http://lookonbusiness.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:10:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Second Rotation, the company behind gadget ‘reCommerce’ site Gazelle, has closed a million Series B funding round led by RockPort Capital Partners, with existing investors Venrock Associates, Austin Ligon, and Henry Vogel also participating. Gazelle’s service, which launched in July, allows users to receive cash for their used gadgets without ... http://lookonbusiness.com/technology/second-rotation-raises-6-million-for-hassle-free-gadget-marketplace.html Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors http://lookonbusiness.com/technology/ibm-blocks-mark-papermaster-from-working-for-apple.html MyBefia is a great little site to compare Apple iPhone applications based on their rankings in the App Store. Add up to three applications (the only annoying thing is you have to look up its iTunes Store URL) and see how rank has changed over time. It also shows estimated ... http://lookonbusiness.com/technology/compare-iphone-app-rankings-alexa-style.html We all know how tagging makes the Web a richer place (by tapping into people’s desire to categorize things and share those categories, ad-hoc though they may be, with the everyone else). Tagging brings a bottoms-up order to the Web by making information more searchable and thus easier to ... http://lookonbusiness.com/technology/tag-the-world%e2%80%94one-tweet-yelp-and-flickr-at-a-time.html Most venture capitalists will tell you that a good idea isn’t worth much - the value is in execution, which is very hard. But that doesn’t stop people from coming forward to take credit when someone hits a home run. We saw it with Google and countless others. Someone gets ... http://lookonbusiness.com/technology/the-fourth-youtuber.html Web analytics startup GetClicky sure was happy when we linked to them a couple of months ago to show early Google Chrome usage stats. And now they want more. They’ve got a new user-translation tool to make their site available to non-English speakers, modeled on the the Facebook approach. The first I ... http://lookonbusiness.com/technology/getclicky-getsmad.html Last Thursday John Battelle sat down with MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe and Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman to discuss the future of music. Some interesting things were said, including remarks by Bronfman that Warner will only sign new artists if they agree to give the label a cut of ... http://lookonbusiness.com/technology/about-that-myspace-music-device.html Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. http://lookonbusiness.com/technology/telenav-does-the-exact-opposite-of-dash-launches-their-first-pnd.html We’re still looking to confirm, but alarm:clock says they’ve learned that web widget provider JS-Kit has agreed to acquire conversation tracking service coComment. Update: looks like alarm:clock jumped the shark on this one. coComment CEO Matt Colebourne got back to our e-mail and says rumors about an acquisition are false, and ... http://lookonbusiness.com/technology/conversation-consolidation-js-kit-to-acquire-cocomment-update-no.html 360 Music deals give labels their standard cut of CD and digital download sales, but also give them a percentage of event ticket profits, merchandise sales, endorsement deals and anything else that uses the artist’s brand or music. A year ago they were still seen as controversial and experimental. Labels ... http://lookonbusiness.com/technology/%e2%80%9c360%e2%80%b3-music-deals-become-mandatory-as-labels-prepare-for-free-music.html