Appistry Joins Cloudscale Storage Fray, and Brings Hadoop With ItMonday, March 15, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Appistry today added another element to its cloud-computing application platform, announcing the April availability of CloudIQ Storage. With it, St. Louis-based Appistry joins the growing ranks of companies seizing on demand cloud storage solutions that maintain performance in the face of rapidly growing data volumes. Read more |
CustomMade helps woodworkers move to the webMonday, March 15, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology There are a growing number of websites serving shoppers looking for hand-crafted products. Now a startup called CustomMade hopes to find a similar audience for custom furniture. If you’re familiar with artist marketplace Etsy, custom-jewelry site BlueNile, or custom-apparel site Zazzle, CustomMade.com may feel a bit underpowered. The site doesn’t include options to customize a product for yourself, like you can on BlueNile and Zazzle. You can’t even browse and buy products like you can on Etsy. [...] Read more |
AnyClip opens its quote database for movie buffsMonday, March 15, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Many of you have probably had a moment where you wanted to quote a favorite line from a movie, but couldn’t quite get the wording right. A site called AnyClip can help. The New York City startup first launched at the TechCrunch50 conference last fall, promising to help users search for and watch their favorite movie moments. We called AnyClip our favorite company of the show, but some of the judges were concerned that the team might have trouble making needed deals with the movie studios to show the clips. [...] Read more |
iPhones — They Only Come Out At NightMonday, March 15, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media iPhone users tend to use their devices in the evening and on the weekends, reports Localytics, a Cambridge, MA-based start-up offering mobile analytics services. According to as study conducted by the company, the mobile app usage in the US peaks at around 9 pm EST on [...] Read more |
Make mobile commerce site checkout process simplerMonday, March 15, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile One of the biggest grumbles about buying through mobile devices is the checkout process. For multichannel retailers, the solution is close to home.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/wPBiXjwjKd0" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
Gomez upgrades platform to better ID mobile Web performing issuesMonday, March 15, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile Gomez upgraded its platform for managing Web performance across multiple browsers and load testing both mobile and Web applications.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/6BAO--D4wXw" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
Five tips to get the most out of Google BuzzMonday, March 15, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile How to get the most out of the Google Buzz for mobile Web application experience? Here are some tips from the company.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/58cDmbh74PI" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
SkyVu uses mobile to boost Battle Bear App Store rankingMonday, March 15, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile SkyVu Pictures ran a mobile ad campaign to boost the ranking of the Battle Bears iPhone game.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/tur7zrIY9uI" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
Barnes & Noble to launch iPad app that directly competes with its nook - Mobile Commerce DailyMonday, March 15, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile Mobile Commerce Daily today - Barnes Noble to launch iPad app that directly competes with its nook; PixyMe app drives sales of virtual, physical postcards.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/MntV3eKBeX8" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
CNN Mobile TV debuts on AT&T, Flo TVMonday, March 15, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile Turner Broadcasting has expanded its partnership with mobile broadcast television company Flo TV Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., to bring consumers CNN Mobile programming.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/ZsscjDTfk9Y" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
KFC, Southwest Airlines break March Madness campaign on Yahoo mobileMonday, March 15, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile Quick-serve restaurant giant KFC and Southwest Airlines are driving college basketball fans to their respective mobile sites via banner ads within Yahoo Sports’ “Tourney Pick’em” mobile portal.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/KNJd5Y-bcIk" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
RateItAll helps businesses build their own FoursquareSunday, March 14, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology RateItAll, the review site that has described itself as a “distributed Yelp for everything,” is going mobile. But it’s not just by releasing an iPhone app of its own — RateItAll wants to help companies build their own location check-in services. There are a number of different companies that may want to build their own customized version of Foursquare, said chief executive Lawrence Coburn. A conference might want to encourage attendees to share their location with each other. [...] Read more |
Marketers Miss Hispanics on Social SitesSunday, March 14, 2010Source: eMarketer | Category: Metrics Only two in 10 engage Hispanics on the social Web Read more |
Local Shoppers Look Online FirstSunday, March 14, 2010Source: eMarketer | Category: Metrics 90% search online for nearby businesses Read more |
TechStars Grades ItselfSunday, March 14, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media TechStars, a seed stage investment program which has outposts in Boulder (Colorado), Boston and Seattle, recently decided to graded itself. So far, the group is not doing to badly. Out of the total 39 companies to come out of TechStars, 29 are still active, five were [...] Read more |
Google Accepts Buzz Criticism, Invites Boyd to Speak on PrivacySunday, March 14, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Google, to its credit, is rolling with the punches thrown in response to its Buzz launch. Members the product team spoke on a inside-the-scenes panel at SXSW today, facing industry-wide criticism as well as some cutting attacks over privacy issues from keynoter & researcher Danah Boyd. Read more |
SXSW: Google Accepts Buzz Criticism, Invites Boyd to Speak on PrivacySunday, March 14, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Google, to its credit, is rolling with the punches thrown in response to its Buzz launch. Members of the product team spoke on an inside-the-scenes panel at SXSW today, facing industry-wide criticism as well as cutting attacks over privacy issues from keynoter & researcher Danah Boyd. Read more |
Digg announces new “blazing fast” site, Mashable partnership at SXSWSunday, March 14, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Social news site Digg announced an upcoming launch of a radically overhauled site, new.digg.com, that will go public in the next few weeks. Personalized homepages and faster performance are among the site’s major changes, as Digg struggles to compete with Twitter and Facebook for the attention spans of Internet news junkies. The site, new.digg.com, is currently collecting email addresses of people who wish to be notified when the new site is ready for user testing. Digg CEO Jay Adelson described the site’s changes to attendees at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas on Sunday. [...] Read more |
“How to be Black” grabs SXSW audienceSunday, March 14, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Baratunde Thurston is The Onion’s Web and Politics editor. Thurston — best known as @baratunde on Twitter — is a comedian who understands the power of bar charts. Sunday afternoon at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, Thurston gave a just-the-right-amount-of-edgy talk on the Internet’s influence on black Americans, and vice versa. While we wait for video to become available, @baratunde’s slides are online. How do black people differ from white people on the Internet? They use Yahoo more than Google. [...] Read more |
Five ways mobile games differ from appsSunday, March 14, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Games are apps, in theory. In practice, they’re a special kind of app. That’s what mobile analytics firm Motally learned after its first year providing in-game statistics for developers to use in defining or refining their products. Motally’s app tools can tell, for example, how long a gamer spent on each screen of a game, and where they are located geographically. (For example, my BlackBerry is often mistaken for Canadian by Google and other sites that do geotargeting. Motally claims their toolkit can tell that I’m a Verizon customer in San Francisco. [...] Read more |
