TechCrunch:
The chances of me being genuinely amazed at something I see a Belgian tech company achieve are rather slim. But occasionally, it happens. Last week I went to local entrepreneur meetup BetaGroup and saw five startups pitch their stuff to the 200-headed audience. The last one to get its five minutes of fame was Cherry, a new (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Editing your images on a desktop image editor might be ideal, but sometimes you're away from our home workstation and need to do some impromptu editing. Check out these five options favored by Lifehacker readers. Photo by karlfrankowski. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite tools for editing images online, (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Michael Arrington will begin selling netbook tablet CrunchPad later this summer [NYT]The way PR works in Silicon Valley [NYT]Will Amazon put ads into Kindle books? [TechCrunch]July 4 logos from Google, Bing and Yahoo [SEL]Silicon Alley Insider readers should be out by the pool [Common Sense]Join the conversation about this (Read More)
BBC News Player | World:
The Italian city of Venice has launched what is believed to be the most extensive, wireless internet system anywhere in Europe. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Like most things on the Internet, there’s a good side and a dark side to where the media business is headed.The good side is very good: thousands of layers of mostly needless middlemen and processes are being eliminated as journalists get a direct channel to their readers. And, because it’s a two way medium, readers get tha (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
All American newspapers fared terribly in the first half of 2009.105 newspapers shuttered.10,000 newspaper jobs were lost.Print ad sales fell 30% in Q1 '09.23 of the top 25 newspapers reported circulation declines between 7% and 20%.What happened?The economy collapsed and advertising budgets went with it, accelerating a pro (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
In principle, any advance in any field of technology is welcome, but I have my doubts about this new service developed by a Japanese company called DSS. It’s basically aimed at establishing a “big brother”-like control system [JP, PDF] within factories.After paying $21,000, factory management can simultaneously monitor the (Read More)
ProBlogger:
At the bottom of this post is a coupon code to give you a $50 credit at MyAds - this is not an affiliate promotion, just a take it or leave it offer from MyAds.Over the last week or so I’ve had the opportunity to see inside the MyAds from MySpace.MyAds have been an advertiser here on ProBlogger for a month or two now (consi (Read More)
SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources:
When Oprah announced on her show that she “LOVES” Amazon’s Kindle, millions of people rushed out to get one. First introduced in 2007, the “Kindle” is Amazon’s electronic replacement for books. It’s a portable, wireless device that allows you to download books, magazines, newspapers, even blogs instantly and take them with (Read More)
BBC:
Is Twitter suddenly in a dangerous place, risking alienating users by becoming far too corporate, while failing to make any cash from those feeding off it? Three incidents in 24 hours have provoked that question.First, I was invited by BBC colleagues to speak at an internal "summit"on the use of Twitter in our operations. T (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Different markets have different needs for marketing products or services. We all know that much. But that doesn’t take away the weirdness of a company like Google advertising its core product (online search) by using ink that was printed on paper. Guilty of this hideous crime (I kid, I kid) is Google India, who apparently (Read More)
TechCrunch:
On Wednesday I spoke with antitrust attorney Gary Reback, the man who spearheaded the push to break up Microsoft in the nineties. The event was hosted by HBSTech at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.If anyone in the world can make antitrust law interesting, it’s Reback.Much of the hour plus conversation focused (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Since the debut of the App Store last summer, my iPhone has become an indispensable part of my workout routine. The phone makes it easy to track your workout progress both in the gym and outdoors, where applications like RunKeeper allow you to use the phone’s integrated GPS to plot your bike or running course on a map. B (Read More)