When Cartman and friends jumped into World of Warcraft for an episode of South Park last year, it garnered huge buzz, even winning an Emmy. A WoW-themed truck commercial uploaded to YouTube earlier this month has already attracted an amazing 1.6 million views … Read More »
Archive for October 2007
Atraverda Raises $21.4M: Atraverda, a materials-based startup that uses a conductive ceramic technology to reduce lead in batteries, announced it has closed a Series B financing round of $21.4 million — release. Green Wood Label Systems Under Fire: The Forest Stewardship Council says some companies … Read More »
Wayne Mulligan is an ex-Wall Street analyst and broker now working on his own startup, TickerHound. Wayne cut his teeth cold calling strangers to sell them stocks during one of the worst Bear Markets since the depression. (Think “Boiler Room” with more credibility.) It … Read More »
Maybe Google should have doodled a vampire on their home page today, in honor of Halloween and their announcement of OpenSocial, a set of APIs that allows web developers to write applications once, then deploy them on a variety of different social networking platforms. This … Read More »
Looks like Adobe just caught up to the rest of us and admits that maybe… just MAYBE… people will want to read digital content on more than one … Read More »
Editor’s Note: Following up on yesterday’s topic, I’m putting together a post on how to amend your business plan with a “global scope,” as well as how to find angel investors who can support you in this important strategy. Meanwhile, I went to angel investor … Read More »
The Pirate Bay will move away from the BitTorrent protocol within the next 12 months, one of the site’s admins has announced in a video interview. The Pirate Bay is actively developing its own, yet-to-be-named P2P protocol that will feature … Read More »
Procrastination and time wasting are, in many ways, easier traps for web workers to fall into than they are for many other kinds of workers. You’ve probably seen the alarming numbers on how much time Internet connected workers tend to waste on everything from personal … Read More »
Lifecasting site BlogTV launched its new video player today, and it has a host of new features. The new player lets broadcasters and their co-hosts synchronize the recording of a show and keep track of entire text conversations held during the broadcast. It also sports an … Read More »
Curmudgeon or not, you gotta appreciate Mike Cane‘s ability to scour “the Internets” for useful information. Rumor has it that he has successfully surfed to the end … Read More »
The Homeland Security program we mentioned earlier today has been confirmed by Tabletkiosk to indeed be using their Slate PCs for the Critical Infrastructure Inspection Management System that was developed by the MD state police along with John Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory and the … Read More »
The Palm Centro didn’t offer any major new features when it arrived, but it certainly brings new value to the smartphone market. That’s the idea I get when I read the Read More »