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The Other Half Of Search: Greplin Is A Personal Search Engine For Your Online Life
TechCrunch Web 2.0 &bull Aug 31, 2010
There's always something cool coming out of Y Combinator, but even so Greplin stands out from the crowd. It's a personal search engine for all that data you keep locked away in the cloud. If you've used desktop search like… Full Story »
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My6Sense & The Geek Who Rode His Blog to the Edge of the World
Read Write Web &bull Aug 24, 2010
Personalized news recommendations on the go - that's the dream of many an online news nerd and the startups that would serve them. One strong entrant into this field is My6Sense , a well-designed, venture-backed, Israeli company that uses implicit behavioral data from users to recommend the most relevant content in your personal river of news. It's a good service, and one you're likely to hear a lot more about soon. The company will announce this week that it has hired Louis Gray , a self-made Silicon Valley internet celebrity and startup consultant, as its VP of Marketing and… Full Story »
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Something's gotta give
Science of the Invisible &bull Aug 23, 2010
As we start the run up to our first year PLE module, I've been thinking about what worked well last year, what didn't, and what needs fixing this time round. What worked well is easy. Friendfolios (and the students who contributed and are still contributing to them) were the star performer. Consequently, we will be rolling out Friendfeed as glue for the disparate PLE elements at the start of the year rather than at the start of the second semester. We have not taken this decision lightly, as we have concerns… Full Story »
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Confirmed: Facebook Buys 'Real-Time' Startup Hot Potato
Paid Content Yahoo &bull Aug 20, 2010
Facebook has confirmed that it has bought up Hot Potato, a startup behind a service that lets users communicate about activities they are doing at a given moment. On Hot Potato, users list what activity they are doing and then… Full Story »
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URL Referrer Tracking
Vanessa Fox. Nude. &bull Aug 20, 2010There may be instance when you want to track the source of a request, and a common way of doing so is by using tracking parameters in URLs. Unfortunately, implementing referrer tracking in this way can result in significant issues with search engines. In particular, it can cause duplicate content issues (since the search engine bot finds multiple valid URLs that point to the same page) and ranking issues (since all the links to the page aren't to the same URL). Let's say that Jane and Robot uploaded two different online training seminars to YouTube as part of a viral… Full Story »
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Social Aggregator Cliqset Undergoing Turkish Invasion
Louis Gray &bull Aug 20, 2010
While the Silicon Valley seems to largely have turned a blind eye to any social network not named Facebook or Twitter, one country's citizens have flocked to alternative sites more than practically any other. Turkey, well-known for being the #1 country driving traffic to the Facebook property FriendFeed, appears to be having a similar impact to the well-designed, if not fully embraced by the masses,… Full Story »
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Amplify cranks up the features on its already great service.
The Next Web 2008 &bull Aug 19, 2010
Amplify, the service that allows one to "Autopost directly to Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, Wordpress, Tumblr, Posterous, Blogger, Friendfeed, Ping.fm & more," has just announced 8 major updates to its service. Today's updates arrive after their recent announcement that one can… Full Story »
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Re-Virb: Social Network Relaunches, Hopes To Become 'Tumblr For Entire Websites'
TechCrunch Web 2.0 &bull Aug 16, 2010
Back in February 2009, we wrote about the relaunch of Virb, a social network owned by MediaTemple's venture platform (mt) Ventures. Instead of trying to take on goliaths like Facebook, the site hoped to offer users a complimentary social network, with features like an activity aggregator (think FriendFeed), theming, and… Full Story »
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In Storage & Networking, Big Numbers In Dollars and Data
Louis Gray &bull Aug 16, 2010
Today, at least for those of us who watch the enterprise space closely, the big news is that Dell Computer has offered to acquire Fremont-based 3Par for $1.15 billion, a premium of more than 80 percent over the company's stock price. In a world where much of the tech news is dominated by small companies taking money from angels, it's interesting to see the gulf between what it takes to grow a successful hardware company and the more ephemeral Web-based or application based companies that play significant roles on practically everyone's smartphone. And while I haven't talked about it too… Full Story »
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Facebook Makes Another 'Acq-Hire' Chai Labs; Deal Estimated At $10 Million...
Paid Content Industry Moves &bull Aug 16, 2010
Facebook has acquired Chai Labs, AllThingsD reports, citing unidentified sources. The deal is estimated to be around $10 million. This is the latest in what's expected to be a string of acquisitions from Facebook and comes a month after the… Full Story »
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'Super angel' Aydin Senkut raises $40M fund
Venture Beat &bull Aug 15, 2010
Felicis Ventures, the firm created by early Googler (and VentureBeat investor) Aydin Senkut, just announced that it has raised $40 million. It's the firm's first institutional fund. Felicis says it will continue to focus on early-stage mobile and Internet investments.… Full Story »
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eMarketer: Ad Sales On Facebook To Reach $1.3B In 2010; MySpace Sales To Plummet
TechCrunch Web 2.0 &bull Aug 12, 2010
According to the latest research from eMarketer, advertisers will spend $1.28 billion worldwide to reach Facebook's 500 million users compared to $665 million in ad revenue in 2009. US ad spending on Facebook is estimated to be $835 million this… Full Story »
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The power of informal contracts
O'Reilly Radar &bull Aug 11, 2010
Before releasing elmcity as an open source project, it had to be reviewed by a team of Microsoft lawyers. They found no patentable invention in the code and gave me the green light. Which is funny in a way, because I'm sure I couldn't ever create a patentable software invention. I'm just not that talented as a programmer. Writing code, for me, is mainly a way to explore ideas and illustrate possibilities. In this case, it's the idea that we can manage data in a social way by participating in networks of syndicated feeds. And it's the possibility that a… Full Story »
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Gowalla Finally Releases Their Check-In API With Some Nice Tools And OAuth 2 Support
TechCrunch Web 2.0 &bull Aug 9, 2010
You could make an argument that one of the things holding back the growth of location-based service Gowalla was that there was no full API support. After all, rival Foursquare has had their full API rocking and rolling since last… Full Story »
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Don't Look for Hints of Buzz Demise After Wave's Closure
Louis Gray &bull Aug 5, 2010
During last fall's debut of Google Wave, which seemed to be a launch of a complicated solution in search of a problem, I was immediately struck by the overwhelming nature of the platform, which inundated me with update after update and parallel conversations all vying for my attention. Not unsurprisingly, I stepped back from the product, as many people did - hoping it would improve in simplicity and utility over time, eventually becoming a product I could use for collaboration and real-time messaging. But that day never came. Like many products, much of Wave ended up being all about itself… Full Story »
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Facebook Hiring Up For More, Potentially Larger Acquisitions
TechCrunch &bull Aug 4, 2010
Facebook's biggest advertisers are increasingly spending more on the site, while ad prices have held their ground, which means its revenue may rise to $1.4 billion or more in 2010. That's one major take-away from this Bloomberg article, based on… Full Story »
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Lessons learned building the elmcity service
O'Reilly Radar &bull Aug 3, 2010
In 1995 I started writing a column for BYTE about the development of the magazine's website, plus some early examples of what we now call web services and social media. When I started, I knew very little about Apache, Perl, and the Common Gateway Interface. But I was lucky to be able to learn by doing, by explaining what I learned to my readers, and by relaying what they were teaching me. Because I came to the project with a beginner's mind, the column became a launchpad… Full Story »
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Gmail creator backs 'anti-Xobni' email plugin Rapportive
Venture Beat &bull Aug 3, 2010
San Francisco startup Rapportive announced today that it has enlisted a long list of well-known investors as part of a seed round of more than $1 million. Given Rapportive's aim to provide relevant information about your contacts in Gmail, the most… Full Story »
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Cup of Joe: Take Off Your Cynic Hat and Try Something New
Marketing Pilgrim &bull Jul 31, 2010
All of these things have at one time been labeled overrated. For example, I think foursquare is a complete waste of time. Why the heck would I want to tell the world where I am! I mean that's really nobody's business! It's not like Twitter where I… Full Story »
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Here's Why Hot Potato Is A Better Buy For Facebook Than Foursquare Would Have Been
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Jul 28, 2010
Facebook is reportedly in "late stage negotiations" to acquire New York-based startup Hot Potato, which launched with promise late last year but hasn't attracted a big following. If true, this is a smart little "acq-hire" deal for Facebook, likely leading to more success than if Facebook were to have acquired Foursquare when the companies talked earlier this year. First, because a talent acquisition like this… Full Story »
