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| Mar 17, 2008 | Videos Of Tibetan Protest Get YouTube Banned In China | We can now add China to the axis of NoTube as it has blocked all of YouTube after videos from news reports concerning the protests in Tibet began to show up on the video hosting site. What’s interesting is that this comes just a few months ... |
| Feb 25, 2008 | How To Manage Your Online Reputation | You’ve spent a lot of time building up your reputation and image both online and off, so it’s important to make sure that someone isn’t out there dragging it through the mud. The latest tool for reputation management is Trackur, but its bot... |
| Jan 2, 2008 | The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko | Rich Skrenta, who created the first computer virus (Elk Cloner), co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix, may have bitten off the biggest challenge of his career – taking on Google. In search.
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| Jun 26, 2007 | Topix CEO Steps Down; VP Chris Tolles Takes Spot | This is a quick post because I’m getting on a plane to Europe, but fast-growing news site Topix has a new CEO. Rich Skrenta has stepped down, and VP Marketing Chris Tolles has taken his position. See Tolles’ blog post on this here, and ever... |
| Apr 1, 2007 | Topix Aims For Citizen Journalists | News site Topix.net will relaunch this evening under their newly acquired domain name Topix.com. They are also launching a new product that will allow readers to write and edit local news articles directly.
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| Mar 14, 2007 | Roundup: Walking robot, MySpace News, Dot-Watt boom and more | Here’s the latest action:
Dexter, the first robot that “walks like we do” — Entrepreneur Trevor Blackwell started a robot company in Mountain View, Calif. called Anybots a few years ago (we wrote about it). He built a robot called Dexter, a... |
| Mar 1, 2007 | Roundup: Netvibes2Go, Ooma, Wesabe, Second Life voice, Google traffic, more | Here’s the latest action:
Netvibes offers Netvibes2go — Netvibes, the company that has gotten buzz with its cool personalized home page service, is offering a mobile version called Netvibes2Go. It lets you access all your info — contained i... |
| Feb 28, 2007 | Will Outside.in nail the community Web site? Maybe | Updated with full list of names of angel investors
How do you build the perfect local community Web site — with news, events, comments and more?
If you manage to, it will be a grand slam. It becomes the talk of the town, people spend more t... |
| Jan 13, 2007 | Patent Monkey: AOL Online Music Sold to Napster | In news yesterday, AOL shed more of its business by announcing that they are selling their online Music NOw business to Napster. Napster, surprisingly, has a few patents in their pocket, while our analysis of AOL shows that they had very li... |
| Jan 4, 2007 | Daylife Launches, Starts Very Long Uphill Climb | New York based Daylife, a news aggregation site I invested in long, long ago, has finally launched. We first mentioned the company back in July. After quickly reviewing the launch product, I am unhappy to report that I am underwhelmed by wh... |
| Jan 4, 2007 | Wikia’s coffers, Browster dies, closed Dash, Techdirt’s $, and RepoMan Redux | Roundup of the latest Silicon Valley action:
Browster, dies — The web 2.0 carnage is beginning to pile up. This week’s casualty is San Francisco’s Browster, the company that wanted to save you time by popping up a little image of a page whe... |
| Jan 3, 2007 | Marty, The Dot Com Cleanup Guy, Not Doing So Well These Days | Remember Marty, the dot com cleanup guy? That would be Marty Pichinson, founder and CEO of Sherwood Partners, who was all over the press in the post-dot com bubble days. Sherwood Partners was the firm that the big VCs called in to help liqu... |
| Dec 19, 2006 | Update on VentureBeat’s $100,000-plus jobs | Check out the fresh $100,000+ jobs at the VentureBeat JobBoard.
Here are some of the recent listings:
—Spock, the secretive people search company which you’ll be hearing more about here in news this evening, and which VentureBeat wrote abou... |
| Nov 21, 2006 | Are Microsoft And Novell Looking To Get An Annulment? | The Microsoft-Linux lovefest sure didn’t last long. A few weeks ago, Microsoft and Novell announced a surprising alliance, whereby they would work together to ensure interoperability between Windows and Linux, team up on sales, and promise ... |
| Nov 14, 2006 | Major Vonage Share Holders Force Themselves To Hold Shares In Last Ditch Effort To Keep Investors Happy | It seems pretty well accepted at this point that Vonage’s IPO was one of the more bungled IPOs in a while. Hyped to a tremendous level, the institutional investors never showed up, and the company resorted to convincing its own customers it... |
| Nov 13, 2006 | Update on VentureBeat’s high-end jobs | Since launching our $100,000 plus VentureBeat JobBoard, entrepreneurs continue to tell us they’re getting highly qualified applicants via VentureBeat. We’re glad it’s working. We’ll try to bolster this shortly by promoting the JobBoard even... |
| Nov 6, 2006 | Newspaper Group Owners Invest $15 Million In Topix.net | Topix.net, a news aggregator will be announcing today that they have received another $15 million from already existing stakeholders in the $72 million-valued Palo Alto, CA-based company. By upping the ante of investment into Topix, Gannett... |
| Nov 6, 2006 | Topix Raises $15m More for Local News Search | News search engine Topix.net has announced that has taken $15 million in additional funding from three large media companies, Tribune, Gannett and McClatchy. The company raised a round about 18 months ago for an undisclosed sum that was onl... |
| Nov 5, 2006 | Topix raises $15 million more to build out local news | Updated
Topix.net, the Palo Alto company that aggregates news on a single site, letting users see local and other relevant news to them, said it has raised $15 million more in financing.
Topix said in a statement that it raised its money fr... |
| Oct 16, 2006 | Tailrank 2.0 – How Does It Compare To Techmeme? | Back in February I wrote a post entitled Rating the Meme
Trackers. At the time I rated Memeorandum (now known as Techmeme) as the best, but I thought Topix and Tailrank
were right up there too. Tailrank has just launched a new version, labe... |
| Oct 3, 2006 | If You're Going To Charge For WiFi, You Probably Should Make Sure It Works | In the early days of WiFi hotspots, there was a fascinating discussion among many watchers of the space after Paul Boutin pointed out that all of the overhead associated with charging for WiFi (the billing, the access control, the customer ... |
| Oct 3, 2006 | MySpace Goes Prime Time | Fox is expanding it’s Full Throttle offering of television shows (see Fox Streams More TV to Internet). The key difference from the previous offering seems to be that Fox is now distributing the shows through MySpace in addition to 24 local... |
| Sep 26, 2006 | Lawsuit Claims Kid Never Would Have Killed Abusive Father Without Playing GTA | rijit writes in to tell us about the latest lawsuit filed by anti-video game lawyer Jack Thompson. This one is similar to other lawsuits, suing the various companies involved in the game, blaming them for a murder, just because a kid who ki... |
| Sep 25, 2006 | Zero Gravity Surgery… Just 'Cause We Can | Zero gravity flights have been growing in popularity over the last few years, as they’ve become available to the public. It involves a modified plane that parabolic arcs, basically creating a giant roller coaster, that gives the folks in th... |
| Sep 20, 2006 | Roundup: Apple secrets, India hype, Cheney’s visit, VideoEgg, Zillow, | Here is a shotgun of the latest stuff in raging Silicon Valley, leading of course with video:
VideoEgg gets easier — VideoEgg, a site that lets you download software so you can post video on any site, has partnered to make the process easie... |
| Sep 12, 2006 | AT&T Turns on Internet TV Service | AT&T, the largest telecom in the U.S. has announced the launch of AT&T Broadband TV, a television broadband service created in a partnership with mobile TV provider MobiTV.
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| Sep 12, 2006 | Palm, Vodafone to ship 3G Treo 750v on 2 October | Palm and Vodafone have launched the Treo 750v, the PDA maker’s new 3G Euro-centric smart phone, and pledged to ship the gadget on 2 October in the UK.
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| Sep 12, 2006 | Garmin Mobile 10 Turns Bluetooth Enabled Laptops, PDAs into GPS Navigators | Garmin International Inc. today announced Garmin Mobile 10, a unique product that turns Bluetooth enabled devices such as laptops, smartphones, Pocket PCs, and PDAs into GPS navigators.
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| Sep 12, 2006 | Northrop gets NYC wireless net contract | Northrop Grumman was awarded a $500 million contract to deploy a wireless broadband communications network for New York City’s public safety agencies.
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| Sep 12, 2006 | One Billion 3G Cellphone Users by 2010 | US : W-CDMA and CDMA2000 1xEV-DO 3G technologies are on target to reach 167 million users by the end of this year, climbing to pass the one billion mark in 2010 according to new research from the Wireless …
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| Sep 12, 2006 | Cingular, Nokia Intro E62 | Cingular Wireless and Nokia today introduced the Nokia E62 device, a robust, sleek device built specifically for wireless email whose attractive price promises to take superior mobile email access beyond the …
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| Sep 12, 2006 | Sandia Fingerprinting Technique Demonstrates Wireless Device Driver Vulnerabilities | There is, however, some cheerful news. By role-playing the position of an adversary , Sandia researchers have demonstrated a unique “fingerprinting” technique that allows hackers with ill intent to identify a …
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| Sep 12, 2006 | Leak scandal costs HP’s Dunn her chairman’s job | Patricia Dunn to step down from her post in January in the wake of a controversial probe into media leaks.
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| Sep 12, 2006 | Northrop Grumman Wins $500 Million New York City Bro | New York City’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a five-year $500 million contract to provide the city’s broadband public-safety wireless …
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| Sep 12, 2006 | i-mate Introduces Two Windows Mobile 5.0 Devices for the Americas Market | The announcement was made at CTIA Wireless IT 2006, a leading wireless industry tradeshow being held in Los Angeles Sept.
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| Sep 11, 2006 | Wireless Networking News Analysis | As IMS spreads across the telecom industry, the focus shifts to end-user applications.
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| Sep 11, 2006 | Intel Sells Optical Component Business | Intel Corp. has sold a business that manufactures optical network components to Cortina Systems Inc.
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| Sep 11, 2006 | Private-equity firms bidding for Moto spinoff Freescale | Two private equity consortiums are bidding to buy chip maker Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
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| Sep 11, 2006 | New State computer System on 9/11 | State officials and Representative Hal Rogers have marked the fifth anniversary of the September eleventh, 2001 attacks by rolling out a new statewide computer system.
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| Sep 11, 2006 | Truphone launches VoIP on mass-market mobile handsets | Boston, USA – Truphone today announced availability of a free, beta, VoIP software download for Wi-Fi-enabled, mass market mobile handsets, bringing free/low-cost mobile calls to millions.
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| Sep 11, 2006 | CSR targets VoIP phones for growth in WiFi | Even as it starts volume production of its first single-chip WiFi device, Bluetooth chip pioneer CSR plc has started expanding its Wireless LAN capability by starting to sample a Voice over IP phone reference …
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| Sep 11, 2006 | QuickPlay raises $12 million Series B | Toronto & Los Angeles.- QuickPlay Media, a leading provider of mobile video and rich-media services, announced during the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment Conference, the completion of a $12 million Series B …
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| Sep 11, 2006 | HTC Excalibur / O2 Xda Cosmo reviewed | If the Boy Genius’ soiled-trow, hands-on of the HTC Excalibur had you gasping for more, then peep the full review of the O2 Xda Cosmo just posted at the::unwired. Their unit from O2 Germany came ready to go …
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| Sep 11, 2006 | Microsoft to Unveil New Search Engine | Microsoft Corp. plans Tuesday to officially launch its updated and renamed Internet search engine, the latest step in a massive effort to make headway against market leaders Yahoo Inc.
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| Sep 11, 2006 | Fox, Tribune to auction some ad space on Web sites | NEW YORK – Fox Interactive Media, Tribune and LookSmart are among major media owners who will auction non-premium advertising space to generate more revenue from existing Web pages.The publishers will use a …
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| Sep 7, 2006 | Bertlesmann's Napster Settlement Could Make Things Difficult For Investors | Back in 2003, we were surprised to see Universal Music decide to sue rival Bertelsmann over its investment in Napster. Bertelsmann had been the only major label to buck the RIAA-backed trend of declaring the original Napster as evil, and ha... |
| Aug 30, 2006 | Ricoh’s upcoming Caplio 500SE with WiFi and Bluetooth | If you’re looking for the perfect camera to take on your next vacation to the Amazon rainforest or Sahara desert, look no further than Ricoh’s upcoming Caplio 500SE; like the 500G that preceded it, this 8 …
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| Aug 29, 2006 | Wireless group to certify super fast Wi-Fi gear | NEW YORK – The Wi-Fi Alliance said on Tuesday it will begin next year to give its seal of approval to new products that wirelessly send high definition video around the house using a faster version of the …
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| Aug 29, 2006 | End of an Era: Danny Sullivan Leaves SES | Shocking news to all in the Search Engine Marketing industry: Danny Sullivan, founder and organizer of Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies, is moving on — in his own words : After ten years , I’m …
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| Aug 29, 2006 | Buy now, get faster speeds later | If you’re one of those types that like having a gadget the moment it comes out, you’ll be happy to hear about the new PC Card from Sprint and Novatel Wireless , which is capable of accessing the EV-DO Revision …
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| Aug 29, 2006 | Fujitsu drops a quartet of new notebooks | Posted Aug 29th 2006 10:15AM by Evan Blass Filed under: Laptops , Tablet PCs So Fujitsu’s got four portable machines for us to peep today, but unlike the slew of Merom-powered notebooks we’ve been seeing, only …
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| Aug 8, 2006 | Topix.net finally usable after relaunch | Topix.net, possibly the most feature rich news search engine online already, has relaunched and looks very cool. The Topix index of 50,000 news sources is 10 times larger than the Google News index and 7 times as large as Yahoo! News. Topix... |
| Jun 14, 2006 | Why Craigslist Is Successful | I found this link in the Union Square Ventures weblog comments section.
It’s an analysis of why Craigslist works. And its a good read.
My favorite part:
Craigslist is brilliant because his main activity is something that
posters are inheren... |
| May 23, 2006 | Discussing The Future: Getting Ready For Techdirt Greenhouse | Last week we held a dinner salon, sponsored by Topix.net, as something of a warm up for the next Techdirt Greenhouse idea workshop. It was a fun discussion with a small group of smart folks from around the area, trying to determine what’s g... |
| May 16, 2006 | Techdirt Greenhouse Registration Open: Join Us For Our Next Idea Workshop | As mentioned, our next Techdirt Greenhouse event will be taking place on Saturday, June 10th in Sunnyvale, California. We’ve now opened up registration, with discount pricing through the end of May. If you’re not familiar with the event, it... |
| Mar 27, 2006 | Microcontent Design – Responses | My introductory post last week about Microcontent Design
got such a good response that I need to pause and consider all the feedback, before I
move onto Part 2. Basically what I call ‘microcontent design’ involves:
…microchunking your conte... |
| Mar 8, 2006 | You Got Your Tags In My Contextual Advertising… | Take two things, each of which may be overhyped in their own way, and mash them together… and something interesting might occur. Thanks to Google’s success, everyone is focused on contextual advertising these days and trying to figure out h... |
| Feb 22, 2006 | Welcome To The Techdirt Greenhouse: A Live Idea Workshop | A few years back, after getting sick of yet another conference that seemed more designed for the sponsors than the attendees, I wrote up a longer column on the conference I wanted to attend. It was a piece of wishful thinking that I tossed ... |
| Feb 15, 2006 | The Internet May Be A Different World, But It Still Maps To Home | There’s talk about how, when you’re online, your physical location means very little. However, the folks over at Topix.net are showing that where someone is sitting can still be quite useful. Last week, the company explained how it actually... |
| Feb 4, 2006 | The Memeorandum Hunters | I’ve written about two new real-time news aggregators today, Megite and Newroo.
The space is clearly hot, with both funded and unfunded companies rushing to release products. The goal? Leverage all of the great edge blog content out there, ... |
| Jan 31, 2006 | Could Newspaper Owners Really Be This Clueless? | Just as stories are hitting the press about slow-to-innovate newspapers finally embracing the internet comes the news that a bunch of newspapers are quite upset that Google drives more traffic to their websites. This isn’t a first. Last yea... |
| Dec 12, 2005 | Topix expansion aimed at building communities | Topix.net doesn’t produce a shred of news content on its own. Like Google News, it’s a news aggregator, pulling together headlines from thousands of sources. But that hasn’t stopped users around the country from mistakenly emailing the comp... |
| Nov 6, 2005 | Topix adds blogs to news crawl | Topix, the Palo Alto-based news search engine, is now aggressively incorporating blogs into its crawl and search results. Says CEO Rich Skrenta on the Topix blog:
Today we added 15,000 top weblogs to the Topix.net crawling/tagging engine. B... |
| Nov 6, 2005 | Topix Does What Yahoo Wouldn't | Topix.net added 15,000 top blogs into its news engine today.
Unlike Yahoo, which took the step of integrating blog search results into the news area but pushed them off to the side, Topix has integrated blog posts into results in the same m... |
| Aug 1, 2005 | How much was the Topix deal worth? | PaidContent digs into the SEC filings for two of the three media companies that bought stakes in Palo Alto start-up Topix.net and concludes that the total deal was worth about $50 million. That’s a pretty nifty multiple, as Jeff Clavier not... |
| Apr 25, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 18-24 Apr 2005 | sponsored by:
This week: Macrobe/Adobemedia, sports RSS feeds, Google and Yahoo MojoWatch, Mobile Web 2.0 woes, Dan Gillmor’s Web 3.0. Web Design Bigco: Adobe buys Macromedia
This was all over the Web Tech part of the blogosphere this week ... |
| Apr 23, 2005 | Web 2.0 Noted | John Battelle: “In
the Web 2.0 world, it matter less that you have a major media company behind you, what
matters is if your voice and point of view are considered valuable by your audience.”
PaidContent.org:
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| Mar 22, 2005 | Newspaper companies take majority stake in Topix.net | A joint venture of Knight Ridder, Gannett and Tribune has bought a 75 percent stake in Topix.net, the Palo Alto news search engine that we’ve written about extensively here on SiliconBeat. The company will continue to operate independently ... |
| Mar 22, 2005 | Newspapers Buy Into Topix.net, Dip Their Toes Into Local Web Advertising | It’s turning into quite a week for deals to be announced. Yahoo buys Flickr, Barry Diller buys Ask Jeeves and HP buys Snapfish. Next up, is Topix.net… which hasn’t fully been bought out, but close enough. The news aggregation site (which we... |
| Feb 23, 2005 | The local search land-grab continues | How often do you reach for the phone book when you want to find a local business or service? Not much anymore, if you’re like a lot of Net-savvy people. More and more, consumers are turning to the Web in search of local information. And eve... |
| Feb 18, 2005 | What Is The Data Matrix? Machines and Humans Coexist | Andrew
Nachison from The Media Centre raises some interesting issues regarding RSS content
aggregation. He boils it down to these 3 questions: 1. Machines vs. humans? [in regards to aggregation]
I agree with Andrew’s conclusion: “This isn’t... |
| Feb 14, 2005 | Aggregation Advertising Aggravation | Try saying that three times fast! Jupiter Research analyst Eric Peterson recently
had another chat with Bloglines CEO Mark Fletcher. The resulting
post from Eric pretty much confirms my theory that Bloglines was
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| Feb 2, 2005 | NY Times cozies up with Topix | When Topix.net of Palo Alto first came on the scene last year, some folks saw it as a possible threat to newspapers. Like Google News, Topix aggregates news from thousands of sources into one place. Some saw Topix possibly stealing eyeballs... |
| Jan 3, 2005 | Topix deepens search in Silicon Valley with LinkSV | More on our earlier note about Topix…
Topix.net, the Palo Alto Web service that provides local news, has launched a new service designed for the Silicon Valley start-up community.
It’s just the latest offering from this intriguing company o... |
| Jan 3, 2005 | Topix adds start-up channel | For those who follow the start-up and VC space closely, Topix.net has added a news channel that tracks stories and info for 2,500 privately-held startups. The Palo Alto company is pulling data from LinkSV.com, which keeps a database of priv... |
| Nov 12, 2004 | Hey, Mr. DJ | From the “we keep forgetting to blog this” category, it seems that Chris Tolles will have more than just promoting Topix.net to keep him busy. Tolles, co-founder of Spoke Software and now vp of marketing for Topix, will be hosting a radio s... |
| Nov 4, 2004 | Topix and Citysearch team up | The folks over at Palo Alto search engine start-up Topix.net promised more deals this fall. The latest is with Citysearch, the Los Angeles-based local search service. Citysearch will incorporate Topix local news feeds into the “guides” that... |
| Sep 20, 2004 | Why Online Newspapers Require Registration: Spam | Last week we wrote about John C. Dvorak’s belief that newspapers are adding registration to make themselves believe that their paper business isn’t really threatened by the web, and Rich Skrenta at Topix has picked up on this idea and expla... |
| Aug 2, 2004 | 7,000 Sources… Or Just A Few Favorites? | For all the hype about how good Google News is for putting together an automated snapshot of the news of the day, an analysis of the front page of Google News found that they seem to rely on just a few sources for all of their main stories.... |
| Apr 23, 2004 | Forget IBM, HP And Sun In Grid Computing: How About Google And Akamai? | In something of an update on Rich Skrenta’s speculation on Google’s power, Simson Garfinkel has written a fascinating piece for MIT’s Tech Review discussing whether or not Google will end up competing with Akamai – noting that both have don... |
| Jan 12, 2004 | New News Aggregator: Topix | As you might imagine, here at Techdirt, we’re always experimenting with new ways to track down news. We use a variety of tools that are available out there, and some that we’ve scraped together ourselves. The folks who started the Open Dire... |