Since Facebook started letting users comment on friends status updates on its mobile site yesterday, it says more than one million users have made these Twitter-like replies in the last 24 hours.
In the minds of Twitter users, this commenting feature likely seems most analogous to the “@friend” feature of Twitter, where you can designate a [...]
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What is president-elect Barack Obama’s new transition site, Change.gov, going to become? Right now, the site just contains basic information that the campaign has already made public. But it promises to help make the U.S. government more transparent to its citizens. This is a key part of Obama’s tech platform, and implementing it will be [...]
Can AT&T be more than a “dumb pipe” — can it go beyond providing infrastructure for phones, cable television and Internet services? Its forays into content continue today, with its official launch of its video aggregator site VideoCrawler.com.
The site, which has been live for a few months, aggregates user-generated videos from YouTube and other sites [...]
Keystream is an online video ad startup coming out of stealth today, joining a pack of others trying to do similar things. It lets an online video publisher run an ad that appears in the empty part of a video. For example, in this picture of a Land Rover charging through a flooded road, there’s [...]
Business networking site LinkedIn launched its developer platform last week with apps built by eight partner companies, but not including any sort of events listing service. The reason why is now clear: The company has introduced its own event service today, which relies on a database culled from third-party event companies including EventBrite and Techweb.
When [...]
No surprises here. Yahoo stockholders wanted Microsoft to buy the beleaguered yet large and profitable web company — or nothing — judging by Yahoo’s stock price today. The 15 percent drop so far today is apparently due to statements Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer made in Australia last night.
Ballmer said no acquisition is under [...]
Change.gov is the first step in President-Elect Barack Obama’s plan to make national politics more transparent via the web. The site just launched, and so far it seems to be a bunch of information collected from press releases — you know, the same old thing.
Okay, that was a cheap shot. I am actually pretty hopeful [...]
Lookery has sold its ad network to rival Adknowledge. San Francisco-based Lookery started out as a third-party ad network on Facebook and has since refocused on collecting user data to help other ad networks target ads. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed. Lookery’s site says its network currently serves three billion ad impressions a [...]
Facebook has been incrementally improving third- party application access to its user activity feeds. Today, it’s offering a new interface (here) to streamline the process that developers go through to build, preview and verify each type of feed, as well as advice on how to make feed items more appealing to users.
The social network’s news [...]
Cisco does a little better than expected — Sales fell 9 percent in October, compared to a year earlier, the computer networking giant reported yesterday; the company expects sales to drop up to 10 percent this quarter versus the $9.8 billion a year ago. Yet “[i]n our opinion, the U.S. will be the first major [...]
President-elect Barack Obama has long said he wants to create the position of chief technology officer in his cabinet, a person who will make government more accessible to citizens. The first step in that plan, reportedly coming later today, is the launch of a web site about the new administration’s transition into the White House. [...]
MySpace Music, the music site created by the News Corp.-owned social network in partnership with major record labels, may finally have a chief executive: Courtney Holt. He was first named as a candidate in a CNET article last week. Today, MediaMemo says his contract is almost but not quite signed.
MySpace Music launched at the end [...]
Yeah, this post will likely be completely uninteresting in a few hours.
But for those of us living in the moment, online….
Data analysis sites:
Pollster.com — Live poll analysis and map
Five Thirty Eight — Live poll analysis
Google’s live map — With AP data
Yahoo’s live map — Slick (via Eric Doyle)
News blogs:
Drudge Report — Blaring headlines that seem [...]
We’ve tried to stay focused on technology and investing here at VentureBeat — but the craziness of this year’s election has basically overcome us by this point.
Here’s the live-updating map widget of the U.S. elections, provided by Google.
We’ll be fully back to our beat tomorrow.
Glam, a women’s site publisher and ad network, is becoming more like most other ad networks out there. It will further delay payments that it owes to partner publishers, starting this month.
Publishers typically have to wait awhile for ad payments, whether in old media formats like print, or new media formats like online ad networks. [...]
Gnip, a company that provides technology to help other web services quickly share information provided by users, has raised $3.5 million.
Here’s how Gnip works: When a user updates their information on a site like Digg or Twitter, it takes that information and updates it quickly on the user’s accounts at other sites, such as Plaxo’s [...]
Prices for banner ads dropped eleven percent across 270 ad networks last quarter, a new report by ad-matching company The Rubicon Project shows. It’s hardly surprising that this form of online advertising is getting hit by the economic downturn. While search engine ads can demonstrably make advertisers money due to users doing things like clicking [...]
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