Google Hopeful Of 2010 ...

We all know Google Music is coming , it’s just a question of when – and what it’ll look like, of course. According to Reuters , Google hopes to launch the service as early as December 2010. Citing unnamed ‘people familiar with the matter’, Reuters says...

Project Dance Party: Fa...

Yesterday, news broke about a new feature Facebook is testing out called “Subscribe.” For a second, I thought it might be the equivalent of Twitter’s “follow” ability — that is, a feature which would let you follow the updates of someone that...

YC-Funded Cloudant Laun...

YCombinator -funded Cloudant , a database platform built around Apache’s open source CouchDB framework, officially launches after three years of hard work. Cloud-based like Cloudera and Amazon Web Services and part of the NoSQL movement, Cloudant scales your database on the CloudDB...

Important: Gmail Priori...

It’s hard to remember a product I’ve become so dependent on quicker than Gmail’s new Priority Inbox . I’m so addicted, that the few times I’ve accidentally clicked on the old “regular” Inbox view in the past week have really annoyed me. So much...

How Tagged Found A 100 ...

Heard of Tagged ? Back in 2005 it was a teenager-only social network, catering primarily to U.S. high school students as Facebook charged through the college crowds. By 2007 they were profitable and worth over $100 million . Just one problem though. Facebook eventually started letting...

Visual Website Optimize...

A/B testing, which entails running multiple versions of a site at once and tracking which one performs best with users, is a key part of launching a new version of any website. Visual Website Optimizer , which I’ll just call VWO from here on out, helps users manage this often...

Twitter For iPhone Push...

To many users, Twitter for iPhone (the artist formerly known as Tweetie) is perhaps the perfect Twitter client (though I’d argue that the new Twitter for iPad is right there with it). But the one thing it has been lacking and that users knock it for is the lack of Push...

Twitter Now Over 145 Mi...

When I read Twitter CEO Evan Williams post tonight about the state of Twitter from a mobile perspective, the first thing that jumped out at me what that Twitter for Android, an app Twitter worked hard on, isn’t even in the top 10 most-used apps for the service. But Williams also...

Record Numbers Pinging ...

An interesting beneficiary of Apple’s launch of music-oriented social network Ping —social status updater Ping.fm. According to Seesmic CEO Loic Le Meur, Ping.fm saw a record number of accounts created yesterday (Seesmic acquired Ping.fm earlier this year). Could it be a...

Reddit Diggs Traffic Su...

It’s all hands on deck at Reddit this week. In the wake of Digg’s bungled redesign, its rival is enjoying a surge in traffic and a jump in ad and subscription sales. Since Monday, the site has been averaging 900,000 uniques per day— a 50% increase from Reddit’s...