Daily Archives: September 8, 2011

Facebook Begins Auto-Grouping Friends Into Smart Lists

September 8, 2011
Facebook Begins Auto-Grouping Friends Into Smart Lists

You’ve got 500-something friends, all of about 50 you really interact with. You went to school with Lucy and Henry, you’ve worked with Mike for years, and Joe lives just down the block. Facebook knows all of this — it just doesn’t really go out of its way to show that it knows all...

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Ex-Googlers Launch Mobile Travel Guide To Kill Lonely Planet; Raise Funding From Chris Sacca & More

September 8, 2011
Ex-Googlers Launch Mobile Travel Guide To Kill Lonely Planet; Raise Funding From Chris Sacca & More

In the days of yore, travel guides were written by intrepid travelers who spent months scribbling in diaries and field journals, or by teams of adventurous souls exhaustively scrap booking their travel experiences into the Lonely Planets of the world. Over the last decade, however, the Web has produced an untold number of personal...

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Groovebug Aims to be Flipboard For Music

September 8, 2011
Groovebug Aims to be Flipboard For Music

A new iPad app called Groovebug just launched. It uses your iTunes music collection to create “an iPad magazine tailored to your musical tastes.” The familiarities to Flipboard seem a little forced. You do use the swiping motion to go from one page to another but, outside of that, it doesn’t feel much like...

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Amazon Goes West with Direct Connect

September 8, 2011
Amazon Goes West with Direct Connect

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. Just a month ago, Amazon introduced Direct Connect for establishing a direct connection...

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I couldn’t not post this…

September 8, 2011
I couldn’t not post this…

Could you have resisted? Honestly now. (Update: It gets better!)

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: A View Into Israeli Start-ups

September 8, 2011

New Global Markets First up, David Nordell from Kfar Ya’avetz, Israel, pitched New Global Markets, a solution for making it easier for banks to offer their customers global banking facilities. For example, say, Barclays has a customer in the UK who also wants a bank account in India. Barclays may want to have a...

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Facebook Hires HTML5 App Store Builder

September 8, 2011
Facebook Hires HTML5 App Store Builder

Over the past few months, my colleague MG Siegler has been piecing together the puzzle around Facebook’s Project Spartan, which is the social network’s secret plan to bring applications to the mobile web via HTML5. Today, we’ve learned that Facebook has made a key hire in the HTML5 space. We’ve confirmed that the social...

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Big Question (Answered): "Today Google Acquired Zagat… Does Google play fair in local recommendations?"

September 8, 2011
Big Question (Answered): "Today Google Acquired Zagat… Does Google play fair in local recommendations?"

Today Google announced their acquisition of Zagat, the popular publisher of restaurant review guides. This comes just after last month’s purchase of local deals provider, The Dealmap. These purchases, in addition to recent feature updates to Maps and Offers signifies a definite priority from the search giant in local recommendations. But, with Google’s reach,...

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Vodafone Launches An R&D/Investment Center In The Silicon Valley

September 8, 2011
Vodafone Launches An R&D/Investment Center In The Silicon Valley

Vodafone. It’s a brand that most folks here in the states would, at first pass, almost certainly chalk up as “that one European company that puts their name on a bunch of football soccer jerseys” — that is, if they recognized it at all. And yet, Vodafone is essentially the biggest wireless carrier in...

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Who the hell are you?

September 8, 2011

In 1997 I was negotiating the sale of my first startup with a large ISP. We had been meeting for weeks and had invested a lot of time explaining to this company what we did exactly, what our plans were and how our technology scaled. It seemed that every time we had a meeting...

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