Startup Meme » Yahoo Music Adds Music Lyrics, Becomes World's First Music Lyrics Store

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:35 PM EDT (startupmeme.com)

Yahoo music has teamed up with Gracenotes to offer the worlds first and largest "legal" database of music lyrics. The database contains lyrics of music from all five major music publishers.

technology, music, deal, lyrics, yahoo-music, gracenotes

Startup Meme » Salesforce Pitches Startups With RealEstate

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:02 PM EDT (startupmeme.com)

Salesforce that recently acquired Koral Technologies to launch Content Exchange, is now up to something even bigger than acquisitions. They are now offering startups something more than restricted access to APIs or developer conferences, by setting up an incubator.

technology, ycombinator, crm, ria, salesforce, saas, incubator, coghead, techstars

Startup Meme » AmazonTunes Set To Launch In May

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:29 PM EDT (startupmeme.com)

iTunes might be the only online music store that will start selling DRM free music this May, due to its deal with EMI. However this might soon change.

technology, music, warner, amazon, apple, emi, itunes, drm, sonybmg, universal

Startup Meme » CastTV Raises $3.1 Million To Revolutionize Video Search

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 4:24 PM EDT (startupmeme.com)

San Francisco based CastTV has just raised $3.1 million in Series A Round, to revolutionize the way we search for videos online. The round was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, who have also invested in Kyte.tv recently.

technology, search, deal, funding, video-search, dfj, casttv

Startup Meme » Viacom Admits Error-Takes Steps To Protect Fair Use

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:16 PM EDT (startupmeme.com)

A short while back Viacom slapped Youtube with a massive DMCA notice asking them to take down 100,000 copyrighted videos from the site. Youtube acted swiftly and took down all those videos mentioned in the notice.

technology, viacom, eff, youtube, law-suit, fair-use

Startup Meme » YouSendIt Raises $10 Million in Series B Round

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:36 AM EDT (startupmeme.com)

YouSendIt, a file delivery service has raised $10 million in Second Round of Funding from Sigma Partners, Alloy Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds. The current funding round brings the total amount raised till now to $20 million.

technology, email, file, sharing, funding, yousendit

Startup Meme » MySpace Lifts The Ban On Photobucket Videos

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:47 AM EDT (startupmeme.com)

MySpace which recently blocked Photobucket from their site has now lifted the ban and MySpace users could see their Photobucket videos, photos and slideshows on their profile pages once again. The revelation has been made by Alex, CEO of Photobucket on the Photobucket blog.

technology, video, photos, myspace, photobucket

Startup Meme » Dojo Toolkit Now Works Offline

Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:12 PM EDT (startupmeme.com)

Today Dojo has released their Dojo offline toolkit. Dojo Offline is totally free, 100% open source and consists of a javascript library and a 300k cross platform, cross browser download that helps to cache the user interface of your web application for offline use.

technology, web-desktop-framework, dojo-offline-toolkit

Startup Meme » Kyte.tv Launches-Everyone Can Have A TV Channel Now

Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:19 PM EDT (startupmeme.com)

Kyte.tv, a new service that launched today, allows users to create their own channel to broadcast across the net. Sharing your activities with others is becoming a hot playground for startups these days.

technology, tv, video, broadcasting, funding, collaboration, social-network, dfj, atten-tv