KillerStartups, or rather its overarching company Startups.com Networks, has been in the news lately. First, they picked up Startups.com in a killer deal, next thing you know they’re launching their own web applications (Twingr). Now, they’re introducing the strangely named but quite useful Dataopedia, which is meant to serve as an information resource for websites.
It’s [...]

Qui Diaz is director of strategy at Livingston Communications and specializes in social media for social causes. She proclaims ‘the good’ on her blog, Evange.List.
As the economy goes, so goes giving to causes that need donor dollars to keep doors open. While we bemoan sacrifices of luxury goods, our global social sector is faced [...]

This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials.

Company Name
Veedow
20-Word Description
A shopping discovery site that recommends products based on every user’s interests and helps them discover products they’ll love.
CEO’s Pitch
Veedow is a personalised shopfront that recommends products in line [...]

Downloading YouTube videos isn’t a feature supported natively by the site: copyright issues are the likely reason. And yet, often we find ourselves wanting to download a great video to our desktops for remixing or offline viewing.
KickYouTube serves up an elegantly simple solution: simply go to the YouTube video you’d liek to download and [...]

You love Twitter, but you find its short form messages a little restricting? Or perhaps you want to add images and videos to your Tweets? TwitBlogs, which just went live in alpha, could solve all your problems.
What you’ll notice about Twitblogs versus other simple blog platforms like Tumblr and Posterous: it looks [...]

Whether you’re new to the world of authorship or a veteran trying to make the most of Web services and applications, there are a number of online tools for writers of all types. From blogging platforms to networking hotbeds, and job boards to real-world gatherings, and more, the supply of utilities is comprehensive, to say [...]

Chris Snyder is an online journalist specializing in new media. He writes about the tech biz for Wired.com’s Epicenter blog.
Technorati with its search engine, tags, feeds and rankings has become the go-to source for all things blog. The site has undergone several makeovers over the years with the most recent changes drastically simplifying the design [...]

Doh. Domain squatters snatched away the domain name GeorgeWBushLibrary.com and made an easy $34,990 profit on promptly selling it to back to Yuma Solutions, the web development company that let it expire. Yuma has been a contractor for the Bush family for quite some time, and the domain name they accidentally let expire belonged to [...]

Shimon Sandler is a search marketing professional. He authors a blog at Shimonsandler.com
In this bad economy when many advertisers are slashing their online ad budgets, it behooves us all to review optimization tactics to ensure we make the most of dollars allocated to Search. What do you do when you are handed an AdWords account [...]

Strands, the lifestreaming service currently in private beta, launches an iPhone app in the App Store today. Previously the service, which aggregates updates from social sites ala FriendFeed, had a mobile interface but no actual app. Is it worth the install?
It’s a slick, fast-loading app that lets you view your friend’s updates in [...]