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| Nov 1, 2013 | Naming your startup: fun, friendly or just plain hipster? | If your startup name can’t potentially be used as an everyday verb or doesn’t end with “ly” you’ve probably missed the trend train. Geekatoo, LOOKK, Ordrin, Wowzer, and of course Lettuce, are a handful of startups featured on 500 Startups w... |
| Nov 1, 2013 | Naming your startup: fun, friendly or just plain hipster? | If your startup name can’t potentially be used as an everyday verb or doesn’t end with “ly” you’ve probably missed the trend train. Geekatoo, LOOKK, Ordrin, Wowzer, and of course Lettuce, are a handful of startups featured on 500 Startups w... |
| Apr 6, 2010 | Digg's one-time future | Just before leaving the company, Jay Adelson revealed his plans for the site overhaul.
On Monday, Jay Adelson announced he is stepping down as CEO of Digg, and founder Kevin Rose will take up the reins. TechCrunch suggested the change was l... |
| Sep 3, 2009 | After “Obama as Joker” Copyright Debacle, Flickr Changes its Takedown Policy | When 20-year-old college student Firas Alkhateeb posted a picture of President Obama decked out in Joker facepaint to photo-sharing website Flickr, little did he know that he was going to be the catalyst for a major policy change in how the... |
| Jun 11, 2009 | Overview Of The Japanese Web And An Interview With the CEO Of Japan's Biggest Social Network Mixi (GeeksOnAPlane In Tokyo) | The second day of the Geeks on a Plane geeky spree in Japan was completely filled with (mostly) insightful presentations, panels and pitches from newly launched Japanese start-ups (here is an overview of day one). The Startonomics Tokyo eve... |
| Aug 4, 2008 | 15 Year Old Entrepreneur Launches Teens In Tech | Teenage entrepreneurs aren’t a new phenomenon in the valley – 17 year old Kristopher Tate founded Zooomr back in 2006, and Jessica Mah could call herself a serial entrepreneur by age 17. But it’s still pretty rare to see a startup founder g... |
| Jun 18, 2008 | Learning from Flickr’s Co-founders on Their Way Out of Yahoo | In June 2005 Yahoo! acquired upstart Canadian photosharing web site Flickr and the web hasn’t been the same since. Yahoo, on the other hand, didn’t change nearly as much as everyone expected it to. Pre-CEO Jerry Yang told then-Business 2.0 ... |
| Apr 3, 2008 | OpenID Status Check: A Guide to Getting and Using Your OpenID | You’ve heard a lot about OpenID, the decentralized framework for authenticating users across the web. OpenID is convenient for end users, allowing them to login to numerous web sites using one set of credentials – their OpenID. But how is O... |
| Nov 30, 2007 | The Troubles With OpenID 2.0 | Portland, Oregon’s JanRain, leaders in the OpenID movement, put on a PR push this week to promote what they say is the imminent approval of OpenID 2.0’s final draft. Specifically, they say that they expect the final signatures to be penned ... |
| Oct 28, 2007 | Zooomr Goes Japanese | http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=352732&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=01AAEA
Zooomr has taken its social photo sharing site offshore with the launch of a mobile ... |
| May 21, 2007 | Zooomr Mark III: New Features, Better Look | Zooomr has launched its latest version, Zooomr Mark III today with over 250 additional features, enhancements and upgrades.
The photo sharing company headed by the just turned 19 Kristopher Tate provides a range of appealing features includ... |
| Jan 3, 2007 | OpenID and the Identity Systems of Yahoo, Google & MSN | Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus
You may’ve heard of OpenID – it’s a
distributed identity management system, a.k.a. a decentralized single sign-on platform.
We prepared a screencast to better explain the idea (see Flas... |
| Nov 21, 2006 | Peanut Butter redux, expensive Sonsini, Hoffman burned, Infinera & much more | (Updated) roundup of the high-stakes game going on in Silicon Valley:
Brad Garlinghouse’s Peanut Butter memo — The Yahoo executive complained about the company’s “proclivity to repeatedly hire leaders from outside.” This is noteworthy, beca... |
| 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 1, 2006 | Zooomr Doubles Flickr's Monthly Photo Upload Limits | As of tonight, upstart photo sharing site Zooomr has increased its monthly photo upload limits for free and pro accounts. Free account holders will be allowed 100 MB of photo uploads per month and pro accounts 4 GB per month. The company em... |
| Sep 27, 2006 | AOL Pictures goes social and it's not pretty | The new version of AOL Pictures came out of beta today and it’s thoroughly underwhelming. The new features are basically all the social things that are standard from a Web 2.0 perspective – Public galleries, Ajax, tags, comments and subscri... |
| Sep 21, 2006 | More Merger Rumors – Xuqa, Dovetail, Zooomr | The acquisition rumor train is running at full steam. We’ve got the really small deals going through ebay (see our post yesterday rounding up the recent ones), and lots of chatter about the largest independent web sites looking for $1 – $2 ... |
| Sep 20, 2006 | Stunning photo site, Zooomr, releases Zmail & much more | Zooomr, the photo start-up that has galloped ahead of everyone else in offering edgy photo tagging and sharing techniques, is about to release its latest feature: Zmail.
Zmail, an internal messaging system for the site, will let users notif... |
| Aug 31, 2006 | YouTube pulls a Facebook move, circa 2004 | YouTube has opened a new section of its site called Colleges on YouTube. Students, staff and alumni of 30 universities can access video from their school community by using a .edu email address and other users can’t access those pages. User... |
| Aug 29, 2006 | Flickr supports "Geo" Microformat | There is a lot of coverage on the web today about Yahoo! bringing together a bunch of its properties — Flickr, Yahoo! Maps, Upcoming, and Yahoo! Local and finally adding in support for “Geo Tagging” in Flickr. Back in June, at the Content 2... |
| 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 21, 2006 | Zooomr launches zoomable picture in picture feature | Photosharing upstart Zooomr launched a number of new features today, the most notable one called Portals. It’s a means of linking zoomable pictures inside of each other. It’s quite striking, as you can see from the video below.
Zooomr also ... |
| Aug 19, 2006 | Thank You For Coming To TechCrunch 7 | The TechCrunch August Capital Party last night was a big success (if you define success as the police showing up at a top tier venture fund’s offices at midnight to shut a party down). Not everything went perfectly, but the alcohol and food... |
| Aug 4, 2006 | Flickr to offer drag and drop geotagging? | Several Flickr users noticed a brief appearance this morning of a new option on their dashboards to map the location of their photos. Flickr user Brad77 reports on his blog that for just a few minutes he was able to access a page that asked... |
| Jul 14, 2006 | Zooomr Being Courted | Rumors are circulating that controversial photo sharing site Zooomr, the creation of 18 year old Kristopher Tate, is in acquisition discussions with at least three possible acquirors, with discussions taking place in the $5 million range.
I... |
| 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 16, 2006 | Why is Flickr afraid of Zooomr? | Flickr says that users own the the images and tags we enter into their system. Apparently that doesn’t mean they have to make it easy for us to take what we own elsewhere.
When Kristopher Tate, the founder of the feature-rich startup photos... |
| Jun 8, 2006 | Zooomr 2.0 Screenshots, New Features | Zooomr, the company launched by 17 year old Kristopher Tate (he’s now 18) in March, will be releasing a new beta version 2.0 sometime around the end of June. The biggest focus of the new release will be increased stability and speed – Zooom... |
| Apr 11, 2006 | Catchup: Google’s Orion, bubbling Internet IPOs, Web 2.0 ad nauseum | Here’s the latest, as of Tuesday afternoon:
Ori Allon
Google to let you avoid clicking through to pages? — Google has bought software developed by a graduate student in Australia, Ori Allon, that displays information from Web sites directly... |
| Apr 6, 2006 | The Flickr Gunners | Flickr wasn’t the first photo sharing site, and it isn’t the most popular. In fact, it isn’t even the most popular photo sharing site owned by Yahoo – this is. But Flickr caught our attention and, at least with the technology-savvy crowd, i... |
| Mar 11, 2006 | Flickr has some catching up to do | Kristopher Tate walked Brian Oberkirch and me through a demo of his zooomr project at a meetro party last week (Kris, who’s 17, works full time at meetro and zooomr is a side project). He launched zooomr on March 1, 2006 after working on it... |
