Today the NYTimes asks?"Either Ashton Kutcher is punking us, or the actor is now moonlighting as a technology entrepreneur. He used Monday’s TechCrunch50 conference to introduce a new Web site, Blah Girls. "After watching the promo video I'd have to guess the former. ...
Some interesting news stuff coming out of the Valley today at the TechCrunch50 event."The second session at the TechCrunch50 event was called, "Memes and News," and the companies presenting were all about mining the Web for information that's relevant to you. In other words,...
The rumors are a flyin'"Twitter may soon be adding search to its functionality, with the acquisition of Summize, according to blogger Josh Chandler. The rumor-mill is a-chirping [ed. note: tweeting?], with a...
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UPDATED The Christian Science Monitor, has posted video of the event. Here's the link. When it comes to presidential politics, Barack Obama has all the buzz on the Internet. He has raised record amounts of money online. He hired a Facebook co-founder to help leverage...
Well, this was bound to happen sooner or later. After the Associated Press issued its preposterous decision to charge for 5 word quotations of its stories, the blogosphere was quick to react. Now, the tables have...
This reminded me of the film Minority Report. " Microsoft is trying to out iPhone the iPhone. The software company, not renowned for its slick interfaces, has built a piece of equipment that will turn any flat surface into a giant touch-sensitive screen.Michael...
This may eliminate long wait times on the phone listening to a robotic female voice saying 'please stay on the line; your call is important to us'. The power of Twitter can reach far and wide it seems!"Have a...
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Footnote, a company dedicated to digitizing original source content in its original form, has digitized all 58,000 names on the memorial. The concept of footnote is valuable both practically and...
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AdSense coming to RSS Feeds..."Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal. Feedburner is in the closing stages of...
TechCrunch reports
that MySpace News, which is to be a Google News/social news hybrid for
the social networking set, is expected to go live today (as of this
writing at 8 am PST, it still has a password-protected wall up).
There are two broad avenues of thought when...
Any of you guys in on this? One of my friends is a partner in a music software company, and another lays fibre-optic cables.One thing I really liked about living in London was that the city was years ahead of North America in mobile technology but still had hot and cold water...
Daylife demo'd its new site at the NY tech meetup last night; unfortunately the presentation was disrupted by some technical difficulties. The best part of the demo came during the Q&A anyway: an attendee asked...
"Michael Arrington, who edits TechCrunch, has written a post comparing the "Web 1.0 Implosion" that started in 2000 to the current speculation on Web 2.0 companies. Although there have been numerous failed companies, he argues that these failures are not "evidence of a bubble...