Google Reader Enhances Social Features
Just a few days ago, Google Reader launched a few features that make it just a little more social. Powered by Google Profiles, these new features make it easy to find like-minded people to engage with. It’s also a lot simpler to share items. While Google Reader is probably one of the most popular RSS feed readers around, it has also been difficult or confusing to do certain things with it until now.
Read MoreRealtime Web for the Bottom Billion
Recently there’s been an explosion in the relevance of ‘real-time’ applications like Friend Feed and Twitter. The ability to get information from the masses on one part of the planet to the masses somewhere else has never been greater. Still, despite all the wonders that devices like the iPhone, apps like Twitterific and search engines [...]
Read MoreCopyright Royalty Board Offers Relief with Licensing Fees
Last week Internet webcasters received some relief from paying exorbitant licensing fees for Internet radio channels. The Copyright Royalty Board set rates for webcasters in 2007 based on per song per listener. Essentially, each time an Internet radio station played a song, a royalty fee was assessed.
Read MoreGet Firefox 3.5 Now
Hello! I’m Adria Richards and I’d like to take this moment to introduce myself. I will be video blogging on business technology that you can use to boost productivity, increase sales and streamline your business. Today I present: Firefox 3.5 Release Date: 6/30/2009 Features Faster surfing due to Tracemonkey Javascript engine Private browsing mode keeps [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 7/17/09
The primary motivation for many Firefox users to stick with Firefox is the add-ons. Ubiquity, Feedly, and Firebug just to name a few. Seems that Mozilla realizes how important those developers are. Especially since they’ve been pretty much working for free. So, they have instituted a method for add-on developers to get paid for their work.
Read MoreVC investing jumps 61% in Q2 2009 to $5.329B
Despite the steady beat of news predicting the demise and destruction of the venture capital asset class, could the reports of venture capital’s death be greatly exaggerated? Q2 2009 offers some hope as evidenced by a quarter over quarter bounce in investment by venture capital firms.
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