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AOL is making across the board budget cuts on its blogging properties, we’re hearing from multiple sources. The cuts range up to 25% of each properties total budget, which falls mostly on personnel costs - bloggers are simply being told to take

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 04:06 PM

Apples App Store: The New Walled Garden

One reason startups and developers are so excited about the iPhone is because they can create richer mobile applications for it and it promises to become a more open platform than the carrier-controlled home decks on most other cell phones. But don&

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 02:57 PM

Open Web Foundation Officially Launches

This morning at that OSCON conference David Recordon of Six Apart will announce on stage the formation of the Open Web Foundation. The new foundation is about providing a home for the development and ratification of web-related standards efforts. The

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 12:30 PM

Prepping For Mobile Web Wars At MobileBeat

Today and tomorrow I am going totally mobile. And if you are in the Bay Area, so should you. It’s not too late to get tickets for MobileBeat, VentureBeat’s mobile conference that goes all day today. You can get a 10 percent discount on

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 12:25 PM

Payoneer Raises $8 million Series B From Greylock And Carmel

When Paypal competitor Payoneer has raised $8 million in a Series B financing from Greylock and Carmel ventures. That brings the total the company has raised to $14 million. (Greylock led the Series A). Payoneer’s advantage over Paypal in the

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 12:20 PM

The Real Video Twitter: 12seconds.tv (500 Alpha Invites)

Some people think that Seesmic is the video Twitter. They are wrong (even if they are investors in the companyMike). The real video Twitter is 12seconds.tv. On Twitter, you have 140 characters to make your point. On 12seconds.tv, you have, well,

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 10:58 AM

AdMob Makes Mobile Ads Suck Less. Will Give Away One Million Dollars Worth of Ads To iPhone App Developers.

On the iPhone, even the ads are cool. Mobile advertising network AdMob is launching a whole new set of customized ads for iPhone apps. As CEO Omar Hamoui explains in the video above, the ads are specifically designed for iPhone apps. Rather than th

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 09:31 AM

AddictingGames To Hold Awards Show For Casual Gaming

AddictingGames, a popular Flash game portal, has announced plans to hold a large-scale awards show pertaining to casual games. The show will take place in 2009, with a series of voting rounds conducted on the site that will allow AddictingGames̵

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 09:30 AM

Facebook Takes The Fast Lane To Boring

I agree with Sam Gustin when he says that yesterday’s Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco was in the end a snoozer, but not because CEO Mark Zuckerberg failed on stage. First of all, saying the event itself was sleep-inducing is jus

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 08:01 AM

Microsoft Rumbles, Rearms For Online War It Cant Win Without Yahoo

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dropped the ax today, and it landed on Kevin Johnson’s neck. Johnson, Microsoft’s soon-to-be ex-President of Platforms & Services, has been with Microsoft since 1992. He was in the unfortunate position of

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 06:04 AM