By now if you haven’t heard of Klout and in a moment of vanity checked your own Klout score, you’re in the online minority. Regardless of your opinion of the service, we’re heading into a world of Klout — whether we like it or not. Read More »
Archive for February 2011
Google this week announced that its Public Data Explorer now lets end users upload and visualize their own data. With that move, the company appears to be making a move toward the increasingly crowded data marketplace, which is now growing increasingly more complex. Read More »
8 Dates, directed by Matt Koval, is a sweet-natured, amusing series about a young woman attempting to conquer the dating world. It’s also a great example of YouTube interactivity, the value of soliciting guest stars and working to minimize the brand’s involvement in branded content.… Read More »
When you talk to CEOs about whether they are launching at SXSW, you get all sorts of lukewarm feedback: it’s “too expensive” or “too competitive.” But it is very possible to launch at SXSW for well under a grand — $880 bucks, to be exact. Read More »
NFC will arrive in handsets in a big way in the coming months, but other components of a viable “mobile wallet” scenario aren’t in place yet. Here are some possibilities for the technology beyond using it to pay for goods at the retail counter. Read More »
Android starred at the Mobile World Congress show, with dozens of tablets and smartphones announced. As if that wasn’t good enough news, Google confirmed that some Honeycomb features would be coming to handsets. And a new app turns your Android device into a wireless media server. Read More »
Of all the smartphone makers whose names are not Apple, HTC is the most impressive. An upstart company from Taiwan, it has done a great job of building iconic hardware using commodity platforms. It has developed branding and messaging that’s edgy, cool and fun. More importantly, it… Read More »
As UberMedia founder and CEO Bill Gross waited for service to be restored to his company’s Twitter clients, after they were abruptly shut down by Twitter on Friday, he talked to GigaOM about his plans, Twitter’s antagonism and the risks of working on someone else’s platform. Read More »
Twitter says that it shut down UberMedia’s apps due to trademark infringement and breaches of its terms of service. But there is much more to this than just a squabble over usage, and Twitter’s heavy-handed behavior is drawing some fire even from the company’s ardent supporters. Read More »
There has been a sharp increase in the number of startups that are getting off the ground. And while we don’t write about them all, we love them all. Next week, two events are coming up for launching and getting-off-the ground startups. Read More »
If read just one article about the demise of quality movies being produced by Hollywood, check out Mark Harris’ “The Day the Movies Died.” With studio decisions being increasingly driven by marketers, the focus has shifted to producing film franchises rather than telling original stories. Read More »
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