Roundup: Xbox defects rise, Windows Live Messenger comes to websites, and more
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Joystiq reports rising Xbox 360 defects — Errors with the E74 code have been rising since the New Xbox Experience update on Xbox Live, according to a survey.
Windows Live Messenger adds chat to websites – In the words of TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld, “AIM, the ball is in your court.”
MySpace brings in Fotoflexer to allow photo customization — Up until this point, those features have only been available through third-party photo-editing tools.
Sohu files for an… Continue Reading
Wesabe wants to help users cut back spending
The news is full of stories about consumers cutting back on spending — but if you’re anything like me, you’re rehashing your budget in the most disorganized and piecemeal way possible. Wesabe, a website that lets you manage and seek advice about your finances, just announced a new Cutback Tool to help.
Of course, by helping you understand your spending, any personal finance site is a cutback tool to a certain extent. Why else do I… Continue Reading
Mint.com users feeling the hurt, pinching pennies
Personal finance site Mint.com has gathered data showing that its users spent an average of $300 less per month in August than in January this year — a 6 percent drop suggesting that the site’s 500,000 users are adjusting to the economic downturn (at least a little better than Wall Street).
Anonymous data culled from free finance sites like Mint, Geezeo and Wesabe that allow users to track their bank balances, set budgets, and control different… Continue Reading
DEMOfall08: Green Sherpa wants to manage your personal finances on the Web
New companies offering web-based personal finance management tools are popping up like Eggo Waffles in the 80s, ever since early start-ups like Mint emerged last year and won accolades.
There was Wesabe. We’ve also seen Geezeo, Buxfer and expensr all show up to take a shot at leadership in this area, but so far none seem to even come close. A new rival appearing at DEMOfall 08 is Rudder.
Tomorrow, at DEMO, another player, this one called… Continue Reading
Wesabe raises $4M for social expense management online
Wesabe, a Web site that lets people manage their finances, and network with network with others for advice, has raised $4 million in a first round of financing.
We first wrote about the Berkeley, Calif. company in November.
The financing was led by Union Square Ventures, of New York, and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, of San Francisco, which provided the company with seed money. Its advantage over incumbent services such as Quicken is that it is online and… Continue Reading
Roundup: Netvibes2Go, Ooma, Wesabe, Second Life voice, Google traffic, more
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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… Continue Reading
O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures raises $51M fund for hackers
O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, a venture fund affiliated with O’Reilly Media, said it has officially finished raising its first $51 million fund for early stage investing.
It is a small venture firm focused on the Internet, akin in some ways to First Round Capital, a fund run by Josh Kopelman. These firms have more formality than wealthy individual angel investors, but they invest much earlier than the large venture capital firms that like to put millions of… Continue Reading
Wesabe, a Web 2.0 service to keep your finances straight
Wesabe is a new Web site that lets you manage your financials. It’s like a Web-based Quicken, with Web 2.0 stuff thrown in — for example, the customary tagging and social networking.
You register, and then you’re prompted to upload you bank account, credit card and other financial information (it holds you hand as you import the data directly from your bank’s site). It then provides your balances on one page, so you can have an… Continue Reading