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March 2009 Archives

Wednesday, 25th March 2009

Justin.tv Makes Global Video Site Top 5

Justin.tv, popular live video stream and chat destination, announced today that they are now in the top five online video sites world-wide with 21.9 million monthly unique viewers according to Quantcast. Justin.tv is beating other streaming video sites in this space, including Hulu at 15.7 million and Veoh at 11.8 million. Further, the service…

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ReQall Goes Pro: Smarter Task Management for the iPhone

By default, task managers are not necessarily the most exciting applications. ReQall, however, is not only one of the better iPhone task managers, but is also trying to make a business out of it by launching reQall Pro today. For $2.99 a month, reQall Pro users get a large number of new features, including Outlook and Google Calendar integration…

Frederic Lardinois comments

Can Business Be Crowdsourced? 135 Real-World Examples

Public collaboration, network effects, crowdsourcing - call it what you will, the read/write web is based largely on projects where the value of the whole is greater than the sum of countless parts. Those parts are contributed by individual people all over the world, often for free. It's world-changing stuff, but can businesses make effective use…

Enterprise Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Thanks Ward, for Inventing the Wiki 14 Years Ago Today

Today marks the 14th anniversary of the creation of the very first wiki, Ward Cunningham's WikiWikiWeb. Cunningham described that site as focused on "PeopleProjectsAndPatterns in SoftwareDevelopment." The words that run together became links to other editable pages and the paradigm quickly spread all around the world. Wiki, the collaborative…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Facebook Tweaks New Homepages in Response to User Complaints

As we reported last week, Facebook's users clearly disliked the latest updates to their homepages, and now, Facebook is giving in to pressure from its most vocal users. According to Facebook, its users were especially unhappy with the lack of filtering mechanisms for the news stream on their homepages, and yesterday, Facebook's Chris Cox…

Social Frederic Lardinois comments

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