OneRiot Snatches Up $7 Million
OneRiot has just closed their Series C round of $7 million led by Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, and Spark Capital. You may recall us mentioning this real-time search engine in a recent post about the new Digsby.
Read MoreTech Week in Review 7-24-09
Google just announced a new Gmail feature which makes it simple to unsubscribe from trusted mailing lists. Sometimes, we subscribe to things and later decide it’s too much or not valuable. Rather than hunting around for that tiny unsubscribe link, Gmail let’s unsubscribe by hitting Report Spam. Even if it’s not really spam, you can access the same option in the Details menu. This only works on certain trusted mailing lists and requires participation from the owner of the list.
Read MoreBoxee Finally Drops a Windows Client
If you thought Hulu was the only way to watch TV without paying for TV, you were wrong. Boxee has been around for quite a while, but has only been available for Linux and Mac. At the recent Boxee event in San Francisco to declare a winner of its App Dev Challenge, they finally announced the [...]
Read MoreThe Blackbird Browser: 5 Months Later
The Blackbird Web Browser, unleashed late last year, caused quite a stir in the black and tech communities. A browser specifically geared toward African Americans? Many questions arose and most are still unanswered. Many people (including myself) lashed out at the new browser, saying it was in no way innovative or all that useful. Still others [...]
Read MoreWeFollow: Yet Another Twitter Ranking Service
WeFollow is a service recently started by Digg Founder Kevin Rose. It allows you to tag yourself and appear in an online directory of Twitter users. This should be useful in helping you find users interested in the same topics you are. The Tags Basically, you send a Twitter reply to @wefollow, telling it how [...]
Read MoreWhat if Digg and Twitter had a love child?
With the launch of the new micro-blogging and voting tool called “Dwigger” over the weekend, it looks like we will get to find out exactly what it is. Dwigger is “voting and threaded conversations for Twitter.” It is a product of Sift Partners, created by IT Director Rommel Santor. So why did they come up [...]
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