Mashups Mashery Continues Rapid Growth With WhitePages.com Mashup Mashup management service Mashery launched Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews AJAX Photo Sharing Site Zoto Goes Open Source Zoto is a highly regarded photo sharing site with lots of AJAX, social features and blogging plug-ins. It's been getting good write ups since Om Malik covered it in 2004. Late last year the company switched to a paid-only account model (like Smugmug) and last week it put the codebase up on the Google Code open source repository. Non-commercial… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Google Google Finally Launches Offline Access for Docs Google announced today that they would be adding the ability for users to work offline in their popular web office suite Google Docs. Offline support will be powered by the Google Gears API, which is a browser extension that allows developers to store application data offline and sync it back up again later when users are reconnected. Some… Josh Catone View comments
Features Chumby Gets $12.5M...Here's Why It's Taking Off Chumby Industries, makers of the Wi-Fi video and widget displaying device, the Chumby, have just announced $12.5 million in Series B funding today. The company notes that this new financing is going to be used to "accelerate growth of the company, and expand and broaden the Chumby Network to other screen-based Internet connected devices." How did… Sarah Perez View comments
Data Portability Xoopit: Proof that Gmail Needs a Better API Email media management application Xoopit launched in private beta today (invite link below) and announced a $5m venture round from some big backers. Would a good feature set and reputation be enough for you to hand over your Gmail username and password to this application? It's not good enough for me. Xoopit is aimed at the widespread… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments