TechCrunch:
There are many sites that show trending links across the web including TweetMeme, Topsy, and Bit.ly. Recently launched splurb is now in the mix with its site that shows the most popular links that are trending on social media sites. splurb currently indexes Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, TweetMeme, Yahoo Buzz and Fark.Splu (Read More)
TechCrunch:
As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we're seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
I’m in India this weekend with fellow TechCrunch/BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy. After we’re done with the elephant rides in Jaipur, we’re going to be meeting local tech startups. Then we head back to New Delhi to meet more aspiring entrepreneurs. Sarah is writing a book on how startup culture has gone global and I’m resear (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Google’s Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer was recently profiled in a Vogue Magazine article that offered a in-depth glimpse into the exec’s lifestyle, loves, career and fashion preferences. Now, Mayer has been named as one of Glamour Magazine’s 2009 Women of the Year. Joining Mayer on the (Read More)
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In order to enable easy access to its cost-effective business productivity software, Microsoft has launched its online services in India. (Read More)
paidContent.org:
The studios have put the screws to Redbox and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) in order to get them to take new releases at a later date. Redbox has sued all the big studios—but Netflix is taking a different tack. During the company’s most recent earnings call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings s (Read More)
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from Twitter:
Lizz Pellet’s Good, Bad, and Ugly: Yahoo, Beth Israel Deaconess, and Hyatt each handled the recession and.. http://bit.ly/Pn6Z8. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said earlier this week that he intends to make sure his company’s games don’t include scammy offers in the future. Our full background on this story is here.But what he didn’t say in that blog post is that Zynga has been scamming users from the beginning quite intentionally as part of their revenue mod (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Last week Google launched the Music Onebox — a special new music search product that lets users stream songs in their entirety for free. Today, Yahoo Video is answering by improving its music video search offering. When you search for a song or artists, Yahoo will extract music videos of the most popular songs and albums f (Read More)
TechCrunch:
A year ago, KillerStartups bought the killer domain name Startups.com for a few hundred thousand dollars. The company didn’t do anything with it other than redirect to the KillerStartups blog. Today, it realunched as a Q&A site for business questions.Want to know “How to edit a business video before uploading it to YouTub (Read More)
Twine | Brain, Mind and Consciousness items:
Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009 05:28 PDT Former Marine captain resigns in protest of Afghanistan war Top civilian in southern province argues we're exacerbating the problem we're supposedly there to solve By Glenn Greenwald (updated below) Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain with combat experien (Read More)