There remains an ongoing desktop Twitter application war. Traditionally Tweetdeck and Seesmic have been at loggerheads for the lion share, although Tweetdeck has remained in the lead so far. Increasingly it appears that Seesmic is heading towards trying to be a much more mainstream application, for anyone on any platform, from celebs to your non-tech friends. But for power Twitter users, Tweetdeck seems to be go-to app so far. Of course, all that can change, but that seems to be the landscape at the moment. Just now Tweetdeck has released the latest version of its desktop Air application, this one is v0. Full story...
Look, I'm all for privacy, liberty, rights, etc. But this video (embedded below) is pretty ridiculous.
Google may have hired Plaxo's Chief Technology Officer Joseph Smarr late last year, but it's Yahoo that's finally adding the 8-year old idea of turning the address book model upside down and letting people subscribe to it rather than keep their own quickly outdated lists.
We're still going through these recently released YouTube/Viacom litigation documents, and it's becoming clear that we can't take everything that's being said by either party at face value (as if we didn't know that already).
There are good things about conferences and there are bad things about conferences. One of the bad things is how little the audience gets to participate directly in the content being created.
I'm hopelessly addicted to Push Notifications on the iPhone. Unfortunately, the system is flawed, in that the more notifications you get, the worse the experience is because it can be hard to manage them all.
Plastic Jungle, a marketplace for gift cards, has secured $7.4 million in Series B funding, led by Redpoint Ventures with Shasta Ventures Bay Partners, First Round Capital and other investors participating.
I'm at the NewsMorphosis Conference in Hawaii today locked in a day of debates about the state of news quality and how the hell we find a business model to keep paying for it.
earns their own Credibility Rating which determines the types of tasks they are offered. Workers are able to see how much each separate task pays, and earnings are distributed through PayPal.
Some people don't like the idea of Google having any data about them. Unfortunately, if you visit a site tracked by Google Analytics (and chances are you hit several each day), you have no choice.
So in 2008, a company called Integra Communications filed for a "Nexus" trademark having something to do with voice and data telecommunications.