| Apple Confirms: Beatles Now Available in iTunes Yesterday, Apple teased visitors heading to its homepage at www.apple.com of a major announcement, coming this morning at 10 AM EST. "Tomorrow is just another day. That you'll never forget," the homepage text read. Initially, people were hoping that the news was related to the long-rumored "iTunes in the Cloud" service, which Apple has been... Continue Reading »    Top Trends of 2010: Social Shopping In 2010, we've seen the rise of so-called "social shopping" services. They rely heavily on technologies such as social networking, crowdsourcing and smart phone scanners. Here we present five of the main social shopping developments of 2010. This kicks off a series of posts that will be published over November and December, looking back... Continue Reading » New Startup Analyzes 100,000 Web Pages With a Snap of Your Fingers Machine processing of large quantities of unstructured text, to discover media mentions, relationships between entities and sentiment analysis need not be priced out of the range of the everyday web lover or small business. Tonight two Texas companies announced a collaboration that brings exactly that to market, at a disruptively low price. Web... Continue Reading » Google Launches Hotpot, A Recommendation Engine for Places Although there's much buzz about location-based technologies being able to help you check in "where you are," the far bigger problem when it comes to place is simply "where to go." Where's a decent nearby Mexican restaurant? What's the best local coffee shop? To help address that, Google has just released Hotpot, a recommendation engine for... Continue Reading » Legal Documents for Your Startup with Founder's Workbench The law firm Goodwin Procter has launched a new resource for entrepreneurs that will help them navigate some of the legal and organizational challenges that startups face. Called Founder's Workbench, the site includes a variety of free, self-service tools for generating basic legal documents. Documents that can be created include a Certificate... Continue Reading » Anonymous's DDoS Attacks May Make Headlines, But Do They Make a Difference? Over the past few days, we've watched a battle unfold between two Internet giants. No, not Google and Facebook. 4chan and Tumblr. Members of the two sites have come to blows, so to speak, over who "owns" Internet memes, and some on the 4chan message board called for "Operation Overlord" - a DDoS attack targeted against the microblogging site. ... Continue Reading » Enterprise Poll: Do You Use Cloud Storage? Today EMC announced its acquisition of scale-out NAS vendor Isilon Systems for $2.25 billion. According to EMC's announcement, the company will now be able to offer its customers a "complete storage infrastructure solution for managing 'Big Data' in private or public cloud environments." Storage companies are hot acquisition targets right now.... Continue Reading » Stressing Global Communication, Twitter Improves Tweet Translation Twitter has announced two improvements today that mark the expanding global popularity of the microblogging platform. Twitter has added new cities and countries to its Trending Topics locations and has improved the ability to see translations of Tweets within the detail pane. While Twitter tracks Trending Topics across the site, local trends are... Continue Reading » The Social Media Method for Diabetes Care Social media in the diabetes sphere is exploding, and patients are actually using online venues as one of their first lines of defense after diagnosis - and even years after their initial diagnosis. Logging online hours is becoming as important as getting in to see your endocrinologist these days. When I was diagnosed with diabetes, I spent two... Continue Reading » Watch the Web 2.0 Summit Live O'Reilly and TechWeb's Web 2.0 Summit, probably the biggest and most influential web technology event of the year from a business perspective, is about to start in San Francisco and for the first time - anyone can watch the speakers live on stage, for free. See the live video player embedded below and watch this space for coverage of the first... Continue Reading » Google Aims to Replace Credit Cards & More With the Addition of Near Field Communications to Android Google CEO Eric Schmidt just announced on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit that the next version of Android, code-named Ginger Bread, will include native support for what's called Near Field Communication, or NFC. NFC is a short-range, high-frequency wireless technology which lets devices, primarily mobile phones, communicate with other NFC devices in... Continue Reading » Facebook's "Not Email": Simpler, Stickier & Bound for Success This morning, Facebook announced its new messaging system. CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that the system was "not email" and not intended as the media-hyped "Gmail killer". Zuckerberg did say, however, that "this simpler type of messaging is going to be how people shift their communication." We got in touch with two people... Continue Reading » | 
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