TechCrunch
January 7, 2009
Use Otalo To Search For Vacation Rentals
Vacation rentals are big business. HomeAway, which owns a dozen or so vacation home listing sites, just raised $250 million in a venture round that values the company at ...
ReadWriteWeb
January 6, 2009
Encouraged Commentary: Bringing Natural Conversational Dynamics to Commenting
Commenting on blogs is - by and large - broken. Designed with the hope of proffering interaction among bloggers and readers, commenting has generally devolved into ...
TechCrunch
January 6, 2009
AOL Exec Kevin Conroy Out After Product Empire Dismantled
AOL’s EVP of Products and Marketing Kevin Conroy is leaving to take a new position at Univision.
This isn’t much of a surprise - we speculated on his future ...
Wired Tech Biz
January 6, 2009
Mr. Know-It-All: Human Guinea Pigs, Cremains in Orbit, Surveillance Video
Dear Mr. Know-It-All, I'm a college student who makes money volunteering for medical experiments. Do I have to accept whatever fee the researchers offer me, or can I negotiate for more?
In principle, ...
Mashable
January 6, 2009
Augmented Reality Devices: See the Online World While Walking the Real One
Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology described as, “a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and ...
TechCrunch
January 6, 2009
Apple’s Lowered Expectations Pay Off
Today’s keynote presentation by Phil Schiller has been widely regarded as a relatively lackluster affair. That isn’t to say it went badly - I’m genuinely excited about some of ...
ReadWriteWeb
January 6, 2009
Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results?
In what appears to us to be a new addition to many Google search results pages, queries about birth dates, family connections and other information are now being responded to with ...
ReadWriteWeb
January 6, 2009
Report: Cloud-Based Email Cheapest Option for Most Companies
A new report from Forrester presents a cost analysis of cloud-based email systems in enterprises, such as Google Apps or Yahoo!'s Zimbra. In the report, Forrester argues that cloud-based ...
Mashable
January 6, 2009
WebEx on iPhone: Attend Meetings from the Golf Course
Web meetings. Love them or hate them they’re pretty much ubiquitous these days. You may even been ready to head out for an ...
Techvibes Portland
January 6, 2009
WiMAX Service Launched in Portland
Portland became the first American city to get Clear-branded WiMAX service on January 6 - Clearwire calls Portland "the fastest unwired city in the West.. Clearwire recently gained control of ...
ReadWriteWeb
January 6, 2009
WebEx Brings Online Meetings to the iPhone
While today's Apple Keynote was slightly underwhelming, a lot of other companies have made up for this by releasing their own products during MacWorld. One of the more ...
The Industry Standard
January 6, 2009
IndieGoGo celebrates first anniversary with two Sundance films, Facebook Connect partnership
IndieGoGo , the online social marketplace that connects filmmakers and fans, is celebrating its first anniversary this month and has a lot to show for it.
Sometimes called ...
Wired Tech Biz
January 6, 2009
Finally, No DRM in iTunes — What the New Deal Means
Steve Jobs and three major labels come to terms on a deal to make music available on iTunes without DRM. Consumers can choose between three price levels instead of the "any song ...
Techvibes Portland
January 6, 2009
Take Craigslist Mobile with Craigsphone for your iPhone
Craigslist addicts like myself will be interested in Craigsphone, the new iPhone app from Next Mobile Web. Craigsphone offers a clean UI; the ability to post, upload and share location ...
Silicon Florist
January 6, 2009
Concrete5 pours the foundation for another Portland user group
If I had to describe 2009 thus far, I would dub it the “Year of the User Group.” And that would also make ...
