http://www.computerforumz.com/CFblog Computer Hardware & Software Blogosphere Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:56:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en P2P music sharing and sales startup Grooveshark has launched Grooveshark Lite, a flash app that provides access to all the songs in Grooveshark’s P2P library. For those unfamiliar with the company, Grooveshark allows users to upload and share their music collection with friends, but with a twist: every song uploaded can ... http://www.computerforumz.com/CFblog/2008/04/16/grooveshark-launches-web-media-player/ Caroline McCarthy / The Social: Six Apart wrestles the social-media dragon  —  A look at Six Apart's Blog It, a tool that lets you manage both blogging accounts and messaging services from a single page.  —  (Credit: Six Apart)  —  The Web might have just gotten one step closer to ... http://www.computerforumz.com/CFblog/2008/04/16/six-apart-wrestles-the-social-media-dragon-caroline-mccarthythe-social/ When it comes to advertising for blogs, there is Federated Media for the biggest ones, and for everyone else there is AdSense (or some other low-paying ad network). Jared Kopf thinks there is room for a better alternative in between the two. His startup, AdRoll, (see our earlier ... http://www.computerforumz.com/CFblog/2008/04/15/adroll-emerges-from-private-beta-with-co-op-economics-for-blog-advertising/ Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Meme13 Tries and Fails to Solve the Techmeme Echo-Chamber Problem  —  Many people love to check out automated blog meme aggregator Techmeme throughout the day for the latest in tech news - but a considerable number of other people consider it a self-promoting echo ... http://www.computerforumz.com/CFblog/2008/04/15/meme13-tries-and-fails-to-solve-the-techmeme-echo-chamber-problem-marshall-kirkpatrickreadwriteweb/ Blogging startup Six Apart launched BlogIt tonight, a Facebook blogging tool application that lets users quickly post to their blogs and then send notifications of the post to various social networks. Use the tool to write a very basic blog post (no rich text or image uploading available yet), and then ... http://www.computerforumz.com/CFblog/2008/04/15/six-apart-launches-blogit-quick-post-application-for-facebook/ Collective Intellect, a service that can be used to track what people are saying around the net about certain topics, has raised an additional $6.6M in a Series B round led by Grotech Capital Group with participation by Appian Ventures, Croghan Investments, and Crawley Hatfield Capital. The service is most useful ... http://www.computerforumz.com/CFblog/2008/04/15/more-money-for-collective-intellect-to-keep-fingers-on-pulse-of-internet/ PC World: Is the Taxman Eyeing ITunes?  —  Dan Moren, Macworld.com  —  The US$0.99 that the iTunes Store charges for individual songs has taken on an almost iconic role in the field of music downloads, becoming what many consider the standard for fair pricing.  While the record labels have long ... http://www.computerforumz.com/CFblog/2008/04/15/is-the-taxman-eyeing-itunes-pc-world/ Charles Arthur / Guardian Unlimited: So exactly who or what is Psystar?  We dig a little..  —  You'll have noticed the claims of Psystar that it will be selling an “OpenComputer” (smart, avoiding the use of the Apple trademark in the “OpenMac” name it previously used) that will, in effect, ... http://www.computerforumz.com/CFblog/2008/04/15/so-exactly-who-or-what-is-psystar-we-dig-a-little-charles-arthurguardian-unlimited/ The PopSugar/TechCrunch Geek Goes Chic party in Los Angeles is over. The final count - over 1,300 paid attendees plus another 800 on the private guest list. In all, over 2,100 people attended the event last Thursday. It was our largest event to date, twice as large as the thousand-person events ... http://www.computerforumz.com/CFblog/2008/04/15/2100-people-party-in-la-with-popsugar-and-techcrunch-raise-13k-for-openid-and-dataportability/ AllYouCanUpload, the registration-free image hosting site with few restrictions, has quietly been taken down. The site was launched in May 2006 by CNET without much fanfare, but was praised for shedding the bandwidth limits seen on other photo sites like Photobucket and ImageShack. The site was part of ... http://www.computerforumz.com/CFblog/2008/04/15/allyoucanupload-slips-quietly-into-deadpool/