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Hot Potato serves up social event stream

by Ronny Kerr, November 20, 2009 | Comments

Launching today, this startup's iPhone app geo-locates you and geo-locates the party

Hot Potato, a startup focusing on an iPhone app that streams updates from friends at events in your area, launched on Friday, just one month after the completion of its Series A round of funding. The Brooklyn-based early-stage startup has raised $1 million so far for its mobile brand of social networking via events.Backed by Vimeo co-founder Zach Klein, Hot ...

Adobe to release Acrobat.com for smartphones

by Ronny Kerr, November 20, 2009 | Comments

After a couple weeks worth of mobile news, Adobe keeps the updates coming

Adobe revealed Thursday that this weekend it will be launching a new version of Acrobat.com, an online platform which allows for PDF conversion, web conferencing, and more. Included in the announcement is the news that Adobe will likewise be releasing both iPhone and BlackBerry applications for Acrobat.com.The new Acrobat.com, which launches this Saturday, Nov. 21 at 3:00am PST, consolidates all ...

Twitter's new question: What's happening?

by Ronny Kerr, November 19, 2009 | Comments (1)

Biz Stone says "What are you doing?" was never the most important question

From the beginning, Twitter has asked its users one simple question: "What are you doing?" The original idea assumed the network would be a place for people to keep in touch with each other and the occurrences in their day-to-day lives.But, as co-founder Biz Stone acknowledges in a Twitter Blog post today, that question has taken a backseat to a ...

Olive Media launches first HD Hi-Fi server

by Ronny Kerr, November 19, 2009 | Comments

Reiterating its obsession with perfect audio, Olive creates a new genre of audio equipment

The high fidelity digital media designers at Olive Media just created a new category of audio equipment for audiophiles to drool over.On Wednesday, the San Francisco-based company unveiled the first-ever HD Hi-Fi server, the Olive 4HD, a device built for music at 24-bit sound and 192 kHz sample rate, 250 times the resolution of standard compact discs--the kind of quality ...

Microsoft announces Office 2010 public beta

by Ronny Kerr, November 18, 2009 | Comments

Releasing a line of productive applications in beta, Microsoft introduces social networking features

Microsoft released a slew of 2010 iterations of its Office-related products in public beta on Wednesday, including Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010, Office Web Apps for businesses and Office Mobile 2010.Office, comprised of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and other software, will likely be held under the closest scrutiny as it is one of the most popular ...

Facebook adopts new privacy policy

by Ronny Kerr, November 18, 2009 | Comments

Lacking the minimum 7,000 commenters needed for a vote, policy changes go into effect unchallenged

On Tuesday night, Facebook announced that it has adopted its revised privacy policy changes, without the need to submit the changes to the site's user base for a vote. Facebook said that if 7,000 users commented on the proposal revision, then it would organize a poll, wherein all the site's users could vote on whether or not to approve the ...

Google Image Swirl launches in Labs

by Ronny Kerr, November 17, 2009 | Comments

Building on Similar Images and Picasa Face Recognition, new tool makes searching images easier

First, they gave us Image Search, then came Similar Images, and now, Google is adding a new application to Google Labs, called Google Image Swirl.Announced Tuesday morning on the Google Blog, Image Swirl functions similarly to Google Wonder Wheel, in that it creates an initial grid or cluster, based on an initial search query. Whenever the user clicks on an ...

Ankeena introduces Media Flow Director 2.0

by Ronny Kerr, November 17, 2009 | Comments

With an updated media delivery platform, Ankeena seeks to attract more attention

Ankeena, the media infrastructure provider formerly known as Nokeena Networks, introduced on Tuesday morning Media Flow Director 2.0, an update to its 3-screen content delivery platform.Media Flow Director is a 3-screen delivery platform because it is optimized specifically for a world in which users watch video on multiple devices--TVs, mobile phones, and computers. New in the update is a mixed ...

Twitter homepage still most popular client

by Ronny Kerr, November 16, 2009 | Comments

Second-place winner, TweetDeck, beats out the third-party clients by a long-shot

Do you pay close attention to where the users you follow tweet from? "About 3 minutes ago via twitterfeed." "About 5 minutes ago via bit.ly." "About 6 minutes ago via Facebook."Despite the overwhelming abundance of third-party applications, Web sites, and clients from which users can tweet from, a new study from business intelligence and analytics provider for social media, Sysomos, ...

Obama doesn't actually use Twitter

by Ronny Kerr, November 16, 2009 | Comments

A proponent of opening newer technologies to the world, Obama's not big on Twitter himself

To the 2,676,001 Twitter users following Barack Obama's stream of presidential status updates: you've been had.In a live-streamed meeting between Obama and Chinese students during a stop on the President's whirlwind tour of Asia, one daring student posed a question pertaining to China's banning of Twitter in July: "Do you know about the great firewall and should we be able ...

Google exec: Microsoft Office is overkill

by Ronny Kerr, November 13, 2009 | Comments

Enterprise President, Dave Girouard says businesses can 'get rid' of Office in favor of Google Apps

If you're a business trying to sell a product, I suppose making the claim that your 800-pound competitor won't have a leg to stand on in a year might be an efficient strategy.In an interview with ZDNet Asia, Google's President of Enterprise Dave Girouard, in an effort to push Google Docs on the masses, said that Microsoft Office is "an ...

Facebook growing hugely in Taiwan, Thailand

by Ronny Kerr, November 13, 2009 | Comments

Growth across Asia signals no slowing down for this social media monster

Facebook is growing in Asia. A lot.According to investigations by Inside Facebook, at least four countries saw the site's usage grow by 25% or more between October 1 and November 1. Indonesia and the Phillipines both saw 25% growth, the former from 9.7 million to 12.2 million and the latter from 5.8 million to 7.2 million. Thailand, the second biggest ...

Wooga raises €5 million for social gaming

by Ronny Kerr, November 12, 2009 | Comments

Third social gaming startup with big financial news in one week: social gaming just got huge

On Monday of this week, Electronic Arts acquired social gaming startup Playfish for at least $275 million in cash, with extra bonuses in the future depending on the company's success. Then on Wednesday, Playdom announced the closing of a $43 million round of funding on a $260 million pre-money valuation. If that is not enough to convince the world that ...

Personera launches Facebook-created calendars

by Ronny Kerr, November 12, 2009 | Comments

Facebook Connect-powered site seeks to excite users about actual, physical calendars

"With technology all around us, we still love the feeling of staring at a picture on the wall, scribbling important notes in a planner, and flipping through a magazine on the couch."So claims Personera, a company that launched a service Wednesday that enables any user, through Facebook Connect, to create fully customizable and totally personal calendars.After logging in their Facebook ...

Google testing skippable pre-roll YouTube ads

by Ronny Kerr, November 11, 2009 | Comments

Internet giant makes a hope and a prayer for serious revenue from limited video advertising

Exactly three years ago from this November 13, Google finalized its $1.65 billion (in Google stock) acquisition of YouTube, now the most popular video site in the world. Unfortunately for its tech giant parent, however, YouTube has yet to bring in the cosmic revenue stream that everyone claims it should.In part of a series of more aggressive efforts to make ...

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