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Social networking goes augmented reality

by Chris Caceres, December 21, 2009 | Comments

Popular Japanese augmented reality application, Sekai Camera lets you comment on anything around you

Tonchidot's Sekai Camera iPhone application has officially launched in the App store here in the US and the rest of the world. I've been watching this startup for a while now and excited to see the application is available for free, for all of us to give a shot. A little run down on Tonchidot. The small startup based out ...

Twitter profitable, thanks to search deals

by Matt Bowman, December 21, 2009 | Comments

Agreements with Google & Bing garnered $25 million, put Twitter in the black for '09, "sources" say

Twitter raked in $25 million from Micorosft and Google in deals announced in October, according to Business Week's Spencer E. Ante The much-hyped agreements to include Twitter’s data in search results cost Microsoft $10 million and Google $15 million, and was enough to make Twitter profitable in 2009, according to Ante's sources. The leak is well-timed for the IPO rumor ...

Dailymotion makes it to the iPhone

by Ronny Kerr, December 21, 2009 | Comments

Stoppelman playing hard to get. Smart.

by Matt Bowman, December 21, 2009 | Comments

Analysis: why Yelp should push for more than $550 million, but still get bought by Google

As Ronny wrote this morning, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman walked away from a $550 bid from Google this weekend. Apparently, the two parties had agreed to the price and were in late-stage negotiations, but then something happened and Yelp notified Google that they were not going to sell. At first glance, this seems like a Jerry Yang-esque all-too-bold a move ...

Layar gets removed from the App store

by Chris Caceres, December 18, 2009 | Comments (1)

Augmented reality iPhone application gets pulled due to constant crashing

Layar, an augmented reality iPhone application, has been pulled from the App store. The company recently raised $1 million in funding to help it lead the quickly growing space of augmented reality applications for the iPhone, but due to technical issues, have decided to take a step back."After a flood of complaints that the app crashes for many users, we've ...

Google yearning for Yelp?

by Matt Bowman, December 18, 2009 | Comments (2)

A rumored deal of over $500 million could signal heated competition with Bing for content

YouTube aside, Google has generally steered clear of user-generated content plays. YouTube’s difficulty generating revenue is explanation enough. That makes its rumored acquisition of Yelp all the more interesting. Why do it? At a rumored $500 million, the deal would certainly be good for Yelp, which is seeing increased competition from location-based mobile applications. Yelp has continued to innovate in ...

Crosslink's personalization braintrust

by Matt Bowman, December 18, 2009 | Comments

With Pandora, Like.com and iCurrent, Crosslink Capital has a big bag of new media tricks

What do Pandora, Like.com and iCurrent all have in common? a) they’re all built on personalized media technology b) they all have Crosslink Capital as an investor c) they’re all kicking butt If you answered “c” (or all of the above), you might be jumping the gun slightly—iCurrent is still young, but with a founder who attracted big investment dollars ...

Twitter.com attacked, DNS records compromised

by Ronny Kerr, December 18, 2009 | Comments

"Iranian Cyber Army" wipes out one of the most popular social networks in the world

Around 10pm PST on Thursday night, Twitter suffered a DNS attack. While all third-party applications worked swimmingly, Twitter.com temporarily redirected to a site which displayed the following message:Iranian Cyber ArmyTHIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER [email protected] Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do ...

Transliteration tool updated by Google

by Ronny Kerr, December 17, 2009 | Comments

Languages written in non-Roman script are now even easier to type up

For all of those people around the world faced with the task of typing up documents in languages with non-Roman scripts, using a computer can probably start to seem very inefficient."Many of us at Google's Bangalore office experienced this problem firsthand," said two Google software engineers. "Roman keyboards are the norm in India, making it difficult to type in Indian ...

Social media-powered show to hit Web

by Chris Caceres, December 17, 2009 | Comments

From creator of 'American Idol' comes 'If I Can Dream,' a social media approach to entertainment

This sort of project was bound to happen - a show that will make use of the real-time Web and social media, completely bypassing television but incorporating the traditional narrative and storytelling style we have grown so accustomed to consuming on traditional TV. If I Can Dream was thought up by the Simon Fuller, who created the hit television show ...

"New Way to Work" winners announced

by Chris Caceres, December 17, 2009 | Comments

Elance competition hosted on Vator comes to a close; the $10,000 prize winner announced

The Elance "New Way to Work" competition, which was hosted here on Vator, has come to a close and a winner has been selected to receive the grand prize of $10,000 in cash or health insurance. The competition called for startup companies, entrepreneurs and independent professionals to share an inspirational story about the way they work.The award went to Benjamin ...

IT disruption stage is over

by Matt Bowman, December 17, 2009 | Comments

Former BEA CEO says startups should aim to serve, not beat, incumbants. Acquisition is the new IPO.

Bill Coleman, former CEO of BEA Systems and Cassatt gave some growth tips to start-ups at a Churchill Club breakfast this morning. The gist of it? A decade ago, tech startups aimed to upend incumbants. Now they need to serve them. If you’re in a really early market that will go through a stage of disruptive innovation, Coleman said the ...

The value of sharing

by Steve Ragan, December 17, 2009 | Comments

	Social engagement First, and foremost - and most exciting for us - we found that sharing is growing. On a “per-page-view” level, we’ve seen a 200 percent increase in the shares per page view across our 125,000+ sites in 2009. This means for every page view consumed, the rate of sharing has doubled, meaning our publishers are getting better at optimizing their ...
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Should the FCC reclaim broadcast spectrum?

by Mark Cuban, December 17, 2009 | Comments

No one has really taken a contrary view on how that spectrum could be used in the future.

The premise is very simple. Over the air broadcasters, the people who bring you TV that you can get with rabbit ears, pay nothing to the government for the allocated digital spectrum over which TV is delivered. Not only do they pay nothing to the government for that spectrum, they are no longer only using it exclusively to deliver a ...

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