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How Much Will Your Startup Be Worth In Three Years? Go Find Out.

@ Aug 07, 2008 11:09 PM 0 comments

The key factors in determining likelihood of success are the team, financial factors, the concept and advisors.

Show Your Boss What You’ve Done All Day with ididwork

@ Aug 07, 2008 11:08 PM 0 comments

The web-based service lets employees keep record of work they have completed. Employees can then submit a weekly or monthly report to their manager in the form of a chart, graph, or simple summary, and receive feedback through the system.

Google Launches Knol, The Monetizable Wikipedia

@ Jul 24, 2008 01:40 AM 0 comments

Google has launched Knol, its Wikipedia alternative that holds authors accountable for the articles they write.

Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million”

@ Jul 24, 2008 12:48 AM 0 comments

The two companies have reportedly signed a letter of intent and are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The acquisition price is in the $200 million range

Episodic Makes Flash Videos iPhone-Friendly

@ Jul 24, 2008 12:47 AM 0 comments

Episodic, a video web publishing company, has launched a new web app that looks to solve this problem by converting Flash-based videos into a format that the iPhone can play in its native Safari browser

OpenDNS Makes $20k/day Filtering Phishing And Porn Sites

@ Jul 24, 2008 12:45 AM 0 comments

OpenDNS, a San Francisco based startup, first launched in mid-2006 as a free tool to speed up web surfing and protect users from phishing and other malware sites.

We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It.

@ Jul 24, 2008 12:44 AM 0 comments

I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs $2,500. Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox and possibly Skype on top of a Linux kernel.

How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000

@ Jul 08, 2008 12:51 PM 0 comments

The time it takes to design, build and deploy web applications has been steadily shrinking, especially with frameworks like Django, Rails and Symfony. With that in mind, we decided to push ourselves and attempt to launch a web app in 32 hours. Four crazy days later, Matt was born.

One Year Later: Ooma

@ Jul 08, 2008 12:51 PM 0 comments

Consumer VoIP startup Ooma launched nearly a year ago and offered consumers free phone service for life, all you had to do was buy the hardware for $399.

Sazell Lets You “Snap The Web”

@ Jul 08, 2008 12:51 PM 0 comments

Sazell, launched in private beta today, is a social media site that lets you take a snapshot of any website and puts it in a Flash widget that you can embed on any site.

TSheets Lets You Clock-in To Work From Your iPhone

@ Jul 08, 2008 12:51 PM 0 comments

TSheets, a web enabled timeclock tracker, has just introduced an iPhone web app version of its site. The web application allows users to clock in or out of work from a remote location, and also gives professionals a handy way to keep track of their billable hours.

Whoisi - Community Edited People Profiles and Tracking

@ Jun 27, 2008 11:13 PM 0 comments

Whoisi is a central site that allows users to add people and their associated web feeds, and then track any number of these people and their feed items using a follower model.

Google Goes After the TV with Google Media Server

@ Jun 27, 2008 11:12 PM 0 comments

Google just announced its odd Google Media Server, a Windows app that finds photos, music, and video and makes it available to DLNA devices like the PlayStation 3, XBox 360, and most Media Center PCs.

When Is Good: The Bare-Bones Meeting Scheduler

@ Jun 27, 2008 11:12 PM 0 comments

Need to schedule a meeting or phone call, but can’t agree on a time that is good for everyone? Try using When Is Good, a dead-simple Web app that does just one thing: zero in on a meeting time that is good for everyone without sending 20 emails back and forth.

Jerry’s Back! And So Is Microsoft

@ Jun 26, 2008 11:39 AM 0 comments

“Your Current Board of Directors Has the Knowledge, Experience and Commitment to Best Represent Your Interests and Maximize Stockholder Value.”

Structural Change Is Always a Good Theme to Invest In

@ Jun 26, 2008 11:35 AM 0 comments

What are venture capitalists looking for? If you are a startup entrepreneur looking for funding, it’s always a good idea to know what investment themes a VC is interested and tailor your pitch to those themes

The State of Open Mobile OSes

@ Jun 26, 2008 11:34 AM 0 comments

With the announcement of an “open” version of Symbian coming soon, let’s take a look at what open means to the average consumer.

The State of Open Mobile OSes

@ Jun 26, 2008 11:29 AM 0 comments

With the announcement of an “open” version of Symbian coming soon, let’s take a look at what open means to the average consumer.

Nokia Acquires Symbian - Goes Open Source

@ Jun 26, 2008 11:28 AM 0 comments

Nokia have today announced that they will be acquiring the remaining 52% of Symbian they don’t own and will be releasing the complete Symbian platform under the Eclipse open source license

1.5 Million Australian Students Dump Outlook/Exchange For Gmail

@ Jun 26, 2008 11:27 AM 0 comments

Google just took away one of the world’s largest Outlook/Exchange installations for 1.5 million students at Australian schools, and replaced it with Gmail.

Search Startup Surf Canyon

@ May 09, 2008 01:50 PM 0 comments

Surf Canyon is probably not going to be the next Google, but it does improve the traditional search interface by pulling up related results that otherwise would be buried on page 12 or page 52 of the regular results.

Yahoo’s Answer to Google’s Universal Search is Glue

@ May 09, 2008 01:50 PM 0 comments

Much like Google’s Universal Search that brings in results from images, videos, maps, news, or other sources as appropriate.

Early Adopters Still Spend More Time With Microsoft Than Google, Facebook, or Skype

@ May 09, 2008 01:46 PM 0 comments

At least according to data from RescueTime, the productivity app that monitors the amount of time a user spends on every application on his desktop.

Why Google Invested in Clearwire

@ May 09, 2008 01:46 PM 0 comments

Today Google announced that it plunked down $500 million to shore up the new Clearwire-Sprint WiMax business.

Microsoft’s Corporate Development Strategy Changing Daily

@ May 09, 2008 01:45 PM 0 comments

On Monday Bill Gates says he wouldn’t rule out partnerships. Tuesday, no partnerships and a go it alone strategy.

Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails

@ May 06, 2008 12:03 PM 0 comments

Twitter is planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java (another solution is to stick with the Ruby language and move away from the Rails framework).

Microsoft Introduces Popfly For Games (In Silverlight)

@ May 06, 2008 11:42 AM 0 comments

The tool is built for non-programmers so that anyone can create a game, and is particularly aimed at kids and teenagers. It is entirely browser-based.

The iPhone Gets Its Own Photo Sharing Site

@ May 06, 2008 11:37 AM 0 comments

Natuba is a new photo sharing site that targets iPhone users with an emphasis on mobile uploading.

MySocial 24×7 Launches FriendFeed/ Twitter AIR App

@ May 06, 2008 11:36 AM 0 comments

MySocial 24×7, a Friend Feed/ Twitter Firefox sidebar launched an Adobe AIR application.

Google Reader Gets More Social: Now With Notes

@ May 06, 2008 11:36 AM 0 comments

Google has added support for Notes to Google Reader, allowing users to share notes or add notes to shared stories.

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