Here’s the latest action:
Netvibes offers Netvibes2go — Netvibes, the company that has gotten buzz with its cool personalized home page service, is offering a mobile version called Netvibes2Go. It lets you access all your info — contained in useful modules, including email, calendar, to-do list and any RSS feed — while you’re on the go. To get it, you have to configure your Netvibes account on a PC first (creating a new tab, called “mobile” and then putting in compatible modules). Founder Tariq Krim tells us an announcement will be coming shortly. Was discovered by bloggers.
Check out VentureBeat Newswire for latest stories — They include John Doerr’s latest company (physician software), video-sharing company Fliqz’s latest VC round (surprising, for us), Sequoia’s latest investment (in PopularMedia), secretive home telecom company Ooma’s latest round (from Sean Parker and others) and more.
Google adds real-time traffic to maps in several cities — Cities include San Francisco, New York and others. Image at left is a partial screenshot of what SF traffic looked like at 9:30am this morning. In other words, be glad if you don’t live or work in the East Bay.
Wesabe, personal finance site, raises $700,000 — The Berkeley company that lets you manage your financials, with things like tagging, and then lets you communicate with others about it (apparently, some people want this), raised the cash from O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, which itself just raised a new fund for hacker-driven companies (see our NewsWire story here, from yesterday). Here’s our earlier story about Wesabe from last year.
Second Life adds voice — You’ve been able to chat via IM before. But now the virtual world company is offering ways to talk with others, taking into account three dimensions to adjust volume, that is, how far away you are from other people (in the room or region where you’re conversing), and what direction you’re facing.
Hyped product of the day: Buzzword – Virtual Ubiquity, a Boston start-up, has created some buzz with its online word processor, BuzzWord. It isn’t out yet, but see here for details. Lots of effusive coverage elsewhere.
Another news ranking site, Spotplex — Techcrunch has a story about the Silicon Valley start-up Spotplex. At Spotplex, news stories aren’t submitted by users. Rather, blog and other news sites wanting to be featured at the site submit some javascript code, and it culls the most popular read articles on those sites, and then features them. We’re not sure how this is going to work, because by default, stories from the most popular sites are going to get read (and thus featured at Spotplex), even if they’re crappy stories. Also, there are other sites that do similar things, such as Topix. The company has accepted VentureBeat as a source. We’ll send in our code and see.
Adobe Systems to release Web version of its Photoshop image-editing application — It will do so within six months.
Invalid clicks on Gooole’s Adwords under 10 percent — Or at least, that is what Google tells us. Google adds that, in general, undetected fraud is less than 0.02 percent. However, there’s just no way for Google to know that for sure.
5 Comments
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Marc Hedlund said:
“apparently, some people want this” — ha! :)
Speaking for Wesabe, we don’t disclose anyone’s income, bad habits, Ben & Jerry’s binges, or anything of the sort. The community parts of our site help members share tips and advice for getting the most from your money and reaching your goals.
We do display *aggregate* data about merchants — for instance, when our members try a new restaurant, do they never go back (probably not so good) or do they go back every week (probably worth trying)? How do local auto shops compare in price? and so on. But none of those features single out any individual user.
And yes, apparently some people do want it — we’re tracking over $300 million (U.S.) for our users.
Thanks for the link.
Marc Hedlund, co-founder, Wesabe
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Daniel Rust said:
Netvibes going mobile is great but I would rather select which of my current modules I want to be mobile, rather than duplicating my everyday feeds/lists/notes etc on a separate tab.
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Scott Robbin said:
You may also want to give Tappity.com a try. It doesn’t have the feeds and calendaring that Netvibes does (yet), but it’s got a ton of everyday links and searches that you’d want to access from your phone (movie times, price comparison, Wikipedia, etc.) Plus, anyone can submit mobile sites, so the list of what’s available keeps on growing.
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Jeff said:
Actually, tappity just released a point update that allows feeds if you add them as ‘links’.
By next month they’ll have widgets that make reading RSS feeds even easier and more elegant than Netvibes2Go
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Krishnan said:
Beyond RSS feeds, AppVoyage mobilizes backend data like work order from a service management application or top 10 leads from a CRM application.
Personalization is as easy as browsing from desktop, during the learning phase proxy records usage and preferences to mobilize the right type of information in right format.
