Mashable!:
Michael Cerda blogs about startups, people and the variety hour at Cerdafied.Startups are a gamble by nature. Some of us thrive on sitting at that table, but it’s not for the faint of heart. The reality is most startups will (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
For a lot of college students, the new semester is just around the corner. Last year, we created a long list of great Web 2.0 tools that we thought would be helpful for college students, but given how fast things develop on t (Read More)
Gizmodo:
This is on the rumor-ier side, but Brian from Kotaku's man deep, deep in Japan has dropped him a tidbit about a new DS that might be in the works—one that bumps up screen sizes and finally replaces the top screen with a touch (Read More)
Engadget:
Filed under: GamingImmersion, the company that owns virtually every vibration and haptic tech on earth, is getting a taste of its own medicine now that it owes Microsoft $21 million. You may remember back in 2003 when Microso (Read More)
Submitted by michaelfidler:
There’s an interesting new research tool available, focusing on tags - or, more precisely, tag pairs. Tagatum’s tag spider searches blog feeds for tags, combines tags into pairs and calculates which pairs are most often used (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Since our initial review of Yahoo! Buzz earlier this year, not much has changed about the service. At the same time, however, the perception, acceptance, and impact of the service has changed drastically. The service has show (Read More)
Valleywag:
When there's no new story about Twitter and all of its users — this week anyway — what's left to say? Reporters, they Twitter just like us! Today's Washington Post rounds up journalists covering the Democratic Nat (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
OAuth, the open authorization protocol standard that will let users give limited access to their data to third party websites without giving away their passwords, crossed an important threshold tonight. All parties involved (Read More)
VentureBeat:
SMS (text message) rates in general are ridiculous, but they’re arguably worse for Apple’s iPhone 3G. Whereas the original iPhone included 200 free text messages with your data plan, the 3G data plan includes none (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Aza Raskin at Mozilla Labs thinks there’s got to be an easier way to create Web mashups. Today, he is announcing the launch of Ubiquity, an experiment in using natural language to invoke Web services. Ubiquity is an (Read More)
Mashable!:
This is a guest post written by Jackie Peters of Heavybag MediaI am pretty heavily involved in the expanding startup community here in LA and make my way up to the Bay area on a regular basis. I meet a lot of entrepreneurs an (Read More)
Lifehacker:
If your love for Safari has kept you from making the jump to Google Gears, you're in luck: a beta version of Gears for Safari has just been released. It's a Mac only beta, so expect bugs if you download it. (Read More)
Mashable!:
SocialU claims not to be just another social network aggregator. Instead, they call themselves a social networking portal that runs as a desktop application via Adobe Air. The application is like a Web browser that displays a (Read More)
Mashable!:
It isn’t difficult to imagine that we need to take a lot of screenshots during the course of a day here at Mashable. Sure you can do the old “Print Screen” trick, but that’s a lot more hassle than it& (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Technorati continues to redefine itself under CEO Richard Jalichandra, who joined the company in October 2007. In June they launched Technorati Media, a blog advertising network. Today they are announcing the acquisition of B (Read More)
Submitted by sunil:
Mobile search and advertising startup Jumptap has raised more than $26 million in a series D round led by AllianceBernstein. Existing investors General Catalyst Partners, Summerhill Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Valhal (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
ShareThis reports that it is now. How do website readers prefer to share stories they find with friends? According to the company behind the widely used sharing widget ShareThis, after emailing a link, the most popular meth (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Music-based social networking site Imeem is getting a lot of the right kind of press currently, based on strong traffic growth and key deals with record labels. We last wrote about Imeem in March, when they launched a develop (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The TrendsSpotting blog has produced a thorough overview of Online China, collected from a variety of sources such as Universal McCann, CNNIC, Pew Internet, Hitwise, comScore and more. The report focus on three key themes: 1) (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It's the weekend, so time for our review the past week's web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we showed you how to create a custom search engine using social bookmarks, found out why onlin (Read More)