October 26th, 2010

Trend.ly Lands $1 Million To Discover What's Trending Online In Realtime

A small Turkish startup called lunar technologies has raised $1 million for one of its ventures, Trend.ly, managing director Ercan Yaris tells me. The money comes from undisclosed angel investors, two of them partners in one of the biggest telecom companies in Turkey.

Trend.ly is a very basic site any way you look at it. Visitors can go to the site to enter any two-element poll (live examples: → Read More

March 27th, 2009

Fizy Is The Speedy Gonzalez Of Music Search

Check it out before it gets blown off the interwebs: Fizy is probably the simplest, most powerful and fastest music search engine I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying a lot. Seemingly designed for mobile browsers rather than traditional web browsers, it lets you dig up virtually any song you’re thinking of and stream it in a heartbeat.

It’ll even display an associated video if it can detect one, and… → Read More