Blogging networks, Teens in Tech and Blogger Network have both united as announced today. Both networks are dedicated to letting the youth share ideas, as Teens in Tech lets them create blogs while Youth Blogger Network provides a sharing platform for ideas. Both the networks are run by teenagers themselves, with Teens in Tech run by Daniel Brusilovsky, 16 and Youth Blogger Network by Patrick DeVivo, who is 15. The idea is to help teenagers make YBN a leading social network amongst their age group. The partnership sounds nice, given the idea behind is to have a network dedicated to the youth. Let’s see where this heads up at in due time.
Archive for March, 2009
Online humor site, CollegeHumor acquired SportsPickle for an undisclosed amount. Since both sites have a common target; a younger male audience, the stitch is going to prove good for both. SportsPickle is a sports humor and satire site and the buyout is contrary to IAC’s current actions of selling off its properties. Perhaps the CollegeHumor idea is striking success and IAC is keen at expanding it further.
You might end up asking people about the coolest place in town, if you are new there or even inquire your friends in other towns for the same. Where’s Cool is the latest addition to the community powered site that lets you make most of your travels. How? The site lets others review the top places in the city or town. Be it a hotel, a shop or a club, there’s always a word on places that are worth spending time on.
You like rating movies, sharing reviews, etc then The Great Movie Experiment might be of some interest for you. A touch similar to IMDB, it lets you vote for movies you have watched as it displays two at a time. It basically lets you rate movies head to head, meaning you get to choose the best of the two displayed. If you haven’t watched the movie simply right click and it will display another one. If you have watched a movie and feel like voting it just choose from the options below the picture or add a comment by clicking on read more from the description. Really not something that engaging but proves worth the time you spend on it. If you are on the lookout on knowing about a flick without making much efforts, do pay this one a visit.
If you are a foreign language enthusiast and love using any means to learn a new language that italki might be of interest for you. It’s a new feature from Language Teacher Marketplace that lets you discover new learning partners and teachers. This is just a touch different as it lets teachers register themselves to teach a community of over 400,000 learners. Those who register to teach a language can set their own rates and get paid through italki’s payment system.
Mobile are seeing a peak in usage when it comes to surfing the web with the iPhone leading the market. It currently accounts for 50% of all the web traffic coming from smartphones. It has taken the bite off Windows Mobile and RIM share as it accounted for a mere 10% in the August 2008 statistics. The Android based HTC G1has already grown to a 5% share, not discouraging at all given the fact that it has only been in working for a little over three months. Those stats are for the US market alone, as Symbian OS based mobiles continue to reign the international market with a 43% although it has taken a dip from 64%.
Redpoint Ventures has hired three experienced executives in its team. The new members are Satish Dharmaraj, co-founder of Zimbra, Nety Krishna and Pueo Keffer. Keffer will head as VP of Redpoint’s growth equity fund while Krishna and Satish joined in as partners. Krishna will also be the CTO of energy, materials and environment practice.


