ExpenseBay Takes the Trophy at Twiistup 6
Of twelve competing startups selected to present at Twiistup 6 in Los Angeles, only one would go home with the prestigious trophy, which…
Fri, 31 July 2009
Three Principles of Social Software Creation From Andy Baio
After Andy Baio co-founded and sold social events listing site Upcoming.org to Yahoo! he could have spent the rest of his days doing…
Boomi Widgets Ease SaaS Integration
Boomi is a platform for on-demand integration of software as a service. Until recently, all their tools for migrating and manipulating…
Bits of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business: Part 3
In Part 1, we described the three big waves crashing down on the traditional book publishing business: Google Search, the Kindle and…
Task.fm: A Remember The Milk Alternative
It might not have a Gmail gadget and an iPhone app, but reminder service Task.fm is a good alternative to popular productivity tool Remember…
12seconds Gets a New iPhone App: Sending Video to Twitter Made Easy
12seconds.tv, an online video service that lets users upload short video clips, just announced its new iPhone application. While the first…
Google's Vision for the Future of Google Books: EBook Store, Google Editions
Google's vision for Google Books obviously goes far beyond the controversial Google Book Search settlement with the Authors Guild and the…
Ten Ways to Celebrate Sysadmin Day
Every year since the turn of the century, the last Friday in July has been Sysadmin Appreciation Day. If you're an IT worker, we already…
Thu, 30 July 2009
Lookout Paypal! Google Checkout's New Gadget is Incredibly Simple
This morning on the Google Checkout Blog, the company announced the introduction of a new, embeddable gadget which you can place on any…
Seriously, What is Going on with the App Store? Blocks, Delays, and Awful Apps Slipping Through
Apple has never been one to be overly communicative with their developer community and the iTunes App Store is no exception. There is…
Social Media CRM: What Are the Rules of Engagement?
Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked…
Technorati Launches Twittorati: Top Tweets from Blogosphere
Technorati, the world's first blog search engine, just unveiled Twittorati - a site where the top 100 bloggers' tweets are featured and…
The Firefox Campaign Trail: A Billion Downloads, A Billion Votes
According to the Mozilla Team and the Firefox Twitter account, the spunky orange browser will reach 1 billion downloads at approximately…
Build Profit Not DMCA Suits: YouTube and the Wedding March
An unconventional wedding march in Saint Paul, Minnesota, sent sparks across the web. Not only was it a celebration of couple Jill Peterson…
JamLegend Rocks at Startup Event in Los Angeles
LaunchBox startup JamLegend began in 2008 as an idea to take Rock Band and Guitar Hero online and make them infinitely more fun for more…
Webtrends Acquires Testing & Optimization Shop Widemile
Analytics firm Webtrends has acquired testing and optimization services company Widemile, as announced this afternoon in a blog post by…
Gliffy Unveils the First Online Diagramming API
Gliffy, one of the top Web-based diagramming tools, has released the first API for any service of its kind. This software as a service…
BakeSpace: An Unlikely Startup Success Story from Twiistup
BakeSpace might not be the sexiest concept on the startup block. A recipe swap community, said founder Babette Pepaj, strikes many in the…
Newsgator Shuts Down Its Online Feed Reader
NewsGator, the company behind the popular FeedDemon and NetNewsWire feed readers, just announced that it will shut down the NewsGator Online…
Why Do You Tweet?
eMarketer reports that, according to the "Consumer Internet Barometer," the majority of Twitter users (42%) use the service to communicate…
Fujitsu FlexFrame Now Integrates with Oracle VM
Fujitsu has announced the newest version of its FlexFrame for Oracle, and it now supports the Oracle VM, the server virtualization software…
Skype As We Know It May Not Exist Much Longer, eBay Says
EBay is working on software to replace the guts of Skype but is worried that it may not succeed, may lose a court battle with Skype's…
My6Sense: A Smarter Feed Reader for the iPhone
Google Reader offers a nifty mobile interface, and apps like Byline (iTunes link) and NetNewsWire (iTunes link) are well-designed native…
How To: Use Virtual Worlds for Business
Despite the hype, only 11% of enterprises have adopted virtual worlds to augment their work, says a new report by Forrester. Virtual…
