Industry Standard Breaking News:
Asana, the productivity management startup from Facebook co-founder Dustin Muskovitz and lead engineer Justin Rosenstein, has raked in $9 million from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz.Asana is probably one of the more anticipated startups in Silicon Valley right now. Moskovitz, Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes foun (Read More)
Submitted by Lemasney
from Google Reader:
DLS has discovered a great website for generating great, made-up domain names.The website is called Wordoid and it uses phonetics rules to generate internet domain names in English, Spanish, French and Italian. You can choose to put a word somewhere inside the domain and Wordoid automatically generates hundreds of domain na (Read More)
Submitted by Mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
Yesterday, Tim Sackett guest posted here with a clever, and I think mostly accurate view on why HR professionals have traditionally been slow to embrace, and at times have difficulty understanding technology.Flickr - iLoveButterSince Tim made some great points, I thought I would run a quick follow-up, with just a few ideas (Read More)
Microsoft Watch:
The blog Microsoft Kitchen (motto: "Serving up some seriously tasty Microsoft," which for some inexplicable reason creeps me out) posted two road map slides--purportedly shown by Microsoft during PDC in Los Angeles--suggesting that both the next Windows Server and Windows 8 would be released in 2012.The rumor mill has been (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Ah, the curse of the groggy morning. You may have followed all the rules: no caffeine before bed, an early bedtime, and all the rest. But your best efforts are oftentimes for naught, foiled by the mysterious ways of sleep cycles. There may be an answer: WakeMate, a Y Combinator-funded startup that’s launching today, is l (Read More)
Submitted by Jgmize
from Google Reader:
A lesson I’ve learned from both working in a start-up, and more significantly, working with so many start-ups for the last 15 months, is how easy it is to look at a marketplace and see nothing more than a list of must-have features. If you’ve got user profiles, you need a messaging system. If you’ve got a site, you need an (Read More)
Yahoo! Developer Network blog:
This article is the second in a series and part of ongoing research on web app performance. Get updates on the latest YDN articles via Twitter, follow @ydn.The Domain Name System (DNS) is part of the "dark matter" of the internet. It's hard to observe the DNS directly yet it exerts an obscure, pervasive influence without wh (Read More)
TODAY ON BUZZ3R - Web 2.0 STORIES:
It's no secret that most magazines are struggling to hold on to their subscribers. Just like the newspaper industry is under a lot of pressure from the Internet, magazines are also having a hard time adjusting to the reality of the Internet. Now, Time Inc., Condé Nast and Hearst are planning to form an alliance that would b (Read More)
WebProNews Feed:
Google has introduced a feature that lets you send attachments in Gmail while you're offline. It works the same way as it would online, except that you can't include inline images. "If you have Offline Gmail enabled, you'll notice that all your mail now goes through the outbox, regardless of whether you're online or offline (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Windows: We dig MediaMonkey for its album art and tag-fixing powers, but the free jukebox software can do so much more—like sync to nearly any smartphone or MP3 player, and automatically manage your music library. The marquee feature in MediaMonkey 3.2 is expanded device support, including WebOS devices like the Palm Pre an (Read More)
Submitted by Mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
We’re bringing together an all-star group of word of mouth marketers for Word of Mouth Supergenius: The “How to be Great at Word of Mouth Marketing” Conference on December 16 in Chicago. We’ll feature 12 how-to classes, 12 real-world case studies, and 6 brilliant authors. You’re going to learn practical, hands-on techniques (Read More)
apophenia:
Last week, I gave a talk at Web2.0 Expo. From my perspective, I did a dreadful job at delivering my message. Yet, the context around my talk sparked a broad conversation about the implications of turning the backchannel into part of the frontchannel. In the last week, I've seen all sorts of blog posts and tweets and news a (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Mac OS X: If you like to watch shows from your TiVo with a handheld device—like an iPhone or PSP—when you're on the go, free, open-source application iTiVo converts them to a portable... (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Last week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker permanently, instead encouraging the use of DHT, PEX, and magnet links. This move confounded many BitTorrent enthusiasts, who were confronted with confusing new terminology and technology. Time for some explaining. The Pirate Bay's recent confirmation that t (Read More)