While there have been many real-time search engine launches over the past few months (Scoopler, Topsy, Collecta, CrowdEye), most of them so far have fizzled (see Google Website Trends chart above). After an initial burst of curiosity, interest tends to dive. One exception, however, is OneRiot, which appears to be gaining some early traction in the real-time search race. Read more...
Tags: Apps, Google, Market Share, Microsoft, People, Search Engine, Startups, Target, Time Search, Tweets, Twitter
Earlier this week we pointed out how the almost $4 billion in smart grid stimulus funds would provide a way for young startups to do deals with utilities, and a potential way for a startup to leapfrog the competition. Well, here’s another example of that: On Wednesday Tucson utility Tucson Electric Power (TEP) announced it has requested $25 million under a smart grid grant program that’s part of the stimulus package, and it plans to use the funds for a project that would include a residential demand response program from energy management startup Tendril. Read more...
This guest post is written by Mary Hodder, the founder Dabble. Prior to Dabble, Hodder consulted for a number of startups, did research at Technorati and wrote her masters thesis at Berkeley focusing on live web search looking at blog data.
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Tags: Blog, Google, Nyt, People, Real Time, Silicon Valley, Startups, Target, Time Search, Tweets, Twitter, User Experience
A VC recently remarked that investing in Internet startups is now basically the same as investing in the “cement business.”
His point was that the two tailwinds that fueled two eras of explosive growth of business on the Web — rapid Internet adoption in the 1990s and the mass switchover from dial-up to broadband earlier this decade — have petered out. And so they have. Read more...
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