Company: CustomScoop Launched: in private beta Location: New Hampshire What I like best about CustomScoop‘s new prospective search/press clippings product is that it is dead simple to use. I spo

Goowy is a browser based desktop tool built on Flash. See our August 17, 2005 profile of Goowy for additional information. Until recently, Goowy’s main draw (other than it is extremely fast) was

We’ve been following the evolution of Dave Winer’s OPML Editor for most of this year (TechCrunch Profile). We’ve experimented with it, but never fully understood all of the incredibl

Company: Slide Launched: 2005 Location: San Francisco Everybody wants to get media distribution done right. Slide and Filmloop both tackle the problem through a desktop application that is constantly

FilmLoop (profile) has a 6 minute video of the founders demo’ing their product on the DEMO website. It looks pretty slick. And a lot like Slide.

Company: Rollyo Launched: September 28, 2005 Location: San Francisco Overview Rollyo, which launched today, allows you to create and publish your own search engines, based on websites you decide to in

Company: JotSpot Live Launched: September 27, 2005 Blog: JotSpot Live blog Location: Palo Alto, CA JotSpot Live, a JotSpot company, launched today. They’ve created an awesome wiki tool that solv

Company: zvents Launched: next week Location: Menlo Park, CA I had a chance to see a demo of the upcoming Zvents service this evening at the NetService Ventures Group office on Sand Hill Road in Menlo

One of the great features of Measure Map (profiled here and here) is that it gives you real time stats on almost every aspect of your blog. One of the features I like to check out every once in a whil

Skype released parts of their product roadmap at VON in Boston last week, and screen shots are up at SkypeJournal. Hai, Mark Blue Chinese Brah! Upcoming version 1.5, schedule to be released in October

PubSub (profile) has been experimenting with blog stats recently (see their pubstats page). Zachary Rodgers reported earlier today that PubSub has released it’s newest stats tool – a list

Web 2.0 This Week September 18-24 We had a terrific turnout for our TechCrunch Meetup on Thursday and look forward to hosting future events regularly (at least monthly). It is wonderful to have so man

Attensa, which we profiled on August 29, 2005, has released v. 99 of its feed reader for Outlook. The main new feature in the release is support for tagging of feeds, blogs and posts: We’ve int

Findory has a first-class personalization engine for blog and other news (see our profile on September 3, 2005). Findory has built up a loyal following in the nearly two years since its launch. Howeve

Service: Slawesome Launched: September 24, 2005 Creator: Babak Nivi Location: San Francisco Slawesome, which demo’d at the TechCrunch Meetup last Thursday, is a neat tool for recording and sendi

Company: Remote Control Mail Launched: Will launch early October Funding: Closing Angel Round Location: Portland, OR (development also in Russia) Overview RemoteControlMail will provide you with a per

Thank you to everyone who attended our meetup/bbq last night in Atherton. We are definitely going to do this at least monthly, and we had a number of offers for corporate sponsorships last night to co

Company: VideoEgg Launched: September 19, 2005 Location: New Haven CT VideoEgg, founded by three Yale graduates, launched at DEMO in Huntington Beach, CA on Monday. Given the light content on their we

SearchFox (profile) just announced the availablility of additional invitations to their beta. If you’d like an invitation to try it out, email “support at searchfox dot com” with you

TailRank just released an alpha product for their new analytics service. My understanding is that it is a personalized search/recommendation/ranking engine for the long tail of blog content. Kevin Bur