Services Live Video Chat API Released by TokBox Live video chat service TokBox tonight launched a developer platform called OpenTok. Based on a simple Javascript API, the company says OpenTok allows developers to place live video chat windows on a web page as easily as other page elements are placed and customized today. The free product supports up to "several thousand" simultaneous viewers… Hack Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews Discover New Websites & Get Rewards for Returning With the New Meebo MiniBar Well-funded instant messaging and sharing service Meebo is annoucing a new product tonight that will offer loyalty programs and website recommendations for frequent visitors to any site around the web. The new Meebo MiniBar, not to be confused with the drastically overpriced hotel fare, is a free way for users to choose to share the sites they… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features Beyond Facebook: Facebook, Napster Forefathers & A Whole Lot of Investors Launch New Network, Path What if your social network was made to stay small? What if its privacy settings worked like Facebook's used to? What if that seductive but false promise made by so many spam advertisers, "see who looks at your profile" actually became possible? Those are a few of the fundamental qualities of Path.com, the new social network launched tonight… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews 10 Surprising Things You Can't Do on Path Mobile social photo app Path launched tonight to huge press attention. Here's our coverage. After a few hours of testing it, though, it's a real surprise to see just how many features this deep-pocketed, heavily pedigreed startup launched without - after a year in stealth mode. Below is our list of 10 surprising things you can't do on… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Apple Cartoon: Win a [Insert Name of Latest Apple Product Here]! There's something about Apple's consumer design chops that makes their latest product - whatever it happens to be - the definitive object of desire of the moment. Steve Jobs could announce a new line of refrigerator expansion valves next week, and we'd be lining up at midnight to buy them. ("It's tiny. It's revolutionary. It will completely… Play Rob Cottingham View comments