Archive for September, 2007
September 30th, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
Buddystumbler is a newly launched (out of beta) social networking site that focuses on Instant Messaging (IM) contacts.
Users create profiles that include the typical social networking features of photos, descriptions, and interests. Buddystumbler then offers an interface that enables searching of user profiles, interests and location, sort of part Meetro, part Facebook. The search option [...]
September 30th, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
Random spam is never welcome. But when it comes from a company that I co-founded, I think it’s worth criticizing in writing.
Edgeio’s classified listing platform has been doing well. We use it for our CrunchBoard job board, and many other blogs and websites have begun to use it, too. The company recently started reaching out [...]
September 30th, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
Burlingame based BitGravity officially launches their website and content delivery network (CDN) this evening, although the company has been busy working with nearly fifty existing customers for months to work through any last minute issues. We first covered the company when one of its employees sent a live video stream from his car (using BitGravity) [...]
September 30th, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
Bay Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners have teamed up with Salesforce to invest $25 million in businesses building on the recently announced Force.com application platform over the next three years. Investments will be around $500,000 each (some convertible notes). However, others may go as high as $2 million depending on the company’s stage and needs. [...]
September 30th, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
The following is a concept video produced by LonelySandwich.com demonstrating cut and paste on the iPhone. It’s a feature that’s sorely lacking on the phone; it can do so much but without copy and paste it can never really be a 100% computer replacement (although for me it’s a 75% of the time laptop replacement.)
It’s [...]
September 30th, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
iWon, the site owned by IAC that attracts people with the promises of instant prizes, is revamping it’s look, going from a very 1.0 portal to a Flashy, casual-games site, complete with spinning wheels, slots, and lots of bright colors. The games are also now going to become widgetizable so they can live [...]
September 30th, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
LivePetitions, an Italian startup, just launched with Italian, British and U.S. localized websites. It’s meant to be a much cleaner and functional online petition service than PetitionOnline, the big player in online petitions.
Users can quickly create an online petition, set an optional end date and enter categories and tags. Various required and optional fields can [...]
September 30th, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 |
Computer Science Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University last week. He gives excellent advice on how to live your life and achieve your most outrageous dreams. It’s a must see for entrepreneurs, and really anyone looking for a refresher course on living life [...]
September 30th, 2007 -- Posted in Environment |
If mod is your style but dropping $150 on a birdhouse doesn’t do it for you, here’s an awesome, green alternative. Courtesy of two straight lines comes this great DIY project: take a gourd, drill a hole in it, hollow it out, slap some no-VOC paint on it, add a branch and call it good. Inspired by this minimalist house at design*sponge, the gourd version offers a nice green upgrade to the polystyrene material — would you want to live in a plastic house? Didn’t think so — and a really clever use of materials…
September 30th, 2007 -- Posted in Environment |
Photo credit: colonos
At the Clinton Global Initiative this week, Ecuador pledged to forgo the development of the country’s largest oil reserve in the Amazon basin’s most diverse rainforest located below Yasuni National Park, also home to the Tagaeri-Taromenani indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation
The nation will be essentially kissing an estimated $4.6 million in oil revenues goodbye, making the commitment one of the most significant and ambi…
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