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| Oct 5, 2012 | Little Bird Takes Flight: Marshall Kirkpatrick Launches His Influence-Finding Startup, Raises $1M | Little Bird, a startup that helps PR agencies, marketers, and media companies identify influencers on virtually any topic, is launching in private beta today.
The company was founded by tech blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick — an early TechCrunc... |
| Feb 8, 2012 | Addressgate: After The Path Fallout, Whose Address Book Is It Anyway? | Editor’s note: Guest author Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of newly funded just.me. He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. Just.me is a stealth company in the mobile space and as such Keith’s opinions on... |
| Jul 13, 2011 | TechCrunch Redesign: The Early Reviews | Since we launched the new TechCrunch redesign, we’ve been receiving a lot of feedback from our readers. We even provided a handy copy-and-paste template for your reviews. Some love it, some really hate it. The logo has become a Tetris game.... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Heads Up! TechCrunch Will Look A Little Different Next Week | Next week we’ll be rolling out significant enhancements to TechCrunch. A new design and a new logo will be the first thing you’ll notice. But behind the scenes we’ve made significant changes to the other end of TechCrunch as well – the admi... |
| May 7, 2011 | The Tech Press: Screw Them All | Last week I wrote a post about my current investment policy at TechCrunch, and pointing out already disclosed financial conflicts of interest. Our primary duty to readers, as I’ve said many times, is transparency. To that end we will (as we... |
| Dec 4, 2009 | CrunchPad Litigation Imminent | It has been a busy week for our former partners on the CrunchPad. The company has deleted their corporate blog, taken the time to hire a PR firm and schedule an event Monday morning to “give their side of the story.”
They still have not ret... |
| Sep 26, 2009 | WITN?: In sort-of defence of Britain's ridiculous libel laws | I’m writing this from the ‘club section’ (whatever that is) of San Francisco’s AT&T Park where, if I understand the scoring correctly (I don’t), the Cubs are leading the Giants 4-1. I’ve just eaten my second hot dog and I’m debating whe... |
| Sep 22, 2009 | UK Libel Law Is Out Of Control. We Know From Experience. | The UK is coming under increasing fire for its out-of-control libel laws. And the consequences of the laws are clear – journalists/bloggers are shying away from writing anything controversial when it involves someone who lives in the UK. Or... |
| Sep 6, 2009 | Losing Its Religion: The New York Times Compromises | Two things that would end hypocrisy and make the world a better place: Priests should be allowed to get married, and the New York Times should update its Ethics Policy.
The venerable and vulnerable newspaper finally starts talking about the... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | FOWA is coming. Let's take a look at who's launching what this year | Carsonified‘s Future of Web Apps London 2009 will be held between 30 September and 2 October at Kensington Town Hall. There’s a day of workshops on day one, followed by the conference proper on 1 and 2 October, featuring speakers like Gary ... |
| Aug 4, 2009 | The Borderless Internet And Jurisdictional Disputes: A Growing Problem | For many, many, many years, we’ve discussed how the fact that the internet easily reaches anywhere, despite different laws in different places, makes for some really screwed up legal situations, and little has been done to address this over... |
| Aug 3, 2009 | TechCrunch editor defaults in libel case by former employee | TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington is known for being opinionated and blunt. Add the high profile within the tech industry of anything he publishes, and it’s surprising that Arrington and TechCrunch haven’t been legally threatened more oft... |
| Jun 16, 2009 | Let's Not Put Tagged In The DeadPool Just Yet | Harsh words from peHUB yesterday about social networking site Tagged. They took an article complaining about invitation spam and drew a line practically putting the company into the deadpool. In our opinion, Tagged is actually humming along... |
| Mar 13, 2009 | The Rules Apply To Everyone | The Elliot Spitzer phenomenon is part of being human. For whatever reason, people who obtain power can convince themselves that the very rules they create and enforce don’t apply to them. Elliot Spitzer and his prostitutes. Al Gore flying c... |
| Jan 16, 2009 | Is It Time To Switch Ad Partners? | I don’t make any advertising or revenue decisions around here, that’s left to our CEO Heather Harde. But I’m nervous about our ad partner Federated Media, which supplies about a third of our total revenue. They’re going through layoffs (I r... |
| Jan 7, 2009 | Our Nation's Finest News Source Shines | Self described reformed crack dealer/New York Times columnist David Carr continues the fine tradition of bad video creation by New York Times writers in a post in today’s Carpetbagger (The paper’s Oscars blog).
What is he saying? Why is he ... |
| Dec 14, 2008 | The Notorious Sam Sethi Launches His Latest Venture, Twitblogs. | Former TechCrunch UK writer Sam Sethi’s newest venture: Twitblogs. The service is targeted towards Twitter users who want to write more than 140 characters, or want to embed images into their posts, etc.
In other words, it’s a feature-poor ... |
| Nov 20, 2008 | TechCrunch Feed Reader Breakdown – Outlook Rules Them All | Every once in a while we show some of the stats about the feed readers people are using to access TechCrunch content. Since we recently passed a million daily RSS readers, now is a good time for a new update.
In June 2006 Firefox, Bloglines... |
| Oct 28, 2008 | Ten Comments You Think Are Cool And Insightful But Aren’t | Comments are the lifeblood of TechCrunch, and we love ’em. But we also get our share of the freaks, conspiracy theorists and jerks out there who have something to say and believe they have a constitutional or God given right to say it, righ... |
| Oct 12, 2008 | The Prickly Prince From Microsoft Strikes Again | Dare Obasanjo, a Microsoft employee and the son of a former President of Nigeria, doesn’t like it when people disagree with him. I found that out in 2007 when Obasanjo vandalized the TechCrunch Wikipedia page in response to a post we wrote ... |
| Feb 28, 2008 | Great moments in trademark trolling | With Nuvio suing Garmin’s Nuviphone on fairly spurious grounds, let’s take a look at famous trademark wars of times past.
Apple v. Apple — Say you want a revolution? How about a mouthful of lawsuit! In 1978, Apple Corp (owned by the Beatles... |
| Feb 12, 2008 | Techmeme Adds Firehose Feeds | The last time I was in the Valley I spent a decent 90 minutes catching up with Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera on Michael’s lounge (sorry, couch). As I do every time I catch up with Gabe, I endeavored to get him to spill the secrets of Techmeme’s al... |
| Feb 8, 2008 | Alltop Thinks My Boss Has a Big Ego | Guy Kawasaki has just launched a news aggregation site called Alltop that displays headlines from a preselected set of “top” sources. The headlines are broken into categories such as celebrities, gaming, and politics.
Which category display... |
| Jan 17, 2008 | Every Urban Legend Is True | http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1797753&fullscreen=1
It’s not as good as “What a comment stream would look like in real life,” but it’s another hit from College Humor nonetheless. Who needs the Hollywood writ... |
| Dec 16, 2007 | Loren Feldman Trashes Seesmic; Founder Loic Le Meur Takes The Bait | People who don’t follow Loren Feldman are usually surprised when he takes aim at their startup and lets loose. He combines valid points with a highly confrontational approach (he once called me a “pompous elitist asshole” and I still consid... |
| Dec 7, 2007 | Blognation May Rise From The Ashes | When Oliver Starr (former MobileCrunch writer) attacked employer Sam Sethi (former TechCrunch UK writer), the person who currently controls Blognation, in a 3,000 word diatribe, a lot of people came to the conclusion that Blognation was dea... |
| Dec 2, 2007 | TeXtra's Natali Del Conte Leaves Podshow For CNET TV | TeXtra, a tech news video show hosted by former TechCrunch writer Natali Del Conte, may be shutting down well shy of its first birthday this upcoming February 13. That’s because CNET has poached Natali away from Podshow, which owns TeXtra.
... |
| Nov 11, 2007 | Can You Clone Tangler For $1,500? | We’ve praised new hosted forum startup Tangler on a number of occasions – most recently calling it the bleeding edge in new discussion board/forum startups.
Apparently someone else likes it too. Someone in Turkey is willing to pay up to $1,... |
| Nov 9, 2007 | Upcoming: Presidential Candidate John Edwards On TechCrunch | Next in our series of interviews with 2008 presidential candidates is a Q&A with Senator John Edwards. We were not able to schedule time on the phone with Senator Edwards, but he has agreed to do a written interview and answer all quest... |
| Oct 6, 2007 | Big Media And User Comments: The Onion Nails It | http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/videoplayer/flvplayer.swf
User feedback on blogs (or any Internet forum/community) is always fascinating to watch. Things start off great, but as the community gets larger basic human rul... |
| Oct 2, 2007 | Google To $2000/Share? Somebody Muzzle Blodget | Henry Blodget made his name by predicting outlandish price increases for Internet stocks in the late nineties. A lot of people lost a lot of money (or, all their money) by listening to his recommendations. The government charged him with se... |
| Sep 12, 2007 | Does Social Media Make You Dumb? | The “Mainstream Media” has had somewhat of an antagonistic relationship with “New Media”. Journalists have bemoaned blogging on several occasions, stating simply that “Journalism requires journalists”. Once again journalists are gracing us ... |
| Aug 28, 2007 | Sprint Sucks And Their New Website Is Stupid | Sprint has a new website up called My Cell Style that asks you a few questions and then tells you what kind of mobile phone personality you have. I took the quiz and answered the questions honestly.
What does your cell phone say about you? ... |
| Aug 7, 2007 | SF Chronicle Trims Business Section; The Best Are Gone | We all knew big layoffs were coming at the San Francisco Chronicle, but I had hoped that they’d try to keep at least one of the business/tech writers that is responsible for my occasional purchase of a copy of the paper. No luck.
The paper ... |
| Jun 25, 2007 | Lessons Learnt from People Ready Controversy | I know you don’t want to read another blog post about the People Ready controversy, which
was ignited by Valleywag on Friday US and turned into an all-in brawl over the weekend.
But I feel obligated to sum up my position on it, as one of th... |
| Jun 25, 2007 | Blogger Ethics Questioned Over Microsoft Ad | The recent discovery that Microsoft paid some high-profile Web pundits to talk up how their businesses became "people ready" in an advertisement has stirred quite a bit of controversy and divided the so-called blogosphere.
Some of... |
| Mar 31, 2007 | TechCrunch Has Acquired FuckedCompany.com | Update (April 2, 2007): For those of you still sending in emails pleading with me not to stop writing about startups – this was an April Fools joke. I do not in fact believe that there “just isn’t anything left to invent.” Thank you.
Tomorr... |
| Mar 28, 2007 | Microsoft Accidentally Sends Secret File On Journalist, To That Journalist. Oops. | Wired Contributing Editor Fred Vogelstein received an interesting and inadvertantly sent email from Microsoft’s PR firm, Waggener Edstrom. The contents of the email were Waggener’s internal notes on Vogelstein and how to work with him.
Voge... |
| Mar 22, 2007 | How To Market Your Web App | So after 1 year of fund-raising, planning and development, your shiny new
beta web app is finally ready… and now you think it’s marketing time. You want to reach thousands
of users as quickly as possible. Aha, you think, the cheapest and sh... |
| Mar 14, 2007 | BBC May Be Stifling Startups, BBC Jam Shuttered Following Complaints | I sometimes say regretful things when speaking off the cuff at conferences. Last month at The Future of Web Apps conference in London I (jokingly) called for the dissolution of the BBC because some of their online ventures are, in my opinio... |
| Mar 1, 2007 | Digg Should Sue Wired | Wired Magazine seems hell bent on convincing the world that Digg is falling apart. I have a problem with that because Wired Magazine’s parent company, Condé Nast, owns Digg competitor Reddit. And because Wired isn’t just reporting Digg news... |
| Feb 14, 2007 | BubblePly Upgrades Fun Video Annotation | Israeli company BubblePly has significantly upgraded its service for overlaying images and text on video. Launched in December, the service now allows live links, full control over fonts and extensive use of images. It’s a much more useful ... |
| Jan 25, 2007 | Microsoft v. Wikipedia: Round 2 | In my post yesterday discussing an attempt by a Microsoft employee to pay a blogger to make changes to certain Wikipedia entries that Microsoft considered unfair, we noted that a Microsoft spokesperson made a number of factual statements.
S... |
| Jan 24, 2007 | Battleground Wikipedia | There’s been a discussion over the last few days over a Microsoft employee offering to pay an Australian blogger named Rick Jelliffe to edit certain Wikipedia pages relating to Open Office standards, including this page. Jelliffe writes abo... |
| Jan 24, 2007 | The Job Board Bubble | The world has changed since I wrote about the need for a decentralized job board service last August. Just not quite in the way I had hoped.
Job Boards are the product du jour of tech blogs. We have one, and countless others have sprung up ... |
| Jan 23, 2007 | BBC Announces…What? | As much as I love the BBC, I can’t help but wonder if they would have written about this new virtual world if it wasn’t their own property.
Details are very thin. In fact, as Ben Metcalfe, a former BBC’er, points out, we don’t know if this ... |
| Jan 13, 2007 | Apple Bullies Bloggers, Again | Apple has a history of using lawyers against bloggers. There was the now infamous Think Secret lawsuit, which may have had merit. But they also engage in clearly superfluous, bullying tactics as well. In August we received a letter from App... |
| 2007 | Another Gmail Problem | The last thing I want to do right now is post on another problem over at Google, but this was a big one. Basically, a website could download your entire Gmail contact list by adding a bit of code to their server and exploiting Google’s JSON... |
| Dec 28, 2006 | Love Will Tear Us Apart: Microsoft Wants Its Laptops Back | |
| Dec 25, 2006 | A Year Later: The Companies I Wanted To Profile (but didn't exist) | It’s Christmas today, and there is very little actual startup or technology news happening. So I took a look back at a post I wrote a year ago titled “Companies I’d like to Profile (but don’t exist)” to see how many of the ideas turned into... |
| Dec 2, 2006 | Ok, Now I Get JPG Magazine | JPG Magazine relaunched last month with a new business model: Get users to upload photos to their website, and then have the community vote on and rank photos. The winners are published in a bi-monthly print magazine and get $100 plus a fre... |
| Nov 15, 2006 | Reader Roll Opt Out | I’ve voiced my feelings about opt in versus opt out. I am a fan of ‘user friendly opt-out’ which I defined in this post.
One of the concerns I’ve heard voiced about MyBlogLog and their reader roll is that there is no easy way to opt out of ... |
| Nov 3, 2006 | The Crunchman | The WSJ is the last one to know, of course, that Mike Arrington (the Crunchman) is the man of the hour in Silicon Valley and the Internet business. They featured him today in a story that will tell you nothing you don’t already know. You ha... |
| Oct 25, 2006 | Social Media Club Initiative on Blogging Ethics | I am a blogger with a lot of opinions, and because of that I’ve been involved in a number of heated discussions around journalistic integrity and ethics. Mainstream media defines journalistic integrity as a lack of financial interest in the... |
| Sep 21, 2006 | MeeVee Overhauls Site. I Want More. | MeeVee, an online TV listings and search provider, recently covered here, launched a redesigned site today with several new features. The new version combines the TV listings grid and watch list functionality into a single user interface al... |
| Sep 11, 2006 | Apple Rumor Roundup | Apple is hosting a special press event in San Francisco tomorrow with the tagline “It’s Showtime”. Press has been segmented into those invited and those not invited. For some reason I have not been able to bribe, demand or beg my way in, bu... |
| Sep 1, 2006 | VentureBeat is back | We launched early yesterday morning, but an overwhelming spike in traffic, a subsequent server crash and no fallback combined to shut down the Web site for a whole day.
We’ve learned some lessons.
1) It is hard to launch a start-up. It is s... |
| Aug 31, 2006 | Apple Doesn't Want People Knowing About Leopard | Remember our video post last week about Leopard and how its Expose + Spaces was supposed to work? Yeah, Apple doesn’t quite like it, and told us as much in the form of a NastyGram. Apparently, because the only version out of Leopard is a de... |
| Aug 24, 2006 | Announcing TechCrunch UK | I am pleased to announce our latest Crunch Network blog – TechCrunch UK – which launched moments ago.
TechCrunch UK is obviously not a translated blog like TechCrunch France and TechCrunch Japan (although both of these blogs have lots of or... |
| Aug 8, 2006 | CrunchBoard Job Board: Stats After One Week | The CrunchBoard job board officially launched last Thursday. We’ve gathered some interesting stats on the service after being up almost a week.
CrunchBoard is permanently linked from TechCrunch in two spots (top nav bar and right sidebar), ... |
| Jul 3, 2006 | The Supernova 12 | Over 100 startups applied to present their companies at the TechCrunch-sponsored Connected Innovators program at the Supernova conference last week. Twelve were selected and had a chance to launch their new products to an audience of hundre... |
| Jun 30, 2006 | Newsgator posts roadmap for the future of RSS | Newsgator and Feedburner are the two most active companies in the RSS space right now. When either of these companies say anything, I pay close attention. Yesterday Newsgator founder and CTO Greg Reinacker (listen to an interview with Greg ... |
| Jun 12, 2006 | TechCrunch Turns One Year Old | I started writing TechCrunch one year ago, on June 11, 2005. Looking back, it’s been the best year of my life, although there were also some incredibly difficult times as well. I’m sure years from now I’ll have more perspective on things. A... |
| Jun 1, 2006 | Two Parties In Two Weeks – Seattle and London | We’ve had two TechCrunch parties in the last two weeks. Last week a bunch of us got together for a few pints in London and last night we had a packed house at Conworks in Seattle.
It’s wonderful to meet new people, or people I know online b... |
| May 25, 2006 | TechCrunch Seattle Web 2.0 Party Next Week | We had a very successful TechCrunch party in London last Monday. Next up – a party in Seattle co-produced with Redfin. And its just a few days away, next Wednesday, May 31, 2006. The party is being held at ConWorks, which is an artsy wareho... |
| May 22, 2006 | Download Your TV – The Current Options | Downloadable television, first made popular by Tivo and its competitors, is compelling stuff. As consumers become accustomed to watching a show whenever they choose, pausing at will and fast tracking through commercials, tuning in to a stat... |
| May 19, 2006 | Europe Shows Its Stuff: Innovate 2006 | Dozens of (mostly) European companies showcased their new consumer web applications at Innovate 2006 in Zaragoza, Spain this week. As usual with conferences like these, the companies were young, rough and hungry. And I see a lot of potentia... |
| May 16, 2006 | The 53,651 Meme — and the Silicon Valley geek echo chamber | Brother Love
The “53651 meme” took flight this past weekend, fueled by a post from Josh Kopelman.
Kopelman, the East Coast angel investor (who we recently mentioned here) says Silicon Valley Web 2.0 startups have fallen into a trap of appea... |
| Apr 14, 2006 | TV Moves Aggressively to the Internet | News Corp.’s Fox network has signed a six-year agreement with its affiliates that will allow it to show reruns of its television programs on the Internet.
ABC, CBS and NBC are all making similar experiments, and iTunes has a number of telev... |
| Apr 3, 2006 | New York Times Redesign | The New York Times launched a redesigned website a few minutes ago. Many of the changes are subtle, but they’ve added a few new features which I really appreciate. First, they now have a dedicated area of the site to show video clips. And m... |
| Mar 26, 2006 | TalkCrunch: Podcast with Amazon S3 Grid Storage Team | Episode 3 of TalkCrunch is up. We invited in two key Amazon S3 team members, Adam Selipsky (VP of Product Management and Developer Relations for Amazon Web Services) and Dave Barth (Product Manager for S3), to talk about Amazon’s exciting n... |
| Mar 23, 2006 | AjaxWrite, the Newest Ajax Office Entrant | AjaxWrite, an online Ajax version of Word, is the newest entrant into the online office space. It opens and saves documents in Word format (you can also save in PDF), has good basic functionality and is fairly fast. I agree with Michael Rob... |
| Mar 22, 2006 | Plaxo: Now With Less Evil | Plaxo tends to bring on strong negative emotions in people. Frustration. Revulsion. Dismay.
The reason so many people hate Plaxo? Those of us who aren’t customers, which is the vast majority of everyone, get multiple daily emails from those... |
| Feb 27, 2006 | Edgeio Launches | After much anticipation and a period of being available to a private audience the team at Edgeio took the covers off of their creation tonight and launched to the general public. Edgeio takes listings (classifieds) from RSS-enabled sources ... |
| Feb 7, 2006 | A Taste of DEMO 2006 | DEMO 2006: 70 companies gather at a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona to compete head on for our attention. $15,000 buys you 5 minutes in front of 700 people, and a chance to make history (which is not recorded real time because the wifi is crushed... |
| Jan 9, 2006 | Don't Blow Your Beta | I’ve seen hundreds of new products launch over the last six months, and I think I have some pretty good advice for companies that want to improve their beta release.
In addition to my personal experiences with companies, I recently wrote “W... |
| Dec 28, 2005 | Magnatune's Answer to the Music Problem | Magnatune, founded by John Buckman in 2003, is a music label with an associated website. Today was the first time I heard about Magnatune (thanks to Ajay Juneja), but I agree entirely with their business philosophy. I really think this is t... |
| Dec 21, 2005 | Phone-throwing kiwi explains | After
my phone-throwing incident earlier this week, I think I’ve calmed down enough
now to do the equivalent of going
on the Letterman show and saying sorry to anyone I offended. My friend Mike Arrington called
me a traitor and others baled... |
| Dec 20, 2005 | Three Cheers For Bloglines | I have to admit, I was hoping for the best but feared the worst as Bloglines moved over to a new data center last night. Their regular outages have enraged me in the past, although their stellar customer service almost completely made up fo... |
| Dec 20, 2005 | Web 2.0 WorkGroup Expands to 25 Members | The Web 2.0 WorkGroup continues its expansion with the addition of three awesome new bloggers – Ben Barren, Stowe Boyd and Steve Rubel. Robert Scoble joined last week. It’s becoming an increasingly fun place to hang out, even if two of our ... |
| Dec 19, 2005 | Cat eats pigeons: why Web 2.0 has jumped the shark | Well my declaration that Web 2.0 is dead set
the cat amongst the pigeons. Let me give a bit of background…
I’ve been thinking for a while now about re-focusing Read/WriteWeb onto more
media-related Web technologies. Many of the things I’m i... |
| Dec 11, 2005 | TechCrunch Turns 6 Months Old Today | TechCrunch turned six months old today – my first post was on June 11, 2005. It’s more fun than ever. Thank you to everyone who reads my blog. Knowing people are out there keeps me going.
I got a nice half birthday present yesterday from Te... |
| Dec 2, 2005 | Web 2.0 DNA | Brandon Schauer’s post and associated PDF historical timeline is an excellent resource to put web 2.0 companies into perspective and to understand their place in the overall ecosystem. I’ll be referring to it often in TechCrunch posts. More... |
| Nov 23, 2005 | Web 2.0 WorkGroup Now Has 20 Blogs | Richard MacManus, Fred Oliveira and I formed the Web 2.0 WorkGroup about a month and a half ago. We’ve now grown to twenty blogs:
Category Sites
Analysis & Trends Read/WriteWeb, Dion Hinchcliffe,
Susan Mernit’s Blog, Web 2.0 Explorer
Co... |
| Nov 21, 2005 | Companies I'd like to Profile (but don't exist) | There are companies I review every day that I don’t write about. Reasons vary – it’s been done already and the product isn’t even as good as what’s been done, its a mostly or totally one-way application, or it isn’t consumer focused (or hav... |
| Nov 21, 2005 | New Companies Will Be Built with SSE | Wow, am I excited this morning to see Microsoft announce Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE), which turns RSS bidirectional and which is released under the Creative Commons License. I wrote more about this at CrunchNotes, but I want to mention ... |
| Nov 20, 2005 | Living On The Edge (the rise of the edge feeders) | I believe that the value in any network is created on the edge.
That’s where my blog sits. That’s where Gotham Gal’s blog sits. That’s where Ted’s blog sits.
That is not where Google Base sits. Google Base is in the center.
In the freebase ... |
| Nov 20, 2005 | Why I don't like Riffs | Riffs, a review site for anything, launched quietly last week.
It takes a hybrid wiki/social bookmarking approach. Any user can add a URL to begin a discussion (or just begin a discussion without a URL), and the Riffs community votes on the... |
| Nov 10, 2005 | TechCrunch – After 5 Months | Tomorrow, November 11, is TechCrunch‘s five month anniversary – my first company profile (Technorati) was on June 11, 2005.
I’ve been blogging personally for some time but this was my first attempt to write for an audience larger than my im... |
| Nov 7, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 31 Oct – 6 Nov 2005 | This week: Microsoft Live, Flash Maps and the Mechanical Turk, Web 2.0 meet-ups
all over the world, 2.0 Blog of the Week – Supr.c.ilio.us.
sponsored by: Microsoft Live wrap-up
The big news of the week was Microsoft’s announcement of Windows... |
| Nov 2, 2005 | Office Live Will Be A Huge Productivity Tool | The other product announced yesterday at the Microsoft Preview event in San Francisco was Office Live. Office Live will launch in Q1 2006.
My raw notes from the event are on CrunchNotes, and my profile on Windows Live went up last night. Ra... |
| Nov 2, 2005 | Microsoft Livens Up Web 2.0 | Summary: My Day 1 impressions of Windows/Office Live are positive and I think Microsoft is taking
up the challenge of an increasingly Web-based software world, while at the same time
sticking to their desktop software knitting. I’m particul... |
| Nov 1, 2005 | Microsoft Announces The Live Era | Microsoft just announced its new Web-based Windows and ‘software as a service’ strategies. After first announcing the Xbox 360 will be
released on Nov 22 in North America, Gates talked about their new
“Live” brand (thanks Mike
from TechCrun... |
| Nov 1, 2005 | Windows Live and Office Live | Microsoft is announcing Windows Live and Office Live, both online services, right now (10 am PST) at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. I am publishing my notes and pictures real time at CrunchNotes.
Windows Live is “live” at Live.com. |
| Nov 1, 2005 | Windows Live – More than an AJAX Desktop | I blogged my raw, unedited notes from the Microsoft press meeting today real time on CrunchNotes. One of the two major announcements was Windows Live (best viewed on IE of course). Office Live was also announced, which I will be writing abo... |
| Oct 28, 2005 | My New Blog | I’ve launched a new companion blog to TechCrunch called CrunchNotes. I wrote a longish introductory post describing exactly why it exists (and why TechCrunch exists), but here’s the essence:
So, why am I starting CrunchNotes? The main reaso... |