Last night, 200 entrepeneurs and investors from around Silicon Valley convened for the Founder Showcase , a quarterly startup event for seed stage companies that’s put together by Adeo Ressi’s TheFunded . The winner of the event, as voted... 

Everyone is getting into the URL shortening game these days. Google , YouTube , and Facebook are just a few joining the likes of the established players such as Bit.ly Read more:  Fa.il: Bing’s URL Shortener Is Longer Than Bing’s Own Domain View... 

Everyone is getting into the URL shortening game these days. Google , YouTube , and Facebook are just a few joining the likes of the established players such as Bit.ly Read more:  Fa.il: Bing’s URL Shortener Is Longer Than Bing’s Own Domain Go... 

Zynga’s FarmVille, with over 70 million monthly users, won the Crunchies Award for best social application last week . To celebrate, they are giving everyone on FarmVille a virtual gift in the form of the award. There’s a story about the... 

Last month, we saw the launch of Qik VideoCamera , an iPhone app that brings local video recording to both the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G (neither of which support video recording out of the box). The app’s release was significant given... 

As AOL started its long-awaited layoffs of 2,500 employees this week , one high-profile officer who is rumored to be leaving is chief technology officer Ted Cahall . See original here:  Is AOL CTO Ted Cahall Leaving? Read the original: Is AOL CTO... 

Yesterday, Inside Facebook reported on a nifty MySpace feature called Fan Video that allows users to pull in their Facebook profile photos using Facebook Connect — a notable move given the sites’ longtime rivalry. Some other outlets ran with... 

Eyeka , which connects brands and creative consumers, has raised €3 million ($4 million) in a second round of financing. The company already had €5 million in backing in 2006 with Ventech , DN Capital and SFR Developpement , while the company was... 

People are continually looking for new pieces of information. We go to school, read articles on a variety of subjects, have free websites such as Wikipedia , and use search answer engines such as Aardvark and Quora for the sole purpose of quenching our... 

For the past several weeks I’ve only used one web browser: Google Chrome for Mac. Sure, it’s still in beta , but it’s fast and generally bug-free. That said, there have still be a couple of annoying issues. One was that there was no...