4 days ago

mashable The live video service TinyChat is best known for its ability to sync together up to 16 broadcasters in the same room, but it has also been adding new services and functionality to its line-up. Recently, it launched a dead-simple video chat service reminiscent of Skype.Now TinyChat’s decided to use its live video technolog (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Loucypher from Google Reader: 37signals’ popular online project collaboration utility, Basecamp, is suffering from some major downtime this afternoon.Reports of Basecamp going down started appearing on Twitter more than an hour ago, and their status blog confirms that “Basecamp is currently experiencing issues.” The company says that “Basecamp is comin (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

VentureBeat (Editor’s note: Brad Feld is an early stage investor and co-founder of Foundry Group. This post originally appeared on his blog.) VCs say a lot of stupid things.  I’m guilty of it plenty and whenever someone calls me on it I try to acknowledge and change.  One that I try really hard not to do is say “my company” when refe (Read More)

May 16, 2008

Submitted by Srcasm from Google Reader: just wanted to give everybody a heads up that dropbox will be inaccessible tonight for ~15 minutes (nothing too exciting, just a router firmware update :). the downtime will start at ~2AM CST. . (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

Submitted by Srcasm from Google Reader: Craig LaBan says that Rittenhouse Square’s Snackbar has finally struck the right cord and its harmony is best exemplified in the chicken pot pie deconstructed.Good Taste [Philadelphia Inquirer]Snackbar [Official Site]Similar Posts:How Many Bells For Snackbar?SnackbarCreative Snacking At SnackbarSnackbarTonight (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Srcasm from Google Reader: Developer Ken Weinstein, who owns Mt. Airy’s Trolley Car Diner & Deli (7619 Germantown Ave.), will break ground next Thursday on his second location, the Trolley Car Café, which’ll be in East Falls in the historic “Bathey House” at South Ferry Road and Kelly Drive. (The building, as you might’ve guessed, served as public ba (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Srcasm from Google Reader: Filed under: Career Spotlights, JobsHere's a creative solution to the economic downturn -- let people pay you to wear their swag.Jason Sadler, 26, sells companies the opportunity for him to wear their company's shirt for a day. He charges what he calls "face value", meaning January 1st costs $1 and December 31st costs $365. (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

CenterNetworks We first covered Canadian-startup CityFlitz last September. We learned about the car sharing service via the FreshBooks blog. CityFlitz is a car-sharing service offered in Canada. The concept of car sharing, popularized by ZipCar, is based around many people sharing a bank of cars. I use ZipCar about once a week and think i (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

Download Squad Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Google, VoIPWe recently told you about an Adobe AIR-based Google Voice client with a pretty small featureset. It puts your SMS and voicemail messages close at hand on your desktop, but that's all it does. If you're on a Mac, though, you can do a bit better. Voice Mac is a Google Voice clie (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

Mashable! Although most of hype has been focused on the Verizon Droid, which hits stores tomorrow, it’s not the only Android device that will be appearing on the network.When Verizon and Google announced their partnership back in October, it was announced that two Android devices would be making an appearance before the end of the ye (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

mashable Twitter has just begun the rollout of Project Retweet, Twitter’s official integration of the retweet. Retweeting is when a user reshares interesting tweets from his or her friends using the RT syntax (e.g. “RT @mashable”).According to Twitter, the rollout is occurring in phases, much like the Twitter Lists rollout. We wil (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Mashable! November 6 is an important day for both Verizon and Motorola — and to a somewhat lesser extent, Google. The U.S.’s largest carrier is unleashing its first Android device, and from the swath of reviews already in it looks to be a monster of a phone. Thus far it is being hailed as both the best Android phone to date as well a (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Mashable! Seesmic Desktop has the distinction of being the first third-party Twitter client to support the new Lists feature, and now web-based social reader Brizzly claims the second slot.Currently in closed beta, Brizzly is a Twitter and Facebook client built by many of the same folks who built Google Reader. Its maker, Thing Labs, (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

TechCrunch If you are a tech lover, there is nothing quite like the launch day of a much hyped new gadget. Expectations run high. And since those expectations are rarely satisfied once you have the special little device in hand, it’s a moment to savor. In the hours before you own it, that device is perfect in every way. It will make y (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

mashable After a saga that simply defied explanation, the eBay/Skype lawsuit has finally been settled. The founders of Skype have returned to their creation.A recap of the story: eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion back in 2005. Skype’s founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, got off with a nice sum, but haven’t been satisfied (Read More)

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