Don’t count out Joost just yet. We recently wrote it still has a heartbeat despite the fact they made the wrong bet years ago by underestimating the power of the web for watching videos. They finally switched to Flash late last year, giving up on P2P, and introduced some social networking features around the video viewing experience to battle established
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MetroPCS told Wall Street last week that the fourth quarter of 2008 was its most successful quarter ever when it came to adding new customers. This was a reflection of the prepaid carrier’s expansion efforts into new markets, but also a reflection of the economy rendering the $50-and-under contractless cell-phone plans that MetroPCS offers in 14 cities more attractive.
With a
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MetroPCS told Wall Street last week that the fourth quarter of 2008 was its most successful quarter ever when it came to adding new customers. This was a reflection of the prepaid carrier’s expansion efforts into new markets, but also a reflection of the economy rendering the $50-and-under contractless cell-phone plans that MetroPCS offers in 14 cities more attractive.
With a
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Divvyshot, a new Y Combinator company that makes sharing photos between groups very easy, has just launched in private alpha. The site allows groups of users to share full-resolution photos collaboratively both through online galleries and using native clients that will launch in the next few weeks. There are currently 700 invites available, which you can grab
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, iTunes, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Zynga has released a new iPhone game called Scramble Live, and while the game itself isn’t anything really new — it’s Boggle, basically — the technology is pretty interesting. They’ve already got a Facebook version up and running with over a million users, and the new app will
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, iTunes, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Zynga has released a new iPhone game called Scramble Live, and while the game itself isn’t anything really new — it’s Boggle, basically — the technology is pretty interesting. They’ve already got a Facebook version up and running with over a million users, and the new app will
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Data portability: it’s one of those buzzwords that everybody just has to be in on these days. From OpenID to Facebook Connect to Google Friend Connect, there are more and more ways to use a single login and take your information anywhere on the web. And today there’s one more: Yahoo Updates through a partnership with JS-Kit.
JS-Kit is
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MySpace is announcing today that it is partnering with Citi to offer its users a co-branded credit card. We expect to start seeing cards flashed at retail outlets by 99-year olds named “bongkillah,” or what have you. MySpace is a lot of things, and despite Facebook’s formidable attack it remains wildly popular, but an institution of trust and
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Yahoo! Updates, the company’s answer to Facebook Connect, became available on more than 600,000 websites today with the launch of a new partnership with commenting infrastructure company JS-Kit. Whereas Facebook’s technology for tying profiles and activity updates between sites around the web has raised concerns about proprietary control over data, Yahoo! has implemented the open standard OAuth in its
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Social networks suck if you can’t find friends that use them. This is especially true for those social networks oriented around sharing your location; for the most part, you end up knowing where you and three other people are before you get bored and give up. Following a trend made popular by Facebook, the mobile social mapping service Loopt has
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Social networks suck if you can’t find friends that use them. This is especially true for those social networks oriented around sharing your location; for the most part, you end up knowing where you and three other people are before you get bored and give up. Following a trend made popular by Facebook, the mobile social mapping service Loopt has
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Editor’s note: The guest post below was written by Reid Hoffman, CEO and Founder of LinkedIn. Reid has some strong opinions about how startups can help right the economy, and he offers some suggestions below. (You can also catch him tonight on Charlie Rose, or check out our interview we did with him at Davos). Reid is
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Here’s a clean look at the upcoming Facebook homepage redesign that will go live next week. The new design will give users the ability to easily feed the news stream by friend type and network, and gives users a much easier way to post links, photos and videos. The news feed will also begin updating in real time without page
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Bindu Reddy and Arvind Sundararajan, both ex-Googlers, today announced the launch of their startup, Likaholix, which lets you curate things you like on the web. You sign up, create a profile and bookmark your likes — books, movies, things, places, hotels and anything you fancy. Sounds simple enough, right? But since these are both Googlers, they are using search under
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