Daily Archives: August 25, 2011

Google Shuts Down Slide — A Year After Dropping Almost $200 Million On It

August 25, 2011
Google Shuts Down Slide — A Year After Dropping Almost $200 Million On It

Google only needed one slide, and this was it. Image: Google See Also: Google’s Group Messaging App Disco Is Nowhere Near As Good As The Competition Google’s Photovine Site Is Live — It Looks Like A Photo-Sharing Service This Is What Google REALLY Meant By “Don’t Be Evil” Google is shutting down Slide, the...

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Apple developing new technology for distributing TV shows: WSJ

August 25, 2011

“Apple is working on new technology to deliver video to televisions, and has been discussing whether to try to launch a subscription TV service,” says the Wall Street Journal. Its sources: “people familiar with the matter”. The quoted bits come from a WSJ article on the uphill battle Apple CEO Tim Cook faces as...

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Google+ launches an “ignore” option. Hide people but let them interact with your content.

August 25, 2011

Google has just introduced a new way of customizing Google+ so you only see content from people you’re interested in with having to completely block them. The Block Option From day 1, Google has provided a means of “blocking” people entirely from your Google+ experience. This would involve clicking “block” on their profile and...

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TechCrunch is Wrong: Here’s the Real Location Opportunity for Quora

August 25, 2011
TechCrunch is Wrong: Here’s the Real Location Opportunity for Quora

Above: The Quora map of Portland, Oregon – where tech bloggers come from to challenge other tech bloggers who seem like they want to retire. To be honest, I think location is going to need to be rolled out to a broader range of topics than it is today on Quora and probably to...

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Bloody Thursday: Google Deadpools All Slide Products Except One

August 25, 2011
Bloody Thursday: Google Deadpools All Slide Products Except One

Because we needed more big tech news this week. Yes, it’s true that Google has just brought the hammer down on Slide, as Liz Gannes of AllThingsD first reported earlier this evening. Yes, it’s also true that Max Levchin is leaving. Now we also know the fate of all of the Slide products. And it’s...

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Strategy Roundtable: How To Use Twitter For Lead Generation

August 25, 2011

In addition, all our Twitter messages flow through our LinkedIn and Facebook accounts, creating a comprehensive and continuous social media presence. And we are generating a continuous stream of leads that we capture through HTML forms and engage with these prospects through a systematic email marketing process. Now, for the 1M/1M premium members, we...

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Photographer Spends Hundreds Of Thousands To Create 8×10 Digital Sensor

August 25, 2011
Photographer Spends Hundreds Of Thousands To Create 8×10 Digital Sensor

Mitchell Feinberg is a photographer who specializes in taking beautiful photographs of very expensive things. Cars, luxury goods, wristwatches, that sort of thing. He shoots on 8×10 film, which is expensive enough that you generally want to get it right the first time. So he shoots test shots on instant 8×10 Polaroid film to...

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Max Levchin leaves Google. Slide (and Photovine) to be shut down.

August 25, 2011

I think we can all safely say, it was only a matter of time. Max Levchin, founder of Slide, a company which Google acquired just over a year ago, will be leaving the company. According to a report on All Things D sources, Levchin will depart Google and Slide immediately and Slide’s projects will be...

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IActionable Engage Makes Salesforce More Fun

August 25, 2011
IActionable Engage Makes Salesforce More Fun

This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Next week the Appquest 11 contest will showcase four different Salesforce.com CRM add-on...

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What’s New in Oracle VM 3?

August 25, 2011
What’s New in Oracle VM 3?

Visit the CenturyLink resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. Earlier this week Oracle took the wraps off of Oracle VM 3. Oracle’s Adam Hawley, senior...

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