Archive for October, 2008

Today comScore has some scary news (quite appropriate for Halloween, I think) for everyone tracking the news in the field of the world financial crisis reporting that e-commerce growth rate dropped to 6% in the third quarter. Total online retail sales in all the products and services categories but travel amounted to approximately $30 billion [...]

It is quite obvious that we could not do without a special meme on Twitter for Halloween and it is there, of course - Chris Brogan and Bryan Eisenberg came up with the idea of Trick or Treat Twitter style, properly named Trick or Tweet here.
The idea is to do something good no matter what [...]

No matter how much we may talk about the economic downturn, there are still investments made when the projects are worth investing. The latest example is Syncplicity, a document synchronization solution that has announced $2.35 million funding today.
The funding is a post-seed round led by True Ventures with some unnamed private investors participating as well. [...]

Today Google is rolling out an interesting functionality to Gmail Labs - sending SMS to your contacts and new phones instead of simple text messages in a chat. Quite predictably, the functionality only works in the US and ignores international users as it must involve certain agreements with carriers.
For some reason the official Gmail blog [...]

Calgoo is a provider of sophisticated calendaring solutions that allow users to synchronize all the calendars between various devices and also to share calendars with family members or friends - no matter what product this or that friend uses for calendaring needs. Calgoo supports all the popular calendars, including Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal, Google Calendar, [...]

Let me start with a full disclosure: Profy is one of the publishers of the Technorati Media advertising network, responsible for some part of that billion of monthly impressions they have access to to serve their ads on. But since as a publisher I am granted access to certain inside information I am allowed to [...]

It looks like Google actually wants to have at least some presence in every possible field of business available online. The recent announcement is Google becoming OpenID provider so that people could sign in to supporting sites with their Gmail accounts. For a while Google will be offering this additional login functionality to a limited [...]

Today comScore has released a yet another report on the state of the blogosphere audience in one particular country - the United Kingdom. The report proves that blogs are certainly going mainstream with almost 41% of all internet users visiting a blog in August.
The report includes information on the blogging platforms that enjoy [...]

After officially launching Android Market last week together with T-Mobile shipping the very first Android-powered G1 phone, Google has kept the applications market limited to those developers the internet giant worked with after Android Developers Challenge to prepare for the launch of the initial bunch of applications for the first owners of T-Mobile G1 to [...]