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Brightcove Gutted and Rebuilt
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on June 17, 2008
Not a week after deriding Brightcove for its difficult user interface in a story about newly emerged competitor Delve Networks, the Cambridge-based video hosting company is releasing a completely rebuilt version of its service into private beta.Existing SaaS customers now have the opportunity to try out Brightcove 3 Beta, which will be made available to new customers sometime in the Fall....
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CoveritLive builds bridges between traditional and new media
via The Next Web by Ernst-Jan Pfauth on June 06, 2008
Although I’m not a big fan of live blogging - I would rather write an article right after the presentation — I do admire the team behind CoveritLive. They’re making blogging more mainstream by building bridges between traditional media and new media. Its easy UI, good functionality, and no-nonsense approach make it easy to convince people to get some live blogging 2.0 going on. The...
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Twitter Is Working on Groups
via Mashable! by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins on June 06, 2008
... some databases and hardware and tweaking our schema to take a lot of load off the main database,” Dorsey told Mitch late Tuesday. “We’ve seen some improvements in the last few days, and we’re making sure we make a good record of stability before we turn on IM, which is a popular service and will increase the load.”Along with the contact grouping, they also plan to upgrade their email ...
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I.T. 2.0
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on June 06, 2008
How Changing Technology is Having Big Impacts on BusinessIn case you haven't heard yet - the I.T. world is changing. The rise of social computing technologies, generally branded as "Web 2.0" and including things like wikis, blogs, social networking, RSS, and more are slowly making their way into the business world. This new movement is called Enterprise 2.0, and it's no small shift....
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Interview with Product Manager Todd Jackson on Gmail Labs
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on June 05, 2008
Steve Gillmor and I spoke with Gmail product manager Todd Jackson for a few minutes today following their announcement of Gmail Labs. See our real time notes here for more details.Crunch Network: MobileCrunchMobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
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Plurk: Is This for Business?
via Business Blog Consulting by Rich Brooks on June 05, 2008
With all the recent outages and downtime over at Twitter (no doubt stirred up because of my recent article on How to Use Twitter for Business), many people have been checking out Plurk, a similar but different approach with the same 140 character message limit.Plurk has some nice add-ons that separates from Twitter. There’s an interactive timeline that shows threads and makes it easier to...
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Elevator Pitches
via A VC by Fred on June 04, 2008
I saw the news that TechCrunch launched a service called Elevator Pitches yesterday. The "elevator pitch" is supposedly a short quick pitch that you could deliver in an elevator. My partner Brad claims that the first time he met Dave Morgan, founder of TACODA and Right Media, it was in the mid 90s in an elevator in a hotel and that Dave had to follow Brad into breakfast in order to finish the...
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RBI Community Editors Live Blog - Friday 13th June 2008
via Engagement 101 by Andrew Orange on June 03, 2008
... a bit of fun.As a visitor to the blog you'll be able not only to see what they are up to, but help them out with suggestions and ask questions.Signed up to take part so far are:Simeon Brody, CareSpace (social workers' community)Stuart Clarke, Airspace.aero (aviation community)Isabel Davies, FWiSpace (agriculture community)To be reminded nearer the time, just fill out the form below:
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YouTube, Google Innovate in the Face of Success
via ParisLemon by MG Siegler on June 03, 2008
YouTube rolled out a new "Video Annotations" feature tonight in beta which is very cool. For a good proof-of-concept check out the "Interactive Shell Game" video.This adds a whole new layer of interactivity to videos and should lead to some interesting things beyond those people who will simply make lame rehashes of old "Pop Up Videos".Features such as this remind me of why I view Google...
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Last.fm in a Box: Listen to Last.fm on Live Nation, iGoogle, and More…
via Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog by Paul Glazowski on June 03, 2008
... third-party websites for the convenience of their users.The initial set of partners for Last.fm in a Box is quite an extensive one. The CBS-owned company includes Billboard, Break Media, eMusic, Live Nation, MP3.com, Meebo, Frengo, Gigya, MP3.com, iGoogle, Netvibes, Pageflakes, Bebo, Ning, Photobucket, Piczo, Stardoll, WAYN.com, Six Apart, and Wordpress.com. CBS’s own television states and a...
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