June, 2010 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for June 2010

It’s not just e-books: it’s new sites, services and products. It’s a blog or a newsletter or your first training course or that cool app you’ve been wishing someone would build. We’re often encouraged to try great new ways to generate continuous revenue streams. Read More »

New Mac Mini Revealed

Today Apple revealed an updated and more powerful version of its compact desktop computer, the Mac mini. It’s 20 percent smaller, 25 percent more power efficient and a heck of a lot easier to upgrade. Read More »

 
 

Apple introduced a new store app where customers can browse, buy or make in-store appointments, but it’s only for Apple devices. That’s by design and it gives Apple another feature for its iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices: 100 million new mobile retail points of presence. Read More »

Twitter Out For Next Few Hours

Twitter’s fail whale is back in action, which means the must have Internet service for chattering classes is down for the count. A company spokesperson said that the service has suffered an outage and won’t be back before 3 am PST. Read More »

Ooyala is rolling out new reporting and analytics features aimed at helping publishers to determine where and how users are viewing their videos online. The new platform provides more than 500 reports, including local reporting, page-level reports, designated marketing area (DMA) reports and social sharing reports. Read More »

When Twitter announced in May that it planned to launch a new feature called Points of Interest based on a user’s location, some expected it to be a “Foursquare-killer.” Instead, both Foursquare and Gowalla are partners in the feature now known simply as Twitter Places. Read More »

The second season of Anyone But Me racked up over 4.5 million views since its premiere in December. But the Streamy-winning lesbian teen drama’s third season may now depend on its fanbase, as its creators initiate a donations program with a twist. Read More »

Can’t wait to get your hands on the latest iPhone? Or are you looking to score a $99 iPhone 3GS? AT&T and Apple have teamed up with Best Buy, Walmart, and even RadioShack to make it all happen just for you…tomorrow. Read More »

Vid-Biz: World Cup Results, Hulu CTO Leaves, Cambio

Today on the Net: ABC and Univision rake in millions of World Cup viewers, but online and mobile viewing was also strong; Hulu loses its founding CTO, Eric Feng, to Kleiner Perkins; and AOL teams with the Jonas Brothers for a new video network. Read More »

Twitter is rolling out its own link-shortening service for the social network, partly for security reasons and partly so it can offer analytical services based on the data. But the new feature is coming under fire from developers, including a member of the Google Buzz team. Read More »

What can Kevin Costner do for the oil-soaked Gulf Coast? His company Ocean Therapy Solutions, which he’s backed to the tune of $24 million, can clean water to 99.9 percent purity, and BP has ordered 32 of the company’s centrifuges so far. Read More »

Daily Sprout

Odds and ends from around the green web that we’re reading this morning. Read More »

More Must Reads

The U.S. is still the largest broadband market when it comes to the 30 OECD countries, according to data released late last week by the organization. The U.S. has 81.1 million connections, but it’s not enough to be a big broadband market. We need better broadband. Read More »

Since launching a month ago, YouTube’s unlisted videos feature has experienced exponential growth since launching in May. But just because a video is unlisted doesn’t mean it can’t rack up views — Nike’s World Cup viral ad being the prime example. Read More »

In what must surely be a nod that more establishments offer free Wi-Fi than ever before, Starbucks will do the same in its U.S. stores effective July 1. The free Wi-Fi and launch later this year of Starbucks Digital Network is through a partnership with Yahoo. Read More »

A few readers have emailed me commenting on the clarity of our screencasts and asking about the software that I use, so I thought I’d outline my setup and provide some hints and tips for producing clear and easy-to-understand screencasts. Read More »

News Corp. is doubling down on his bets that paid content will eventually win the day online, by buying the Skiff e-reader business from Hearst Corp. and buying a stake in Journalism Online. But are these just the latest in a series of Hail Mary passes? Read More »

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