There are many ways to raise money for a start up. Some people sell equity. Some people max out credit cards. Some people get a bank loan, some hit up Continue reading »

At the beginning of this month, Andrew Pipes wrote about Yahoo! Buzz and Google Trends, two search engine zeitgeist tools that attempt to show what topics are popular based on Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Bloglines_vs_Google_Reader_Who_s_Really_Winning'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Earlier this week Bloglines launched a beta re-design, ending about two years of design stagnation for the once dominant browser-based Continue reading »

Jooce is a new Flash-based WebOS product from France, currently in private beta (we have invites at the bottom of this post). The primary use case for Jooce is for Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Exclusive_First_Look_at_Clever_Tools_Groupware_Suite'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Clever Tools is a new online project management and extranet application suite that is aiming for a Q1 2008 launch Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Would_You_Share_Your_Search_History'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Would you want your search history shared with your friends? If a report from the Google Operating System is correct Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/music/Struggling_Musicians_Tool_Kit'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Despite grumbling from big-name artists and record labels around rampant P2P 'piracy', there's never been a better time to make Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Technorati_Can_The_Good_Guys_Still_Finish_First'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Everybody knew that things were not going that well at Technorati, but the recent announcement of David Sifry stepping down Continue reading »

CNET columnist Matt Asay asks, provocatively: "does Google own your content?". It's based on a post by ZDNet's Joshua Greenbaum, who picked up on some interesting language in the terms Continue reading »

Our poll this week asks: Which tool do you mostly use for word processing?. We've had a great response, with 837 unique votes so far. The results are very much Continue reading »