Y Combinator plants permanent roots in Bay Area
Y Combinator, the incubator that’s become famous for mentoring and providing seed funding to young entrepreneurs, announced yesterday that they will only be based in Mountain View, Calif. and no longer hold alternate funding cycles in Cambridge, Mass.
According to Paul Graham, one of the four… Continue Reading
FriendlyFavor: More web 2.0 clutter, or useful social networking add-on?
Favor-organizing startup FriendlyFavor officially launched its service today. The Seattle-based company wants to help you manage favors and requests across your email and social network contacts, but it’s entering a very crowded market of social network add-ons.
The site hopes to move social networking from a… Continue Reading
How the World of Goo became one of the indie video game hits of 2008
The growing popularity of the indie game, World of Goo earned it the No. 1 rank on Amazon’s top ten best-selling PC games recently, albeit temporarily, among giants like World of Warcraft, Spore, Left-4-Dead, and Fallout3. This independently developed game’s success illustrate the changes that are taking place in the… Continue Reading
SeeqPod, a way to search for music and video on your mobile phone
SeeqPod, a company that lets you search for any “playable” content (music, video, presentations, etc) on the internet, legal and illegal, has released a stand-alone application for the Windows Mobile Platform today.
The application is meant as a search tool for all playable media and… Continue Reading
Report: Small online news sites more proven than large ones
It’s good to be a small online media outlet as long as you cover something you can make money on — that’s the unsurprising conclusion of a report published today by PaidContent’s parent company, ContentNext. In the 50-page report, titled “Size Doesn’t Matter: An Analysis… Continue Reading