‘Products’ Archive

Today in Technology: Facebook Eats FriendFeed and Adds Real-Time Search – How will Twitter Respond? August 11, 2009 No Comments

We all know how Facebook responds to threats. A few months back, when Twitter’s traffic was spiking and there were constant stories around how Facebook was simply a neat social network with a robust photo album feature tacked on, they quickly moved to add in their real time news feature, which instantly made their [...]

Today in Technology: Delicious Gives in and Adds Twitter Sharing to Service August 5, 2009 No Comments

If you’re a delicious user, you probably think the site an invaluable way to save bookmarks in the cloud, which gives you somewhat of a nice peace of mind in case you want to look up that article you came across a few months back.  Another story you may want to consider though is how [...]

Today in Technology: Amazon to Acquire Netflix? The Battle for Streaming Movies in Your Living Room July 13, 2009 No Comments

We all know what’s coming to living rooms across the globe in the next few years: DVD’s are dying and streaming media will rule your living room.  We’re already seeing the effect with Netflix, as many of their movies can be watched straight from your computer streamed through their web interface.  You can do the [...]

Today in Technology: Thoughts on the Google Chrome OS Play July 8, 2009 No Comments

LOADS of buzz on the Google Chrome OS announcement on the web today. Most likely if you read tech news, you’ve heard about it. Hell if you read any news at all you’ve probably at least seen the headline. Google is adding the Linux Kernel and all if it’s underlying functionality to [...]

Boston Startups: Shareaholic – One Browser Button to Rule Them All July 2, 2009 No Comments

The reason I like Shareaholic’s Firefox plugin so much is because, well, it’s a browser plugin, and therefore it’s always going to be right in my face and totally simple to use.  Before I got the Shareaholic button, I had buttons from multiple web apps in my bookmarks toolbar (Delicious, TinyURL, Evernote, etc…).
Now Shareaholic has [...]

Boston Startups: Tikatok – A Children’s Book Creation Platform (One for the Kids) June 30, 2009 1 Comment

Have you ever set out on a creative project with your kids to try to make a book from start to finish?  I don’t have personal experience with this myself, but I can imagine that the art and story writing with your kid(s) is the easy part.  The actual creating and binding of the book [...]

Boston Startups: Tipjoy – Social Micro-Payments that Aim to Please June 25, 2009 No Comments

I’ve written about it before on this blog: I really believe that it’s time to begin to break down the walls of free value on the web in the form of excellent media and content.  So with that being said, I get really excited when new ideas around revenue generation within the web realm pop [...]