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- Wiggio Adds Facebook Integration, Video Conferencing And More
- Amazon Clarifies What Can Go Down The Memory Hole
- An App Contest For San Francisco
- Confirmed: Delivery Agent Raises $25 Million For Entertainment Commerce Platform
| Wiggio Adds Facebook Integration, Video Conferencing And More | Top |
| Wiggio, the a communication application for college students, has added a slew of new features to its collaborative product. Similar to Yammer, Wiggio provides a Twitter-like message stream from all the group members, lets users share calendars, use text and voice messaging, share files and more. Wiggio, which is free, now lets users host free, Web-Ex like "virtual meetings" for a group, which includes live video conferencing, screen sharing and whiteboard collaboration. The application has also added integration with Facebook, letting users create a group and then import group members directly from their list of Facebook friends. Wiggio users can also use the "Wiggio Boards" Facebook application which lets you communicate in real- time with group members through text message, email and Facebook messaging in one centralized stream. The app will also sync group calendars with calendars in Outlook, Google, Yahoo! and iCal. Launched in January 2009, Wiggio was founded by Dana Lampert and Rob and Derek Doyle, sons of Bob Doyle, the creator of MacPublisher (the first desktop publishing program) and the 1970s electronic game Merlin. The elder Doyle is an adviser and investor in Wiggio, and houses the four-person startup in his lab a block away from Harvard. Wiggio raised $450,000 in an angel round last August. Lampert says that Wiggio is is currently growing by over 1,500 new members per day and recently passed 200,000 total users. Although the product faces competition from bigger players like WizeHive, Yammer and Basecamp, Wiggio it is steadily gaining traction among college students and is even expanding its reach to small businesses and non-profits. Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 | |
| Amazon Clarifies What Can Go Down The Memory Hole | Top |
| Bezos may have apologized , but the stink of Amazon's unprecedented act of cyberburglary is still strong enough that people aren't likely to forget any time soon. It's a good thing, then, that Amazon has struck while the iron is still slightly hot by announcing the terms under which they will consider themselves justified in making your book an un book. Nobody likes the idea of having a corporation forcefully take back something they legitimately purchased (whether it was legitimately offered is not their concern), but the truth is that e-books and other "virtual property" will have to be subject to some of the same laws and restrictions as real property. I can't think of many situations where the police would be justified in entering my house and removing an item I had purchased, without my consent, but that's what judges and warrants are for. Amazon is, for the most part, its own judge (and extraction team), but they haven't left too many doors open for more Orwellian tomfoolery . | |
| An App Contest For San Francisco | Top |
| This guest post was written by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom , who was elected to the position in 2003 and reelected in 2007. Newsom is also running for governor of California in the upcoming 2010 election. In this guest post, Mayor Newsom announces a contest to create apps using city data from DataSF.org ,. Last week, we announced a City App Store to highlight and centralize software applications developed from government data available on DataSF.org . The response from the community has been overwhelming. We have received a number of new civic apps that are now featured in the DataSF App Showcase. We've added Mom Maps , a new iPhone app that helps you find kid friendly locations in San Francisco, Dadnab a text messaging service that gives you transit directions, and then there's EveryBlock, which has just added a new feature . The site breaks down what types of services people are requesting from the city by neighborhood, zip code and day. This type of innovation is exactly what we were hoping for when we launched DataSF.org less than six weeks ago. We were not sure what people would create with the data, but we knew that many of our talented developers wanted to help improve San Francisco. Now, our community is coming together to help fill our app store with even more civic apps. The Center for Investigative Reporting's California Watch reporting team, Spot.Us, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, MAPLight.org, the Gov 2.0 Summit, Sun Light Foundation and others are announcing today that they are joining forces to sponsor the first DataSF App Contest on Nov. 7. The day-long app-building contest is open to developers, journalists, community organizers, policy wonks, students and others interested in building a better San Francisco from more than 100 datasets available on DataSF.org. Register here for the DataSF App Contest. If you are interesting in sponsoring the App Contest, visit the Spot.Us pag e A team of judges will pick the winning app at the end of the day and award a cash prize or Apple gift certificate to the winning team. More than $1600 has already been raised from community sponsors. If you would like to donate to the contest please click here . We are excited to see what apps will be created from this contest. The only limit is participants' imagination and the amount of data we are able to make available by Nov. 7. In San Francisco we are moving away from a one size fits all government to making government a platform for innovation. If you are using or have created an application based on City data that is not in our DataSF App Showcase, we would like to hear from you. Join Mayor Newsom on Facebook or follow him on Twitter . Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily. | |
| Confirmed: Delivery Agent Raises $25 Million For Entertainment Commerce Platform | Top |
| What recession? We’ve confirmed that startup Delivery Agent has just raised $25 million in Series D funding led by new investor Focus Ventures with T-Venture, Coral Group, Ironwood Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Worldview Technology Partners and Cardinal Venture Capital participating. This brings Delivery Agent’s total funding up to $60 million. In a nutshell, Delivery Agent helps TV networks monetize content through two distinct channels. First, the company creates online marketplaces for products and merchandise that are seen on television shows. Delivery Agent has signed on all the major networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, and MTV Networks. Similar to GumGum's ShopThisLook feature, Delivery Agent catalogues products appearing in movies and shows and then creates an e-commerce site where products can be purchases. By outsourcing all e-commerce for products seen on their networks to Delivery Agent, networks are able to monetize their content while keeping their overhead costs low. Delivery Agent’s second service is coordinating advertising from the brands that manufacture the products that are shown on a networks' TV shows. Delivery Agent will go through the index of products that will be airing on a show prior to when the episode airs, and then reach out to the brand and offer them the ability to buy an ad package for the show. Mike Fitzsimmons, Delivery Agent’s founder and CEO, tells me that the new funds will be used to develop “click-to-buy” applications for online video and mobile content. In fact, Delivery Agent will soon launch a partnership with a major cable operator that will allow consumers to click and buy a product they see on TV with their remote control. Fitzsimmons also add that Delivery Agent will be using the funds to pursue international growth, and launch their content-monetization services in markets in Europe and Asia. Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors | |
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