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Microsoft PubCenter, Microsoft's competitor to Google's AdSense and Yahoo's Publisher Network, is being beta tested through ad network and layout optimization service, YieldBuild, and receiving positive results. We recently wrote about the encouraging reports we received from beta testers of PubCenter, which is a a self serve third party ad publishers platform similar to AdSense and Publisher Network.
YieldBuild is launching a new program for publishers which provides premium text ads to...
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Video tracking startup Visible Measures signed up MySpace as a customer to measure more deeply how consumers are watching and spreading videos from the site. MySpace is the Web's No. 2 video site, although it is still only one tenth the size of YouTube in terms of videos streamed. Visible Measures, which raised $10 million in March in a series C funding, also counts Viacom and MTV Networks as another big customer.
Like every other video site, MySpace is increasing the amount of...
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Producing and editing compelling video is only half the work involved in publishing video content to the web. Once finalized, video needs to be formatted and converted to the proper version, or transcoded, to adapt content to the proper format.
Startup HD Cloud, a video encoding and transcoding business, wants to become the ?the FedEx of web video? is offering automated, high-definition video encoding in the cloud for large-scale media firms. The SaaS allows video content owners to...
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As I wrote in my previous post about the PragueCrunch meetup, I was seriously impressed by what the people behind online language training service Learn10 are up to, so here's an update with more information on that. Bear in mind that Learn10 is an entirely bootstrapped operation, founded by a British couple that moved to the Czech Republic a couple of years ago and are running the business from their home.
Learn10 allows you to quickly pick up the basic vocabulary of a language by teaching...
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So StumbleUpon, a social bookmarking site that lets users browse and discover new websites by clicking a button, was a subsidiary of eBay for just less than two years. The acquisition made the startup's founders extremely wealthy, given that they raised just $1.5 million in venture capital, and sold for $75 million.
You'd think that the founders (Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith and Justin LeFrance) would be quite content to go into semi-hibernation at eBay and contemplate their vacation homes for...
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While a lot of people may mostly be using their iPhones to check the weather, the apps I use most frequently are the ones that connect to Twitter. Twitter's mobile web experience is pretty awful and SMS is a complete and utter rip-off. But luckily, several developers have made some simple, slick apps for using Twitter on the device. My current favorites are Tweetie (iTunes link) and Twitterfon (iTunes link). Both offer rich interfaces for doing a range of things such as checking updates,...
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As we approach the potential hour of power this June when Steve Jobs will come down from his mountain fortress bearing the new iPhone, this time with magnetometer and 3.2-megapixel camera or whatever, I keep wondering something: Will anyone buy it?
Under a decade ago it wasn't unusual for folks to buy the latest Nokia - one after the other - simply because of the feature set offered by each subsequent model. In about 2002 or so, you'd see folks jumping from the black and white screen to the...
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Command of the issues, cool confidence and disarming smile aside, Barack Obama might just owe his campaign’s success to his team’s ability to harness the technology at their fingertips. Social networking, broadband and data management all played huge roles in making the Obama campaign the most personalized presidential campaign ever. I learned just how big [...]
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Tropos Networks, the poster child of the MuniFi madness is trying to reinvent itself - this time as a GreenNet company, reports Earth2Tech, our sister site . The company is hoping to sell it wireless mesh routers to utilities looking to build smart grids. Tropos had initially partnered with Earthlink for building municipality wide wireless [...]
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Four months of discovery and hearsay later, the Android build that we've all been waiting for is nigh. Run inside, everyone - run inside and charge your G1s, for Cupcake (Firmware v1.5) is nearly upon us.
Google announced today the availability of an "early look" Android 1.5 SDK. This release seems like a mostly complete version of the final release, though Google warns that some of the APIs are bound to change.
