The iPhone 3G and iPhone OS 2.0 are causing quite a resurgence towards the iPhone platform — new users and previous iPhone users alike are both feeling like they have a brand new device in front of them. The App Store allows people to download desktop-class applications directly to their phone and it’s amazing. However Read more »
Powerset Launches With Technology No One Needs
Jun. 4, 2008
Powerset has launched (Powerset.com) and it unveils natural language search capabilities to find answers on Wikipedia, the first dataset that they’ve indexed. Instead of typing things like “Google acquisitions” into, well, Google, you’d type in “who did Google acquire” into Powerset and get back your results. Wait, what? How is that useful? Before people get Read more »
Startups And The Recession
Jan. 22, 2008
There’s no doubt in my mind that the U.S. economy is headed for a recession. The Federal Reserve just cut rates — again — down to 3.50%. This, coupled with oil’s rising prices, the fall of the value of the dollar, the rise in inflation, and the credit lending problems are all pointing to a Read more »
Google To Expand Its Wireless Plans?
Nov. 12, 2007
It’s astounding to me to think about Google and then
Truemors Launching Soon, Probably Shouldn’t
May. 9, 2007
Apple aficionado, speaker, and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki has a new startup coming out called Truemors. This normally wouldn’t be a big deal (person starting mobile-ready web application, how unique) but because it’s Guy Kawasaki’s pet project it gets press. Unfortunately for Guy, his aura has been fading in recent months, so simply having his Read more »
Unsolvable Problems Of The Web OS
Apr. 9, 2007
CNET just ran an article today about the future of the Web-based operating system, one that would operate independently of your actual operating system and utilize fat pipe bandwidth to get the job done. I don’t know how many people are actively putting thought into this subject or its monstrous hurdles, but I wanted to Read more »
The Outside Giant Scenario
Apr. 5, 2007
Over the past few days I’ve noticed some large companies hopping into the space that was previously the domain of some much smaller startups. To start, Mozilla Labs is working on a social networking add-on to Firefox which may put the kibosh on Flock (more on that later), and then today, Google launched MyMaps which Read more »
Spivot Hijacking Your Content?
Mar. 15, 2007
Spivot is yet another content aggregation site in a long line of content aggregation sites like 9rules, Newsvine, Topix, Daylife, etc., only Spivot might be a few months late to the party. From the email I received, Spivot is an “all-purpose media reader… [that] brings together the functionality of news aggregation (Google News), with social Read more »
Why Yahoo Bought MyBlogLog: To Track Your AdSense Statistics
Feb. 24, 2007
Much has been made recently about MyBlogLog‘s problems, but they have an even larger problem looming on the horizon that is 10x larger than anything else they’ve seen. The Pro stat tracking features of MyBlogLog are similar to other packages — obviously they track clicks on your site. One of the things that MBL has Read more »
Digg and YouTube Powering Atheism 2.0
Jan. 3, 2007
A few months ago, in October 2006, Wired News ran a story titled “The Crusade Against Religion” where the author investigated the re-emergence (or emergence?) of atheism powered by some very brilliant scientists and writers. Many people around the world have been involved with this New Atheism, but the most well-known and recognizable figure is Read more »
User-Generated Content Sites Need Millions?
Nov. 6, 2006
I’m a bit baffled by the news that came out over the weekend, where Topix.net raised $15 million to make their total amount of money raised to about $20 million (~$5 million in a previous round). The reason I’m baffled is because they now have about $20 million but I can’t see any original content Read more »
Aaron Swartz Is Old School
Nov. 2, 2006
Aaron Swartz was one of the 4 people on the Reddit team, and although he wasn’t one of the original founders you should definitely know who he is. One of the funny things about “Web 2.0″ is that everyone is so green that nobody remembers who the innovators were in the period between the dotcom Read more »
People Bashing TechCrunch For No Good Reason
Nov. 1, 2006
Mike just wrote on CrunchNotes a quick summary of the past week or two in his professional life, namely how some people are feeling entitled to a review just because their competitor was reviewed. What? Do people think TechCrunch is CNN or something? Last week Mike wrote about Maya’s Mom, and in the comments someone Read more »
Socialtext Gets Cheeky Over JotSpot Purchase
Nov. 1, 2006
Wiki startup JotSpot was acquired Tuesday by Google (Techmeme discussion) and I think it’s a very smart move for all parties. JotSpot is one of the few companies that earnestly put design and the user’s experience above other things, and I’m sure this did not go unnoticed by Google. Amidst the congratulatory reach-arounds was an Read more »
Odeo Gets “Bought”, Vox Goes Live
Oct. 26, 2006
Odeo’s Buyback RodeoYesterday the news came down that Odeo (the fun little podcast startup) is shifting gears bigtime and transitioning to greener pastures and bigger/better things. In what’s got to be the most interesting “Web 2.0″ industry story of the past few weeks, Ev Williams used (I estimate) a few million dollars of his own Read more »
