A favorite theme of ours is the "naming of startups". Back in 99, we named our company "anbiun" - an upside down version of "unique". San Francisco-based Xobni (backwards for inbox) is worth watching. They're mashing up analytics and email to create a more intelligent inbox. [tags]xobni, email[/tags]
Actually, you've got to be crazy for NOT starting an internet business. Austin-based NaturallyCurly has just announced a big investment. The site, which claims 10,000 readers a day is dedicated to all things hairy & curly. The site even has a kids' section. Apparently the founders have no plans for an "adult" section. :) [tags]VC, NaturallyCurly[/tags]
How many toolbars can you install before your entire screen is toolbars?? There's no shortage of them... search, Alexa, StumbleUpon... Here's Bzzster - it makes it "easy" to share links with your friends. No need for a toolbar! [tags]Bzzster[/tags]
So here's Sloog ... great logo, great name. Its existential purpose? Providing social bookmarks for Second Life. Yes you can tell (virtually) everybody that indeed you visited the virtual Toyota dealer! Yeesh! [tags]Sloog, Second Life, yeesh[/tags]
There's an interesting new study published by HP's Information Dynamics Lab: Novelty and Collective Attention. It's a mathematical analysis of Digg. The authors attempt to predict the attention span of a mob of diggers, and how long they keep a new "front page" story on the front page. The conclusion: 69 minutes. ...
Launched today at CTIA, ZenZui was incubated by Microsoft's internal VC program. It's an appealing UI platform (shown on right) that assembles a number of tiles that the user can "zoom" left, right, up and down. It's an old concept. Until now mobile devices didn't have the horsepower to do this. The ...
So you've just created a new Powerpoint deck entitled "Our Secret Corporate Strategy" - and you're damn proud of it!! So why not share it with other PPTphiles and enter a "slide contest". Don't worry about that employment agreement you signed - there's an XBOX 360 up for grabs!! Powerpoint is the point ...
Everyone knows that if you're serious about playing basketball, you need $300 sneakers, right? Not according to Stephon Marbury - New York Knicks $17million a year superstar. On April 1st (apparently it's not a joke) he's releasing his new line of Starbury sneakers. They're all available for $14.98. He could have ...
Sometimes as a new website owner you want to see how much more traffic your site can handle. Instead of waiting until you really do get hit with a ton of traffic, why not fake it and see what happens? Please keep in mind that the traffic will be completely useless as no real eyes ...
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