The future looks bright for Twitter. After attending an informal press meeting with Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, its current statistics and revealed strategies seem to focus primarily on revenue and monetization rather than the addition of new features to the platform (if it’s not broken, why fix it, right?). The move appears to be...
AppFog, the Platform-as-a-Service startup that began life a PHP Fog, now supports both Ruby and Node.js applications. The expanded support comes as no surprise just more than a month after AppFog unveiled its new moniker and just a few weeks after it announced its shift to running atop VMware’s open source Cloud Foundry platform...
Y Combinator startup B2Brev wants to help small to medium sized businesses figure out which products and services to use, by serving as a venue for aggregated reviews. Starting out by dipping its toe into the daily deals vertical, B2Brev has aggregated over 2500 merchant reviews for daily deals sites, with 2000 from Groupon...
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the audience winner was Quest.li. It’s a mobile application that turns real life goals into a game. Founder Danil Kozyatnikov traveled from Siberia to present. In the game you create different goals that earn you points. For example, Kozyatnikov said that he created a game to make it to TechCrunch Disrupt. Along...
When Carol Bartz was hired, I was quoted in the New York Times saying that Yahoo should be taken private. A year later, I’m even more convinced that it’s the company’s only option. Here’s why. There are some great strategy discussions about what Yahoo can do — notably from Jason Calacanis and Reid Hoffman. ...
In the world of online community management, Heather Champ’s work in the early days of Flickr has been the inspiration for countless practitioners who followed and who aim to optimize the social in social media around the web. Champ left Flickr 18 months ago to start her own consulting practice but today announced on...
The first day of the startup focused Techcrunch Disrupt conference was held today in San Francisco and The Next Web was there to capture the experience. We will have tons more video content for you as the day goes on, but for now, here is a quick walkthrough of the conference to give you...
TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Everpix is a new service that automatically organizes and combines all your photo libraries into an elegant interface, whether they’re stored on the desktop or in the cloud. It supports traditional desktop software programs, like Adobe Lightroom, Aperture and iPhoto, for example, as well as online services like Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and...
Bon Jovi is better with friends. Image: By anirudhkoul on Flickr See Also: Free Publicity For Your Startup What We Just Learned About Facebook’s Secret Music Project Mark Zuckerberg’s Coding Skills Are A Bit Rusty Right Now Facebook is widely expected to be announcing a music service next week in partnership with Spotify, Rdio,...
The cloud is now your hard drive. And not just a few dozen Gigabytes, Terabytes or even Petabytes, but all of it – infinite storage – for only $10 per month. This is the incredible promise of the new TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Bitcasa. The company is launching a new cloud storage, syncing and sharing...