Image: Jurvetson via Flikr See Also: Firewater And Fracking: Who Can We Trust? SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST ON ITUNES HERE Our very own Courtney Comstock met President Obama yesterday. She visited the White House and attended a briefing on the economy, and we are featuring the highlights of her trip on today’s podcast. Nicholas...
The makers of Path – the social network that was somewhat anti-social in that it limited your network to 50 of your closest friends — have released a new app that goes to the opposite end of the spectrum by allowing anyone with a Twitter handle to play. WITH (or w/ for short), now available for...
Xinhua News reports that China has established its very first association of Internet music operators and Internet music content providers in a bid to promote legal music online, according the country’s Ministry of Culture. Dubbed the Internet Music Industry Development Consortium, the Beijing-based coalition aims to promote a healthy development of the country’s Internet music...
When we first broke the news that iOS 5 would come with Twitter integration, I wasn’t thinking big enough. Based on the fairly vague (but credible) information I had, I figured it was mainly based around the Twitter Photos product which Twitter was rushing to get out in time. Turns out it goes much,...
RER First, Ankit Duggal from Clifton, New Jersey, pitched RER LLC, a firm that currently manages a real estate investment fund and is working on an investment advisory service catering to real estate investors – individuals and small businesses. Ankit has done a nice job of segmenting his market and focusing on two cities...
Turkey’s Telecommunications Communication Presidency website has been taken down today by Anonymous using their trademark DDoS attack, CNET reports. The attack follows the announcement of a plan by the Turkish government to implement a new Internet censorship initiative. “The government now wants to impose a new filtering system on the 22nd of August that will make...
Bobby Kotick, the much-reviled CEO of Activision Blizzard, is in talks on behalf of an investor group he’s involved with to buy a controlling stake in the floundering social network Myspace. Kotick is one of the investors in this group, and his part in the purchase will be a personal one, with Activision Blizzard...
At E3, we had the opportunity to talk with Martin Rae, who is the President of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, an industry group akin to the more well-known Academy that puts on the Oscars. The idea is the same, but the industry is younger, and although their conventions and yearly awards...
Interactive fashion website Polyvore has officially entered into inflection point territory. The Mountain View, Calif.-based startup, which is backed by $8.2 million in venture capital, has achieved profitability and is currently seeing record web traffic, co-founder Jess Lee told me in an interview this week. Polyvore’s website, which allows users to create fashion collages...
When we talk about the benefits of using a non-relational database management system, often referred to as a NoSQL database, we sometimes lose track of what a traditional database is still good for (for some background on what a relational database is, see our guide to data terminology). In a blog post at DBMS2,...