Filed in archive Sites
by pete on February 26, 2006
Not as much as Friendster, but enough to keep them rolling along. Rafat Ali reports: Tribe.net Bags Another $3 Million [by rafat] : That's according to an SEC filing, picked up by PE Week Wire....
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Filed in archive by pete on February 26, 2006
Kevin Burton's new company, Tailrank, has busted out ont the scene. Tailrank is a memeorandum with a twist. Users can edit descriptions of links wiki-style: TailRank allows certain members...
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Filed in archive Chat and IM
by pete on February 26, 2006
Greg Narain is testing whether content can be the context for chat initiation: However, all is not lost. An angel came to me with something much better. You'll notice that now there is a Live...
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Joyent: » Joyent, in contrast, is Groupware 2.0 for small teams. Zimbra's 100,000 user deployment pitch is very different than Joyent's pitch as a hosted service with an offering that maxes...
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Filed in archive by pete on February 26, 2006
From the pandora blog: Starting tonight each time you hear a song you'll be able to click on the song title (in the song "slide," above the album art) which will take you to a page...
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Filed in archive Research
by pete on February 26, 2006
Matthew Hurst has some data debunking the concept that the A-list of bloggers uncover the newest things first: I do believe, however, that there is steadily increasing delay in ideas getting picked...
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Filed in archive Web 2.0
by pete on February 26, 2006
Jeff Clavier points out this very cool visualization of news on a map. I particularly like this one: What's Up, a news map display developed by Jeroen Wijering, a UI designer recently graduated...
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Filed in archive by pete on February 26, 2006
Unless you've been in a hole, you've heard that myspace has partnered with Sky Dayton's Helio to make the site mobile. Rabble and winksite are two players that are doing some similar...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by pete on February 26, 2006
Dave Harper's Winksite has mobilized metroblogging and upcoming.org: WINKsite has helped Metroblogging go mobile across their network of 42 cities. We're excited to be working with sean,...
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Filed in archive Event Software
by pete on February 26, 2006
Scott Rafer gave me the tip on social calendar, 30 boxes. There are atleast 15 startups working on socializing your calendar. These guys seem to have the fastest growth, though. From their blog: We...
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Filed in archive Future
by robyn on February 23, 2006
Today's online visitors have plenty of sites to peruse. From bands at Myspace to the whole social experience at Mooble, users don't just have to choose one site to embrace. On SpamI recently...
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Filed in archive Podcast
by robyn on February 19, 2006
episode 3 - Blogging for revenue share, YouShouldMeet, and misc. social networking news. Hope you enjoy. StreamDownload......
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Attensa has introduced a very comprehensive RSS metasearch tool: RSS doesn't add much value for immediate searching. When the information we need is dynamic and unfolding over time, RSS searching...
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I prefer the findory method of blog post recommendations. But, blogcode is making it easier to find blogs you like: BlogCode.com is a fast, easy and intuitive source of blog recommendations based on...
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I spoke to Dave Balter a month or so ago. I was trying to understand what BzzAgent was going to do with the rididculous amount of cash they raised. He explained that they were switching to a...
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Tagworld - the hot newly funded social networking site - has just released a classified service. From their press release: TagWorld launched a "Classifieds" tab and a "My Store"...
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Filed in archive Social Search
by pete on February 18, 2006
Torsten Jacobi IMd me about Jeteye. He informed me that it is a new startup started by David Hayden, the founder of Critical Path and Magellan. From their about page: Search, save links and images,...
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Filed in archive Sites
by pete on February 18, 2006
Although myspace is getting most of the press about this problem (unfortunately for them), this is an issue that all of the social networks and every community website must deal with.Robert Young on...
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Filed in archive Sites
by pete on February 18, 2006
Judy's book has an interesting little promotion going on. They are giving away a gift certificate every day. From John Cook's Venture Blog: But the software giant isn't the only one...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by pete on February 18, 2006
What's a MVNO, you ask? MVNO is an acronym for Mobile Virtual Network Operator. For some silly reason, it hasn't entered into every day vernacular. But, everyone in the mobile world seems to...
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Filed in archive Event Software
by pete on February 18, 2006
Podbop lets people listen to podcasts of bands that are on tour in their home town. It uses events from eventful. And it uses MP3s that are hosted on band and label websites.Greg Sterling: SiliconBeat...
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I started writing this post a few months back on pc4media. A few months back, the techie blogosphere finally realized the power of myspace. John Battelle recognized that myspace classifieds is not...
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Filed in archive Sites
by robyn on February 13, 2006
As if MySpace couldn't be more synonymous with young naked people, now Playboy has plans to release "The Women of MySpace." Way to cash-in Playboy... Playboy magazine has devoted photo...
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Filed in archive by pete on February 12, 2006
I caught the blogging bug when I started the unofficial Eurekster blog a few years back. They were a small startup with a cool product for personalizing search. It didn't catch on - in that...
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