Yandex Launches ‘Yandex.AppSearch’ Mobile Apps Search Engine
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Yandex Launches ‘yandex.appsearch’ Mobile Apps Search Engine
Yandex, Russian search engine has launched a new beta feature to search for mobile apps dubbed "Yandex.AppSearch".
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
Vid.ly, Yet Another Video Hosting Service, Launches Today
Encoding.com has been around for the past several years, and they have yet another turnkey video encoding service called quick catchingly, Vid.ly. The product, which has been in beta since February, was announced today and so far has had more than five million video views already.
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The focus on the service is flexibility. They provide customizable output formats with variable bit rates to suit both mobile and desktop users, premium access to world-class content delivery networks, and a number of other features.
Many of their competitor video hosting sites use the Encoding.com site themselves for their needs, so the announcement is somewhat ironic. They fill the gap in between YouTube/Vimeo at the low and nearly free end and Brightcove/Kaltura at the higher end. Vid.ly is designed mostly for smaller video producers that don't want to spend a lot of money but also don't have lots of technical expertise.
The published pricing schedule is very complex and somewhat akin to Amazon's Web Services where the variables include the number of videos posted, their size and the number of views per month.
There is a free version, where you can upload one video at a time and get a shortened URL that you can use to link to it, similar to what YouTube et al. does. With Vid.ly Pro, you will have access to analytics (coming soon), ability to control output renditions, CDN choice (Akamai and CloudFront, with more coming later), their own APIs and player customization. Even with the free account, you have unlimited video source file size, unlike some of the other video hosting providers.
Vid.ly, Yet Another Video Hosting Service, Launches Today
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Friday, July 29, 2011
What’s New In Google+: A New “Feature Update” Center Launches
Google+ just added a "Feature Update", the new section in added is called "What's new in Google+" and acts as a release notes for any new features or tweaks that Google makes to the service. An interesting feature of the "What's new in Google+" page is that most of the posts include a video post [...]
What’s New In Google+: A New “Feature Update” Center Launches
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Facebook For Businesses Launches
Facebook for Businesses launched yesterday, July 26, provide business clear and concise directions for properly marketing on Facebook.
Facebook For Businesses Launches
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
StumbleUpon’s New ‘Explore Box’ Search Tool Launches in Opt-in Mode
StumbleUpon is currently testing a opt-in feature that seems to be aimed at helping user search and find web pages more easily.
StumbleUpon’s New ‘Explore Box’ Search Tool Launches in Opt-in Mode
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Google Offers Beta in New York City and the Bay Area Launches
On June 15, Google Offers beta was launhced in Portland, starting todya, Google begin offering the deals in the Big Apple and the Bay Area. Subscribers who sign up here, or via the new "Today's Offer" tab in Google Shopper 2.0 for Android will start receiving emails with local offers in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area today, announced Google.
Google Offers Beta in New York City and the Bay Area Launches
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Saturday, July 9, 2011
Comment on Netflix launches a new $7.99 DVD-by-mail plan by Kevin
Exactly. It's not up to Netflix to "just stream everything." Many rights holders are holding out on offering their property anywhere.
And to be honest, the last thing I would want Netflix to do is attempt to emulate Hulu with their horrible Hulu Plus Service.
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Friday, July 8, 2011
Comment on Netflix launches a new $7.99 DVD-by-mail plan by A S
While I agree that streaming licences are very expensive now and sometimes totally unavailable, I wouldn't say we should 'never' expect an all-streaming future. It's going to happen sooner or later. DVDs are going to be as passe as floppy disks.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Loopt Launches The Reverse Groupon
There's no shortage of Groupons and other daily deals available for places you've never been to, or probably don't want to go to.
How about trying to get custom group deals made for you and your friends -- at places you pick?
That's the idea behind Loopt's new "u-Deals" product, which it's rolling out first in the San Francisco Bay Area.
It's sort of the reverse Groupon.
The big idea: You come up with a deal, get your friends on board, and submit it to Loopt. They'll then try to get their sales team to get the merchant to give you the deal. If it works, you get the deal.
It's an interesting idea. Will it work?
People will have to be realistic about the size and value of the deal, otherwise it's a non-starter.
And better, more desirable merchants probably have no incentive to cut their prices, unless they can fill their shops up during slow times.
So there are lots of hurdles. But it's worth a shot.
Here's a video explaining how it works:
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
FT Launches HTML5 Web App (Free Access First Week)
The Financial Times has launched a HTML5 Web app that enables readers to access content across tablets and smartphones. In a thinly veiled jab at Apple, Financial Times CEO John Ridding comments:
FT Launches HTML5 Web App (Free Access First Week)
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FT Bypasses Apple’s iTunes, Launches HTML5 Web App (Free Access First Week)
The Financial Times would rather not have Apple take a 30 percent cut of in-app subscriptions for its iOS publications, and has launched a HTML5 Web app that enables readers to access content across tablets and smartphones.
As part of the Web app's debut, FT will provide free access during launch week.
FT acknowledges that the Web app has been initially optimized for the iPhone and the iPad, but says it will also be adapted for Android-based devices and the BlackBerry PlayBook.
FT Bypasses Apple’s iTunes, Launches HTML5 Web App (Free Access First Week)
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Google Offers Beta Launches in Portland, Oregon Tomorrow: D9 Conference
Today, at D9 Conference, Google's Eric Schmidt and VP of Commerce Stephanie Tilenius announced of launching "Google Offers" beta in Portland, Ore. tomorrow.
Google Offers Beta Launches in Portland, Oregon Tomorrow: D9 Conference
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Facebook Launches Its Groupon Killer
Facebook is launching its widely anticipated group buying service called Deals today, the Times says.
It was long believed that Facebook would do something like this, and it puts it in direct competition with Groupon and LivingSocial. Deals is launching in five test cities: Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego and San Francisco.
Here's what's special about Facebook Deals:
- While you'll be able to receive offers by email, they will mostly show up in your Facebook news feed. Most group buying services rely on email first to send deals, but Facebook won't.
- You'll be buying the deals with Facebook Credits. This is pretty huge, as it's the first time Facebook's payments system will be used to buy physical goods and services and not just virtual goods. A lot of people are wondering if/when Facebook will go directly after PayPal and offer an online payments service; if it's planning that, this is a good first step toward doing that.
- Facebook is partnering with other services like OpenTable. It will also rely on its own sales force to sell deals but it also partners with other companies that also have relationships with merchants, which is smart.
There are many questions here.
The first one is can Deals work? Group buying services rely on curation, with humans picking attractive deals, and huge salesforces and, more generally, a sales-driven culture. This is a far cry from the engineering-driven culture at Facebook (and Google, which is also working on its own group buying service), where they like that stuff to be done by computers as much as possible.
The second one is what will the impact be on the group buying market?
Groupon and LivingSocial are spending a ton on Facebook advertising to gain subscribers. Will they cut that off in retaliation or will they feel forced to still spend on Facebook ads? That in itself will be a test of the attractiveness of Facebook ads.
Second of all, Facebook is probably the biggest company in terms of userbase that's getting into group buying. Plenty of people think Groupon can't possibly end up being that huge because group buying is a business with such low barriers to entry. Groupon bulls, including us, respond that, actually, building a huge sales and service infrastructure is very hard and that it's a significant barrier to entry, similar to how anyone can start selling stuff online, but becoming Amazon is very hard.
Will Facebook prove the bulls wrong? If so that might have a huge impact on Groupon and LivingSocial not just from lost marketshare but also from establishing that group buying is really a "feature" that most media sites can replicate and not a "company." That might make the difference between Groupon being worth $5 billion and $50 billion. Conversely, if Facebook gives it its best shot and fails, that will be huge for Groupon as it will show that it has, indeed, built a huge, defensible asset.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Slashgeo: Google Launches Earth Builder For The Cloud
From cnet news:
On Wednesday, Google announced a new enterprise product called Google Earth Builder, which it says will help businesses process and handle geographic data so that they don't have to do it on their own servers.
Slashgeo: Google Launches Earth Builder For The Cloud
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
Comment on Sprint Launches Green Android Phone by ask
I consider the solar panel on the back a pure gimmic. If it's a silicon based panel then it will probably never generate enough energy to offset the production energy usage. Leaving the cell phone in the sun might charge the battery, whilst at the same time killing it (LiIon batteries prefer temperatures <25deg C).
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Comment on Sprint Launches Green Android Phone by Gadgets
Great design I like that numberpad on the top also, It would be handy for productivity.
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Monday, April 11, 2011
Amazon Launches Ad-Supported Kindle For $25 Cheaper (AMZN)
Amazon has found a new way to make its Kindle e-book reader even cheaper: It will start shipping a new edition next month that is supported by advertising.
The new Kindle with Special Offers will sell for $114, or $25 cheaper than the $139 Kindle, and will ship on May 3.
The ads and special offers will show up as full-screen screensavers on the Kindle device and as small banner ads at the bottom of the Kindle home screen.
Existing Kindle owners will not see any ads, and Amazon will continue to sell ad-free Kindles. This program is starting from scratch, only on this new, cheaper Kindle device. So advertisers will be buying a market of zero devices right now.
Luckily, Amazon itself can seed the device with offers for its own products and services. (Some potential deals Amazon suggests could include 50% off Amazon gift cards, $1 Amazon MP3 albums, etc.)
And as Russ Grandinetti, Amazon's VP of Kindle Content, told us this afternoon, Amazon has seen Kindle sales continue to rise as it has made the cost of the device cheaper. And Amazon has big hopes that this cheaper device will sell very well, creating a large potential market of ad viewers.
The company is also working on an app called "AdMash," which will allow Kindle owners to vote on which ads they prefer. (Sort of like Mark Zuckerberg's original web project, "Facemash.")
Will people opt for this slightly-cheaper Kindle in exchange for a lifetime of ads? Will Amazon eventually be able to sell enough ads and deliver enough impressions to make the subsidy more than $25? (About 2,500 impressions per device at a $10 eCPM, or effective cost per 1,000 impressions.) Will an ad-supported 3G Kindle ever exist? We'll see.
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Amazon Launches Ad-Supported Kindle For $25 Cheaper (AMZN)
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