Mobile search and advertising startup Jumptap has raised more than $26 million in a series D round led by AllianceBernstein. Existing investors General Catalyst Partners, Summerhill Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Valhalla Partners, and WPP also participated. That brings the total capital raised to $73 million.
Jumptap us going to need all the gunpowder it can get. Mobile search is the next big frontier in search as more and more Web-capable phones hit the market. Witness Google’s recent deal to power Verizon’s mobile search . Nevertheless, only 7 percent of mobile subscribers in the U.S. use search. Going up against Google, even in a nascent market, is a tough proposition. But Jumptap thinks it has an edge. CEO Dan Olschwang says:
We have a little different approach. We present a more usable result on the mobile phone than incumbent search engines. We are not trying to take Web results and shrink them onto a small screen. If you are standing on a s...
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Actually, considering how the Christian subculture can react to various situations, it’s a legitimate question.
Not all Christians use iMacs and Macbook as their personal computers, nor do they all use iPhones as their mobile phones nor iPods to store and listen to their music and podcasts. But a lot of Christians do use those devices.
And, not all, but a lot, of Christians use Google as a search engine and use Google’s GMail for their email.
One hot button for the evangelical... more
Blogging is a good way to meet people. Blogging isn’t dead but it has sure narrowed down to those who update their blogs regularly. Blogging is bringing new voices to the online world. Most bloggers focus on personal experiences, not politics 7/19/2006 | Release. It is more about speaking out and meeting other people that agree with your narrow point of view. Blogging is easy, almost instant, publishing of content to a website, where every entry is preserved in a dat... more
Washington is on a bailout binge lately, so you would think they’d hop on board when it looks like the private sector could actually manage to work things out on their own.
Like, I don’t know, the search advertising deal between Google and Yahoo. Yes, there are concerns from the advertisers. But Yahoo keeps posting dismal profits . So, unless something magical happens to Yahoo (like an acquisition by Microsoft - oh wait), then antitrust issues won’t even matter.
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Cody Swann was working on a web application that was using the Dynamic Script Pattern , which Dojo has excellent support for , but Prototype didn’t.
Cody then extended Prototype to support ScriptSrcTransport similarly to how Dojo does it.
The code below support the Simple, Polling and JSONP and JSON Callbacks described in the Dojo book.
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Qooxdoo (pronounced “cooks-do”) has released version 0.6 RC 1 . This framework has come a long way since our first post on it over a year ago. Qooxdoo is a LGPL javascript framework with a rich set of widgets and supports namespaces, events, drag and drop, and layouts. For a quick look, check out the demos (particularily the “at-a-glance demo” ), or go straight to the download page.
Details on this release:
widgets based on the on th... more
A week after winning applause across the blogosphere for taking the big step of opening up its API , social networking site Facebook today launched a new feature called notes - essentially a blogging tool.
The best thing about the new notes tool may be that users can syndicate the full contents of other blogs elsewhere onto their Facebook page and individual imported entries can be commented on in Facebook. Blog posts, or notes as the company prefers they are called, can be tagged ... more
Oliver over at MobileCrunch posted exclusive coverage this morning of a new free service called Nimbuzz that he believes could really shake up the mobile world. Users can IM with MSN and GoogleTalk users in individual and group chats, send SMS around the world for ten cents, leave and retrieve messages and call anywhere in the world for the price of a local call. Users can also send quick buzzes, or single rings, to each other for notification of something important. Nimbuzz communica... more
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