I’ve found myself thinking a lot about the research being conducted by the Startup Genome Project these days. The data is an absolute goldmine and provides quantitative benchmarks for issues I’ve thought about for years. One of the findings from their first report was: “Most successful founders are driven by impact rather than experience...
Apple has today released iTunes 10.5 beta 8 and iWork for iOs beta 3 to developers. These releases are intended to help developers testing the Music Match features of iTunes and iOS 5 as well as the iCloud integration of the iWork suite for iOS. We have been informed that the iTunes 10.5 beta...
Was your workday interrupted by the Google Docs outage yesterday? Mine, too. Well, today, Google Docs Engineering Director Alan Warren apologized to us, and he did so in a nice, thorough blog post that explains exactly what happened. The Docs team pushed a change that was “designed to improve real time collaboration within the...
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Apple has released a security update that addresses digital certificates issues by DigiNotar last month that were found to be compromised. The update is 2011-005 and is available for Lion and Snow Leopard users. Apple details the updates by explaining the ways in which the certificates could allow an attack that intercepts personal information...
When it comes to selling products on the Web, the more consumer reviews a product attracts, the more conversions and sales it sees as a result. This is why PowerReviews has built a social commerce network of more than 23 million reviews across 5,500 sites, including Staples.com, Gap.com, and ToysRUs.com. Today, PowerReviews is announcing...
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The transition from print to web-based publishing has been rocky for many traditional newspaper and magazine publishers. While online readership has soared, online advertising revenue is a fraction of what print ads once brought in. Print remains profitable, but hard-copy circulation has continued to shrink. Those scary trend lines have forced publishers to rethink...