Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz left a pretty good gig at Facebook two years ago to start his own company, Asana. After two years under wraps, TechCrunch finally got the big reveal yesterday. The response? Moskovitz didn’t leave Facebook for naught–Asana could actually be a huge hit.
The startup’s premise is that people need a …
Napster. KaZaA. LimeWire. All three of these existed in the glory days of illegal music pirating. But new research shows that the good ‘ol days of copping the latest Britney tracks from someone’s library are as good as over.
A P2P file-sharing study (PDF) conducted by Envisional shows that out of all the media we share (illegally) on …
Olympian Michael Phelps likes coming in first. And come June, he’ll release the first realistic swimming video game, “Push the Limit.”
The game uses a Kinect hands-free control sensor for Xbox360 in place of a pool, and players must use proper technique to make a variety of stroke motions while standing up in order to propel their …
“What do you want to eat?”
It’s one of the most common questions we ask every day. But while the foodie media answers this on television, on the web and in blogs, the ever-growing world of social media has yet to tap in to foodie market.
Enter Foodily, a sleek and comprehensive recipe and ingredient search engine with impressive …
The past month has brought a bunch of new features and improvements to Google Docs, and yesterday, the Internet giant rolled out yet another when it announced that it is giving a “refresh” to its documents list.
The “refresh” aims to make the Docs page easier to organize and navigate, and this is accomplished in a few different ways. …
In honor of UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day tomorrow, Google is partnering with Jerusalem-based Holocaust museum Yad Vashem in bringing 130,000 photos and documents to the Internet, where they will be organized and stored in Google’s cloud.
The search engine giant has been working for three years with the museum to index …
After a failed attempt at social networking in September, Netflix announced yesterday in a quarterly earnings report that it will once again try going social.
The report stated that the company is working on an “extensive Facebook integration.” While Netflix won’t say exactly what that means, we’re guessing it will allow users to do …
Gone are the days when spreading the word about a new band meant handing out homemade CDs. With the growing importance of social media marketing in the music world, bln.kr wants to help emerging and amateur bands share their tracks and manage their social media profiles.
Think of bln.kr as the musical cousin of link shortener bit.ly …
Look out, Twitter, it looks like the folks at VS Technologies are after you.
The small company alleges that the micro-blogging site is infringing on patent 6,408,309, which discloses “a method and system for creating an interactive virtual community of famous people.”
Hold on–Twitter is a virtual community of famous people? Now, …
Look out, Angry Birds, there’s a new addictive app in town. But it wasn’t made by another app developing company–Bubble Ball was designed by fourteen-year-old Robert Nay, with only a little help from mom.
Bubble Ball is a classic physics game that requires players to place metal and wooden planks strategically so that when a ball is …
Intuit’s mobile payment service, GoPayment, which allows users to accept credit card payments on their smart phones, is trying to swipe its way back into the spotlight this week by going “freemium.”
GoPayment is a downloadable mobile app that works in conjunction with a credit card reader to allow small businesses to accept credit …
If you thought Windows ’95 was archaic, think again. And if you’ve ever wondered how our phones got so smart or how the Internet works, you’re in luck.
The Computer History Museum opened an exhibit this week titled “Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing“, which covers everything from the abacus to the iPhone to robots to the …
