Eyepinch, Inc. BlogEyepinch, Inc. BlogBitPass- January 20, 2007 Four year old online payment startup BitPass is calling is quits, via a mass email to customers. The message, which comes from Mathew Graves, gives no reason for the shutdown although we can presume it is due to cash flow, or lack thereof. Bitpass raised over $13 million in two rounds of financing, with the bulk of that raised in late 2004. But their business model of facilitating small purchases via stored value had few takers and transaction volume never ramped to sustainable levels. A recent.http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=74 Adobe Delivers Flash 9 For Linux- January 19, 2007 Adobe announced the availability of Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux, the next-generation client runtime for engaging with Flash content and applications on Linux open source operating systems. Adobe Flash Player 9 delivers a consistent cross-platform experience and extends unprecedented performance and advanced features to the broadest set of developers and users to date. Additionally, Linux developers can create, test and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the Linux platform using the..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=73 Jigg That Music- January 18, 2007 iJigg is a new, easy-on-the-eyes music site that launched a couple of days ago. Think Digg for music, plus lots of Flash functionality. Songs are presented on the home page and can be “jigged” by members. Songs can also be embedded into web pages (I’ve done so with one of the popular songs below), commented on, etc. Songs are tagged for easy browsing, and there are most popular and recently posted areas as well.As a music discovery service, it’s compelling. And the Digg..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=72 Google Finance: Real-Time Quotes- January 17, 2007 At Google, they are all about making all kinds of information accessible to everyone. The more up-to-date the information, the more valuable it is. This is particularly true in the world of finance; information, and timing of that information, is money. Today, real-time quotes are not freely and easily available on the web. Some websites offer one real-time quote at a time, but typically only after you have enrolled in a service andor signed a complicated legal agreement. Other sites approach...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=71 Adobe Releases Major Upgrade to RoboHelp- January 16, 2007 Adobe announced Adobe RoboHelp 6, a complete, flexible and user-friendly system to create, manage and publish software help systems, knowledge bases and documentation for desktop and Web-based applications. As a key element of Adobe’s technical communications product line-up, which includes Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe Captivate and Adobe Acrobat, RoboHelp 6 provides all the desktop functionality that authors need to create advanced Help content, including table of contents, index, glossary,...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=70 Adobe Announces Availability of Acrobat Connect- January 15, 2007 Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the immediate commercial availability of Adobe Acrobat Connect, the first hosted web conferencing service to offer “always-on” personal meeting rooms. Acrobat Connect enables knowledge workers to instantly meet and conduct business online through real-time, interactive web conferencing that is simple to access and easy to use. Unlike other web conferencing solutions, Acrobat Connect enables users to choose an easy-to-remember web address for...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=69 Apple Continues To Bully Bloggers- January 14, 2007 Apple has a history of using lawyers against bloggers. There was the now infamous Think Secret lawsuit, which may have had merit. But they also engage in clearly superfluous, bullying tactics as well. In August we received a letter from Apple’s lawyers demanding that we remove an embedded YouTube video showing features from OSX 10.5. We felt this was an extreme position to take - Apple could have simply requested YouTube to remove the video. And this wasn’t a trade secrets issue -...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=68 Geni- January 13, 2007 David Sacks, former executive at PayPal, apparently has something left to prove. After PayPal&39;s $1.5 billion acquisition by eBay in 2002, Sacks went on to create Room 9 Entertainment, a production company that produced and financed the (really excellent) movie Thank You For Smoking. He purchased the Uma Thurman overdose house from the movie Pulp Fiction a while back. And now he has a new startup called Geni, with the audacious goal of “creating a family tree of the whole world.”http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=67 Adobe Releases Flex For Macintosh- January 13, 2007 Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the delivery of Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2 for Macintosh, an extension of its powerful toolset for designing and deploying a new class of rich Internet applications. The release of Flex Builder 2 for the Macintosh helps developers and designers build engaging Web applications that combine the benefits of desktop software with the reach of the Web. The Adobe Flex 2 product line provides developers with a comprehensive, integrated set of tools and.http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=66 When Will JotSpot Relaunch- January 12, 2007 Google recently sent out an email to JotSpot users notifying them of an upgrade being rolled out over the next week. JotSpot has currently been closed to new customers since they were acquired by Google in late October 2006, and there has been no word of when JotSpot might be relaunched. While the email didn&39;t say that JotSpot will be relaunching to new customers, it doesn’t make much sense for JotSpot to be upgrading existing customers while they are also in the middle of integrating..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=65 |