Archive for March, 2008

Xoopit Makes Your Inbox More Social. Raises $5 Million and Launches Private Beta (Invites)

Xoopit Makes Your Inbox More Social. Raises $5 Million and Launches Private Beta (Invites)
We are moving closer and closer to the social inbox?email that talks to your social networks. Today, Xoopit launches in private beta. Not to be confused with Xobni (another email 2.0 app), Xoopit is a plug-in for FireFox […]

Episode 29 - Zooomr

Episode 29 - Zooomr
Sorry about the delay, loyal listeners. I deliver to you a show recorded while at the Future of Web Apps Conference. Chris and I were able to sit down with a fascinating gentleman named Kristopher Tate. The podcast details some of the stuff he has done with Zooomr – […]

Episode 20 - Steelpixel

Episode 20 - Steelpixel

Oops, we decided to interview ourselves, after the mac mini mishap! Chris and I chat about news, Steelpixel, and things we are working on.
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Latest OpenSocial News from GSP West
While there may not be as much buzz about OpenSocial right now as there was at launch, lots […]

20% Of Valley Startups Can?t Get To Their Cash

20% Of Valley Startups Can?t Get To Their Cash
The credit crisis is in full swing through most of the U.S. economy, but it has barely touched venture-fueled Silicon Valley. Until recently, that is. Up to 20% of venture backed startups may have been convinced by their financial advisors to put much of their spare cash […]

Hugh MacLeod on The Costs Of Being A Creative

Hugh MacLeod on The Costs Of Being A Creative
He loves my recent post: The Costs Of Being A Creative. Hugh MacLeod, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
Izea?s Ted Murphy, Live at SXSWi BlogHaus
Ted Murphy, CEO of Izea, parent company of Pay-Per-Post, speaks with InternetGeekGirl Stephanie Agresta about the controversial aspects of the blogging-advertising business - and […]

Fubar Grows Over 3 Million Percent In A Year

Fubar Grows Over 3 Million Percent In A Year

New social network traffic figures released by Compete show that Fubar, billed as the “first online bar and happy hour” is the fastest growing social network, having increased its traffic by 3,272,217% over the 12 months to the end of February 2008, placing the network at 14th […]

Shifd

Shifd
Move your life from your mobile phone to your PC and back with Shifd. Although still in development, Shifd won best hack at last year’s London Hack Day. The demo video shows the developers using an RFID chip to synchronize a personal web portal between their mobile phone and their laptop computer. The Shifd app […]

Yahoo Live demonstrated at Adobe Engage event

Yahoo Live demonstrated at Adobe Engage event
This is the first time I’ve seen Yahoo’s Live video streaming service demonstrated. Here’s a separate video of the first part of the presentation, which demonstrates a mini bar. They showed it off at the Adobe Engage event yesterday. Very cool, I ask why they haven’t done a cell […]

Web 2.0 Predictions for 2008

Web 2.0 Predictions for 2008
It's the first work day of the new year and I thought I'd take some time to offer up my predictions for what will happen on the leading edge of the Internet this year.  2007 saw Web 2.0 — defined here as the pervasive two-way Web used for social media, mashups, […]

Episode 32 - Lala

Episode 32 - Lala
We finally have the long lost episode we have promised forever! Chris and I sat down to chat about a ton of differnt things, then I followed up with an interview of Bill Nguyen from Lala. Bill and I chatted about Lala, taking funding, and purchasing a radio station.
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