I got an email a few days ago from a colleague Jeff Yoshimora, letting me know he had left a senior position with the Salesforce.com incubator to join a SAAS billing start up in Palo Alto named “Zuora“. I was curious to say the least, so after snooping around on the site (not launched yet publicly), I immediately dropped him an email, and set up a quick call to get the low down.
Toby: So what is “Zuora” Jeff?
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Freeprojectmanager.com released application upgrades last week, this includes RSS feeds for projects, Skype “Status” support for team presence, increased file upload size, contact importing from services like MSN, Hotmail, & Gmail. They also increased the user licenses for FREE account individuals and small businesses from 1 users to 2 because of feedback. (more…)
I recently read an interesting article about web services, and how “The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites”, and I must admit, it put a big smile on my face. As most of you know, several start-ups I have been involved with in last few years have pretty much “bet the house” on web services. Look at DAVE TV, and IP Network Systems, both of these starts-ups have web services platforms powering large media company portals. In the case of DAVE TV, its social broadcasting, for IP Network Systems, its media distribution, asset management, and rights management for record labels. (more…)
No this is not a joke, it is a real site complete with an embeddable Meebo chatroom, BallerAlert TV powered by Kyte, and its own social network. BallerAlert.com is self described as:
“The Ultimate New Nightlife based FREE Text Service That lets you know where the Ballers are!!!! (more…)
SplashCast Corp. has raised a $4 million Series A round of funding, the company plans to blend advertising with the viral effects of social media. The company openly boasts on its site that it has served some 260 million videos already. “Brands have to do that if they want to stay relevant to that younger demographic,” Chief Executive Michael Berkley said. “Banner ads just aren’t working. The demographic has become very cynical about advertising.”
“This is a land grab,” Berkley said. “There is a tremendous opportunity out there, so we really need to scale on the sales side and marketing.” (more…)
FaveBot is a new search service that gives you another way to search the web. FaveBot uses discovery as their search method. What does this mean? How is it different from going to your search engine of choice and just ‘Googling’ something? FaveBot uses tracking lists and this is where users enter in certain keywords and select whether they want to find podcasts, blogs, books, DVD’s, events, news, etc., that carry those keywords. (more…)
So Dancejam.com recently launched and I must say i am impressed. If you are just hearing about Dancejam in this post let me catch you up a bit; Dancejam is MC Hammer’s (yes that MC Hammer) new web initiative. In short it is a video sharing site for dancers. There has been a fair amount of buzz about this site over the past few months, mostly just individuals like myself trying to figure out exactly what the site is about. The initial splash screen that was up had a video of Lil Mama endorsing the site along with snippets of some user videos from the sites private Beta release, to the point but still somewhat vague and still left me wondering what to really expect. (more…)
We got an exclusive set of beta user accounts for you guys to checkout from Musana, a new music portal set to launch later this year. The portal is built on ASP.NET, and uses the ASP AJAX toolkit for the Javascript UI features. Not sure if they are using Silverlight, but it would be the way to go for bowser based cross platform media streaming compatibility. (more…)
The Eye Fi Card is a wireless memory card. It automatically uploads pictures from your digital camera to your PC or Mac and to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking site. Here’s why this is so great. Because you don’t have to drag any wires and have access to a computer to share great pics. And it’s all for under a hundred bucks. You can’t take video yet with the 2GB SD card but that certainly is the future. They have over twenty partners for photo-sharing including Flickr and Windows Live. I had a chat with one of the founders of Eye-Fi on my way home from CTIA SF back in the fall of last year before they had launched formally, and broke this story before anyone (even GIGAOM).
This is a consumer electronic product that uses embedded software application & public web services to create a HARDWARE MASHUP that you all will love!!!
Name: Blingd.com
Founder/Chief Executive: Ganiu Ladejobi and Peterson Lochard
About: Created by two avid hip hop blog readers, Blingd.com allows you to submit, approve and/or disapprove news articles about hip hop. Think “a hip-hop digg.” Launched October 16th,2007. This website will be reviewed in detail by Black Web 2.0 in the near future.
Funding: no info found
Related Properties: N/A
Website: www.blingd.com
