With the upcoming $1.5 billion to $2 billion IPO of Yandex, certainly the biggest tech IPO we would have seen in a while, the Russian search giant got a fair amount of attention lately. The Times published an (somewhat boring) interview with the founder, the blogosphere commented en masse on this story. Some bloggers wondered […]

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September is suddenly here, and I, for one, have been looking forward in my diary to see what key events are taking place that I should attend - and The Future of Web Apps Expo, in London, October 8-10, certainly looks like a must.The line-up of speakers includes Jason Calcanis, Kevin Rose, Kathy Sierra, Tim […]

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Ok, so I won’t start complaining about the Techmeme echo chamber or anything like that. I don’t even feel that way about the tech news aggregator. I just want to show how excited the blogosphere is about Google’s initiative to enter the browser market. Or.., no, let me make one suggestions. Maybe Techmeme should consider […]

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It must be a real pleasure when you’re a Google Maps developer and see some people taking your product to the next level. Like Jordi Ramot did. He’s a Spanish software engineer specializing in geospatial interoperability field and when he’s not behind his computer, he likes to be in the mountains hiking, back-country skiing or […]

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Bebo represents AOL’s hope to have a successful social network, just like the other big guys. Truth be told, Bebo is quite a large player. It has 40 million users and may call itself no.1 in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand. In the US is has a respectable third place behind MySpace and Facebook. […]

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First of all, what a great domain name. Founders Keld van Schreven and Peter Brooke must have payed a stunning amount of money for diary.com. Right? Well, not exactly. Van Schreven told me that his partner owned it for years. Some Vietnamese hackers once stole it, but Brooke managed to get it back. Anyway, I’m […]

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Europe knows some language barriers, we all know that. Every time we compare the Valley with our continent, that’s the first thing which comes to our minds. But trying to break those barriers can be really worth it.Next Web team in ParisMy Next Web colleagues Patrick and Arjen plus I tried that in the beginning […]

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In an amazing turn of events Google seems to be working on their own open source version of a full fledged webbrowser. Although unconfirmed by Google the details presented by Google Blogoscoped are detailed and exciting.We will post more details as they come available but in the mean time go and visit Blogoscoped and check […]

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Two weeks ago, I celebrated the launch of Yahoo Buzz, the social media service that would “blow up our servers”. Inspired by a success story of TechCrunch, I switched all Digg’s vote buttons for those of Yahoo’s brand new social news project. Turns out this was a pretty useless move. Since August 20, StumbleUpon has […]

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All too often we hear that so and so has secured x.000,000.00 of financing in round (x). What we don’t hear much about are quiet little companies who make niche products that people are actually willing to pay for, built by small teams and who are actually profitable and largely grow organically.A new weekly seriesTherefor […]

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First it was “Prirates of Silicon Valley” that set the geek standard for biography films, now it seems that social networks are the next frontier in film inspiration. Aaron Sorkin, has started talking about starting the project to write about the formidable days of Facebook, commissioned by Sony Pictures according to several news sources. Sorkin […]

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Viewdle, the face-detection oriented video search technology company, has touched base with us to announce the alpha release of VideoFriends, a Facebook app which helps you organize your videos with extensive tagging and sharing utilities.So far, the only platform that’s supported is YouTube, although the company promises that they “will add support for many more […]

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English has always been the language to go when reaching out to as many Western Internet users as possible. Well, it’s even better now since YouTube offers a subtitle feature. So here’s an example. What about Top Gear in French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish? Just click CC on the video page.Good news for anybody […]

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English has always been the language to go when reaching out to as many Western Internet users as possible. Well, it’s even better now since YouTube offers a subtitle feature. So here’s an example. What about Top Gear in French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish? Just click CC on the video page.Good news for anybody […]

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English has always been the language to go when reaching out to as many Western Internet users as possible. Well, it’s even better now since YouTube offers a subtitle feature. So here’s an example. What about Top Gear in French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish? Just click CC on the video page.Good news for anybody […]

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