January 2008 Archives
Esty, the online craft bazaar, has raised $27M in series C. And ThisNext, the social shopping site, has signed a series B deal for $5M.
Quicker than I thought - but this must mean that things are going well:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/27/the-rubicon-project-gets-15-million-in-a-series-b/
Like I've said before, I think Rubicon is addressing a very important need. If they execute properly they will be a very successful company.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/27/the-rubicon-project-gets-15-million-in-a-series-b/
Like I've said before, I think Rubicon is addressing a very important need. If they execute properly they will be a very successful company.
Instapaper - extremely simple - lets you mark a web page as "Read Later" and get back to it later. It also has an iPhone interface.
WebMynd approaches bookmarking differently: Don't bookmark them! It saves local copies of web pages and allows you to search them later. So instead of bookmarking at "compile time", you search for what you need at "run time".
Last but not least, Control C solves a slightly different problem but is somehow being compared with WebMynd so I'm bringing them in the same category. It allows your copy-and-paste operation to propagate to the web. You install the software, and any time you press Ctrl-C to copy something to your [Windows] clipboard it also saves it to the web - private and encrypted. You can later on use the web-based clipboard for other purposes, including making parts of copied content public to others.
WebMynd approaches bookmarking differently: Don't bookmark them! It saves local copies of web pages and allows you to search them later. So instead of bookmarking at "compile time", you search for what you need at "run time".
Last but not least, Control C solves a slightly different problem but is somehow being compared with WebMynd so I'm bringing them in the same category. It allows your copy-and-paste operation to propagate to the web. You install the software, and any time you press Ctrl-C to copy something to your [Windows] clipboard it also saves it to the web - private and encrypted. You can later on use the web-based clipboard for other purposes, including making parts of copied content public to others.
Among the things announced during my vacation was Mozilla Weave - a web based service by Mozilla to store browser meta data in the cloud rather than locally where user's browser runs. I have been waiting for a long time for something like this to happen.
I have been using Delicious to manage my bookmarks online for some time now, but managing folders and synchronizing with local bookmarks has been an issue. More importantly I could not do anything about my browsing history.
Some people do not like this kind of information to be stored online - they prefer it to be local and private. Personally I don't have an issue with that, and I do want this information to be less and less dependent on my PC(s).
Weave has made it easy. I signed up at services.mozilla.com and downloaded Weave (I have been running Firefox 3 Beta since it came out). In a few easy steps Firefox/Weave backed up my history and bookmarks to the Weave server. So from now on no matter where I am I can access my bookmarks, as well as history, within local look-and-feel of Firefox. That works for me!
By the way, happy birthday to me :-)
I have been using Delicious to manage my bookmarks online for some time now, but managing folders and synchronizing with local bookmarks has been an issue. More importantly I could not do anything about my browsing history.
Some people do not like this kind of information to be stored online - they prefer it to be local and private. Personally I don't have an issue with that, and I do want this information to be less and less dependent on my PC(s).
Weave has made it easy. I signed up at services.mozilla.com and downloaded Weave (I have been running Firefox 3 Beta since it came out). In a few easy steps Firefox/Weave backed up my history and bookmarks to the Weave server. So from now on no matter where I am I can access my bookmarks, as well as history, within local look-and-feel of Firefox. That works for me!
By the way, happy birthday to me :-)
Ok... After catching up with the news of the past three weeks, I'm almost back to "normal" (as a good friend says, "whatever that is")!
Online storage market shows more positive signs: Box.net raises $6M series B.
More good things happening at Automattic (Wordpress): They raised $29.5M series B. More importantly, on the list of investors you can see The New York Times - a tier one content producer.
Noca. Very interesting. If they have the muscle to pull off what they claim - bypassing the credit card processing fees all together - Noca will be one of those rare, one-of-a-kind game changers that surface every once in a long while.
Online storage market shows more positive signs: Box.net raises $6M series B.
More good things happening at Automattic (Wordpress): They raised $29.5M series B. More importantly, on the list of investors you can see The New York Times - a tier one content producer.
Noca. Very interesting. If they have the muscle to pull off what they claim - bypassing the credit card processing fees all together - Noca will be one of those rare, one-of-a-kind game changers that surface every once in a long while.
Sun bought MySQL for $1B, Oracle - after all the fuss - bought BAE for $8.5B, Apple announced MacBook Air.
Bobby Fischer - the chessmaster - is dead, and Netscape - the first browser (well, technically speaking Mosaic was the first one), will not be supported anymore, AOL is dropping it.
Yahoo! seems to be laying off people, which Slide got a valuation of around half a Billion.
Wordpress increased the free storage size it gives each blogger to 3GB - that's from 50MB.
Top moving or sinking sites of 2007 from Compete
And WB has announced that it would support Blu-ray exclusively, so the war - just like VHS vs Betamax - has started to shake out...
Bobby Fischer - the chessmaster - is dead, and Netscape - the first browser (well, technically speaking Mosaic was the first one), will not be supported anymore, AOL is dropping it.
Yahoo! seems to be laying off people, which Slide got a valuation of around half a Billion.
Wordpress increased the free storage size it gives each blogger to 3GB - that's from 50MB.
Top moving or sinking sites of 2007 from Compete
And WB has announced that it would support Blu-ray exclusively, so the war - just like VHS vs Betamax - has started to shake out...
Ok... I'm back from a long vacation - very cold weather, snow, and virtually no Internet access (which was really good!) - and now I have to spend a few hours to see what's new in the industry...
