Archive for May, 2008
The IPL Fan Club: A Social Network For Indian Cricket Fans
The IPL Fan Club, a social network built around Indian Premiere League Cricket, recently launched, and it is gaining users quickly.
While cricket never caught on much in the United States, at least as a professional-level attraction, in India it is something akin to a lifestyle. Just launched this year, the Indian Premiere League has [...]
Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools!
Various Twitter-related tools and plugins have been multiplying fast over since we did our big Twitter Toolbox and 8 awesome Firefox plugins for Twitter earlier. When we say fast, we “mean 140+ new tools” fast, and we probably missed some, too. You know what this means: now you have to arm yourself with dozens of [...]
ZuneTV: Web Videos Formatted To Go
Since it’s launch in late 2006, Microsoft’s Zune portable media player hasn’t recorded particularly stunning sales. But for the owners of the few million devices that the company has managed to get into consumers’, the launch of a new independent video site may come as welcome news.
Called ZuneTV and created by ZuneBoards, a forum unaffiliated [...]
MSNBC’s Spectra News Vortex: A Total Looker
Used to reading news headlines by way of a linear RSS reader, are you? Bored by the daily routine, are you? We understand. Of course, some applications, both Web-based and local, offer glossier presentations than others, but for the most part, they’re dull, the news looks flavorless, and frankly, you could use something more exciting [...]
Pix-Yu To Start Paying Users For Image Clicks
Pix-Yu, the photo sharing site that focuses on grouping photos by events, has announced that they will start paying users for the number of clicks their images receive.
Effective immediately you can earn 0.25€ ($.39 USD) per 1,000 image views. Clicks will be calculated by unique visitors, so 10 clicks by one person will only [...]
RockYou Takes $1 Million In Interim Funding
RockYou, the widget maker that helps you build slideshows and things, has taken on a $1 million dollar round of funding to tide itself over while sorting out some issues. What issues, you ask?
According to Matt Marshall at VentureBeat, the latest infusion is an interim measure taken to keep things moving steady as they try [...]
Facebook Platform Turns One Year Young
It was one year ago to the day that the Facebook Platform had its debut in San Francisco, California. And oh how far it has come.
An entire economy has emerged in the months since the launch, complete with virtually all of the ups and downs that come with development and management of a startup marketplace. [...]
German TV Bigwig ProSiebenSat1 Said To Buy Lokalisten
Lokalisten, a popular German social network, has reportedly been purchased by the German television company, ProSiebenSat1 Media AG.
ProSiebenSat1 had already picked up 30% ownership of the network in October of 2006. According to Netzwertig, a German technology blog, whose editor alerted us to the news, they have now purchased the remaining 70%. The price [...]
Akimbo Is Dead, Gone, And Now We Move On
As the technorati have made ever so clear in the last couple of days, Akimbo, a video delivery company that started off with a set-top box focus and later also experimented with things PC-specific, is now very much expired, as first revealed by Matt Marshall of VentureBeat, having closed the doors on its multi-million-dollar venture [...]
TripTouch Launches Widget For Start Pages
This week, TripTouch, a travel mashup which Mashable associated editor Paul Glazowski first covered a few months ago, launched a new widget for a couple of popular start pages that allows users quick access to the service.
Once you add this to your page, either on iGoogle and Netvibes, it will locate you position, and if [...]