Archive for April, 2008
Evernote Public Bookmarks, and Invites for Mashable Readers
Evernote is admittedly my favorite new bookmarking tool, namely because it allows me to bookmark all the things in my life that aren’t already digital. With an assigned email address, I can send content to my Evernote account via email or through my mobile phone. With image text search, I never have to [...]
Tudou’s Video Sharing Still Lucrative to the Tune of $57 Million
Someone poked a bit of fun at a phrase I used in the description to a podcast I posted earlier today, in which I called online video ’still lucrative for a lucky few.’ One of those lucky few today is a Chinese embedded video site called Todou. They’ve just announced the raising of their Series [...]
Should PostSecret Send NBCU a DMCA Notice?
There’s been a run of interesting intellectual property stories this evening, and all of them where the usual Goliath beats the crap out of David story has been reversed. This one doesn’t have a happy ending, as of yet, but it does turn the normal sort of who’s-stealing-from-whom story on its ear.
This time, it’s an [...]
Jajah Telephony Lands Yahoo as First Client
Having already integrated its VoIP services with a number of web-based social networks and other applications, Jajah is ready to take things to the next level. A partnership with Jangl revved up the infrastructure and implementation capabilities for both VoIP services, and an ad network has been the cherry on top of Jajah’s year [...]
You Should Hide Your Babies from Prince, Just To Be Safe
We briefly touched on the fact that Prince went on a sue-spree last year, where he decided to go after his fans and a little baby with DMCA notices and trademark infringement suits. In case you missed it, essentially, the YouTube video embedded below was taken offline by YouTube in response to a DMCA notice [...]
Audio Wars: Return of the Listeners
We’ve been following the long slow march to the end of the road by the big entertainment music companies, with the RIAA at the head of the parade into the abyss. It’s interesting to occasionally see someone win a victory against these behemoths, like Tanya Andersen has. Ms. Andersen is a 45-year-old single mother, and [...]
Will You Use MySpace Karaoke?
In case MySpace Music weren’t enough, now there’s MySpace Karaoke. Powered by kSolo, a company Fox acquired some time ago, this new section of MySpace lets you make recordings of your own versions of your favorite songs, which can then be shared with friends. Got a microphone on your computer? Great. [...]
Elite Tech News #6: Where are My Pants?
It’s Monday afternoon, so that means it’s Elite Tech News time. On this episode we rounded up the week’s news, again, as filtered by the Reddit / L33t filter. This week it was me as moderator, as well as Jason Kaneshiro from Webomatica, Steven Hodson of WinExtra, Art Lindsey from artlindsey.com and Frederic Lardinois [...]
The ROI Council and the Future of Online Video [podcast]
Break Media has been at the leading edge of online video entertainment in terms of both content development as well as monetization and producer rewards for a good while now - longer than a lot of the other players that see a lot of press in the Web 2.0 game. They’re leading again, as last [...]
SoarPort is Scribd for Big Photos [The Startup Review]
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STARTUP DETAILS:
Company Name: SoarPort
Company Website: http://www.soarport.com/
CEO’s 20 word description: SoarPort is a free service which caters to those in need of large dimension image publishing. This category of image [...]