Austin-based FeedMagnet launched into public beta late last week. The service pulls together feeds from your social media sites and presents them in a single stream. FeedMagnet also allows you to embed those streams directly onto your website. The public beta includes the basic, free service which limits the number of authors and search topics you can use, as well as how many updates they will pull per hour. The company is working on a [...]
Foursquare and Gowalla are at the forefront of the emerging location-based market, but which service will win the space? Carla Thompson puts them both to the test.
Jeff Collier wants to update the Christian community for Net Generation. Enter Zetify.com
Click Forensics, Inc., the industry leader in audience verification and traffic quality improvement for the online advertising community, today announced that it is working with eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, to help protect eBay advertisers from fraudulent traffic and to improve conversion rates for merchants using eBay’s AdCommerce advertising platform. By working together to filter out low-quality and invalid traffic, Click Forensics will help AdCommerce deliver higher quality audiences to AdCommerce advertisers, driving increased [...]
Making sense of our growing amounts of data is critical. Here are some of our favorite tools for data visualization, with stimulating screenshots to tingle your hard drive.
IBM today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi, a privately held software company based in Austin, Texas. Financial terms were not disclosed (but you can speculate in the comments). Lombardi, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software and services, helps organizations automate and integrate business processes to increase efficiencies and reduce costs. Organizations are struggling to find ways to simplify their business operations to better reach partners and clients, [...]
Location-aware software is largely just a novelty right now, but over the next year will greatly impact entertainment, news, and even physical goods. Why you should get in now, or get left behind.
Austin-based SpiceWorks announced last week that version 4.5 has come out of beta, and the final is shipping. This is the 17th software release in 3 years for the company, and contains a handful of great new features. The tool contains support for HTTPS/SSL, so that it can manage networks outside of your firewall with a secure connection. Scan schedules can now be customized in about every way you can imagine, including dates and time, [...]
One of the interesting things that we discovered during our first year of Capital Factory was that very few companies had a complete founding team. By complete, I mean the founding team had people with both knowledge of their product and industry, and technical skills.
This was originally posted on the Dachis Group Collaboratory. A recent study by Robert Half and Associates found that 54% of companies ban the use of public social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in the workplace. The reasoning could be that productivity would be hampered, or that your organization must be compliant with regulations from the SEC, FINRA, Sarbanes Oxley, or HIPAA. The risks are real. Confidential information can be revealed, and brands can [...]
