Seattle-based Jott, a mobile phone service that lets users record and send emails, text messages, and to-do lists via speech-to-text over their mobile phones, today launched a new suite of Continue reading »

Varien, a Los Angeles web development firm, has just launched a preview version of its open source eCommerce platform called Magento. Also released was a community site and a demo Continue reading »

Living about 3,000 miles from the Valley in a small east coast college town, as I do, I rarely get a chance to score any fun schwag from the web 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 »

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 »

Search Radar, a recently launched browser plugin, aims to help users refine their search results by providing suggested queries based on their search terms. When the plugin is installed, the Continue reading »

Online office tools provider Zoho today released a beta version of Zoho Start, a launch pad for Zoho's suite of office applications. Zoho currently offers a suite of 16 separate Continue reading »

This week chef to the stars Niall Harbison launched a social network aimed a food lovers, iFoods.tv. They're touting it as "Facebook for foodies." The site is basically a social Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/NewsGator_Launches_Facebook_App_NewsFriends'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; One of the leading RSS Aggregation startups, NewsGator Technologies, jumped on the Facebook bandwagon today with NewsFriends (add to Facebook Continue reading »

Tonight Bloglines is launching a new design at beta.bloglines.com, which includes a new personalizable Start Page, more views, and drag and drop Ajax functionality. I spoke to new Bloglines GM Continue reading »