December 2009
21 posts
Cerevo Cam: Hands-On With The Social Camera That... →
An easy to use digital camera that automatically uploads pictures to various websites without using a USB cable, a memory card reader or Eye-Fi? If that’s something you’ve always wanted, the…
I Want. I have →
I’m loving the work of Christine and Justin, a couple from New York that run this ongoing online gallery / project .
“Each painting shows one thing we want, and sells for the price of…
Action Oriented →
I never worry about action, but only inaction. - Winston Churchill
It’s cheating to start a blog post with a quote from Winston Churchill. He was that good. But sometimes you need to cheat and I’m…
Netvibes Launches Ultimate News and Lifestyle... →
In late November, ReadWriteWeb asked the question, Can Netvibes pull off integration of real-time feeds into its existing dashboard product?. At the time, early testers were just gaining…
Tweetdeck going online today, but not in the way... →
Having just launched an updated version of its desktop client with lists galore, Tweetdeck is going online and turning its site into categorised lists directory.
You may remember Tweetdeck…
70 Usable Stats From The 2009 State Of The... →
The annual state of the blogosphere report provided by Technorati always provides a ton of interesting information for bloggers, marketers and PR pros to use and reuse. My only issue with it…
Action Oriented →
I never worry about action, but only inaction. - Winston Churchill
It’s cheating to start a blog post with a quote from Winston Churchill. He was that good. But sometimes you need to cheat and I’m…
Sometimes the feature is the product →
Investors often dismiss startups with the refrain, “That’s a feature, not a product.” I do the same. They usually mean that the feature, by itself, will not be adopted by consumers — the value…
When Real Time Is *Not* Fast Enough: The Intention... →
Things started slow
I remember when people would go to conferences, take notes, then share them a few hours or days later. Then in 2005-2006 I noticed people started to live blog sessions,…
Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway →
I’ve been unhappy with every single piece of software I’ve ever released. Partly because, like many software developers, I’m a perfectionist. And then, there are inevitably … problems:
The…
Move Over Eventbrite – New Registration, Ticketing... →
Eventarc, a ticketing and event registration startup based in the Melbourne, Australia, has publicly launched after more than two years of development.
The service allows anyone to create…
HiveMind – Revolutionary Expertise Discovery... →
HiveMind, an automated expertise discovery engine created by Melbourne, Australia, startup BinaryPlex has entered closed beta.
The service aims to help employees find experts within their…
The Yas Hotel →
The recently-completed Yas Hotel features more than 5,300 diamond-shaped steel panels containing almost 5,000 LED fixtures. It’s the largest…
A Bloggers Responsibility →
Given the relatively few technology bloggers (of Technorati 100 blogs, that is) to readers, there tends to be a large number of complaints per blogger, to put it mildly. I used to be…
Google Thinks Your Site Is Slow – Will Help You... →
Google has just launched Site Performance, a new tool that “shows you information about the speed of your site and suggestions for making it faster.”
Google states that faster sites do…
Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo! Bow to Facebook... →
Yahoo! announced this morning that it is adding Facebook Connect across many of its properties. This afternoon Google Friend Connect announced the inclusion of Twitter as a top-level log-in…
Digg's New Read/Write API Launches Today: Will... →
Later today, Digg will open up its rumored read/write API. Up until now, developers could only read data from Digg. With the new API, web and desktop apps will also be able to contribute data…
AudioBoo brings instant podcasting to your browser... →
Stephen Fry’s favourite mobile audio start-up, AudioBoo, is taking a major step forward by launching a browser-based solution.
Until now AudioBoo has been a mobile app for iPhone and…
What A Square Receipt Actually Looks Like →
We’ve already had a number of posts about Square, the new mobile payment platform launched by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey today, but we’re going to keep posting on it, because it’s…
November 2009
30 posts
Google Dumps Gears for HTML5 →
It’s official: Google is ditching its homegrown Gears offline web app API in favor of backing HTML5 for the win. Now that the Chrome browser is becoming available for Mac, and the Snow Leopard OS…
Plancast Is Foursquare… For The Future →
If you’re going to leave your job at TechCrunch, you better have a good reason. I think Mark Hendrickson actually may have had one.
Hendrickson left TechCrunch in March. After about two…