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| Oct 21, 2006 | If You Use PhotoShop, Check Out Paint.net | If you use Photoshop regularly, check out the just released version 3.0 of Paint.NET (download it here). It is 3.6 MB download that handles most of the basic (and many of the advanced) functions of Photoshop. It’s free, and even better it l... |
| Oct 10, 2006 | “Masked” Apple Blogger, perhaps not masked for long | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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An anonymous blogger who claims to work for Apple has launched a blog and calls him/herself "The Masked Blogger." It'... |
| 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 25, 2006 | Apple goes after “podcasts” | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Apple has just sent a cease-and-desist letter to the folks behind the Podcast Ready website, telling them that "Podcast Re... |
| Sep 22, 2006 | More Details on Yahoo Hack Day | I just got back from a lunchtime briefing at Yahoo about their open Hack Day next Friday, September 29.
The basics: Yahoo Hack Day is a roughly 24 hour event beginning on Friday, September 29. This is open to any developer who wants to part... |
| Sep 4, 2006 | BarCamp London big success [photos] | TechCrunch UK were one of the sponsors of BarCampLondon
A quick congratulations to organiser(s) of this weekend’s BarCamp London. It seems the event was very well received, with most people feeling that there should be more unconference-for... |
| Sep 1, 2006 | Microsoft's PR agency admits it doesn't "get" blogs! | Tom Foremski has written a post on Silicon Valley Watcher about Waggener Edstrom UK boss, Paul Abrahams, admitting he doesn’t get the value of blogs. I feel a Gerald Ratner moment coming on.
Basically Paul Abrahams, heads up the sizeable UK... |
| Sep 1, 2006 | Hysteria over Vista’s “start-up sound” premature | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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A week just isn't a week without a visit from the drama llama, and this week someone apparently left a trail of oats from Micro... |
| Aug 23, 2006 | Interview with George Moore, GM Windows Live | At the
Microsoft TechEd conference in Auckland on
Monday, I got a chance to sit down with George Moore – GM for the Windows Live Developer
Platform. He is of course based in Redmond, but was over in NZ for TechEd.
I started off by asking Ge... |
| Aug 21, 2006 | Techcrunch Party VII — the bare essentials | Updated
Seven hundred guests went to the Techcrunch party Friday evening.
The event was held at the headquarters of venture capital firm August Capital, on Sand Hill Road — ground zero of Silicon Valley’s money world. Most of the evening, e... |
| Aug 16, 2006 | Kiko Flatlines | Online calendering company Kiko.com has decided to call it quits and put the site up for auction on eBay. They are also offering to export or delete user accounts. It looks like the Deadpool may gain another member.
The Massachusetts compan... |
| Aug 16, 2006 | Windows Live Drive Info: Deleted Post From Team Member | Update: Microsoft PR sent me this statement: “Windows Live is a set of services built around people. Our major goal is to unify customers’ worlds so they have access to the people and information they want anytime, anywhere from any device.... |
| Aug 7, 2006 | WordPress.com Rising: Stats After 8 Months | WordPress.com, a free, hosted blog service, turns eight months old this month. CEO Toni Schneider shared some of the current stats of the service with me over the weekend at a conference they held in San Francisco.
The top blog (by traffic)... |
| Aug 3, 2006 | No Link Love From Robert Scoble | Robert wrote a really interesting post on gestures Tuesday and for some reason decided to use my blog to make his point. I appreciate the attention. But he didn’t link to me and got some heat for the lack of link love in the comments to his... |
| Jul 25, 2006 | We Love TechCrunch Sponsors Very, Very Much | TechCrunch would not be possible without the support of our sponsors. Most companies that have requested sponsorship on TechCrunch have been turned away – we accept companies where we like and respect the products they are shipping.
Our six... |
| Jun 19, 2006 | Sequoia invests $1.5 in slideshow start-up RockYou.. & other valley news | Updated twice
Silicon Valley venture firm Sequoia Capital has led a $1.5 million investment in NetPickle, which operates a photo site called RockYou.com. The site enables you to create photo slideshows and upload them to other Web sites. It... |
| 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 11, 2006 | Page Views 2.0 | It’s funny that I posted the
PlentyOfFish.com post not long before the Scoble-leaving-Microsoft
announcement predictably blanketed
Techmeme. Because reading Robert’s
latest post about his decision made me think about the fundamental reason
... |
| 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... |
| May 2, 2006 | The best codenames don’t exist, yet | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Let's face it: Microsoft manages to take cool product code names and ruin them through rebranding. For instance, I thought that... |
| May 1, 2006 | Monday morning wrap-up: Flipt, Facebook, MySpace’s unnecessary clicks & more | Here’s the latest in Silicon Valley stuff:
Radiate changes name to Flipt, raises $5M — We’ve mentioned Radiate before. It is the stealthy start-up run by 21-year-old Sam Altman, that is developing social networking play that incorporates lo... |
| Apr 28, 2006 | Eye-Fi to Combine Wifi, Flash Memory | The one thing I wish my digital camera had was wifi so that I could auto-upload photos without the extra hassle of connecting the camera or memory card to a computer. There are cameras being released now that have this capability. However, ... |
| Mar 29, 2006 | Second Life Gets Funded | It was a matter of time before someone stepped up and funded Linden Labs and it was announced yesterday that Globespan Partners along with some big name entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos, Mitch Kapor, and Pierre Omidyar put $11 million into Lin... |
| Mar 27, 2006 | Avatars | One of the things we are spending time on in our quest to look ahead is virtual worlds and avatars.
I’ve spent some time in Second Life and have created a persona called Flat Plasma. I haven’t spent any money there yet and am not yet as add... |
| Mar 25, 2006 | Microsoft’s web branding gets branded: it sucks | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Microsoft is rebranding everything. Last month, Ars discussed the possibility that Microsoft's Windows Live craze was out of co... |
| Mar 18, 2006 | Use Co.mments to Track Blog Conversations | At first blush, Assaf Arkin’s Co.mments looks like a competitor to CoComment, the tool that allows you to track comments you’ve left on blogs (see CoComment reviews here).
But in reality it’s quite different. Co.mments reminds me the most o... |
| Mar 1, 2006 | We’ve seen this Ether before, no? — and other Silicon Valley news | Ether launches — On the face of it, Ether offers an interesting new service: Owned by the San Francisco company, Ingenio, Ether lets you set up a phone service where you charge a price for giving people advice over the phone.
You can charge... |
| Mar 1, 2006 | Everything Old Is New Again… Including Some Of The Exact Same Startups | For the past two years, we’ve noticed an ongoing trend of new dot coms basically being the same old bubble-era dot com ideas put forth a second time, perhaps with a bit of Ajax, rounded corners and neon design. What’s really odd, though, is... |
| Mar 1, 2006 | Super-Stealth Ether to Launch Tonight | Tonight at midnight the doors open (to beta testers) at Ether, the new super-stealth startup that is wholly-owned by the pay-per-call folks at Ingenio.
The concept of Ether is straightforward, but it has a massive back end infrastructure (t... |
| Feb 27, 2006 | Scoble Warns: Origami Over-Hyped? | Speculation continued over the weekend regarding Microsoft's Origami Project, with a purported video of the product further feeding the rumor mill. Microsoft admits the video of the portable PC is legit, but says it was an early concept. Co... |
| Feb 24, 2006 | Microsoft to Unveil Secret Project Mar. 2 | With speculation flying about what "fun new products" Apple plans to announce next week, from video iPods to DVR-enabled Mac minis, Microsoft has its own surprise up its sleeve. The Web is abuzz with guesses as to what the Redmond... |
| Feb 24, 2006 | Windows Live updates and a new viral marketing site | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Within the next week, Microsoft will be tidying up some of its Windows Live programs. First off, Windows Live Mail will receive... |
| Feb 19, 2006 | Six Apart grabs $12 million more; cocktail circuit says bubble is growing | Updated: We were just saying you shouldn’t believe anything about this VC world unless you scrutinize it (see post above). We’ve heard from very good source that this Six Apart funding is not done, and will take a couple of more weeks to wr... |
| 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... |
| Feb 14, 2006 | Personalized Clustering: It’s too hard, say developers | After my post about
Personalized Megite, I got taken to task by both Gabe Rivera from Memeorandum and Nik Cubrilovic from OmniDrive – two developers who have had a lot of
experience trying to develop such systems. As Gabe wrote in
Scoble’s ... |
| Feb 13, 2006 | Technorati now has Authority | Assigning some sort of quality to real time search is necessary. Tracking incoming links to a particular post doesn’t work because, well, since this stuff is real time there is no time to track links. Memeorandum does track blog post links ... |
| Feb 4, 2006 | CoComment: Tracking Your Blog Comments | CoComment is experimenting with a new way for people to keep track of all of the comments they leave on various blogs.
To use CoComment, a user must install a bookmarklet on their browser and use that bookmarklet, instead of the blog interf... |
| Jan 28, 2006 | Nine Startups at E27 Summit | I attended the E27 Technology Conference today at Stanford University. Startups founded by entrepreneurs who are less than 27 years old were eligible to present. With a couple of exceptions these companies were all new to me, and a few have... |
| Jan 25, 2006 | Microsoft Search Champs: Non-NDA Stuff | Today I was at the Redmond office of Microsoft and it was an interesting day of
discussions about… well I’m not allowed to say due to NDA. But most of the
last hour of presentations was bloggable. TechCrunch has a
good summary post, to whic... |
| Jan 17, 2006 | Tailrank makes improvements | San Francisco start-up TailRank, another site that tries to sort through thousands of blogs to bring us the most interesting posts, has made some improvements from when we last looked at it last year (here and here)
TailRank spiders 35,000 ... |
| Jan 16, 2006 | A Google today could keep the Apple away for Microsoft | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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With the Intel-based Mac almost upon us, technology experts are predicting that Apple may steal users from the Microsoft platfo... |
| Jan 13, 2006 | MS Testing Media Center TV Streaming | UPDATED Microsoft is currently testing a Slingbox-like add-on that would allow Windows Media Center users to watch programming on their PCs from anywhere using mobile devices and laptops, BetaNews has learned.
The feature uses a software ap... |
| Jan 4, 2006 | Microsoft and Bokee mired in Chinese free-speech controversy | Updated
Free speech?
Wow, things are heating up quickly on the Chinese censorship front — and what is most intriguing is that American investors might have some say in this. We will watch this one closely as it develops:
Here is what is hap... |
| Dec 29, 2005 | Dave Winer's Newest Adventure | Dave Winer announced today that he’s built a new RSS aggregator, built on his OPML editor platform. He’s released it to the OPML community for early testing.
Some details are here. The aggregator will have advanced podcasting/videocasting s... |
| Dec 24, 2005 | Outlook 12 to have RSS Integration | In news that certainly is not making the existing RSS Aggregator companies happy, Microsoft Outlook program manager Michael Affronti has soft announced that RSS will be integrated with Outlook 12.
This will not only hurt the NewsGators and ... |
| Dec 20, 2005 | Author Ed Bott bites his tongue | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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If you read any of the MSDN blogs, then you probably see a lot of "I wish I could say more about [insert Microsoft beta pr... |
| 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 20, 2005 | V4S – Voicemail for Skype | I read about Orb’s V4S product on Scobelizer and Skype Journal. V4S is a good, free tool for sending voicemails to Skype and Outlook contacts.
V4S joins a whole bunch of products attacking the same or similar market (sending voicemails over... |
| Dec 18, 2005 | Riya Goes it Alone | Riya, the celebrated facial recognition company that has allowed in a few lucky alpha testers over the last few months, was the subject of significant acquisition rumors a few weeks ago. “Sources” put the price in the $30 million range, alt... |
| Dec 16, 2005 | Microsoft to Host New Web Conference | With Microsoft embarking on a new "live era" of Web based services, there's only one thing missing from its efforts to pioneer the so-called Web 2.0: a conference to back it up. Thus, the Redmond company has scheduled next March t... |
| Nov 25, 2005 | Windows Live Email Service | Domains.Live.com is a free new email service offered by Microsoft. It’s a simple but very useful tool. And, like Office Live, it is disruptive to the existing domain name registrar market (are they even paying attention?).
So the basic serv... |
| Nov 19, 2005 | Riya's Launch Party @ TechCrunch | We reached a new milestone in our ongoing experiment to see how many people can fit inside my house before the police come and arrest me: over 250 last night (previous record was 200ish) at the Riya Launch Party.
The thing I liked best abou... |
| Nov 10, 2005 | The Buzz: Winds of Change at Microsoft | The big news Wednesday involved two memos from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and chief technical officer Ray Ozzie. The missives detail what Gates calls "a sea change" and why Microsoft risks being left behind in the Web 2.0 movem... |
| 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 2, 2005 | The Buzz: Microsoft Upgrades to Web 2.0 | Microsoft on Tuesday announced its highly-anticipated lineup of online services, called Windows Live and Office Live. The news has received much attention from tech pundits and throughout the blogosphere. Read on for a selection of what peo... |
| Oct 31, 2005 | Tag Camp Photo Album with Picaboo | I first heard about Picaboo from Robert Scoble a few days ago. Picaboo is a way to create, share and print photo albums.
Picaboo was founded in September 2002 by Howard Field and Kevin McCurdy, and is funded by Kleiner Perkins and Softbank.... |
| Oct 26, 2005 | Voice Email with WaxMail | WaxMail is a free voice email service for Outlook from the guys who created Skylook (see our profile here).
WaxMail requires a small download and a quick installation with Outlook. From there, all you have to do is click a button to record ... |
| Oct 22, 2005 | Thank You For Coming To Our Party | I believe we had as many as 200 people here last night for TechCrunch Meetup #3. The last of the guests left at 4 am. Thank you to everyone who came and everyone who tried to attend via festoon.
Scott Beale took my favorite picture of the e... |
| 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 | First Screen Shot of Sphere | Company: Sphere
Launched: Private Beta Launch this Weekend
Status: Funded by Doug MacKenzie, Kevin Compton, Phil Black, Will Hearst, David Mahoney, Vince Vannelli and Mike Winton
Previous Post: October 8, 2005
Location: Palo Alto
I met with... |