StudiVZ, the Facebook clone (and by clone, we mean exact duplicate) in Germany, says in an email that they still havn’t received the lawsuit complaint filed by Facebook on Friday. The lawsuit claims intellectual property infringement and accuses StudiVZ of
Japan’s biggest social network is called Mixi, launched in February 2004 by the company of the same name. Drawing in one in five web users in the country, Mixi now boasts over 15 million members. The site ranks sixth on
New Y Combinator startup Startuply launches today. It’s a free job listing service aimed squarely at small startups, which have a lot of trouble getting the attention of new engineering graduates over the noise of the brand recognition and recruiting
Tesla Motors, the automobile startup with backers that include Sergey Brin and Larry Page, held a party tonight to mark the launch of its Menlo Park storefront. The store, which is the company’s second, will be open to the general
Well, here’s something that’s so ridiculous it couldn’t be made up. McDonald’s teamed up with MySpace to create a new jingle for the 40th anniversary of the Big Mac. The original song (two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce…) was
Pressflip is a new blog search engine (it’s actually a relaunch of a site called Persai, which launched earlier this year). The idea is you do a search, train the engine by telling it which results aren’t interesting to you,
Edopter is a unique concept that attempts to combine crowd-sourcing with internet buzz to predict new trends. It’s called “social trendcasting.”The way it works, is by allowing users to generate “trends” according to what they think will catch on. Some
Second quarter data is out on venture deals from the National Venture Capital Association and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Despite the IPO market drying up completely, the What-Me-Worry crowd on Sand Hill Road keep pumping money into venture deals at a steady pace.
Facebook is pursuiting social networks it believes have copied their design or features by suing German social network StudiVZ. The Financial Times has reported that Facebook have filed a suit in the Californian Supreme Court against the German company for
A few weeks back we launched Elevator Pitches, our community video project that allows entrepreneurs to pitch their startups through 60 second YouTube videos. Since then we’ve received a number of of pitches covering everything from a fandom portal to
Mint, the popular personal finance site that won TechCrunch 40, has further expanded its services by introducing support for mortgage and loan tracking. Users will now be able to keep tabs on their loans from over 1,000 supported institutions. In
The current iPhone App Store revenue share model - a 70/30 split for the sale of apps in the $0.99-$9.99 range - doesn’t exactly reward developers for producing addictive games. Greystripe, an advertising network for mobile games, has stepped in
Twiddla, a free service that lets users draw and annotate webpages with their peers, has launched a new version of its site that introduces a number of new features. Compared to enterprise-grade collaboration software, Twiddla falls a little short -
Evite is getting long in the tooth. Every day it seems there is some new startup ready to take it down: Pingg, Socializr, Center’d, MyPunchbowl, Presdo. Well, today the IAC-owned invitation juggernaut is fighting back. Or at least, it’s stirring.
A large portion of YouTube videos are watched on other sites in embeddable players (like the one below of Erepublik CEO Alexis Bonte giving us an Elevator Pitch). But if someone watches a YouTube video on a site other than
This isn’t enough data to declare Microsoft’s much derided Live Cashback search product a winner, but the first full month after in launched (June) shows a 15% gain in search volume v. the previous month, according to Comscore. This erases
Twitter is living up to its promise to open up its data stream as much as possible to developers. While I was negotiating with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams to sit down and do a video interview at Foo Camp last
Next Wednesday is Facebook’s F8 developer conference, and speculation is swirling about what Facebok might announce at the event. Last year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the Facebook Platform for Web app developers, which is now its’ own mini-industry. So
Hype, hype, hype. Now that the iPhone 3G launch has blown over and I’ve been able to integrate the phone into my daily routine, I think we’re ready for an official CrunchGear review. Our advice? Wait. With 60% certainty I
Yahoo is pulling out its biggest gun in the showdown with Carl Icahn: the Yahoo homepage itself. Right now on Yahoo.com, the single most-visited page on the Web (with 304 million unique visitors worldwide in May, according to comScore), there
This week’s edition of Advertising Age has a somewhat revealing piece concerning movements in Web media space by some old media titans. In particular, The New York Times versus The Wall Street Journal. We’ve heard the WSJ talk adventurous talk
As has been widely reported by tech media outlets for a few days now, Facebook filed a lawsuit against studiVZ Ltd. in California federal court on Friday claiming the German network had copied its “look, feel, features and services.” Today
As has been widely reported by tech media outlets for a few days now, Facebook filed a lawsuit against studiVZ Ltd. in California federal court on Friday claiming the German network had copied its “look, feel, features and services.” Today
Combine the element of Web search with music playback and a mohawk-sporting, ciggie-smoking dinosaur, and you get MixTurtle, a new service that works as you might expect it to. Just click and play.Ajax is responsible making it behave as it
I’ve been scrolling slowly down the list of items mentioned by Paul Graham, a partner at the startup micro-financier outfit Y Combinator, in a piece titled “Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund.” It’s an interesting write-up, and I think a
Alright, so Facebook kind of failed to accurately estimate when it would be taking long-talked-about profile redesign. The number last tossed around was July 16. The day came, the day went, and nothing. No changes made. That may have made
The short answer is that they want it to fail. There seems to be an underpinning of glee to get to deadpool it, and no one has told them it’s no longer trendy to call podcasting a failure anymore.The long
If you’re educator near the middle of the K-12 curriculum, and you’re feeling a bit lacking in terms of online tools available to help increase your own efficiency in the case of schoolwork, this item may be worth a look.
Rediff, one of the top online portals in India and one currently listed on the NASDAQ stock market, has evidently followed the past year progress of third-party developments within Facebook closely. Now it wants to stir a similar amount of
Want to read a wealth of magazines without spending a dime on subscriptions or one-time transactions? A website by the name of Mygazines is promising just that.I for one can’t imagine the number of copyrights the site and/or its users
Logic by numbers would have it that Facebook’s Chinese impersonators would irk the Zuckerberg gang more than any other similar copycat attempt made elsewhere on Earth. In fact, let’s assume they do. China’s Internet market will likely do little else
When you join together the terms “online” and “whiteboard,” you probably conjure an image of some super-simple utility that allows one or more persons to share ideas. Companies like 37signals and Stixy offer such services. Yet they don’t take literally
Most anyone currently wielding an iPhone or iPod touch plus the 2.0 software update today is well aware of the volume of convenient apps made themselves available upon Apple’s (somewhat tarnished) App Store launch on July 11. In the social
Last week, it was very clear to most of us not in line for the iPhone that the most exciting aspect of the iPhone 3G release were the GPS capabilities. We haven’t seen more announcements for locationally aware social networks
Blogging for all intents and purposes has been around for about the ten year mark. During that time it has gone through many changes as more platforms and tools became available that made it easier and easier for just about
Wizzard Media, the podcast hosting and monetization giant, a couple of days ago released a letter to their shareholders that went towards explaining a bit of their corporate strategy:In a very short time, Wizzard has surprised many people by becoming
The U.S. SummerMash Tour continues tonight with it’s 3rd stop in Los Angeles at the HQ of Rubicon Project from 7 - 10 PT. Tonight’s event features Mashable’s Pete Cashmore and Karen Hartline, our sponsors Sun Startup Essentials, Yoono, mySites,
Typically I give a popular service around an hour to get its act together before posting about its downtime, but for the last 15 minutes or so my Twitter friend timeline has been lighting up with messages about Facebook being
Fling it Girl is a new social bookmarking and shopping site aimed at the Web-savvy consumer crowd (the site is pink and has “girl” in the title, but there’s a section for guys too). As with most other social bookmarking
Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here.STARTUP DETAILS:Company Name: Moblyng20 word description: Moblyng can detect and mobilize photo and slideshow widgets and online video
Todays big news is that Amazons S3 online storage service has experienced significant downtime. Allen Stern, who hosts his blogs images on S3, reported that the downtime lasted 3.5 hours. Startups that use S3 for their storage,
Five months later and it looks like Facebook is ready to release their new profile redesign. Initially Facebook announced they were working on a redesign earlier this year. In May, a glimpse of the
Relay for Life of Second Life is a charity event that celebrates the victories and remembers those that have been lost in the fight against cancer. Th 4th annual RFLofSL relay takes place today
Here is a new cartoon from Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Rob runs a regular cartoon blog called Noise to Signal, in which he puts in graphical form some of the big questions of the social web.
Users love it when products and services from one company are nicely integrated with one another. It helps to keep users from bouncing around services. Companies love it because its a way to lock
Its time to review the week that was on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we continued our ongoing analysis of the iPhone 3G and its accompanying App Store, we looked closely at a Gmail update to its
The Blogher conference for and about women bloggers kicks off today in San Francisco and in honor of this important event, we decided to share some links to some of our favorite women bloggers here
Here is a new cartoon from Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Rob runs a regular cartoon blog called Noise to Signal, in which he puts in graphical form some of the big questions of the social web.
I did it! I resisted the cravings all week. I did NOT buy an iPhone. It took a lot of deep Buddhist meditation to deal with my cravings. The iPhone is just gorgeous - this is
Evite, the social planning service which has been around since 1998, announced a partnership with JS-Kit today. Evite will use JS-Kits commenting and polling features to allow organizers and guests to communicate with each other. Evite
The Canada-based live-blogging tool CoverItLive added support for live video streaming to its application this week. Users covering live events can now add streaming video from Qik, Mogulus, and Ustream.tv to their live blogs. Bloggers can
When we first reported about the new microblogging service Identi.ca earlier this month, it looked like an interesting experiment. Since then, its community has grown rapidly and today, it implemented an API that is compatible with
Not everyone loves FriendFeed - its social media firehouse qualities can lead to a lot of noise which can certainly be overwhelming to newcomers. However, even those who dont participate on the service may see the value of
Microsoft. Depending on who you are, their name alone elicits some pretty strong feelings. Some people love them, others love to hate them. Few people are neutral. However, everyone can pretty much agree that Microsoft has been fighting
As mentioned earlier this week, ReadWriteWeb is partnering with a couple of conferences this year and one of them is DEMOfall 08, the long-running launchpad for startups. DEMOfall 08 is on September 7-9 in San Diego. Theyre
Tapulous, the developers of the highly popular Tap Tap Revenge game for the iPhone and iPod touch, released a native, location aware Twitter client for the iPhone tonight. Twinkle (iTunes link) already existed as a native
How would you feel if you spent more than $1 million throwing a party and less than 100 or even 1,000 people showed up? That sinking feeling is spreading over corporate boardrooms around the nation,
There have been various sightings of a new design for Twitter this afternoon, though by now, Twitter has reverted back to its old design. Possibly, Twitter is testing this new design as it prepares to integrate
Today online music service last.fm released the new design theyve been working on since May. At first glance it looks quite different to the Facebook-like UI that we saw in the beta in June. However as we
How An Unknown Artists Work Became a Social Media Brand Thanks To the Power of CommunityTwitter users are very familiar with the iconic image of the Fail Whale. This social object has been latched onto by Twitter fans
My Chicago-based startup, The Point, helps people start campaigns for collective actions of all kinds, from organizing a poker game to boycotting a multinational corporation. We’ve been fortunate so far, enjoying steady growth, happy users, and money in the bank.
There’s already a ton of activity taking place in the cloud computing space, so much so that it can be hard to know who to watch. In many cases, it’s too early to pick winners. But there are distinct sectors
There’s already a ton of activity taking place in the cloud computing space, so much so that it can be hard to know who to watch. In many cases, it’s too early to pick winners. But there are distinct sectors
Clever founders always eke the most out of every buck. But economic conditions being what they are, even the best bootstrappers could use a little extra help. By now you’ve probably heard of web sites like GasPriceWatch.com, GasBuddy and MSNAutos,
Second Life, the user-created world backed by Linden Lab, has found itself in an increasingly competitive market lately; Googles Lively is just the latest entrant into the virtual world space. So I sat down with Lindens recently appointed CEO, Mark
If you believe the venture capitalists on Friday’s conference call about the latest MoneyTree Survey results, which covers venture investing in the second quarter, now is the best time to contact them with your ideas. Just because the exit environment
There’s a scene in the movie “Dumb and Dumber” in which Jim Carrey asks, “Do you want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?” And then he screeches at the top of his lungs. If that movie was
Yesterday evening, at a beachside dinner organized by our investors, True Ventures, I sat at a table full of relatively young entrepreneurs (I’m pretty sure I raised the average age by a few years.) Most of us had iPhones —
Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t write a more necessary (and sarcastic) article about U.S. ISPs’ efforts to craft a nationwide broadband policy than the one over at DSL Reports. AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and others have signed onto a
The launch of the iPhone 3G can be summed up in one word that starts with a “c.” Instead I will go with comedy of errors. Activation delays, long lines, online issues, application roll-out issues - it has been a
Startups selling virtual goods and offering virtual experiences are raking in the venture capital these days. Perhaps it’s the fact that virtual gifting hit the mainstream in 2007 or because people are worried about the impact of business travel on
Confession. Back when AMD was pitching its Opteron chipset I convinced my husband to buy shares in the company on the belief that its plans to build a backwards compatible 64-bit processor was so obviously better than Intel’s efforts with
The news coming out of advertising-focused companies is not good. And that means Silicon Valley is in for a long-overdue reality check, one that should worry one and all.
Two weeks before the Federal Communication Commission meets to decide whether or not to issue an enforcement order against Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer traffic, not-for-profit group Free Press has accused the ISP of throttling P2P traffic not only when the
Elemental Technologies, a startup focused on faster transcoding, has raised $7.1 million from General Catalyst Partners and Voyager Capital. The company’s software uses the graphics processor rather than the CPU inside a computer to handle the work of ripping a
The usage-based pricing plans being considered by AT&T, Time Warner and others will force us all to wonder about the size of our connectivity bill on a monthly basis. Which means it wont only be bad for users, but for
Summer is generally a slower time for news and this summer is no exception. But the kind folks at Microsoft, Yahoo and Carl Icahn’s investment firm are charitably offering up a form of entertainment with their ongoing Let’s Make a
Earlier this week, Delta Airlines announced plans that will turn the boarding passes into advertising opportunities, or billboards, hawking destination specific businesses and products. An Omaha-based start-up, Sojern is behind this advertising offer, which is going to be adopted by
Baseball’s All-Star Break this week proved to be quite special - not because this was the last All-Star game at The Yankee Stadium, the cathedral of baseball and a place where I fell in love with this distant cousin of
As semiconductor firms get around the limitations of making individual processors faster by putting more cores onto a single chip, the mindset of today’s software developers and engineers mindset needs to adapt. For to really take advantage of multiple cores,
Jason FriedJuly 31, Denver: New Denver Ad Club Keynote (register online)September 2-5, Boston: Business of Software ConferenceSeptember 16-19, NYC: Web 2.0 ExpoOctober 7-8, Chicago: IDEA ConferenceOctober 14-17, Providence RI: BIF-4David Heinemeier HanssonJuly 21-23, Half Moon Bay California: Fortune Brainstorm TechSeptember
A couple of Getting Realish ideas spotted in Best Life magazine:Greg Gianforte is the author of “Bootstrapping Your Business: Start and Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money.” In Follow Your Dream, he advises throwing out your five-year plan
Today we released some improvements to the People and Permission screens in Basecamp. We’ve improved the process for adding new people to a company within a project and we redesigned the Permissions screen with a number of subtle usability improvements.
Most embedded audio players offer a tiny player with the basics: play/pause and a progress bar.While this design works great for the casual listener, Soundcloud has another audience in mind. Musicians, producers and sound engineers want
I was in a three-hour meeting yesterday. I’m meeting averse, you know that. But one of the things I liked about this meeting was when the guy in charge stopped someone mid-sentence and said “Don’t say everyone or no one.
Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:HighriseWhy The Demo Coach switched from Salesforce to Highrise“To my surprise, Highrise turned out to be an amazing SAAS, which allows us to have basically the same functionality as Salesforce. The biggest differences
When 37signals first started out, we didn’t make products. We did client work.From the beginning, we allotted a lot of time for side projects. Things that would get us attention (eNormicom), experiments with new ways of selling our services (37express),
Gordian worms live inside crickets. Once fully grown, they inject chemicals into the cricket’s brain, brainwashing it and forcing it to kill itself by jumping into water. Once in water, the worm wriggles out of the writhing body and swims
Fashion label Madewell has a really cool site.90% of it is photos of the products and each piece in the collection has a video showing a person moving in it. Overall
Two huge disclaimers:1. It’s early. iPhone 2.0 and the App Store are just hours old. Everything below is pure conjecture.2. “A living” is subjective.Where’s the market?Pinch Media just released an initial price distribution chart for the initial 500 or so
Some iPhone apps we’ve been discussing in our Campfire chat room:Mobile AIM lets you chat via your phone.TypePad for iPhone lets you blog directly from your
When Gruber first linked the TripLog/1040 UI by Stevens Creek, I wasn’t kind either. Bright colors, controls seemingly placed at random. It was the opposite of what designers strive for in our circles. A mess. Soon the Flickr page was
Programming/Tech JobsCloudRaker is looking for a Web developer in Montreal, Canada.LinkedIn is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer in Mountain View, CA.Naughty America is looking for a Rails developer in San Diego, CA.Janus Health, Inc. is looking for a Quality
More on why Pixar’s movies are so much better than the competition: According to “Pixar Rules — Secrets of a Blockbuster Company,” the company has created an incredible
Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:Basecamp ProofHQ and Basecamp: Offer your project team richer review and approval tools“ProofHQ integration with Basecamp” explains how to add ProofHQ proofs to your Basecamp projects. (ProofHQ is a web-based design collaboration, proofing
This story is hilariously, beautifully, far-fetchedly awesome and heart warming. See also the MeFi thread.Pixar proves it’s one of those great companies that is run by unabashedly human people, and it’s no wonder why their work is so personal and
Are you exhausting all your potential revenue streams?We stalled launching our Job Board for a while because we felt we had bigger fish to fry. Once we got around to it, we couldn’t believe we had waited so long. It
So somebody else built a successful business on that idea you had three years ago. What does that mean? That if you would just have pursued that idea, you would now automatically be enjoying their spoils? Sorry to burst your
By Nat Torkington Software above the level of a single device is Tims phrase for software that you interact with across multiple devices. The iTunes Music Store was the classic instance of that: a store on the servers, an organization
By Brady Forrest Today is a big day for the international side of Microsoft has bought UK mapping portal MultiMap, a partner of Mappoint/Virtual Earth for five years. They are also announcing the launch of Live Maps in China.
By Marc Hedlund Earlier this year, I posted about Dopplr, saying it was the coolest app I saw at ETech, by far. This morning at LeWeb in Paris, Dopplr launched, so anyone can sign up for it now. Check it
By Brady Forrest The Seattle Start-up index tracks the traffic ups and of local startups and sites. There are 231 companies in the Index. To belong the
By Brady Forrest Amazon has finally announced SImpleDB, a database in the cloud. As they say on the product description page Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. The service is now
By Brady Forrest The state of defense and enforcement technology has become something that the public should pay attention to. So I felt that it was worth sharing this announcement about the Technology in Wartime conference. Ill be there if
By Brady Forrest The online mapping space continues its march towards 3D and startup Earthmine is at the forefront. Earthmine has developed technology that enables them to
By Brady Forrest Earlier today Microsofts Live Maps launched in China (Radar post). Dr. Vincent Tao, founder of Microsoft-acquisition GeoTango and now Senior Director in the Virtual Earth org, led the project. I sent over some questions about the release
By Jesse Robbins Im happy to announce that Ive joined Etelos as its Director of Infrastructure. Etelos is refreshingly supportive of my participation here and in Velocity, which is
By Tim OReilly I mentioned the Release 2.0 issue on Web 2.0 and Wall Street in my post about Warren Buffett yesterday. I thought Id take up that theme a bit further, and explore some of the big ideas that
By Tim OReilly This morning, the New York Times published my op-ed about the need for an open phone ecosystem under the title Static on the Dream Phone. I had originally titled it Openness is not a fig leaf. In
By Tim OReilly Lifehacker just posted a great review of Wesabe. (Disclosure: OReilly AlphaTech Ventures is an investor and I am a board member at Wesabe. Marc Hedlund, also a Radar blogger, is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer. I
By Brady Forrest Ive really been enjoying this years 24 Ways, the advent calendar for web developers. Its got a great collection of informative articles on web
By Tim OReilly That least-understood principle from my original Web 2.0 manifesto, Data is the Intel Inside, is finally coming out of the closet. A post on the Google Operating System Blog entitled Google is Really About Large Amounts of
By Nat Torkington Software above the level of a single device is Tims phrase for software that you interact with across multiple devices. The iTunes Music Store was the classic instance of that: a store on the servers, an organization
By Marc Hedlund Earlier this year, I posted about Dopplr, saying it was the coolest app I saw at ETech, by far. This morning at LeWeb in Paris, Dopplr launched, so anyone can sign up for it now. Check it
By Brady Forrest The Seattle Start-up index tracks the traffic ups and of local startups and sites. There are 231 companies in the Index. To belong the
By Jesse Robbins Im happy to announce that Ive joined Etelos as its Director of Infrastructure. Etelos is refreshingly supportive of my participation here and in Velocity, which is
Radio is Dead by super-structure The following is also my column in Advertising Age next week.All the talk about one medium replacing another, to date, has largely been just that - talk. Over time new formats tend to
Google yesterday added a significant feature to Google Trends. You can now enter in URLs and get back rather rich site traffic data. Barry Schwartz has a great rundown. I will have more to say about this shortly as I
Study: Having 6,141 friends you dont know may be beneficialStudents using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st-century skills we want them to develop to be successful today,(tags: SocialNetworking culture teens research Stats)Were connecting - and wasting
DipityDipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive timelines about the people and things you care about.(tags: timeline tools)The Microfame Game and the New Rules of Internet Celebrity -- New York MagazineThere???s a new class of celebrity powered
I consume a lot of information - all of it, digitally. In fact, I recently completed the transition a 100% media green state. I continue to use Gmail as a nerve center - my primary capture system. But sometimes, I
Lifehacker is one of my favorite blogs. So when editor Gina Trapani invited me to guest blog about how to be productive with social media, I jumped at the opportunity. Heres the intro and summary. The full essay
I have been giving a lot of thought lately to what impact rising inflation might have on digital media. One strong possibility is that print will get crimped.Consider this a rather simplistic theory for a Saturday morning. However, its my
The following is also my column in Advertising Age next week.As I write this column, all the talk is about the recession. There were nearly 40,000 stories in Google News in the last week mentioning the R-word. In addition, a
Photo: Abandoned farm shed by serendipitypeace2007, modified under a Creative Commons license.Anyone looking for a place to live invariably needs to first answer this question: should I rent or buy? Each has pros and cons. If you rent
Lifehacker is one of my favorite blogs. So when editor Gina Trapani invited me to guest blog about how to be productive with social media, I jumped at the opportunity. Heres the intro and summary. The full essay
I have been giving a lot of thought lately to what impact rising inflation might have on digital media. One strong possibility is that print will get crimped.Consider this a rather simplistic theory for a Saturday morning. However, its my
The following is also my column in Advertising Age next week.As I write this column, all the talk is about the recession. There were nearly 40,000 stories in Google News in the last week mentioning the R-word. In addition, a
Photo: Abandoned farm shed by serendipitypeace2007, modified under a Creative Commons license.Anyone looking for a place to live invariably needs to first answer this question: should I rent or buy? Each has pros and cons. If you rent
Study: Having 6,141 friends you dont know may be beneficialStudents using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st-century skills we want them to develop to be successful today,(tags: SocialNetworking culture teens research Stats)Were connecting - and wasting
DipityDipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive timelines about the people and things you care about.(tags: timeline tools)The Microfame Game and the New Rules of Internet Celebrity -- New York MagazineThere’s a new class of celebrity powered
I consume a lot of information - all of it, digitally. In fact, I recently completed the transition a 100% media green state. I continue to use Gmail as a nerve center - my primary capture system. But sometimes, I
Google yesterday added a significant feature to Google Trends. You can now enter in URLs and get back rather rich site traffic data. Barry Schwartz has a great rundown. I will have more to say about this shortly as I
This is the first in a series of posts. The introduction and links to the entire series can be found here. This installment is also my column in next weeks AdAge.Hi. My name is Steve and I suffer from Shiny
This is the first in a series of posts. The introduction and links to the entire series can be found here. This installment is also my column in next weeks AdAge.Hi. My name is Steve and I suffer from Shiny
If it feels quiet here and even on my Twitter stream you are right. It has been. The reason is Friendfeed. I have become hopelessly addicted to the site. I am sharing a lot of links there that I dont
Amazons S3 storage service appears to be down. CenterNetworks images are broken because of it and I had to move the style sheet back so the site at least renders correctly. Sites like
Over the past 24 hours, a story has blown up regarding video blogging and the lack of disclosure. We first wrote about the issues of video blogger disclosure with regards to Morgan
Here are the Web tech events in NYC for the week of July 20th. Please submit other events to add to the list below. Check out Alley Reporter and NYTechEvents for more events as well.SundayHacker News Meetup - 7:30pmMondayNYC Web
The DataPortability group held an open nomination period to elect the first DataPortability steering group. Twelve people stepped forward and since the group was set to hold 12, no election was necessary.
Yesterday I spent some time with the Evite and JS-Kit teams to discuss the updated Evite beta platform launch. From a Web perspective the most impactful update is the addition of JS-Kits
Are there actually startups outside of Sillicon Valley and the USA? For us Europeans this is quite an akward question. Of course there are startups here. And thanks to
Poken is a new Swiss startup that aims to simplify the way we go from real world interaction to online social networking friends. This week we reviewed DropCard which offers a way to
Back in January, Julie Alexandria took over as Wallstrip host. Today Wallstrip has re-launched their site and video player. Theres an updated archive show finder, threaded comments along with the ability to
Yakov is reporting that Prague-based game and software publisher 1C Company has agreed to aquire Russian video game creator Buka. The deal is reported at an estimated $80 million. BUKA generated revenues of $35
Mixin is a new Swiss-based startup that aims to aggregate your activities into a timeline/agenda. Basically the way Mixin works is that it can aggregate your event timeline from sites like Twitter
LessonWriter is a new NY-based startup that aims to help teachers and instructors create lesson plans easily and in minutes. The company describes their service as, "develops literacy lesson plans & teaching
Eric "Scoop" Eldon is reporting that corporate podcasting service PodTech has been acquired by ViewPartner for less than one million dollars. Eldon notes, "The investors, from my understanding, were looking to make PodTech
Web 1.0 analytics service WebTrends is out today with a new video analytics product offering. The new feature will allow companies who use WebTrends for analytics to drop a simple piece of
Boston-based Internship Ratings helps you find the right internship by reading reviews and ratings from others on their internships. The service went live about six months ago and currently features 150
Earlier this week, NY-based KickApps announced their partnership with Userplane for chat and IM. Today, Userplane and another NY-based startup have announced a similar partnership. Magnify.net has integrated the Userplane Webchat2 and Userplane
Yesterday I met with Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg who took me through some new Meebo functionality coming this fall. The new service offering is called Meebo Community IM and its pretty sweet.
When we interviewed Wuala founder and CEO Dominik Grolimund, we asked him to explain what Wuala is. Dominik explained, "Wuala is a new way of storing, sharing, and publishing files on the
NY-based private file sharing service Drop.io announced today the launch of a new view into the files you upload into "drops". The new view is called system view and allows for a variety
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
DropCard is a new startup thats part of the DreamIT Ventures program in Philly. The basic pitch is that DropCard replaces the need to exchange business cards because cards go lost and
The next update of Twhirl will get support for yet another nanoblogging service, Identi.ca, and on that platform Twhirl will feature a communication method that Twitter users have been asking for: Push updates.
My favorite IM application Trillian has just put out a brand new build of its upcoming Astra product for alpha testers. New are Facebook notifications and quick shortcuts to jump straight to things
Only a year ago there was a huge buzz around Facebooks new application platform. Big money was made by some, while others simply threw together whatever they could and released it to the masses in the hopes of being the
Evite is getting a much-needed overhaul on Friday. Saying the invitation service has become cluttered, messy, and confusing, new Evite general manager Rosanna McCollough has had the service re-engineered from the ground up.
In a time of aggregators Yokway is very pretty sharing service. Much like Delicious or Friendfeed the idea is to discover new content based on what other people are sharing. Yokways appeal is
As part of its annual Wikimania conference in Alexandria, Egypt, the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation--parent company of Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and a number of others--announced two new members to its board of trustees. The announcement
PodTech, a video podcast network that had taken over $7 million in venture funding, has been sold--and the price may have been a downright embarrassing $500,000.The news was reported this week by Eric
On Thursday, Mozilla pushed out a new security update for its new Firefox browser. Version 3.0.1 for Windows and Mac addresses vulnerabilities in malformed GIF files on Mac OS X, command-line URLs that
A look at the new Last.fm homepage.(Credit: Last.fm)Social music site Last.fm has unveiled a new look: a slick new design, an iPhone app, a partnership with Logitech to stream music to compatible home
Versionista is a newish online utility that tracks changes to Web pages youre interested in. Used most recently, and famously, by the John McCain presidential campaign to highlight the changes in Barak Obamas
Users of Google Docs, the online applications for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations, now have a wide range of templates from which to choose.Google on Thursday announced the templates which, created by a Google and a number of companies in
If youve accumulated hundreds or thousands of RSS feeds in your favorite reader you might be looking for a way to sort through them all. Of many solutions out there Google Reader offers
Google doesnt deny that its working on bringing offline access to two major Web applications, Gmail and Calendar, but a sign emerged Thursday that the feature--which would be a major expansion of the applications utility and competitive threat--is due soon.Gears
-->(Credit: CNET Networks)Mobile browsing has come a long way and continues to gain speed and power as cell phone hardware and processing technologies mature. At the forefront of this evolution
The game development platform du jour might be the iPhone 2.0 software, but News Corp.s MySpace hopes to make a splash with a new contest in its Asian market: TheGame08, which pits developers
Its time that Opera Mobile got its due. Long overshadowed by Opera Mini--the light, server-fed browser for Java phones--Opera Mobile is a robust browser built on Web standards (and written with C and
The Live Calendar automatically generates a birthday calendar.(Credit: Microsoft)Microsoft is adding birthday reminders and several other new features to its Windows Live Calendar service.The online calendar,
Google has revamped the contacts section of Gmail to let users decide whos on their A-list.Gmail adds a contact entry for every e-mail you use, and previously showed either the full list or the Most Contacted subset Google chose. Now
What's a seven-letter word for, "So long, Scrabulous?"Scrabble is finally on Facebook. Officially. While the Scrabulous game has been online for a while and is wildly popular, its had a sword hanging over
Yahoo has begun sharing some future plans it has for Groups, its service where people with shared interests can get together online through mailing lists, calendars, polls, and other features.In the coming year,
This is an OpenID provider that distributes aliased information (such as email) to OpenID enabled sites instead of your actual information. You still receive all email (but not spam) as LiquidID provides an automatic redirection service.
Xoopit, Zivity, and Powerset host private screening of new Batman movie day before opening and after party at the DNA Lounge for developers and web creative professionals
Wisdomap is like mind mapping on really healthy organic vitamins. In addition to creating traditional bubble or mind maps, Wisdomap lets you bring in photos, text, videos, and even links to downloadable files to support the content of your mind
An online community for learning languages where our user can improve their language skills by directly having access to native speakers from around the world using our video-chat application and peer-to-peer learning features (e.g. writing reviews etc.). Users can also
An open source application program interface that allows developers to create, enrich, distribute and monetize multiplayer network games, without requiring them to apply any complicated programming techniques.
A travel site that helps you answer the question, Where should I go? The site starts by recommending weekend trips close to you. All of the trips are crafted by experts - they dont include poor-quality writing and they dont
A points-based system where members earn points for the contributions to the online business directory databases that they make. They then use those points to acquire data that they need, such as company information and more than 9 million business
A non-partisan site built by a regular citizen to help you interact with the government and each other. You can find all the legislation, including the Net Neutrality, Climate Change, and FISA Bill. You can vote on legislation, and have
Store, access, and share any type of digital files in one place. Will also convert any old media such as videotapes, film, photo prints, slides, negatives, record albums, cassettes, or documents to digital DVDs.
A free and open source solution for creating a self-hosted Lifestream, a blog-like site that automatically shows your activity across the various websites you visit.
A poll service and voting site that helps gather input and opinion data quickly on the web. Has embeddable widgets, geo-location specific polling and other customization options.
Want a free blog? How about a free blog that can earn you a few bucks? It might be time to try IdeaFry. IdeaFry helps you set up a Wordpress blog in just a few clicks. Unlike Wordpress.com hosted blogs,
This data visualizer allows uploads of .csv and excel files, gives you numerous options of visuals to personalize, and makes it easy to publish your widget onto various places on the web, social networks, blogs, websites, iGoogle, etc. The site
A new online art gallery with a focus on promoting only the best quality art from undiscovered visual artists from around the globe. Artists are added on an ongoing basis and are all pre-screened for quality before inclusion. The site
A new food and wine network. Do you love to cook? Or maybe youre attempting to learn how to, but dont know where to start. Or, maybe youre simply hungry and need inspiration to decide where to eat out.
FlexigridLightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.
SnagFilmsAt SnagFilms.com, you can watch full-length documentary films for free, but we also make it easy for you to take our films with you and put them anywhere on the web.SnagFilms brings documentaries to widgets
Yahoo People Mapa simple way to add people to a map. But the People Map is more than just a way to map member locations. By enabling group owners and moderators to customize the questions members are
Windows Vista Compatibility CenterWondering if your favorite stuff works with Windows Vista? Here’s where you can find out if it already does or if you just need a new driver.Windows Vista Compatibility Center, para saber si lo
NPR APINPR’s API provides a flexible, powerful way to access your favorite NPR content, including audio from most NPR programs dating back to 1995 as well as text, images and other web-only content from NPR and NPR
Rivva Live Map (german)Rivva … spielt auf dieser Karte die News der vergangenen zwei Stunden an ihren Ursprungsorten ab.(a Twittervision-style aggregator displaying new blog posts from Germany)
Apricado(email waitinglist and launch feed)Artists simply type in their email address, upload a song and they are ready to sell – it is that easy.Apricado: Selling Your Music Has Never Been This Easy
snagsta(Can you tie your own shoelaces? Can you spell dog? We need you to help test-drive Snagsta.) A recommendation site that uses lists to help you find things you’ll like.
Rivva Planet (german)Das hat mich dann auf die Idee gebracht, Blogs nach Städten zu aggregieren. Bislang hab ich testweise nur Planets für Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Köln, München, Stuttgart, Wien und Zürich angelegt.(location aware planets aggregating blogs
TvoszTvosz.com is a place for people who love videos. It lets anyone upload, download, view, share and experience everything from short clips captured on mobile phones all the way up to full-length, high-definition feature films.Tvosz.com: watch like
OpenDriveOpenDrive is a remote drive for your computer, that allows you to store, share or back up files from your computer on the Internet.OpenDrive Enables Automatic File Sync and Sharing to the Cloud
BroadSofts recent announcement of their new RESTful API and the supporting mashup contest is another sign that larger telephone operators will soon support Web as a Platform application development.
This week TechCrunch announced an open API for its CrunchBase database of tech organizations and related information. The quickly growing repository contains structured information on technology companies (almost 7,000 of them), people (over 13,000), and financial information like acquisitions and
Some exciting media API news this week as National Public Radio (NPR) has announced that it will release a public API in the coming days. NPR, an internationally acclaimed media production and distribution
ESRI, a leading GIS software provider, has released a public version of its ArcGIS JavaScript API that allows developers to integrate GIS functionality with web applications.
Today Yahoo announced the contest winners for the best uses of its SearchMonkey platform. SearchMonkey is a cornerstone of the Y!OS (Yahoo! Open Strategy) that we previously reported on when it was announced in April.
Yahoo has taken a major step in the evolution of search APIs with todays release of BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service). The BOSS platform lets developers build their own full-blown custom search applications
In the past two weeks, video related mashups have been the largest category of new mashups added to the ProgrammableWeb mashups catalog. In the two weeks ending on July 6, 25% of new mashups were
Tangler, an online network of discussion forums, recently announced their new API. The Tangler service takes traditional discussion forums to a new level, by allowing anyone to easily set up a discussion forum that can
Can we exploit the extraordinary ability that humans have to read faces to make sense of abstract data -- by rendering data as concrete facial features? Thats a question raised by a recent ProgrammableWeb Mashup
As reported by the BBC, the UK government has established a task force, aptly named the Power of Information Task Force, to lead a massive data sharing effort. The task force was established in March of
Google has announced the release of a new Google Data API for Google Finance Portfolios. This API is the latest GData API to be released, and it provides easy access to user
Gnip today announced a much needed piece of the web services infrastructure - a proxy service that sits between Data Publishers (like Digg, Flickr, and Twitter) and Data Consumers (like Plaxo and MyBlogLog) as a
Voices.com is an online marketplace for voice-over talent, where clients looking for actors to provide narration for commercials, documentaries, video games and the like can search for that talent.
The new Google Patent Search API is now available and lets you search over 7 million patents via code. It is part of the AJAX Search API suite of content-specific Google search utilities
As announced at Google Webmaster Central, Google has released a public API to automate the usage of Google Webmaster Tools. The Webmaster Tools gives web site owners detailed statistics about their site’s “visibility on Google”. According to the announcement, the
Tractis, which recently came out of private beta, allows you to negotiate and execute worldwide legally binding contracts online. Tractis’ focus is making e-commerce more safe by providing not only digital signing of contracts, but conflict resolution and micro-insurance services.
Diagrams play a very important role in planning and communicating a site’s architecture. They help you visualize a project before developing and piecing things together, leading to smarter design decisions. Unfortunately, for a client, Information Architecture and diagrams can be
Still tracking your car mileage with spreadsheets and scrambling to gather old gas receipts? Try MyMileMarker, a new service by Sidebar Creative that allows you to track and analyze your car mileage online through a browser or mobile phone. It’s
Released awhile ago, SnapPages is a flash powered interface that allows you to share your hobbies/interests, organize schedules, and socialize with friends. They have three applications currently, including: Friend’s Manager, Calendar Manager, and Photo Manager. Each one of these applications
Kevin Rose’s new company, Megatechtronium, launched Pownce yesterday. It was rumored to be a new instant messaging client, but I’m not too sure if that’s a good term for it. I see it more as a combination of Twitter and
L8r is a new service that lets users create an email and have it delivered at a specific time in the future. It’s similar to the popular site FutureMe where anyone can write a simple letter to themselves or a
&OpenTeams offers an interesting service that wants to reinvent the wiki. It’s designed to strengthen team collaboration and innovation while working on group projects, or as OpenTeams puts it, “initiatives”. Its interface is organized much like an email client so
BudgetPulse is a new financial management service in closed beta that aims to simplify the way you manage your money and track budgets. It allows you to manage multiple accounts and track income, expenses, assets, bills, and more. Additionally, BudgetPulse
Looking for a writeboard on steroids? Coventi is that candidate. Coventi is a writing application for the web that offers a wide variety of the features people have come to know and love. Coventi’s main focus is on group collaboration
If you’re a fan of 37signal’s Basecamp, you’ll probably like Cashboard, a new application designed to help service-oriented businesses manage estimates, invoices, timesheets and payments. It’s like a combination of SlimTimer for time tracking and Blinksale for invoicing mixed with
Can’t get enough social networks? I know I, um can’t. Anyways, here we go. MyQuire, it’s a network where you can handle a lot of different things including tasks, scheduling, projects, even photos. Of course you’ll also immediately find the
So, Tim says this is “fan-task-tic”. HiTask is a new task management solution that aims to make managing tasks easier and more fun for teams. We all know task management is a very crowded space, but HiTask has some great
First off, I apologize for the title - I couldn’t resist. (If you don’t know what the title is talking about, see this video). I am a web developer, as many of you may know. I use software on my
Social networks are sprouting across the internet faster than you can shake a stick at, however a social network for 3D artists is quite the rare find. Teapotters is that rare discovery. It’s your standard run of the mill community,
Everyone at some point in their life has an opportunity to have a space they can call their own; whether it’s a bedroom, home office, or a closet. Curbly is a web community that lets you show off, learn, and
Looking for an easy way to boost your productivity? Then turn on your instant messenger and head on over to IMified, a new service that enables users to access services like Basecamp, Google Calendar, and Remember the Milk from an
Okay, so you don’t have the time to sit down at your computer, reading what seems to be never-ending pages of reference and tutorials books to simply figure out and understand how to use all those tedious photo editing programs.
Last year I had selected the task management solution Orchestrate as a top pick in 25 To Do Lists to Stay Productive. Now Tokyo based startup Jonkenpon, creator of Orchestrate, has launched a service called 8apps which aims to be
Diagrams on paper are cool, but diagrams on the internet are cooler. This is where Bubbl.us comes into play. Bubbl.us is a mind-mapping product aimed towards literally anyone who needs help organizing their thoughts or any untidy information. Powered by
Footnote is an impressive resource which launched last week that allows users to access and annotate millions of historical documents online for the first time. Interested in the Civil War or perhaps the Bureau of Investigation? Just look it up
Because theyre typically steeped in subjectivity, product reviews tend to be more effective when grouped together. This is generally why you, the consumer, often w
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