eBay has published a press release regarding the retail sales stats on Black Friday without going into details about the sales volumes or earnings made during this time. This absolute lack of information has been taken as a clue that sales were not up to the mark.
Archive for December, 2008
News postings in the blogosphere almost halved during the Thanks Giving weekend, according to Louis Gray’s RSS Feed stats. Louis reads around 400 feeds so we could safely say that the data is fairly balanced and could be termed as authentic. In a typical week Louis gets around 1600 items in a two day set of Thursday and Friday, but on this Thanks Giving Friday it almost dropped by 50% to 700 items.
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The social networking behemoth is again facing issues with its member notification service and this time it’s worse.
As a service, Facebook lets members turn on email notifications, when anyone adds you as a friend, or tag’s your photos or even invites you to event. But here is response I got from facebook.
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Taking offline browsing to the next level for your RSS feeds, Scoop, an Adobe AIR based RIA, allows you to not only read your feeds but have them remain synced to your Google Reader account. (That’s something innovative!!!)
The UI is pretty much clean and easy to use and as far as Removing and tagging items in Scoop in concerned, it automatically sync’s it down with your Reader account as well and also keeps track of multiple Google Reader accounts simultaneously.
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Everybody is mobile today and most of us have digital gadgets such as Smartphone’s and laptops, but if travelling on a long journey, battery life for these gadgets is a major issue for us.
Worry not, Pixel Qi, a company founded by OLPC’s ex-CTO, is not only targeting a $75 laptop for poverty struck nations as well as for consumers especially of the 3rd world, but focusing on enabling battery life for these laptops of about 20-40 hours. Yup you heard me right 20-40 hours.
How? It’s all about the screen. Now with the flip of a switch, the color LCD can switch to one that’s monochrome and highly reflective, making it easy to use outside and even more energy efficient.
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Techvibes reports that, VOIP startup EQO would finally be posting the sign; “Road Ahead Closed” in response to the financial crunch. Two months ago, EQO CEO Bill Tam had been optimistic that the company may head towards profitability when he announced 65% job cuts earlier.
Even after raising $13 million the startup wasn’t able to survive and we could see this as a sure sign that the party is over: as information about the management team has been removed from EQO’s About Us page.
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Being Open and connected is the norm today. Services like Open-ID, Facebook Connect etc are trying to bring upon users to a single sign in platform for the social web. And today we see that how Facebook’s own platform is ready to expand the user base of the the social networking leader.
Launched in May FB connect enables users to share their profile data and authentication credentials to external Web sites, to share profile photos, names, photo albums, friends, groups, events, and other information The New York Times, highlight’s some of the expansion plans for Facebook Connect.
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