CSR has acquired Swedish GPS software developer, NordNav for a total of $75 million. In addition, CSR has acquired the assets of Cambridge Positioning Systems for $35 million.
Cambridge Silicon Radio expects to release product based on these acquisitions in the first half of 2007 – NordNav brings a proven software-based GPS solution and CPS a specialised location system technology.
Categories: Startups · Tech/Silicon Valley · Venture Capital
An experiment conducted by Stephen De Chellis on the effect of bookmarking blog posts across various solutions has produced some revealing results.
First off, Netscape delivered minimal results.
Secondly, and not surprisingly given their marketshare, once the story hit the front page of Digg, digsters flocked to the blog in question. The third news aggregator used, Stumbleupon, saw healthy initial results, but nothing like the Digg-generated traffic.
The real surprise came a week or so after the blog post when Digg traffic was way down, and Stumbleupon was very healthy.
Stephen concludes….Digg had brought in the highest number of hits, but they were fleeting. A massive wave of people will go from Digg, to your blog and then never return. Netscape? Do I even need to linger on that one? StumbleUpon… there be the long tail for a blogger!
Categories: Attention Economy · Blogging · Media · Social Media · Socnet · Web · publishing
Despite attention-based, customised news solution Findory being iced by its founder Greg Linden, the Attention Economy is live and well.
Michael Arrington, commenting on Findory entering his DeadPool, says that…it will take a significant technology step forward for a new startup to get traction…in this space.
We’ve spoken about them before, but have just blogged over at Techcraunch regarding Touchstone being recognised by the Burton Group as the closest thing to an attention management system.
Well, Michael, after a few months of alpha testing, we believe Touchstone is just such a significant tech step forward.
Chris Saad, Faraday Media’s CEO (the developers of Touchstone) highlights the following ways in which their system differs significantly from Findory:
* Touchstone aggregates all your information sources (email, alerts, news) as news is not the only thing vying for your attention
* Touchstone does not recommend more content, it filters your existing content set
* Touchstone does not just create a page you have to keep checking – it brings the info to you in the form of a news ticker, popup alert, sms, etc. The more important the info, the bigger the alert.
* Touchstone is also a platform, so others can innovate on top in order to find the right mix of aggregation, ranking and presentation.
Categories: Attention Economy · Media · Social Media · Startups · Tech/Silicon Valley · Web · publishing
