Startups Kapitall, Like a Wii for Investment, Puts Democratic Spin on Financial Tools A startup in the finance vertical aims to democratize investment by providing a more usable interface for financial tools and perhaps even ward off future financial calamity by decentralizing control of financial markets. Current tools, such as Yahoo! Finance, are considered intimidating, complex, and overwhelmingly boring at a time when… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Gritty Entrepreneurs Understand the Scale vs. Profitability Trade-Off This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. This is possibly the most important strategic decision one can make for a Web tech venture. It is almost always a trade-off. There are those few magic ventures whose revenue scales from day one, without the need for… Bernard Lunn View comments
News Study: Users Spend More Time on Social Networks Than Ever Before, but Twitter's Growth Slows Down According to a new study from Nielsen, Internet users spend more time on social networks and blogs in May 2009 than ever before. The total number of minutes increased 82% year-over-year. Unsurprisingly, Twitter saw the largest gain in total new users among social networks, with a 1,448% increase in visitors from May 2008 to May 2009. Users also… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Product Reviews Feedinvader: News Ticker and Feed Reader for Firefox Feedinvader is an interesting Firefox plugin that combines an online feed reader with a news ticker right underneath your bookmarks bar. The feed reader in the back-end is currently mostly for managing the feeds in the ticker, but with a bit of additional work, it could also become a great reader in its own right. The core of the plugin is the… Frederic Lardinois View comments
enterprise The New MindTouch Collaborative Intranet: Way More Than Just Wiki MindTouch, the collaborative software that began as a fork of MediaWiki, has just launched the first of three new turnkey collaborative networks for the enterprise that go far beyond the software's beginnings as a wiki. With the next two scheduled to be made public in the next six months, this first new release is of the MindTouch Collaborative… Enterprise Steven Walling View comments