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Gmail Lets You “Undo” Sent Messages
Another day, another new feature in Gmail Labs. This one could be more useful than most, as it’s something you probably have a reason to use with some frequency. It’s called “Undo Send,” and as the name suggests, it lets you take back a sent email, as long as you act quickly enough. After enabling the feature, Undo Send works much like Gmail’s other “undo” features. When you send an email, [+]Dave McClure: Angel, VC or Pirate? (RWW Interview)
Dave McClure has fingerprints all over the social media map, so you have probably seen him on his blog, his Twitter account (which has 15,880 followers as of this writing), or Facebook. Dave is an angel investor who recently joined a VC fund (the Founders Fund).The accepted wisdom today is that angels have buried their wallets and run for the hills. So it seemed like a good time to interview an investor who is very [+]MyAlltop: Alltop Gets a Custom Feed Reader
This year’s SXSW Interactive festival marks the one year anniversary of Guy Kawasaki’s official launch of Alltop, and since its debut the service has transformed from a site with just a few categories to a resource that now houses over 31,000 feeds on 550 different topics. It wouldn’t be a monumental birthday if Alltop didn’t have big news, so thankfully Kawasaki does not disappoint with today’s big reveal of MyAlltop. MyAlltop makes it easy for users [+]True Ventures: The VC Startup (RWW Interview)
This is the first in a weekly series of interviews with venture capitalists. We chose True Ventures to kick off the series because it closed a Series A deal for Syncplicity in the dark days of October 2008, earning it a spot on our A-Team. When it closed a second Series A with Loopfuse in February 2009, it joined a very small contingent of VCs that have done two Series A deals since the financial [+]Does Society Benefit From Behavior-Based Advertising?
Google turned some heads this week when they announced behavior-based advertising - targeted ads based on browsing history. Although not as striking, Facebook made some headlines as well, announcing geo and language ad targeting. Both cases display the desire of advertisers to have as detailed and targeted advertising campaigns as possible, as well as Google and Facebook’s desire to simply make more money through advertising. Concerns have been raised by privacy groups over user [+]Cruxlux Reveals Related Web Content
At SXSW Interactive yesterday, I met Curtis Spencer (@cruxlux) in the hall between panels. We sat down and spoke for a few minutes and he told me about an application he was developing called Cruxlux. The name describes what the application attempts to do: Lux for light and Crux for the decisive point. In essence, the goal of Cruxlux is to analyze the web page you are visiting, and scour other web sources for related [+]The Artist’s Guide to YouTube
Natasha Wescoat is an artist and illustrator with a passion for community and social media. She authors a blog at NatashasArtCandy.com. Videoblogging isn’t just for teenyboppers with Flips. It’s a simple way professional creatives can make use of high traffic sites like YouTube to showcase their work and communicate with their audience in a fun and effective way. Videos are a great way to offer your audience a window into your world. Artists can create their [+]Happy 20th Birthday, World Wide Web
On March 13th, 2009 the World Wide Web will turn 20 years old. Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented this world-changing layer on top of the Internet on this day in 1989. It's hard to overstate the impact this young technology has had already and it's even more exciting to think about where it's going in the future. Berners-Lee has some great ideas about where the web should go next. His vision is of a [+]
