Startups As Interest in Online Learning Grows, Udemy Lands $1 Million in Angel Funding "Five years from now on the web for free you'll be able to find the best lectures in the world," Bill Gates said at the recent Techonomy conference, arguing that online education will be "better than any single university." Gates's timeline might be debatable - could be ten years, five years, three years, now - as is his contention that the… Audrey Watters View comments
News A Redd Monday: Reddit Profits from Digg Revolt Digg's users are still in the middle of their fifth major revolt on the site and the effect of this current uprising is now starting to become more apparent. According to the latest data from Statcounter, referral traffic from Digg to its network hit its lowest point ever on Monday, while traffic from Digg competitor Reddit increased… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
Google Google Docs Gets a Taste of Wave with Collaborative Highlighting Google may have killed Wave (prematurely by some accounts), but it has added a little bit of real-time collaboration to one of its flagship offerings, Google Docs, with the addition of collaborative highlighting. Mike Melanson View comments
Security TweetDeck Warns Of Fake Update, Trojan As we mentioned earlier today, some third-party Twitter applications may stop working because Twitter has made some big changes this morning regarding how other applications and websites gain access to your Twitter account. Unfortunately, some unfriendly types out there have tried to take advantage of the situation with a fake Tweetdeck update that… Social Mike Melanson View comments
Gaming American Game Devs Can Make Four Times as Much in Japan, Company Says Japanese social gaming giant DeNA is offering support for American game developers who want to bring their games to the Japanese market, where it says the amount of money to be made is "astronomical." DeNA and Yahoo! Japan partnered in April to launch a social gaming platform, Yahoo Mobage. Now the company is officially inviting American game… Play Adrianne Jeffries View comments