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Flush With $10 Million In Fresh Cash, Yammer Strengthens Executive Team
Posted by admin on 02 9th, 2010
Yammer , the San Francisco startup that offers a solid enterprise-grade microsharing and realtime communications service, is expanding its executive team after successfully closing a Series B funding round to the tune of $10 million earlier this...
Tiny Speck Uncovers Glitch, A ...
Tiny Speck Uncovers Glitch, A New Flash-Based Massively Multiplayer Game
Posted by admin on 02 9th, 2010
Last July, we reported that the new company by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield had received a name, and was looking to hire. Tonight, Tiny Speck’s first project has revealed itself to the world: Glitch . So what is it? As we suspected,...
Google Working On Live Speech-...
Google Working On Live Speech-To-Speech “Babel Fish” Translator For Smartphones
Posted by admin on 02 9th, 2010
By Chris Scott Barr If you’ve never read The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I’d suggest picking it up. No, watching the movie definitely doesn’t count. One of the coolest ideas (of which there were many) in the book was...
Samsung TicToc Shakeable MP3 P...
Samsung TicToc Shakeable MP3 Player
Posted by admin on 02 9th, 2010
By Andrew Liszewski It apparently wasn’t important enough to make the announcement roster during Samsung’s CES press conference, but the TicToc was on display at their booth and is a clever alternative to Apple’s iPod Shuffle....
zoomIt Adds Storage Expansion ... Posted by admin on 02 8th, 2010
By Evan Ackerman In a totally obvious move that has only taken years to implement (thanks Apple!), ZoomMediaPlus has released an SD card adapter for the docking port on iPhones and iPod Touches that allows you to transfer content between an SD card...
Still No Native Comments, But ...
Still No Native Comments, But Tumblr Toys With Photo Replies
Posted by admin on 02 8th, 2010
Probably the most controversial thing about the blogging service Tumblr is that it doesn’t have a built-in way to comment on posts. You sort of can do it now if you reblog an item and add your own note (which then shows up under the original...
The Richter Scales Debut Anima...
The Richter Scales Debut Animated Video Of “I’ve Got Mail And I’ve Got It Made”
Posted by admin on 02 8th, 2010
We’re big fans of The Richter Scales, the musical group that have brought us Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Here Comes Another Bubble, and gut-busting songs at the 2008 Crunchies and most recently the parody of Silicon Valley at the...
Facebook, Tesla And Solyndra D... Posted by admin on 02 8th, 2010
Last month SecondMarket published data on private company stock sales that they helped complete in 2009. They’ve now released last month’s data as well. A total of a little more than $13 million in sales occurred, with the average transaction...
Winter Weather Storm Watch Get... Posted by admin on 02 8th, 2010
With the East Coast and Midwest awaiting a monster snowstorm, popular weather forecasting site Accuweather, is rolling out a timely relaunch of its site. The site, which provides up-to-date local information on weather in the U.S., is launching...
Former EA, Yahoo Marketing Vet...
Former EA, Yahoo Marketing Vet Mitali Pattnaik Appointed GM Of PlayFirst
Posted by admin on 02 8th, 2010
We haven’t heard much from PlayFirst since we covered the San Francisco-based casual gaming startup’s last funding round back in December 2007, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t moving for the venture-backed company. Earlier...
New Tweetdeck Puts Twitter On ...
New Tweetdeck Puts Twitter On Crack – Adds YouTube and Flickr
Posted by admin on 02 8th, 2010
There remains an ongoing desktop Twitter application war. Traditionally Tweetdeck and Seesmic have been at loggerheads for the lion share, although Tweetdeck has remained in the lead so far. Increasingly it appears that Seesmic is heading towards...
The Filter Reboots As Recommen... Posted by admin on 02 8th, 2010
Almost two years ago The Filter , a startup backed by Peter Gabriel, launched to bring better music and movie recommendations to consumers. The site got lost in the abundance of more popular music and movie sites out there, so about a year ago CEO...
recent from Gadgets Google Working On Live Speech-To-Speech “Babel Fish” Translator For Smartphones Google Working On Live Speech-To-Speech “Babel Fish” Translator For Smartphones
By Chris Scott Barr If you’ve never read The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I’d suggest picking it up. No, watching the movie definitely doesn’t count. One of the coolest ideas (of which there were many) in the book was the Babel Fish. It was a fish that was inserted into your...
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Earlier today I was driving to Google for a product briefing, minding my own business, talking on my Google phone with Google PR and trying to figure out what Google building I was supposed to be driving to. I stopped at a crosswalk for a bunch of Googlers to pass. And this guy, who’s wearing...
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Editor’s note : This is a guest post written by Jeremy Allaire , founder and CEO of Brightcove . Prior to Brightcove, Jeremy founded Allaire Corporation which was subsequently acquired by Macromedia due to the success of their web development tool ColdFusion. At Macromedia, Jeremy helped create the...
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Yammer , the San Francisco startup that offers a solid enterprise-grade microsharing and realtime communications service, is expanding its executive team after successfully closing a Series B funding round to the tune of $10 million earlier this month. The company made one internal promotion, appointing...