One of the early struggles is putting up a startup is finding the right cofounder. Finally, a website caters to aspiring tech moguls seeking to find like-minded colleagues. FounderDating is designed to be a LinkedIn of sorts for entrepreneurs.
Users create profiles about themselves and what they are interested. Its search filters results by event, city, interest area, skills, desired starting date, and overall s... Seek Potential Startup Partners with FounderDating
January 27th, 2012 at 3:24 am
One of the early struggles is putting up a startup is finding the right cofounder. Finally, a website caters to aspiring tech moguls seeking to find like-minded colleagues. FounderDating is designed to be a LinkedIn of sorts for entrepreneurs.
Users create profiles about themselves and what they are interested. Its search filters results by event, city, interest area, skills, desired starting date, and overall s... Twitter to Selectively Block Certain Tweets to Some Countries
January 27th, 2012 at 2:45 am
Twitter has updated its system with an “ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country–while keeping it available in the rest of the world.” Yes, it sounds like selective censorship.
This new feature would enable Twitter to be more effective in tailoring itself to the needs of certain countries. This can be seem as a good thing or a bad thing.
For instance, it is a crime... Symantec Confirms Anonymous Stole Assorted Source Codes
January 26th, 2012 at 1:42 am
Data security company Symantec has confirmed that Anonymous, a hacker group/ Internet freedom advocates (however you want to view them), stole the source code of several Nortorn security products from its 2006 line as well as the pcAnywhere remote access tool.
Although Symantec claims the theft actually happened in 2006, the company becomes concerned after hackers who claim to be part of Anonymous said they had the... Leading European Blog Platform Acquires Timeline Startup
January 26th, 2012 at 12:07 am
OverBlog, a leading Europe-based blog platform with over 32 million members has announced it has acquired Timekiwi, Palo Alto-based startup that helps users make a timeline using their social media postings.
Details of the acquisition were not revealed to the public, but OverBlog confirms integration with Timekiwi platform begins on summer 2012.
Not related to Facebook’s Timeline feature, Timekiwi allows use... Google Announces All-In-One Privacy Policy
January 25th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
Google has announced it will unify the terms of service and privacy policies of all its online products, aiming to make it easier to comprehend for Google’s customers. The new policy would also allow Google to share data across its products more seamlessly, as well as enabling its services to link data for a more personalized service.
In a much simpler explanation, the habits of a user on one Google service ... Facebook Timeline Now Mandatory to All Users
January 24th, 2012 at 11:44 pm
Facebook has announced that all of its users will be using its new Timeline profile layout whether or not they like it “over the next few weeks.” The Timeline archives all activities and contents of user in one page.
Users who have not converted to Timeline will be warned by Facebook that their profiles would be converted in seven days, giving them time to find a perfect “cover photo” and e... Social Networks Unite Against Google’s G Plus-Integrated Search
January 24th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
Fearing that Google is veering away from its mission of being a neutral Internet directory, engineers from Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace created an open-source plug-in to alter Google’s “Search Plus Your World” that prioritizes data collected from its social network Google+ in its search engine results.
This plug-in would include social media results from other social networks apart from G+ such ... Apple iBooks Sold 350,000 In Three Days
January 24th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
The market for digital textbooks is relatively new. While there has been quite a good market for e-books today, the realm of digital textbooks continues to be a niche market. It’s quite interesting why this niche has not explored that extensively. Some businesses may have thought that this is quite a risky task. But one tech giant has again tried its luck on this relatively new realm of online textbooks and ... FileSonic Shuts Down File-Sharing Service; RapidShare Keeps Cool
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:56 pm
FileSonic, a “digital locker” web-based service that provides users with up to 10GB of free digital storage for 30 days, has shut down its file-sharing capabilities.
“All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled,” the website announced on its home page. “Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.”
The move comes right a... Megaupload.com Owner, Employees Arrested for Massive Copyright Infringement
January 20th, 2012 at 2:19 pm
If you have been wondering why Megaupload.com takes so slow to load, it is because the site is under arrest. Well, not the site itself but the companies that run it along with sister site Megavideo.com.
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted seven people and two companies for widespread criminal copyright infiringement and money laundering, or what DOJ likes to call it the “Mega Conspiracy.&... 
