Niche social networks Dogster and Catster have launched their 3rd Annual World’s Coolest Dog & Cat Show this week. The contest consists of a free photo contest available to anyone who would like to enter, as well as vote. In the past day, there have been 2,000 entries and ten times [...]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has had a few quotable moments this month. First, he called Facebook a “fad,” leaving many of us questioning his grasp on the social networking space. Next, he took a shot at Gmail, saying at least Microsoft “doesn’t read your email,” in reference to the contextual ads Google places [...]
Answers.com has teamed up with Wordpress to offer a plug-in for easy linking of words in your blog posts to definitions and other resources provided by the search tool. The plug-in can be accessed here. Included in this tool is a suggest feature that will go through your blog post and recognize terms [...]
Splashtop is a new tool that lets you access the Internet and web applications without fully starting your computer, and its parent company, DeviceDM, has received $10 million to further develop its product. With Splashtop technology installed, you can hit your computer’s power button, and you’ll immediately see the Splashtop dashboard, giving you [...]
Mobivox, a local number service for making free or cheap phone calls across the world, has raised $11 million in a Series A round. Funding came from IDG Ventures in Boston, joined by IDG Ventues in China and Vietnam. Previous investors include Brightspark Ventures of Toronto and Skypoint Capital Corp. Mobivox works [...]
Gtalk is now available as a Facebook application, through the use of the Google Talk Gadget. It can be accessed here. This is a good way to integrate Google’s chat options outside of its existing Google Apps, and extends the use of Gtalk, as it’s already rather limited in functionality when compared to other [...]
Music Gifts is a pretty cool Facebook app launched by MediaMouth. It lets you find music, listen to it, create custom lists and mixes and share all of this with Facebook friends. But it also is a gifting application, too. And not a fluff gift that’s really just a graphic that sits on [...]
Inc. Magazine is the latest in the printed media industry to create an online social network. This one is ultra niche, honing in on the CEOs of private companies that are on Inc.’s 5000 list, making them the cream of Inc.’s crop. The site, IncBizNet, is currently in private beta, and you can [...]
Online forms creation tool FormSpring has some new features lined up. Several of these new features allow for more customization of your forms made with FormSpring’s service. There’s now supporting text for fields, which means you can include your desired messaging for these fields, and it will be reflected in the form [...]
It seems like the most unlikely of headlines, but according to some data Om Malik received from comScore, Facebook actually saw a 9.3% decline in total unique visitors in August and September. If this is true, it would suggest Facebook is losing a lot of steam in the US, considering the international growth that [...]
Linden Labs, parent company of Second Life, is joining forced with Big Blue to design avatars that are interoperable with other virtual worlds. This means that users could potentially take their persona from Second Life and use it in other virtual worlds like The Sims or There.com. IBM is probably not the first [...]
Gifts.com, the leading online provider of gift ideas, announced the purchase of GiveFun.com. Adding the gift card functionality of GiveFun to the high level partnerships of Gifts.com is a sensible move for IAC, holding company for a variety of one-stop solution sites including Ask.com, Evite, RealEstate.com, and others.Users of Gifts.com can now customize gift certificates [...]
Gigya is creating an updated version of its online widget tracking service that will allow developers and web publishers to define and track any type of activity within widgets. Used in conjunction with Gigya’s Wildfire, developers can track widget performance in a more extensive manner, from its initial installation on a user’s page, [...]
Ever wonder what your favorite musicians and other die-hard fans do on the web? Boulder, Colorado based Me.dium - makers of a window revealing the the activities and people behind your browser - announced the continuation of RockMe Sessions. The first installment launches today at 4 ET/1 PT with the band [...]
