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Justin & Emmett are throwing in the towel with Kiko, the Y Combinator-funded whizzy AJAX calendaring app. When they built to flip, I can’t imagine this is how they were hoping to go.
Brian’s summary of last night’s Boston Web Innovators Meetup. My snark is saved for the comments section. But if I hear of another startup whose entire business model is “targeted advertising”, there’s going to be trouble!
Local startup tourb.us has launched. User-contributed and web-scraped gig listings. Includes my pet favourite feature: Enter your last.fm username, and they’ll email you if any of your favourite bands play locally.
Only a week to go until the New England geek unconference. There’s a good mix of interesting folks signed up, so it should be a good time.
glenn’s written an excellent review of new photo-sharing site Tabblo for BostonWTF.
The stuff of rumours no more. The integrated iCal search is nice — I was able to add the Red Sox schedule as an overlay to my calendar with very little thought.
Apparently, I have the “Best Job in America”. Can’t say that I disagree with that statement. Good software engineers should be able to find jobs they love, or at the very least, jobs they hate that pay staggeringly well.
Looks like the rumoured Boston Googleplex is pretty close to happening. “We have an exciting opportunity to expand our Engineering operations to Boston.”
Local excellent security startup SiteAdvisor has been snapped up by McAfee. They were pretty clearly built-to-flip — My money had been on Google to buy them, though.
“Freemium”. What a lovely word to describe all those “Free for now, then we’ll add pay-for premium services later” startups. Of course, I’m sure it will be overused, and in a year’s time I’ll hate it as much as I do the word “Ajax” now.
The kind of attention to trivia that Britannica can never hope to beat. A detailed analysis of whether 1980s transit policy in Boston would have allowed Charlie to deboard the train.
Another great danah boyd essay. “Hanging out on Friendster is like hanging out in a super clean police state where you can’t chew gum let alone goof around and you’re told exactly how to speak to others. Hanging out on MySpace is more like hanging out in a graffiti park with fellow goofballs while your favorite band is playing.”
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
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