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Would you like to talk to your Twitter friends or set up a spontaneous conference call? Normally you’d have to agree to hook up over Skype or something else. But soon you could be making calls via Twitter.
Phweet is a new service which does just this (thanks to Pat Phelan of MaxRoam and Twitterfone for […]

TripHub, a Seattle-based group oriented travel site, has closed its doors. We originally covered the company’s beta launch in September 2006, when we described it as a good way to help compile and centralize information for a group trip, but questioned if it was viable as a standalone business, especially against other players in […]

After hinting that it would do so last June, Google’s mobile team has released a Geolocation API for Google Gears. This works both on mobile phones and laptops running Gears, but developers will find it most useful for mobile applications. Unfortunately, they will be limited in that regard because Google Gears Mobile still […]

If you were to start a company from scratch to take on Craigslist today, what would you do different?  And no matter what you do, would it make a difference? A stealth company called iList thinks it has an answer: make selling your crap more of a social app.
Other than that general idea, […]

Zoho is pulling together its three main Webtop productivity products (Zoho Write, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show) into a central destination: Zoho Share. Just as Microsoft bundles its corresponding desktop products into its Office suite, bundling makes sense on the Web as well. Zoho already does this with Zoho Apps, as does Google which […]

When Seattle-based voice to text service Jott first went live in December 2006 I wrote: “It’s very simple - a user calls a specific phone number and leaves a voice message along with a recipient or recipients (an obvious use for Jott will be for people to leave themselves quick notes). The voice message will […]

SocialMedian founder Jason Goldberg wrote a Twitter message moments ago letting people know that they are raising a new round of funding, up to $500k, and to contact him if you’re interested. Great way to get investors, right? Exactly not - the whole purpose of the Securities Act of 1933 is to prohibit public offerings […]

MobileCrunch has a fairly detailed look at the new Android emulator. We go through all the current apps—the phone, the browser, Google Maps—and even crash the OS a few times for good measure.
Android adopts a traditional desktop user interface, letting you drag icons around that launch different apps, as well as look at […]

The vast majority of entrepreneurs I’ve spoken with who’ve been funded by seed stage VC/incubator Y Combinator are happy that they took the investment. And the ones that applied but weren’t selected generally have nothing bad to say, either.
So I continue to be surprised to see journalists write stories that suggest that the deal […]

Over the past few days the media has been buzzing about a trio of men who claim to have found Bigfoot - or Bigfeet to be specific - the men say that they’ve actually found a small tribe of the creatures. Today, they held a press conference in Palo Alto where they described their […]