Back in the good ole CAD CAM CAE software days, whenever someone would mention a new technology at a cocktail party or casual situations, we’d say something like, “oh, it’s one of those TLA’s”.. or .. ”Well, at least it’s TLA compliant”.
Half the people would just let the comment roll past them, but the other half would […]
JANUARY 17, 2008
LOS ANGELES — It’s as if Madison Avenue invaded the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Conference on Emerging Technologies.
But there’s a good reason why advanced advertising was the subject of so much discussion here this week. The cable TV industry is losing ad money hand over fist to the Internet, which, for now, […]
You may have heard of it on Oprah, she calls it “The Secret” and has promoted a book to that title. The secret is based on The “Laws of Attraction” and basically says that, as I’ve always put it, “You create your own reality”.
Here are some cliff notes on what The Law of Attraction is all […]
Web 1.0: Centralised Them
Web 2.0: Distributed Us
Web 3.0: Decentralised Me
Web 3.0 must be about me! It’s about me when I don’t want to participate in the world. It’s about me when I want to have more control of my environment particularly who I let in. When my attention is stretched who/what do I pay attention […]
Turkish social network Yonja has raised $12.5M in Series A funding from Greywolf Capital Partners and Tiger Global Management.
Yonja claims a billion page views per month and nearly 5 million members. Funded for $2.50 USD per registered member.
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Tripr.tv, a videoguide for hotels landed $4.8 million in funding. Tripr.tv is different from triptv.com and trivop.com in that they rely on non-professional consumer generated content rather than professional recorded video.
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Widgetbox.com is a platform for the creation and distribution of widgets. It recently raised $8M in a Series B round of financing led by Northgate Capital and joined by Sequoia Capital and Hummer Winblad.
Widgetbox hosts almost 34,000 widgets in its gallery (the largest gallery on the web according to them) and these spread across over […]
Ebuddy.com, the web chat application similar to Meebo.com raised $9m usd in a series B funding lead by Prime Technology Ventures. Ebuddy had previously raised $7.5m in first round funding.
Ebuddy had 4.5m unique visitors in Dec 2007 while Meebo had 4.7m. Ebuddy has 60m users.
Source: TechCrunch
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