Posts Tagged with ‘venture-beat’

Skewz is the latest entry in the political news aggregation space, a sector that is getting way too crowded, even for a U.S. election year.
Skewz is designed to be Digg with a political slant; users can submit stories, and then others can vote on the purported political slew, using the U.S.-centric blue (for very liberal) to red (for very conservative) scale. Based on the ratings for articles, you can also see how a media outlet skews overall.
As Anthony Ha [...]

I first learned about the problems with the auction rate securities market reading Fred Wilson's blog. I didn't think much of it, since I generally don't have available cash just sitting around for me to play with like that, but I was happy for his primer and the information gleaned from the New York Times article on auction-rate notes when I got to TechCrunch pointing out that up to 20% of VC-funded start-ups can't get to their money due to [...]

I read Marshall Kirkpatrick's Twine review as well as Nova Spivack's response today, and realized that there is often a huge disconnect between what developers feel is a product's readiness state, and the general public's, even when it comes to those writing about tech.
I'm still a software developer at heart, and the ubiquitous Web 2.0 Beta sticker seems to have dulled the perception of what state an application is really in, resulting in a lot of disappointed users [...]

Kyte.tv went live Monday the 23rd as promised by Daniel Graf the founder. Kyte is a Splashcast type startup that allows users to broadcast content, display photos, music and other favorite media on their sites. Channels on Kyte.tv can be enabled with live chat and are viewable via a scroll menu below the player. Kyte is the most feature laden service of its type by far.  
This broadcast station for the people of Web 2.0 can be embedded in personal spaces, pages or blogs [...]