Visiting Y Combinator’s Startup School with Ev, Zuckerberg, and Hsieh
Posted by Tiffani Bell
I decided to make the trek out to Berkeley to check out this year’s Startup School (and to let it serve as a serious peptalk–it’s working). Startup School has been held since 2006 by the folks behind Y Combinator, a venture capital firm that specializes in funding early stage startups. Teams can raise up to [...]
Read MoreGoogle Gives Voice to the Masses with Google Voice
Posted by Tiffani Bell
I got my Google Voice invite Friday afternoon and have been fiddling around with it ever since. Many folks might remember Google’s lackluster (at first) acquisition of GrandCentral. I signed up for it a while back and gave the number to all of three people who promptly decided to keep dialing my real number. In [...]
Read MoreKanye Puts “808s & Heartbreak” Through the Wire via MySpace Music
Posted by Tiffani Bell
“Where are you, Yeeeezy?!” The next person to ask that would be in good shape if they mozied on over to MySpace Music to check out Kanye West’s new album, 808s & Heartbreak, which premiered on MySpace Music. Since Friday, fans have been able to stream the entire album for free. It goes on sale [...]
Read MoreMore Clouds Forecasted with CloudFront, Amazon’s Content Delivery Service
Posted by Tiffani Bell
The forecast is cloudy and no, we’re not talking about the economy. Instead, we’re shedding some light on yet another cloud computing service from Amazon Web Services, the web service infrastructure arm of Amazon which has offered cloud services since 2006. Amazon is already noted for services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service, widely known [...]
Read MoreFacebook Applications Get ‘Made’ with the Application Verification Program
Posted by Tiffani Bell
This afternoon Facebook announced the Application Verification Program (AVP), a welcomed effort to increase the quality of Facebook applications and perhaps one of a few early moves to monetize the platform.
One of the concerns surrounding the Facebook Platform and platforms of other social networks is the proliferation of perfectly useless applications with only a minimal [...]
