The Fire Hose
This section shares a short list of some of our favorite news and information sites. Click on the links below and read for yourself.
» http://techcrunch.com
- hi5 CTO: Zynga Is Mediocre. It Isn’t Social, It Just Discovered An Opening For Spam
- Technical Glitch Leaks Special SXSW Foursquare Badges Early
- Blippy Gets A Facebook-Inspired Redesign And An Important New Privacy Feature
- Google Gains, Apple Stays Steady, And Palm Loses In Smartphone Share
- Redbeacon Fine Tunes Service, Goes Social, Continues To Be Awesome
- Facebook Is Testing Using Foursquare And Gowalla Check-Ins For Its Location Launch
- Ask FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski About The Internet On YouTube
- GDC: OnLive’s Cloud-Powered Gaming Service To Launch June 17
- UpNext: Three New Cities, Glowing Foursquare Checkins, And CityGrid Listings
- Calling All Designers: Weebly Gives Users More Variety With New Theme Community
» http://www.mobilemarketer.com/
- Miller Lite uses mobile to court basketball fans during March Madness
- Hoover’s new app gives business professionals company access
- Webinar: IHOP Restaurants: Mobile Marketing for Retailers
- Daily News goes for cross-platform approach as part of mobile strategy
- NFL teams up with Verizon for mobile content distribution
- Columbia Sportswear outlines mobile commerce strategy - Mobile Commerce Daily
- Pearson caters to IT professionals with flash card app
- ULocate launches hyper-local LBS mobile ad network
» http://www.moconews.net
- FCC Former Chairman Says Concerns For Open Access Persist
- YouTube Brings Ads To Its Mobile Site
- Beet.tv Roundtable: Adobe, Brightcove - HTML5's No Flash Beater, But We'll Support It Anyway
- How One Mobile Developer Created Its Own Local Ad Network To Boost Fill Rates
- Video @ paidContent 2010: How To Make Money From Digital News
- T-Mobile USA Says They Ditched Yahoo For Google Because Consumers Demanded It
- mocoNews Quick Hits 03.09.2010
- Here Comes Facebook's Move Into Location Sharing ...
- Verizon Wireless Steals Play From Sprint: Signs $720 Million Deal With NFL
- Mobile Ad Net Todacell Raises Additional $1 Million For Global Expansion
» http://www.gigaom.com
- Why Apple Should Buy Adobe
- Thing Labs Acquires Birdfeed, Wikirank to Add to Brizzly
- The Power of MiFi in the Tablet Era
- Get Satisfaction Now Customer Support Tool for Brands Using Facebook, Google
- The Disconnect Between Subscriber Growth and Revenues in Broadband and Mobile
- Hal Varian Is Right: Newspapers Need to Engage
- Google Maps Adds Biking Directions
- Google Apps Makes Itself a Platform for Outside Apps
- Video: Google & Its Grand Ambitions
- A Belated New Year’s Resolution: No Walled Gardens!
» http://www.venturebeat.com
- Redbeacon socializes local service listings
- Investors look beyond games to the ‘game-ification’ of life
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 announces Stimulus Package for Xbox Live
- Bing creeps upward again in search share
- OnLive sets launch date for June, names subscription price and supporting game publishers
- Social network hi5 launches program to court game developers
- Site creation startup Weebly opens up to user-designed themes
- Get Satisfaction brings more satisfaction to Facebook Fan Pages
- Brizzly acquires WikiRank, launches wiki-style guide to trending topics
- Google launches advertising on YouTube mobile sites
» http://www.fiercewireless.com/
- Profiling the world's top 10 handset makers
- LG unleashes Android on home market
- Verizon lauds FCC's public-safety plan--with a big caveat
- FCC's broadband plan faces major hurdles
- Rumor Mill: Verizon seizing on iPad launch as an opportunity
- Smartphones are booming, but is there room for all the players?
- YouGov survey gives Verizon top marks
- FCC considering spectrum for free wireless broadband
- Leap trimming jobs and closing stores
- Dell'Oro: Infrastructure market down 13% in Q4