TechCrunch:
We recently reviewed Wasabi, Netvibes’ powerful new stream reader which consolidates news feeds, blogs, Twitter and Facebook streams, email, and more in an extremely manageable interface. The site entered private beta recently and we have 200 invites for TechCrunch readers. To get an invite, visit Wasabi and enter the code (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The new Chumby One model ditches the old beanbag casing for a retro-clock-radio-inspired look and slashes the price, though the internals are unchanged. It remains a pretty frivolous gadget, yet I can't help really liking it. The Price $100 for a limited time, $120 afterwards. Includes international power adapters and AC ch (Read More)
Engadget:
Switched On: The next step toward the IP tunerRoss Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.Five years ago, the first Switched On talked about the growing coziness between the iPod photo and video. Today, of course, the iPod and many other portable media players have embraced digitally- (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The tale of Netflix on the PS3 is sad: Sony's solution is only now shipping after sitting pretty on the Xbox for more than a year, and to add insult to injury, it comes on a disc. Thankfully, it's slick. The interface is technically new in that it's visually catered to the PS3, but it should look familiar to anyone who's us (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Ribbit just announced the launch of Ribbit Mobile. Ribbit Mobile is a cloud-based VoIP telephony service that brings together web-based calling, smart call routing and voicemail transcriptions.It is hard to look at Ribbit Mobile without comparing it to Google Voice. Just like Google Voice, Ribbit gives users a new phone num (Read More)
: "Ribbit Mobile also has quite a few features that Google doesn't offer, including the ability to ring different phones simultaneously and to make calls from within the browser." FAIL Have you even used Google Voice? Google Voice has both of those features.
Gizmodo:
This week we met Motorola's Droid, the first handset with Android 2.0. To an outsider, it just looks like another Google smartphone, but 2.0 is more than that: it's proof that Android is finally going to take over the world. So Wait, What Is Android, Exactly? In Google's words, it's "the first truly open and comprehensive p (Read More)
Mashable!:
There are a lot of players vying to become your gateway to rest of the web: Facebook Connect, OpenID, Sign In With Twitter, MySpace ID, and Google Friend Connect just to name a few. It’s Facebook Connect however that seems to be leaving all of the other connect methods in the dust. This includes Google Friend Connect, whi (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The Inside Source is eBay's latest announcement. The searching, buying, and selling habits of its 88 million active users have added up to an enormous dataset, one that could have easily been hoarded and sold to marketers, brands, and others with a vested interest in online retail and trends.Although eBay isn't releasing ra (Read More)
paidContent.org:
» IAC (NSDQ: IACI) is considering a deal that would make College Humor part of Ben Silverman’s new entertainment company. [AdAge]» Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is letting “Amazon Associates” make referral money from a Twitter widget in their account. [TechCrunch]» Comcast’s internet (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Microsoft just announced a radical redesign of its MSN homepage. Today's MSN homepage for the US market is a busy mix of ads, hundreds of links and some customizable local news and weather widgets. The redesign, which is MSN's first major redesign since 2004, puts a new emphasis on search, local news, video and integration (Read More)
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It gushes moneyGartner’s business model is genius. They gather information from vendors and users – for large fees from both – and then sell that information back to them for even more money. Bliss. They own a toll booth on the user/vendor information highway. And collect $1.3 billion a year from the traffic – over $300,000 (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The good folks at Twitter recently rolled out list-making capabilities for all users, finally catching up to functions that many desktop and web apps have featured for a while.In addition to allowing users to create their own curations, Twitter has also added a basic widget-maker for adding tweets from any user's list to an (Read More)
Gizmodo:
In case you missed it, the XPERIA X10 got official overnight. Besides the 1GHz Snapdragon processor and big 4-inch capacitive touch display, it's Sony Ericsson's beautiful Rachael interface sitting on top of Android that impresses. Take a look: At the event, Sony Ericsson also said that the X10 is just the flagship in a new (Read More)
Mashable!:
As predicted the Twitter Lists API is causing a fast frenzy amongst Twitter developers anxious to be first to support the new Lists feature. Just this morning we saw Seesmic Desktop release a new version of their application to support Lists, and now there’s news of a brand new widget.Twitter Lists Widget is a simple widget (Read More)
VentureBeat:
In a very natural extension of the lists feature Twitter finally rolled out last week, the company added a widget which lets you embed tweets from an entire list.Why might this be useful? If you’re a business owner, you might want to show off public conversation from your team or employees. Or maybe you’d want to play up yo (Read More)