http://www.techyob.com Tech.Startup.Oz Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:08:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Come-on Google, time to stand behind your Product Management and tell the world you endorse the quality of this quality product. http://www.techyob.com/2008/02/21/when-is-gmail-comming-out-of-beta/ Nice to be back from the break. Was stumbling around Tanger, the live conversation network that I signed up for about 6 months ago. Looks like performance and functionality has improved leaps and bounds in recent weeks. And it seams Nokia agrees. It is using Tanglers spiffy embedded live forum function as part ... http://www.techyob.com/2008/02/11/nokia-n96-to-launch-with-australian-social-media-company-tanger/ Bruce Joy, CEO of Everyday Interactive Networks is announcing at tomorrows XMediaLab Digital Worlds conference the release of their revolutionary "Worlds Collide" version of the VastPark virtual world platform. Unlike the overhyped Second Life where your content is captive to their proprietary platform, for the first time content developers ... http://www.techyob.com/2007/08/09/two-digital-worlds-collidingthey-will-never-tear-us-apart/ In a post a while back I tipped that political parties which grasped the realities of the YouTube generation would be the first across the line in a Web 2.0 amplified world. The US presidential election, the ultimate popularity contest, just stepped up to the plate with potential candidates answering questions posted on ... http://www.techyob.com/2007/07/24/youtube-elections-the-first-in-idiocracy-history/ Im a believer in the value of natural language search, and the ability and promise of a cool californian company called Powerset to deliver a unique search experience for its users.  It was only last year that Dr Raymond Wong, one of Australia's bright stars in data mining and information ... http://www.techyob.com/2007/06/30/powersets-overpowered-pr/