When Daniel Raffel emailed and asked if we’d be interested in publishing his list of favorite stuff from 2009 we quickly agreed. He has worked on some of the more interesting projects in Silicon Valley over the last couple of years, and has his finger on the pulse of new technology. His post is below
Microsoft’s new Bing search engine just can’t seem to stay out of the red light district, no matter how hard they try.
This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg . It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business
EchoSign, the web-based electronic signatures and signature automation service, has surpassed one million users.
Saving money is tough work, even when you’re working towards something you really want, like a new car or a vacation. First, there’s the business of actually finding someone to write you a paycheck each month, and then you have to look at that pile of cash sitting in your bank account, just begging to be spent on the latest DVD, book, or gadget that suits your fancy.
One thing I hated about being a corporate lawyer at Wilson Sonsini back in the day - we got to work on really cool deals (the last deal I worked on before leaving for a startup was the AOL/Netscape merger), but we were only brought in at the very end to paper everything.
Offerpal Media , an advertising platform concentrated on helping developers monetize social networks by offering virtual currency in exchange for participating in ‘offers’ like online surveys, has filed suit against Kickflip, the company behind the Gambit payment engine. As first reported in GigaOm , the suit alleges that Kickflip temporarily used Offerpal’s services for the purpose of stealing knowledge of how the service worked, which it then used to start a competitor.
Famous angel investor Ron Conway’s investment focus on real time startups earned him the moniker “ Real Time Ron ” by his close friends. But he’s certainly not the only venture capitalist out there focusing on this space. New York based betaworks , an incubator/VC, is also right in the thick of things.
By now you either are addicted to Spymaster , or absolutely can’t stand it. The viral Twitter-based game in which you do spy-like things such as “assassinate” your followers is a great time-waster .
High profile advertising network Federated Media’s Chief Revenue Officer Chas Edwards has resigned, we’ve confirmed, and will shortly be taking a job at Digg with the same title. Thomas Shin , who Digg stole from Yahoo earlier this year, will report to Edwards
