Skype (previous profile) released a new beta version – 1.4.0.45 – of their client today. There are a bunch of new features (all are listed below), but there is one that really interesting
Company: Writely Launched: August 2005 Location: California Overview: Imagine Word, but as an ajax browser application that was free. And allowed tagging of documents. And you could set reader permiss
The Onion reports today (yeah, the Onion :-)) that Google will soon be launching “Google Purge”. Google Purge will, apparently, be an effort to destroy all information that Google is other
Company: Ojos Launched: Pre-Alpha Status: Angels include Peter Rip and John Malley Location: Palo Alto Overview Ojos hasn’t launched yet, and may even change it’s name. But a bit of buzz h
Company: Gahbunga Launched: August 29 2005 Status: Weblogs Work Company Location: Dallas, TX Gahbunga launched today. It was created by the guys at Weblogs Work (profile) and is at least as interestin
Company: Attensa Launched: June 2005 Employees: 8 Status: Funded by SmartForest Ventures and 2nd Avenue Partners Location: Portland, OR Overview Attensa is a world class RSS reader that is attacking t
Pandora just stopped playing music. I went to their site and saw this message: We apologize for the inconvenience… After a successful preview period, Pandora will be open to the public starting
Web 2.0 This Week August 21 – 27 I spent most of this week in Palo Alto working on Archimedes Ventures projects. I was able to post about most of the companies I met at Bar Camp (with one notabl
Sometimes blog (and any other) writing day after day is hard. The creative juices stop flowing. You have something interesting to talk about, but the words just don’t flow. Tris Hussey reads (re
Weblogs Work, based in Dallas, Texas, is a web 2.0 consultancy, incubator and overall cool group of people. I’m finding that I spend more and more time talking with these guys about new ideas, a
Company: Raw Sugar Launched: June 2005 Location: Palo Alto, CA Overview Raw Sugar is somewhat similar to Rollyo, which we profiled yesterday. Raw Sugar basically combines del.icio.us type social bookm
Company: Rollyo Launched: in private beta Location: San Francisco Note: Due to a misunderstanding, I posted a profile of Rollyo while the company was in private beta and did not want any publicity (th
Seth Godin is my favorite business writer right now. In fact, as I look around, my desk is littered with copies of his books – Purple Cow (my favorite), All Marketers are Liars, and Unleashing t
Company: Flock Launched: in private beta Status: Funded/Incubated by Bessemer Venture Partners Location: Palo Alto Overview Flock is a new browser, built on top of firefox. It is a functional browser
Pandora‘s founder, Tim Westergren, sent an email out to all beta testers announcing that Pandora will go live next week, and extending the free trial period for beta testers to September 28. Pan
Company: Kahuna (Hotmail Ajax Beta) Status: in private beta Location: Mountain View, CA Previous Profile: August 16, 2005 Kahuna – Extreme Marketing I am a little bit annoyed right now. Sometime
There’s been blog chatter all day about Google Talk. I didn’t write about it because I couldn’t use it (it hadn’t launched yet) and I certainly wasn’t “breakingR
We just heard about a new online calendar application called Hula that’s ajax-based. It hasn’t launched and we can’t find the website for it, but some bloggers are linking to a coupl
I just heard a very juicy rumor (some stuff already on Technorati about this) that Adaptive Path is coming out with a very cool new Ajax application called Measure Map. The site is taking registration
Company: The Personal Bee Blog: Here Launched: Unknown. Presented at Bar Camp Location: Menlo Park, CA There’s something I’ve been griping about for a long time (most recently to Adam Mars
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