News Web Developer Sells Name to Raise Start up Capital There are many ways to raise money for a start up. Some people sell equity. Some people max out credit cards. Some people get a bank loan, some hit up family members, or dip into their savings, or take out a second mortgage on their house. Those are all things some people do to raise money. Then there's Stan Oleynick. He's selling his… Josh Catone View comments
web Wikirage: The Wikipedia Zeitgeist At the beginning of this month, Andrew Pipes wrote about Yahoo! Buzz and Google Trends, two search engine zeitgeist tools that attempt to show what topics are popular based on search volume. The idea is that when you look at search data over time you begin to get a picture of how topics trend, and when you mash that data up with data about news… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Bloglines vs Google Reader - Who's Really Winning? Earlier this week Bloglines launched a beta re-design, ending about two years of design stagnation for the once dominant browser-based RSS Reader. During my conversation with new Bloglines GM Eric Engleman, we touched on the impact of Google Reader on this market. Has Google Reader in fact usurped Bloglines as the number 1 browser-based RSS… Richard MacManus View comments
web Jooce - Challenging Facebook and WebOS Naysayers Jooce is a new Flash-based WebOS product from France, currently in private beta (we have invites at the bottom of this post). The primary use case for Jooce is for people who use cyber-cafes a lot, instead of or in addition to their own PCs or laptops. Jooce enables users to store, share and access their media and applications (such as email and… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Exclusive: First Look at Clever Tools Groupware Suite Clever Tools is a new online project management and extranet application suite that is aiming for a Q1 2008 launch (and a beta of at least a few of the apps in the suite in October of this year). The full Clever Tools suite will include a project management application (that includes message boards, task management, and file sharing), an… Josh Catone View comments