Archive for March, 2010
Introducing The Do-It-Yourself CrunchPad Kit [Video]
Mar 31st
Those you you who’ve been following the CrunchPad project since we first announced it in the summer of 2008 weren’t too happy to hear about the recent…hiccups…that we continue to fight through.
But never fear, while we continue to clean up the mess that our Asian contractor left behind we’ve been hard at More >
All The Cool Kids are Coming to Disrupt. Are You?
Mar 31st
Do you want TV everywhere? And wonder what might happen after the Comcast-NBC merger is complete? Or want to know how technologists and financiers see the digital-content market evolving? So do we. That’s why we invited insiders like Avner Ronen and Quincy Smith to speak at Disrupt, our media and technology conference taking More >
Not really a big surprise: iPhone multitasking to use “Expose-like” interface
Mar 31st
We know iPhone OS 4 is in the pipes, and I imagine this little nugget of information is far from the only inklings we’ll have of new iPhone features over the next few months. Despite the extraordinary length of the Apple Insider article, there’s really only one piece of new information: the More >
Gowalla On The iPad. Why? (Screenshots)
Mar 31st
There is obviously a lot of excitement around the iPad. Kleiner Perkins is doubling its iFund to launch more companies around the new device. And everyone from existing iPhone app developers and media companies is rushing to create iPad versions of their apps. As the screenshots leaked to us below show, More >
ScoreLoop Launches White Label Service for iPhone App Monetization
Mar 31st
Monetization on mobile is a huge business and ScoreLoop wants a piece of the action. ScoreLoop, a white label social platform that helps developer implement social features into their iPhone and Android apps, is entering the monetization game by providing its developers with the ability to monetize their applications.
Live: Ford And Microsoft Working Together On Electric Cars
Mar 31st
You can watch Steve Ballmer talking about Ford and Microsoft’s new partnership here but we’ll run a liveblog for you all here so you don’t have to whip out the headphones. Refresh this page to see updates.
10:41 – Ballmer talking about Hohm. Decreases energy costs. Automating and optimizing the process of charging More >
YouTube To Roll Out New Design For All Video Pages Today
Mar 31st
YouTube’s video page overhaul, which the company itself says is one of the biggest redesigns in its history, is about to get noticed by a lot more people today.
A YouTube partner just forwarded us an e-mail he received from the Google company, stating that all videos will be transitioned to More >
Placecast Launches Match API To Ensure Accuracy In Location-Based Check-Ins
Mar 31st
Following the location-based frenzy that took place at this year’s SXSW festival, my colleague MG Siegler highlighted a definitive issue when it comes to checking in on various social networks like FourSquare, Gowalla, Loopt and others. The problem is that each of these check-in services has their own places database, which More >
Analyst Gene Munster: Apple Will Build A Search Engine
Mar 31st
Ha! Hold on. Let me walk around a little, calm down. Ummm… so Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, the guy who was right about the iPad because he wouldn’t shut up about it for most of the last five years, is saying there’s a “70% chance” that Apple will build a More >
Memeo Is Bringing A Google Docs Reader To The iPad
Mar 31st
This Saturday, Apple will be releasing the iPad to the masses, and you can be sure that one of the first things people will do when they get their hands on the device is explore what awaits them on the App Store. For anyone who regularly uses Google Docs in More >
InsideView Raises $11.5 Million For Enterprise-Friendly Web Crawler
Mar 31st
InsideView, a service that mashes up social data for enterprises to increase sales productivity has raised $11.5 million in Series B financing led by current investors Emergence Capital Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Greenhouse Capital Partners. This brings the company’s total funding to $25 million.
The company’s flagship product, SalesView, crawls through more than More >
More Video-Related iPad News, Courtesy Of Delve Networks And MeFeedia
Mar 31st
Everyone remotely involved with online video is quick to jump on the iPad bandwagon – we’ve recently covered announcements from the likes of Ooyala, Brightcove and Kyte. You can add two more to that list now, courtesy of Delve Networks and MeFeedia.
Delve Networks, for one, says it will support full video delivery More >
TweetDeck Taps TwitVid For Video Sharing, Replacing 12seconds
Mar 31st
TweetDeck is switching its default video Tweeting platform today, from 12seconds to TwitVid. TwitVid.com will serve as the video service across all existing TweetDeck products, as well as all new products released by TweetDeck in 2010.
TwitVid will be integrated into the next iteration of the TweetDeck’s desktop application, which is expected to be More >
Socialcast Raises $8 Million Series B To Spread Its Realtime Enterprise Streams
Mar 31st
Realtime streams are quickly moving from the consumer Web to the enterprise. The constant flow of status updates, links, and shared items people are becoming accustomed to on Facebook and Twitter is finding its way into enterprise apps like Socialcast, Yammer, and Salesforce Chatter.
Investors are betting on this trend. More >
Facebook’s Amusingly Cruel CAPTCHA
Mar 31st
