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Kindling: Digging for Small Companies and Groups - 50 Invites
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 24, 2008 10:47 AM / 57 Comments
New York based technology and consulting firm Arc90 introduced its first publicly available product today: Kindling. Arc90 describes Kindling as an "idea management and collaboration tool for small groups and Continue reading »


Wordpress 2.6 Beta 1 Is Now Available
Written by Corvida / June 24, 2008 9:56 AM / 7 Comments
When Wordpress 2.5 hit the web, there were a lot of big changes made to the blogging platform. Since then, numerous bugs and quirks have been discovered. Some of Continue reading »


Self-Publish Your Own Magazine With MagCloud
Written by Sarah Perez / June 24, 2008 8:15 AM / 1 Comments
Have you every wanted to run your own magazine, but never had enough money or a large enough audience to make it worthwhile? Well, if there's one thing that the Continue reading »


Google Map Maker: Crowdsourcing Cartography
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 24, 2008 7:24 AM / 5 Comments
The Google Maps team just announced the addition of a new feature to Google Maps: the ability to contribute to and edit maps through Google Map Maker. Users can now Continue reading »


Bored With Web 2.0? Demand Change
Written by Sarah Perez / June 24, 2008 5:36 AM / 20 Comments
In April, Umair Haque posted a manifesto on his blog on the Harvard Business Publishing web site where he called for today's investors and start-ups to start building applications to Continue reading »


Nokia Acquires Symbian; Takes on Google's Android
Written by Richard MacManus / June 24, 2008 12:49 AM / 16 Comments
Nokia isn't finished with its acquisition spree just yet. Tonight the Finnish company announced a plan to acquire the 52 per cent of Symbian it doesn't already own and make Continue reading »


Evernote Opens to All: Fantastic Promise, Disappointing Execution
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 23, 2008 9:00 PM / 11 Comments
The highly anticipated "memory augmentation" service Evernote opens to the public Tuesday and you'll probably want to check this service out just to see what it tries to do. We Continue reading »


Why Nokia Acquired Plazes, a Location-Based Social Network
Written by Daniel Langendorf, last100 writer / June 23, 2008 8:42 PM / 5 Comments
Buried in Bob Iannucci’s discussion at Supernova 2008 last week was this comment: “Connecting people only through voice communications is limited,” the Nokia chief technical officer said. To us, that Continue reading »


LinkedIn and The Strange Case of The Disappearing Market
Written by Bernard Lunn / June 23, 2008 7:30 PM / 15 Comments
Is LinkedIn worth $1bn? Yes. Why? Because Bain Capital says it is. The stock is not public, so you and I cannot trade it. The whole notion of the average Continue reading »


Yapta: Tracking Airfare Changes Made Easy
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 23, 2008 2:39 PM / 3 Comments
Seattle based travel startup Yapta.com re-launched its homepage today as a full-service air travel search engine. Yapta originally launched in May 2007 as a browser add-on for bookmarking flight information Continue reading »


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