Mahalo.com, the latest company from entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, launched, with a stripped-down search engine designed to handle only the most popular requests in widely appealing categories.
Focused on areas such as travel, music, television, movies, cars, food, health, news and sports — and filtered with the help of a team of 40 employees — the limited [...]
StartupSearch is a new site that gives you quick statistics and other data on Web 2.0 start-ups. It is built by Niall Kennedy, a former Technorati and Microsoft employee.
Kennedy wants to make it easier for people to find out more about promising young companies (see his blog post here). Once they’ve gotten steady traction in [...]
Google Gears, a technology created by Google to allow developers to create offline Web applications, was released today.
Google Gears comes as a browser extension.
It is a very significant move, because most applications until now have worked either entirely online, or entirely on your desktop — not both. Microsoft has moved to make applications like [...]
Gizmoz, of Israel, launches a service tonight that lets you create avatars that are more realistic and full-featured than those of competitors such as Voki or Meez.
You load your own photo, and Gizmoz morphs it into a three-dimensional image. You can dress it with a range of accessories — wigs, clothes, hair, makeup, skin color, [...]
Auction giant eBay has acquired StumbleUpon, an San Francisco company that helps people “stumble upon” and share new sites related to their interests, for about $75 million.
In a statement this afternoon, eBay said the acquisition will give it “exposure to a fast-growing community-based service” that has around 2.3 million users, and that StumbleUpon is [...]