August 2007 Archives
CreateSpace, which until last week was CustomFlix Labs, a company founded in 2002 and acquired by Amazon in 2005, today launched a print on demand book publishing service. The newly
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What's this? IBM going media 2.0? Big Blue has released a Noir-themed report entitled 'Navigating the Media Divide: Innovating and Enabling New Business Models.' It comes with a movie inspired
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Since French startup Zlio opened in the US in February, it has been busy making alliances with US companies (and annoying Amazon.com too). Zlio is a service that enables any
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Yesterday’s Apple press event saw the unveiling of new iMacs and major updates to the company’s iLife and iWorks software suites. But it also provided further insight into the cosy
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Google announced a new feature today for their Google News web site that allows people involved in news stories to post dissenting (or concurring) view points next to published news
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Online video ad network LiveRail launched a public beta just about a month ago, and yesterday I caught up with CEO Mark Trefgarne to get an update on how things
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I want to replace both my Windows laptop and my Blackberry with an iPhone. I love my Blackberry, but I don’t like lugging my laptop around. I know I need
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The rumor tonight is that social shopping service Kaboodle has been acquired for $30M+ by Hearst. We profiled Kaboodle and other social shopping services back in December in our
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Web office vendor Dabble DB has jumped on the Facebook bandwagon and launched a "social to-do list" called Dabble Do. You can get it on Facebook here. How is it
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digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Personalized_Search_Primer_And_Google_s_Approach'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; In Greg Linden's guest post defining Web personalization, he notes that Google Personalized Search uses technology acquired in 2003 from
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