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Many years ago, we had desktop operating systems. The ones that succeeded were the ones that were able to develop an ecosystem of applications and developers around them. That worked very well for a long time. Then along came the web, and as the web has matured, the platform that developers build [...]

From Jeff Barr’s Twitter Stream, I found out about The Start-Up Project. The Start-Up Project is a set of half-day events that Amazon is hosting in several cities to showcase how the suite of web services that the company offers can help get companies get off the ground.

I have blogged frequently about Lijit on my life science blog. Lijit is a Colorado based company and recently raised a round of funding. Recently I got a chance to meet Stan James, the CTO of Lijit, and Andy Stanberry, the UI guru at the company, at Gnomedex where we got a chance [...]

When Jason Calacanis took hold of Netscape, he tried to rope in top users of Digg by offering them paycheck for jumping over to Netscape. This time, with Mahalo, he is not doing anything blatant. He is trying to woo users by offering them a Mahalo browser sidebar, where the users can compare their search [...]

Can you create a fully functioning startup in 54 hours? Adam Rubenstein was one of those who got to participate in Startup Weekend, an event that aimed to do just that. What was startup weekend all about? From Adam’s post

I am not sure how popular SlideShare is, but I find it extremely useful. It is a great resource for some great (and some terrible) presentations, has a cool interface and puts social features around it. The Facebook app is also quite nice. Via Webyantra comes the news of SlideShare’s advisory [...]

First things first. I dislike MySpace immensely. Not the concept, but the site. I survived there for a grand total of two weeks and then canceled my account. Facebook on the other hand is a different matter. I signed up to Facebook quite serendipitously at the same time that [...]

Apatar, Inc. has been selected by Red Herring Magazine to present and officially launch the company today at the Red Herring East Conference, in Boston, MA. Ten CEOs are invited onstage to present their companies and business plans to an audience of 400 technology executives, CEOs, venture capitalists, and business leaders. Apatar’s founder and CEO [...]

As recently as six months ago, I barely consumed any internet video, with the exception of tech talks on Google Video. What a difference six months makes. Today I watch at least some video every day, usually news sites like Beet.tv or some form of science/technology discussion (most of which I capture via [...]

Thanks to Ryan Stewart, I got an invite to the long rumored Kevin Rose startup, called Pownce. I have been playing around with it for some time and it is pretty interesting. As per their claim, you can send stuff with Pownce. You could pass on a quick note to your friend or share photos, [...]