I’ve been hearing whispers that Google will integrate their social network Orkut with the mobile social networking app they acquired
last year, Dodgeball. While it’s not rocket
science to make the connection between the two products (both are social networking), the
reasons to join the two are becoming more compelling… Here are some of…
I guess this is a sign of the times – a site dedicated to gaming digg, called User/Submitter. But
there’s no reason such a site couldn’t exist for del.icio.us, or stumbleupon, or
netscape – or any site that relies on voting. Needless to say, I hope this site
gets squashed ASAP – it’s at the same pond scum level as the RSS
Ripoff Merchants, in my…
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by
Richard MacManus.
This week at DEMOfall I saw two vertical search applications that made me think that
this area is getting mature and ready for prime time. Pluggd and Retrevo
launched technologies that are not only good at finding podcasts and consumer electronics
(respectively) – these sites categorize…
Hot
on the heels of the well-received Google
Reader re-design, I received a tip tonight (thanks Mike Rundle) that Bloglines has also done a
slight re-design. On their blog they
note:
“You might have noticed a few fancy little changes we’ve made to your
feed tree on the left pane today. You’ll like them even more when you learn
what’s behind…
Google Reader, Google’s web-based RSS Aggregator, has had a re-design and I am
impressed. It now has a look n’ feel very much like Gmail, which I believe is a pointer
to this product being prepped for mainstream promotion – and/or merged with Gmail.
Probably a bit of both, as a standalone RSS Reader is always going to be needed. You’ll
recall…
Pluggd’s HearHere technology allows people to search
inside podcasts – i.e. jump to an exact position in audio or video. Pluggd presented at
DEMO and Alex Iskold caught up with their CTO
and co-founder Jonathan Thompson for a quick interview…
R/WW: What is your company about?
Jonathan: Pluggd is a company focused on helping consumers…
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Iskold
Ed Anuff, founder and CEO of Widgetbox gave a sharp presentation this morning introducing Widgetbox – the online widget marketplace. Widgetbox is an end-to-end solution for both widget developers and widget consumers. The Widgetbox site provides a nicely organized directory of widgets – with categories…
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Iskold
Three years in making, the Linux Mail server from PostPath debuted at DEMOfall this morning. What took them so long? Well, their sever is a 100% compatible replacement for Microsoft Exchange running on Linux. As far as Outlook is concerned, it is talking to Microsoft Exchange Server – all of the…
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Iskold
This morning at DEMO Retrevo launched a public beta of a new vertical search engine for consumer electronics. This is one of the better examples of vertical search that I have seen so far. Retrievo offers a simple search box and then organizes the results into several categories. The Top results section…
Widgetbox is a marketplace for widgets and
they are one of the companies presenting at DEMOfall ’06. Alex Iskold caught up with Widgetbox CEO Ed Anuff
today for a quick interview, before their presentation on Wednesday…
R/WW: What is your company about?
Widgetbox is a web widget marketplace that makes it easy to build widgets, find
widgets…
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Iskold
Look
Ma, no charger! Today at DEMOfall, the CEO of Moixa
Energy Simon Daniel (a quirky physics PhD from the UK) dropped a bag full of
chargers on stage. He kicked them away and pulled out of his pocket the marvel
created by his company Äì a battery called
USBCell that charges from the USB port. Not only…
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Iskold
Until
now, online music advertising has been a somewhat unsolved – sometimes
controversial – problem. Today Lirix
unveiled at DEMO an intelligent and elegant solution to the problem, called AdLirix.
It is a smart, context-sensitive advertising solution that will allow musicians
to make money off their music…
We hear a
lot about digg, Slashdot and del.icio.us as traffic drivers for media websites and blogs.
But one site that doesn’t get enough props in this regard is StumbleUpon. In our recent Social
Bookmarking Faceoff, we noted that StumbleUpon has the largest user base with
1,271,345 users. Its main rival in the space, del.icio.us, recently announced…
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Iskold
BuzzLogic has unveiled a solution today which helps marketers keep track of social influence. Based on your topic of interest, BuzzLogic software turns the chaotic world of blogs and web sites into a network of flows of influence. The software finds top influencers, measures the weight or importance of…
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Iskold
MojoPac got a round of applause here at DEMOfall for demonstrating portable technology that looked like pure magic. MojoPac allows Windows users to save their entire PC onto a USB or iPod. The users can then plug the portable storage into any other PC and that PC will have exactly the same software…
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Iskold
Presto has launched a photo service which is focused on helping get photos to people who are not online. This might not be a spicy web 2.0 ajax application, but it solves a big problem and does it very well. Here is how it works. Say your grand mother is not web savvy. For $149.99 you purchase an HP…
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Iskold
Tribeca Labs launched
an interesting photo service at DEMO, focused on helping you preserve your digital photos. Their
application continuously crawls your hard drive and when it finds a photo it does a few
interesting things. Firstly by using adaptive imaging, Photobot automatically improves the
quality…
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Iskold
Dash Navigation has launched the first truly connected automotive
navigation system. Dash plugs into your car’s cigarette lighter and connects to the
Internet via cellular networks and Wi-Fi.
Dash excels at helping you avoid traffic. The traffic information comes from road
sensors and other Dash systems…
Back in June I
spoke about the corporate blogging project that I co-run with The Rights Marketing Company. Called Micro
Media Corp, it’s a corporate blogging and podcasting program that aims to give
business people insights into the Web 2.0 and New Media worlds. Our first major customer
is British Telecom and we’re currently in expansion mode…
It’s been a busy day on Read/WriteWeb, with Alex Iskold managing to find time
to file multiple reports from DEMOfall 2006 in San Diego. Here are his posts
from today:
Widgetbox:
A Chat With CEO Ed Anuff
USBCell
does away with chargers
Lirix
innovates in music advertising
BuzzLogic
innovates in social influence space…
