easiest
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Reviews site Yelp has announced the launch of a local site for UK residents today. The company notes that over 100,000 visitors from the UK visit Yelp monthly. It will be
(Credit: Slacker)This week at CES, Slacker made good on its word and released a version of its mobile, streaming, Internet Radio app for BlackBerry. Slacker Radio for BlackBerry, a free over-the-air
The debate over whether you should follow everyone who follows you on Twitter has raged on ever since the popular micro-blogging service gained traction. Some say following everyone eliminates the real value Twitter
Lock company Schlage is launching Schlage Link, a suite of products to allow over-the-Web control of a homes locks, lights, thermostats. It also integrates with Webcams. Use your mobile phone as a key.(Credit:
In an effort to make Google Reader more approachable, Google has put out a series of help videos that show people how to use it. There are only two clips to start out
Russian-language Firefox users will see a new default search provider soon: Google rival Yandex.Mozilla currently has Google set to be the default search engine in Russian Firefox, but concluded Yandex was the better choice, according to a blog post by
Showing signs that its working to meet requests for new developments to its Chrome browser, Google on Friday said it hopes to release versions for Mac OS X and Linux by the first half of the year, and it released
Video aggregator Veoh has released into beta a new browser plug-in that inserts video results into search pages from Google, Yahoo, YouTube, MSN Live, and Ask.com. Results show up in a strip on top of your results. Unfortunately, theres no
A Turkish court has sentenced Maksym Yastremski, the alleged Maksik hacker, to 30 years in prison for attacks he allegedly perpetrated on Turkish banks, according to reports. Authorities believe Yastremski is also the
Googles Chrome development team has offered a status update of its work on the companys young open-source browser.The most significant changes, according to a Chromium Development Documentation posting on Thursday, include the
Breaking expectation, Day 1 of CES was not dull. Palm stole the show with a new and important product. And last night, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made an interesting announcement about Windows. Here are the Webware-related CES highlights from the
Facebook has instructed Meebo to temporarily take down its newly implemented Facebook Chat integration. According to Meebo, Facebook would like them to, ...connect to their network in a different way. Facebook has committed
The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is one of those exclusive, highbrow affairs with a guest list tighter than your belt after a pie-eating contest. But social network MySpace is leveling out
(Credit: Hoover's)If knowledge is power, then salespeople in the field and roving business execs can now wield their share of it thanks to two new mobile apps. Hoovers Mobile
Are My Sites Up is a free service that monitors Web sites to see if everything is up and running. You simply plug in the URLs of whatever sites you want to keep an eye on (they dont even have
I spend a considerable amount of time perusing financial sites for data that impacts a respective companys financial statements. Because of that, Ive developed a liking for certain sites, and a severe distaste for others that have no business providing
Apples Macworld announcement about professional and celebrity music instruction as part of Garageband 09 may have been impressive, but what might be a little more eye catching (and ultimately useful) is iPerform3D. This
(Credit: 3DVU)For the hopelessly turned around, 3DVU announced Way2Go at CES this week, a mobile app and online mapping service that will let you put personalized 3D routes on your
Box.net has made two new interesting hires. On Thursday the Web storage provider announced the addition of Jen Grant as the new VP of Marketing, and David Lee who will be taking up
Nine Inch Nails band leader Trent Reznor announced in a blog post on the bands official page Wednesday that a subversive group contacted him recently with 400GB of HD footage from three of
(Credit: INQ Mobile)The idea of a social networking phone seems redundant at first--dont all phones have an ability to connect to a social network of some kind? But INQ Mobile, a company
A web-based job applicant tracking system. Choosy makes it easy to collect all applicants in one central location and to collaborate as a team on who is the best hire.
A personal tool for creating a database of lists, such as: things to remember, to-dos, wishlists, references, likes/dislikes, autobio lists, photo lists, and so on. You can also try the list topic generator.
A guide by AirBedandBreakfast for people who want to go to the US Presidential Inauguration but dont have tickets. So far, over 500 Washington DC locals have added their rooms. Guests can book a room online securely using their credit
Kakuteru is an experimental lifestreaming service that promotes up your online activity. Kakuteru enhances your FriendFeed activity and throws some extra spices in the mix.
A music discovery engine that delivers a fresh and accurate system that introduces you to more of the music youll enjoy based on your individual musical tastes. The team behind the app includes some of the original minds behind the
Create your own animated feature using only Flash and typing skills. Select from a range of characters, drag direction icons into your script, and type in your dialog. You can even select different accents for your characters. Currently in beta.
A music discovery engine that delivers a fresh and accurate system that introduces you to more of the music youll enjoy based on your individual musical tastes. The team behind the app includes some of the original minds behind the
An open media site unedited by humans where people can report on news from anywhere in the world. Submit news items through the website, or via cellphone, and allvoices will organize submissions, which can range from blog posts to videos,
A network of online record labels and blogs offering completely free music and multimedia content from emerging and established artists. Youre welcome to download and enjoy music posted to the site, provided that its used for personal, non-commercial use. You
A mashup chat application integrated with Facebook and Ning. It allows anyone (without coding knowledge) to create a Meebo or Userplane chat room. In three easy steps, anyone with basic internet skills can choose build their own chat room, which
A web app that helps people (students, actors, or anyone else) memorize things (schoolwork, lines in a play, etc.) using flashcards. Users create a blank set of flashcards, then name the set, and start adding cards to the set. Once
A travel website that suggests vacations ideas based on user-specified criteria through an auto updating web 2.0 interface. Recently chosen as one of Travel and Leisures best sites of 2008.
A voice blog and social media mash-up that allows you to record your voice, music, sounds words, pictures and thoughts by phone, post it in on your Voike account, blog or social networking environment like Facebook. You can also email
A Mac OSX application that allows you to manage and connect with social networks in one place. Currently supporting Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, RSS, and Reddit. More to come.
Tweetree puts your Twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context. It also pulls in lots of external content like twitpic photos, youtube videos and more, so that you can see
An AIR application designed and built for kids to safely watch videos, play games and browse websites. The system blocks links, scripts and any other attempts that lead to sites and content which have not been approved, preventing them being
AWS Management ConsoleWith the AWS Management Console, developers can start and stop EC2 instances, view and perform actions on running instances, and manage Elastic Block Store volumes with simple clicks of a mouse.Manage Amazon EC2 With New
TrackHappyTrackHappy is an online utility that lets you tag physical objects, set rules for how they must be passed from person to person and track them as they travel.BlogTrackHappy.com – A New Form Of Interaction
Toobla(‘Sorry, we are in Alpha’ waitinglist)Toobla is a service that helps you save, sort and show off great things you find on the web. Wanted: Alpha Testers for Toobla
YouBloggedOur user submitted blog posts give you the visitor an opportunity to find awesome new blogs to subscribe to while giving you the power to vote up or down on the best blogs on the web.BlogYouBlogged: il
twalalatwalala is a client for Twitter that allows you to control what you see, and more importantly, what you don’t see in your twitterstream.Twalala for Twitterflittering
Nr. 1: goosh- the unofficial Google shellNr. 2: 280 Slides- Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world.Nr. 3: Google Insights
The New York Times has just announced its new Congress API, which provides capability for developers to access to four sets of data about US Congressional representatives and their votes: a list of members for a
In a clever move, Apple has leveraged the power of the Google Maps API (our Google Maps API Profile) to provide geotagging capabilities for iPhoto 2009, the latest version of its popular photo management software.
Although mashups started out in the consumer space, their success makes a migration into corporate IT environments inevitable. Firms exploring this new software development model may struggle at first to understand the
Although over 1.1 petabytes of data are available and shared via the peer-to-peer services of BitTorrent, theres now a new web service that lets you get statistics on it all: its called Bitsmash. This relatively
DeepEarth, a new map control that integrates Microsofts Virtual Earth mapping service (our Virtual Earth API Profile) with the Silverlight 2.0 framework, is now available as an open source project on CodePlex.
VirWoX, the Virtual World Exchange for trading currencies in virtual worlds like Second Life, recently unveiled the VirWoX API. The API provides live access to real time quotes from the VirWoX marketplace, where the currency
Telephony and voice APIs are one of the most active segments of the API and mashup world. For example, in the past week, two of the latest mashups in our directory use telephony APIs in innovative
AOL has announced that its MapQuest service now supports OpenID logins as part of the new My MapQuest capability. AOL has long been an OpenID innovator. As AOLs George Fletcher reminds us, AOL was one of
OpenSocial recently had its first year anniversary, and the specification and APIs are growing in popularity. And now, courtesy of the OpenSocial team, several new client libraries are available for leveraging server-to-server APIs. This gives
The New York Times made news earlier this year through its release of several APIs (our Campaign Finance API Profile and our Movie Reviews API Profile). Theres been promise of more
OpenID holds much promise as a means of supporting a single digital identity that can be used across the Internet. Currently there are several types of OpenID identity providers out there, and several of the
Do you want to use the power of open APIs and mashups to help make the US Congress more accountable, interactive and transparent? If so, then youll want to enter the new Apps for
Over at Google Maps Mania, Keir Clarke has a good round-up of new Christmas-themed Google Maps mashups. Each year developers create new mashups with holiday themes, with most being map mashups. Two of these
The United States Postal Service has devoted significant resources to providing customers with reliable online services including APIs for address and delivery information, rate calculators, shipping labels and carrier pickup. But apparently this holiday season
Following-up on yesterdays post on the best new mashups, here is another notable mashup from this past week, yesterdays Mashup of the Day: Gaiagi Driver. What is it? Its a mashed-up 3D driving simulator
You may remember our earlier coverage of the Yahoo Open Strategy (YOS), which provides developers with access to Yahoo’s tools and data to build applications that leverage three core elements: Yahoo Application Platform (YAP), Yahoo Social Platform (YSP), and Yahoo
Here is some interesting news that may impact developers using the Google Maps API (our Google Maps API profile). Last week Google updated its terms of service for both Google Maps API and the
Every once in awhile you see one API provider making use of APIs from another. This is the case with the eBay Developers Program, who have announced the new eBay API Release Calendar. The calendar
the next release of the Windows client operating system, built on the secure foundation of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Performance, reliability, security, and compatibility are core tenets of this release as we collect your feedback to meet our
MySpace, like YouTube, is holding a contest to send one MySpace user to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland later this month.MySpace has teamed with the Wall Street Journal on the contest, which is fascinating because (I imagine) there
Free video lectures are a great way to get a high-quality education from the comfort of your own home. There are a number of top colleges and universities, such as Yale, MIT and UC Berkeley, currently offering free video lectures
Free video lectures are a great way to get a high-quality education from the comfort of your own home. There are a number of top colleges and universities, such as Yale, MIT and UC Berkeley, currently offering free video lectures
Google used its booth at Macworld this year to show off some of the things it was working on with Apple, particularly for the iPhone. But the coolest thing at their booth didnt have much to do with Apple at
This post includes a nice collection of 16 outstanding free Dreamweaver extensions, such as jQuery and Prototype API extension, PayPal, Skype and Google tools extensions. Take a look!
There are exciting new features in the pipeline for Cascading Style Sheets that will allow for an explosion of creativity in Web design. These features include CSS styling rules that are being released with the upcoming CSS3 specification. Realistically, you
Most people think of Google Maps in terms of finding a place or business, or getting directions from one point to another. Others use the satellite images and terrain mapping features. But there are tons of other uses out there
I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldnt allow you to quit your day job.The comments here and on a few social
Unemployment benefit rolls swelled to a 26-year high in the last week of December, data showed on Thursday, while retailers, including market leader Wal-Mart, reported poor sales as the year-long economic slump deepened.
A year ago the online video site was a ghost town. Then in September, when the company moved away from the use of downloaded software to an all-browser video experience, viewership spiked. Compete says they had 550k U.S. visitors in
San Franciscan Christopher Norberg went to a chiropractor after being injured in a car accident in 2006. After a disagreement with the chiropractor over billing, he posted a negative review of the business on Yelp suggesting that the doctor was
January is a key month for the travel industry, as UK consumers thoughts turn from Christmas shopping to booking their summer holidays, but the economic downturn means that consumers are being more cautious when booking flights abroad this year. As
User-generated business reviews site Yelp has officially launched a U.K. edition, meaning that no business in England, Scotland, or Wales is safe any longer from the wrath of notoriously opinionated Yelpers.
It was only a matter of time. Social network Facebook says it has hit the milestone of 150 million active users, just more than two months after reaching 120 million and about four months after reaching 100 million. The site
Flynt (the Hustler guy) and Francis (the Girls Gone Wild dude) are asking the government for a $5 billion bailout, claiming the adult entertainment industry has taken a huge shot to the face because of the downturn -- citing the
Adam and Josh sat down with Kevin Marks from Google. We chatted about Microformats, Open Social, The social graph api, etc.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
Adam and I visited the posh South Park Engine Yard office to talk with Ezra Zygmuntowicz. We covered hosting, managing open source, and even a bit about writing a book.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
Adam and Josh sat down with Tom Preston-Werner and Chris Wanswrath. They are two of the three guys behind the genius that is github. They also talk a bit about previous projects like FamSpam and Gravatar.Click here for show notes.Download
Adam and Josh sat down with Blaine in Miami to pick his brain about scaling twitter, among many other topics. *Note: Blaine was workng for twitter at the time still.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
Josh and Adam sat down with Kathy Sierra to talk about creating passionate users, building web apps, and Tasty Planner.This edition of The Web 2.0 Show is brought to you by the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, with special
DIGG THIS!! Josh and I interview Kevin Rose and Gary Vaynerchuk at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami, FL.Make sure you follow Kevin and Gary on Twitter. You might as well follow us too while you’re at it:
Josh and Chris interview Founder and CEO of (http://www.google.com/search?q=Aaron+Patzer “Aaron Patzer – Google Search”). Aaron is the visionary and technical mind behind Mint.com.Mint is a free personal finance web application that takes about two minutes to setup that links directly
Chris and I sat down and talked about the new website and how we built it. We also talked about our rails rumble app. Go "vote ":http://vote.railsrumble.com for all the apps!Click here for show
Chris and I sit down and talk to Jeff from YikeSite. Our apologies on the delay as we have been working on the new website. Come take a gander :)Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
Chris rejoined the cast to chat with David Wadler from Twistage, a roll your own YouTube like video distribution service. After an initial recording snafu, we get rolling and discuss the online video distribution, content distribution networks, pirating media, and
Jon Maddox and I sit down to chat with part of the rails core and prototype core peeps to talk about their new company and their upcoming software directed at developers.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
Chris and I sat down to talk with John O’Halloran from Trailfire. Listen to us chat about the fall of the USSR, the original intent of the web, and other interesting topics.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
We finally have the long lost episode we have promised forever! Chris and I sat down to chat about a ton of differnt things, then I followed up with an interview of Bill Nguyen from Lala. Bill and I chatted
Hey guys, we have finally posted the latest show! Chris and I chatted with Kevin Burton of TailRank. Chris swears he will update this post with shows notes…Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
Sorry about the delay, loyal listeners. I deliver to you a show recorded while at the Future of Web Apps Conference. Chris and I were able to sit down with a fascinating gentleman named Kristopher Tate. The podcast details some
The User Experience of Enterprise Software Matters :: UXmattersA terrific article that explores a point that I make all the time: Enterprise software usability is truly lousy for the most part and needs to change. I do have some theories
The emerging case for open business methods | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.comI make a case for an apparently emerging era of open business methods powered by 2.0 concepts and the Internet. I include examples, case studies, and challenges. If
Product Design And Development Is Outsourcings Next Big Thing - Outsourcing Blog - InformationWeekThe info is a little dated but the numbers are so large that it's compelling information about how product development and design is being outsourced. Of course,
Biggest Battle Yet For Social Networks: You, Your Identity And Your Data On The Open WebFacebook continues to make major and mostly proprietary moves as the battle for Web identity heats up. Most companies are following open standards but Facebook
Amazon.com Tries User-Generated Public Relations - Bits Blog - NYTimes.comA Web 1.0 pioneer which continues to get the good 2.0 stuff. Crowdsourcing is almost always cheaper and more scalable than traditional meth
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