Firefly is combining banner advertising with video and monetizing the mix through pay per action. The company was able to secure clients like Hyundai, Nissan and Asics for its beta test and is now opening its doors for everyone. Read More »
Archive for May 2010
According to Beacon Power’s latest SEC fialing, the flywheel developer doesn’t expect to finalize a government-backed loan until the second quarter of this year — sign of how long the road can be between a DOE nod and money in the bank. Read More »
The new service Swipely wants to make shopping social, but not in an oversharing, soul-baring kind of way. Is that even possible? We’ll have to see, as the site from Tellme co-founder Angus Davis is launching into private beta today. Read More »
Sorenson Media is trying to differentiate itself from the competition with a pay-as-you-go model for video hosting. Read More »
Adobe introduced a new version of Flash Access 2.0 at Streaming Media East that features the ability to utilize output controls. In other words: Some Flash content won’t play on non-authorized displays. Read More »
Looks like Mac Developers will be in the running for an ADA after all…ADA as in “Ars Design Award,” that is. Ars Technica is stepping up to fill the empty space left by Apple this year by hosting their own ADAs. Read More »
Motor sport fans can soon watch races live from the Nürburgring on their computer, thanks to a new broadband network dubbed Speed2 that is going to be launched by Fox this June. Speed2 is tied to Fox’s Speed cable channel… Read More »
Though navel-gazers may have freaked out this morning after seeing their Twitter follower counts reset to zero, a new paper out of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany finds that Twitter follower numbers are a poor indicator of influence. Read More »
I don’t get it. I really don’t get it. I really really really don’t get why Annoying Orange, a quasi-animated series that debuted on YouTube in October 2009, is currently, according to Visible Measures, the most popular web series online, with approximately… Read More »
Heroku, a platform provider built on top of Amazon’s EC2 compute infrastructure has raised $10 million for its second round of funding. The money will help Heroku create a partner program to handle the influx of vendors who use the platform on behalf of their clients. Read More »
First the Verizon Nexus One fell through, and now comes word that Sprint will not be offering Google’s flagship phone, either. There are better Android handsets out there anyway, so this is not a big loss. Strangely, an surely mistaken tip has Sprint getting the iPhone. Read More »
Norwegian electric car maker Think has just brought on $40 million in equity investment — enough, the automaker says, to become cash flow positive in 2011. But a key step en route to the company’s planned U.S. expansion remains incomplete: securing government funds. Read More »
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