Technorati founder Dave Sifry found himself far from home - Dalian, China, to be exact, a city of 7 million near Shenyang. While hunting for guidebooks, he thumbed through multiple volumes and found read more » DiscussBury
Mosio, a texting-based question and answer service, is branching out, and modifying its code to support librarians, who will be able to use it to field questions from users who can't make it to the s read more » DiscussBury
"One thing investors don't really like to see is founders abandoning the startups they funded. But that is exactly what Ted Dziuba is doing with his startup PressFlip." read more » DiscussBury
YouTube Cofounder Chad Hurley spoke at the MIPCOM Conference in Cannes, France yesterday. In the talk, which is transcribed below, Hurley compares the current state of online video to the nascent yea read more » DiscussBury
This is a story that's bound to explode onto mainstream media today. RocketBoom founder Andrew Baron's father, Frederick Baron, is dying of multiple myeloma, a particularly nasty form of cancer. last week doctors gave him days to live - as of this morning he's still fighting. <br /><br />According to a blog post by Andrew, the family was preparing for the worst. And then a possible miracle cure: one of Frederick's doctors discovered last week that a multiple sclerosis drug called Tysabri, produced by Biogen Idec, may cure the cancer.<br /><br />The drug was not FDA approved for treating multiple myeloma, but Baron's father has friends in the right places - Lance Armstrong, President Bill Clinton, Senator John Kerry, Senator Tom Harkin and Senator Ted Kennedy all personally requested that the FDA approve the use. FDA head Andrew von Eschenbach ok'd it, and the drug was moved to Baron's hospital.<br /><br />But then things get crazy. The CEO of Biogen Idec, James Mullen, has apparently refused to approve the experimental use of the drug for Baron, despite personal telephone calls from all of the individuals above.<br /><br />What is he thinking. read more » DiscussBury
This week we interviewed one of the founders of online music service last.fm, Richard "Mr Scrobble" Jones. We're running the interview in 3 parts, over 3 days. This is Part 3 about design a read more » DiscussBury
This week we interviewed one of the founders of online music service last.fm, Richard "Mr Scrobble" Jones. We wanted to find out last.fm's reaction to the launch of MySpace Music and the ri read more » DiscussBury
This week we interviewed one of the founders of online music service last.fm, Richard "Mr Scrobble" Jones. We wanted to find out last.fm's reaction to the launch of MySpace Music and the ri read more » DiscussBury
