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| Jan 16, 2013 | StumbleUpon Lays Off 30% Of Staff As It Restructures Company Into A Profitable State | StumbleUpon today laid off 30 percent of its staff, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch. The move, which brings StumbleUpon’s employee count from 110 to 75, is part of a larger restructuring plan that will bring the web content discover... |
| Feb 21, 2012 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners makes history with $200K loan [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Apr 15, 2011 | Google Video Prepares To Enter The Deadpool For Good | Looks like Google Tags wasn’t the only product on the chopping block today — now Google Video, the mostly-forgotten service that was once YouTube’s rival, is getting the axe too.
Google just sent out an email to users who have previously up... |
| Apr 9, 2011 | Facebook Comments: What’s Easy Isn’t Always Right | Editor’s note: Jordan Kretchmer is the founder of Livefyre, a realtime commenting and conversation platform for publishers and online communities. He doesn’t think much of Facebook comments. In this guest post, he explains why.
I’m not gonn... |
| Mar 7, 2011 | The Facebook Bureau | This past weekend, I saw the film The Adjustment Bureau. It’s an entertaining movie — not great, but sort of fun and interesting. The plot (and I’m not giving anything away that the trailer doesn’t) involves a man who stumbles upon a shocki... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | Startup Roundup: Tap DJ makes top 10 paid apps list in App Store | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | LivingSocial Hits A Million Amazon Gift Cards Sold, $20 Million In Card Value | LivingSocial has been offering $10 off any $20 Amazon purchase since 5 am this morning and it’s been a boon huge for the daily deals company, which Amazon has astutely invested $175 million in. Now the extremely popular deal has just crosse... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Living Social Gets Buzz, But Still Needs a Business Model | Here's a serious deal: The discount website Living Social is selling $20 Amazon (AMZN) gift cards for $10 a piece, already pushing out more than 180,000 since early this morning. Like its competitor Groupon, however, Living Social's long-te... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | Twitter Brings Ads to the Timeline: How Will the Twitterati React? | Twitter has tried a number of different methods over the past six months to monetize its millions of users. From promoted trends and tweets to promoted accounts, the company has offered advertisers space on the periphery of its service, but... |
| Jun 4, 2010 | Microsoft cuts off cash flow to deal hounds, shutters Bing cashback | It was a sad day for online deal fanatics today — Microsoft announced that it would be ending Bing’s cashback feature at the end of July. The company said that it was ending the two-year-old program — which gave users of the Bing search eng... |
| Apr 23, 2010 | Credit Card Numbers Now on Google Thanks to Blippy (Updated with Blippy’s Response) | Blippy, the controversial site where the over-sharing, Web-connected generation can link their credit cards and share their purchases has just come under fire from numerous tech blogs as it has been discovered that people’s credit card numb... |
| Apr 1, 2010 | Former Bebo CEO takes up reins for Facebook’s sales team in Europe | Joanna Shields, the former CEO of social networking site Bebo, has come to Facebook to run its European sales and business development team.
After helping sell Bebo to AOL for $850 million, she started working in a content start-up funded b... |
| Mar 12, 2010 | Links: hunting for DreamIT class, Sunoco looking to outsource Center City IT and More | DEFINITE READS
As we tweeted, our reporter Sean Blanda is en route to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest. Drop us a line in the comments or otherwise to let us know you’re there or if you know someone else from the community is.
Center Ne... |
| Feb 17, 2010 | PleaseRobMe and the Dangers of Location-Based Social Networks | Location-based social networks like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Google Buzz are currently among the fastest growing new mobile services. All of these apps have one thing in common: they encourage you to share your current location w... |
| Feb 5, 2010 | NYC BigApps Winners Announced | I've posted about the NYC BigApps contest a few times here. And you all helped me with my chore of judging all 85 apps. Thank you for that.
Last night I walked up The Highline to IAC Headquarters to attend an event where the winners were an... |
| Jan 23, 2010 | Twitter's Project Mayhem Dilemma | In the film Fight Club (the book has a slightly different plot), the members of Project Mayhem’s main goal is to blow up the buildings that contain credit card companies’ records so that everyone’s debt is reset to zero. (Yes, I know this w... |
| Jan 20, 2010 | Chegg founder’s stealthy Kakai may be building gesture-based consumer device | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Kakai, an incredibly secretive Santa Clara, Calif... |
| Jan 20, 2010 | Chegg founder’s stealthy Kakai may be building gesture-based consumer device | Kakai, an incredibly secretive Santa Clara, Calif., company (even though it has more than 40 employees already), has raised $50,000 of a targeted $100,000 round of options, warrants and securities, according to a filing with the SEC.
A past... |
| Dec 29, 2009 | Twitter Hacked Again? Security Issues Continue | Take it from someone who knows, as last night before getting my beauty sleep I got 10 emails from Twitter. They read something like this:Hey there.
Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took pl... |
| Dec 29, 2009 | Twitter Hacked Again? Security Issues Continue | Take it from someone who knows, as last night before getting my beauty sleep I got 10 emails from Twitter. They read something like this: Hey there.
Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took p... |
| Oct 17, 2009 | This Used To Be My Playground | Maybe you’ve read some of the stories this past week about how FriendFeed’s traffic is way down following their sale to Facebook. The stats don’t look good, as the site’s traffic may have plummeted as much as 30% following its peak just pri... |
| Sep 2, 2009 | Digg Starts Nofollow-ing Links That It Doesn't Trust | Digg announced a seemingly small, but rather interesting change on its blog today: It has added a “rel=nofollow” tag to every link on the site that it doesn’t trust. What this means is that all the spammers who submit their stories to Digg,... |
| Jul 30, 2009 | New Zemanta Release | This must seem like Zemanta week here at AVC.
I spent the weekend visiting the company in Slovenia and blogged about it. Then yesterday, I blogged about my thinking on making the web smarter and focused a bit on Zemanta in that post.
And no... |
| Jul 22, 2009 | Adknowledge buys Super Rewards, expands to virtual goods advertising | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Super Rewards, an Web advertising company that of... |
| Jul 22, 2009 | Adknowledge buys Super Rewards, expands to virtual goods advertising | Super Rewards, an Web advertising company that offers points or other rewards to Web users who sign up for services, has been acquired by advertising conglomerate Adknowledge.
It is one of the largest acquisitions to date among companies th... |
| Jul 10, 2009 | Seesmic Launches Web-Based Twitter Client & New Version of Seesmic Desktop | Today, Seesmic, the developers of one of the most popular Twitter clients, unveiled a web-based version of Seesmic, as well as a new version of the Seesmic desktop. The web-based version of Seesmic basically recreates most of the features t... |
| Jul 3, 2009 | TechCrunch50: You Want Advertising? We'll Give You Advertising | Despite our best intentions, it looks like the DEMO v. TechCrunch50 war will continue, even with DEMO under new management.
In 2007 we launched the first TechCrunch50 event – a place where companies can launch to rabid fans and tech press. ... |
| Jun 26, 2009 | So Much for Video Conversations: Seesmic Puts Its Video Service on Hold | When you hear the name Seesmic today, chances are that you are thinking about a Twitter client, but once upon a time, Seesmic was a much-hyped online “video conversation” service. Now, however, after a recent redesign, the Seesmic homepage ... |
| Jun 5, 2009 | New from Izea: Forget Pay Per Post, Here Comes Pay Per Tweet | Izea, the controversial company formerly called Pay Per Post, is well-known for paying bloggers to post articles about products. These “sponsored conversations” have had big-name advertisers like K-Mart and Sears funding the campaigns as we... |
| May 27, 2009 | Tinychat Relaunches as Easy to Use Video Chat and Recording Platform | A few months ago, we reviewedTinychat, an easy to use web app for creating on-demand chatrooms with close connections to Twitter. Today, Tinychat relaunches with a number of very cool features, including video chats with up to 12 people, re... |
| May 5, 2009 | SocialToo Charging $20 for Emails, Reliability: It’s the “Spanging” Business Model! | In an email sent to users today and in today’s blog post, SocialToo CEO, Jesse Stay, announced that users would no longer be receiving nightly Twitter autofollow and unfollow stat emails on the company’s dime. Email from SocialToo now costs... |
| Apr 11, 2009 | Apple, Skype, Adobe, Others Pay Twitterers for Promos | It was only back in January that we saw Belkin make itself look like a fool by advertising to pay consumers who would write glowing product reviews, whether they had used the products or now. Well, it seems that companies never learn, and n... |
| Mar 1, 2009 | Twitter VC Laughs at the Idea that Twitter Has No Business Model | Todd Dagres, founder of Spark Capital and one of the VCs that poured an additional $35 million into Twitter recently, finds it amusing when people talk about Twitter’s lack of a business model.
“We think it’s kind of funny,” Dagres recently... |
| Feb 18, 2009 | Why Hulu Should Embrace Boxee | For those that don’t know, Union Square Ventures is an investor in Boxee and I am on the board. For the past several weeks I have watched Boxee's management try their hardest to convince Hulu that Boxee is a big step forward for Hulu and Hu... |
| Feb 17, 2009 | CloudContacts adds camera phone support to put business cards in the cloud | Back in October, blogger Allen Stern of CenterNetworks launched CloudContacts with a nice, simple idea: Take all the business cards you have and put them on the web. It’s an idea that’s undoubtedly useful for a lot of people but that previo... |
| Feb 13, 2009 | Ning's Doing Just Fine Without The Porn | At the beginning of last December, Ning reversed course on its anything-legal-goes policy by declaring a prohibition on adult social networks. The reason? Porn wasn’t paying the bills; instead of attracting advertisers, it was scaring them ... |
| Feb 12, 2009 | Why We Often Write About Twitter And Will Continue To Do So | As most of you readers know, we regularly cover stuff related to Twitter over here on TechCrunch. When we do, we often get bashed by people in comments for writing about the startup and the slew of applications that make use of the Twitter ... |
| Feb 6, 2009 | Zemanta For Webmail | Let's start with the disclosure part. Union Square Ventures is an investor in Zemanta. I'm talking my own book here.
Zemanta is a tool that recommends content to you *while* you are composing it. Here's a post I wrote last September that ex... |
| Jan 22, 2009 | Why We’re Desperately Awaiting Feedsqueezer | When the RSS management company Feedburner was acquired by the internet goliath Google back in May of 2007, some people were excited, others were concerned. On the one side, there was hope that putting Google’s weight behind the struggling ... |
| Jan 2, 2009 | For Your Imagination's distribution play | FYI increases advertising and sponsorship revenue for Web video by 34%
Spring 2009 Upfront - For Your Imagination Reel - Nov2008
Digital media and web video studio For Your Imagination has been successful in defining itself as a leader in o... |
| 2009 | The Problem With Twply | Bloggers are enraged over a day old service called Twply that lets Twitter users forward messages that include their user name to their email address.
The first round of complaints centered on spam, because Twply asks if it can send a Twitt... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Another One Bites The Dust: Yahoo Shutters Kickstart | Yahoo is definitely on a cutting spree: after shutting down both Y!Live and Jumpcut, as well as selling off Kelkoo, it’s now time for Yahoo Kickstart to pay a visit to the deadpool.
Kickstart was launched by the company’s Advanced Products ... |
| Dec 4, 2008 | Boxee CEO Avner Ronen On Boxee, Raising Money, and Competing With Big Companies | Boxee’s CEO Avner Ronen sat down with Tech Confidential this week and answered some interesting questions about his company Boxee, how he raised money in this environment (from Union Square Ventures and Spark), and how he plans to compete w... |
| Dec 4, 2008 | Occipital released its first iPhone App | Jeffery Powers, Co-Founder of Occipital, announces news on his Vator profile
Jeffery Powers on Thursday announced via his Vator.tv profile that Occipital had released it's first iPhone application to "beta testers," who were calle... |
| Nov 30, 2008 | The End of Online Anonymity | It seems we’re approaching a new age here on the Internet. Instead being anonymous, faceless IP addresses, social computing and changing technologies have allowed the lines between the “real” world and the “virtual” world to blur. Web 2.0 h... |
| Nov 24, 2008 | Exchange rate for blog comments, interaction | This is a first attempt at creating a rate for interacting with blogs
(Editor's note: Allen Stern and Center Networks are not affiliated with this post or the exchange rate tables, yet. The CN logo has been helpfully borrowed)
In May, Mathe... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | Cookstr Helps You Find Recipes From People Who Know Their Onions | Here’s one thing that people all over the world will continue to need even in the worst of recessions: food. And while there are many places you can go to if you want to discover great recipes for home cooking, Cookstr is launching a websit... |
| Nov 17, 2008 | Plista Secures Draper Investment For Social Recommendation Engine | Social recommendation and personalization platform Plista, one of the companies in this year’s TechCrunch50 DemoPit, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Swiss Draper Investment Company, which took a minority stake in the Berli... |
| Nov 6, 2008 | Lookery sells its ad network to Adknowledge | Lookery has sold its ad network to rival Adknowledge. San Francisco-based Lookery started out as a third-party ad network on Facebook and has since refocused on collecting user data to help other ad networks target ads. Terms of the deal ar... |
| Nov 6, 2008 | Roundup: Cisco’s mixed results, Hitwise election site stats, and more | Cisco does a little better than expected — Sales fell 9 percent in October, compared to a year earlier, the computer networking giant reported yesterday; the company expects sales to drop up to 10 percent this quarter versus the $9.8 billio... |
| Oct 28, 2008 | The power of branded entertainment | A conversation with Paul Kontonis, CEO of For Your Imagination
I recently spoke with Paul Kontonis CEO and Co-Founder of the New York-based online media studio For Your Imagination about the funding they secured from OmniReliant Holdings, I... |
| Oct 21, 2008 | Amazon Snaps Up Video Game Provider Reflexive | Reflexive Entertainment CEO Lars Brubaker has announced that Amazon has agreed to acquire the company he co-founded.
Reflexive isn’t particularly new to the game. The Orange County, California based company was founded in 1997 and produced ... |
| Oct 14, 2008 | Flock 2.0 Launches: Adds MySpace, Media RSS, and More | Remember when we told you that your MySpace web browser is coming? Well today it has officially arrived. In the new version of the social browser Flock, they’ve finally integrated their number one most-requested feature: support for MySpace... |
| Oct 11, 2008 | Layoffs Galore: The Tech Bubble Receives a Shake Up | With all the talk of the financial turmoil that the U.S. economy is experiencing, some industries are hoping that they can escape the heat unscathed. In fact, a small portion of the tech industry practically bragged that they wouldn’t encou... |
| Oct 8, 2008 | Change.org moves from social media to blogging in order to raise cause awareness | Change.org, the year-old site that helps people work on causes they care about, is launching a blog network for social issues. The site started as a searchable collection of resources for connecting people directly with organizations for a ... |
| Sep 24, 2008 | Third Party Comment Systems Go Mainstream | Last summer, I got an email from Paul Graham saying that one of the Y Combinator teams wanted to launch something on this blog. It was a third party comment system called Disqus. I love getting my hands on new technology, particularly new s... |
| Sep 12, 2008 | TC50(DemoPit): SnapPages, A Basic Webpage Designer That Apple Should Envy (Or Buy) | In the last decade, we’ve seen dozens of internet portals, software companies, and startups develop solutions solving the same problem: Everyone wants a webpage, but few people know how to actually make one. In the early days sites like Ang... |
| Sep 10, 2008 | TechCrunch50 LiveStream: Day 3 | http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/280032
We’ll be streaming TechCrunch50 here Monday through Wednesday so everyone can see the conference’s demos for themselves as they happen.
You can also find our written coverage of the conference here an... |
| Sep 9, 2008 | TechCrunch50 Livestream: Day 2 | http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/280032
We’ll be streaming TechCrunch50 here all day so everyone can see the conference’s demos for themselves as they happen.
You can also find our written coverage of the conference here and coverage from o... |
| Sep 6, 2008 | Visualize Vimeo User Activity with Vimeo Toys | What we thought might have been an AIR app in the making, may be something entirely different. With social video sharing sites such as Youtube and Vimeo it can be hard to keep the recommendations flowing. Hundreds of videos are added to the... |
| Sep 2, 2008 | Chrome: Test it With Us Live | Google released Chrome, its new open source app browser today, with “Another One Bites the Dust” playing while we waited on the press call. Can Chrome kill IE? Will it kill Firefox? Or will it go the way of Google Base, Google Sites and oth... |
| Aug 25, 2008 | Reblogging Comments | If you visited this blog over the weekend you saw this post which looks like this:
That post was a reblog of that comment left by Joe Lazarus. I was able to reblog it with one click using Disqus. This is a feature I’ve been asking for since... |
| Aug 24, 2008 | Online Accounting: State of the Market | Accounting software for small business and personal use is increasingly moving from the desktop to online. However, compared to other office software, this transition to online has been relatively slow. Partly that’s due to user reticence: ... |
| Aug 19, 2008 | Roundup: TV news still main source for some, HP has strong quarter, free subway tickets? and more | Here’s the latest action:
Study: Educated older people still get most of their news from television — The “educated” demographic, 23 percent of the U.S. population, also gets news online, according to a buzzword-laden report by The Pew Rese... |
| Aug 10, 2008 | Vote For SXSW Panels | South By Southwest (SXSW) is the one conference I consistently hear great things about. I have never been because it comes at a particularly difficult time of the year for me, right as our family is getting ready to go on our kid’s spring b... |
| Aug 9, 2008 | Are You In College In NYC And Thinking About Working At A Startup? | Greg Yardley, founder/CEO of our portfolio company Pinch Media tells the following story about graduating from college and facing the career question:
When I finished school, I had a MA in Russian history and absolutely no idea what to do w... |
| Aug 8, 2008 | Roundup: MySpace virtual currencies, the Russian invasion, and more | Here’s the latest action:
MySpace apps also making money from virtual currencies — We’ve covered how some Facebook application developers are making seven figures through virtual goods and currencies. Offerpal, a company that offers adverti... |
| Aug 6, 2008 | Wikia Evolution To Help Suck Search Data From Google, Yahoo | Wikia Search, the human edited search engine which we trashed at launch, continues to make incremental improvements (and thankfully they’ve turned down the “This is a Google-killer” hype machine).
Today they did something really smart – the... |
| Jul 26, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 July 2008 | It’s time to review the week that was on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we compared Nokia and Apple in the Internet mobile phone market, explored the new-look Facebook, checked out MySpace’s moves to open up, and reviewed new products fr... |
| Jul 20, 2008 | More Amazon S3 Downtime: How Much is Too Much? | Today’s big news is that Amazon’s S3 online storage service has experienced significant downtime. Allen Stern, who hosts his blog’s images on S3, reported that the downtime lasted3.5 over 6 hours. Startups that use S3 for their storage, suc... |
| Jul 15, 2008 | Roundup: Digg sending more traffic to print media, rogue SF IT admin holds city computers hostage, and more | Hitwise: Digg has been sending more traffic to mainstream media web sites lately — Take a look at the graph below, and read what the web research company has to say, here. Allen Stern at CenterNetworks recently published his own report anec... |
| Jul 15, 2008 | Digg Is Pushing More Traffic To Traditional News Sites | As Digg becomes more mainstream, so are the headlines linked to on its homepage. The once tech-heavy site long ago expanded into other categories such as entertainment, world, and business news. But that change is finally hitting its home p... |
| Jul 10, 2008 | Priming the Pump: New Users, Meet the Old Winners | Social media, it’s all about the democratization of communication and empowering new voices – right? A few years into the new media revolution, reality is looking a little more complicated than that theory would suggest.
The wild garden of ... |
| Jul 8, 2008 | JS-Kit buys Haloscan, bashes Disqus | JS-Kit, best known for its easy-to-add commenting widget, has acquired Haloscan, another comment service, for an undisclosed mix of cash and stock. The acquisition adds 500,000 blogs to JS-Kit’s reach and makes it larger than the rest of th... |
| Jul 7, 2008 | Summize Likely Acquired by Twitter | Well placed rumor has it that microblogging service Twitter has acquired search engine Summize. Jason Calacanis appears to have made the first public statement about it, though it may have been blogger Josh Chandler as well. We’d put less s... |
| Jul 6, 2008 | Adobe Gets Sensitive About “AIR” Trademark | Two months ago we reviewed a neat Adobe AIR app directory called FreshAirapps. FreshAIRapps looked to be the premier destination for debuting Adobe AIR applications. Two months later and the creator, James Whittaker, is under fire by the ve... |
| Jun 16, 2008 | Social Media Used to Keep Flood Victims Informed | Getting information out to victims and their families during a disaster is a major issue for any relief organization. So while the Central United States recovers from a spate of storms that has ravaged towns with tornadoes and flooding, the... |
| Jun 11, 2008 | Widgetbucks Pockets $10 Million in Series B Funding | It’s been quite a busy week for widget companies. RockYou kicked things off by announcing its $35 million Series C round on Monday. KickApps and Clearspring partnered to bolster their respective widget efforts on Tuesday. And now Widgetbuck... |
| Jun 4, 2008 | Introducing A New TechCrunch Video Project: Elevator Pitches | We get a ton of pitches at TechCrunch every single day. It is a deluge we can hardly keep up with. Some are amusing, some are horrible, and a select few rise to the level of deserving a post. The large majority, though, never see the light ... |
| May 25, 2008 | PayPal: Ten Days And Counting To Fix Drop Down Menu Bug | Sometime around May 16 a bug appeared in PayPal’s subscription payments page that stops people from paying if they live in a different country than the site collecting the money. The original complaint and discussion about it are here. More... |
| May 20, 2008 | Twitter: Something Is Technically Wrong | Their words, not mine.
I’ve mostly stopped bothering to post when Twitter is down like it is now and like it was yesterday (honestly, it’s news when they keep the site live for 24 hours at this point). But, seriously, they need to get their... |
| May 17, 2008 | Scribd Goes Straight, Bans Porn | Scribd, the “YouTube for documents”, has announced that it will be removing all pornographic material from the site beginning May 21.
Here’s the announcement from the site’s blog:
Over the next month, we will be updating Scribd’s Terms of S... |
| May 11, 2008 | Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce | Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single perso... |
| Apr 21, 2008 | To test Facebook ads, man poses as woman, declares social ads broken | So some guy complained aloud that the only ads he sees on Facebook are sexual in nature. Meet hot, out-of-work singles in your area… today! That sort of thing. Rather than ignore the ads like a normal person, he said to himself, “Aha! This ... |
| Apr 8, 2008 | Lending Club Puts Hold on Lending Activity While It Sorts Out Some Legal Issues | Lending Club, a P2P lending service that started off as a Facebook app, has temporarily stopped accepting new loans and lenders.
According to a brief “quiet period” note on its website:
Lending Club has started a process to register, with t... |
| Mar 19, 2008 | More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant. | More blogs are raising venture capital, we’re hearing from people they’ve pitched. Newcomer Silicon Alley Insider is looking for a $3 – $5 million round, if reports are correct. And PaidContent is pitching for a second round in that same ra... |
| Mar 13, 2008 | AOL Buys Bebo For $850 Million | I’m not going to say that we told you so, but we told you so.
AOL has acquired social networking site Bebo for $850 million in cash. AOL CEO Randy Falco (left in picture) sent an email to all AOL employees this morning. Allen Stern’s press ... |
| Mar 8, 2008 | Startups Must Hire The Right People And Watch Every Penny. Or Fail. | Yesterday Jason Calacanis, the founder of Mahalo (and, full disclosure, our partner at TechCrunch40), wrote a blog post titled “How to save money running a startup.” Boy was he attacked. Bloggers lined up to take their shots at him. Example... |
| Mar 7, 2008 | Calacanis Fires People Who Have A Life | Mahalo founder and serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has some interesting tips up today about how to squeeze every single last thing from your startup employees.
Helpful advice includes (our interpretation):
If you do meetings, have them ... |
| Feb 28, 2008 | Google offers SF homeless free voicemail: “Don’t be evil” or smart gimmick? | Google’s motto “Don’t be evil” seems to be getting substantial weight behind it today as Google is announcing life-long phone numbers and voice mail for all of San Francisco’s homeless population.
If they accept the number, homeless people ... |
| Feb 27, 2008 | Copyright Infringement Continues To Pay: $4 million For Crunchyroll | San Francisco based Crunchyroll, a sort of YouTube for anime and other mostly Asian video content, raised a $4 million round of financing led by Venrock Associates, with partner David Siminoff joining the board of directors. The company, wh... |
| Feb 21, 2008 | Microsoft Makes Public Commitments to Data Portability and Interoperability | I’m listening now to a telephone press conference with top Microsoft execs about the company’s new strategy shift towards Data Portability and Interoperability for their high volume products like Windows and Office. Ray Ozzie says it is ope... |
| Feb 19, 2008 | Digg Gets More Mainstream; But Are Their News Sources Too Narrow Now? | Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks did an analysis of current frontpage stories on digg, the popular social news site that started out as a tech competitor to Slashdot. Allen noted that now just 15% of frontpage stories are technology ones,... |
| Feb 15, 2008 | Amazon Web Services Goes Down, Takes Many Startup Sites With It | Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage this morning, affecting the thousands of Websites that rely on its storage (S3) and cloud computing (EC2) services. Startups including Twitter, SmugMug, 37Signals, and AdaptiveBlue, for instance, ... |
| Feb 14, 2008 | Roundup: KnockaTV’s tough lesson, Nokia’s green phone, Slingshot Labs, Bragster, GumGum and more | 1. KnockaTV a big lesson for start-ups
2. Nokia unveils handset made entirely of recycled pieces
3. Magnify.net, the DIY video platform, growing
4. Novell buys Sitescape, open source collaboration tool
5. MySpace rips-off another Facebook i... |
| Feb 11, 2008 | Nokia launches ad network, several major publishers already on board | Nokia has announced the formation of the Nokia Media Network, which bundles mobile ads from more than 70 publishers. Initial publishers include AccuWeather, Discovery, Hearst, Reuters and Sprint.
There are plenty of start-ups in the field, ... |
| Jan 28, 2008 | Automattic Launches Group Twitter-style Platform | Automattic has released Prologue, a Twitter style service for groups that is also being pitched as a distributed Twitter .
According to Automattic’s founder Matt Mullenweg, the new service is way for users to share short messages with a cor... |
| Jan 21, 2008 | Defining User Generated Content; Or, Digg Is Too a UGC Site | In post on his blog today, my friend Allen Stern takes issue with Digg winning the “Best User Generated Content Site” award at Friday night’s Crunchies Awards. Allen, who provided the web with excellent live blogged coverage of the event ba... |
| Jan 17, 2008 | Powerful Support For Flock. Wait, Nevermind. | When Netscape announced they were shuttering their iconic Internet browser last month, they recommended to users that they consider moving over to Firefox: “We recommend that you download Mozilla Firefox and give it a try. We know you’ll en... |