Visiting Y Combinator’s Startup School with Ev, Zuckerberg, and Hsieh

Conferences Events News Startups

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 [...]

Tech Week in Review 10-16-09

Tech Week In Review

Twitter Doing Video Tweets? Uh…No.
For some odd reason, Britain’s Telegraph suggested that Twitter would be adding the ability to upload and host video on the site. Never mind the fact that there are several services that integrate closely with Twitter to provide just such a service. Duplicating those features would only hurt Twitter. The rumor [...]

Getting Started with Yahoo Meme

Getting Things Done

Meme is a Tumblr-like service recently launched by Yahoo. Many have called it a Twitter clone, but the similarities are pretty minimal. The only things they share are those basic features you would find with any microblogging service. Meme is basically a blog where you can post random stuff. There is no 140-character limit, but you probably wouldn’t want to use it for lengthy blog posts.

FriendBinder Puts All Your Friends in One Place

FriendBinder is a service that has been in closed beta for over a year now. At first glance, it’s just another social aggregator like FriendFeed, but a closer look shows that they’re headed in a slightly different direction. Your average aggregator just pulls in your activity from a bunch of different sources. Most operate just like FriendFeed, providing minimal interaction between the source and the actual aggregator service. For example, FriendFeed pulls in your Facebook items, but you can’t Like or Comment those items and have those likes and comments show up back on Facebook.

Tech Week In Review 8-14-09

Tech Week In Review

Is Facebook Destroying Our Relationships?

As if we didn’t have enough relationship problems, looks like Facebook causes you even more grief. According to a recent study, many of us just seem to act a little stalkerish online. The four main causes for this jealousy?