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Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 13, 2009 5:00 AM / 0 Comments

Factual, a new open data project founded by Gilad Elbaz, just launched its public beta today. Elbaz's last company, Applied Semantics, was acquired by Google in 2003 and became one Continue reading »

German Chancellor Tells Google: "You Can't Just Go Around Scanning Books"

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 12, 2009 12:10 PM / 8 Comments

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On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel used her weekly video podcast to attack Google and the Google Book Settlement. According to Merkel, the Google Book Settlement disregards international copyright laws. Continue reading »

Google Maps Ditches Tele Atlas in Favor of Street View Cars and Crowdsourcing

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 12, 2009 8:55 AM / 5 Comments

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After a flurry of activity around Google Maps over the last few weeks, it now looks like Google is also ditching Tele Atlas as its data provider for Google Maps Continue reading »

Big Updates are Coming to Vimeo: Desktop Uploader, Larger Videos, Advanced Stats

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 9, 2009 10:54 AM / 1 Comments

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Vimeo, one of our favorite online video services, just announced a number of interesting updates. In the near future, Vimeo plans to give its users the ability to use an Continue reading »

Update to Google Sites Demonstrates What the GDrive Could Look Like

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 9, 2009 9:23 AM / 4 Comments

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We have been hearing rumors about the Google Drive online storage service for years now. This mythical GDrive would give users the ability to easily store and access all of Continue reading »

Spotify Co-Founder: Notion of Overnight Success "Misleading and Harmful"

Written by Sarah Perez / October 9, 2009 7:16 AM / 1 Comments

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In a surprisingly candid post on Spotify's blog, company co-founder Daniel Ek recently shared his thoughts about where the popular streaming music company stands today and where he hopes it Continue reading »

Spammers Newest Tactic: YouTube Video Spam

Written by Sarah Perez / October 9, 2009 6:02 AM / 13 Comments

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Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have recorded a mass mailing of spam emails containing a link to a video advertisement on YouTube. Although in the past, spammers have attempted to lure Continue reading »

WordPress.com Can Now Send Updates to Twitter

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 8, 2009 11:26 AM / 3 Comments

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WordPress.com just announced that its users can now use the service's Publicize feature to automatically send out a tweet whenever they post a new story. Wordpress's Publicize feature, which was Continue reading »

Where the Wild Things Are Comes to the iPhone

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 8, 2009 9:47 AM / 5 Comments

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The classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are has been turned into a movie due in theaters next week. The promotional iPhone app is something that your kids may Continue reading »

Tracking Influenza: Google Flu Trends Now Covers 16 More Countries

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 8, 2009 8:53 AM / 1 Comments

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Google just announced a major expansion of its Flu Trends program which monitors searches for Flu-related symptoms on Google's search engine to predict Flu outbreaks. Until now, Google only made Continue reading »

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