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(Techcrunch) Yahoo! is getting in on the group text messaging biz with the launch of their new site, Mixd. TechCrunch was tipped off to the site’s existence today but we have not been able to determine how long it has been live. Mixd allows users to set up groups and text or share photos within those groups. Texts and photos can be managed online as well as on a mobile phone.
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(thestreet) Every investor dreams of getting in early on the next Google the start-up that takes the world by storm and delivers returns a hundred times over. Increasingly, it’s looking like they should start their search overseas. That’s the message that lurks between the lines of a report commissioned by the National Venture Capital Association. The study illustrates the role that immigrants have played in building the engine of innovation that has powered the U.S. tech industry and delivered bounteous fortunes to the investors who backed them.
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(GigaOM) The web isn’t based around topics anymore. On an increasing number of web pages, it’s hard to align content along a tidy vertical and sell ads against it. Social networks, especially, are full of users chatting, musing, and relating to one another – and rarely does that conversation confine itself to a sellable topic like travel or plasma displays.
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(GigaOM) American internet users spend an hour more online each week than they did in 2005, according to a study released today1 by The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School. That’s 8.9 hours per week online on average, for the 77.6 percent of Americans who use the internet. Use of online social tools is becoming more widespread, with 56.6 percent of online community members logging on at least once per day, 23.6 percent of all internet users posting photos online, 12.5 percent of internet users maintaining their own web sites, and 7.4 percent of internet users blogging.
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(Techrunch) Maybe the world actually does need another photo sharing service. In a recent Spanish blog, one user wrote, (translated from Spanish) “If there is anything in the entire world that I refute, it is that Flickr is in English.” A new photo sharing site called Pikeo launched in beta about three weeks ago in English, Spanish, and French. But language is not the site’s only claim to fame. The company is emphasizing mapping as the most salient feature.
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