| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Jul 17, 2008 | PodTech Sells For Less Than $500k | VentureBeat is reporting that technology media startup PodTech has been sold to ViewPartner, a “communications technology company” , for less than half a million dollars.
PodTech is perhaps best known for the long tech videos produced by bl... |
| Jul 17, 2008 | PodTech purchased by ViewPartner for less than half a million, ending a bloody story | Updated, including the full press release, below the article.
PodTech, a company that publishes online and downloadable videos about new technology, has been sold — for less than half a million dollars, I’ve learned — to ViewPartner, a comm... |
| Jul 5, 2008 | Google’s subsidized child day care not as good as it used to be? | When I took a video tour of Google in 2007, I marveled at all of the things the company was doing for its employees, from free food in the cafeterias to subsidized medical care. My guide, Susan Wojcicki, was particularly proud when we stopp... |
| Mar 25, 2008 | Intruders TV – videoing startups so you don't have to | I really like the guys from Intruders TV. They are, to some extent, Europe’s answer to (first) PodTech and latterly FastCompany TV. I really hope they are successful because creating original video interviews is not for the faint-hearted.
F... |
| Feb 22, 2008 | Twine Raises Millions More for Semantic Web | Radar Networks, the home of the eagerly awaited semantic web app Twine, will announce on Monday that it’s closed another round of funding, including a major investment from the fund lead by Ross Levinsohn, the man who bought MySpace while a... |
| Feb 11, 2008 | Taptu: new search engine, new partner | News out of Barcelona’s 3GSM conference today includes some from Taptu, the mobile search engine startup launched in the UK in October last year. It’s unveiling an improved version of its search engine and the ability for results to be shar... |
| Jan 7, 2008 | Fav.or.it to launch API for developers | In the next 24 hours UK feed-reading and commenting aggregator Fav.or.it plans to open up its API to allow anyone to send comments to any blog in the world. Founder Nick Halstead told me via public Twitter that he was “exposing the API for ... |
| Dec 12, 2007 | 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 PodTech for just a year and a half. He was previously at Micro... |
| Dec 6, 2007 | SmugMug Automatically Scales Photos and Video, Supports High Definition Video | SmugMug has released a set of new features that further cements itself as a first-rate photo sharing website.
The first of these constitutes just a user interface upgrade, but a very attractive one at that. SmugMug realizes that users often... |
| Nov 5, 2007 | Roundup: IAC to split, new Time Warner CEO, and more | Here’s the latest action:
1) IAC splitting into five companies
2) Sea change ahead for Time Warner
3) Google’s merger plans may be foiled by the EU
4) Synthasite launches website creation
5) Whrrl opens local opinion site
6) Internet users ... |
| Nov 2, 2007 | Whrrl: Map and Mobile-Centric Social Reviews | Sometimes products are easy to sum up in single sentences, sometimes they are most definitely not. Whrrl, a new site by Pelago, is one of those that eludes definition. Hence, Pelago’s need to describe it unhelpfully as “a seamlessly integra... |
| Oct 25, 2007 | When Did A Fake Blogger Become a Reliable Source? | There are not one, but two stories on Techmeme this morning broken by Fake Steve Jobs, a.k.a. Forbes’ Daniel Lyons. Both were repeated on a number of blogs. Yes, we know who Fake Steve is now, and yes he’s a credible reporter working for a ... |
| Oct 24, 2007 | PodTech Heading Towards The Deadpool? | Fake Steve Jobs aka Daniel Lyons has written that he’s heard that PodTech will be closing up shop with an announcement imminent.
We can’t confirm the rumor although I have pinged Robert Scoble asking him to comment. If we get a response we’... |
| Oct 8, 2007 | Seagate spins out new hybrid hard drives: meet the Momentus 5400 PSD | reader comments with 0 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Sick of the boot-times on your Vista laptop, but don't have the dough for solid-state storage? Seagate today announced its firs... |
| Sep 25, 2007 | New UK blog publisher launches | Media stories tend not to be our staple fare here at TechCrunch, but it’s worth mentioning the launch of a new professional blog publisher in the UK, MessyMedia, and welcoming them to the blogosphere.
I wrote an article over two years ago f... |
| Sep 20, 2007 | Moore at IDF: All good curves must come to an end | reader comments with 0 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
One highlight of the first day of IDF was Intel cofounder Gordon Moore's "fireside chat" with NPR's Moira Gunn. Gunn ... |
| Sep 20, 2007 | Otellini on Intel’s GPU, Gelsinger on hardware-based drive encryption | reader comments with 0 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Day two of the Intel Developer Forum is in full swing; those of us who aren't out in the Bay Area for the festivities are still... |
| Aug 23, 2007 | Interview With Facebook's Joe Hewitt, iPhone God | The Facebook iPhone application was a one-man job. Joe Hewitt joined Facebook when the company he co-founded with Blake Ross, Parakey, was acquired last month. He quickly got to work on the company’s iPhone app, which was released just a mo... |
| Aug 18, 2007 | Thank You Sponsors: Featuring Real Time Matrix, DOmedia and Profile Builder | It’s time to say a quick “thank you” to the sponsors of our party at August capital last month:
Tune in to learn more about Real Time Matrix’s Vortex, DOmedia’s platform for alternative media buying and Profile Builder’s profile mangement p... |
| Aug 16, 2007 | Technorati Loses A "Great Leader." PodTech Also Loses CEO | We’ve all known that blog search engine Technorati and videocasting site PodTech weren’t doing particularly well: that both companies were conducting CEO searches. But today the bloodletting became real.
PodTech CEO John Furrier is out. Jam... |
| Aug 13, 2007 | Is the TV Channel Dead? | This morning Techdirt posed an interesting question: is there any need for the concept of a TV channel anymore? With the rise of TiVo, which allows users to watch time-shifted content on their schedule, downloading, which lets people downlo... |
| Jul 30, 2007 | Podtech takes on more debt — but must decide whether fish or fowl | updated
Plenty is being written about the woes of podcast company Podtech.
Now the company tells us it is taking on more debt, and will be making an announcement soon. This follows a recent $2 million round of fresh capital reported last we... |
| Jul 28, 2007 | TechCrunch 9 At August Capital: Thank You for Coming | http://www.viddler.com/player/4a41a3d2/
Well, it’s over. TechCrunch 9 At August Capital last night was a blast, with 900 or so people demo’ing products, drinking wine and, if the video above is any indication, looking for the man of their d... |
| Jul 27, 2007 | What's Really Going On With Podtech? | Update: See here.
There have been a number of reports that silicon valley based Podtech is literally falling apart. I spoke to Podtech CEO John Furrier and asked him how many of the rumors are true. While he certainly fed me a certain amoun... |
| Jul 27, 2007 | TechCrunch Meet-Up at August Capital is Tonight | So today’s the big day for our second-annual TechCrunch meet-up at August Capital.
The Guest List is here – it is now full, and we wish we had more space to accommodate all the ticket requests. We’re planning additional events this year and... |
| Jul 18, 2007 | The iPhone is Like a Big Chocolate Milkshake and a Hug From Mom | http://www.podtech.net/player/podtech-player.swf?bc=6fb4d4539470456aaf18e7169f6098c1
[rant]I think this video from Senor Scoble explains essentially what Apple products are about: emotion. As you watch this nice lady from XEODesign talk abo... |
| Jul 17, 2007 | (Almost) Last Chance to Get Tickets For TechCrunch at August Capital Party Next Week | We’re opening the final 100 tickets to our second annual TechCrunch meet-up on July 27 on the fabulous outdoor patio of August Capital. Register here. This is the last batch of tickets we’re releasing, and the list is full.
Only sponsors an... |
| Jul 9, 2007 | Two more video companies: National Banana, RockinCat | Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists continue to pump money into new video companies, even though there are hundreds, if not thousands, of video sites already out there.
The latest include National Banana, a site that produces serial comedy... |
| Jun 25, 2007 | Seagate Announces Two 1TB Drives | http://www.podtech.net/player/podtech-player.swf?bc=bb0eb150dad14f4c9aeb9810cb8d1999
Seagate announced a 1TB hard drive today, albeit late, but as they say, “better late than never.” The Barracuda 7200.11 and ES.2 revv up to 7,200rpm, cache... |
| Jun 24, 2007 | Plaxo’s surprise: An ambitious contacts-calendar service | updated
Plaxo, the contacts updating service, was popular briefly a few years ago but then started irritating people — it would constantly ping you with update requests from friends and solicitations to join Plaxo.
In short, it got a reputa... |
| Jun 1, 2007 | Roundup: Google’s Korean clutter, Real’s player, Panoramio and more | Here’s the latest action:
Google Korea has cluttered page — This is a striking departure from the spartan interface Google is known for. Details here. We checked with Google, and a spokeswoman confirmed the Korean site was developed in resp... |
| May 1, 2007 | Ebay Widgets: Share Your Auctions With More than Just Nigerian Scammers and the Elderly | http://www.podtech.net/player/podtech-player.swf?bc=59ffa73f-fa0a-4441-a71d-28e7d425017f
Well here’s a bit of news from eBay I can get behind. I’ve all but given up on eBay at this point — I’ve just stopped selling stuff there because of nu... |
| Apr 30, 2007 | eBay Launches "ToGo" Widgets For Any Listing | [ebay width=”355″ height=”300″ itemid=”300106376259″ query=”porsche” ]
As you can see with the embedded Flash widget above, eBay is now letting users embed information about any listing or group of listings directly into a website. Their ho... |
| Apr 23, 2007 | Video Podcasting Comes of Age with ON Networks | Valleywag recently declared podcasting dead (or at least conceded the battle to Apple). But iPod’s play video, remember, and video podcasting (or vidcasting, or vlogging — pick your favorite term) is alive and well, and still a wide open sp... |
| Apr 6, 2007 | Pyramids continued: Weblo, become a virtual governor | Yesterday, we wrote about the latest wave of Internet pyramid schemes.
We failed to mention Montreal’s Weblo, a company that sells you virtual domain names, so you can buy www.LosAngeles.com for a few bucks (even though the domain is owned ... |
| Mar 31, 2007 | Magnify.net Different Than The Rest Of The Video Crowd | Magnify.net is a new video startup that is different from the rest of the crowd. Unlike YouTube and dozens of others, it isn’t focused on building a portal around user-uploaded videos. Instead, they are allowing website publishers to create... |
| Mar 1, 2007 | Your social network at Ning, join the thousands | Ning, the Palo Alto start-up, has relaunched to let you build your own full-fledged social network.
Ning announced the launch three days ago, and since then, users have created 5,000 new networks, chief executive Gina Bianchini tells us — t... |
| Feb 27, 2007 | Ning Demo Video | http://www.podtech.net/player/podtech-player.swf?bc=3F34K2L1
If you haven’t taken the time to try out the new Ning today, Robert Scoble has filmed an excellent demo of the product (basically the same demo I saw yesterday) from CEO Gina Bian... |
| Feb 15, 2007 | Microsoft Hires Michael Gartenberg as New Evangelist | The Vista marketing challenge saw an interesting new development today with the announcement that Microsoft has hired Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg as Enthusiast Evangelist. Gartenberg says in a blog post on his move that he w... |
| Jan 30, 2007 | Meet D.A.V.E., Our Friend From Seagate | http://www.podtech.net/player/podtech-player.swf?bc=3F34K2L1
While D.A.V.E. isn’t the most clever acronym in town (it stands for Digital Audio-Video Experience), it looks to be a promising gadget thanks to its slim design and features. Seag... |
| Jan 15, 2007 | Moritz’s favorites, Google in SF, nano fears, Flock, Pandora & more | Roundup of Silicon Valley news:
Google’s Larry and Sergey were more interested in technology than Yahoo founders — There’s a revealing 2000 interview with venture capitalist Michael Moritz posted by PodVentureZone, comparing Google’s co-fou... |
| Jan 8, 2007 | Scoble, Others, Visit With Bill Gates, Vista Begins to Kick Ass | http://www.podtech.net/player/podtech-player.swf?bc=3F34K2L1
Lots of Vista/Microsoft news today including the addition of IPTV to the XBox Dashboard and the launch of Windows Home Server along with technology like SideShow which adds Media ... |
| Nov 8, 2006 | Riya's Like.com Is First True Visual Image Search | Silicon Valley startup Riya, currently a photo search company focusing on facial recognition, is making a significant strategic and product shift this morning. Riya will continue as is, but the company is leveraging the core technology to l... |
| Nov 6, 2006 | Splashcast Aims to Offer A Frictionless Web Media Player | I got an early look last week at a media publishing tool being developed by Portland startup Splashcast and what I saw looked like something that anyone tired of overbranding and limited options in online media is sure to like. The product,... |
| Nov 3, 2006 | Dan Primack launches PEHub, a private equity blog and forum | Dan Primack, the guy who holds court at PE Week each morning and rants about the world of private equity, is launching a blog site Monday. It is called PEHub.
He’ll be blogging, there will be columns from buyout and VC guys, and other ways ... |
| Sep 28, 2006 | Google Reader steps it up with new version | The Google Reader team unveiled a revamped version of their online feed reader today and no one can say it’s not a real RSS reader anymore. They even took Robert Scoble’s advice and made a demonstration video!
Changes include a whole new lo... |
| Sep 28, 2006 | PodShow raises $15M more for….podcasting. Yikes! | Podshow, a company that promotes podcasts and finds sponsors for them, has raised $15 million more in a second round of venture capital from its big-name investors, following up on $8.85 million in a first round last summer.
Dan Primack has... |
| Jun 12, 2006 | Robert Scoble Leaving Microsoft | Microsoft technical evangelist and blogger Robert Scoble, who became renowned in the blogging community for his unabashed opinions of Microsoft products, announced over the weekend that he is leaving the company for small podcasting startup... |
| Jun 11, 2006 | Big-name Microsoft blogger Scoble moves to Silicon Valley | Scoble: “How I feel“
Robert Scoble, the blogger at Microsoft who became an internal gadfly and promoter, rolled up into one, has left the company and is coming to Silicon Valley.
He will be joining Podtech, the Silicon Valley (Menlo Park) s... |
| Jun 10, 2006 | Robert Scoble to Leave Microsoft, Joins PodTech.net | It looks like recently funded PodTech.net has hired Microsoft’s Robert Scoble, who writes one of the most popular blogs, and he’ll be moving from Washington to Silicon Valley.
I spoke to Robert briefly a few minutes ago. His on the record c... |
| Mar 15, 2006 | Podtech raises $5.5 million to create the “NPR” of podcasting | John Furrier
Gee, this we weren’t expecting…venture capital flowing to podcast creation.
John Furrier is a bit of a hyperactive guy you will see at technology conferences around Silicon Valley. He bounds around with a microphone, taking aud... |
| Feb 18, 2006 | Thank You For Coming to TechCrunch 5 | The Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party is now officially over (except for Stowe Boyd and Jason Roberts who are passed out on my couches). The pictures are here and here (tag: “techcrunch5”).
Bonus: Check out Emily Chang’s video (at bottom... |
| Jan 18, 2006 | Naked Conversations Party at TechCrunch | UPDATE: This event is now full. I apologize to everyone who did not get on the wiki list.
The fifth TechCrunch Meetup is on Friday, February 17, 2006 at the TechCrunch house in Atherton, California. We will celebrate the launch of Naked Con... |
| Dec 2, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 26 Nov – 2 Dec 2005 | Note: The Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up is back with a new publishing day (Fri) and a new
format, a countdown of the Top Ten Web 2.0 issues or news stories of the past week. Also I’m
on the lookout for a new sponsor for the Weekly Wrap-Up. It’s ha... |
| Nov 30, 2005 | RSS Everywhere II – but where is Google? | Last night Yahoo! announced they are integrating RSS into their web mail and
alerts products. As Scott Gatz explained in an interview
with PodTech: Yahoo’s plan, which started in January 2004 when they launched RSS
in the My Yahoo portal, i... |
| Nov 29, 2005 | RSS, meet Yahoo Mail | Yahoo continued its efforts to push RSS across as many of its products as possible tonight, flipping the switch on an RSS reader as part of the beta version of its new Yahoo Mail. This one was a no-brainer. The email environment is a logica... |
| Nov 29, 2005 | RSS is Now Integrated into Yahoo Mail and Alerts | Yahoo gathered a small group of bloggers, press and others at Sauce in San Francisco tonight to announce the launch of two new RSS products. They have integrated an RSS reader directly into Yahoo Mail Beta, and are expanding Alerts to inclu... |
| 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 8, 2005 | The Soul of A Blog | A friend recently told me that Dan Primack of Thomson Private Equity Week was on podtech.net recently and made some negative comments about the fact that I blog about things other than venture capital. I took the time to listen to Dan’s com... |
| Oct 26, 2005 | Food Fight! | Lots to eat today in Dot Oh Cafe. Here are some of the tasty tidbits that caught my eye as I perused the tech.memeorandum and Rojo menus: Google’s smorgasbord classifieds service
Google Base is eating the lunch of many a hungry 2.0 start-up... |
| Oct 17, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (October 9-15) | Web 2.0 This Week
October 9 – 15
Location: Silicon Valley
Tons of new companies launched this week. My guess is they were aiming for the Web 2.0 Conference last week but had to delay. This may have worked out for the best as the covereage t... |
| Oct 14, 2005 | More Web 2.0 Workgroup members | As TechCrunch reported, two more resources have been added to our nascent Web 2.0 Workgroup. Mike wrote:“Podtech.net is a very popular podcast site hosted by John Furrier that is redefining corporate press practices. Recently, for instance,... |
| Oct 14, 2005 | Podtech and SolutionWatch Join Web 2.0 WorkGroup | If you haven’t seen the Web2.0WorkGroup yet, check it out. My original post on it is here.
We’ve added two new resources – Podtech.net and SolutionWatch.
Podtech.net is a very popular podcast site hosted by John Furrier that is redefining c... |
| Oct 9, 2005 | Yahoo Launches Major Podcasting Service | Yahoo just launched a comprehensive podcasting search, directory and listening service called Yahoo Podcasts (URL will be working in the next couple of hours). John Furrier at Podtech.net nailed this story and has posted an exclusive podcas... |
| Jul 27, 2005 | Profile – Loomia | Company: Loomia
Launched: June, 2005
Location: San Francisco
What is it?
Loomia provides search, recommendations, and personalization for podcasts, videocasts, and other syndicated media. In a nutshell, their goal is to help you find conten... |
| Jul 21, 2005 | Update: AlwaysOn (Day Two) | Event: AlwaysOn
Previous Posts: July 19, 2005, July 20, 2005
What’s Happening?
Day Two at Always On was hectic. There are two channels here – the main room with panel discussions (see schedule below) and a side room with 5 minute CEO pitche... |
| Jul 5, 2005 | Profile: Venture Voice | Company: Venture Voice
Launched: June 8, 2005
What is it?
Venture Voice produces podcasts of interviews with interesting people.
In their own words, “What does it take to start a successful business? We’re working the phone to find the an... |
| Jun 29, 2005 | Profile: Feedster | Company: Feedster
Founded: March 2003
Status: Founded by Scott Johnson in March 2003. Merged with RSS-Search founded by François Schiettecatte in June 2003. Announced Series A funding on June 2, 2005 led by Selby Venture Partners. Other in... |
| Jun 22, 2005 | Profile: Bloglines | Company: Bloglines
Location: Oakland, CA
Founded: July 1, 2003 (Link)
Status: Acquired by Ask Jeeves on February 8, 2005 (Link)
What is it?
Bloglines is a free, web based RSS reader. It’s the most popular, with NewsGator/Feeddemon a close s... |
| Jun 21, 2005 | Profile: PodTech | Company: PodTech
Founded: May 23, 2005 (Link)
What is it?
PodTech is a wonderful set of podcast interviews that is updated very frequently and features top tech celebrities (recent podcasts include interviews with Robert Scoble, Dave Hornic... |