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- People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again | TechCrunch
- NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others | TechCrunch
- Coinbase says customers' personal information stolen in data breach | TechCrunch
This is a big deal as it potentially connects a lot of identities to on-chain holdings.
- OpenAI's new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding | TechCrunch
Impressive results and shows what Anthropic and Google are able to do on similar benchmarks. Notably they are even higher. According to OpenAI’s internal testing, GPT-4.1, which…
- No one knows what the hell an AI agent is | TechCrunch
AI agents are a marketing concept at this point.
- 159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO's fight with WP Engine escalates | TechCrunch
Automattic's, or more appropriately Mullenweg's, fight with WP Engine has become a whole drama. I have always thought so highly of Mullenweg and his commitment to the health of…
- OpenAI debuts GPT-4o 'omni' model now powering ChatGPT | TechCrunch
GPT-4 now better in every way. Notable about this release "in OpenAI’s API and Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service, GPT-4o is twice as fast as, half the price of and has higher rate…
- Rabbit’s R1 is a little AI gadget that grows on you | TechCrunch
I have pre-ordered a Rabbit R1 and am looking forward to playing with it. Looks like fun!
- 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users | TechCrunch
This is one of the "worst case" outcomes for why people don't want to use these genetic testing services. In an email sent to TechCrunch late on Saturday, 23andMe spokesperson…
- The world’s largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley | TechCrunch
Something about this giant airship floating around would make me chuckle. 🤭
- Amazon launches its Bedrock generative AI service in general availability | TechCrunch
Bedrock? I thought Bard was a lackluster name. This doesn't seem to be much truly new, but AWS wrapping GenAI capability into something that plays well with the rest of the AWS…
- Decentralized social networking app Damus to be removed from App Store, will appeal decision | TechCrunch
- ChatGPT prompts: How to optimize for sales, marketing, writing, and more | TechCrunch
Great example ChatGPT prompts to use in different scenarios. This is worthwhile to build an index to reference for yourself.
- Age of AI: Everything you need to know about artificial intelligence | TechCrunch
I've been giving some talks on the fundamentals of AI. This article is like an upgraded version of those talks. Great overview of the foundational components, what various…
- OpenAI closes $300M share sale at $27B-29B valuation | TechCrunch
💰💰💰
- Twitter is dying | TechCrunch
I don't think Twitter deserves all the attention it gets. For a niche of people that love immediate feeds (like me), it is incredibly addictive. But to normal folks, it has never…
- QuickNode raises $60M at $800M valuation to become the ‘AWS or Azure of blockchain’ | TechCrunch
Continued investment in crypto despite "crypto winter" and overall headwinds in tech.
- LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults | TechCrunch
- DJI’s new Mini 3 Pro drone hits the aerial photography sweet spot
I have the original DJI Mavic Mini and I have been very happy with it. The only thing I wish it had? Everything that this new Mini 3 Pro has. The follow me feature is a big win,…
- ConstitutionDAO’s bold crypto bid for US Constitution falls short | TechCrunch
This article has a good background on the forming of ConstitutionDAO , who was involved, and how the process unfolded. I’m really happy that I got to be part of this , even if it…
- Twitter accelerates again with Bitcoin tips, NFTs, recorded Spaces, creator fund and more | TechCrunch
It is fun to see Twitter trying stuff, innovating, again.
- This one email explains Apple | TechCrunch
I love Panzarino's breakdown of this email and quick interchange that launched the App Store.
- Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform | TechCrunch
Makes sense for Kasparov to do something like this, particularly coming off of the wild success of Netflix's The Queen's Gambit .
- Apple adds two brand new Siri voices and will no longer default to a female or male voice in iOS | TechCrunch
I'd like more variety in Siri voices just to have more options to choose from. I also like that they are taking gender out of the decision criteria.
- Rivian raises $2.65B as it pushes toward production of its electric pickup | TechCrunch
We all watched the Long Way Up recently and Rivian trucks are prominently in it. They seemed pretty amazing, enough that Tammy was actually thinking she might want a Rivian. We…
- Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal | TechCrunch
Amazing value for Slack. Not sure I like the idea of Salesforce buying it. I’m a regular user of Slack to communicate with my team and it is amazing. When you get deeper into it,…
- Black Friday online shopping comes in $9B, $3.6B on smartphones | TechCrunch
Retail is changing super fast with the pandemic. Smartphones continued to account for an increasing proportion of online sales, with this year’s $3.6 billion up 25.3%, while…
- Apple and Google are launching a joint COVID-19 tracing tool for iOS and Android | TechCrunch
This seems like a super important tool to get society opening back up, and it is great to see Apple and Google working cooperatively to make it happen. Getting this capability in…
- Google cancels its 2020 I/O developer conference | TechCrunch
Tech conferences are being cancelled by the day with Covid-19.
- A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’ | TechCrunch
This seems like it could be incredibly valuable, but it’s a little hard what "it" would be. Github was defined by git , which it didn’t actually make. But there is definitely a…
- Salesforce announces it’s moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure | TechCrunch
This is a big win for Azure. I don't know how meaningful these megadeal announcements with cloud providers that are obviously negotiated at the CEO level really mean, but they do…
- Why the Facebook News tab shouldn’t be trusted | TechCrunch
As the author states, this article shouldn't even be needed. Publishers should have learned a long time ago to not trust Facebook.
- Apple Music launches a public beta on the web | TechCrunch
This works really well, and if you have iTunes Match it even shows your own music.
- Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff | TechCrunch
This bums me out. Make: Magazine and Maker Faire's are really cool events. I subscribe to the magazine. I hope the organization finds a soft landing and can continue to operate in…
- Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal | TechCrunch
This is a big deal and a major get for Salesforce. A while back Salesforce tried to make their Wave offering a thing in this space. It never really got traction.
- Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware | TechCrunch
Seems like there was at least some “magical thinking” involved with this planned product, and surprising cancelation of it when it was referenced just a couple weeks prior in the…
- How Apple Card works | TechCrunch
A lot of good details answered here on how the Apple Card will work. MacStories has a very good writeup as well. I’m more intrigued about what Apple is doing here than I thought I…
- Privacy is a commons | TechCrunch
This is an interesting angle of privacy that I hadn't considered. The answer is: no, actually, not necessarily; not if there are enough of them; not if the commodification of…
- Google will stop peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door | TechCrunch
This story as well as the one about Facebook is getting a lot of attention. A number of people have seemed to think that Apple pulled the enterprise certificates because of the…
- The future of photography is code | TechCrunch
I've been amazed at the innovations that have arrived via computational photography and I am sure that there are many more coming. I tend to think that our phones will be able to…
- Atlassian launches the new Jira Software Cloud | TechCrunch
These look like nice improvements to such a widely used application.
- Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up | TechCrunch
Amazingly deep article on all aspects of Apple's upcoming "reboot" of their Maps effort. Maps have gotten better since the alarmingly poor launch, but that improvement hasn't been…
- Instagram suddenly chokes off developers as Facebook chases privacy | TechCrunch
I know a lot of people that worry about Facebook but don't seem to worry at all bout Instagram. Remember, Instagram is owned by Facebook. Use at your own risk. I won't use…
- #deletefacebook | TechCrunch
Already did that, a while ago. By the way, life without Facebook is totally fine. Go ahead, don't worry about it.
- Five building blocks of a data-driven culture | TechCrunch
Building a data-driven culture and organization is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. I think I know the basic ways to get that into technology organizations pretty…
- Facebook is broken | TechCrunch
Yes, of course Facebook is broken. And it’s breaking you too. I've not regretted deleting my account 4 years ago. Opt out.
- The Turing Tumble lets you and your kids build real mechanical computers | TechCrunch
- Airbnb is running its own internal university to teach data science | TechCrunch
Data University is Airbnb’s attempt to make its entire workforce more data literate. Traditional online programs like Coursera and Udacity just weren’t getting the job done…
- How AWS came to be
There are lots of stories about the formation of AWS, but this much we know: 10 years ago, Amazon Web Services, the cloud Infrastructure as a Service arm of Amazon.com, was…
- The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs
A convoy of self-driving trucks recently drove across Europe and arrived at the Port of Rotterdam. No technology will automate away more jobs
- Software Developers’ Growing Elitism Problem
Some, however, mistake difficulty or inaccessibility for rigor. They assume that just because something was hard when they did it that it should always be hard. I remember being…
- The Online Privacy Lie Is Unraveling | TechCrunch
- Why Is Facebook Page Reach Decreasing? More Competition And Limited Attention - TechCrunch
The surplus of content and lack of space forcesFacebook into the role of the bad guy for filtering the feed in an attempt to show the most relevant posts (plus some ads). And so…
- Salesforce Is A Platform Company. Period. - TechCrunch
Instead, the company today hit a milestone of sorts, with 2 million apps downloaded and installed on its AppExchange, making it clear that Salesforce is now a platform provider…
- Investor Chamath Palihapitiya Says Were At An Absolute Low Point In Startup Quality
Palihapitiya was interviewed onstage at our Disrupt NY conference. He argued that in contrast to past decades, where tech entrepreneurs were inventing silicon chips, putting…
- Janrain Raises $33M From Salesforce, And Others For Social Log-In Management Platform - TechCrunch
Janrain, a company that develops a social log-in management platform for developers, has raised $33 million in funding led by Millennium Technology Value Partners with Split Rock…
- Facebook Announces Its Third Pillar Graph Search That Gives You Answers, Not Links Like Google - TechCrunch
Graph search is designed to take a precise query and give you an answer, not give you links that might provide the answer For example, you could ask Graph Search Who are my…
- TechForward Wins $27M In Lawsuit Against Best Buy Over Stolen Trade Secrets
Six weeks after the exchange of TechForwards proprietary information, Best Buy decided to end the relationship and start a similar program of its own, that of course closely…
- Facebook Makes A Huge Data Grab By Aggressively Promoting Photo Sync
While you might not share all the photos you upload, Facebook can still pull out geolocation to help it figure out where you are now and what local business ads to show you.
- Why You Shouldnt Build A Business On An API Call
I am constantly amazed by the number of startups that build applications and take a huge business risk by building their company on an API call. Countless apps, particularly…
- An iPad Lovers Take On The Nexus 7
More broadly, the 7-inch tablet further opens the door to true mobile computing. I find myself constantly using it while walking around the house (as opposed to sitting on the…
- ShopSocially Launches Its Platform, Scores An Extra $550K In Funding
Rawat, who co-founded ShopSocially with Samir Palnitkar,recently shared with us some new numbers related to the impact ShopSocially was having on the e-commerce efforts of its…
- LinkedIn Acquires Professional Content Sharing Platform SlideShare For $119M
All your slides are belong to us. LinkedIn has just acquired professional content sharing platform SlideShare for $119 million in cash and stock.
- Wikipedias Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database
The projects goal in developing a semantic, machine-readable database doesnt just help push the web forward, it also helps Wikipedia itself. The data will bring all the localized…
- Why Entrepreneurs Should Not Buy Homes
Poor article about discounting one myth (home ownership) with another myth (build a startup and get rich). Two things:If you are about to do a startup or if you are in the middle…
- Pinterest Updates Terms Of Service As It Preps An API And Private Pinboards: More Copyright Friendly
The new terms put a much stronger emphasis on how Pinterest can commercially use the information you post on the site. Specifically, Cold Brew Labs (owner of Pinterest) says it is…
- Ticketmaster’s New Facebook App Recommends Concerts From Your Listening Activity
Of all the new Open Graph apps launched tonight, Ticketmaster’s new Facebook experience is the most impressive. Sure it can share that you’ve “bought” tickets, but lots of apps…
- Accel Leads $52.5M Round In Cloud-Based Data Storage And Backup Company Code 42 | TechCrunch
Code 42 Software, a Minnesota-based online backup company for consumers, businesses and the enterprise, has raised $52.5 million in funding led by Accel Partners with…
- Mark Zuckerberg interview @ Startup School
Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston. You can…
- Understanding How Dilution Affects You At A Startup
I’ve had to simplify a bit, but to make it easier to understand I’ve teamed up with Jess Bachman at Visual.ly. If you want to see a view of the power of their work check out this…
- Customer Reviews And Social Commerce Platform Bazaarvoice Files For $86M IPO
Bazaarvoice has filed its S-1 with the SEC today. The company aims to raise as much as $86.25 million in its offering. Unfortunately, the company is not yet profitable, and has…
- A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency | TechCrunch
- Video Game Retailer GameStop Opens For Business On Facebook
Video game retailer GameStop is throwing its hat into the social e-commerce ring today with the launch of a Facebook store, powered by, Adgregate Markets.
- Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur?
- Quora Signups Exploded In Late December — Then Doubled From That This Week
- Neutrality Or Bust
- The Foursquare For Websites OneTrueFan Launches In Beta, Opens Up To Publishers
- Offermatic’s Love Child Of Mint, Groupon & Blippy Now Open To The Public
Offermatic revolves around getting good deals at local merchants and from national chains, but it isn’t just another deals site — there aren’t any printed vouchers, and you never…
- Social Networking: The Future
- Sales Guy v. Web Dude
- So You Want To Start A Web Startup?
- Are You A Pirate?
- Will OS X 10.7 “Lion” Be The King Of The Apple Jungle, The Last Of Its Kind, Or Both?
As you’re well aware by now, this morning, Apple sent out invites to an event taking place in one week at their headquarters in Cupertino, CA. The invite reads, “Back to the Mac.”…
- Opera In Numbers (It’s Pretty Huge)
Evidently most of the coverage on Opera Software today revolves around what products and features are coming from the Norwegian company next (Opera Mobile for Android and desktop…
- Formative Labs Will Turn Energy Saving Into A Game On The Wings Of Impressive Angels
I think we’re all well aware by now that we need new forms of energy to continue to have a future on this planet in the long-term. It’s hugely important — but it’s also not…
- Magento Mobile Broadens E-Commerce To iPhone Shopping Apps
Everyone needs an iPhone app it seems, even e-commerce sites. But most shopping sites don’t want to bother with creating their own custom mobile app. So now we are starting to see…
- Reserve Your Name At About.Me
Early this year we wrote about Pumkpinhead, the working name for new startup About.me being created by repeat entrepreneurs/investors Tony Conrad and Tim Young. We didn’t know…
- Ask a VC: Fred Wilson Gives Blunt Answers to Your Questions (TCTV)
I think this show is going to be a winner. That’s not as arrogant of a statement as it sounds, because the content has little to do with me. Your questions elicited great answers…
- YC-Funded The Fridge Takes The Privacy Headaches Out Of Sharing With Friends
- Namebench: Google’s 20% Project To Find The Fastest DNS Server
When Google launched its own DNS service last month, one of the main stated goals behind the project was speed. The problem is that most Internet users have no idea what a DNS…
- Did You Get A Magic Mouse This Holiday? Download MagicPrefs Immediately.
Back in November, I wrote up a review of the new Magic Mouse, noting that it was “Apple’s best mouse ever, but…” Essentially, the problem is a software one. Apple gave its new…
- WordPress Makes Blogging On The Fly Easier, Integrates With Twitter API
This morning, a blogging platform and a microblogging platform have become more symbiotic. WordPress has enabled posting and reading the blogs the platform powers via the Twitter…
- The End Of Hand Crafted Content
Old media loves nothing quite so much as writing about their own impeding death. And we always enjoy adding our own two cents – the AP not knowing what YouTube is, the NYTimes…
- Trouble At Twitter: U.S. Visitors Down 8 Percent In October
Ever since last summer, Twitter’s growth in the U.S. has been stalling. But in October, the number of people who visited Twitter.com from the U.S. actually declined for the first…
- Twitter: You Say Transparency, I Say Vulnerability
We received a number of tips early this morning that the majority of web servers at Twitter was exposing server and load-balancer status information to the public. The status…
- Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us
So we’ve had our fun with Facebook over the years (Why We’re Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages, Republican PR Director Calls Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg “totally…
- RSSCloud Vs. PubSubHubbub: Why The Fat Pings Win
Editor’s note: With all of the debate lately between RSSCloud versus PubSubHubbub, we wanted to hear from a developer who could actually tell us which one might be better and why.…
- Google Doubles Its Cartographers As Maps Continues To Go Wiki-Style
As an online free mapping service, Google Maps is a great product. But it’s lacking in certain parts of the world. And rather than pay people to go get information about those…
- First Interview After Acquisition With FriendFeed And Facebook
Details on the Facebook acquisition of Friendfeed story that we broke earlier today are still coming in. But we had a chance to talk with Friendfeed cofounder Bret Taylor…
- YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game
Every day, sports fans congregate at their nearest big-league stadium to bask in each other’s cheers, body paint, and beer, relishing their shared enthusiasm for the teams they…
- Facebook Is Now the Fourth Largest Site In The World
The global rise of Facebook is nothing less than astounding. In the month of June alone it gained 24 million unique visitors worldwide, compared to the month before, for a total…
- Oh No, They Didn’t? Tumblr Launches a “TumbleUpon” Toolbar.
What is it with all the toolbar copycat craziness lately. First, there was Digg going after StumbleUpon with the Diggbar. Then StumbleUpon, which already had a toolbar, introduced…
- Wall Street Journal Creating New “LinkedIn Killer” Called WSJ Connect
The Wall Street Journal has long envied the success of professional social network LinkedIn and its 15 million or so monthly visitors (WSJ.com has just a third of that). In late…
- Real-Time Conversations Hasten Social CRM
! written by @briansolis an absolute must read: brilliant and thought provoking squared
- Google Opens Up Internal Speed Tool To Developers
One of the most fundamental reasons for Google’s success is the site’s speed — search queries typically take a fraction of a second, and most of the company’s other services are…
- Amazon Updates the iPhone Kindle App
Now supports tap-to-turn-page and screen rotation. (The rotation feature has a nice extra: you can disable auto-rotation for times when you dont want it, like when youre lying on…
- As The Economy Sours, LinkedIn’s Popularity Grows
As layoffs continued to pound the economy in January, one beneficiary was job networking site LinkedIn. According to the latest January data from comScore, the LinkedIn’s U.S.…
- A Peek At Brightkite For the iPhone
Brightkite, a geo-aware social network from the TechStars class of 2007, has given us a peek at the site’s upcoming iPhone application, due to appear in the App Store in the next…
- FriendFeed Finally Gets iPhone-Friendly
FriendFeed, the popular social network feed aggregator, has released a new version of its site that has been optimized for the iPhone. While FriendFeed has always featured a…
- It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo
We just got confirmation from Joshua Schachter, the founder of delicious, that he has decided to resign from Yahoo!. Mike Arrington just spoke to him and he said that the recent…
- Fav.or.it Finally Opens Beta To Take RSS And Commenting Mainstream
- Google App Engine Goes Down and Stays Down
Google App Engine, which launched in April to compete with Amazons web services unit, has been having major problems over the last day. Currently, the application directory and,…
- Technorati Confirms New Financing; New Business Focus Coming
Blog search engine Technorati, which was simultaneously pitching a sale through Montgomery & Co. as well as a new venture round, raised $7.5 million in a fourth round of financing…
- Facebook No Longer The Second Largest Social Network
It was sort of inevitable given Facebooks monster growth over the last few years, but April 2008 was the milestone: Facebook officially caught up to MySpace in terms of unique…
- Game Over. Hulu Wins. They Have The Daily Show. And Colbert.
Ok, Ive been ridiculously hard on Hulu from the beginning. But that ends. Today. Because Hulu is now streaming full episodes of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert…
- Gmail Labs: A Public Stage for Googlers 20% Time
Google invited members of the press to its main campus in Mountain View today to unveil Gmail Labs. Gmail Labs is essentially a stage for Google employees to develop new features…
- Dont Look For BFFs When Pitching For VC Dollars
TheFunded started publishing a list of top rated venture capitalists today. The ratings are based on reviews (either anonymous or not) written by entrepreneurs whove pitched those…
- ClearContexts Stab At Making Email More Manageable
It might not be as sexy as Xobni, but Outlook users who find that plugin useful should check out ClearContext Personal. It too intends to make email more manageable, albeit with a…
- New Relic to Monitor Performance of Rails Applications
New Relic is looking to capitalize on the growing number of Ruby on Rails application deployments, having recently raised $3.5M from Benchmark Capital for their Rails Performance…
- Zenbe: Next-Generation Webmail, With A Platform Twist
Zenbe is one company willing to go out on a limb, build a completely stand-alone webmail solution, and push the envelope on whats possible with email. The service, which is…
- Mint Moves Into Investment Tracking
Silicon Valley-based startup Mint, which provides a service that lets users manage their checking, savings and credit card accounts online, will launch a new product on May 6 that…
- CBS SportsLine Founder to Launch OPEN Sports Network
Fantasy sports leagues are incredibly popular but many of them are still locked in archaic walled gardens. If OPEN Sports Network makes good on their promise of open APIs, they…
- Twitter Trends: Twist
The popularity of Google Trends, which lets users compare the relative popularity of words and phrases based on the quantity of search queries on Google over time, is starting to…
- Who Are The Biggest Users of Amazon Web Services? Its Not Startups.
Amazon loves to talk about its Web Services because it positions the company as a bold innovator bringing cloud computing to the unwashed masses and other companies still stuck in…
- TwittEarth Makes Twitter A Global Experience
Twitter visualizations are nothing new, but they always provide a great way to waste some time. The newest, TwittEarth, is eye-candy at its finest - a mesmerizing and mostly…
- Where Are All The Google Data Centers?
There are 36 data centers in all19 in the U.S., 12 in Europe, 3 in Asia, and one each in Russia and South America. Future data center sites may include Taiwan, Malaysia,…
- Playboy.com Goes Mobile with iPhone-compatible Version
Playboy, Americas favorite magazine (for the articles), just announced an iPhone version of the Playboy.com website. The site features an iPhone-esque UI and includes a HotorNot…
- Amazon Launches SMS Buying Service
Amazon has launched Amazon TextBuyIt, a service that allows Amazon customers to purchase items via mobile phone text message. To use the service, customers text the name of a…
- Need A Job? Make $1.20hour Tagging Photos
New service TagCow caused a bit of a stir over the weekend. The product seemingly solves the problem of auto-categorization and tagging of photos, something that seems to still be…
- Is OpenID Being Exploited By The Big Internet Companies?
OpenID, a distributed single sign on solution that allows people to sign into different services with the same login credentials, gained significant momentum over the last year as…
- Quotably: The Perfect Tool To Make Sense Of Twitter
A new service called Quotably may be the best third party Twitter-related service so far. Thats because it reformats Twitter messages into threaded conversations, making it…
- 2,433 Unread Emails Is An Opportunity For An Entrepreneur
I routinely declare email bankruptcy and simply delete my entire inbox. But even so, I currently have 2,433 unread emails in my inbox. Plus another 721 in my Facebook inbox. and…
- LinkedIn, Now For Companies
LinkedIn, the boring social network that wont find you a date but may land you a job, is expanding beyond people profiles. On Friday morning they will launch company profile pages…
- Sequoias Gospel of Startups More True Than Ever
If you are an entrepreneur seeking a moment of clarity, there is no better place to start than Sequoia Capitals Elements of Sustainable Companies. Its not new - these are the…
- More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant.
Interesting post about the evolving blog landscape.
- Google Maps, Wiki-Style
Google is getting more comfortable with its inner wiki. It is now allowing anyone in the U.S., Australia, or New Zealand to improve Google Maps by editing places for everyone else…
- WeGames 19 Year Old Founder Raises $3 million Financing
San Francisco based WeGame, a YouTube for gamers (although it is much more than that) seems to be off to a solid start. Since launching last month, founder Jared Kim says 7,000…
- Google Analytics Data Sharing: Why Not Go All The Way?
Google Blogoscoped (and the Google Analytics Blog) is reporting that Google is now giving users the opt-in option to share their Analytics data with other Google services, and/or…
- SeaDragon In Silverlight: The Coolest Bit From Mix Keynote One
Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia Site with Deep Zoom Announced in the first Microsoft Mix keynote this morning was advanced zooming capabilities in Silverlight 2. The functionality…
- Kevin Rose Cant Keep Up With E-mail; Blaine Cook Cant Wait To Speak With a Human
On Friday, I moderated a fun panel at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami (see photo above). The basic premise was to try to come up with a compelling web app in 40…
- March 6th Date Set for Apples iPhone Software Roadmap Event
Apple has sent out an email to the media announcing a March 6th event for laying out an iPhone Software Roadmap that will focus on the SDK as well as new enterprise features. Its…
- Bloglines Suffers Major Outage
RSS reader Bloglines has suffered a major outage over the weekend with the service simply ceasing to update any blogs from just before midnight PST February 24. Threads on the…
- News Corp.-Yahoo Discussion Go On. And On.
News Corp. has essentially planted four or five deal guys at Yahoo HQ, working directly with Yahoo business development to try to find a deal to combine MySpace and Yahoo that…
- Things Are Looking Good At Startup Schwag
Youll either think this is lame (not target market) or so cool youve wet your pants (target market) and act accordingly. The first attempt at the model by Valleyschwag didnt scale…
- The OpenID Train Steams Ahead: Google, IBM and Verisign Said To Be Joining
TechCrunch UKs Mike Butcher is reporting that Google, IBM and Verisign are in late stage discussions with the OpenID Foundation. This news comes on the same day that Google,…
- The Truth That Dare Not Speak: The CES Keynote Sucked
Another year and another keynote speech at CES tops the headlines on Techmeme. The team over a CrunchGear did a good job under the circumstances live blogging Bill Gates and…
- Zed Shaw Puts The Smack Down On The Rails Community
Wow, you don’t see rants like this every day. Zed Shaw, who created Mongrel, a library and web server that just about everyone uses to serve rails applications, is basically a God…
- Need a Baby Name? Nymbler Has A Hunch About What You Might Like.
Any parent knows how hard picking a name for a baby can be. The Web makes it easier to research names, but the majority of baby-naming sites simply overwhelm you with too many…
- Twitter Downtime On the Upswing
Even after moving to a new data center, Twitter has been undergoing some growing pains. Royal Pingdom reports that the service has been down almost a total of six days since it…
- Oh My God Apple Killed Think Secret Those Bastards
Apple and Apple blog Think Secret have settled their long running legal dispute over leaked Apple secrets, and under the deal Think Secret will cease operation. According to a…
- Google Talk Gets One Step Closer To The Ultimate Babel Fish
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in…
- Google Wants To Index Your Videos
- Flickr Adds Stats To Photo Pro Accounts
Flickr has provided an attractive place to show off your photos and get constructive feedback from the community. However, their advanced comment and tagging system leaves out the…
- Adobe Releases BlazeDS, Open Source Version of LiveCycle Data Services
One of the difficulties facing developers who want to create rich internet applications is HTMLs static nature, which requires that pages (unassisted by other scripting languages)…
- Scoble To Leave PodTech, Heading For Fast Company
Famous blogger Robert Scoble will be leaving his current job at PodTech in mid January, he says. He will likely be joining Fast Company to start Fast Company TV. Scoble was with…
- NYTimes Surges, CNet Slumps
Ever since the NYTimes.com swept away the last remaining boulders of its subscription pay wall (aka Times Select) in mid-September, its traffic has been going through the roof.…
- LinkedIn API and New Homepage Drawing Near
- Nobel Laureate Says The Internet Makes Us Dumb, We Say: Meh
Newly awarded Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing has used her acceptance speech to tell the world that the internet makes us dumb. According to Lessing, who was too old and ill to…
- Making Fun Of Facebook Is Fun: Add Fake Beacon Actions
A new Facebook application called Bonfire is my favorite. The idea is that you can beat third parties who are inserting information about what you did on their sites into your…
- Step 1: I Purchased A 23AndMe DNA Test
- Google Pre-Launches New iPhone Interface
We heard a rumor that Google was going to launch a new interface for users accessing the site via an iPhone in the next few days. But an anonymous tip let us know it actually…
- The Ghosts Of Web 1.0 Are Being Acquired: AllBusiness.com Sells For $55 Million
- News Corp May Have Found God, But Not LinkedIn
News Corp has acquired New York based religious community site Beliefnet, according to a report at FishbowlNY. Beliefnet was founded in 1999 and provides a service that offers…
- AOL Gets Serious About Finance
AOL Money and Finance has been around almost as long as AOL itself - forever in Internet time. But theyve sat on the sidelines as Yahoo periodically updated their own property,…
- News Corp Gets Serious On Online Advertising: Fox Interactive Ad Network To Power Other Sites
Fox Interactive Media (FIM), the online arm of News Corp has plans to become a full service online advertising agency that provides advertising to non-News Corp sites.
- If You Dont Use Del.icio.us, You Will Now
Social bookmarking service Del.icio.us has one of the more popular Firefox Add-ons, but until recently it didnt sync with your account and bring bookmarks and tags to the browser.…
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