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More Crunchies Tix, Get ‘Em While They’re Hot! Plus, a Special Musical Guest Announcement!

ouiss — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:21:37 +0000

Yes, that’s right. Hide yo wife, hold your Tweets, stop your emails, and don’t even think about opening a Skype chat, because we are proud to announce that the third batch of tickets for the 2010 Crunchies Awards are on sale now. Right now

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YouTube Mobile Traffic Tripled In 2010, Android App Gets Music Videos (And Ads)

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:00:11 +0000

Given how popular YouTube is on the web, it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that a lot of people also enjoy watching video clips from their phones. And, given the surge in Android, iPhone, and iPad sales, that adds up to a lot of videos

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Digital Audio Advertising Company TargetSpot Lands $8 Million

ouiss — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:08:00 +0000

TargetSpot , which operates a large digital audio advertising network , this morning announced that it has secured $8 million in equity financing from Union Square Ventures , Bain Capital Ventures , CBS Radio and Milestone Venture Partners .

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Bump Raises $16 Million Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz

ouiss — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:00:03 +0000

If you’ve got an iPhone or Android device, there’s a decent chance you’re familiar with Bump , the nifty service that lets you swap contact information (and other data) by simply tapping two phones together. The service has been around since 2009, and now has 7 million active users across 25 million total installs on Android and iOS devices. And today Bump has some big news: it’s just raised $16 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sequoia, Sherpalo (Ram Shriram), and SV Angel (Ron Conway).

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Why I’m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:49:20 +0000

I’ve always been a big advocate of storing things in the cloud. Not just emails and files, but my entire life.

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Startup Sherpa (Kickstarter): Going Direct To The Audience For Crowdsourced Funding

ouiss — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:33:30 +0000

If you want to crowdsource the funding for a project—whether it is a product, album, or a film—one of the best places to find both patrons and early customers is Kickstarter . In this week’s episode of Startup Sherpa , host Chris Dixon dives deep into the crowdsourced-funding phenomenon with Kickstarter founder Perry Chen. The majority of projects on Kickstarter are creative ones involving film, art, or music

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Khush Lands Funding To Help Wannabe Singers Create Music On The Go

ouiss — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:00:10 +0000

Khush, a startup that develops music applications, has raised a new round of funding from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups , angel investor Yee Lee , and Georgia Tech ATDC VentureLab. The startup declined to reveal how much money was raised in the round.

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Your Music In The Cloud No More – blueTunes Keels Over, Dies

ouiss — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:18:53 +0000

It took a bit longer than we thought, but the inevitable has happened: blueTunes is calling it quits . A message posted on the website reads: We have decided to pursue other opportunities and will be shutting down our service on January 31, 2011. Thanks for supporting us and for all you’ve done.

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Spotify Ties Up With Logitech

ouiss — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:26:53 +0000

Good news for Europeans and those U.S. users (perhaps as many as 30,000 ) of music streaming service Spotify . In a similar deal to the one signed last year with Sonos , users will soon be able to listen to streaming Spotify music through their Logitech devices

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Save Google Wave

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:03:01 +0000

Save Google Wave

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The news of Google Wave’s demise caught many of us by surprise. The service had been available for only about a year. It had just joined Google Apps.

Google maintained that they had not seen strong adoption. This may be true but it did have a core community that is none too pleased about Google’s decision.

So much so that a group has created: “Save Google Wave,” a web site dedicated to keeping Google Wave from being shuttered.

The site provides different ways for people to express their support for Google Wave. As of this evening more than 19,400 people have given a “thumbs up,” for saving the service. The Twitter account has 360 followers. More than 250 people have retweeted the site and 70 have given it a Digg.

Oh, yes, and you can buy a t-shirt or a button. We’re not sure what that is for except perhaps to give the developers a bit for the work they are doing to raise awareness. It would help if they provided a disclaimer of some sort.

These are not huge numbers. But more illuminating are the emails in support of Google Wave. These include those from a physicist, a student collaborating on a novel with his girlfriend and a software developer.

“I am a technology student and have been working on a fiction novel for past few months. I collaborate with my girlfriend for the story who lives across the world. Google wave gives us a great way to Add, edit, argue, change, disagree and elaborate on the story all at once in real time. I see no other tool can provide that in present date. I love it. It’s a bit ahead of time product for sure, I think it should be worth waiting for people to come up with ways to use it in time. “

Save Google Wave shows the affect that a large company like Google can have. To its credit, Google is releasing much of the technology to the open-source community. Unfortunately, many of the supporters may not be technically oriented to develop a service from open-source components. But perhaps their numbers will be strong enough to make Google at least think a bit more about the impact it has when a service is shuttered.

Source: ReadWriteWeb