Warning: Twitter Hit By StalkDaily Worm (Updated)Saturday, April 11, 2009Source: TechCrunch | Category: Technology A bad week for Twitter just got even worse. The service has apparently been infected by a worm originating from the owners of the website StalkDaily (Note: Do not visit this website, as it may cause your computer to become infected). At this point details are scant, but it appears that visiting the [...] Read more |
iPhone devotion blinds Silicon Valley app developersSaturday, April 11, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology The rush to develop iPhone applications is blinding Silicon Valley software developers to other platforms with potentially wide global audiences, most notably Nokia’s Ovi Store. So said Ewan MacLeod, a U.K.-based mobile entrepreneur and blogger at an AdMob-sponsored event in San Mateo, Calif. this week. MacLeod asked a panel of developers if they’re focused on the [...] Read more |
HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Gmail LabsSaturday, April 11, 2009Source: Mashable | Category: Social pGooglea href="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336661-Google" target="_blank" rel="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336661-Google.whtml" class="blippr-inline-smiley blippr-inline-smiley-07"Google reviews/a has been on a tear with Gmaila href="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336653-Gmail" target="_blank" rel="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336653-Gmail.whtml" class="blippr-inline-smiley blippr-inline-smiley-07"Gmail reviews/a lately - it has been releasing new features at a rapid pace. You can now a href="http://mashable. [...] Read more |
Will You Block the DiggBar?Saturday, April 11, 2009Source: Mashable | Category: Social pRecently, the popular social media website a href="http://mashable.com/category/digg"Digg/aa href="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336668-Digg" target="_blank" rel="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336668-Digg.whtml" class="blippr-inline-smiley blippr-inline-smiley-05"Digg reviews/a released a useful but controversial product: the a href="http://mashable.com/2009/04/02/diggbar-shorten-urls-and-experience-digg-on-any-web-page/"DiggBar/a, an iframe toolbar that lets users browse other websites without actually leaving Digg. [...] Read more |
Online poll site BuzzDash shutting after failing to raise roundSaturday, April 11, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology BuzzDash is shutting down due to lack of funding. The online polling site was one of a number of sites that allowed users to create their own polls. We used it frequently here on VentureBeat. In a note to users sent Friday night, BuzzDash founder and chief executive David Gerken said that BuzzDash will be “winding [...] Read more |
6 Half-Truths About The CloudSaturday, April 11, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Is there any subject in IT today with more promise — or more confusion — than cloud computing? Current enthusiasm could have you believing that clouds will be taking over all IT, saving you boatloads of money, and saving the planet. But behind the hype, there are a few caveats. Joe Weinman looks at six commonly held views that, while not wrong, are just not entirely accurate. Read more |
Live from the PragueCrunch II Meet-upSaturday, April 11, 2009Source: TechCrunch | Category: Technology Welcome to PragueCrunch II, Prague’s foremost party to held in Prague every year around the time TechCrunch writers feel like going to Prague to drink great beer and talk start-ups, tech, and gadgets. We’ll be streaming live through Qik and posting images throughout the day. If you’re still vacillating and you’re in Prague, come on down! [...] Read more |
More details emerge on HTC Android phones — and the device hype marketSaturday, April 11, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Two days ago T-Mobile had sent an email to Engadget to invite them to an press event on April 21st. Billed as a “private launch event” it also has other tech blogs wondering what that means: Will the next device to carry the Android operating system be announced? Will developers hear about an update on [...] Read more |
More details emerge on HTC Android phones as hype buildsSaturday, April 11, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Two days ago T-Mobile sent an email to Engadget to invite them to an press event on April 21st. Billed as a “private launch event,” it has tech blogs wondering what the news will be: Will the company be announcing a new Android device? Or maybe an update to the code developers use to build [...] Read more |
Details of HTC Android phones emerge through new style of marketingSaturday, April 11, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Two days ago T-Mobile sent an email to Engadget to invite them to an press event on April 21st. Billed as a “private launch event,” it has tech blogs wondering what the news will be: Will the company be announcing a new Android device? Or maybe an update to the code developers use to build [...] Read more |
Media insiders say Internet hurts media insiders, according to insidery surveyFriday, April 10, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Oh boy, you know this is going to be good — the Atlantic just published a poll of “media insiders” (the magazine’s words, not mine) asking whether the Internet helps or hurts journalism. Shockingly, it turns out that most of these old-school media folks aren’t fans of the web! Sixty-five percent said the Internet has [...] Read more |
Bye MG Siegler, we’ll miss you — especially your headlinesFriday, April 10, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology It’s with a heavy heart that I write this post. Reporter MG Siegler is leaving VentureBeat, to begin work at competing blog TechCrunch. We always viewed MG as one of our better writers, and he fit really well with our team. At his best, he was provocative, and sprinkled his pieces with a steady sense [...] Read more |
Bye, MG Siegler, we’ll miss you — especially your headlinesFriday, April 10, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology It’s with a heavy heart that I write this post. Reporter MG Siegler is leaving VentureBeat to begin work at competing blog TechCrunch. We always viewed MG as one of our better writers, and he fit really well with our team. At his best, he was provocative and sprinkled his pieces with a steady sense [...] Read more |
Phoebe’s Cupcakes eats up $1.5M from AscentFriday, April 10, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Ascent Equity Capital has given $1.5 million to launch Phoebe’s Cupcakes, a bakeshop run by Chicagoans Phoebe Walters and Kate McNamara. Why would a firm with a portfolio of banking and legal startups fund a bakeshop? Apparently, general partner Chad Mollman is a huge fan of the duo’s mint chocolate chip cupcakes. Such a fan in [...] Read more |
The New Bebo: 50 Percent Growth in One MonthFriday, April 10, 2009Source: Mashable | Category: Social pIn late February, Bebo debuted a a href="http://mashable.com/2009/02/23/bebo-lifestreaming/"major redesign/a, complete with integration of a href="http://mashable.com/2008/08/14/aol-acquires-socialthing/"SocialThing/a – another AOL purchase. They also recently started porting AIM profiles over to Bebo profiles. /p pThe latter is likely what is driving some significant growth; the site swelled by nearly 50 percent in March to a total of 4.6 million unique visitors in the US, according to Compete. [...] Read more |
Cell Biosciences to launch new tech with $10MFriday, April 10, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Read more |
Resume Search Startup TalentSpring Raises $1.6 MillionFriday, April 10, 2009Source: paidContent | Category: Media pa href="http://www.talentspring.com/" title="TalentSpring"TalentSpring/a, a semantic-search startup that lets recruiters identify potential job candidates on social-networking sites and job boards by scanning for their qualifications, has a href="http://www.talentspring.com/about/press_center" title="raised"raised/a $1.6 million. Investors include Second Avenue Partners. The company is testing its service, and expects to go live with it in May. TalentSpring argues that semantic search is more effective than searching for key words and correlated terms. [...] Read more |
Google Earth Flythroughs Come To The BrowserFriday, April 10, 2009Source: TechCrunch | Category: Technology Earlier this week the Google Earth team released a new plugin that allows users to view Google Earth tours directly from their web browsers. These tours, which were introduced in the 5.0 release of Google Earth in February, allow users to create virtual flythroughs through any location on Google Earth, which can lead to some pretty impressive results. Google has compiled a handful of the best tours in this gallery, which includes a reenactment of the historic Flight 1549 landing in the Hudson and a whirlwind tour through San Francisco. [...] Read more |
Orphaned by potential suitors, Digg grows up on its ownFriday, April 10, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology When it comes to web 2.0 startups, the social news site Digg is like an old man. Launched in 2004, it quickly exploded on to the scene and became both a web and media darling in relatively short order. So now it seems like it has been around forever, and for at least the past [...] Read more |
Ditched by potential parents, Digg grows up on its ownFriday, April 10, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology When it comes to web 2.0 startups, the social news site Digg is like an old man. Launched in 2004, it quickly exploded on to the scene and became both a web and media darling in relatively short order. So now it seems like it has been around forever, and for at least the past [...] Read more |
