News Confirmed: Google Presentations Google has tonight announced its much anticipated Powerpoint competitor. It has been added to Google Docs - the new, simpler name for "Google Docs & Spreadsheets". With the new Presentations feature, users can create "simple web-based presentations". A quick glance at the functionality shows it is similar to the other Google Docs features (word… Richard MacManus View comments
News Mozilla Launches New Email and Communications Organization, Similar to Firefox Today Mozilla is launching a new organization to develop Internet mail and communications software. It will use the open source email desktop client Thunderbird as a base - the product, code and brand. Technically this will be a Mozilla Foundation subsidiary - and it is very similar to Mozilla's Firefox effort. Just as Firefox aims to give… Richard MacManus View comments
TechCrunch40, 2007 TechCrunch40: Crowd Sourcing The last session of the 1st day at TechCrunch40 was about crowdsourcing. Note: for a full round-up of the day's action at TC40, check out Allen Stern's sterling effort at Center Networks. Cake Financial Cake Financial is a financial sharing platform backed by Ron Conway. It allows people to share portfolios and real time transactions with others… Emre Sokullu View comments
TechCrunch40, 2007 TechCrunch40: Community and Collaboration Session 3 was of community and collaboration startups. Two of the participants were from Korea, showing the internationalization of web 2.0. StoryBlender StoryBlender is a promising video mashup startup from Korea. Video editing is not new, but this one's approach is like a 'video wiki' - it lets you mash up videos collaboratively… Emre Sokullu View comments
News Facebook to Offer Data Storage? Rev2.org is reporting that buried deep in the Facebook Developer wiki is mention of a Data Store API hinting at Facebook's possible intention of offering data storage to app developers. The wiki page was updated this morning to announce that the service is now in open beta and is accessible by any application (any app developers out there want… Josh Catone View comments