Archive for January, 2008

Create a Tongue Twister

Friday, January 11th, 2008

I was driving to “work” the other day… (Starbucks), when I noticed that all the keys on my key ring were totally polished and clean. You see, after we flipped the boat, my keys laid in seawater for 4 days. The seawater had corroded everything to the extent that I had listed to get new […]

Today’s Most Interesting Flickr Photos

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

If there was ever an environment where quality trumps quantity, it’s photography. Flickr’s API allows individual developers to make further sense of their database and present and leverage it in unique ways.
 
One such developer collates all of the unique photos of the day on Flickr and makes a collage out of them, serving to inspire and motivate the photographic spirit […]

Get All of My MP3’s to Play at the Same Volume

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Let me tell you how tough my life is… the bane of my past two months has revolved around how to get all of my carribean-calypso-kettledrum music to play evenly at my carribean-calypso-kettledrum restuarant.
 
My staff just doesn’t grasp the need to constantly adjust the volume on my mp3 playlist of hodgepodge carribean-calypso-kettledrum music. Good people have walked away and I’ve gotten […]

Ice.com raises $47m

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Online jewelry store ice.com raised $47 million in new venture capital from Polaris Venture Partners. The online retailer opened its doors at the tail of the original web boom in 2001 and has grown to annual sales of $83.4 million.
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SugarCRM gets $14.5m more in funding

Monday, January 7th, 2008

SugarCRM closed $14.5 million in Series D funding from original investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, New Enterprise Associates and Walden International.
SugarCRM started as open source project on Sourceforge and still maintains a fully open source CRM software . Revenues are generated from professional editions and through support. SugarCRM has received total funding to date of approx. $41 […]

On Demand Advertising Market Set to Boom

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

The market for video-on-demand (VOD) advertising is raring to go. The technology is there, and the interest is definitely there, but there are several crucial stepping stones cable operators have yet to cross – namely negotiating business models and receiving premium VOD content.
 
Everyone in the value chain from advertisers and ad agencies to networks and […]