August 6, 2007 at 8:02 am · Filed under Business Tech, News, Uncategorized
Amazon is the sleeper of the second generation tech weapons race. Most conversations about buyouts and investment in the tech industry have Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! mentioned but you rarely hear much buzz around what Amazon is plotting.
‘undisclosed amount’ is how much they’re putting into Amie ST.
The news via VentureBeat is typical Amazon… “close to the vest’
We know music is social, and finding new music needs to be fun. Music discovery is best served by communication between people, so we reward fans when they recommend songs to their friends by giving them credit to buy more music. Whether you spend two minutes or two hours on Amie Street you are connected to a world of music lovers discovering new music together.
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We support our artists by giving them 70% of song sales and never taking ownership of their creative work. We want all artists on Amie Street to be successful and we believe that our unique marketplace will accomplish this goal to a degree never achieved before.
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August 4, 2007 at 9:38 am · Filed under News, Software
iPhone app news gets all the major press, and Gizmodo is hosting a rather popular (on Digg at least) story about the first Native Third-Party iPhone application. Check out the link to the post below for some YouTube video action.
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 Google Code is hosting the first third-party native application ever for the iPhone. A real full-fledged iPhone application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone home screen. Yes, this is not a Web 2.0 app but the real thing, as you can see in the picture and in the video demonstration after the jump.
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August 4, 2007 at 9:32 am · Filed under News, Privacy & Security
I found this story quite humorous when I read it first thing this morning. I can just picture some disgruntled IT guy working for Dateline getting the word out via IM to his uber geek friends.
Wired has the scoop along with photos of this reporter (although from the looks of it she was getting paparazzi level photo coverage on her way out)
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DefCon security on Friday warned attendees at the annual hacker conference that Dateline NBC may have sent a mole with a hidden camera to the event to capture hackers admitting to crimes. DefCon says it was tipped off by their own mole at Dateline who sent them a pic of the undercover journalist who DefCon employees identified as producer Michelle Madigan.
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DefCon, an annual underground hacking convention in Las Vegas, has a strict policy against filming conference attendees — TV media outlets are barred from sweeping a room with their cameras and also have to get permission from any individuals before capturing them on film. All journalists covering DefCon sign an agreement upon registering for the conference that outlines the rules, but the DefCon organizers say the mole apparently registered as a regular attendee, thereby bypassing the legal agreement.
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August 3, 2007 at 1:30 pm · Filed under Internet Applications, News
Looking at these screenshots it’s pretty obvious that Pulse shares a lot in common visually with the current social #2; Facebook. Why are these new social sites sticking to the Facebook playbook so closely?
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With Pulse (screenshots at bottom), each Plaxo user will be able to view their existing contact lists organized according to business, friends, family and other categories. It also includes a view of a stream of RSS feeds people whose contact information you already have in Plaxo.
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Pulse uses Plaxo’s existing method of sorting contacts into business, friends, family members and other categories. The company launched a calendar service in late June that we noted looked similar to the event management feature of Facebook.
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