Subscription Manager MediaPass Raises $1.75M
It’s no secret that publishers are scrambling to find ways of making money online. On the subscription/paywall side, a startup called MediaPass wants to help, and it just raised $1.75 million in Ser...
Data Scraping Comes of Age With ScraperWiki.com
A scrappy company to help journalists dig into Big Data has come into its own in the past year, including the requisite all-night hacking codeathon this week at the Investigative Reporters and Editors...
HootSuite Now Ties in Digg, InboxQ and Trendspottr
Fresh off reaching 3 million users in January, social media management dashboard HootSuite is adding three apps to its App Directory and releasing its Engagement API.
Users can now integrate Digg, ...
Yahoo Term Extraction is Reborn as Content Analysis
The new Yahoo Content Analysis API capitalizes on the success of its term extraction API while adding new functionality. The reborn implementation not only extracts terms and entities but ranks them b...
I'm Jealous of WordPress for Android 2.0
WordPress has released version 2.0 of its Android app for mobile blogging, and as a WordPress for iOS user, I am jealous. The new app launches with a screen that covers just about every first action a...
Top 10 Feed & RSS Technologies of 2011
News and activity feeds are more alive today than ever before, even as engagement with their simplest format, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), appears to be waning. What were the Top 10 Most Awesome ...
Coffee & Power: Work For Each Other, Not The Man
The latest invention from Second Life founder Philip Rosedale launches today, and it's no virtual world. Coffee & Power is an online marketplace that lets people buy and sell small jobs from each ...
