Eyepinch, Inc. BlogEyepinch, Inc. BlogSearch-Engine-Traffic.net- February 28, 2007 Is Your Business Website Gathering Dust While Your Customers Buy from Your Competitors Do You Feel Powerless to Improve Your Search Engine Ranking and Website Traffic Search-Engine-Traffic.net offers a downloadable eBook for purchase on their site that offers insightful instruction on how to optimize your site for the search engines.You&39;ll learn how to:Research and use the right keywordsWhere to place your keywords to attract the most search engine attentionHow search engines and directories.http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=96 Amazon Invests in Shelfari- February 25, 2007 Amazon has invested $1 million or so in Seattle based Shelfari, beating out at least one venture firm that competed for the deal. Shelfari is a website where users input all of the books they own, and have an online visual representation of their library to share with others. Users can share their library through the Shelfari website or via a widget, and make money by linking to the books for sale at Amazon. They launched well after competitor LibraryThing, which was itself partially acquired...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=95 Y Combinator Helping Young Startups- February 22, 2007 Got an idea Willing to hustle for a summer to see it grow Y Combinator just announced their summer application drive. Applications are due by April 2nd and by the 10th, a few will be selected to present in Mountain View on April 21-22nd. If selected, your team will relocate to work and learn in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For those of you unfamiliar with Y Combinator, it’s the seed financing fund guided by Paul Graham’s philosophies that helps young startups launch through mentoring...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=94 Adobe Brings Video Editing Tools To The Web- February 21, 2007 Adobe is pioneering a new way to deliver its industry leading creative software technologies online, with the launch of its web-based video remix and editing technology. Today, Adobe and Photobucket announced a partnership to integrate Adobe web-based video remix and editing technology directly into the Photobucket user experience, giving 35 million Photobucket users direct, free access to world-class digital video editing tools. The agreement marks a new stage in Adobe’s delivery of its..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=93 Amazon Funds Fantasy Movies League- February 16, 2007 Atomic Moguls has reportedly raised nearly $1 million in first-round funding from VC firm Second Avenue Partners and Amazon.com. Atomic Moguls has launched FantasyMoguls.com, which is essentially a fantasy league for movies. You can draft movies and earn points based on how well they do at the box office, number of weeks in the top 5, per-theater average, and their IMDb review score (IMDb is Amazon.com owned). Traditional fantasy sports leagues allow you to draft players and earn points for how.http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=92 GMail Open To Everyone- February 15, 2007 Gmail sign-ups are now open worldwide! No more waiting for someone to invite you—just create an account directly at http:www.gmail.com. And Gmail is available in over 40 interface languages (though <3 needs no translation).http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=91 Aniboom Raises $4.5 Million For Cartoons- February 14, 2007 Israeli Startup Aniboom has raise $4.5 million in an initial round of financing. The round was led by Israeli venture firm Evergreen. The site has very good user generated animated videos presented in a Flash player and embeddable in other websites. My favorite Aniboom video is embedded at the end of the post (I also used this example in our previous coverage of Aniboom).Aniboom is neck and neck with newcoming MyToons in the race to become the “YouTube of Cartoons.” Both sites are...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=90 Yahoo Brings E-Mail And Instant Messaging Together- February 13, 2007 Users of Yahoo! Mail, will be able to chat in real-time using a new instant messaging feature which is seamlessly integrated into the Yahoo! Mail beta (http:new.mail.yahoo.com). The new feature, built on the Yahoo! Messenger platform, just began rolling out to Yahoo! Mail beta users worldwide, and will be available to all users in the coming months. "Yahoo! is focused on making it easier for people to connect to those who matter most to them," said John Kremer, vice president, Yahoo!..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=89 Bolt Sells to GoFish to Pay Universal Music- February 12, 2007 Video sharing site Bolt.com is being acquired by GoFish - a smaller but richer rival, in order to pay the settlement the company has agreed to with Universal Music Group for copyright infringement. The New York Times broke the story. Bolt will go for an estimated $30 million in GoFish stock; the three year old GoFish was the first video sharing site to go public last October. Though it has just begun to bring in revenue from licensing deals, GoFish stock closed Friday just under $6 per share...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=88 Kodak And Mozilla Join Forces- February 8, 2007 Starting today, millions of online photo service users will have an easier time uploading and sharing their pictures thanks to KODAK Gallery and Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser. The Firefox Companion for KODAK Gallery combines the award-winning Firefox browser with the world’s number one online photo service making it easier than ever to upload, share and print your digital photos and create amazing photo gifts like books, calendars, collages and more. The Firefox Companion is...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=87 |