Wise Startup Blog

My whole life I’ve been pinching pennies and maximizing every drop of income I’ve received, from selling clearance items from Wal-mart on eBay in the hay-days of eBay to using 0% interest credit cards to cash in on hefty money market accounts, and I thought it would be good to showcase one of the techniques [...]

With the iPhone planning its 2.0 release in the coming weeks to days, we finally have a true competitor emerging for the iPhone 1.0! After HTC originally released its Touch, it was welcome with mild-fanfare. It had a touch screen, 3G/EVDO capability, a decent WINMO interface, but it just wasn’t there on the design side. [...]

With Firefox 3 releasing its Beta Release Candidate 1, we’re starting to see the makings of some real browser wars heating up again. Flock has just raised $15 million in a Series D (yes D, as in DOG) round bringing their total to $28 million.. I’ve personally used Flock but found that it was too [...]

Well finally Microsoft has got on the open standards bandwagon, what with Firefox increasing its market share daily, we see Office now accepting ODF (open office docs). I don’t know about you, but the only people who are using Open Office are those startups that have been forced to go legit, and instead of shelling [...]

Denny’s has introduced a rather edgy, innovative campaign to drive new customers to their restaurants. For me, Denny’s is seen as a place I’ll only frequent past 2 am when everything else is closed, and apparently Denny’s is perfectly happy with that image. In fact, they have launched a campaign to feed musicians who stumble [...]

Grooveshark is in the process of building out some pretty cool Twitter integrations and we’re playing around with the Tweetscan API today. What Tweetscan has done is essentially indexed the Twitter public timeline putting everyone’s comments available for the world to see if you follow their RSS feed. Below is an easy to use badge [...]