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Supernova Mobile Connections Forum
via TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic on June 17, 2008
Today at the Supernova conference there was a Techcrunch panel on the next great ideas in Mobile. The panelists were Michael Arrington, Kevin Werbach, Roelof Botha and Andreas Kluth. The companies that presented focused on important themes to advance innovation in the mobile environment including mobile goods, avatars, games and interfaces.For more information on the technology some of these...
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Funambol Raises $12.5 Million Series B: AOL Signs Up As Customer
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on June 17, 2008
By taking an open-source approach to mobile mail and contact syncing, Funambol is cracking the problem of creating applications across 850 different mobile handsets. The company raised $12.5million in a series B financing led by Nexit Ventures. Castile Ventures and existing investors Walden International and H.I.G ventures also participated. Funambol previously raised $5 million in a series A...
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Why Kyte.tv will kill Qik and Flixwagon in cell phone video space
via TechCrunch by Guest Author on June 14, 2008
The post below is written by Robert Scoble, a top blogger and the founder FastCompanyTV.Robert has been one of the earliest adopters of cell phone video, which offers the ability to stream live to the Internet, with the primary tradeoff being relatively poor video quality. He’s extensively tested all of the major emerging services in this area, including Kyte, Qik and Flixwagon, among...
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Loopt Now Available For BlackBerry Users
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on June 13, 2008
Mobile social network Loopt is making a big push this summer.CEO Sam Altman already took stage at last week’s Stevenote prior to the unveiling of iPhone 3G. He was there to present the friend tracking software Loopt has been developing in time for the iPhone App Store launch on July 11th.But while Altman describes Loopt’s iPhone version as the company’s best ever, he’s not overlooking...
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Shopzilla Founder Farhad Mohit Behind Stealth Startup DotSpots
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on June 13, 2008
Serial entrepreneur Farhad Mohit is at it again. Back in 1996, Mohit founded BizRate, one of the first consumer review sites, and then shopping search engine Shopzilla. He sold both to E.W. Scripps for $570 million in June 2005. Now he has a new super stealthy startup called DotSpots. The startup raised a seed round of $300,000 last September from Mohit and HitForge, the angel fund run by...
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Gmail Labs: A Public Stage for Googlers’ 20% Time
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on June 04, 2008
Google invited members of the press to its main campus in Mountain View to unveil a new beta feature platform for Gmail called Gmail Labs.Gmail Labs is essentially a stage for Googlers from all areas within the company to develop new features for Gmail, and to do so under the public eye. Starting at 6pm PT tonight, all Gmail users in the US and UK will see a new tab in the settings area called...
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Add Google Reader, Techmeme, and TechCrunch Tabs to FriendFeed
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on June 04, 2008
Who knew Duncan Riley was such a Greasemonkey? My former colleague just made FriendFeed a lot more useful for people on Firefox. Using Greasemonkey, an add-on to Firefox that lets developers customize Webpages through the browser, he created some scripts that add tabs to FriendFeed that make it even more of a super start page than it already is. He got the idea from this app called...
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Plan B
via TechCrunch by Steve Gillmor on June 01, 2008
In the past, you could measure Microsoft’s success by others’ weakness. This time it’s different. Google rolls out a five-pronged disruption to the smart phone, the Visual Studio developer base, social media, offline storage, and Webtone pricing - and it bolsters Ray Ozzie’s hand. With a month to go, Bill Gates’ “transition” from 80-20 to 20-80 has Redmond shaking.The old games just...
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Facebook Platform Now Open Source: fbOpen Released
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on June 01, 2008
As we wrote last week, Facebook is turning parts of its application platform open source, the company announced today. It’s available here for download.This comes a little more than a year after Facebook Platform first launched to allow third party developers a way to get their applications directly onto Facebook. The company says more than 24,000 applications have now been built on the...
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Technorati Founder Dave Sifry Takes On Travel Guide Industry
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 31, 2008
Technorati founder Dave Sifry, who left the company a little over a year ago, is launching a new company called Offbeat Guides this morning into private beta. Sifry’s blog post on the launch is here.Think Lonely Planet travel guides, except they are created on the fly from Internet data sources, customized to you personally and then delivered via PDF instantly or (a color printed version) by...
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