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Mixx (n): Digg for Non-Geeks

Adena DeMonte, Monday, October 8, 2007 at 11:16 PM PT Comments (3)

Digg works well for those of us seeking out technology news, but let’s face it, the site primarily lures users that can be best defined as the geek niche. Chris McGill, CEO of Mixx and former general manager of Yahoo News, is betting that the Digg format of news aggregation has legs in other [...]

Predictify Pays Users To Guess The Future

Adena DeMonte, Monday, October 8, 2007 at 11:57 AM PT Comments (5)

Predictify, a social prediction startup, launched out of private beta today. It’s based on a belief in the wisdom of the crowd, especially when it comes to predicting the future. After all, if nine out of 10 people think the same thing is going to happen, odds are that outcome will occur, right? [...]

Rumor: Facebook To Launch MP3 Store?

Adena DeMonte, Friday, October 5, 2007 at 10:22 AM PT Comments (7)

Is Facebook planning on launching an MP3 store? Mashable this morning linked to a post on All Facebook that notes an “extremely reliable anonymous source” tipped off blogger Nick O’Neill that Facebook is prepping to launch an in-house competitor to iTunes.
Facebook has reportedly “been searching for a CEO to head up this new subdivision” [...]

Geezeo Adds Investments, Beats Mint And Wesabe To The Punch

Adena DeMonte, Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 2:08 PM PT Comments (6)

Geezeo is trying to help the average person manage their personal finances online. Following our glowing write-up last month on their competitor Mint (which took home the top prize at the TechCrunch40 event), Geezeo gets a quick mention today for being the first social finance site to add investment accounts to users’ online finance portfolios. [...]

PayPal: Phishing, Fundraising, And In The Lab

Adena DeMonte, Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 11:30 AM PT Comments (4)

Are you sick and tired of phishing attacks, those fraudulent emails designed to look like trusted corporations but aimed at stealing your personal account information? Today Yahoo (YHOO), together with eBay (EBAY) and its PayPal unit, started to roll out an authentication technology called DomainKeys that supposedly blocks malicious, fake eBay and PayPal messages from [...]

Zoho Vs. Google (And Microsoft And Adobe)

Adena DeMonte, Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 10:35 AM PT Comments (9)

Zoho threw a jab at Google’s (GOOG) suite of online office applications with today’s release of its free database app, Zoho DB & Reports. Zoho’s latest offering brings the number of its online office applications to 13, an impressive attempt in the company’s bid to become the ubiquitous online office suite provider.
With competition from [...]

Ballmer Thinks Facebook At Risk For Being A Fad, We Think Not

Adena DeMonte, Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 2:54 PM PT Comments (25)

Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer, following rumors last week that the software giant is considering an investment that would value the social networking company at $10 billion, is saying the craze for social networks such as Facebook risks being exposed as a “fad.”
I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs, and [...]

Yahoo’s Suggestive Search

Adena DeMonte, Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 10:30 AM PT Comments (7)

Yahoo (YHOO) rolled out some major upgrades to its search engine today. Dubbed “Search Assist,” the addition to the interface integrates audio, video, and photos directly into search results. The updated search also features “suggestions” that actively guess what you’re about to search for when you type in a few letters of your query.
Yahoo’s search [...]

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