Posted from Webware.com 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
Google's Chrome browser has as Spartan a user interface as possible, but the browser's Omnibox also turns out to be a window into a much more elaborate view of the browser. That's because Chrome users can type several commands into the browser's address box to uncovers a wealth of nitty-gritty det... (original story)
Posted from Mashable! 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
Metallica’s new album has leaked out a week or two early, unsurprisingly. It isn’t surprsing because it’s Metallica, but that it happens to most every artist these days. Some record store somewhere will sell a copy or two earlier than they should, one of those folks will share ... (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
Not all customers are created equal. Last month Dean Detton became Zoho's one millionth user and a press-release darling. Tonight you can celebrate the milestone with the Zoho team, Detton, and a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)
Posted from TechCrunch 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
There are few things more hilariously hopeless than watching someone play a modern video game for the first time: their targeting cursors wobble aimlessly across the screen, unleashing a stream of bullets that manage to hit everything but their target. And amid their cries of frustration and acc... (original story)
Posted from Mashable! 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: We Heart Places 20-word Descrip... (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
Sheryl Sandberg's right! We've teased Facebook's overserious COO for talking up Facebook's need to sign up more users before figuring out how it's going to make billions of dollars off of them. But... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
Kindlespotting continues, with a reader sending us this picture of a reader on a flight from Dallas to San Francisco. Considering how much the e-book readers cost and the premium prices for the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Just as the Republican National Convention is about to wrap up tonight, the Democratic National Convention Committee released some interesting numbers about its web presence during the Democratic convention last week. During the convention week, the official Web site received more than 3.2 million v... (original story)
Posted from Mashable! 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
It didn’t take long for Second Life, a leader in 3D Virtual Worlds, to respond to There.com’s announcement of new features.The most compelling new feature There.com revealed was its innovative ThereIM which would allow its members to chat in 3D and 2D worlds at the same time. Not to be o... (original story)
Posted from TechCrunch 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Those Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft advertisements started today. CrunchGear's Doug Aamoth recorded the first ad during the Giants/Redskins game and put it up on the site. This is reportedly a $300 million ad spend. Seinfeld gets $10 million. It's a cute and cuddly situation comedy about shoes. Has a co... (original story)
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Throughout the years, many sites have attempted to organize our online identities. There are people search tools like Spock, Naymz, and Rapleaf, to name a few that can locate your profile across the web and display for others to see. More recently, lifestreaming services like FriendFeed, SocialThing... (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
A Citigroup analyst says "netbooks" — cheap mininotebook computers like the Asus Eee — will make up a third of all notebook sales in the future, and the majority of sales in developing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)
Posted from Webware.com 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
I had a funny moment earlier this week when I showed Google's Chrome to one of my friends. She was floored that one of the top nine most visited sites featured on the browser's start page was Woot.com. Given how much browsing I do as part of this job I suppose it was surprising even to me, but it's ... (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
"Just heard that Monty gave his resignation to Sun today," a tipster we trust writes about Michael Widenius, the Finnish-born main author of open-source database software MySQL. Sun Microsystems had... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)
Posted from CenterNetworks - 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
Tapinko is one of the startups to come out of the DreamIT startup incubator. Tapinko President Peter Groverman opened the presentation by explaining that there's currently no place to purchase multiple offline ads (e.g. to purchase in every newspaper in Philly). My initial thought was that Google p... (original story)