TechAddress http://www.techaddress.com Providing the Latest User-Generated and Aggregate Technology News Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:26:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 en CBS Relaunches Dotspotter As TheInsider.com http://www.techaddress.com/2008/06/17/cbs-relaunches-dotspotter-as-theinsidercom/ http://www.techaddress.com/2008/06/17/cbs-relaunches-dotspotter-as-theinsidercom/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:31:43 +0000 cbs Company & Product Profiles DotSpotter http://www.techaddress.com/2008/06/17/cbs-relaunches-dotspotter-as-theinsidercom/ Source:TechCrunch
Google App Engine, which launched in April to compete with Amazon’s web services unit, has been having major problems over the last day. Currently, the application directory and, more importantly, all third party applications (here’s our test application), are offline. Developers cannot even log in to the management console.
Google hasn’t responded yet to a request […]Source:TechCrunch
After paying a reported $10 million for celebrity gossip blog and news site DotSpotter in October 2007, CBS has relaunched it as TheInsider.com. The new site is tied into CBS celebrity gossip show of the same name, The Insider. Dotspotter was like a Digg for celebrity news, and that aspect is retained in […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2008/06/17/cbs-relaunches-dotspotter-as-theinsidercom/feed/ Introducing Digg-Like Voting To Celebrity Gossip Aficionados http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/14/introducing-digg-like-voting-to-celebrity-gossip-aficionados/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/14/introducing-digg-like-voting-to-celebrity-gossip-aficionados/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:30:20 +0000 digg reddit Company & Product Profiles BallHype sugar DotSpotter lipstick showhype http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/14/introducing-digg-like-voting-to-celebrity-gossip-aficionados/ Source:Techcrunch
Many within the United States might not have noticed the trend yet, but the rest of the world has: the US dollar is in serious decline. Americans have long made fun of their friends North of the border, but today the Canadian dollar buys $1.02 US dollars making it worth more than the Greenback. It […]Source:Techcrunch
While Digg seems hard pressed to break out of its geek-infested niche, other sites are using Digg-like voting mechanisms to attack a much larger and much less tech savvy crowd: celebrity gossip aficionados.
This evening the newest, Showhype, launches, joining a number of existing sites. More on each below:
Lipstick: A Conde Naste site powered by […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/14/introducing-digg-like-voting-to-celebrity-gossip-aficionados/feed/ Why Did CBS Buy DotSpotter? http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/11/why-did-cbs-buy-dotspotter/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/11/why-did-cbs-buy-dotspotter/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:34:15 +0000 web startups cbs DotSpotter Quincy Smith http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/11/why-did-cbs-buy-dotspotter/ Source:GigaOM
The exodus of senior management from eBay’s Skype division continues. Ten days after co-founder Niklas Zennstrom decided to say sayonara to the P2P telephony company, Michael Jackson, one of its early employees and VP of operations, has left the building. I had wondered why eBay (EBAY) didn’t bump him up to the top spot.

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In these irrational times, let me attempt to offer a rational explanation for why CBS bought DotSpotter. Unlike Matthew Ingram, I have actually heard of DotSpotter, and wrote about them a while ago, so I know a couple of things about this company. First, they have an awesome team of developers, the kind CBS […]

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