It’ll be a long time before books are completely finished, long after physical magazines die out, simply because there is, sometimes (not always), much more timeless content packed inside them. As a writer, the permanency of a book still feels so special when compared to a blog post or even a novel on the...
Daily Archives: August 26, 2012
Surprise! VMware will join OpenStack
Just in time for VMworld, VMware is about to join the OpenStack Foundation as a Gold member, along with Intel and NEC, according to a post on the OpenStack Foundation Wiki. The applications for membership are on the agenda of the August 28 OpenStack Foundation meeting. A year ago, a VMware-OpenStack hookup would have been...
Fall of Angry Birds & some other posts you should read
Subscriber Content How to navigate the new world of digital advertising – 05/03/2012 How to stand out in the app development game – 04/23/2012 Social media in Q1: commerce and discovery dominated – 04/19/2012 what is this?
Confirmed: IAC Has Bought About.com From The New York Times For $300M In Cash
IAC is a media conglomerate with a wide range of online assets. In November 2007, announced they would be separating IAC into 5 public companies. IAC will consist of: Ask.com, Bloglines, CitySearch, Evite, Excite, InsiderPages, iWon, My Fun Cards, My Way, Popular Screensaver, Smiley Central, Match.com, chemistry.com, ServiceMagic, Shoebuy.com, BustedTees, CollegeHumor, Garage Games, Gifts.com,...
Traffic, healthcare, money, housing, corruption: Brazil’s problems and how tech can help fix them
Brazilian tech futurist Michell Zappa kickstarted the first edition of TNW Conference Latin America with a keynote on 5 infrastructure problems facing Brazil, and how technology can help solve them in a new and creative way. As you may remember, Zappa is the founder of Envisioning Technology, where he creates data visualizations on what we could...
Diller’s IAC to buy NYT’s About Group for $300 million
Barry Diller has won his bid to buy the About Group, a division of The New York Times Company, for $300 million. Reuters reported last Tuesday that Diller’s IAC/Interactive was making a late-stage bid for About.com, which was in the early stages of selling itself to Answers.com for $270 million. The New York Times reported on its...
Dropbox begins rolling out two-factor authentication, enable it now and further secure your important files
Following the unauthorised access of some its users’ usernames and passwords back in July, the team at Dropbox had vowed to improve the security of their file-synchronisation service by introducing two-factor authentication. The good news is that the feature has now been switched on and you can enable it on your account for beta...
Badass LA Fashion Site Nasty Gal Picks Up A Badass $40M From Index Ventures For World Domination
Nasty Gal, a site dedicated to selling “badass”, “unapologetically sexy” female fashion, has picked up a cool $40 million Series B round from Index Ventures, just five months after the VCs were the sole backers in its first, $9 million round. The LA-based company — which had sales of $28 million in 2011, is...
Late Labs: A ‘Crowdcoding’ Site Where Developers Trade Code For Equity
A new startup called Late Labs wants to connect coders with worthwhile side projects, and to reward them for their work with startup equity. The company lays out the problem on its mission page: “For Hustlers, its hard to find Hackers. For Hackers, side projects lose traction in the design distribution phrase, and fizzle . ....
Happy 10th birthday MLB.tv. Now that’s what I call sports TV
When it comes to getting paid online video streaming right, no one really matches up to MLB.tv, the online video arm of MLB Advanced Media. And today it is celebrating its 10th birthday. MLB.tv went live on August 26, 2002 when New York Yankees starter Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez threw a pitch against Texas Rangers’ Hollandsworth....