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VentureBeat:
In yesterday’s keynote address at Macworld, Apple unveiled a series of software product upgrade that will potentially encroach on the territory of a handful of both startups and larger companies. Should you be worried?What iPhoto might maimFor starters, one of the big announcements revolved around changes to iPhoto, w (Read More)
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TechCrunch:
The bad news for startups keeps on coming in. This time it’s RubyOnRails application hosting provider Engine Yard that has laid off 15% of its staff, as publicly reported on the company’s blog earlier this week. We’ve contacted co-founder Lance Walley and can confirm that 12 out of 82 people have been let (Read More)
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VentureBeat:
Personal computer hardware is not a segment of the tech industry where you’d expect to encounter any innovation. That’s why cell phone startups are far more plentiful than PC startups. But a new Silicon Valley company has taught the old dog a new trick with a clever and inexpensive add-on technology.Santa Clara, (Read More)
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TechCrunch:
At the beginning of each year I traditionally publish a list of my favorite startups and products. This is the fourth year I’ve done this - previous lists: 2006, 2007, 2008.This is a list of the products I tend to use daily. Some are for work (Wordpress, Delicious, Zoho, etc.), some are for fun (MySpace Music, Hulu, e (Read More)
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: Thanks this is a great list. I have tried and/or use many of the products listed above. Right now I am so addicted to Pandora. We have a sonos that supports Pandora and I love the variety of music. There are a few that I have heard about but have not gotten around to try such as my space music and zoho that I want to try.
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: "The list changes a bit from year to year, and is also getting longer (see chart). Just three products have been favorites all four years: TechMeme, Skype, Wordpress. TechMeme continues to be the news aggregator I check multiple times per day to keep up on tech news. Skype is the instant messaging and VoIP platform that I use most often, and Wordpress software powers all of our blogs.I’ve added nine new products, including one gadget (which I’ve left off in the past): Animoto, Friendfeed, Hulu, iPhone 3G, MySpace Music, Pandora (which was on in previous years) Docstoc/Scribd and Yammer." 2
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TechCrunch:
Prologue: Three years ago when Web 2.0 began proliferating, Israeli startups used eSnips as the poster child for their case that a successful social network could be founded in Israel. Based on the criteria in those days, eSnips was in fact delivering: It was able to convince top tier VCs to buy into an advertising-based (Read More)
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Valleywag:
Dotcom mogul Halsey Minor, the CNET founder, has spent freely on real estate, artwork, and startups. He's having trouble keeping them all. The latest bauble to run aground: San Francisco magazine publisher 8020 Media. I know what you're thinking: Who starts a magazine company in this day and age? Ah, but 8020's founders had (Read More)
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TechCrunch:
One of the simplest ways to use Twitter is to conduct instant polls among your followers. But compiling all the replies is an ad-hoc and messy process. Enter twtpoll, a simple polling app that lets you ask multiple choice questions and provides a shortened URL that you can Tweet. All you do is enter your Twitter user nam (Read More)
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