October, 2006 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for October 2006

This great RSS Pumpkin picture over at Hil’s OPML blog (thanks Dave Winer!) reminded me two things: first, have a safe and Happy Halloween if you celebrate. Second, you can subscribe to jkOTR in your favorite RSS aggregator with this link.… Read More »

Venture firms and investors seem to be pouring more and more money into startups that create or enable mobile content. In September over $150 million in venture funding was invested in companies in the mobile content industry. October and November will likely have… Read More »

 
 

Mobile curmudgeon Mike Cane (I thought for sure he’d pick that name for his blog) has written up his final thoughts on a number of gadgets he got to play with at the recent Digital Life event in NYC.  He offers his unique perspective on… Read More »

VentureBeat has started a job board for Valley jobs paying $100,000 and up. TheLadders has had a lot of success with this demographic. Yes, everybody has a job board these days, but the newcomer has more than 100 listings already. Read More »

Facebook is infiltrating sites across the web, decorating everyone from the Washington Post to the Onion to IMDB with its new little “f” logo. The social networking site over the last week has been introducing features allowing members to collect content from all over the… Read More »

Wired buys Reddit

Conde Nast has bought Reddit. It is one of those days… everyone is buying everyone. Read More »

Slingbox beta for Mac goes public

Just in time for those new MacBook Pros with Intel Core 2 Duos comes the Slingbox public beta for Mac OS X 10.4. I would have told you sooner, but those sneaky Sling folks shot me the press release at 12:10 this morning! The beta… Read More »

SideStep Buys TravelPost

Online travel search company SideStep has bought hotel review site TravelPost. SideStep was one of the first of the new wave of meta-search travel sites around, though now there are many. We guess they have to stand out somehow — why not buy a… Read More »

Sounds like David DeJean at InformationWeek pulled an "E.T." this week by walking around the IW offices mumbling "D.D….phone home" with a Skype phone. Lucky for him, he wasn’t dialing up another planet on the WiFi phone from Netgear. Nope, David just used the… Read More »

I love my Ultimate Ears Super.fi Pro 5 earphones and I’ve made no secret about it.  If you’re on the fence about spending so much money on a pair of these fine earphones then maybe a review written from a two-person perspective will help you make… Read More »

Hey could this be true? Friendster has shut down its office in one of its biggest markets? Couldn’t be – maybe they relocated! Read More »

GoogleJot… What?

Google has bought JotSpot, the wiki company in constant transition, for an undisclosed amount of money. We had heard about this deal a few days ago, but Google PR didn’t call back, JotSpot PR agency got snippy with us when we asked; Joe Kraus,… Read More »

More Must Reads

It has been a while since we launched the new look for GigaOM. As you might have noticed, things have been busy around here. First of all being a rookie manager, I am learning a lot of new things about business — how it is run,… Read More »

We will dig into this later, but for now, go read what JotSpotters have to say about the deal. Read More »

SF TechSessions was all abuzz with social bookmarking yesterday. And now comes the news that eSnips, an Israeli social sharing site has raised $2 million in new funding from Greylock Partners and Gemini Israel Funds. Read More »

When I first got wind late last year of a handheld Windows XP device that also ran Windows Mobile I was excited, to say the least.  I jumped at the chance to have a look at the device that promised so much as the first handheld… Read More »

This week, Intuit announced their update of their hosted application service, QuickBase. The application is designed to provide even small business with the kind of tools which used to be available only to corporations large enough to afford their own mainframes. With… Read More »

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