SixApart has launched Motion, a new software package that would allow you to have install a micro-blog on your site right off the shelf. So in another way its twitter in WordPress way i.e now you could that microblog of yours hosted on your own servers. Motion features a blog editor, has integration with services like Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter. In addition to this the software comes with off-the-shelf support for Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, and OpenID – so you wont have to ask users to register in order to comment on your site.
Archive for December, 2008
Stax Networks, a Seattle-based startup, has launched a Google like AppEngine for Java applications. The platform allows Java developers to create, test and deploy Java applications on Stax, which is built on top of Amazon EC 2 infrastructure. Stax is not charging developers at the moment, but you can expect them to provide premium model for developers in order to market and promote their services and products as the size of the services increase. The company has raised a venture round from Baseline Ventures in late 2007, which is rumored to be under $1 million.
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Wuala, a service the stores, shares and publishes files on the internet, has now released its API for developers to tap into Wuala platform. This would enable developers to create websites that use Wuala storage for desktop, web and mobile apps. Wuala is reporting 30 million stored files ever since its beta launch in August and is a strong competitor to NY based Drop.io.
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Disqus, the blog commenting service, has announced that they would be jumping on Facebook Connect ship before the end of this year. During the holiday season Disqus will enable all websites with Disqus-powered comments to easily integrate with Facebook Connect. Once the integration is done, commenters would be able to login using their facebooks ids and the comments would be posted to Facebook news feed as well.
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Sandeep Aggarwal, an analyst at Collins Stewart, is predicting that Microsoft will most certainly go on to either buy or insource search from Yahoo. According to Barrons:
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Twitter has been under a lot of pressure lately in order to come up with a business model, specially due to the worsening economy. But now the company has decided to hire a Product Manager, whose job would be to focus on revenue generation and play a pivotal role in defining the formulation of Twitter’s business model. According to a job posting on Jobscore, the job responsibilities for the person are:
- Define products and feature sets of commercial-oriented Twitter applications
- Manage the prioritization and development of new products and features
- Work closely with engineering to develop product functionality
- Work closely with customer support to solve issues and maximize user satisfaction
- Do customer research to inform product decisions
- Create detailed cost and revenue models
- Define product positioning and marketing plans
- Analyze and report product success
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Mozilla has already released Mobile version of Firefox on Windows Mobile and Linux, but now it has announced that the mobile version of Firefox would be available for Symbian – as early as April next year. However there have been no announcements about the release of the browser on BlackBerry, iPhone and Android. According to Christian Sejersen of Mozilla:
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Now you can make free phone calls using your browser with GizmoCall. The flash based application has been built by the same people who brought the VoIP app, Gizmo. All you need is a Gizmo account to make free calls to Gizmo users and 1-800 numbers for free. Users can also buy credits to make calls to the cell phones or landline as well. You can receive calls as well, as long as you are logged on to your account and embed the code to your page if you like to.
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BitTorrent seems to be in a jam lately – the recent news about the company returning most of its current-raised funding ( $17 million to be exact) and closing the round with $7 million instead, extends problems for it. Funds were reversed back to investors DAG Ventures, DCM and Accel Partners in exchange for the smaller figure.
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