Founders of Reddit, Veoh and Craigslist join forces in anti-SOPA/PIPA discussion

In advance of testifying at a congressional hearing tomorrow, a group of technology industry leaders participated in a public discussion about the ill effects of the proposed SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy legislation.

The discussion, held in Washington D.C. today and sponsored by lobbyist group P Street, included such panelists as Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, Scribd founder Jared Friedman, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures Brad Burnham, Veoh founder Dmitry Shapiro, and … Continue Reading

Scribd is disappearing word by word, page by page, thanks to SOPA

Due to new legislation from the U.S. government, Scribd is disappearing from the Internet — every document, every word.

At least, that’s what could happen if certain bills make their way to congressional approval.

Scribd is a popular online publishing tool, and to make a point about SOPA, it’s voluntarily removing its documents from the Internet and urging users to put a stop to this legislation.

SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act, and PIPA (Protect … Continue Reading

Smartling makes translation affordable with $10M in funding

The Internet is an international place. You can be in India on one page and Brazil the next. However, translation can be costly for small content publishers. Translation software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, Smartling, wants to change that.

The service works like this: For each desired language, clients create separate DNS, or domain name system sites, which assign new IP addresses. Then, websites, mobile apps and more are dropped into Smartling’s dashboard, which is an end-to-end web … Continue Reading

Scribd’s Float app will replace your news apps

Online document sharing site Scribd announced today that it is releasing Float, a mobile application that pulls content from news and content websites and lays it out in a homogenous reading format.

“The things online that you read aren’t just your PDFs or slide shows, [they include] news content and everything else — we want to bring those in with the content you publish and make it a consistent reading experience,” Matt Riley, Scribd’s director … Continue Reading