Quoted: One of Twitter's greatest assets has always been its developer community. But with the countless link, image, and video sharing services available (many of which are very similar to each other), most new services are lost to obscurity. When it comes to determining which services will succeed, the popular Twitter clients hold all the keys. If you're

Quoted: Have you ever thought of an quirky but innovative product that might be useful to the masses but didn't follow through with the idea? Sometimes these flashes of genius get lost in the shuffle. Startup quirky is hoping to be the platform for product ideas that are born on napkin doodles and in other unorthodox ways. The site then tries to use crowdsourcing

Quoted: You guys didn’t think I’d go to China and forget to bring you back something, did you? Sillies. My last day in Shanghai I met with Peter Crawfurd and Michael Yang the baby-faced founders of ShirtsMyWay.com. (Pictured here.) ShirtsMyWay allows you to customize a men’s dress shirt with trillions of possible combinations of details, from the material on

Quoted: Syncing calendars and scheduling meetings over email can be an arduous and annoying task. I've often wished that I could just send my calendar to contacts instead of going back and forth over email, so we could find a mutual time that works best for various schedules more quickly. Tungle, a scheduling and calendar sharing tool we wrote about during

Quoted: Since I got home from China last week, I've found myself in a lot of conversations where phrases like "the next Silicon Valley" or "just like Silicon Valley used to be" keep coming up. But while China is swimming in capital and littered with start-ups, I'm going to argue it's not the next Silicon Valley. In fact, it's something far different than I've

Quoted: Google wants more small businesses to claim their listing profiles on Google Local (which is basically listings that pop up in Google Maps and local search results). To entice them, starting tomorrow it will give local businesses in the real world with physical addresses a free dashboard akin to what Websites get for free with Google Analytics (see

Quoted: During his keynote at the TWTRCON conference yesterday in San Francisco, Steve Rubel showed off a mind map he made entitled "The Future of Twitter." The map, which I've embedded below with his permission, is an interesting way to look at the state of the service. It starts out branching into two different directions: "Twitter and the Ecosystem," and

Quoted: Blog and media network Sugar Inc. will announce a third round of funding today, $16 million from Sequoia Capital. They are using at least some of the proceeds, they say, to buy out NBC, which invested $10 million in the company in June 2007. The NBC investment came with an advertising sales deal that the companies dissolved last year. The company has

Quoted: With its real-time search and growing hordes of users, Twitter has become one of the best ways to stay up to date on current events and breaking news (assuming of course, its search function is actually working). But one of the conventions Twitter users have adopted to associate their tweets with a certain event — the hash tag — can be an incredibly