June 2005
Profile: Podscope
Company: Podscope Location: Fairfield CT Launch: April 19, 2005 What is it? Podscope makes audio files searchable by text keywords. It works pretty well. Search results show lists of podcasts…
Profile: Trumba
Company: Trumba Launched: June 10, 2005 Funding: $4.75 million in July, 2004 – Funded by August Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Link What is it? “The word Trumba…
Profile: Del.icio.us
Company: Deli.cio.us Launched: early 2004 Funding: Seed funding in early April, 2005 (rumored $2 millionish) by Union Square Ventures, Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital, Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein, Josh Kopelman,…
Profile: Flickr
Editor’s Note: Yes, I know Flickr is not a newly launched web 2.0 company and in fact it is now part of Yahoo. However, I’m the editor so I can…
Profile – eTamp
Company: etamp.net What is it? eTamp is a web-based RSS reader. As a publisher you can add your feed without authentication (you must input your RSS feed, it cannot pull…
Profile – Talkr
Company: Talkr Location: New Hampshire Launch Date: April 18, 2005 What is it? Talkr is a site/service that converts text feeds directly into audio files. For instance, to listen to…
Profile – Qumana
Company: Qumana Location: Vancouver, BC Launched: June 13, 2005 What is it? Qumana is a wysiwyg blog editor. Most (ok all) blog interface software is less than wonderful to use,…
Profile – VSkype
Company: vSkype Location: Santa Cruz, California Launch Date: June 15, 2005 What is it? vSkype is a new product launch by Santa Cruz Networks (disclaimer: Keith Teare, a partner at…
Profile – PubSub
Company: PubSub Location: New York Launched: February 9, 2004 What is it? PubSub, which is short for “publish and subscribe”, is a future search engine. It’s also called “persistent search”.…
FeedBurner Profile
Company: FeedBurner Location: Chicago What is it? FeedBurner is a service that takes a normal, everyday RSS or Atom feed of any kind and turns (burns) it into a FeedBurner…
SNOCAP Profile
Company: Snocap Location: San Francisco, California Status: Launched June 13, 2005 Founded: September, 2002 What is it? Snocap allows those who own rights to music to place them onto p2p…
Odeo Profile
Company: Odeo Location: San Francisco Status: Private Beta What is it? Odeo will be a a podcast service that lets users search, find, and subscribe to podcasts, as well as…
YubNub Profile
Company: YubNub What is it? At first glance this looks sort of like a search engine or something, but its not. It is way neater than that. YubNub is a…
Gataga Profile
Company: Gataga <img src='https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/07/gatagalogo.gif' alt='' / What is it? Gataga is a social bookmarking search engine. As of today, it indexes bookmarks from del.icio.us, blogmarks, blinklist, jots, spurl, furl, simpy…
Google Reviews Profile
Company: Google (Reviews) What is it? There’s not much on the web about this yet, but Google is apparently looking at the reviews space and has put a very light…
BackPack Profile
Company: BackPack What is it? BackPack launched in early May 2005, and it is one of the defining web 2.0 applications. BackPack does one thing very, very well – organize…
Plazes Profile
Company: Plazes What is it? Plazes made an announcement at Reboot 7.0 in Copenhagen on June 10, 2005, although the service has been around since at least January. In their…
FeedLounge Profile
Company: FeedLounge What is it? The FeedLounge web-based RSS reader alpha was announced on June 9, 2005. Feedlounge is the newest entrant into the increasingly crowded RSS Reader space. Feedlounge…
Technorati Beta Profile
Company: Technorati (Public Beta Redesign) What is it? Technorati is Web 2.0 “old school”: one of the original (and best) real-time search engines. It requested customer feedback and has used…