Visual Website Optimizer: Another Way To Run A/B Tests On Your Site
2010-09-03 00:48:36
A/B testing, which entails running multiple versions of a site at once and tracking which one performs best with users, is a key part of launching a new version of any website.Visual Website Optimizer, which I'll just call VWO from here on out, helps users manage this often complex process. The service shares some similiarities with a Y Combinator-funded startup called Optimizely, which launched in July. Among some of VMO's features are multivariate testing (you can adjust more than one item on your site and VMO will run them in various combinations to determine which ones have a positive effect), heatmaps showing off where users are clicking (which are useful for visualizing where your visitors are clicking for different variations of a site), and split URL tests, which gives you the option to redirect traffic to two alternate versions of your website.

Twitter For iPhone Push Notifications Are Being Internally Tested; Rolling Out Soon
2010-09-03 00:35:20
To many users, Twitter for iPhone (the artist formerly known as Tweetie) is perhaps the perfect Twitter client (though I'd argue that the new Twitter for iPad is right there with it). But the one thing it has been lacking and that users knock it for is the lack of Push Notifications. Well, good news. They're coming. Soon. Twitter is currently internally testing the feature, we've confirmed. Interestingly enough, we learned of its existence when the latest version of the app went out yesterday (the universal binary that included Twitter for iPad). It appears that users who have iOS 4.1 installed (which just hit Gold Master for developers, but won't be official out until next week) get the option to enable Push Notifications for Twitter. They don't appear to be working yet, but the feature is definitely there.

Notifo for iPhone Gets Free User-to-User Messaging, Real Time Twitter Notifications
2010-09-03 00:34:21
Last time we wrote about Notifo, we called it a 'simple mobile notifications platform for anything' -- and really, that's probably the best way to describe it. Take your iPhone, install the Notifo app, hook it up to your favorite services (like Twitter, or GitHub) or any of the 'Projects' (read: plugins, like Growl alert forwarding, or Chrome-to-Notifo ), and bam! You've got push notifications coming down to your iPhone from just about anything you could imagine. All that notification sending takes two things: users to send the messages to, and a message pushing backend to handle all the heavy lifting -- the same two things, as it just so happens, that one would need to create a basic instant messaging service. And so they have.

Ex-Googler Lee Backs China Companies to Foster Startup Culture
2010-09-03 00:31:00
Founded by Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google's China division, business incubator Innovation Works is funding 12 startups amid strong demand for Web technology

3Par's Venture Backers Win Big By Holding Shares
2010-09-03 00:30:05
Menlo Ventures and the other early venture investors in 3Par reaped a 0 million windfall amid the HP-Dell bidding war

Twitter Now Over 145 Million Users, Almost 300,000 Apps
2010-09-02 22:37:52
When I read Twitter CEO Evan Williams post tonight about the state of Twitter from a mobile perspective, the first thing that jumped out at me what that Twitter for Android, an app Twitter worked hard on, isn't even in the top 10 most-used apps for the service. But Williams also used the post to whip out some impressive numbers. Chief among them: Twitter now has over 145 million registered users (though presumably less than 150 million, or he would have said that). And there are now nearly 300,000 registered apps in the Twitter ecosystem. The latter number above is technically the number of registered OAuth apps in the ecosystem (and includes multiple instances of some apps). Twitter made the switch over from basic authentication to OAuth a few days ago, leaving behind some apps, such as the old Tweetie (which was reborn as Twitter for iPhone). Williams says this number of registered apps has tripled since their Chirp conference -- which was only this past April.

Um, Where’s Twitter For Android On Twitter’s Top 10 Apps?
2010-09-02 22:06:38
This evening Twitter CEO Evan Williams put up an interesting post about Twitter mobile usage. By just about every measurable metric, it seems to be skyrocketing. He also included a graph of the top 10 ways people are now using Twitter. This includes both Twitter's own apps and third-party clients, but notably, Twitter for Android is nowhere to be seen. I've confirmed with Twitter that this isn't a mistake. It seems that Twitter for Android is in fact not in the top 10 ways people interact with the service. That's incredible considering that Twitter for iPhone is number 4 and Twitter for Blackberry is number 5. Both of those were built by the Twitter team, just as the Android app was.

Record Numbers Pinging Ping.fm Thanks To Apple’s Ping
2010-09-02 21:59:40
An interesting beneficiary of Apple's launch of music-oriented social network Ping—social status updater Ping.fm. According to Seesmic CEO Loic Le Meur, Ping.fm saw a record number of accounts created yesterday (Seesmic acquired Ping.fm earlier this year). Could it be a coincidence? Definitely, not. When you Google 'Ping,' Ping.fm is the second result under the golf equipment site PING (this doesn't include News results). Apple's Ping is actually the fourth result (not including Video results). On Bing, Ping.fm is the third result, behind the golf company and the Wikipedia page for Ping. Clearly, as people starting becoming curious about Apple's Ping yesterday on search portals, they also found Ping.fm in results.

Reddit Diggs Traffic Surge, Prepares For Expansion
2010-09-02 21:41:44
It's all hands on deck at Reddit this week. In the wake of Digg's bungled redesign, its rival is enjoying a surge in traffic and a jump in ad and subscription sales. Since Monday, the site has been averaging 900,000 uniques per day--- a 50% increase from Reddit's pre-'Digg 4' average, according to senior programmer, Chris Slowe. The six-member team does not openly celebrate the technical woes of its competitor but there is a certain giddiness in the air at Reddit's SF headquarters (a small room, tucked in the corner of Wired's expansive office). The Conde Nast owned startup is having a moment, and they know it. On Thursday, we dropped by their offices for a pulse check. While programmer David King's eyes were glued to his monitor--- tweaking a feature that will hopefully improve the site's scalability--- senior programmer Chris Slowe was available to take our questions, video ahead.

Ustream Snags Former Palm PR VP Lynn Fox
2010-09-02 21:27:41
We hear that former Palm Vice President of Public Relations Lynn Fox has given up on her “Consult Until-I-Find-Another-Job Consulting' plans and landed a permanent gig at video streaming service Ustream. Her formal title will be VP of Corporate Communications and she will be reporting to Ustream CEO John Ham. Sources say that Fox is the first in a series of new hires at Ustream, hires which should be announced formally in the next couple of weeks. Fox's first day will be Tuesday, Sept. 7 and her primary duties will be leading all things related to PR, Events and Social Media. It looks like Ustream is taking advantage of its m round of funding from Softbank and other investors earlier this year in order to ramp up their recruiting efforts and attract major talent like Fox. Prior to Ustream, Fox had to honor of working in the upper echleons of communications departments at both Google and Apple. She left Palm shortly before the HP acquisition in June.

Facebook Wants To Be In A Relationship With The Big Boys — They Want To Be Just Friends
2010-09-02 21:16:35
Yesterday, Apple launched iTunes Ping, their new music social network. Part of that launch was a very basic implementation of Facebook Connect, simply to hook in and find out which of your Facebook friends were also using Ping. I tried it yesterday and it worked fine. But this morning the option vanished and everyone was left wondering what happened? Well, it vanished because Facebook started blocking iTunes Ping from accessing their API, we've heard (just as AllThingsD and New York Times have as well). Obviously, there's no point in having a feature that doesn't work -- so Apple simply removed it.

Videocon May Sell Control of Mobile-Phone Unit, Executive Says
2010-09-02 20:34:06
Billionaire Venugopal Dhoot’s Videocon group may sell a controlling stake in its wireless unit to an overseas partner to help fund expansion of the business.

This Spam Infographic About Spam Infographics Makes My Head Hurt
2010-09-02 19:53:55
Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post of Internet memes, today wins the 'more meta than thou' award for making 'An Infographic Backlash Infographic' inspired by the tragic tale of a guy whose job it was to game Digg back when Digg had enough traffic to make it worth gaming. Okay Buzzfeed, just because you understand recursion, doesn't mean you have to rub it in our face all the time. Aside from the Greyhat SEO tricks, your anti-infographic infographic and the post that inspired it are actually just describing successful web-writing and content creation. It's like...there's a reason people are clicking on it.

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HP to Buy 3Par for .35 Billion as Dell Walks Away
2010-09-02 19:26:00
Hewlett-Packard Co. agreed to buy 3Par Inc. for .35 billion, ending an 18-day bidding war with Dell Inc. for the maker of storage systems and stepping up its rivalry with EMC Corp.

HP Might Have Won 3Par at a Lower Price by Waiting
2010-09-02 18:59:00
Hewlett-Packard Co. may have paid more than it needed for 3Par Inc. because it outbid a Dell Inc. offer that 3Par already rejected, said two people close to the situation.

Mark Zuckerberg Is On iTunes Ping — But Only One Is Real
2010-09-02 18:50:51
Perhaps you've heard that Apple and Facebook are having a little bit of an issue at the moment. Despite launching with Facebook Connect integration yesterday, it's now nowhere to be seen on Apple's new music social network, Ping. And that's too bad because even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg signed up to try out Ping yesterday, we hear. While Facebook Connect will no longer help you find Zuckerberg there, if you do a simple name search, there he is. Well actually, there he is twice. Hmm. Which one to choose?

In The Coming HTML5 Browser Wars, The Markup Should Remain The Same
2010-09-02 18:39:10
On Monday, Google made a big splash with a customized Arcade Fire video page that showed off all the cool things HTML5 can do, from video, animations and 3D rendering to gorgeous fonts and choreographed windows. It's all cutting edge stuff as far as what is possible with a Web browser goes, but there is one very big problem. It doesn't work so great in all browsers, even browsers that supposedly support HTML5. If you go to the landing page that launches the video in Firefox or even the forthcoming IE9 (which isn't out yet, but is very HTML5-friendly), it detects your browser and suggests you use Chrome instead. href='http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/09/demo-firefox-35-treats-videos-like-web-pages-why-cant-flash-do-that/'>supports HTML5? This isn't the first time there have been issues with HTML5 compatibility. The problem is that HTML5 is so young that the standards have not been hammered out yet across all browsers. The markup language required to produce the same effect is different for different browsers.

Done Deal: HP Gets 3PAR For .35 Billion In Cash
2010-09-02 18:00:13
It's officially over. After Dell pulled out of the running this morning, HP has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire data storage company 3PAR, for per share in cash, or a value of .35 billion. The transaction has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies. This morning, HP upped the ante with an offer worth per share or .4 billion. 3PAR accepted HP's bid and Dell withdrew.

Facebook Testing “Subscribe”, Their Version Of Follow — Well Sort Of, Maybe
2010-09-02 17:30:30
I feel like all I've written about the past few weeks is Facebook's need for a new social dynamic. Specifically, I want Facebook to break their social graph into two: those people who you are friends with, and those who you follow -- for sharing purposes. It seems that Facebook may be testing something like that out -- well sort of, maybe. Facebook appears to be testing out a new feature called 'Subscribe.' A source who supposedly has it enabled, tells All Facebook that 'by subscribing you don’t miss any updates from people you subscribe to.” While on the face of it, this would seem to be a lot like the idea of 'follow' it's not clear from that wording if you actually already need to be friends with a person in order to follow them.