TechCrunch
- The Long Tail Of Video Sites Capture Half Of All Viewing Minutes
YouTube might be streaming more than 13 billion videos a month, or nearly 40 percent of total individual streams, but when you measure by time spent YouTube only accounted for 26 percent of all viewing minutes on the Web last year. It is not surprising that it commands a smaller share of time spent watching videos than number of streams watched, since most YouTube videos are so short. But what is surprising is how fragmented the Web video landscape remains once you go out past the top 25 … - blueKiwi Rides the Freemium Wave
With the continued success of Twitter and other social networking tools, any criticism (or praise) of products and companies is becoming increasingly public. Finding a way to manage these external communications in the internal decision-making process is an ongoing challenge for many businesses. Today, in an effort to help marketers and community managers better deal with such outside correspondence, blueKiwi, an Europas shortlist finalist, has announced the introduction of a free version of i… - Video: “Parisian Oops” Mocks Google’s Super Bowl Commercial
It actually took longer than I would have expected for someone to come up with a good mocking of Google's "Parisian Love" commercial that played during the Super Bowl yesterday. But today brings us just that. The video comes compliments of the Upright Citizens Brigade Beta Team "The Brig." They've named their video "Parisian Oops" and have given it the tagline, "Romance, Consequences, Awkwardness. Search on." Watch it below.… - The Ten Biggest Advertising Publishers On The Web
Last year, Yahoo still dominated display advertising on the Web in terms of sheer number of ad impressions on its properties, but social networking sites MySpace and Facebook came on strong. Some new data from comScore in its just-released 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review ranks the top Web properties by the number of display ad impressions. Yahoo served up an estimated 521 billion impressions last year, according to the report, followed by Fox Interactive Media (i.e. MySpace) with 368 bil… - Google Launches Phone Support For The Nexus One, Lowers ETF By $200
Since the launch of the Nexus One, early adopters have likely had one question lurking in the back of their minds: who to take the phone to if it broke. You see, when the phone was first launched, Google was directing people to either T-Mobile (Google's carrier partner) or HTC (the device manufacturer) depending on the problem, which could lead to an endless circle of hold times and few results. Today, Google has just rolled out its solution: it's launching its own phone support line specifica… - Still No Native Comments, But Tumblr Toys With Photo Replies
Probably the most controversial thing about the blogging service Tumblr is that it doesn't have a built-in way to comment on posts. You sort of can do it now if you reblog an item and add your own note (which then shows up under the original post), but it's not the same. And while they still haven't added comments, tonight they've temporarily turned on a new feature: Photo Replies. While it doesn't appear the feature is working just yet, Tumblr notes that they're going to turn it on for the nex… - The Richter Scales Debut Animated Video Of “I’ve Got Mail And I’ve Got It Made”
We're big fans of The Richter Scales, the musical group that have brought us Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Here Comes Another Bubble, and gut-busting songs at the 2008 Crunchies and most recently the parody of Silicon Valley at the 2009 Crunchies a few weeks ago. The group is releasing an animated video of its song 'I've Got Mail and I've Got it Made,' which was one of the two songs The Richters sang at the first Crunchies in 2007. As you may remember, it's about what happens to a g… - Facebook, Tesla And Solyndra Dominate SecondMarket Transactions In January
Last month SecondMarket published data on private company stock sales that they helped complete in 2009. They've now released last month's data as well. A total of a little more than $13 million in sales occurred, with the average transaction size of around $2 million. There continues to be very strong demand for consumer products and services startups (which includes companies like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, etc.). But the sellers are spread out more evenly across all categories, part… - Winter Weather Storm Watch Gets Streamlined On New Accuweather Site
With the East Coast and Midwest awaiting a monster snowstorm, popular weather forecasting site Accuweather, is rolling out a timely relaunch of its site. The site, which provides up-to-date local information on weather in the U.S., is launching a beta version of the site that includes a complete redesign and a few extra user-friendly features. The new version of the Accuweather is still in private beta but will be publicly launched to the public on February 15. On the content side, the gene… - Apple Surveying iPhone Developers’ Happiness With The App Store
Last year, there was no shortage of developers who were complaining about Apple's App Store. The situation got so heated that no less than Apple senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller, got personally involved with a number of developers having issues. Since then, the complaints seem to have died down quite a bit, but Apple is still on the case. The company has started sending out a survey to iPhone developers asking about their experience with the program. While the…
Mashable
- Music Ownership Beats Music Subscription in Reader Poll
In last week’s Faceoff Series we asked about music consumption models: Do Mashable readers prefer to own their entire music collections or do some of you gravitate toward subscription services?One week later and the results are in: Ownership wins the day at a full 50% of the vote. Of all our past Faceoffs, though, this edition had one of the highest “tie” votes constituting people who really like both models. The music subscription model still came in second place behind owners… - Twins Discover Teenage Brother’s Death on Facebook
This isn’t the way you should learn about the death of your 17 year old brother.According to Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph, twins Angela and Maryanne Vourlis had just woken up on their 20th birthday. Like most young adults, they logged onto Facebook to check their walls and inboxes for birthday greetings.Instead of finding happy birthday wishes, the two twins found messages of “RIP Bobby” (their brother) and “RIP Chris Naylor” (a friend of his) all across thei… - From “Eraserhead” to MMS: David Lynch Goes Mobile
Award-winning director (and three-time Oscar nominee) David Lynch (of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks fame) and the David Lynch Foundation Television have teamed up with mobile video marketer Mogreet to bring video MMS messages to Lynch fans.We spoke with Mogreet and the David Lynch Foundation about the technology, the purpose of the campaign and how the DLF is using social media and technology to further its message.Spreading a Message With Mobile VideoThe ever-increasing pace of smartphone adoption… - Netflix Instant Streaming Goes 1080p This Year [Updated]
Update: Netflix contacted CNET and retracted its statement regarding plans for 1080p streaming, saying it has no plans for 1080p this year. However, the company stood its ground on the 5.1 surround sound plans, so you can still keep your ears open for that upgrade.–Netflix plans to bump the video quality of its Watch Instantly streaming service up to 1080p on some devices, CNET claims. It will also roll out 5.1 surround sound support. Both upgrades will occur by next year.Currently, Netfli… - Tell Us Your Favorite Super Bowl Moment, Win a FLO TV [CONTEST]
What was your favorite moment during the Super Bowl? Was it the fast-paced game or the ads that got your attention?If the ads caught your eye, which moment stood out for you? If it was the game, which play was most memorable? Why did it stick with you? We want to know!FLO TV, which ran its “Moments” commercial as one of the Super Bowl ads this year, has provided three FLO TV Personal Televisions (value: $290 each with 6 months free service) as prizes for this contest. To enter, l… - Super Bowl Ads: Hulu’s Winners and Losers [STATS]
We’ve already looked at how on-air Super Bowl advertisers fared with audiences during the Big Game, but how did online viewers react to the spots? Check out which ads were the biggest winners — or losers — with the Hulu crowd.The 2010 Super Bowl was a big win for more than just the New Orleans Saints, CBS scored big-time, too, garnering the biggest Super Bowl audience on record, and, with 106 million U.S. households tuned in, the most-watched television program of all time. Th… - New Update to Give Droid Multitouch
There’s some good news and some bad news. First, the good news: sources tell Engadget that multitouch browsing will be added to the Motorola Droid in its next software update.Multitouch was one of the most requested features on Android, at least until the Nexus One gained multitouch browsing last week.The bad news: the update won’t add the ability to install live wallpapers, a coveted feature of Android 2.1 seen in the Nexus One.The point of live wallpaper is essentially to let your… - Rumor: iPhone 4G Will Be Taller Than Predecessors [PICS]
iPhone repair shop iResQ claims that it has the front panel component of the next iteration of Apple’s iPhone, and it has posted a few photos to demonstrate a couple of ways the handset will differ from its predecessor.If these pics are legit, then the new iPhone will actually be one-fourth of an inch taller than all of the previous three models. Presumably this is to make room for a new component — or more than one new component.iResQ also observes that the front panel has a “refl… - Barnes & Noble Nook on Shelves Wednesday
While the Nook — Barnes & Noble’s $259 e-reader and Kindle rival — has been available for purchase online since November, it has yet to be sold in the company’s brick-and-mortar stores. Come Wednesday, however, that will all change.The New York Times is reporting, “Barnes & Noble, the country’s largest bookselling chain, said that its Nook electronic reading device would be available for purchase in its stores starting Wednesday.”Barnes & Noble o… - 5 Insightful TED Talks on Social Media
The 2010 Technology Entertainment Design conference will be kicking off tomorrow in Long Beach, California, bringing the leading minds of many fields together to talk shop about innovation, change, and what the future holds.As social media has become a game changer for industries across the board, you can bet the experts at this year’s TED conference will have their sights set on peeling back the hype and getting at the core of what social technology has in store for this year and beyond.P…
Web 2.0 Show
- Episode 66 - Freshbooks / Mike McDerment
I spoke with Mike McDerment, Co-founder and CEO of Freshbooks. Mike shares lots of great advice on building a business, the importance of choosing the RIGHT business partner and more in this jam packed episode.… - Episode 65 - Venmo: SMS-based Payment Platform
I caught up with the Founders of Venmo, Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail. They have no titles, they wear all available hats in their ultra lean 2 person startup based in Philadelphia, PA.… - Episode 64 - Earth Aid / Ben Bixby
I spoke with Ben Bixby about Earth Aid, the EarthAid.net platform, and what it means to liberate your utility data stream and save money on your energy and earn free cupcakes.… - Episode 63 - Twilio: Telephony in the Cloud
I spoke with Twilio Founders: Jeff Lawson - CEO (@jeffiel), Evan Cooke - CTO (@emcooke) and John Wolthuis - Lead Engineer (@thuddwhirr). We talked about Twilio, telephony in the cloud and many other topics about running a startup.… - Episode 62 - Molehill / Tom Rossi & Kevin Finn
I had a chance to sit with Tom Rossi and Kevin Finn, the Founders of Molehill a product focused Web Application Development company out of Jacksonville, FL.… - Episode 61 - Grasshopper / David Hauser
I spoke with David Hauser, Co-Founder and CTO of Grasshopper as well as Jonathan Kay, aka the Ambassador of Buzz, to talk about their business and how they are helping entrepreneurs succeed.… - Episode 60 - IWearYourShirt.com / Jason Sadler
I sat down face-to-face to speak with Jason Sadler of I Wear Your Shirt (iwearyourshirt.com) to talk about his rise to fame and fortune by wearing t-shirts. Yes, that's right. T-shirts.… - Episode 59 - Groupon.com / Andrew Mason
I sat down with Andrew Mason (29), Founder and CEO of Groupon.com to discuss to awesome ways they are helping people have fun in the city they live in and save money using the tremendous power of collective buying.… - Episode 58 - Font Squirrel / Ethan Dunham
We sat with Ethan Dunham to discuss all the juicy details of FontSquirrel.com and what's going on in the world of free fonts and @font-face.… - Episode 57 - AdaptiveBlue & GetGlue / Alex Iskold
Josh and I had a chance to speak with Alex Iskold, Founder and CEO of AdaptiveBlue and GetGlue.com. Getglue.com is a social recommendation engine, which helps you discover new books, music and movies.…
ReadWriteWeb
- When Negotiation Becomes Dishonesty
If you've been a geek your whole life then you understand the term "Canadian girlfriend." The Canadian (or sometimes British) love interest is the person you talk about when a member of the opposite sex inquires about your dating status. The story is that you met online, you've formed a solid bond and you'll probably break up with your online girlfriend when a girl in your vicinity decides she likes you. The idea is to drive up the value of your perceived social stock. In the startup world, the … - Green Goose: Save Money Using Sensors
Green Goose is a new financial management service that launched today, which connects sensor activity to your savings account. At first Green Goose sounded a little gimmicky. Using green Internet-connected eggs, it measures how much energy you expend on your bike or how much water you use in your shower - and transfers amounts from your checking account to your savings account based on the 'savings' you made doing those activities. What's interesting though is that the savings are calculated b… - Where is Entrepreneurship Really Taught?
Between Y Combinator's Startup School, the influx of seed fund incubators, the list of legendary mentors and investors and the dotcom bust's school of hard knocks, is there really any reason to go to grad school? At ReadWriteWeb we're supportive of lifelong learning and universities that coach entrepreneurs, but a recent post by Venture Hacks founder Naval Ravikant has us wondering, "What is the value in grad school?" Sponsor Ravikant suggests that incubators and accelerators like YCombinator … - What's Next For Geolocation? Apps, Apps, Apps
Geolocation social networks are set to be in 2010 what microblogging was in 2008 - the next big thing. Currently the space is being dominated by Foursquare, with others like Gowalla, MyTown and Loopt trailing in its wake. While Gowalla has secured a large amount of funding, some $8.5 million, and My Town claims more check-ins than the other services, Foursquare is happily ticking along on the seed money provided by its founders (after they sold their original effort, Dodgeball, to Google), a… - VMware Partner Exchange 2010: What happens in Vegas Comes to your Enterprise
If you're releasing products integrated into the VMware ecosystem, you're likely enjoying enjoying the Las Vegas Strip this week. VMware Partner Exchange 2010 kicked off at the Mandalay Bay hotel today, and it is the place to learn about the current state of affairs and how to quantify tangible benefits of virtualization for partners and customers. We've found that the virtualization layer is becoming a key place to launch enterprise products. All of this momentum is being translated in how… - Startup Priorities: Is Design More Important Than Engineering?
We are all told to never judge a book by its cover, but let's face it, when we find ourselves at an ugly website, we automatically make assumptions about the quality of the services that site provides. A topic we have begun to cover more often, and one that we strongly believe in, is the importance of design for startups. In the last several weeks we've provided tips and best practices for sign-up buttons and registration processes, as well as an inside look into at Boxee's user experience overh… - Android Market Share Doubles - Will Overtake Palm Soon
RIM's BlackBerry platform is still the most popular mobile smartphone platform in the US, but Google's Android was the big winner in the last quarter of 2009. According to comScore, Android's share of the US mobile market more than doubled from 2.5% in September 2009 to 5.2% in December. While the Nexus One might not be a bestseller just yet, it's clear that the Android platform is poised for rapid growth in the next few months as more and more manufactures continue to release Android-based phon… - Will SAP CEO Shakeup Lead to a Unified Cloud Computing Strategy?
The rise of cloud computing looks like it has lead to the fall of SAP CEO Léo Apotheker, who resigned over the weekend. It's not that cloud computing has been absent at SAP. There are a number of efforts underway. But it's the lack of any unified strategy that is most notable. "They have been exploring the cloud," said Ray Wang of the Altimeter Group. "It's how quickly they have responded is the question of contention." Sponsor SAP's headquarters are in Germany, and Wang says that may have c… - Google Creating Twitter Clone for Gmail
As soon as this week, Google might be rolling out a "Twitter-killer" feature for Gmail users, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Gmail users can currently broadcast status messages via the Google Talk feature. The main difference between the current offering and the new feature is that status messages aren't available in a timeline format. With the new "Twitter clone," they will be. Sponsor UPDATE: While we're still waiting for an official response from Google's PR team, we've… - Curatorr: A Twitter Tool for Media Companies
Lately, quite a few TV channels - like CNN - have replaced their man-on-the-street interviews with the cheaper solution of just doing a Twitter search and displaying the results on TV. Curatorr's mission is to help these media companies make the process of finding tweets to put on air even easier. Developed by Wiredset, the company behind Trendrr, Curatorr gives media companies, brands and publishers an easy way to find tweets and put the best of them on air. Sponsor Curatorr offers a very stre…
Bokardo
- Google: Forms & Landing Pages are Key
A fascinating post by Googler Gavin Doolan: If you are considering making changes to your website design, take a moment to consider the potential revenue impact of your redesign. (This graph) shows a theoretical overview of the ROI impact of various parts of your website. I love that: “theoretical overview”. In other words, they really have no [...]… - Dreamers of Day
I recently posted this quote on the 52weeksofUX site, but I like it so much I’m going to post it here as well: “All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds Awake to find that it was vanity; But the dreamers of day are dangerous men. That they [...]… - On the Origins of Avatars
As I sit looking at Tweetdeck this morning, scanning over 40 avatars of people I know and don't know, I wonder how much of my interaction is influenced by what a particular avatar looks like. Am I more willing to converse with someone who has a realistic avatar? A smiling avatar? Does the offbeat, non-human, text-based avatar inspire better communication or worse?… - The Most Important Feature of a Multi-Device Web: Syncing
If you sync seamlessly across devices, people will love you for it.… - Looking for examples of microcopy
I've set up a new Flickr group with the express intent of aggregating examples of microcopy, that tiny copy (often shorter than a sentence) that helps clarify, explain, reduce commitment, or otherwise assuage someone performing (or considering) a task. You can find the group here: Flickr: Microcopy… - Is Twitter Successful?
The big question everyone has with Twitter is, and the very first one that John Battelle asked Twitter CEO Ev Williams when he interviewed him yesterday, is "What's the revenue model?"… - Communicating Value through Cause & Effect on Fanfeedr
How Fanfeedr's intro page does well to communicate the value of the service.… - Feature Development in Action: Broadcast Stream Messages in Socialcast
One of the guiding principles of interaction design is to support existing behavior. This means to figure out what is already happening, what activities, tasks, and interactions people are already doing, and build support for them into software.… - Using your Sign-up form as a Qualifier
I recently ran across an interesting way to qualify people using sign-up forms at monotask.com.… - No Sign-up Necessary (the strikethrough method)
Two apps, Posterous and SignApp, have a novel way to communicate how easy it is to start using their product. I call it the strikethrough method.…
Signal vs. Noise
- PHOTO: There's quality control for you. This is
There’s quality control for you. This is the latest entries in the Entertainment category on iTunes. … - The App Store: Quality control without the quality
I love my iPhone and I love Apple (cue images of flag pins and “I love muh countray!”), but I believe they’re blowing it with the App Store gate keeping. That’s of course not a new opinion. Developers left and right have been decrying the broken process. But there’s nothing like feeling it on your own bones to make the point. We have a couple of new features in the wing for Campfire. They’ve been done for more than 10 days now. Why haven’t we released… - Scope a variable to a block in your template code
Sometimes you are coding a template and you need to refer to the same method chain over and over. For example, you’re coding a template that summarizes activity on recent messages. You iterate through a block of messages, and for each message you want to display some information pertaining to the last comment. You could do it like this: <div class="active_messages"> <% @active_messages.each do |message| %> <h1><%= message.title %></h1> <div clas… - Descriptive words and phrases found on a $6 bottle of hand soap
Extremely mild Richly foaming Naturally gentle Deeply cleanses Nourishes Pure and soothing Synergistically Refresh and restore Skin radiance Cool soothing Protects and restores balance Harmonize and replenish Additional moisturizing benefit What doesn’t this stuff do? Lather up and this naturally gentle, richly foaming, pure and soothing nourishing cleanser will synergistically refresh, harmonize, replenish, protect and restore balance with cool soothing bota… - INSIGHT: When debating UI, a picture is better than
When debating UI, a picture is better than a description. And a functional mockup is better than both. But debating UI without being able to look at something is a waste of time. … - Big Think interview with Jason (filmed with the Interrotron)
Big Think Interview With Jason Fried Was filmed using Errol Morris’ Interrotron (or a similar device). That’s how you get the direct eye contact. Jason’s take: “Was weird for 5 seconds then it was totally natural.” The story of the Interrotron is also a neat example of scratching your own itch. Morris explains: Q: Is it true that you interview people using a machine? A: Yes, the (patent pending) Interrotron. It’s a machine that uses existing t… - Basecamp turns 6
Today Basecamp turns 6. We launched Basecamp in February 2004 – here’s the original post on SvN that launched it all. Stats Birthday stats are always fun. Here are some of our favorites: 55,700,000 comments 53,000,000 megabytes of uploaded files (that’s 53 terabytes) 38,000,000 to-dos 24,600,000 messages 8,600,000 completed milestones 3,600,000 users 3,600,000 projects And for the technically minded: At peak we’re doing 220 requests a second wit… - Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots
Predictably, some argue the iPad doesn’t do enough. It needs a keyboard or a removable battery or multitasking ability or whatever. But there’s an interesting backlash to that backlash. (Meta-backlash!) The discussion has people openly discussing an ugly truth that doesn’t typically get a lot of play among tech geeks: People don’t know how to use computers. And not just stupid people. Millions of people. People who are adults. And that’s pretty damn lame. (Bol… - VIDEO: Stephen Colbert on Blippy: "This is more
Stephen Colbert on Blippy: “This is more exciting than going through old receipts. It’s going through new receipts!” (Outside USA? Try this version.) … - REWORK Trailer 1: Staying Late
REWORK is in stores March 9, 2010. Pre-order today from Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound, and 800-CEO-READ. …
Web 2.0 List
- Sketchpad
Online Paint/Drawing application… - Shorty Awards spotlight best of Twitter
The Shorty Awards - the real-time Web's version of the Oscars - has released its list of finalists. Check out the list here. You can vote on your favorites until Friday at noon ET. (More on how to do that). Winners will be announced at a March 3 ceremony in New York City. The awards are voted on through Twitter and are doled out to popular Twitter users in a number of categories, from tech and science tweets to literature and "customerservice" posts.… - House Passes Cybersecurity Bill
The House today overwhelmingly passed a bill aimed at building up the United States’ cybersecurity army and expertise, amid growing alarm over the country’s vulnerability online.… - Google Asks Spy Agency for Help With Inquiry Into Cyberattacks
Google has turned to the National Security Agency for technical assistance to learn more about the computer network attackers who breached the company’s cybersecurity defenses last year, a person with direct knowledge of the agreement said Thursday.… - Google searches getting more social
(CNN) -- Google's move to include social networking information in its searches has gotten personal. The search-engine giant has announced that, with a few tweaks, people using Google can now see search results related to friends, co-workers and other members of their social networks above all other results.… - 15 Must-Have Web Apps for Students
Using free web apps is an easy and cost-effective way to increase your academic productivity. A well-designed app can also replace expensive software products and free up space on your computer. Here is a list of 15 web apps that would prove useful to almost any college student:… - Survey of Executives Finds a Growing Fear of Cyberattacks
A survey of 600 computing and computer-security executives in 14 countries suggests that attacks on the Internet pose a growing threat to the energy and communication systems that underlie modern society.… - Three Reasons Why the iPad WON’T Kill Amazon’s Kindle
It may be suddenly fashionable to say so, but the new Apple iPad tablet won’t kill the Kindle from Amazon. Here are three reasons.… - Top 10 Best Social Media Presentations
Hi woorkuppers, this is Stefano. I’m new on woorkup, from now I will start writing posts about Social Media highlighting specific topics (Marketing, Strategies, Monitoring, Trends). So let’s start. This time I’d like to show my personal playlist of the best 2009 Social Media Presentations. I don’t like very long lists so I selected just 10 presentations found on SlideShare. Enjoy!… - Trapped father survives with help of phone app
Alone in the darkness beneath layers of rubble, Dan Woolley felt blood streaming from his head and leg. Then he remembered -- he had an app for that.…
ProgrammableWeb
- Google’s Secret Weather API
It's 54 degrees today in Mountain View, which any Googler could tell you by looking outside... or by using the company's undocumented weather API. The service was created for use with iGoogle, but the interface is easily discoverable and covers a handful of other features, in addition to weather.… - Get 60,000 Concert Setlists with the Setlist.fm API
Setlist.fm, a service that allows music buffs to post setlists from live music performances, has opened up access to a beta version of their API.… - 6 New APIs: Powerful Americans, Moods, Museums, Web Analytics and Web Hosting
Last week was a busy one for new APIs and in addition to the 7 new APIs we profiled earlier, here are 6 more new listings from our API directory. These include an API for tracking political and business relationships (an "involuntary facebook of powerful Americans"), a real-time website analytics service API, an API for getting the Mood of the Nation, a ringtone search API, a museum geolocation service, and an API for internet hosting and resellers.… - 40 APIs Used in 7 Days: Google, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo, and WeatherBug
This past week 15 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 40 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include BooRah Restaurant Search, FlightStats, Google Wave, Livekick, Mobypicture and True Knowledge. The most often used APIs this week are Flickr, Google Maps and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Search (6 APIs, 8 mashups), Mapping (5 APIs, 13 mashups) and Photos (4 APIs, 7 mashups).… - NYC BigApps Contest Winners Announced: NYC.gov Data Gets Mashed Up
Last October we covered the launch of NYC BigApps, a government data contest aimed at rewarding developers for development of applications that utilized information from the City of New York’s NYC.gov data mine. The contest drew quite a bit of attention and enthusiasm, given the size of the city and the number of data sets that were made available. Now the contest has concluded and the winners were announced last night.… - “Ultimate Mashup” a Glimpse into the Future
A new iPhone app is trying to take the fiction out of Science Fiction. Movies have long portrayed people in the future speaking commands to computers. Siri, based on $200M of research and development, is trying to make it so.… - UK to Pay Developers of Public Mashups
Here's a novel concept to encourage open government applications: pay your best developers. Apparently that's exactly what the UK's Office of Public Sector Information would like to do now that it has launched Data.gov.uk.… - US Government Launches Business.gov API - Gives Free Access to Small Business Resources
The U.S. Federal Government has been making a push to increase accessibility to data managed and maintained by various government agencies and departments. Recently Business.gov, the government's official web site for small businesses (sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration), has released an API that provides access to various types of data that will can benefit small businesses.… - 48 Hours, 31 Hacks - Stockholm Music Hack Day
Two days, a room full of hackers and one theme: music. This is the premise behind the Stockholm Music Hack Day, which resulted in 31 projects including hardware hacks, mobile, web and desktop applications. A number of the web applications are live and available for anyone to use.… - Microsoft’s Translator and API Now Support Haitian Relief Efforts by Translating Creole
The Haitian earthquake disaster prompted a quick response from tech companies, who have provided practical applications to aid in the disaster response. The Microsoft Translator Team has pitched in by announcing that Creole, a language spoken by nearly 80% of Hatians, is now supported in its language translation service Bing Translator.…
O'Reilly Radar
- Google Book Settlement Round 2
The US government filed its Statement of Interest regarding the revised Google settlement yesterday with the District Court in New York. While the statement was signed by an attorney from the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department, several agencies including the Copyright Office reportedly contributed to it. As you may recall, the judge has only 2 choices: he can approve the settlement, or send it back to the parties for revision. He cannot modify it himself.… - Feedback and analysis: the missing ingredients in local's recipe
There's plenty of enthusiasm for local / hyperlocal projects, but the sweepstakes has yet to be won. So many of these local efforts rely on traditional information delivery through news articles or databases. That material has use, no doubt. Yet few projects take the extra step and put that data into context.… - Four short links: 8 February 2010
Kindle Development Kit APIs -- Amazon will release a Kindle SDK. These are the API docs. (via obra on Twitter) This and more in today's Four Short Links.… - Four short links: 5 February 2010
Javascript Grid Editors -- nice wrapup of available Javascript editable grid components, divided into "data driven", "light edit", and "spreadsheet". (via joshua on Delicious). This and more in today's Four Short Links.… - One hundred eighty degrees of freedom: signs of how open platforms are spreading
Visualize open networks--and remember how far we've already come from the days before flat-rate long distance phone calls (much less app stores for cell phones).… - Apple vs. Adobe vs. Content Creators
Publishers may have gotten ahead of themselves when they rolled out pre-iPad tablet demos. At least one relied on Adobe Air, which the iPad won't support. And the ongoing spat between Apple and Adobe could soon influence publishers' decision making.… - Four short links: 4 February 2010
Google Ad Preferences -- my defaults look reasonable and tailored to my interest. Creepy but kinda cool: I guess that if I have to have ads, they should be ones I'm not going to hate. This and more in today's Four Short Links.… - What Facebook's HipHop means for developers and businesses
Facebook claims to have reduced CPU usage by 50 percent with its HipHop for PHP project, and now it's releasing the code as open source. O'Reilly author and PHP expert Kevin Tatroe digs into HipHop's applications beyond Facebook.… - Four short links: 3 February 2010
Bad Census Data for The Last Decade (Freakonomics blog) -- the "representative sample" of statistics data that the Census Bureau releases has apparently been flawed. It's been used in thousands of studies, and the Census Bureau has refused to correct it. This and more in today's Four Short Links.… - Forget Google, social search is all about mobile
A new research report from social answering service Aardvark finds that social search is more popular with mobile users. It begs the question: will the mix of social search and mobile apps catalyze search's next evolution?…