For those of you who don't speak French: I don't either. But that's OK, because as I was writing this post in Google Docs & Spreadsheets, I simply added my French-speaking friend Nick, who confirmed that my two years of high-school French have not paid off. The title aside, we wanted to let you know that Google Docs & Spreadsheets, our handy online document and spreadsheet editor, now comes in 12 more languages. That's 11 if you don't count
Yahoo! released Yahoo! Pipes tonight, a visual editing interface for web feed manipulation and reconstruction. The Pipes team, part of the Yahoo! TechDev incubation group, has spent some time looking at how people consume syndicated content and what it might take to open up that experience to even more people.
Yahoo! Pipes lets any Yahoo! registered user enter a set of data inputs and filter their results. You might splice a feed of your latest bookmarks on del.icio.us with the latest posts from your blog and your latest photographs posted to Flickr. You might automatically translate your favorite news sources to your native language, or only receive the 1 out of 20 news stories from your local paper that refe
YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are each worth about $326 million as a result of Google's purchase of the video-sharing company, documents registered by Google Wednesday reveal.
Their takes are five times that of third co-founder Jawed Karim, who returned to Stanford before YouTube was bought last year. Karim got 137,443 shares, worth about $65 million based on the $470 closing price of Google's stock yesterday. Hurley and Chen both have 694,087...
Jobster, the Seattle job search engine, armed with $50 million in financing and aiming to be profitable this year, announces two big moves tomorrow (Thursday).
First, it jettisons its comfy neutrality with other sites. Until now, it has remained a search engine, listing excerpts from job postings at Monster and CareerBuilder, and sending users to those sites to view the full postings. Going forward, Jobster will still do that. But it will also let employers...
(Updated) roundup of latest tech stuff:
Amazon.com answers Wal-Mart on video downloads -- There are so many video download services, it's easy to get jaded. Wal-Mart just announced its own download service, but the test site looks awful (it still badly garbled as of this writing). A more promising video service is the offering by Amazon Unbox to download movies directly to your TiVo. This is significant: It's the first service letting people watch...
Let the land-grab continue.
The big social networks are looking for ways to reach more people, and they're having to partner. MySpace.com, the giant social network, will enter the European mobile phone market with an exclusive relationship with Vodafone, they just announced. This comes just as Facebook announces an agressive move into video, with Comcast. MySpace's grip on the European market is more tenuous than in the U.S., where players like Bebo and others...
MeeVee's online guide to TV and cable programming has just gotten better. It lets you track videos from around the Web -- and then put them into your personalized Web-based account for easy viewing.
It's one more step toward MeeVee's goal of giving users a single funnel for all video content anywhere.
So far, MeeVee has let you create a calendar showing you whenever say, performer Jay-Z appears on a TV show. Today, MeeVee has unveiled a...
SideStep, the travel search engine, has raised $15 million in a third round of funding to help it stay competitive and to venture into other areas.
The travel industry is packed. Other players offer search. But they also make money from selling travel tickets, something SideStep doesn't do. These companies include Expedia, Travelocity. There's Kayak, which offers a similar search engine. There are niche sites too, such as fare-prediction site Farecast and...
Facebook and Ziddio.com, the user-generated video site recently launched by giant cable company Comcast, will announce a partnership tomorrow. It will give Facebook users another way to create and share videos.
Users will also be able to submit short videos of their lives, and winners of contests will be featured at Facebook and Ziddio and on Comcast's ON DEMAND video service. The winners will also be used as the basis for a new television...
Nivis blog has some interesting quote-based posts
From Mavericks at Work (Part 1):
“Even in the face of massive competition, don’t think about the competition. Literally don’t think about them. Every time you’re in a meeting and you’re tempted to talk about a competitor, replace that thought with one about user feedback or surveys. Just think about the customer.”
?Mike McCue, CEO Tellme Networks, Former VP of Technology Netscape
Did Budweiser steal from a NYC sketch group for one of its Super Bowl ads?
The comedy troupe The Whitest Kids UKnow claims that the Bud Light ad in which fist bumping is replaced by face slapping as a new kind of greeting looks more than a little similar to a sketch on the groups Web site called The New Thing. The Whitest Kids are consulting with lawyers. Their rep said, They are very upset. They are considering their options.
- Profile of Jonathan Ive
- We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was. Thats the appropriate thingThe way the parts [of the iPod shuffle] fit together is extraordinarily tight. I dont think theres ever been a product produced in such volume at that price, which has been given so much time and care. Im really excited by that, and even if you cant articulate its value, at some level I hope that integrity is obvious.
DWRs annual Champagne Chair Award finalists await your vote. This is my favorite design competition because its entirely about embracing constraints.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - New Internet TV services such as Joost and YouTube may bring the global network to its knees, Internet companies said on Wednesday, adding they are already investing heavily just to keep data flowing.
Google, which acquired online video sharing site YouTube [...]
The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on [...]
Silicon Valley venture firm Accel Partners has hired mobile software expert Richard Wong as a partner, the latest sign of where investors think the action will be.
Wong spent six years at OpenWave, which developed early mobile browsers (WAP), and where Wong [...]
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