Google launched a new service today in from its Labs called Google Reader Play. It is a more visual way to browse through the most popular items being saved and shared on Google Reader. When you launch it, you are presented with a large photo, video, or text excerpt on the main part [...] [...more]
Weebly, the startup that allows users to build rich websites using a straightforward drag and drop interface, is about to get a lot more colorful. The site has opened a new Theme Community, allowing any of its 3.5 million users to submit their own themes for use by other Weebly members. To help [...] [...more]
More bad news for an already bullet-riddled MySpace: three key employees have left the company to join Gravity, a cross-town startup founded by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur, SVP Steve Pearman and SVP Jim Benedetto. We covered Gravity’s launch in December 2009. The three MySpacer’s are Chief Software Architect Chris Bissell (we previously reported Bissell’s resignation), Chief [...] [...more]
You may ask, what is SEO? SEO stands for search engine optimization. Basically, SEO is used in order to have more people come to your website or even your blogs. This happens with the help of a search engine. Popular search engines out there include Yahoo, Google and MSN. What happens is that when a [...] [...more]
CauseWorld, a mobile app that lets users check in to retail shops for credits that can be donated to charity, is clearly on a roll. The app first launched in December as “the first mobile application that let’s you do good deeds simply for walking into a store.” CauseWorld app users earn “karma points” when they [...] [...more]
IBM Puts More Software on Public Cloud in Catch-Up to Microsoft March 3 (Bloomberg) — International Business Machines Corp. , playing catch-up to Microsoft Corp. in the so-called public-cloud market, will start offering development software over the Internet this month. Read more on Bloomberg [...more]
First launched back in April 2009, TweetPhoto has been steadily building out its service with multiple useful features, including Foursquare integration and a partnership with Kodak. Today, the site is getting a huge overhaul with more social features and a new iPhone app. TweetPhoto has now added the ability to sign in with Twitter OAuth, Facebook [...] [...more]
Boston-based DataXu, provider of a real-time online ad bidding and optimization system, has secured $11 million in Series B funding to add to the $7.8 million in financing it raised in an earlier round (April 2009). The company, which was a finalist at last year’s edition of the TechCrunch50 conference and startup launchpad, raised the additional [...] [...more]
In the wake of Apple’s sudden decision to remove nearly all “sexy” applications from the App Store, we’ve been hearing that the company is also clamping down on so-called “cookie-cutter” applications — iPhone apps that are built from templates using one of the many app-building services available. This would be yet another major change [...] [...more]
As has been made abundantly clear to me over the past two weeks, just about every location-based service is planning big things for the SXSW festival, which starts later this week in Austin, Texas. A few of the players have already started rolling out small changes, such as aesthetic upgrades. But a new, subtle update [...] [...more]
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