Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 21 at 7:00 am PT
Videogames are fast becoming one of the most popular categories that are able to attract start-up capital from everyday people.
Liz Gannes in News on May 7 at 3:00 pm PT
CrowdFlower, the crowdsourcing platform, is striking out in a new direction under the leadership of co-founder Lukas Biewald, who recently took back the CEO role from a hired executive.
Hollywood will be destroyed and no one will notice. Collaborative storytelling and filmmaking will do to Hollywood what Wikipedia did to Encyclopedia Britannica.
– From Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’s keynote address at the Internet Society’s INET convention in Geneva
Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 27, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
Ever thought that translation on the Web could be better? You’re not alone. Smartling, a New York-based start-up, aims to break down the Web’s language barriers.
Kara Swisher in Social on June 29, 2011 at 1:48 pm PT
Apparently, there is no time lag anymore when it comes to telling the stories of epic fail on the Internet.
I got an email this afternoon from an anonymous Myspace employee who wrote about an interesting group writing effort on Google Docs called “Real Myspace Stories.”
Peter Kafka in Media on March 17, 2011 at 6:47 pm PT
About $10 million in funding, it turns out. From some pretty high-profile folks, too: Union Square Ventures, Betaworks and lots of angels you’ve heard of. For some reason, the company hasn’t talked about them before. But that’s over now, courtesy of a Wired profile.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 16, 2011 at 12:56 pm PT
For the first time, eBay is letting consumers dictate the contents of the next designer fashion collection that it will sell exclusively online.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 14, 2011 at 8:28 am PT
In addition, Costolo announced the company will offer crowdsourced translations of the service into Russian, Turkish and Indonesian. Also doing own translation to Portuguese later this year.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 28, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
For a certain kind of music fan, Nic Harcourt is a rock star. But the former radio DJ hasn’t had a full-time job picking and playing music in two years. So here’s his new gig: Picking and playing music videos for a new site.
