TechCrunch:
Qwisk, which is launching today at the Real-Time CrunchUp, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser. The site, which is a product of Y Combinator-funded company Socialbrowse, connects with you with your (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s almost time for Thanksgiving, and that means family traditions. But what if your family doesn’t really have any, or you simply want to start your own new ones? This might be the year where it’s your turn to up the heat (Read More)
Lifehacker:
The mere promise of Google Wave inspired a rainbow of potential use cases, but Wave's best real-world use boils down to this: it helps a group get things done together. Here's how to manage a group project in Wave. Note: If y (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Media on the Web is going from a solo affair to a shared experience. We are seeing this in everything from CNN live news videos enabled with Facebook chat to Meebo Rooms and Tiny Chat. Today, a new startup from Los Angeles (Read More)
Valleywag:
Marissa Mayer, Google's data-driven planner extraordinaire, has gone to work on her personal life: Friends of the VP are showing off the fancy wedding invites she just sent out — and talking about the three-day nuptials she's (Read More)
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 recent (Read More)
Lifehacker:
In our continuing efforts to help as many of our readers get a chance to play around with Google Wave as possible, we're back again with our (now weekly) Google Wave invitation donation thread. Note: Read the entire post care (Read More)
Mixx: Tech:
"Haven't gotten any freind(misspelled) requests from bands yet. Facebook must be broken." Tom "Hey n00b, unlike myspace facebook is free of annyoing(misspelled) spam." Zuck. "really? I must be imagining all those "Farmvil (Read More)
Lifehacker:
When we taught you the first Google Wave search you should know (with:public), Wave automatically added public waves you read to your inbox, and an empty inbox quickly became hard to come by. Today, Wave fixes that with a han (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Microsoft Office 2010 will offer a free, ad-supported "Starter" edition, in addition to its regular, rather pricey offerings. Beta invites are already going out, and you can increase your chances at a spot by filling out a qu (Read More)
Techmeme Firehose:
Imran Hussain / ithinkdifferent:Microsoft sends out invites for Office Starter 2010 Beta — While we still wait for the public beta of Office 2010 to release, hopefully at PDC09, Microsoft has sent out invites to Office Liv (Read More)
TechCrunch:
In a world where Facebook and Twitter dominate the headlines, it’s easy to forget that other social properties, like Reddit still send a ton of traffic to sites. But they absolutely do, and now you can buy your way into that. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
When it comes to online auctions, most people think of the lengthy, generally unexciting (at least until the last few minutes) auctions found on eBay. But in the last year we’ve seen some more interesting action in the space (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Earlier this evening we broke the news on the upcoming launch of City Of Eternals, the first Flash MMOG from Ohai.I have the rough footage above of in game play, and will add a proper screencast shortly. This is a World of Wa (Read More)
Mashable!:
Any news organization’s web site can get a story picked up by popular sites such as Drudge Report, Huffington Post, Digg, or even Fark, resulting in a bump in page views. But that’s a traffic anomaly. A key metric media compa (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Last week, we opened a thread in which generous Google Wave users handed out invites to fellow readers. It was messy, but successful; hundreds of readers ended up with invites. Today we're trying again—just please read the en (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Ribbit Mobile is challenging Google Voice as the trusted receiver, organizer, and transcriber of your phone calls and voicemail. How does it stack up to Google's voicemail services? Aside from a few missing pieces, Ribbit loo (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[France] Wozaik, a Paris-based startup which is developing a dynamic bookmarking system, is giving away 200 invites for an exclusive preview of their platform to Techcrunch Europe readers. You can grab one here on a first-co (Read More)
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)