Daily Archives: August 10, 2011

Viddy’s 750k users get better video sharing and a gorgeous web player

August 10, 2011
Viddy’s 750k users get better video sharing and a gorgeous web player

Viddy is today announcing that its Instagram-like video sharing app for iPhone has reached 750,000 users in less than 4 months. According to Viddy, 70% of the videos shared through Viddy have had it’s slick video filters applied. Viddy is also launching an all-new site at Viddy.com that allows you to view your realtime...

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Foodspotting Hits A Million Downloads, Celebrates By Upping The Gluttony

August 10, 2011
Foodspotting Hits A Million Downloads, Celebrates By Upping The Gluttony

I remember when I first wrote about Foodspotting a year and a half ago. At the time, nearly everyone I knew was using various social networks to share pictures of their food. Foodspotting was a service built around that very idea. That alone may have been enough, but the broader goal behind the photo-sharing...

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Good news, bad news: T-Mobile may consider overages

August 10, 2011
Good news, bad news: T-Mobile may consider overages

Leaked information is pointing towards T-Mobile moving away from its unlimited data plan offerings, at least for the smallest plan option. Instead of slowing speeds once a customer surpasses 200 MB of mobile data in a given billing cycle, the carrier will charge a $0.10 per MB overage if the leaked data is accurate. Enthusiast blog...

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Google+ vs. Facebook: Some people are way too passionate about this battle…

August 10, 2011
Google+ vs. Facebook: Some people are way too passionate about this battle…

Google+ was released to the public 6 weeks ago, and its initial growth spurt has had everyone talking. A natural bone of contention with the release of Google’s new platform is whether it’s a genuine contender for Facebook’s social networking crown. We’re not here to reignite that debate (though do feel free to get...

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Business Insider Is Hiring A Wall Street Editor

August 10, 2011
Business Insider Is Hiring A Wall Street Editor

See Also: Business Insider Is Hiring A Research Analyst Business Insider Is Hiring Two Ad Account Execs Hacker Group Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook On November 5 Get excited. Clusterstock — Business Insider’s vertical covering absolutely everything Wall Street — is expanding, and to do so, we’re bringing a lead editor on board. In...

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After Beating Microsoft In Court, This Australian Has Devoted Himself To Helping Other Inventors

August 10, 2011
After Beating Microsoft In Court, This Australian Has Devoted Himself To Helping Other Inventors

See Also: If You Want To Create More Jobs, Change Patent Law THE APPLE INVESTOR: Apple Ahead Of Google In Terms Of Innovation But It’s Not Number One THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Google Has Become The Villain (Or The New Microsoft) Of The Industry Australian inventor Ric Richardson has collected a king’s ransom in lawsuits...

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Apple Is Also Suing Motorola In Europe Over The Xoom Tablet’s Design (AAPL)

August 10, 2011
Apple Is Also Suing Motorola In Europe Over The Xoom Tablet’s Design (AAPL)

Florian Mueller Apple is also suing Motorola in Europe over the Xoom tablet’s design Apple’s complaint that led to the EU-wide preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Why Samsung was not put on notice before the European Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction was ordered Here’s a very interesting news item that is hidden deep...

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Questions raised around Amazon’s ‘lightning’ claims at Dublin data center

August 10, 2011

You may have read about the ‘lightning strike’ and subsequent explosion that took out Amazon’s Dublin-based data center at the weekend, forcing its EC2 cloud computing service into unplanned downtime. It affected customers for up to 2 days in some cases. Amazon said in its statement: “The transient electric deviation caused by the explosion...

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Lighter Capital’s Debt Without Equity Fundings Expand At Perfect Time. Also…Tomato Fight!

August 10, 2011
Lighter Capital’s Debt Without Equity Fundings Expand At Perfect Time. Also…Tomato Fight!

The economy is a mess. And while venture capital is still flowing like whiskey during the Prohibition, it’s not right for every business. A year ago we wrote about the birth of a new type of investment fund, Revenue Loan. The experiment has worked, says founder Andy Sack. They’re expanding it, changing their name,...

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Video: New Construction Material “CO2 Structure” Could Serve As Alternative To Concrete

August 10, 2011
Video: New Construction Material “CO2 Structure” Could Serve As Alternative To Concrete

This almost sounds too good to be true: a Japanese company called TISPartners has developed a new kind of construction material that’s supposedly “better” than concrete (by some measures, at least). Dubbed “CO2 Structure”, the material hardens in about a day, as opposed to the 28 days it takes for concrete to cure...

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