Product Reviews Surchur Relaunches Their "Dashboard to the Now" Surchur, a web, blog, image, video, and social media search engine, has just relaunched their online dashboard. The company calls this an "update," but it's more like an overhaul of their earlier product. Launched back in spring of 2008, Surchur's original homepage was barely even worthy of a mention, much less of use. But today, the company's… Sarah Perez View comments
News NYT Times Newswire API: All the News That Will Fit We continue to be impressed with the direction The New York Times is taking with their Times Open strategy - exposing more and more data from the Gray Lady via a number of APIs. The level of access that the venerable publication has continued to provide has been laudable. There's just been one thing missing: immediacy. But the latest API - one of… Rick Turoczy View comments
mobile ZumoDrive: Extend Your iPhone's Disk Space with Cloud Storage ZumoDrive, a new cloud storage service that looks and feels like a native drive on your desktop, just opened up its public beta program. This public beta coincides with the availability of ZumoDrive's new iPhone/iPod Touch application in the App Store (iTunes link). The mobile app allows you to access your documents and photos, and play your… Mobile Frederic Lardinois View comments
NYT Howard Lindzon and Friends Launch New Investment Fund for Social Apps Howard Lindzon, a hedge fund trader who created the high-profile short video show Wallstrip and then sold it to CBS, today launched a new fund to invest in social applications. The eight-person group is called Social Leverage, LLC and will presumably compete with a handful of other small funds to get a piece of the hottest new apps before they… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
International Etsy is an International Word of Mouth Phenomenon (Charts) Wouldn't you love to have people in every corner of the globe talking about your website face to face and on their blogs? That's the enviable position that online crafts marketplace Etsy finds itself in according to survey results the company published today. Word of mouth and personal blogs are the primary way people around the world are finding… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments