Sony Vaio L117FX/B: 24-inch Multitouch PC Doubles as an HDTV
Sony’s new 24-inch all-in-one goes multitouch for Windows 7, has strong performance, a Blu-ray reader/writer, and lots of ports. But it’s not cheap.
Investing Or Marketing? The Real Reason Lightspeed Invested In Ning At A Crazy Valuation
A lot of readers were incredulous over last week’s news that Ning raised another $15 million in venture capital from Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $750 million valuation. That comes despite the fact that Ning traffic appears to be flatlining, and revenue to date is likely very small.
A typical comment to that post: “What an [...]
Facebook Makes Baby Steps Towards Its Twitter-Like ‘Follow’ Feature
In the last few days we’ve gotten multiple tips about a seemingly new phenomenon on Facebook: people are receiving status updates from people they’ve attempted to add as friends, but who have not yet accepted their friend request. In effect, they’re seeing these users’ status updates without being able to see their profiles — something [...]
Status Search: A Search Engine For What Your Friends Are Saying Online
Sifting through public status updates posted on Twitter and Facebook can be quite useful for instantly tapping into people’s thoughts on any given topic and links to more information about it.
But sometimes it’s even more useful to search only the status updates published by your friends and family, like when you’re looking for something [...]
Full Disclosure: Sponsored Conversations on Twitter Raise Concerns, Prompt Standards
In light of the FTC’s recent scrutiny of Social Media practices and the activity that connects brands to influencers and ultimately consumers, we will soon see guidelines and corresponding penalties to serve as governance for future engagement.
In the realm of sponsored posts or tweets, the FTC simply cannot delineate the differences between earned and paid [...]
MySpace is a big gaming platform but it hopes to be more of one
Many of MySpace’s nearly 125 million monthly active users are already playing social games made by companies like Playdom and Zynga. But the News Corp.-owned social network is hoping for more, chief digital officer Jonathan Miller said today at the Fortune Brainstorm: Tech conference happening in Pasadena, Calif.
“MySpace is and will be more in the [...]
Arrington on Twittergate: “I wouldn’t do things any differently”
As a reporter who blogs — and who has been competing against Michael Arrington for the past couple of years — I’ve been helplessly fascinated by the Twittergate debate of the last couple of weeks. It is a perfect storm of technology news and journalism ethics in the digital age, pitting widely popular microblog service [...]
Arrington On Charlie Rose: Talks Twittergate, CrunchPad, and Competition
TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington recently visited Charlie Rose for a chat about the latest news and events in technology. Michael gave his take on the Google vs. Microsoft rivalry, saying that each tech giant is going after the other’s core businesses. Michael also touched upon the latest news around the CrunchPad and Apple’s much [...]
lifeIO: A Social Media Dashboard That Combines Email, RSS, And Just About Everything Else
For many people, the web has fallen prey to information overload — from RSS readers to Email to social networks, we’ve all got vast amounts of data coming in at any given time, oftentimes to entirely different places. Many services have sprung up to try to tackle this problem, including FriendFeed, but most of them [...]
FriendFeed Follows For A Change With “Recommend Friends” Feature
For many features and innovations, FriendFeed has been ahead of Facebook, and even Twitter. It’s usually Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites catching up to FriendFeed, not the other way around. Today, FriendFeed added a Recommend Friends feature, that allows you to recommend subscriptions of friend’s feeds to anyone who subscribes to your feed. [...]
