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  1. Incubator Betaworks raises $20M

    Venture Beat &bull Mar 11, 2010

    Betaworks, the New York-based startup incubator and early-stage investor, has raised $20 million in a second round of funding. The firm, which focuses on real-time web startups, was founded by former AOL executives John Borthwick and Andrew Weisman. Betaworks has… Full Story »


  2. Eighty percent of corporate bloggers stop after 5 posts max

    Venture Beat &bull Mar 8, 2010

    IBM research shows that about 80 percent of those who begin a corporate blog never post more than five entries," journalist and heavy-duty blogger Mathew Ingram wrote on GigaOm on Friday. IBM is hawking a solution to blogger's block. It's… Full Story »

  3. Online Travel Organizer TripIt Raises $7 Million

    Paid Content Social Media &bull Mar 4, 2010

    TripIt, which offers a series of online tools that travelers can use to organize their travel plans, has raised $7 million in a funding round. Users can e-mail their itineraries to TripIt, which then organizes them into a "master travel… Full Story »


  4. Google Purchase Shuts Down reMail

    Web Worker Daily &bull Feb 19, 2010

    A while back I reviewed an iPhone app called reMail that I really liked. It allowed users to search their email archives very comprehensively. Apparently Google was impressed with the application, too, and as Liz reported over on GigaOM, Google… Full Story »


  5. Bits Scan: Friday's Tech News Roundup

    New York Times Web 2.0 &bull Feb 19, 2010

    Dear Eric: The Proper Response Is "I'm Sorry" Just when the Google Buzz privacy concerns seem to be slowing down, Eric E. Schmidt, chief executive of Google, tried to play down some of the products privacy issues. In an interview with The Guardian, Mr. Schmidt said, nobody was harmed in the making of Google Buzz. But many in the… Full Story »


  6. Bloggers silenced by network bug

    BBC News Technology &bull Feb 19, 2010

    Those that posted comments on the WordPress.com site said they understood what was going on and appreciated the efforts Mr Mullenweg made to keep everyone informed. It seems the company has enough goodwill to spare a couple hours of failure,… Full Story »

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  7. WordPress Outage Takes Us and 10.2M Blogs Out for 2 Hours

    GigaOm Web &bull Feb 19, 2010

    As we are hosted on WordPress.com through their VIP enterprise publishing service, we were affected by an outage of their network of blogs today thats been attributed to a core router change. All GigaOM sites (besides GigaOM Pro and OStatic,… Full Story »


  8. WordPress Is Down, Taking TechCrunch And Other Huge Sites Down With It

    Silicon Alley Insider &bull Feb 18, 2010

    When we check into some WordPress-hosted blogs, we get this message, "Whoops! There was a small systems error. Are you sure it's affecting all sites that use wordpress and not just one's on certain hosting providers? It's on sites hosted… Full Story »

  9. Wordpress Hosted Blogs are Down

    Center Networks &bull Feb 18, 2010

    As of 4:40pm Eastern Time, it appears that Wordpress.com hosted blogs arent loading. Twitter search is showing many reports coming in every minute showing that the blogs are down. Interestingly, this outage comes just 10 days after the technology blog… Full Story »

  10. Green:Net 2010 conference - where internet and green meet (discount)

    Venture Beat &bull Feb 18, 2010

    Green:Net 2010 is where green and IT meet. The GigaOM Network's Green:Net, is unlike other green technology conferences - it offers a specific point of view on how the computing and Internet revolutions will provide the tools needed to fight… Full Story »

  11. Stop Cramming the Mobile Web Into the PC Box

    GigaOm Web &bull Feb 17, 2010

    For a while the consensus has been that the mobile web is the same as the PC web, in that a person should be able to access whatever content they can via a wired PC connection on their phone, without… Full Story »


  12. Can Qualcomm Compete As Smartphones Become Computers?

    GigaOm Web &bull Feb 16, 2010

    Our mobile devices are getting smarter, faster and are increasingly mimicking the functionality of a full-fledged PC. New capabilities such as multicore processors in phones and the ability to send HDMI video out mean that the brains inside our phones need more performance while they sip power. To that end, several chipmakers are coming to… Full Story »


  13. Google the 21st Century Conglomerate? Bad Idea

    GigaOm Web &bull Feb 15, 2010

    James Coburn plays a doctor plagued by spies working with the film's villain TPC, a sprawling tech conglomerate obsessed with collecting information. Unlike some, I don't believe Google is a villain. Google knows more about our emails, chats, web surfing and phone messages than we would… Full Story »

  14. Chart: The Web Video Money Pit

    GigaOm Web &bull Feb 12, 2010

    Online video has largely succeeded at many of its goals: It is democratizing media and encouraging a culture of sharing and participation. Its pushing the television industry to modernize and become more interactive. Its freeing content from time schedules and… Full Story »

  15. The Only Chance For MySpace Is To Be Free Of News Corp.

    TechCrunch 2008 Web 2.0 Companies &bull Feb 11, 2010

    Owen Van Natta, who was celebrated as the savior of MySpace when he was hired, was apparently fired over something as simple as trying to control his executive team. His Chief Product Officer Jason Hirschhorn has been telling friends for months that hed soon be leaving MySpace. We wrote… Full Story »

  16. Yahoo's New Search Head Takes Skepticism Head On

    GigaOm Web &bull Feb 10, 2010

    Im not sure Shashi Seth knew what he was getting into, but he must have had an inkling. Yahoos new SVP of search products (as of three weeks ago) invited the press down to Sunnyvale today to try to reset… Full Story »


  17. Google Buzz: Is Its Real Value in the Enterprise?

    Web Worker Daily &bull Feb 10, 2010

    Here at WebWorkerDaily weve used a variety of corporate collaboration and social networking tools to co-ordinate our efforts on the site, some more successfully than others, but even the best apps never feel truly integrated with the tool that weve… Full Story »

  18. Did Techcrunch Become a Wordpress VIP?

    Center Networks &bull Feb 8, 2010

    A couple of weeks ago, technology blog Techcrunch was hacked. At the time of the hacking they were using the Rackspace Cloud Sites service as their hosting provider. GigaOm is another popular blog that is also hosted on the Wordpress… Full Story »

  19. What it takes to make the Web more personal

    Buzz Tracker &bull Feb 5, 2010

    Tom Pinckney has written a great post on GigaOm about the new kinds of processing companies have to do to create a highly personalized experience for users. That's true for a service like Hunch which sees a tiny amount of… Full Story »

  20. Mark Cuban Tells Newspapers To Pull Out Of Google... As He Invests In Competitors?

    Tech Dirt &bull Feb 4, 2010

    Over the last few months my post about all the aggregator sites owned by Rupert Murdoch as he was complaining about aggregators "stealing" his traffic has received a fair bit of attention. Yet it hasn't stopped similar hypocrisy from Murdoch… Full Story »

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