December 2008
7 posts
Joost should have been Boxee →
Both of these companies are right now having different kinds of momentum. Joost just killed their desktop application to refocus on a web only presence, while Boxee just closed a series A…
“For a moment, we hid our heads in the sand and thought this was the end, but...”
– Cynthia Sexton - VP EMI Music in NY Times
Why everyone on Orkut is Brazilian
superamit:
In the earliest days of Orkut (Google’s also-ran entry into social networking), the property managers featured a fun little widget at the top of the site: a country-counter, showing members’ geographical origins. Cute, right? Harmless, certainly. Google had no way of knowing, however, that the entire population of Brazil would make it a point of national pride to push their country to...
WatchOrganizing grassroots isn’t all about that embedded javascript widget or that Twitter account. It’s a bit more complex than that.
Tip via Twitter
betaworks:
News from Tipjoy, an example of some of the ideas behind simple, social and digital payments:
Tipjoy is happy to announce even tighter integration with Twitter. You can now initiate payments via twitter. For example, tweeting “p @ev $1 because twitter is fun” would send $1 from your Tipjoy account to @ev. ‘p’ is like ‘d’ but for payment, not direct messages - get it? This is an...