Google opens video chat directly from iGoogle homepage
To try and make its personalized homepage, iGoogle, a little stickier, Google is allowing video chat directly from site. To use it, you have to download a free plug-in. Then you can go on and video...
View ArticleTwones rolls up 25 music services into one
The number of music sites worth signing up for keeps growing. If you’re as disorganized as I am, a morning’s listening can make a mess of your desktop, and the different interfaces for each site make...
View ArticleGoogle Local Search for Mobile — now with less typing
Google announced an improved interface for its Local Search site for mobile phones today that should help reduce time spent futzing around with your phone’s keyboard. Both of the changes are basically...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg on how to build hacker culture inside a company
(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. Mark Zuckerberg is on-stage for a question-and-answer session and I’ve embedded a...
View ArticlePlastic Logic to sell Que eBook reader in Barnes & Noble stores
Plastic Logic said today it will sell its novel plastic eBook reader in Barnes & Noble stores nationwide. The deal is a coup for Plastic Logic, a startup that has figured out how to make electronic...
View ArticleShazam, the song-recognition app, launches $4.99 version with more features
Shazam, owner of the application that lets you identify a song by holding your phone up to to a radio, has released a paid ($4.99) version of its iPhone app that makes it easier to share music and...
View ArticleSalesforce.com’s Marc Benioff: Don’t call Chatter a social network
Salesforce.com announced a new product today called Chatter, which it describes as Facebook and Twitter for enterprises. But during a press and analyst session at the Dreamforce conference in San...
View ArticleFacebook bans offer providers Gambit and Tatto Media due to questionable ads
Facebook has banned offer providers Gambit and Tatto Media from providing offers in games and apps on the social network. The development is one of the results of the recent scandal around the quality...
View ArticleReview Corner-A ArtStudio is powerful animation software that can bring to...
Corner-A ArtStudio is powerful animation software that can bring to life boring static images. ArtStudio has a lot of build-in filters, it has hardware acceleration support, various export possibilites...
View ArticleFormer Current TV strategist Sloan jumps to Twitter
Robin Sloan, a former strategist and executive at Current TV, is joining Twitter to handle media partnerships. He says he’ll help “producers, reporters, developers and strategists at media...
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