Pete Cashmore: Biz Networking on Facebook Could Soon Supersede LinkedIn (1)
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There’s an analysis report issued by eMarketer looking at the space of time between 2008 and 2012 that takes an educated guess as to what business-to-business marketing spending will look like in four years’ time in the US on social networks specifically. Its research estimates a total of $40 billion in the US this year. In 2012, meanwhile, it predicts more than 500% increase to $210 million. That may be so. And of course there ...
Tech Crunch: Utagoe Live 100 Is FriendFeed for Video Streams (1)
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If FriendFeed displayed only video, it might look like Utagoe Live 100. The service lets you track live video streams from all of your friends on one screen. Tokyo-based Utagoe just launched it as a hub for broadcasting and watching multiple, free live video streams simultaneously (from sites like Qik, Ustream, Justin.tv etc.), video-based chatting and conferencing. Aiming mainly at the U.S. and European markets, the service is available in English. Utagoe Live 100 is ...
37signals Live: Wednesday, August 26 at 11:00am central time (2)
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The next 37signals Live will be tomorrow, August 26th at 11am central time. The first two Live shows were general Q&As. This time we’re going to narrow down the focus to chapter 13 of Getting Real: Promotion. Generating buzz, getting press, promotion without a budget, launch, etc. Come armed with questions and we’ll fire back answers. We’ll see you tomorrow at 37signals Live!
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Bill said:
sounds like something that might just come in handy... ;)
Tech Crunch: Make Perfect iPhone Mockups (We Can’t Help With The Actual App) (1)
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If you’re looking to mock up an iPhone app during the design or coding process, a good place to start is the fully editable PSD file on teehan+lax that includes samples of most elements. No more excuses for sending us iPhone app ideas that look like hell. Just grab any five elements from the screen and create a couple of screen captures that back up all the crazy promises you’re making to everyone within earshot. ...
Ajaxian: ECMA What? Harmony Who? TC39? Tamarin? JavaScript! (1)
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Alex Russell has seen the confusion of the many names that were bandied around with the Harmony news last week. There are so many names, that involve specs, projects, and general technical jargon that it can get a little confusing. Alex has made it very clear: ECMAScript 3 Aka: JavaScript, ES3, ECMAScript 262-3, and JScript. The current JavaScript that every browser implements (more or less). This is the current ratified standard and represents the 3rd ...
Pete Cashmore: 6 Online Email Aggregators that Do More Than Just Aggregate (1)
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For most of us, Gmail can be the simple answer to aggregating all of our emails together in one place. But for those who are looking for something new with a bit more spice, there are a whole new breed of email aggregators that promise to redefine the way we look at and use our inboxes. Here are 6 online email aggregators that do more than just aggregate. Zenbe Zenbe, “designed to be the world’s ...
Pete Cashmore: Music Streaming Service Grooveshark Lite Takes Aim at Pandora and Last.fm (1)
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Grooveshark is launching a new online music streaming service called Grooveshark Lite today that aims at creating a better all-around experience than what you’ll find on Last.fm and Pandora. And although it has some issues, it’s a service that you’ll definitely want to check out that may make you think twice about using its competitors’ services. If Pandora had a love child with Last.fm, its name would be Grooveshark Lite. Grooveshark’s service lets you input ...
Ajaxian: Transformie: Implement WebKit CSS transforms in IE (1)
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Paul Bakaus, or jQuery UI fame, has created a nice little hack to implement WebKit CSS transforms in IE When you include the library, it can scan for your -webkit-transform-* transforms (soon to support the standard transform-*) and will go to work for you using a couple of nifty technologies all put together: IE Filters such as DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Matrix that do the rotate, skew, scale, and general matrix work for you onpropertychange "almost behaves like DOMAttrChanged, ...
Pete Cashmore: The Bots Will Destroy Online Gambling (1)
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Andrew Smith over at the Dallas Morning News Technology Blog had an interesting post this weekend which met with a great deal of resistance from his readers there. In his post, he briefly detailed the possible doom on the horizon for online gambling, particularly online poker. He quotes the EE Times: Humanity was dealt a decisive blow by a poker-playing artificial intelligence program called Polaris during the Man-Machine Poker Competition in Las Vegas. Poker champs ...
Pete Cashmore: Startup Hacks: Seven Ideas for Building Your Team (1)
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This is a guest post written by Michael Cerda from Cerdafied - Startups, People and the Variety Hour. You are a founding CEO starting a company and you need help. Building your team is a complicated, tricky business. You can be the best judge of character, you can do all the references (back door included), you can read all the books, you can even include your investors on the interview train, but you can still ...
Tech Crunch: We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It. (2)
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I’m tired of waiting - I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs $2,500. Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox and possibly Skype on top of a Linux kernel. It doesn’t exist today, and as far as we can tell no one is creating one. So let’s design it, build a few and then ...
[Screens Around Town] Thsrs, Posterous, Lohse, and T-26 (18)
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Thsrs Thsrs helps you get briefer. If only there were a service that helps with the struggle of rewriting a 146-letter message to fit in a 140 character limit. Well now there is: Thsrs, the thesaurus that only gives you synonyms shorter than the word you’re looking up. Just enter one of the longer words in your message, and Thsrs will suggest shorter words to use instead. Posterous Posterous, a Tumblr-like service, lets you post ...
Pete Cashmore: MixTurtle Music Search Is Fast. Real Fast. (1)
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Combine the element of Web search with music playback and a mohawk-sporting, ciggie-smoking dinosaur, and you get MixTurtle, a new service that works as you might expect it to. Just click and play. Ajax is responsible making it behave as it does. Some might consider it bit too heavy on the large print. Everything but the topmost menu is sized big. But this is fairly easy to get accustomed to. And there’s an upside to ...
Alexander Muse: Startups Paul Likes (1)
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Paul Graham has listed the sort of startups he wants to fund through Y Combinator. The list includes, well, about everything I could even think of. What did he miss? A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom. Simplified browsing. New news. Outsourced IT. Enterprise software 2.0. More variants of CRM. Something your company needs that doesn’t exist. Dating. Photo/video sharing services. Auctions. Web Office apps. Fix advertising. Online learning. Tools ...
Cartoon: Favicon Dead Pool (24)
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Here is a new cartoon from Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Rob runs a regular cartoon blog called Noise to Signal, in which he puts in graphical form some of the big questions of the social web.
Pete Cashmore: 10+ Sites for Product Reviews from Experts and Consumers (1)
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Because they’re typically steeped in subjectivity, product reviews tend to be more effective when grouped together. This is generally why you, the consumer, often want to consult with multiple sources and individual perspectives in order to make an informed decision before you proceed to checkout. So, just to make things a little easier for you, we’ve put together a brief list of places on the Web you might like to go to stock up on ...
Tech Crunch: Ologeez Wants To Make Finding Research Articles Easier (1)
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Many life science students and researchers couldn’t live without PubMed, a free comprehensive research database that includes articles related to health and a number of biological sciences. Unfortunately, navigating the intimidatingly massive database can be difficult for novices - the interface looks like it hasn’t seen an update in about a decade. Ologeez!, a new Stanford startup that recently launched in public beta, is looking to help. The site offers an intuitive portal for searching ...
Pete Cashmore: How to Live Stream Your Life: 20+ Tools and Resources (1)
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Video lifestreaming has become more and more popular with the increasing availability of mobile video recording technology and the decreasing price of webcams. So why not try it out? We’ve put together a list of 20+ tools to help you get started streaming video of your life. Below you’ll find tools that let you record events from your iPhone on the go, services that let you broadcast your activities from your living room, and more. ...
Tech Crunch: That Didn’t Take Long…iPhone 2.0 OS Unlocked (1)
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It has not even been officially released yet, and the iPhone 2.0 OS already has been unlocked. In contrast, the original iPhone OS took hackers a couple of months to unlock. But this time they got a head start. Gizmodo reports the iPhone Dev Team has been working on jailbreaking the phone since the beta version went out with the iPhone SDK. But does it really matter? While it’s exciting that the new OS is ...
