Google opens video chat directly from iGoogle homepage
To try and make its personalized homepage, iGoogle, a little stickier, Google is allowing video chat directly from site.
To use it, you have to download a free plug-in. Then you can go on and video chat with anyone like you might with Gtalk. Your friends… Continue Reading
Instant messaging: feature or product?
Web-based instant messaging services, such as Meebo and eBuddy have had high growth rates over many months. They’ve raked in a lot of funding from hungry VCs. But we see IM becoming a commodity.
So far, these non-aligned startups have offered an advantage. They’ve let everyone… Continue Reading
The Google Myth goes “pop”
[Editor's note: We asked Kevin Laws, a former blogger at VentureBlog, to comment on the Google-YouTube merger. Here are his thoughts. Keep in mind that his company, Vast, can be seen as a competitor to Google Base]
Google purchased YouTube for more than a billion dollars…. Continue Reading