November 5th, 2010

Deadpool Friday: HireHive, SellIt And Rudder Bite The Dust

Occasionally, we get emails from people about a startup or service shutting down (usually because they were users and received an email notification about the impending death of said company or product). We don’t always write a post about those, because, well, the majority of startups in this world happen to die trying to make a difference.

That said, we got multiple ones today, so here’s a… → Read More

May 19th, 2009

Financial Exposure: Rudder Inadvertently Shows Users Each Other's Bank Account Info

Hundreds of people who use personal financial monitoring service Rudder woke up this morning to find that their personal bank account, credit card, and other financial data was exposed to other users. One Rudder user, Angie Seaman, told us that she received not only her own daily financial update from Rudder, but also the financial update for about 300 other users (see screen shot above). And not… → Read More

September 8th, 2008

Three DEMO Companies To Keep An Eye On

This week we’re going to see dozens of companies launch new products. Here are a few of the companies presenting this week at DEMO that are showing some strong potential:

In most cases, choice is a good thing. But when it comes to online video, the abundance of content available on the web can be overwhelming. ffwd (pronounced fast-foward) deals with this by picking your videos for you. … → Read More