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Expert Labs: Can an Outside Incubator Turn Government Tech-Savvy?

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 18, 2009 12:21 PM / 2 Comments

Long-time blogger and tech executive Anil Dash announced today at the Web 2.0 Expo New York that he's leaving publishing software company SixApart and will head a new technology incubator Continue reading »

Ebay Founder Omidyar Shuttering His Twitter Project Ginx, To Launch Online News Site

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 18, 2009 11:46 AM / 0 Comments

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Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, announced this morning that he's closing down his Twitter client Ginx early next year and instead focusing on an online local news project. We reviewed Continue reading »

Leaving a Vulgar Comment Online Might Cost You Your Job

Written by Sarah Perez / November 18, 2009 7:50 AM / 58 Comments

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A backlash against anonymous commenters and trolls seems to be underway. Only last month, a court case was settled where anonymous commenters ended up having to pay big fines to Continue reading »

Google Image Swirl Brings the Wonder Wheel to Photo Search

Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 17, 2009 12:00 PM / 6 Comments

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Google just announced a new product in Google Labs: Google Image Swirl. Image Swirl introduces a Wonder Wheel-like user interface for Google Images. The new search interface combines the Wonder Continue reading »

New Tech Spec Licensing Agreement Could Open Floodgates of Web Innovation

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 17, 2009 11:33 AM / 1 Comments

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After 18 months of negotiation, the Open Web Foundation, a group made up of 106 employees of Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, some small startups and their lawyers, today released a Continue reading »

Betaworks, Cuban Invest in Real-Time Transformer Superfeedr

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 17, 2009 10:55 AM / 4 Comments

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Superfeedr, a service that transforms a wide variety of feeds into normalized XMPP or Pubsubhubbub format, announced a seed round of funding from some very high-profile backers this morning. Betaworks, Continue reading »

Google Scholar Gets Smarter: Now Features Legal Opinions

Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 17, 2009 9:36 AM / 1 Comments

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Google just announced that it now features legal opinions in Google Scholar. Starting today, Google Scholar will feature the full text of legal opinions from US federal and state district, Continue reading »

Seesmic Goes Native: Launches Windows-Only Twitter Client

Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 17, 2009 8:30 AM / 6 Comments

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At Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, Seesmic's founder and CEO Loic Le Meur just announced that the company will release a native Windows version of its popular Twitter client later today. Continue reading »

Factery Labs Makes Other Search Engines Look Incomplete

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 17, 2009 4:10 AM / 6 Comments

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Most text excerpts that appear on search results pages aren't very useful. Imagine if instead your search engine showed a list of clear sentences summarizing the contents of each link Continue reading »

TinyChat Takes on Stickam and Ustream With New Service and API

Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 16, 2009 12:22 PM / 1 Comments

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Over the last few months, TinyChat has established itself as a highly popular video chat service. Today, the company launched a new product, TinyChat.tv, which competes directly with established companies Continue reading »

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