Archive for September, 2008

Today Amazee is officially launching its platform to help people join their efforts online and offline to work on the causes that matter to them. Amazee can be described as a “Ning with a purpose” where people can create social networks (same as we do on Ning) to collectively help achieve some purpose that is [...]

Web 2.0 Expo is under way in New York this week for the first time in the conference history. There were lots of interesting ideas discussed during sessions yesterday with some of the sessions containing facts about social media that seem to be neglected or overlooked way too often. So I have decided to summarize [...]

This morning in London Google has demonstrated a working prototype of Android phone. In the meanwhile VentureBeat reports Android-powered Dream phone (or G1 which is another possible name – there’s no clarity about it for now) will be available in T-Mobile stores as soon as October 17 (which is only one month from now). Note [...]

It is not all that often when the technology blogosphere gets particularly excited about anything announced by Microsoft but today’s news of Zune 3.0 released along with software update and free Wi-Fi access for Zune owners in McDonald’s fast food chain is generating immense buzz today. And the range of new features is really impressive [...]

Today Cognition, creator of an already much-discussed natural language processing technology, is announcing release of its new semantic map which is the largest one ever created for English language. For you to imagine the size of the map, it includes more than 10 million semantic connections, over 4 million semantic contexts, more than 536,000 word [...]

Today at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York developer of a range of Ruby on Rails enterprise tools Intridea is announcing launch of its own Twitter for the enterprise – Present.ly. Last week we discussed Yammer winning top prize at the TechCrunch 50 conference a lot and it is now obvious that enterprise Twitter [...]

Amazon has finally made a decision to add some free movies to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), the incredibly popular site it acquired some 10 years ago. Until today the database only featured various information about movies and TV shows but video content was only limited to clips and trailers which made the concept look [...]

Back in June Google and Yahoo announced an advertising deal that was supposed to help Yahoo resist Microsoft takeover by adding a very substantial revenue stream. The idea is to display Google ads on the search results pages in Yahoo. It is obvious that while Yahoo is supposed to receive a revenue boost, Google is [...]

Today the screen sharing software CrossLoop is announcing that it has raised $6 million in series B round of funding led by Venrock. Two new personalities join CrossLoop Board of Directors – a partner at Venrock Richard Moran and Andre Haddad, CEO of Shopping.com and prior SVP of product at eBay (Shopping.com is owned by [...]