News Kynetx: Powerful Cross-Platform Tool for Creating Firefox, IE & Chrome Extensions Kynetx offers developers a single platform for building extensions for multiple browsers. Developers write their code in Kynetx's own rule-based language and the service builds the actual extensions. Originally, Kynetx only supported Firefox and Internet Explorer, but a few days ago, the company also announced support for Google Chrome. Thanks to… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Advertising Location-Based Ads Come to Augmented Reality in the US Location-based social network Brightkite announced this morning that it has added what it calls the first mobile Augmented Reality advertising for U.S. markets to its AR layer in the Layar augmented reality browser. Augmented Reality (AR) is a class of technologies that place data from the web on top of a camera view of the physical world… Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
NYT Report: Twitter Made a Profit in 2009 According to a report by Business Week's Spencer E. Ante, Twitter's search deals with Google and Microsoft made the company about $25 million - enough to turn Twitter into a profitable business in 2009. According to these reports - which Twitter did not comment on - the deal with Google made Twitter about $15 million this year and a similar deal… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
mobile YouTube Competitor Dailymotion Comes to the iPhone Dailymotion, the Paris-based video sharing portal that is extremely popular in Europe, just launched its first set of iPhone applications. Dailymotion launched two apps: a free, ad-supported version (iTunes link), and a paid version for $5.99 (iTunes link) that does not feature any ads. The apps allow iPhone users to play videos from… Mobile Frederic Lardinois View comments
2009 in Review Best LittleCo of 2009 & Most Promising for 2010 Don't worry, it's not Twitter! For our Best LittleCo of 2009, we've chosen a small company whose product launched in 2009 and quickly became a leading example of one of the year's big trends: the real-time web. Our pick for Most Promising is something that could change the way people search on the Web. Last week we announced that Google was our… Richard MacManus View comments