Crowdfusion is on the move with $3 Million in the coffers from the likes of Marc Andreessen, Velocity Interactive Group and Greycroft Partners. The startup is attempting to be the next standard for “web publishing” (Think what wordpress did for blogging). There is a tremendous amount of buzz on this startup particularly because Andreeseen is [...]
Facebook announces the “Facebook Open Platform” for developers on the anniversary of its’ platform launch.
The facebook developer blog stated:
It’s been quite a year, with over 24,000 applications built on the platform and over 400,000 developers building new social experiences. We see about 140 applications added to our directory per day, and nearly all of [...]
Crowd sourcing startup Cambrian House is headed to the deadpool. The company had a bold concept of letting web users submit ideas and rally around the viable ones. The crowd would get a piece of profits as the idea turned into startup success. A significant problem the business ran into was the following:
A [...]
CBS has acquired San Fransisco based CNET for $.1.8 billion. CNET has numerous web properties and enormous traffic from the likes of Gamespot,TV.com, news.com and mp3.com. According to Forbes “The deal values CNET at a 44.6% premium to Wednesday’s closing price of $7.95. CBS said that the deal would catapult it into the ranks of [...]
Scoutle a new dutch startup launched earlier this month with an interesting take on how to make automated social networking connections for websites and bloggers. In their words:
Your Scout is your personal webcrawler. He will walk over the Internet and will meet other Scouts. To help your Scout walk, give him some space so [...]
Google’s Friend connect has launched and gives web site owners the ability to add social features (within an iframe) to their existing websites. The code is a a cut and paste scenario and is not much more difficult then pasting adsense code.
I have to hand it to Google, they continue to create feature rich [...]
Live Universe continues the acquisition tear by acquiring Pageflakes according to TechCrunch. Many of you may recognize the Live Universe brand from the Revver acquisition earlier in the year for $5 million. Apparently Live Universe is making quite a business model out of companies that have exhausted their funding and burn-rate. It appear Live Universe [...]
How to monetize your eyeballs and the social media craze for your next Internet startup is the clear and present danger of web 2.0. Humans are the most intelligent species on the planet (supposedly). Yet learning from our mistakes is simply not in our business DNA. We are doomed to repeat past mistakes similarly to [...]
Amazon had a unknown server outage today starting at around 5am and lasting until quarter-past 7am. The reports in main stream media and blogs have been comical based on how quickly people want to throw AWS (Amazon Web Services) under the bus. Granted Amazon does not have a SLA (service level agreement) but, is that [...]
