Refresh Partners, a company that provides end-to-end marketing solutions for Facebook, Bebo and MySpace applications, is launching Refresh Analytics. This new segment of the Refresh brand actually provides developers and app owners analytic and demog...
New York federal judge William Conner established, in a recent ruling, a loose formula that determines the royalties Yahoo Inc., AOL and RealNetworks will have to pay to music composers, writers and publishers, and it might add up to 100 million doll...
After last week's news of eBay suing Craigslist, a company in whose ownership it has an important stake, eBay has decided to let the world know why exactly they're suing, and published a copy of its complaint. This is eBay's version of the story, so ...
Google AdWords has just made a major announcement: they are launching Google TV Ads, an all-digital system that lets you place your ads into TV program. The service has been available as a trial program for over a year now, and now Google has opened ...
For a good amount of time prior to the debut of iTunes Movie Rentals, a service first announced at this year’s Macworld Expo, Apple optioned purchase-to-own digital film downloads. But in its earliest stage, the store’s movie annex retained mostly da...
You know, there has been lots of analysis over the chatter coming out of Redmond concerning its supposed strategy to secure the keys to Yahoo. Even I have been guilty of regularly scrutinizing the actions of both Microsoft and Yahoo surrounding the o...
Yahoo Buzz, a more elementary competitor to Digg and other vote-based link aggregation and promotion engines of similar ilk, has showed be quite popular in the months following its February debut. Though Yahoo has been criticized for failing to provi...
I’ve been hearing that May 1st was RSS Awareness Day for a few weeks, although I hadn’t really been able to pin down many details. However, since Dave Winer - the godfather of RSS himself - has posted about it, I figured it would be okay to spread th...
Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review†series, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: Streamzy 20-word Description: Streamzy is a media search engine (just music for...
There are lots of places to learn the ropes of finance and the world markets. Yahoo Finance is often said to be the most trafficked of all Web-based destinations. Then there’s The Motley Fool. The Street is another. CNBC and Fox Business deliver visu...
Online classifieds service Oodle has named Kevin Doerr its new senior vice president, to lead the company's partner network and grow advertising revenue all the same. A Microsoft veteran, Doerr worked in Microsoft's Premium Mobile Services group, Win...
New(ish) chat tool Digsby is probably amongst the most curious of the recent entrants to the market, because of its all inclusive approach to communication--not just chat. It supports all the major chat services, and also pulls in your email messages...
If you're gearing up to Launch a new company, Enterprise 2.0 Conference Launch Pad is the perfect place to do it. As a participant in this program, you'll have a chance to receive feedback from the largest audience in the Enterprise 2.0 community, an...
In conjunction with Internet Week New York (June 3 - 10th), Mashable is hosting an Exhibitors Hall at Touch on Friday, June 6th from 6-10pm. The event is OPEN and FREE to the public, and it will be the only exhibitor's hall throughout Internet Week N...
Remember that warm, fuzzy feeling you got inside when MySpace announced their developer platform and I wrote that it would “level the playing field†for application builders? Maybe not, but in any event, whatever hopes there were that MySpace’s platf...
When Facebook opened up its platform last year, a lot of developers were happy, the media hailed it as one of the smartest moves in social media, and the backlash from users was minimal, at least when compared to the onslaught of nasty comments Faceb...
Bizak is a new analytics tool that's hoping to bring in some practical features to its approach towards startups. With bizak, you can calculate how well your business will do based on its existing status, along with the comps of other businesses in t...
SF Green is a networking event that brings together the Bay Area GreenTech community to see demos from the hottest green companies, including Tesla Motors and SmartCar - who will be bringing prototypes to display! Get 15% off by registering with at t...
There are a number of resource sites that are better taking advantage of the instant-gratification tools for the acquisition of knowledge that the web presents us, and Forbes is the latest to enhance its online content for this purpose. Now, all of F...
TalkShoe may be seeking some venture capital, according to a source MG Seigler found over at VentureBeat today. According to the source, they're looking for about $5 million from Third Security in VC. As MG mentioned, this is looking to be a cap off ...
Current.com, the cable channel and embedded video site that allows the viewers to pick the news pieces, recently did a short documentary showing a day in the life of our fearless leader, Pete Cashmore. I just got an update from the folks over at Curr...
Paul talked about it back in February, but it's finally here. The feature that users of Moveable Type and WordPress have been enjoying for a quite a while now, future posting, is now available to all users on Blogger's platform for standalone sites a...
Blinkx, the popular video search site we've covered several times before has decided to embrace their inner Star Wars geek with a special page dedicated to the film series. May 4th, 2008 has been declared "International Star Wars Day" (Fourth... Forc...
Ever felt like there were too many steps to sharing your media online with your friends? Wished you could share all your favorite items such as videos, pictures, blog posts and more in one convenient place? Then iGliss may be just what you've been lo...
According to the Digg blog, it looks like Digg has decided to join with the DataPortability camp. Enhancements that have been put in to place, but are invisible to the naked eye include the XFN open standard which will make it easier for other sites ...
If you head to a new site called Dorble, you may notice its resemblance to another site, Gimado, that launched a couple of months ago. That's because it's created by the same person that gave us Gimado. There's a long and winded story behind the reas...
Remember USENET? I do. It was one of my first forays into the Internet. According to Google's archive my first post (at least my first post under my own name, as opposed to my middle school and high school teacher's account) was back in 1995. It was ...
Louis Gray has an interesting post on what makes FriendFeed so addictive for those of us in the early adopter set. There are quite a few folks that are trying to make a go of it in the lifestreaming and aggregation set. As Louis said: Plaxo did it. P...
From CMS to online word processors, there is no dearth of services and tools to help you put your documents online. The latest fad seems to be the online document sharing sites where you can upload and share your documents in their original formats. ...
Bountii is a price comparison search engine that launched late last year, along with some funding from Y Combinator. As far as price comparison search engines go, Bountii not only restricts the number of retailers it crawls, but then digs deeper into...
