TechCrunch:
Brizzly was first unveiled in private beta at our first CrunchUp event in July, so it’s only appropriate that today, the day of our next CrunchUp, it’s being opened to the public. Now, to be clear, the product is still technically in beta, but that’s only so the team at Thing Labs can keep experimenting with new ways to mak (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Today, during the Filtering the Stream roundtable at our RealTime CrunchUp, Seesmic’s Loic Le Meur asked why Facebook isn’t giving third parties access to their Friend Lists. Obviously, that’s a good question now that Twitter has starting giving third parties access to its Lists feature via an API. Normally, you’d expect a (Read More)
Boing Boing:
The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the net if anyo (Read More)
Scobleizer:
Twitter’s COO, Dick Costolo, today, at the TechCrunch Real Time Crunchup (live video of the conference is live now on building43, there will be lots of news all day long from this event), told the audience that Twitter is, indeed, going to turn on an advertising model.This is a huge shift in what Twitter is saying publicly. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
There are a number of real-time search engines in the space, including Collecta and OneRiot. Today, at the Real-Time CrunchUp, Infoaxe debuts its real time search engine.What makes Infoaxe unique is that it doesn’t tap into streams from Twitter, Facebook, or Digg for content. Infoaxe’s search engine relies completely on at (Read More)
Mashable!:
Google stole the tech and media spotlight today as it revealed a mountain of new details about Chrome OS, the company’s new operating system due in late 2010. It is a completely different type of OS (we provide a summary of how) that eliminates the desktop and focuses on getting you on the web quickly and efficiently. Now (Read More)
TechCrunch:
For security nuts and enterprise clients, Cisco is launching an iPhone app, called Cisco SIO, to put Cisco Security Intelligence Operations in users’ hands. The app gives giving users real-time access to security information and also lets users create personalized alerts to show security threats that could impact their netw (Read More)
The Guardian:
Joanna Geary, web development editor for The Times and one of the most thoughtful of journalistic bloggers, has an interesting take on Twitter storm controversies.Stimulated by Stephen Fry's defence of his own so-called influence during the Jan Moir episode, Geary raises a couple of pertinent points.Her second is about lib (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s almost time for Thanksgiving, and that means family traditions. But what if your family doesn’t really have any, or you simply want to start your own new ones? This might be the year where it’s your turn to up the heat and put together a Thanksgiving feast. With social media and the web, we’re lucky to have everything (Read More)
Mashable!:
Brizzly is a web-based Twitter and Facebook client that has been gaining some momentum and buzz over the past couple months. It has some slick features like being able to view photos and videos in-line in your Twitter stream, threaded DMs, and built-in photo uploading. It also recently added support for Twitter Lists. Ho (Read More)
Mashable!:
In the month or so since Twitter started rolling out its Twitter Lists feature, a number of web and Adobe AIR based clients have added support for it.However, we haven’t seen any native Twitter apps support Lists. Today Realmac Software released Socialite Beta 3 for Mac OS X, including, among other enhancements — basic list (Read More)
paidContent.org:
The Daily Beast has named publishing vet Stephen Colvin as the site’s president. Colvin CNET was president and CEO of lad mag purveyor Dennis Publishing for 11 years, will oversee all aspects of the business, the company announced. He will report directly to Tina Brown, the ye (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference earlier this week. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today, Seesmic is launching its first venture into the mobile space with impressive (Read More)
The Guardian:
Great animation dominates this week's web videos – including what happens when pigeons get the bombGet ready for amazing animations this week on the viral video chart. In fact, with Spacious Thought, Pigeon:Impossible and Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No, there are three real beauties in our top 10 – and honestly I don't know whi (Read More)
The Guardian:
It's a bumper edition of Media Talk this week, as Matt Wells and guests Jane Martinson and Paul Robinson analyse a busy seen days across the industry.We begin with broadcasting, where – after months of dilly-dallying – ITV has finally named its new chairman. We look at the job awaiting Archie Norman. Also in the podcast, w (Read More)