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
If youre a news junkie and youre on Twitter, theres a good chance that youre following @BreakingNewsOn, an account that often actually breaks news before any other media organization does, ranging from political news to natural
The CES posts have been coming out like machine gun bullets at CrunchGear, so much so that even we cant keep track of them. But that doesnt mean you should miss the highlights, hands-ons, and sneak peeks
Zerion Software has just released an iPhone version of the playground classic Rochambeau (aka Rock-Paper-Scissors). And while it has some of the worst music Ive ever heard, its actually surprisingly cool. You can download the free app
Be sure to check out tonights airing of Attack of the Show on G4 TV because CrunchGear will be featured around 8:20 PM ET to talk about whats going on at CES this year. Tune in!Attack
CrunchGear is live at CES 2009 attending the Palm keynote at 11am pacific, 2pm eastern. What can we expect? New hardware, a new OS, and potentially a branding strategy that will move them far from everything we
Seeing as everyone in the blogging world is scrambling to get up a Hands-on article on the Palm Pre, Ill go ahead and say this now: if anyone claims to have gotten a true hands-on, theyre probably
Now heres something that will end up at the bottom of the toy box next Christmas. The Mindflex lets you control a floating ball around a little obstacle course. Air bumps and pops the ball through hoops and
The votes for the Crunchies are in. But there were so many, 350,000, that we needed some extra help counting them. In the video above, Mike explains the voting procedures and reveals who we hired to
SoundPedia, a Pandora-like music startup that launched back in 2006, just got a brand new UI that puts its dated interface to shame. Its too bad it may never see the light of day.The site, which we
At a press announcement today at CES, Palm announced a brand spankin new handset: the Palm Pre. Running the much-gossiped new Palm WebOS (Not known as Nova afterall) and sporting a QWERTY slide-out keyboard below a 3.1
Following the departure of Kevin Conroy from AOL, the product group is being reorganized. Ted Cahall is being named the new president of the product group. Cahall will be in charge of Mail, Truveo, Mobile, Toolbar, Safety &
Today during an Industry Insider Series keynote at CES in Las Vegas, AMD CEO Dirk Meyer and OTOY CEO Jules Urbach announced that AMD has been working on what its calling the worlds fastest supercomputer ever,
Socially-conscious Better World Books, a for-profit online bookseller that shares its revenues with literacy initiatives worldwide, released some pretty impressive holiday sales figures recently which we thought were worth sharing here.etter World Books reports that its overall
CrunchGear is live at CES 2009 attending the Palm keynote at 11am pacific, 2pm eastern. What can we expect? New hardware, a new OS, and potentially a branding strategy that will move them far from everything we
Yet more evidence that the future of media is digital (in case there are still any doubters out there). In a report released this morning, boutique investment bank Jordan, Edmiston Group estimates that between 88 percent of the
At CES, Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone app after dipping its toe with the release of Seadragon Mobile last month. The name of the application is Microsoft Tag, and it enables users to instantly access mobile
The Netherlands-based internet startup eFresh.com has secured €4.25 million (or roughly $5.4 million) in funding from one of the largest banks in the country, Rabobank. The company, which operates a B2B portal for the perishable industry, had
Evernote, which is up for a Crunchie award, rang in the New Year with an extra $4.5 million of cash from Russian investment firm Troika Dialog. A mid-December report had put the investment at $5 million, but the
In October we wrote Joost Turns On Its All-Flash Website. Is Anybody Watching? It turns out that yes, it appears that they are.A year ago the online video site was a ghost town. Then in September,
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
Twitter is simple. Type a message in 140 characters or less and hit submit. That’s all there is too it. So why is it that there are more and more applications that complicate the simplicity of Twitter? Sometimes the added
Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. You can follow him on TwitterBy now you have probably read the countless articles about how flawed the contextual advertising system is on
Ex-Yahoo Ryan Kuder started The Purple People Collective as a resource for newly laid-off Yahoos (and any other tech workers) looking to band together and find freelance work. The site, which launched last month, now has 100 listings including a
Say you need a job board for your company website, what do you do? If you’re like a lot of companies I’ve seen, you’ll create a new page with job listings and add a Human Resources contact email address for
WordPress 2.7 completely overhauled the admin area of your blog, so isn’t it time you treated yourself with an overhaul of the front end also? Why not pick something radically different than the usual blog look? Not only can you have
Back in August 2008, Mark Zuckerberg posted on the official Facebook blog that Facebook has reached 100 million users. Now, only 4 months later, this number has grown 50%: Facebook now has 150 million users. And, these are active users
Amidst all the coverage of the new iTunes pricing structure - and the fact that purchased songs will be DRM-free from now on - not many reporters pointed out (there are exceptions, of course) that Apple is actually charging 30
Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology described as, “a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time.” AR is
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
Our favorite URL shortening service, Bit.ly, has just released a Firefox plug-in that youll probably want to add to your browser. It lets users hover over shortened URLs from a wide variety of services, including TinyURL, and see
Opera plans to unveil a new version of its SDK today that will allow Operas partners to create a more uniform browsing experience across multiple devices and platforms. The new version of the Opera Devices SDK
Searching by terms is great. But some things are just easier to find when you can actually look at them - especially if you tend to be more visually oriented. Book dust jackets, album
Commenting on blogs is - by and large - broken. Designed with the hope of proffering interaction among bloggers and readers, commenting has generally devolved into a series of one-off responses with little
In what appears to us to be a new addition to many Google search results pages, queries about birth dates, family connections and other information are now being responded to with explicitly semantic structured information. Who is Bill
A new report from Forrester presents a cost analysis of cloud-based email systems in enterprises, such as Google Apps or Yahoo!s Zimbra. In the report, Forrester argues that cloud-based email services are cheaper than running email on-premise
While todays Apple Keynote was slightly underwhelming, a lot of other companies have made up for this by releasing their own products during MacWorld. One of the more exciting applications that launched today was WebExs new
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
With consumer electronics companies intent on making 3-D the belle of the ball at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I thought the skeptics among you might benefit from some arguments and knowledge about the topic that goes
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
Apple’s iPod Touch devices might have been a hot gift over the holidays, according the data released by AdMob, a mobile advertising start-up. Apparently the iPod Touch requests more than tripled worldwide from November to December, with a particularly large
With consumer electronics companies intent on making 3-D the belle of the ball at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I thought the skeptics among you might benefit from some arguments and knowledge about the topic that goes
I’m a frequent flier to England and a longtime fan of Yelp, the gloriously verbose and opinionated user-generated review site, so this is doubly good news: Yelp now has a UK page, for finding good restaurants and other services across
Our sister site JkOnTheRun reports on the proliferation (and large presence) of the netbooks at the CES 2009:Netbooks are still a hot ticket item and we are keeping our eyes peeled for anything new that might come along. … More
Nicholas Negroponte, the promoter of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, says that economic hard times have hit the OLPC effort, and the group will cut its staff by half; the remaining 32 employees will take a big salary cut.
Joyce Park (left) & Adam Rifkin (right) by Ifindkarma via FlickrRenkoo, a Redwood City, Calif-based startup that is fast approaching its fourth birthday is rebooting…again. Co-founded by Adam Rifkin (CEO) and Joyce Park (CTO), the company had launched Renkoo.com as
At a press conference at CES today, Cisco’s CEO John Chambers talked about the router maker’s push beyond routers and into the home. As Om has said before, this is a well-worn path trod by Cisco in its need to
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
The media is biased against stories that want to be told. This is especially true about the media covering the web world. It’s much easier to write a story about Facebook, Google, Youtube, or any of the other limelight stories
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
Reading Om Maliks Nightmare on Tech Street piece, I wonder if were actually just waking up from the nightmare. Yes, the abrupt collapse of demand for consumer electronics and their ilk will hurt tech companies--Im bracing my own for the
In the recent round of Yahoo! layoffs was someone Id just met, George Oates. She started the Flickr Commons, where galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can post photos and the community can tag them. She was a tireless ambassador, as
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
Steve Rubel shared an item on Google ReaderCan a Jedi lightsaber cut through Superman?9 minutes ago -Comment -LikeAlistair and LJF Wolffe liked thishttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Inquisitr/~3/beOpED3vlsI/
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Steve Rubel shared an item on FacebookEverything TypePad: Blogging Heroes32 minutes ago -Comment -LikeGreat story and a great human being! - Steve Rubel
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter“Check out Twitter Friends - cool tool http://ping.fm/AiQnc”1 hour ago -Comment -LikeBibi, Hutch Carpenter, Zee. and Benedikt Koehler liked this
Steve Rubel shared an item on FacebookObama, Spider-Man on the same comic-book page - USATODAY.com26 minutes ago -Comment -LikeI thought they were the same person! He is super human right? -
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter“Google Chrome 2.0 is out http://ping.fm/3dgJB”44 minutes ago -Comment -LikeKevin Whalen, Masatake E. Hori, Richard Walker and 3 other people liked this
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter“@danzarrella Not yet but I am behind on my feeds! Also, I am a huge fan of the stuff youve been building.”1 hour ago -Comment -Like
Steve Rubel shared an item on Google ReaderDoes an iPhone Makes You Less Productive?6 hours ago -Comment -LikeNicholas Martini liked thisFor me its both! - Steve Rubel
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter“Question from my colleagues: is the verb twittering or tweeting?”6 hours ago -Comment -LikeI use both twittering and tweeting, shamefully interchangeably. - Jeff Ventura
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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
Below are some of the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to
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
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
Wireless digital memory card maker Eye-Fi has announced the launch of an iPhone application today. The application will be officially launched during Macworld this week. Eye-Fi notes regarding the iPhone application,
We covered the relaunch of Change.org back in October including their video demo. Founder Josh Levy noted that he believes there is power in the blog and has basically shifted Change.org into a
(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
3D designers looking to sell their creations have a new place to do so with Shapeways. The site, which launched back in July of last year as part of Royal Philips Electronics Lifestyle
A guy I know created an Elf Yourself video of his friends. Um, I'm on the bottom right.(Credit: JibJab, user-gen work by Peter Feld)Because we need to ensure that silly do-it-yourself comedy will
Chumby gets framed by Samsung.(Credit: Chumby)The cute little beanbag-encased, open-source Chumby (my review), an Internet display device, is growing up through a partnership with Samsung. The original Chumby software makes the device into
The remote PC access product LogMeIn is getting into trucks. A branded version of the software, LogMeIn for Ford Work Solutions will be included in the new F-150 trucks (and a few other models) equipped with the optional Ford Works
(Credit: Burger King)Facebooks developer platform has been used for a zillion marketing campaigns so far, but this one is actually dead-on hilarious. Fast-food chain Burger King has created Whopper Sacrifice, a Facebook app
Using the best resources across the Web to find and interview for a new job is a big key to success. There are some sites that claim to offer the best service, but in reality, they offer generic help to
CES is a hardware show, but theres a good mix of webware here as well. So many new gadgets are network-enabled, after all. The trade show officially opens Thursday, but many companies made announcements on Media Day, Wednesday. These are
(Credit: CNET)If youre one whose search results lead you to a Wikipedia page nine times out of ten, you would do well to install the Googlepedia extension for Firefox. This free,
Cisco has debuted an iPhone application that can make use of the companys popular WebEx collaboration tool. The new app, available free from the App Store, allows users click to join and actively
This the card used for the photo version of Eye-Fi, but the video version will likely look similar. For the last year or so Eye-Fi SD cards have allowed users to wirelessly upload
Tilt shift photography is a technique that requires a special lens to change both the perspective and focal field of an image. A similar effect can be created in PhotoShop and other high
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
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
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 Calling All Innovators Contest from ProgrammableWeb sponsor Nokia is offering app developers $35K in prizes for building creative applications for the Nokia mobile development platform (which reaches the worlds largest
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
The financial meltdown of 2008 all but shut down venture-backed exits, as we all know. The National Venture Capital Association declared a crisis back in the second quarter, which got worse in the third quarter. This week, the NCVA released
Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.
Am I the only one who has seemed to notice the TechCrunch redesign? I dont mean to be rude to the tech leader, but I wouldnt quite settle calling them a blog anymore. Note that screenshot. I took that on
Adobe Photoshop is a very powerful and versatile image editing/graphics creation application that is the industry standard in its category. Though Photoshops interface is intuitive enough for an absolute beginner to learn basic image editing tasks such as cropping and
My names Scott. Im 13 and have launched a web startup. So began an email exchange over last weekend which culminated with me chatting to Scotts mum today to verify, that, indeed, he was actually 13 and really had launched
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 methods of production, just harder to seen.zemblyA "Wikipedia for
The hidden cost of Google Apps - Nov. 19, 2008A decent overview of what the pros and cons are of moving to office productivity apps in the cloud. We use Google Apps for most of what we do now unless
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