Chris Gilmer , Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Plaxo, the Stanford founded electronic address book that adopted a social networking platform take on connections and updates, is said to be up for auction.
The NYTimes is reporting that people close to the action were briefed on the offering Wednesday evening. Plaxo, who was trying to compete with the likes of Facebook and LinkedIn with [...]

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Chris Gilmer , Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Have you ever had the urge just to sit down on that parkbench and watch a good movie? What about when you are sitting in Starbucks sippin a latte? Well now you can, (even if you dont have an iPhone) with Avot mV.
Avot mV is a video website built exclusively for mobile users. Just [...]

Filed under: Applications, Handheld device, Mobile by Chris Gilmer
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Chris Gilmer , Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Microsoft has launched HealthVault, a website that lets users create and control their health records online. This project has been underway at Microsoft for over two years, and many meetings with partners in the hospital, disease prevention and health care companies to get it off the ground.
The free health service have such giant corporate partners [...]

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Chris Gilmer , Thursday, October 4th, 2007

As more and more businesses are getting into the world of online applications, corporate security is in danger of being compromised.
Malicious and Web API hackers have been increasingly penetrating online applications and exposing valuable corporate data. After all, its a lot easier to hack into an open API development platform than it is to break [...]

Filed under: Applications, Google, Security, Yahoo by Chris Gilmer
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Chris Gilmer , Friday, August 17th, 2007

Social networking users are starting the movement towards creating mobile content, with recent predictions seeing revenues topping out at $6 billion by 2012.
Thus far, social networking revenues are hovering around the $572 million range, analysts predict that social networking services will increase drastically as it shifts to the mobile world. Currently 14 million users [...]

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Chris Gilmer , Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Blogs are a lot of work to create. They were built to handle long text posts with images and formatting. Bu what happens when you want a simple solution to quickly add a note or two to share to friends or family? That’s where the scrapbooks of the blogging world come into play. Tumblr’s tumblelogs [...]

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