A month after Om trashed LinkedIn for failing to launch a promised application platform, and more than a year after the initiative was first announced, the professional network is finally giving out developer keys. Today LinkedIn launches a business-focused apps platform. The full launch follows a string… Read More »
Greylock Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, today said it has closed its 13th fund at $575 million, and brought on LinkedIn co-founder and Executive Chairman Reid Hoffman as a new partner. Greylock XIII was supposed to be a $500 million fund, according to David… Read More »
LinkedIn, the business social network, hopped on the platform bandwagon this time last year by opening up its network to developers. It was a move I was excited to see Reid Hoffman’s crew make. LinkedIn, unlike some of the other professional networks that came before it,… Read More »
SugarSync, the web service that backs up and synchronizes files across multiple computers and mobile phones, is rolling out a feature today that lets users provide public links to their files. These links can be used to virally spread large files stored on SugarSync to social… Read More »
TripIt, which aggregates people’s travel arrangements from various web sites into one web itinerary, is rolling out a referral program today that lets developers who build apps on top of its API receive a 10-20 percent cut of the sales from its TripIt Pro premium subscription… Read More »
Gist, a free web service that provides a snapshot of information about your email contacts, is publicly launching in beta today. The web service pulls information about email contacts and the companies they work for from around 50,000 news sites and 20 million blogs and is… Read More »
function popitup(url) { newwindow=window.open(url,'aoeu','height=920,width=600'); if (window.focus) {newwindow.focus()} return false; } Over the last few years, every time I have taken a vacation, I have taken along my Macbook, thinking, well, you never know when you might need to check flight schedules or emails… Read More »
