TechCrunch:
First, there was Google Voice. And all was good, and not so good. But it showed that there is a better way to manage voicemails than to listen to 15 in a row just to get to the one you care about. Now, there is an alternat (Read More)
VentureBeat:
I’ve started three companies, and now I’m an angel investor. So I’ve been on both sides of the table.There are lots of good articles out there about pitching, and surely everyone who pitches me has read some of them. Still th (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Sample sales are an amazing resource for marked down goods for both mainstream and luxury brands. Online private sample sales are picking up serious speed. Here is how they work: big designers, such as Marc Jacobs or Versace, (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze how Google CEO Eric Schmidt thinks the Web will evolve, review Hulu's latest plans to make money, investigate use case (Read More)
Mashable!:
Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Norman Bates, and Jon & Kate are just some of Hollywood’s most horrifying characters. One of the best things about Halloween is that it’s a perfect opportunity to grab some frien (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Earlier this week, Wave re-upped invitations in many users' Wave inboxes. I chatted with a few folks via Twitter, and we've got several readers willing to donate some Wave invites. Now pay attention, because we're only going (Read More)
Lifehacker:
If you read about Brizzly during the Hive Five on best Twitter clients last month but couldn't get your hands on an invite, you're in luck! We've got 2,000 invites fresh from the source for you. Click on the image above for a (Read More)
Techmeme Firehose:
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:Epix Launches Premium Movie Channel for TV and the Web (Invites) — Almost every TV channel offers some programming on the Web these days. Epix, a new premium movie channel that will launc (Read More)
Mashable!:
For the last few months, we’ve been watching the progress Epix, a joint venture between Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM studios to create a new web destination and sister TV channel for all of their movies. The project has bee (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Epix, the new HD television channel and on-demand Internet service, is going live this weekend on its first network: Verizon's FiOS. If you're not a subscriber, though, Ars has 20 (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Almost every TV channel offers some programming on the Web these days. Epix, a new premium movie channel that will launch this weekend, goes a step further. If you are a Verizon FiOS subscriber, you will be able to watch the (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Google Wave is a much hyped new Internet-based communications and collaboration platform. It was announced at the end of May and released as a 'Preview' product to select media and developers shortly after, including ReadWrit (Read More)
readwriteweb:
New data released from Experian Hitwise reconfirms what we've known for some time: Facebook is killing the other social networks. Nowhere is that more true than here in the U.S. where they found that the visits to the site ha (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Montreal-based StatusNet, the company behind the open-source microblogging service identi.ca, is closing an $875,000 seed round today. Investors include Montreal Startup, iNovia Capital, and Fotolia co-founder Oleg Tscheltzo (Read More)
Mashable!:
This series is supported by Grasshopper, the Virtual Phone System designed for entrepreneurs. Learn more about Grasshopper at Grasshopper.com.Whether your company is just starting out, just starting to turn a profit or alread (Read More)
Techmeme Firehose:
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:New Video Discovery Site Promises To Make a Rippol In The Stream (1,000 Beta Invites) — The last thing the world needs is another video site, right? Well, that's not stopping Aaron Crayford, w (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Loopt — perhaps the largest location-based social network, a network that uses your location to recommend places to go and inform you of friends around you — announced the acquisition of GraffitiGEO this week. Several industr (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The last thing the world needs is another video site, right? Well, that’s not stopping Aaron Crayford, who convinced a bunch of his supercomputer engineer buddies to put together Rippol, a video discovery site that blends ha (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Last night we broke the news that location-based mobile social network Loopt had acquired GraffitiGeo, a fellow Y Combinator-backed startup that launched only a few months ago. Neither company was willing to comment on the a (Read More)
Mashable!:
There’s no question about it, brands are on Facebook. From small businesses to the biggest corporate names, chances are that if there’s a consumer-facing product, there’s a Facebook Page to go with it.The tools that Facebook (Read More)