French designer has a unique take on Facebook's new profiles

Mere days after Facebook launched their new profile layout, French designer Alexandre Oudin took advantage of the concept to customize his profile. Techcrunch soon picked it up and it instantly became...

Spoof Jay-Z video about 'dorks' is taking the internet by storm

A video titled 'Entrepreneur State of Mind' is quickly becoming an internet hit with geeks all over the world. It's a spoof of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys song 'Empire State of Mind' and the song is all about...

Back to Basics: Why Marketers Are Taking a Second Look At Forums

Social networking. The Superbowl. New Media. What do all these words conjur up?  For many of us in the marketing world the first thing we think of when we hear these words is ad revenue. Despite the recession, 2009 was a remarkable year for online advertising....

TechCrunch Hacked Again: This Time It's Personal

Techcrunch got hacked for the second time in 24 hours. Yesterday's hack forced adult content onto Techcrunch. This time, the hackers left an expletive-ridden message for Techcrunch founder Michael Arrington, which...

Google Plans To Launch Live-Streaming Music Service

Google will soon be launching a live-streaming music service involving major label artists who will supply material for the feature such as videos. This new service will be separate from Google's involvement in...

Michael Arrington, Top Tech Blogger, Abandons iPhone

Michael Arrington, Founder and Co-Editor from TechCrunch, published a blog post "I Quit The iPhone" about his recent decision to abandon the iPhone and AT&T. The decision was motivated by Apple's ban on Google Voice Application ealier this week. " Apple and AT&T are...

Leo Laporte throws Michael Arrington off the Gillmor Gang

Leo Laporte blew up at Michael Arrington and cut him (and the rest of the gang) off the set of the Gillmor Gang - Leo Laporte and "Friends" no longer. Leo Laporte called out Mike Arrington of TechCrunch after he...

Twitter's Faux Premium Accounts Dupe Users, But Get Them Thinking

As Twitter hasn't exactly stepped forward with a business model, others are stepping in to do it for them. In a cleverly-worded post on Thursday, BBspot offered up a legitimately interesting (if slightly mocking and...

PediaPress | Print Your Favorite Wikipedia Articles As Books

Techcruch carried an interesting note on how you can create a book by importing wikipedia pages. What is great is that you can create a book on any topic, sort information by chapters and PediaPress takes care of typesetting, printing and shipping. PediaPress allows you to...

Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of sh*t"

Last.fm, a fantastic service that streams commercial-free music over the net has come out swinging against allegations made by TechCrunch that they are giving away member information to help the record industry...

iPhone tethering coming soon according to AT&T

According to Harry McCracken of Technoligizer, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega reportedly told Michael Arrington that the iPhone will be allowed to work as a modem for your notebook soon via wireless tethering over a Bluetooth connection. Michael Arrington's...

Searchme tries music streaming to attract users

I love how these new sites are adapting to the times as far as streaming music "legally" over the web.  I personally enjoy streaming since it allows me to listen to  a full CD BEFORE I spend my...

Did Ashton Kutcher punk TechCrunch50?

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. ...

TechCrunch50: New ways to read and react to news

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,...

Twitter to buy Summize?

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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