http://www.takeaplunge.com Ventures, Start Ups, Businesses Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.takeaplunge.com/yammer-2-0-to-launch-as-a-powerful-full-fledged-social-network-for-the-enterprise/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/yammer-2-0-to-launch-as-a-powerful-full-fledged-social-network-for-the-enterprise/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:09:49 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=4160 Yammer originally launched as the “Twitter for businesses.” It has been continuously releasing various products like mobile apps and new desktop clients, adding threaded conversations, hosted versions and more. Within 2 years, Yammer has got more than one million users and 80,000 companies worldwide (which includes 80% of the Fortune 500). Yammer has been doubling its revenue every quarter. Now, Yammer [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/yammer-2-0-to-launch-as-a-powerful-full-fledged-social-network-for-the-enterprise/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/gazehawk-heatmaps-with-web-cams/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/gazehawk-heatmaps-with-web-cams/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:30:10 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3932 Probably you already know what heatmapping is. Well, you know it- finding out where eyeballs land on your site. There are two methods available for in site heatmapping-buy costly specialized equipment that will cost you around $40K or pay a consultant upwards of $5K, who will use his/her own equipment.  Y Combinator funded GazeHawk has developed another better [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/gazehawk-heatmaps-with-web-cams/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/answers-com-gets-200000-video-answers-from-5min/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/answers-com-gets-200000-video-answers-from-5min/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:37:31 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3928 In the Internet, there are thousands of high-quality videos available in every subject you can imagine. To leverage that (and to help in serving ads in them), Answers.com has launched Video Answers,which houses 200,000 videos from video distribution network 5min. You will find videos on every subject from home repair and fashion tips to cars and travel. 5Min [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/answers-com-gets-200000-video-answers-from-5min/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/devhub-now-turns-building-a-website-into-a-game/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/devhub-now-turns-building-a-website-into-a-game/#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:50:15 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3827 DevHub is a startup that helps people to build their own blogs and websites. Intially the startup wanted to monetize through some syndication deals. Now, it is changing its approach. DevHub now features a gaming mechanic that will help new users turn their bare-bones blog templates into full-fledged websites. DevHub also saw the same problem like its competing [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/devhub-now-turns-building-a-website-into-a-game/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/ftc-bars-twitter-%e2%80%9cfor-20-years-from-misleading-consumers%e2%80%9d-about-privacy-after-2009-hacks/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/ftc-bars-twitter-%e2%80%9cfor-20-years-from-misleading-consumers%e2%80%9d-about-privacy-after-2009-hacks/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:05:48 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3733 Today, the FTC settled a lengthy investigation into issues related to Twitter. The issues are related to Twitter’s lax security practices and protection of user accounts after two high-profile hacking incidents in 2009. The first incident occurred in January, 2009 in which 35 high-profile accounts were compromised, including those of President Barack Obama, Bill O’Reilly, Britney Spears, the Huffington [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/ftc-bars-twitter-%e2%80%9cfor-20-years-from-misleading-consumers%e2%80%9d-about-privacy-after-2009-hacks/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/one-laptop-per-childs-next-move-the-100-tablet/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/one-laptop-per-childs-next-move-the-100-tablet/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 01:40:58 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3599 The idea of $100 laptop is pushed to the backseat because the nonprofit organization behind the $100 laptop for children in the world’s poorest places is jumping on the tablet bandwagon. One Laptop Per Child’s next computer will be based on chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd.’s Moby tablet design. Marvell’s prototype was showcased this year and the cost was said [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/one-laptop-per-childs-next-move-the-100-tablet/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/unvarnished-a-place-for-defamation/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/unvarnished-a-place-for-defamation/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:00:33 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3258 Can you imagine about a place where every positive and ugly opinion about you is located? You think it’s scary? Yes, it is. Comes Unvarnished with its beta debut. It is like Yelp in the sense that it hosts reviews about you. Anyone can create an online profile for a professional and then submit anonymous reviews. It [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/unvarnished-a-place-for-defamation/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/reeder-2-0-iphone-feed-reader/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/reeder-2-0-iphone-feed-reader/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:24:03 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3238 Now an app called Reeder, by Silvio Rizzi, is there to solve your reader problem. This is a nice-looking app that syncs with Google Reader. The initial version was slow and lacked some important features like state-saving. The latest version, 2.0, has corrected most of the problems. This is a simple application that focuses on three key [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/reeder-2-0-iphone-feed-reader/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/jimdo-makes-running-your-own-online-store-a-breeze-loses-investor/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/jimdo-makes-running-your-own-online-store-a-breeze-loses-investor/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:47:33 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3072 Jimdo allows people to create and publish their own basic website. It is  an easy-to-use the tool. Now selling through Jimdo is easier today as the company has added a ‘Store’ feature to their website building service. This was not present previously. The store feature will enable users to add a full-fledged ecommerce element to their [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/jimdo-makes-running-your-own-online-store-a-breeze-loses-investor/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/buy-and-sell-proprietary-knowledge-through-genapple/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/buy-and-sell-proprietary-knowledge-through-genapple/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:52:59 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=2871 When you want to find and access wanted information which people are unwilling to divulge, at least for free, a startup can help you -GenApple. It is an information brokerage company who wants to help to facilitate the exchange of such knowledge. GenApple has just entered public beta. It has created a marketplace for information and [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/buy-and-sell-proprietary-knowledge-through-genapple/feed/ 0