Back in March of last year, we wrote about how video curation seemed to be growing up, or at least taking some strides forward. Its progress being evidenced in part by a young startup called ShortForm, a social network for video jockeys. Or, better said, ShortForm is attempting to let all those video enthusiasts...
The e-book business will grow faster than people think. Innovations from Amazon and Apple have increased the velocity at which we consume e-books, but there are two emergent behaviors that will increase the rate of overall consumption. But before I get into those behaviors, I’ll start with a story about my experience with the...
You may have heard someone say, or said yourself: “I want to build a business, what should I focus on?” Obviously, the possible answers are nearly infinite. Steve Poland wrote a great post in December that addresses this question directly. I would agree with Steve’s main piece of advice for founders and entrepreneurs: Focus...
JQ.Mobi Is A Mobile-Optimized HTML5 Rewrite Of the JQuery Framework appMobi released a JavaScript framework, jQ.Mobi today. Dan Rowinski explains why a new JavaScript framework like jQ.Mobi is so interesting. jQ.Mobi is a JavaScript framework in the same vein as Sencha Touch, JQuery Mobile and JQTouch. Unlike those frameworks, which are built in HTML4...
We’ve all become accustomed to the presence of social media in American politics, but few, if any, could have predicted the rise of Reddit as a force in the coming cycle of elections. Here at TNW we have covered the topic a number of times, openly asking if Reddit is to take a role...
Startups that are looking to disrupt the traditional energy industries — oil, coal, gas-burning cars, incandescent lighting and the electricity network — need to have more than just innovative technology. They need a team and a plan in place that can scale their technologies to actually compete on the massive scale needed for these...
Out of all the Web design fads to emerge since the glossy days of Web 2.0, scrolling websites have become a surprisingly powerful and useful trend. Of course, I’m not talking about any website with a scroll bar, but a design style that leads viewers to continuously scroll down the page. This attention-grabbing technique...
Oh, you liked that band since before they were cool? Now you can prove it with Splash.FM. Launching in private beta today, the music social network lets you share songs and raise your Splash score when you help others discover them. Splash.FM lets you follow other tastemakers and listen through lists of the most popular songs across...
Creepiness be damned, I’m a fan of geolocation technology on mobile phones. I think it’s pretty cool that my device can ask a satellite where I am and my screen shows me in seconds. What’s cooler is when apps actually put this technology into a context that makes our lives better, or more memorable....
Online video chat provider Yowie is hoping to boost its social presence, with a Facebook app that will let individual users talk to one another while sharing interesting videos. The app, which competes with Google Hangouts and Chill, seeks to differentiate itself by ranking users based on the videos they share and their behavior...