Posted from ProgrammableWeb 16 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
This week we had another 15 new APIs added to our API directory. This latest set includes an API for a single sign-on solution, an email marketing API, a video creation platform API, an API to transfer money over Facebook, and the service we wrote about earlier this week that to help you find mutual... (original story)
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 16 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
By now, South by Southwest is wrapping up and the legions of nerds and geeks that partied heartily over the last two weeks are slowly crawling back to their homes with their SXSW hangovers. Here at ReadWriteStart, we've kept on truckin' through that time, so here is this week's Weekly Wrapup. This w... (original story)
Posted from VentureBeat 17 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Thanks to services like Twitter that let users publish quick messages nearly as fast as they come to mind, a host of real-time search engines have recently emerged — engines that quickly index these messages and serve up the most current ones related to a particular search keyword. Sency is t... (original story)
Posted from Mashable! 17 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
Comedian Kassem G conducts “man on the street” interviews each week with Californians — issues tackled include drugs, stereotypes and Tiger Woods.This week, Kassem asks beach goers for their views on social media, from Twitter to MySpace, Facebook and Farmville … he doesnR... (original story)
Posted from Mashable! 18 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
Steve Jobs seemingly elected to reply to another question sent to his SJobs [at] apple.com email address yesterday, this time in response to a question about support for Google’s Picasa photo sharing service on the iPad:In short: no, the iPad won’t support Picasa albums or face recogniti... (original story)
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 19 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Have you noticed that we aren't writers any more? Or filmmakers, or video producers, or even musicians or cartoonists? We're content-creators. Way too often, I hear Web folks talk about "content" as some kind of undifferentiated commodity: "Yep, figger we're gonna need ten, maybe twelve kilos o' co... (original story)
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 22 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Click here to see all the charts as a slideshow → Or select individually: Look At All The Companies Starting-Up Just To Build iPhone Apps Apple's Mac Sales Set To Beat The Street Again There's A Reason They Call It 'Old Media' Here's How Much A Unique Visitor Is Worth Apple's iPhone Platform S... (original story)
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 23 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
If the rumors and speculation are correct, Google.cn may shut as soon as this week. Most pundits will likely praise Google for staring down the Chinese government and choosing “doing good” over “doing evil”. To help Google shareholders and the rest of the world better underst... (original story)
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 1 day 41 minutes ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Here's a chart from mobile analytics company Flurry about what sorts of applications are being tested on the iPad. Gaming is by far the most popular category. Flurry's analytics are installed on certain developers software, which is how it tracks what's being tested. The number below only counts wha... (original story)
Posted from A VC 1 day 53 minutes ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
Yochai Benkler is one of a handful of people who our firm regards as inspirators. We've read everything he's written and find ourselves quoting him regularly in meetings. This is a picture of Yochai making a point at our first... (original story)