Beterz is a new social network that is dedicated to sports betting. The network offers users an active community where you can be ranked, have followers and share opinions. The concept works simply as it lets you bet on what team will qualify to the next level, be it football, tennis, cricket, etc. You are awarded BZ’s the currency used across the network and these can be exchanged for high valued prices. An interesting startup to bring all sports lovers and bettors at one place, giving them to learn tactics of the experts and apply them when they place their own bets.
Archive for July, 2009
The Digg bar has got everything going wrong for itself. The current change has sort of set a fire to the bar’s already poor reputation as it fails to send users directly to the article if you use Digg URL shortener, if you are not logged on to the service. What nonsense! Why would a user who doesn’t want to use Digg go for such a long route to read an article? The first impression, which is also very true is that Digg wants to make sure that every person who isn’t a diggy should become one. I am not a big fan of Digg and I am not using it to share articles. Kevin Rose on the other hand is all lost and didn’t knew why this has gone live and will most probably have it killed. Why? Because this is the cheapest way to get traffic.
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How do you feel when you find something that is legally yours missing? I will be angry, to put it simply and I bet many Kindle owners were too when they found George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm missing from their devices. Amazon deleted copies of those books from users’ Kindle library, it wasn’t any legal issue but simply that the publisher didn’t want to put those books as Kindle editions. However Amazon has made it clear that in future it will not resort to remotely deleting the copies on their own. This raises a question about ownership rights and how ownership varies between the two.
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Layoffs strike Sony as it waved goodbye to 41 of its employees, which makes around 5% of its workforce. The layoffs as usual have been made to cut down cost and improve operational efficiency. Sony had indicated that it would make major cuts in its workforce in its attempt at restructuring as profits continue to plunge. If that number makes one feel sad, save that till next year as Sony speeds up its plans to layoff more by next year.
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Earlier this month YouTube ended its support for the Internet Explorer 6 and today it appears Twitter users want the IE6 to exist no more. James Lynch initiated the Twitition and it has already gained quite a momentum. Lunch used Twibbon, a service that lets you put up small icon on your profile picture. Many have termed the IE6 to be the biggest hindrance to the development of the Web and while they might be right, the same had given Microsoft the majority it has in the browser market and if sites end support for the browser, that share may fall drastically.
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Firefox 3.5 was in open to attackers to try and run the arbitrary code on users computer. The vulnerability was due to a problem with the execution of JavaScript handling of code. The team has taken quite a jump with that and has introduced a fix for the bug with the release of Firefox 3.5.1. You don’t need to manually update to the latest fix as Firefox has auto updates enabled.
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Midway Games appears to have lady luck more than just being kind on it as Warner Bros. will pay $49 Million. The earlier price was set at $33 Million but the court had ruled that the price could be changed, which is exactly what has happened. Along with this, Warner Bros. will also have to shut down Chicago HQ of Midway , which means the obvious layoff of the 60 employees working there. The layoffs will also hit around 75 employees at its studio in Newcastle U.K. While the price fetched is quite high, given that Midway Games had gone bankrupt, but the 135 employees laid off will be busy searching for new jobs.
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Clikthrough has raised $1 Million in Series A round of funding for its analytics and interactive video. The funding came from Savan Kotecha, Nicky Byrne, Max Martin and Wayne Wilkins. The startup enables users to click hotspots on anything you see and shows information about the product. Apart from user are also shown how they make purchases rate objects and comment on each. Clikthrough transforms videos into online point s of sale making videos a way to tap in more revenue.
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