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LinkedIn … now here is a company, that came to the social networking trend early, stayed focused on the business market, and now is well on its way to clock $100 million in revenues. It has just crossed the profitability threshold and is making money pretty much every which way it can.
A valuation of $250 [...]

There was no mention of the word “broadband” in the President’s State of the Union address last week, an omission of little surprise given everything else that’s going on. Still, it may have been tacit acknowledgment that yet another Bush administration campaign goal — universal broadband access by 2007 — will fall by the wayside.

Another day, another mash-up. This one is pretty cool. Mapwing.com is a little service that allows you to mash-up photos, placed or drawn maps, and comments to build interactive virtual tours. Damn, this could be the right mash-up that someone like Zillow could incorporate into their real estate service. Mapwing has a gallery of some [...]

If you love eMusic and Pandora, this mash-up created by Jon Strunk. Check it out, and enjoy. Seriously fun way to discover and download DRM free music at affordable prices. For more DRM free music, check out indiepad.com. It’s a digital music service for indie artists, what makes it different is that there is no [...]

If you are Revver or Metacafe, then it has to be the happiest day of your tiny life. YouTube, the 800-pound gorilla just validated your business model by deciding to pay their creators, a cut of the advertising action.
If you are Revver or Metacafe, it is also the worst day of your life, because now [...]

A group of companies that have been pushing mobile linux — Motorola, NEC, Samsung, among others — say they’ve named their organization the LiMo Foundation. Hardware companies take a cue from web 2.0 — or JLo.