Product Reviews PlanHQ Wants to Make Achieving Business Plans Easier PlanHQ is a web based business plan tool that wants to help small and medium businesses to more effectively manage their teams, financials, and, most importantly, their projects. While it has obvious similarities to the popular project management tool Basecamp, PlanHQ's approach is quite distinct from Basecamp's and invites its users to keep an eye… Frederic Lardinois View comments
New Media CNN Wants to Go Viral: Enables Embeddable Videos Starting today, CNN will allow all users to embed videos from CNN on their blogs or social network profiles. With this, CNN is following a growing trend among news organizations like MSNBC, FoxNews, and CBS. Judging from the wording of the announcement, CNN is clearly hoping to see some of its clips go viral, and with the political season in the… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Product Reviews Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source - Will it Matter? Social bookmarking: the awkward genius hopes you'll take its ideas to parties for it. Ma.gnolia, one of the most popular second tier social bookmarking services on the web, announced today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle that the company has thrown itself to the mercy of the development community and is going to make its code available in… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Google Google Announces Mobile Geolocation API for Gears Google today announced a Geolocation API for Windows Mobile phones running Google Gears. The Geolocation API will allow developers to get location data based on the cell-ID of nearby cell towers or from built-in GPS systems. Soon, Google will also integrate data from nearby WiFi connections. For now, Gears only works with Firefox, IE, and IE Mobile… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Product Reviews Will Gmail Get Google Reader-Like Trends? If you're a Google Reader user, no doubt you've taken a look at your Google Reader trends. The trends feature of Reader is an invaluable service that shows you which feeds you read, share, star, and email. It also provides stats on your subscriptions themselves, showing which ones are frequently updated, inactive, or the most obscure. Bar charts… Sarah Perez View comments