Thanks for coming to MobileBeat 2008
26 Jul 2008 3:19am GMT Well, we did it — VentureBeat held its very first conference, MobileBeat 2008, and it was a smashing success. I can say that, because all throughout the day people kept congratulating me on what an amazing event it was, and I kept telling them that I didn’t have any part in organizing it. Their response? [...]
FusionFall, 3D role-playing game for kids, sets new benchmark for browser-based games
25 Jul 2008 11:26pm GMT FusionFall, a multiplayer online game for 9-14 year old kids, features characters from the Cartoon Network, 3D graphics and gaming mechanics that blend elements typically seen on console games with the lightweight gameplay characteristic of kid-oriented virtual worlds. On its own, this is cool — especially the Carton Network part — but not a huge deal: [...]
Digg to offer sub-Diggs for niche audiences — sounds like a good match with Facebook Connect
25 Jul 2008 9:46pm GMT News aggregator site Digg plans to introduce “sub-Diggs” that let small groups of users create their own news aggregators, similar to what smaller rivals Reddit and Mixx already offer, according to The Windy Citizen. It’s not clear if this means sub-sites within Digg.com or if users will be able to use Digg’s software to create [...]
Analyst predicts merger of Android and Symbian mobile OSs
25 Jul 2008 8:56pm GMT Updated An analyst firm, J. Gold Associates, is speculating that Google’s mobile operating system, Android, and Nokia’s mobile operating system, Symbian, will merge in three to six months. The thinking goes that the move would free Google up to focus on compelling and potentially profitable mobile applications, prove that Symbian is more than a Nokia publicity [...]
Microsoft dreams up a new kind of search with BrowseRank
25 Jul 2008 8:37pm GMT A group of Microsoft researchers just presented a paper about a concept called BrowseRank that could really shake up the search landscape. As the name implies, BrowseRank is Microsoft’s new take on Google’s PageRank algorithm — namely, the method Google uses to rank pages in its search results, based primarily on links. Obviously, Google’s [...]