wired — Six Apart is shutting down its Vox blogging service. Users have until Sept. 30 to export their data to other services, including Six Apart’s TypePad blogging service. After that, Vox will be gone. If you’ve got a Vox blog, there are several export options — Six Apart has instructions for moving...
techcrunch — Curious what Google’s Gmail Priority Inbox means for those of us that use an IMAP or POP client like Mac Mail or the Mail function on an iPhone? Well as of yet the feature is not fully enabled on either IMAP or POP-compatible third party or mobile clients, leaving a...
techcrunch — Can someone please explain this Bloomberg Businessweek story to me? I’ve read it a few times and am still having a hard time understanding what is or what isn’t being implied, or not implied, about a partnership between Coinstar and Apple. First of all, the title is awful because most people...
mashable — In less than two days, Apple’s Ping music social network has surpassed the 1 million user milestone.Apple introduced Ping as the centerpiece of iTunes 10 at its music event earlier this week. It is a music-centric social network where users can follow updates from both their friends and their...
mashable — Google has agreed to pay a hefty sum to make a class action lawsuit concerning Google Buzz disappear — $8.5 million, to be exact.The lawsuit dates back to February, when lawyers filed a class action complaint against Google on behalf of Eva Hibnick, a 24-year-old Florida resident and Harvard Law...
techcrunch — comScore has just released some telling stats about the massive growth of live streaming video over the web. According to the analytics company, over the past year, the amount of time American audiences spent watching video on the major live video publishers (Justin.tv, Ustream, Livestream, LiveVideo, and Stickam) has grown...
businessinsider — Google introduced a cool new feature this week called "Priority Inbox," which tries to intelligently filter the important email from the less-important email in your inbox. It's now live for all Gmail.com users, but companies (and individuals) using Google Apps for their email can actually access the feature, too. How? One of your...
googleblog.blogspot — This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.Recently we introduced powerful, time-saving features in Gmail: Priority Inbox and the ability to call phones right from Gmail....
techcrunch — First we had the Google vs China debacle, then came Saudi Arabia’s tussle with RIM. And now it’s India’s turn: threatening to block RIM, Google and Skype unless the companies agree to set up localised servers, all the better for state monitoring of communications. Curiously, compared to the outrage levelled at...
social.venturebeat — Now that we’re little more than a day from the launch of Apple’s social network Ping, reports are coming in that spammers are beginning to target the service — surprising no one. The biggest scam right now appears to be an offer for free iPhones which is popping up on many...
techcrunch — Offerpal Media has just announced that Mihir Shah, has been named president and CEO, while chairman and former CEO George Garrick has been named executive chairman. This is Offerpal’s third CEO in a year; Anu Shukla left the company last November following the Scamville drama and was replaced with...
techcrunch — It was only a year ago that Tweetmeme declared their intention to be the king of retweets. And for most of the past year, that was the case. Their retweet button was everywhere. Of course, that was before Twitter launched its own button last month. The result of that introduction? An...
mashable — Luis Suarez has a dream, and it’s one that many of us with our overloaded inboxes could well buy in to — a world without e-mail.In fact, it could be argued that Suarez is living the dream. In less than three years, he’s been able to reduce 90% of his...
readwriteweb — Tumblr is quickly becoming one of the Web's most popular and unique platforms on which to share and discover interesting content of all media. According to Tumblr, over 5.3 million posts are made each day by the service's over 7.5 million users. Posts are passed on over and over through...
techcrunch — Is Google serving up ads targeted at sites which categorize themselves as “extreme porn,” bestiality,” and “child porn”? Rest assured, it is not. But if you are a website publisher using DoubleClick’s Ad Planner to select categories to match your site to advertiser’s interests, you might think so....
wired — The self-appointed Consumer Watchdog activist group is running a Times Square jumbotron advertisement lambasting Google as a massive invader of your privacy, caricaturing its CEO Eric Schmidt as a creepy, high-tech ice cream vendor who profiles children. The video (above) is just the latest from Consumer Watchdog, a...
readwriteweb — Salesorce.com acquired Jigsaw earlier this year. This past week, Salesforce.com unveiled the integration. The service integrates Chatter, the Salesforce.com microblogging platform. When a contact is updated through Jigsaw, the subscriber gets an update in their Chatter feed. Jigsaw for Salesforce CRM is an example of how microblogging services are becoming message...
readwriteweb — First up at this week's Strategy Roundtable was Cheryl Yeoh presenting CityPockets, an online destination, and an app for managing daily deals across a wide range of sites. The daily deal and group buying market has really heated up, with numerous sites offering variations on the basic value proposition. But...
mashable — In today’s world of real-time status updates, search is evolving to account for the social nature of the web. Facebook is pushing forward in this direction with on-site search functionality that now displays search results — for Facebook and web content — based on “Likes” and shares.Facebook appears to have...
wired — Traditional MP3 players have pretty much the same buttons that portable cassette players had back in the ’80s — play/pause, fast-forward, rewind and volume. But when you put music on a smartphone that has more processing power than desktop computers had back then — with a touch screen to boot...
businessinsider — AOL doesn't seem to have gotten any big upfront payments from Google for its search deal. How come? Probably because AOL wasn't in a very good position to negotiate. The speculation is that while CEO Tim Armstrong may have talked and even negotiated with a handful of search companies (he says it was...
readwriteweb — Facebook has begun surfacing widely "liked" news stories from independent media organizations in its basic search bar today, it appears. First reported by watchdog blog AllFacebook, the change is something that seems likely to be understood as a challenge to Google. It's early days for the feature, but...
readwriteweb — According to a German court in Hamburg, Google's YouTube can be held liable for damages when it hosts copyrighted videos without the copyright holder's permission. This case centered around three music videos by classical crossover soprano Sarah Brightman, but this ruling will likely have far-reaching consequences for YouTube's operations in...
techcrunch — As you type into a search box on Yahoo or Google, a list of suggested keywords pops down below to help you complete your search faster. Today, Yahoo turned on a local component to its keyword autocomplete feature. The search assist now serves up different keywords based on...
businessinsider — Facebook is quickly moving in on Google's search business. It's now testing searching results ranked by "likes." Google ranks search results based on lots of stuff – but mostly on how often pages are linked to from other highly-linked to pages. This could, someday not too far off, end up being a serious...