Posted by on under fashi, interesting products, favorite news, free adobe, technology food, startups, news sites, techcrunch, prominence, news sources, news story, aggregator, subject matter, wine | 
While RSS may be
slowly dying, startups are still building interesting products around the stale technology. Launched at
TechCrunch 50's DemoPit,
Fresh Sliced News is a free Adobe Air powered-desktop application that lets you to build a personalized newspaper from your favorite news sources on the web. Once you've downloaded the app, you can create personalized sections on the app such as "Technology," "Food," "Fashion." Within each section Fresh Sliced News lets you pull in the RSS feeds of 140 news sites and blogs. You can also add other RSS feeds manually if you have the feed's URL. Content is automatically added to the app and items are given more visual prominence corresponding to their importance, which is determined two criteria— the level of engagement a news story is receiving on the internet (gauged by
PostRank's technology) and the interests a user has demonstrated in the subject matter of the news on the application. So if I tend to read more news about wine in my "food" section, the articles about wine will be more prominent within the app.
TechCrunch50 Conference 2009: September 14-15, 2009, San Francisco
Tagi: fashi, interesting products, favorite news, free adobe, technology food, startups, news sites, techcrunch, prominence, news sources, news story, aggregator, subject matter, wine
Posted by on under y combinator, evan williams, s paul, startups, twitter, yc, big picture, founders, priority |
This past weekend, Twitter co-founders
Evan Williams and
Biz Stone spoke
at Startup School. Before they took the stage, they met up with
Y Combinator's Paul Graham and came up with a great idea: A deal to ensure that Y Combinator startups working on Twitter-related projects have priority access to the tweet stream, as well as access to Twitter's team. The idea led Graham to
delay the application deadline for YC Winter 2010 startups for two days, so they could release two new Requests For Startups (RFS),
YC's recently announced program that gives applicants basic big picture ideas from which to form startups around. One of these new RFSes is obviously to build something on top of Twitter. Here's the
description:
Tagi: y combinator, evan williams, s paul, startups, twitter, yc, big picture, founders, priority
Posted by on under amaz, amazon, holiday vacation, compas, startups, bad news, images |
Looks like Amazon has decided to go on holiday vacation early, and invited all of its customers to go along with it. Amazon and Amazon Web Services seem to be down, and people are
noticing it. This is bad news for any companies relying on Amazon's cloud services. Many startups use Amazon Web Services to host files in the cloud including images and other key content. And it isn't the
first time this has happened (though its competition isn't
much better).
Tagi: amaz, amazon, holiday vacation, compas, startups, bad news, images
Posted by on under start ups, social networking, huddle, startups, apps, ups, beta, microsoft |
Microsoft invited seven start-ups to come to its campus and build a social networking app on top of the still-in-beta SharePoint 2010. The startups had a mere week. The winner was Huddle. But all the apps were interesting.
Tagi: start ups, social networking, huddle, startups, apps, ups, beta, microsoft
Posted by on under nokia ventures, serial entrepreneur, public beta, htt, tero, startups, itunes, co founder, milli, 5 million, vc, ceo, nokia |
Last year we
wrote about
dazzboard, the public beta of a browser-based media manager that claims to have all the features of iTunes without locking you down to Apple's warm but sometimes stiflingly closed world. The product from Finnish startup
Linkotec has now received $1.5 million in seed funding to boost growth and expand globally. The investment round was led by HTT Sixgen (a Finnish, family owned, VC) and was followed by additional funding from another Finnish VC, Veraventure. As with so many Finnish startups, there is usually an ex-Nokia person hovering around somewhere. In this case it's former Nokia Ventures head Timo Teimonen is joining the board. It's also adding Mats Therman, partner at HTT Sixgen, and Tero Salonen, a serial entrepreneur and CEO and co-founder of Dazzboard.
Tagi: nokia ventures, serial entrepreneur, public beta, htt, tero, startups, itunes, co founder, milli, 5 million, vc, ceo, nokia
