Techmeme Firehose:
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:We Hold These Truths To Be Awesome: The Founding Fathers Give Google Wave A Try — Now this is cool. Some of the hype over Google Wave has died down over the last few weeks, in no small part beca (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
For some time now, it has seemed like Foursquare was the only game in town. I mean "game" literally, as of the major location-based services, Foursquare seemed to be the only one really emphasizing gaming elements. But now Go (Read More)
TechCrunch:
LeWeb has published its schedule for the upcoming global conference for tech in Paris, and it’s looking pretty good. TechCrunch Europe is a media partner and is helping to organise the startup competition, so that’s our inter (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Here’s the latest action:Amazon Web Services now calculates your app costs — To give users a better idea of how their applications will work and how much they will cost to run on Amazon Web Services, the company has just rele (Read More)
Lifehacker:
The creator of Gmail hasn't tried Google Wave, Android and Chrome OS will likely become one at some point in the future, and AOL loses two capital letters and gains a period. Brin: Google's OSes likely to converge Chrome OS (Read More)
First Round Capital:
With Twitter exploding – and the focus on real time data exploding along with it - there are a number of new companies that are seeking to develop more specific applications of this technology. Several such companies presente (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Life360, a startup that looks to help families keep their loved ones (and their identities) safe, has closed a $750,000 funding round with investors including Seraph Group, LaunchCapital, Founders Fund (va FF Angel), the Band (Read More)
Engadget:
Remember back in the day when the West was still wild, the gold rush was still in full effect, you owned whatever land you could manage to fence off, and tycoons were being made and broken on a daily basis? No? Well, some of (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Though it has yet to take off in a major way, the idea behind video comments remains a potentially compelling one. And after seeing some success using its video platform to serve up videos on Twitter, Vidly thinks it can crac (Read More)
Techmeme Firehose:
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:Swype to debut on the Verizon Samsung Omnia II — A little over a year ago, Swype announced at TechCrunch50 2008 that they were going to “change how the world inputs text on screens”. By allowi (Read More)
Techmeme Firehose:
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:Google Acquires Teracent To Apply Machine Smarts To Display Ads — Google's on a bit of a shopping spree this holiday season. The search giant just acquired AdMob for $750 million a few weeks ago. T (Read More)
pixum's shared items in Google Reader:
I’ve never been all that silent on the subject of in-stream Twitter advertising, and since it’s the topic du jour today, I thought I’d weigh in on the blog post over the weekend that seemed to be the furthest out of line fro (Read More)
Gizmodo:
So, what does it take to snatch a combined 75% of US mobile internet traffic? Two operating systems, a handful of phones, and one great browser core. That the iPhone is a massive source of online traffic isn't a surprise—that (Read More)
TechCrunch:
A little over a year ago, Swype announced at TechCrunch50 2008 that they were going to “change how the world inputs text on screens”. By allowing the user to type words by tracing a path between its letters rather than tappin (Read More)
Techmeme Firehose:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:TechCrunch Interviews (The Very Happy) Skype CEO Josh Silverman — Skype CEO Josh Silverman can't stop smiling in this video interview we recorded in Menlo Park this morning. And no wonder - (Read More)
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from blog:
As a blogger, sometimes the most difficult part of writing a post is contacting the company it is about. First, you either have to search your contact list, or the web, to figure out who to reach out to. And then you might no (Read More)
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from blog:
The second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch combines our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Christmas party, in one handy package. This year we're basing it the hot theme of realtime streams and the event in (Read More)
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from blog:
When it comes to the mobile Web, increasingly there are only two mobile platforms which matter: Apple and Android. According to AdMob's October, 2009 mobile metrics report, the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones accounted (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch combines our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Christmas party, in one handy package. This year we’re basing it the hot theme of realtime streams and the event in (Read More)