This morning FriendFeed, which is kind of content delivery version of Twitter, went international, launching in six new languages–German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian and simplified Chinese. Now live, the move is a natural extension for the Mountain View, Ca.-based start-up–which was founded earlier this year by a small gang of ex-Googlers: Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh. The company says that one-third of users already use FriendFeed in languages other than English. More languages are planned, said the company, which specializes in super-aggregating updates of all kinds for social networking and news items in an ongoing...
With iPhone app downloads having just blown through the 300 million mark, we jumped at the opportunity to talk to Ethan Lowry. As a founding member of the trio behind Urbanspoon, one of the most downloaded iPhone applications of 2008 , Ethan knows a thing or two about iPhone app downloads. Back in early November, Urbanspoon had just cracked 1 million downloads - 4 months after the application launched with the App Store in July. Shortly thereafter, Apple ran a TV spot featuring the application. During out interview, Ethan disclosed that the application had now surpassed 2.2 million downloads....
In the beginning, Valve created Half-Life 2, and it was pretty flippin' awesome. Then, more towards the middle of the beginning, Garry Newman whipped up Garry's Mod, bestowing upon gamers a simple interface behind which they could all wield Valve's body-flinging, face-pinching powers. And after that, things got a little weird. But not for creator Garry Newman, who -- after selling his mod for $10 a pop on Steam -- found a new breadwinner. Now, two years later, Garry's Mod has stripped 312,541 kids of their lunch money, bringing the total haul up to roughly $3.1 million -- or about...
After a 3 month break we happy to report that 125px advertising units are back at The Inquisitr. The new units are being offered as part of the beta rollout of Technorati Engage, and we’re among the first to be able to offer them. Units start at the special introductory price of $750 a week or just under $3000/ mth which works out at just under $3 CPM based on traffic of over 1 million page views a month. Our traffic is predominantely US based, is split 55% male, 45% female and has a strong bias towards college educated...
Metasearch engine Dogpile announced Tuesday that it has raised $100,000 toward its goal of raising $1 million to help pets in need. Dogpile donations are being funded through its Search and Rescue program, a service that's designed to help pets by donating a portion of the search engine's revenue to animal-related charities. Each time a visitor uses Dogpile's search or its Search and Rescue Facebook application, the company delivers some of the revenue generated from that query to the ASPCA. "Whether people are using Dogpile.com for their online holiday shopping or just for general information searches, the traffic to...
I hope you got your watching Batman on a giant screen out of the way this summer: Warner Bros. has dropped plans for its January rerelease of The Dark Knight in IMAX theaters. Worse yet for people who care a bizarre amount about box office profits, the film has earned $996.1 million worldwide, so it looks like, without the rerelease, its gross is going to fall just shy of a billion dollars. Unless their Dark Knight candy drive is incredibly successful. UPDATE: Never mind. It's still happening. (Thanks, ed) WB Drops The Dark Knight Rerelease Plans [Superhero Hype]...
While I do own several Apple products, I’ve often joked about the cult-like nature of some of the company’s fanatical enthusiasts. The Simpsons captured this sentiment remarkably well in a parody of Apple aired last night on FOX. Complete with “The Mapple Store,” a “MyPod,” a $1200 “MyBill,” and a Bart voice-over of a “Steve Mobs” keynote, the animated series completely nails the stereotypes of Apple products, employees, and users. Check it out in the video below: ---Related Articles at Mashable | All That's New on the Web:Stephen Colbert Parodies on YouTube = LegalSimpsonizeMe: Make Your Own HomerFox Shows Coming...
The final plans for Valencia Street's $6.1 million ped-friendly makeover project are rolling in through the end of December -- and luckily for Mission cyclists, this is one public work that won't be nixed in Gavin's Great Budget Cuts. Those millions have been allocated by the Great Streets Program, meaning federal grant dollars, not city green. Let's just hope they break ground before the feds ask for their money back, too. Wider sidewalks, new trees, more bike racks and lighting, and five new loading zones (to replace the nixed median) are on track to be on the ground between...
Right before the Thanksgiving holiday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement saying she expected the ethics committee investigation into Rep. Charles Rangel by January 3, 2009: "I look forward to reviewing the report at that time." The ethics panel is looking into three things: Rangel's use of Congressional letterhead to solicit donations to City College's school of public service (which is being named after him); his four rent-stabilized apartments; and unreported income from his vacation villa in the Dominican Republic. As allegations and questions have accumulated over recent months (most recently, about a $1 million donation to the school...
