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Patent Lawsuit Silly Season: TechCrunch Sued For Patent Infringement After Critical Blog Post from the this-will-end-badly dept There are different levels of ridiculousness when it comes to patent...
The Future of Web Apps conference kicked off in London today and almost 2,000 startups and developers hit the East of London for the event. Highlights from the day included Kevin Rose from Digg an...
Google Turns On Text Ads In Google Maps - TechCrunch October 9th, 2008 Google Turns On Text Ads In Google Maps TechCrunch, CA - 28 minutes ago So far this week, we’ve seen new click-to-buy butto...
World Golf Tour got some great love from TechCrunch the other day. The site that we called World Golf Tour: Golf Nirvana on Your Web Browser, earned the following praise from TechCrunch: World Gol...
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I’ve enjoyed watching the economic crisis unfold because the tech blogosphere has provided no shortage of amusement. For instance, TechCrunch, once the bastion of Web 2.0’s irrational exuberance, i...
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Second Cup - How to Win this Election: Posted by Jordan Tuch Thu, 2008-10-09 13:36 Tell America To Google The Facts! Another Way To Follow The Campaign: Dipity’s Election Center...
We now have a horse race for who will become the enterprise version of Twitter. Today marks the beta launch of QikCom, which is aimed at companies that want their employees to communicate with e...
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As they so sneakily mentioned they would do in last week’s Renoir announcement, LG has announced the 8 megapixel KC780 slider phone. When the promo shots of the KC780 were leaked back in Septem...
nobosh detailsShare Story IBM's Profit to Beat Street Estimates The company keeps its full-year outlook in check. TheStreet - 21h ago Read Story nobosh detailsShare Story ...
0 comments ADVERTISEMENTS I noticed that Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch has a post on Wikinvest today but he failed to mention something that is quite significant about Wikinve...
Two prominent investors have communicated a similar, ominous message to their companies this week in light of the financial crisis on Wall Street: buckle up, because it’s going to be a bumpy...
In their own words “Connect to brands looking for talent. Share with your creative peers. Show off your portfolio in all it's HD glory. Manage projects. Take your career to the next level.” Why ...
If you are reading this, you are in a very small minority of people who read genre short fiction (I assume you read short fiction if you are reading this column on a genre short fiction website). ...
-- Forget Wall Street. Is Silicon Valley on the verge of an epic fail? GigaOm -- Turn off the lights, return the kegs (and get your deposit). The party's officially over, investors tell start-ups...
Is it just me or has no one else noticed RSS feeds for Google Search for Blogs? After reading that RSS feeds in Google search is coming soon on WebProNews, quoting both SearchEngineLand and TheWal...
The current market gyrations have investors running everywhere seeking advice. What better time to launch a newswire culled from the latest posts of financial bloggers? That’s the behind Wikinve...
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Is Apple's laptop reboot still on for next week? If the velocity of leaked photos is any indication, it seems possible. The latest: Three photos of Apple's supposed new aluminum-frame MacBooks, p...
Tonight I was standing outside the Synagogue holding my son, Marlon, who was conveniently unable to sit through Yom Kippur services. I was reading this Techcrunch article which featured Ron Conw...
Getting instant traffic for blog is not as hard as some people may think. By applying some clever techniques we can gain some good traffic for our blogs in no time. Some of these techniques are ver...
One thing Ron made clear in a conversation with me today. He’s not worried about the state of innovation in Silicon Valley, and he isn’t going to stop investing. He’s not pessimistic about the futu...
One thing that makes me want to punch people in the face is when I hear “blogs are the new newspapers”. No, they’re not. For one thing, there’s quality. Even the worst newspaper has pretty well-...
The iPhone’s birtual keyboard is a but small for some people in portrait mode. You can only turn the keyboard to landscape mode in Safari which is kind of lame. However, with TouchType (new app) y...
HTC releases Touch HD demo video, complete with Enya Posted by: admin in Mobile Gadget I got to spend about 5 glorious minutes with the HTC Touch HD behind closed doors not too long ago, and ...
Earthcomber, a location focused applications provider has filed suit against TechCrunch, Interserve and Loopt over patent infringement. The core of the complaint started with a charge against Loo...
0 comments ADVERTISEMENTS I’m really surprised to see a well known tech blog such as TechCrunch covered a porn site earlier today. Personally, I find it unbecoming for TechCrunc...
I’m kind of sick and tired of RSS feeds now. I have used NetNewsWire for quite a long time. I subscribe to a few hundred feeds and I try to get through them every day. This has worked well for a w...
Is your boss like Lumbergh? Maybe you should start looking for new opportunities. Check out the latest job listings on CrunchBoard. Here are some of the postings from the past week: Director of A...
Welsh police tase runaway sheep Posted in: BoingBoing A police officer in north Wales had a problem: a sheep blocking traffic on the A55 highway. Not prepared to wait after motorists got out their...
The Flickr feature adds some nice eye candy by randomly selecting highly rated Creative Commons photos as background thumbnails for up to eight days each month.
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #60 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3. You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner...
A couple memos are making the rounds today that are worth sharing. Uber-angel Ron Conway and Sequoia both delivered portfolio-wide guidance to raise money sooner (if possible), cut expenses ASAP a...
As usual I headed over to Techcrunch to see what’s new and I was hit by quite a shocking news - Earthcomber sued them for the dumbest reason on earth. Here is a brief excerpt from Michael Arringto...
After presenting at the Techcrunch 50 conference earlier this year, icharts is up and running. Icharts is a way for users to create and share online charts, think of excel but web based and much si...
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Angel Investor Ron Conway Emails His Portfolio Companies Over Financial Meltdown — Ron Conway, one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific angel investors (and he w...
With so many new tech applications and devices being invented every year, there are bound to be some patent lawsuits. But few of them name TechCrunch, the blog created by Silicon Valley bigwig Mi...
Ron Conway, one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific angel investors (and he was also an early investor in Google), wrote an email yesterday to the CEOs of his portfolio companies. In no uncertain te...
It’s been long year that Yahoo! Calendar does not bring any new stuff to users. Finally, an update is here. Yahoo! Calendar is now testing the new version which you can sign-up for closed beta a...
Online retailer Woot.com has incorporated bidding on keywords like “GOOG” and “Google Stock” into their SEM strategy for quite a while now however they just recently updated their campaign to fe...
Mobile Content Bits: Yahoo Voice-Enabled Search; Playboy Pool Party; WeatherBug Gets Mobile Ads By Matt Kapko - Wed 08 Oct 2008 03:59 PM PST Voice-Enabled Search Comes to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) on...
Naughty America, a porn production company based out of Southern California, is building an Adobe Air-based storefront called Naughty America Direct that is basically an iTunes for porn. The app ...
The advertisement on Google, which pops up on a search for “Goog” (Google’s Nasdaq symbol): “Before you jump out of that window, why not spend your last remaining dollars at Woot?” An alternative ...
Yahoo announced today that it’s launching a new version of Yahoo Calendar, including features that should integrate it more seamlessly with other online calendars, easier to use and generally pret...
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A Yahoo acquisition of AOL could happen as early as this month, TechCrunch reported Monday, citing sources close to the negotiations. "It's rumors and speculation, which we don't comment on," Yahoo...
I went looking through the new iPhone apps to fix some of its problems and found this very cool solution on TechCrunch for iPhone email. Perhaps it's my "fat fingers" as one comment put it but I ha...
Touchless is multi-touch software that uses webcams and everyday objects for multi-touch input developed by Microsoft Office Labs. It is similar to Microsoft’s Touchwall technology. Microsoft is...
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No, Microsoft is not getting into the car-wash business. But it is releasing “Touchless,” multitouch software from Microsoft Office Labs that uses a regular Web camera and everyday objects as in...
From Brand behavior in social media, state of the “laptop per child” project, to the new plan of Nokia for mobile music, news on Wikia search project, Youtube trying a new chance to create a busin...
Last night was the second U.S. Presidential Debate. One of my favorite new interactive user experiences for this election season (in addition to CNN’s approval graphs and CNN’s magic wall) is Twit...
TechCrunch, one of the best sites for those interested in anything related to the Internet, internet and computer technology, and so on, published a report by Debra Littlejohn Shinder about Google...
So you’ve dipped your feet into iPhone and Android development, but aren’t really feeling either platform? Got an you think a carrier or two would pick up for the BlackBerry Application Center? ...
0 comments ADVERTISEMENTS Well, we’ve heard of search engines but have you ever heard of music discovery engines? There’s a few that I’ve heard of and today I got to know of ano...
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Reframe It Retreads Web Annotation As A Browser Add-On — The of annotating the Web has been around for a long time. It goes back to a failed Web 1.0 startup ...
I got a tweet from Tech Crunch’s Michael Arrington proffering An Automated Music Recommendation Engine that Actually Works.” This tweet linked me to this post on TechCrunch where it is reported ...
We just added a new sponsor for the Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup East — Hangout Industries, based in Boston, will be presenting about their new "hang out" rooms for teens. Hangout also made the T...
Songreference Turns Your MP3 Playlist Into A Video Playlist 27 Comments by Michael Arrington on September 27, 2008 I love useful tools like this. Songreference has a free download for iTunes (Wind...
The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones has officially declared that the tech party is over, which means “investors and entrepreneurs may be entering a chilly period when making money from new becomes that ...
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This was a post I started writing April 25 of this year, I never finished it, but thought I’d post it now. Alternative title to this post: Web 2.0 Dust Settles. Enterprises wondering how do we no...
Google announced yesterday a new AdSense programs that will allow the integration of advertisement into Flash web games. Google AdSense is an advertising program that lets content owners easily m...
It’s unlikely Google will ever find another money machine as efficient as search advertising, which accounts for about 40% of the $40 billion advertising dollars spent online each year. But that d...
For whatever reason, Apple decided not to allow “landscape mode” on iPhone email. If you want to turn the phone when the web browser is open and get the larger keyboard that makes two thumb typing ...
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Jimmy Wales: The New Wikia Search API “Is Like Facebook Apps For Search Results.” — Jimmy Wales is opening up the Wikia Search engine to anyone who wants thei...
Earlier, we published a list of free web services that a company can use to better run their business. However, tools do not really make or break a company. Having the right attitude, and making t...
nobosh detailsShare Story Ten Years Later, Yahoo Finally Updates Its Calendar It's literally been ten years since Yahoo updated its online calendar. And it's been more than two yea...
PDA's Newsbucket • Analyst: half of 'social media campaigns' will flop >> CNET • The importance of good user interface design >> BBC • Credit crunch hits the technology sector >> Guardian • Doe...
Mozilla Labs has launched yet another new project, this one a location based plugin for Firefox. Geode will let users to take advantage of location data embedded within a web page. Like [MG Sie...
I certainly agree with Steve Gillmor in his criticism of Dare Obasanjo’s attack on the OWF. I think the OWF is getting real work done. Not clear why Dare is acting like such a curmudgeon - but I ...
From left: StumbleUpon Backers Brad O Over the past few weeks, speculation has surfaced that StumbleUpon, a social media utility that was acquired by eBay in April 2007 for around $75 million,...
From left: StumbleUpon Backers Brad O'Neill and Ron Conway with founder Garrett Camp. (Photo: Om Malik.) Over the past few weeks, speculation has surfaced that StumbleUpon, a social media utility...
From left: StumbleUpon Backers Brad O'Neill and Ron Conway with founder Garrett Camp. Over the past few weeks, speculation has surfaced that StumbleUpon, a social media utility that was acquired ...
Widgets are awesome, especially on mobile where a simple UI is essential. These mini-applications (e.g. Zumobi, Widsets, Snipperoo, and Bluepulse) are an easy way to aggregate content and acces...
Today, when no one hardly prints on paper anymore and every company seems to be hot on the heels of promoting green propaganda, MySpace and HP decided to go against the tide and are actually encou...
0 comments ADVERTISEMENTS MySpace is up to something! MySpace is partnering with Hewlett Packard to deliver more havoc and chaos to MySpace users! Nahh… I was just pulling your...
I've written about spam on Twitter before yet follower Spam continues to annoy Twitter users. As Twitter has grown in popularity, it has gotten more aggressive about combatting spam. In the past, ...
It’s been a long time coming, but it appears as though Facebook finally has begun integrating Live Search into its main search bar, thereby providing web search in addition to its preexisting pr...
Update: And it’s back. See our thoughts below. It’s been a long time coming, but it appears as though Facebook finally has begun integrating Live Search into its main search bar, thereby provid...
Daily Tech: Watch the Presidential Debates Online With Hulu! 31 min 52 sec ago by geeksugar 9 Views - 1 comment If you want to watch the debate coverage tonight, but aren't going to be ...
nuclear winter n. I invest in Silicon Valley companies. In 2001-2004 there was a nuclear winter for deal flow dried up almost 100%. Lots of people going back to business school. I haven’t seen tha...
MyPunchbowl, a web service to plan and organize parties and events, today announced a new invitation designer. MyPunchbowl takes party planning and invitations several steps beyond eVite. The n...
oh yeah, it's just what it looks like. found via techcrunch on behalf of gmail blog, it seems as though the company really wants to ahem--step up to the plate--and give you that friendly, buddy-t...
Anybody who is considered the “geek” amongst their less tech-minded peers best look out. The BlackBerry Storm has made its way to the moving picture box, and they decided to go all Coen Brothers...
We’ve just uploaded our sixty second pitch to TechCrunch Elevator Pitches. Here’s the video: Please click through to the TechCrunch Elevator Pitch site and vote. Remember the old Irish saying,...
Instead of dwelling on whether an economic apocalypse is about to loom upon us, some startups are plugging away at improving their products. Israeli
Tech Crunch: the mean average revenue for blogs that carry advertising is $6,000 per annum.
A few weeks ago Robin Hanson over at Overcoming Bias pointed out that, as he put it, "pundits are moles" Political commentators and columnists spend a long career achieving and maintaining credibi...
After today’s reveal that RIM will launch an official app store in the near future, TechCrunch reports on BerryStore, which not only promises to provide apps for the Storm, but the rest of the B...
It seems that Microsoft’s SLPS, a programming suite for adding licensing and demo functionality to your .NET based software, is closed, adding a whiff of mystery to the down-turn. Could they have ...
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Last week Michael Arrington posted about the new pay structure at the blog network b5Media. One of the first commenters questioned TechCrunch’s decision to publish an email without b5Media’s con...
I initially wrote about come2play because they had some good game widgets and they counted with a directory of them that counted with High Spread Sharing modules for each game. Now they have so...
Usually our days are filled with completing one project after another but sometimes we get the opportunity to run around the internet and check out a few blogs from time to time. Here’s a few blo...
Technorati has just released its 5th State of the (Blog)Nation report (seen on TechCrunch). We of course are fascinated by The Money and how it cascades down the Long Tail, but that will apparently...
At this exact moment, I’m supposed to be on a boat, sailing around Turkey. I’m supposed to be sipping cocktails on the top deck of a yacht, under the scorching Turkish sun while hot girls scamper...
--Across the board, forecasts for ad sales are down, but online still faring better than print. [Paid Content] --AppsSavvy raises $3.1 million to bring together social media developers with onlin...
You're on Twitter, tweeting away to the twitterverse, and you get a notification of a new follower. Hooray! Except a quick check on the follower shows they're following about 2,359 people, and on...
SmallFishBigMoney SuperStars! The following is a list of blogs that I read frequently. I read them because they are updated quite regularly, they provide solid content with a good amount of opinio...
A screenshot of the BlackBerry Application Center, RIM’s answer to Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market has been posted. The Application Center is set to debut with the BlackBerry Storm ...
It’s FREE ADS ON TECHCRUNCH UK THIS WEEK. Here’s how to get yours in. Here’s the CrunchBoard UK RSS feed and you can subscribe to the email newsletter here. Today’s crop of jobs on The CrunchBoard...
Mozilla will launch a new geotagging project called Geode into Mozilla Labs that promises to leverage your physical location to enhance your overall browsing experience. More details will b...
I had a chance to chat with Seymour Dunker, the CEO of iCharts, at Techcrunch 50. I saw their presentation in the sessions, and thought that the of shared charts, online, was a very catchy iCha...
Quick Thoughts - Be Open and Responsive by TitaniumDreads Sometime in 2005 an instant messenger window popped open and a stranger started pinging me with friendly but very pointedly intellectu...
It’s amazing competition. While Research in Motion preparing to launch its Blackberry Application Center, a startup called the BerryStore has already launched a similar service, but “better,” acco...
"公式発表はないようだが、Twitterが「spam」というユーザーアカウントにダイレクトメッセージでスパム報告をするように呼びかけを始めた"
Yahoo may acquire AOL this month A deal between the two Internet pioneers could close this month, TechCrunch reports Monday, citing sources close to negotiations. But some analysts believe that an...
Three months after its initial launch, much-talked-about data portability service Gnip has released version 2.0 of its API, as well as the first glimpse of a business model. As we covered back in ...
0 comments ADVERTISEMENTS There is no official statement from Twitter just yet but Mark Hendrickson from TechCrunch said that Twitter has an anti-spamming system that Twitterers...
I’ll be at SMX East on Tuesday Morning, October 7th, and I’ll try to make it for the morning Keynote on with Google’s Tim Armstrong, who is President of Advertising and Commerce for Google, Inc. ...
Geode: The New Geo-Tagging Project From Mozilla Labs From TechCrunch, popular since 4 hours Tomorrow Mozilla will launch a new geotagging project called Geode into Mozilla Labs that promises to le...
Fight Spam With A Direct Message To Twitter From TechCrunch, popular since 2 hours There doesn't appear to have been an official announcement, but Twitter has begun soliciting spam reports to a "s...
Sugar High: Sugar Inc Launches API And IMDB For Fashion From TechCrunch, popular since 2 hours Sugar Inc, the company behind a network of popular women-focused blogs that includes PopSugar, is ann...
Back at the end of July, Microsoftee Dare Obasanjo attacked the Open Web Foundation for being a bunch of kids fresh out of college who hadn’t heard of IETF or other standards bodies. I dashed of...
AOL and Yahoo have revived and even accelerated merger talks and may be ready to strike a deal by the end of October,
