Popurls and Twidroid Are Acquired by TweetUp
Industry News, Industry Trends | July 2010 | Written by Vicky Ayala | No Comments
Pasadena-based TweetUp, the Twitter advertising startup from Idealab, has acquired Twidroid, soon to be renamed Twidroyd as well as the RSS aggregator Popurls. If you’re not familiar with Popurls, it’s a website that brings the latest headlines from numerous websites. Another example of an RSS aggregator is Alltop, which allows you to customize which websites you want to aggregate your news from.
Tags: headlines, Idealab, news, One News, Popurls, RSS, RSS aggregator, startup, TweetUp, Twidroid, Twidroyd, Twitter advertising, Wordpress, Wordpress theme
“Like” It Or Not, Drama Is Coming To A Screen Near You
Industry News, Industry Trends | July 2010 | Written by Vicky Ayala | No Comments
This is the world we live in. Where the lines between fact and faction are blurred and preferential treatment is given to the more scandalous version of the truth.
Tags: Facebook, film, reality, status update, The Social Network
Attention Entrepreneurs: Declare Your Independence From Facebook
Industry Trends | July 2010 | Written by Vicky Ayala | No Comments
Exactly a month ago Diaspora, Kickstarter’s most popular and successful project to date, reaches a milestone. To show they’re not just blowing the $200k on trips to Atlantic City, they’ve released some screenshots and a video updating us with their progress.
Tags: application, coding, Diaspora, Facebook, Kickstarter, milestone, open source, platform, social networking, vimeo
Beta Launches Are About Milestones
From the Editor | July 2010 | Written by Vicky Ayala | 2 Comments
Is scheduling a launch with an impeding holiday good for business? Possibly, if your product is seasonal and dependent of timely execution that coincides with shopping habits such as Christmas or Valentine’s Day. But a website launch date only days before the 4th of July? Not so much.
Tags: BETA, brand, brand development, entrepreneurs, experiment, filmmaker, insight, launch, milestone, online publisher, product, quirks, script, script reading, short film, soft launch, website