Archive for June 20th, 2008
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Friday, June 20th, 2008Today at the Supernova conference there was a panel about who owns the social graph. The panelists were Kevin Marks from Google, Joseph Smarr from Plaxo and Dave Morin, Facebook’s Senior Platform Manager. The conversation turned very interesting when moderator Tantek Celik pointed out a post by David Recordon that showed how Facebook is blocking [...]
Kaltura Releases Revamped MediaWiki Extension
Friday, June 20th, 2008Kaltura, the open-source video platform, has released a new version of its MediaWiki extension that allows users to embed and edit video, images, and audio on wiki pages. MediaWiki is a wiki software package that was initially developed for Wikipedia and has since been used by a number of other sites.
Kaltura says that the new [...]
Microsoft Gets Into Interactive TV Ads; Buys Navic Networks For An Estimated $200 to $300 Million
Friday, June 20th, 2008Microsoft is going after the $70 billion spent on TV ads every year. This morning it announced that it will acquire Navic Networks, a company based in Waltham, Massachusetts that delivers interactive ads across cable TV networks.
The price was not disclosed, but a source close to the company pegs it at between $200 million [...]
Update: Reddit Tries To Compete the Open-Source Way
Friday, June 20th, 2008It is not easy being No.2. As we hinted yesterday, Reddit, the news voting site that was bought by Conde Nast in 2006, is making the code behind its site open source. (The code can be found here). That means anyone can now make their own Digg-like site. Not that there has been any [...]
Twitturly Living Up To Its Potential As Great News Source
Friday, June 20th, 2008I wrote about twitturly in April. The service scans Twitter, looks for links that people are talking about then organizes them by popularity on the home page, and the stories then degrade over time. Anyone who uses Digg, TechMeme, Reddit or other news aggregators will feel at home there.
Right now, for example, the page is [...]
Will 2008 Be Google’s End Of Innocence?
Friday, June 20th, 20082008 may be the year that Google’s innocence ends, as media and governments start to cast a less forgiving eye at the behavior of the company that controls 60% of the search market and perhaps as much as half of all online advertising revenue.
In 2007 the Federal Trade Commission opened an antitrust investigation into Google’s [...]
Confirmed: Yahoo’s Jeff Weiner To Split Time at Accel And Greylock
Friday, June 20th, 2008Jeff Weiner, the executive VP in charge of Yahoo’s network division (which includes the portal, search, media, and communications products) is officially leaving.
The news, which already leaked last week, is that Weiner will become an executive in residence at both Accel Partners and Greylock Partners. He will advise portfolio companies for both firms, and help [...]
Sue Decker’s Email To Yahoo Employees On Weiner’s Departure
Friday, June 20th, 2008The news is now official - Yahoo’s EVP Jeff Weiner has officially bailed. President Sue Decker addresses the troops in an all hands email, below. These types of emails leak regularly, of course (I actually think companies would be disappointed if they didn’t), so they tend to read like a press release.
Nevertheless, it is amazing [...]
Google’s Joe Kraus Discusses the Social Web At Supernova Conference
Friday, June 20th, 2008Google’s Director of Product Management Joe Kraus (the guy behind Open Social and other Google products) is talking today at the Supernova Conference in San Francisco on the topic of “social computing” and the how Google Friend Connect fits into the ecosystem with OpenID, OAuth, etc. The live stream is below.
Note: The video halts around [...]
Funambol Raises $12.5 Million Series B: AOL Signs Up As Customer
Friday, June 20th, 2008By taking an open-source approach to mobile mail and contact syncing, Funambol is cracking the problem of creating applications across 850 different mobile handsets. The company raised $12.5million in a series B financing led by Nexit Ventures. Castile Ventures and existing investors Walden International and H.I.G Ventures also participated. Funambol previously raised $5 million in [...]
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