Archive for August, 2007

• While Apple And NBC Squabble Like Girls In A Schoolyard, BitTorrent Keeps On Rolling (54 comments)
• Like Sands Through The Hour Glass, Another Person Is Claiming To Have Founded Facebook (54 comments)
• Google Earth’s Hidden Surprise: A Flight Simulator (136 comments)
• Update On Netscape.com: It’s Done, Possibly Moving To WOW.com. Big AOL Layoffs Coming. (34 comments)
• Ross Levinsohn And Jonathan Miller To Announce New Buyout Fund Next Week (25 comments)
• 1.9 Billion Words; Scribd Users Have A Lot To Say (16 comments)
• TechCrunch/Seedcamp Party Next Week In London (22 comments)
• Yahoo To KickStart Social Networking Efforts (52 comments)
• Fliqz Toolbar: Easily Upload And Embed Videos Anywhere (19 comments)
• NBC Bails on iTunes (48 comments)
• Microsoft Launches Art Of Office - Mac Users Pissed (28 comments)
• New Twitter Visualization Tools Coming: First Is Twitter Blocks (37 comments)
• PeekYou: Spock Has Competition (18 comments)
• DailyMotion Raises $34 Million; Another Copyright Infringing Success Story (22 comments)
• DesignMyRoom - Very Useful Tool For Virtual Interior Design (36 comments)
• Image Resizing: Third Party Online Working Demo (23 comments)
• SocialMedia Opens Self-Serve Facebook Advertising For All (19 comments)
• Why Are Microsoft Execs So Active on Facebook? Plus: Is Bill G. Hot, or Not? (63 comments)
• AdMob AdMonitor: Watch Where Mobile Advertising Is Displayed In Real Time (23 comments)
• TellThem: MySpace Kills Another Startup (40 comments)
• SeedCamp Finalists Chosen; Battle To Final Five Next Week (33 comments)
• Microsoft Acquires Enterprise Group Chat Company Parlano (12 comments)
• If A Car Launches In Second Life, Will Anyone Notice It? (27 comments)
• Jaiku Adds Instant Messaging (13 comments)
• SayNow Lands $7.5 Million Series A (11 comments)
• Crunchyroll Pushes the Envelope On Video Copyright (26 comments)
• BrightSpot.tv: Another Twist On The Get Paid To Watch Advertising Model (20 comments)
• Coming Soon: Hulu Branded Panty Hose. Oh, And they Lifted Their Mission Statement From Google (55 comments)
• Hulu Translates To “Cease” and “Desist” in Swahili. Oops. (112 comments)
• TheFind.com Acquires Glimpse (16 comments)
• Clown Co. Gets Website and New Name: Hulu (47 comments)
• ProfileBuilder: Manage Your Profile, Not Accounts (21 comments)
• Farecast Now Provides Data On Fairness Of Hotel Pricing (18 comments)
• The Apple TV You’re Having When You Don’t Own An Apple TV (17 comments)
• The Tech Industry Wants You To Support The Fight For Fair Use (46 comments)
• If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join Digg (13 comments)
• Magnify.net Launches Video Focused Ad Network (7 comments)
• What Do You Get When You Ask Gmail Fans To Express Email Delivery? (18 comments)
• Slide Users Adding One Million New Widgets Daily: That’s a Lot Of Widgets (27 comments)
• Sprint Sucks And Their New Website Is Stupid (105 comments)
• Adobe Hires Co-Inventor of Image Resizer Technology (64 comments)
• Lots and Lots of Google Phone Rumors: HTC, Android, and even Yahoo in the mix (52 comments)
• The Steve and Woz Lego Set (20 comments)
• Google Lands CNN As Exclusive Adsense User (29 comments)
• Videohybrid 3.0: I Can’t Believe This Hasn’t Been Banned Yet (57 comments)
• MyHeritage Takes 180 Million People Profiles To War With Geni (31 comments)
• Digg Gets A Major Makeover (33 comments)
• Facebook Takes Further Steps To Curb User Abuse; Change In How Applications Are Measured (21 comments)
• Amnesty Hypercube Brings Web Widgets To The Desktop (8 comments)
• Jaxtr Closes $10 Million Series A; Announces 1 Million Users (18 comments)
• SpiceWorks Raises $8 Million; Google Adsense Even Supports IT Software (10 comments)
• Wis.dm Takes $5 Million (7 comments)
• ContraStream To Join Social Music Sites (13 comments)
• YouTube In The Spotlight For Hosting Racist Material (24 comments)
• MyLiveSearch Not As Completely Useless As I Expected (79 comments)
• Who Wants to Buy a Virtual World? (35 comments)
• FotoFlexer Raises The Bar On Online Photo Editing (57 comments)
• KickApps Gets iPhone-Friendly with Video, Formatting (16 comments)
• NoSo - Backlash Against Our “Always On” Culture (27 comments)
• I Want This In Photoshop Immediately (98 comments)
• Google Will Be Beaten By Facebook, Mahalo: Scoble (98 comments)
• All New Bloglines Launches in Beta (21 comments)
• AllofMP3 To Rise From The Dead (28 comments)
• Twitter Adds Gmail Import Feature (23 comments)
• Yahoo Mail Out of Beta; New Features (58 comments)
• Dapper to Launch Instant Facebook AppMaker (25 comments)
• Is The Internet Dead And Boring? (101 comments)
• See All Sex Offenders In Your Neighborhood (82 comments)
• Saturday Morning: I’m Watching Tubecast (30 comments)
• Attack Of The Fake Bloggers (40 comments)
• Eventbee: AdSense for Events Has Busy Plans (20 comments)
• Orkut Redesign. Borrrrrring (66 comments)
• Now That The iPhone Can Be Unlocked, Will Apple Try To Block The Hack? (26 comments)
• Intuit Shuts Down Zipingo. Yelp Winning This Space Through Attrition (16 comments)
• YouBeQB Launches - Predict Game Plays, Win Points (13 comments)
• Check This Guy Out (71 comments)
• Finding DRM-Free Music Online (45 comments)
• MocoSpace Has Strong Growth; Race To Be MySpace For Mobile (42 comments)
• Is Orkut A Social Networking Heavyweight? Comscore Says Yes. (83 comments)
• Could The GPhone Be Nigh? (63 comments)
• Google Teases Us, Promises A New Orkut (29 comments)
• Thumbalizr: A Really Good Idea, If It Worked (47 comments)
• Stat Gaming Services Come To YouTube (14 comments)
• Honesty In Media (19 comments)
• Why Darwin Beats Danny Carlton (68 comments)
• Wikipedia Edits Cause Australian Political Scandal (25 comments)
• New York Times Launches…MyYahoo (18 comments)
• CrowdStorm Revamps, Seeks Wisdom Of Your Crowd (11 comments)
• Facebook Integrates Book Swap Feature into Marketplace (30 comments)
• Interview With Facebook’s Joe Hewitt, iPhone God (26 comments)
• SpiralFrog: Free Music Alive And Hopping (14 comments)
• Ok, Ok. All Of You (even YouTube) Invented Video Overlay Ads “First” (67 comments)
• AdaptiveBlue Makes SmartLinks Feeds Viral (16 comments)
• Facebook Will Use Profiles To Target Ads, Predict Future (58 comments)
• Damsels In Success: Networking For Professional Women (67 comments)
• New Playboy Social Network Built On Ning (40 comments)
• Playboy Launches Social Network: “High schoolers, old dudes and your Mom can’t join” (42 comments)
• VideoEgg And Lots Of Others Call B.S. On YouTube (44 comments)
• Lypp’s Free-n-Easy Conference Calling Coming In September (16 comments)
• CrunchBoard Jobs (0 comments)
• LendingClub To Close $10.26 Million Series A (23 comments)
• Stocks.us: A TechMeme Clone For Stock News (14 comments)
• MyHeritage Expands Its Family Tree (7 comments)
• How Grey Is Your Valley: Making Money From Open Source (204 comments)
• Google Earth Heads For The Stars (51 comments)
• Largest Pligg Partner Defects After Announced Sale (35 comments)
• Exclusive: BlogMusik To Go Legit; Launches Free & Legal Music On Demand (52 comments)
• Conduit Labs Closes $5.5 Million Series A Funding (11 comments)
• Esther Dyson, Guy Kawasaki and Yossi Vardi Join TechCrunch20 Expert Panel (16 comments)
• Finally, Twitter Adds Search (18 comments)
• Spooks Get Their Own MySpace (33 comments)
• Google Adds Embedding To Google Maps (21 comments)
• Greystripe Hits 14 Million Downloads Of Free Mobile Games (10 comments)
• Microsoft Tafiti Is Beautiful, But Will Anyone Use it? (64 comments)
• eBuddy Adds MySpace Instant Messaging (24 comments)
• Zyb, The Mobile Social Network (18 comments)
• Google Reverses Position On Video Refunds; Good For Them (19 comments)
• CrunchGear 1st Birthday Bash Recap and Photos (11 comments)
• gBox: Give The Gift Of DRM-Free Music (37 comments)
• Zoho Goes Offline (in a good way) (48 comments)
• Vlingo: Voice Enable Any Mobile Application (15 comments)
• Bet On Anything And Everything With BluBet (23 comments)
• CollectiveX Launches Groupsites (23 comments)
• Windows Live Messaging Coming To Bebo (13 comments)
• HiPiHi Seeks To Standardize 3D Worlds And Develop Interoperability (12 comments)
• Facebook Opens Email Up A Little; I Want More (49 comments)
• Helium Marketplace: Make Money Writing Online (39 comments)
• Viacom And NBC Inject Themselves Into Online Video Litigation (17 comments)
• InviteShare In The Press (21 comments)
• France’s Jooce Enters WebOS Space (26 comments)
• Google Takes Stake In Tianya.cn (26 comments)
• GrandCentral’s “One Number For Life” Not Really (75 comments)
• Windows Users Caused Skype Outage (57 comments)
• Betting On Second Life Stock Exchanges (21 comments)
• Zivity: Silicon Valley Elite Dabble in Adult Content (57 comments)
• What Ever Happened To GDrive? (49 comments)
• Some People Benefited From the Skype Outage (40 comments)
• MyProgress Lets You Track Your Progress (55 comments)
• Own Your Own English Soccer Team: MyFootballClub (44 comments)
• Thank You Sponsors: Featuring Real Time Matrix, DOmedia and Profile Builder (Comments Off)
• Wiki Jacking (20 comments)
• ICCARUS: Three Dimensional Data Visualization (31 comments)
• TierraNatal: Connecting Mexicans In North America (16 comments)
• TechCrunch Reader Polls (42 comments)
• A Peek At Didja.com: VeryFunnyAds Clone (10 comments)
• Blogrovr Blog Recommendations: New And Improved (19 comments)
• Google To Increase Investment In China (38 comments)
• TechStars Demo Day - Class of 2007 (28 comments)
• EBay Sees $1 Billion Knocked Off Market Cap; Skype Outages Continue (49 comments)
• Facebook Takes Action Against “Black Hat” Apps (59 comments)
• Amazon Fresh Shopping Bag Spotted In The Wild (33 comments)
• TripAdvisor Acquires Facebook App Where I’ve Been For $3 Million (45 comments)
• Y Combinator Demo Day: The Summer Startups (31 comments)
• Technorati Loses A “Great Leader.” PodTech Also Loses CEO (70 comments)
• USAToday Says Traffic Way Up (19 comments)
• Skype Suffers Major Outage (97 comments)
• USAToday’s Social Network Experiment May Not Be Paying Off (46 comments)
• TwitKu: Single Interface For Twitter And Jaiku (26 comments)
• Google Lends Credibility To Sun StarOffice (49 comments)
• Most Useful iPhone Site Yet: Meebo (35 comments)
• Kongregate Closes $5 Million Series A For Casual Gaming (8 comments)
• Three Ways Startups Are Providing VOIP (18 comments)
• Google Removes Blog Showing Leaked Facebook Code (45 comments)
• Bolt Joins The Deadpool (18 comments)
• Russian Court Finds AllofMP3 Legal (23 comments)
• What Are Google’s Browser Plans? (58 comments)
• Facebook + iPhone = UltraCool (97 comments)
• Steal Our Site Template With Jimdo (30 comments)
• Netvibes For iPhone Available Now (29 comments)
• Movable Type’s Version 4.0 Final Release (43 comments)
• Use TokBox To Set Up Instant Video Chat (82 comments)
• PubSub: They’re Baaaaack (16 comments)
• iPod v. The Insulin Pump: Adaptive Path Rises To The Challenge (41 comments)
• Facebook Opens Up Their Data Feeds (47 comments)
• Netflix Quietly Rolls Out Social Networking Features (20 comments)
• MySpace, A Place For (prescription painkillers and heroin) Junkies (33 comments)
• Care To Swamble On That? (16 comments)
• 34 More Ways to Build Your Own Social Network (99 comments)
• TimeBridge: Now Synching Your Meetings Through The Web (32 comments)
• Diet Television Trims Name, Takes $2 Million (23 comments)
• Strayform Tries New Indie Music Model (16 comments)
• Alexa Says YouTube Is Now Bigger Than Google. Alexa Is Useless (139 comments)
• Yappd Launches, Calls Itself “Twitter With Pictures” (51 comments)
• The Internet (Apparently) Isn’t Ready For IPTV (28 comments)
• 37Signals Drives Another Company To The DeadPool (81 comments)
• CrunchGear Birthday Party - August 20 (4 comments)
• VideoEgg: Suddenly They’re A Facebook Ad Network (45 comments)
• Israel’s Kontera Nails $10.3 Million Second Round From Sequoia And Others (33 comments)
• Is Glam A Sham? (183 comments)
• Pligg, The Open Source Digg Clone, Put Up For Sale (75 comments)
• Facebook Source Code Leaked (257 comments)
• Apple Gets Into Social Music Scene with My iTunes (30 comments)
• New Generation Adult Sites Roundup (27 comments)
• Texty: Dead Simple Content Creation And Editing (66 comments)
• Google Closes Video Marketplace; Users Out Of Luck (54 comments)
• Are You Ready To Bar Camp? (23 comments)
• Sell Your Digital Wares Through Edgeio Paid Content (54 comments)
• Happy Birthday, CrunchGear! (13 comments)
• VOIP Startup Fring Raises $12 Million Series B (31 comments)
• Google, Microsoft Storage News Falls Flat (76 comments)
• MyLiveSearch Misses Launch Date, But The New Logo Is Top Notch (41 comments)
• MediaWhiz Latest Ad Network For Sale? (13 comments)
• AOL May Kill Their Netscape Digg Clone (66 comments)
• Nokia Publishes Access Code For Mosh Private Beta (24 comments)
• Breaking: Veoh Sues Universal Music (40 comments)
• Pay Per Call Company VoiceStar Acquired by Marchex (19 comments)
• Who Is Cloning Who? Business2.0, try again (89 comments)
• Powerset Releases Growth Models To Public (35 comments)
• Polar Rose Debuts At Gnomedex (14 comments)
• Wow - Clown Co. Got That $1 billion Valuation (still nameless though) (36 comments)
• Hey, Maybe Vonage Isn’t Dead Yet (35 comments)
• Ooma Goes On Sale A Month Early (33 comments)
• Blockbuster Desperate To Do Something, Buys A Loser (45 comments)
• Email Attachments Are So Uncool (27 comments)
• GigaOm Gets A COO (22 comments)
• Google News Hypocrisy: Walled Off Content (51 comments)
• NBC’s Second Answer To YouTube: More Ads (But At Least It Has A Name) (21 comments)
• Google News Announces Limited Comments. Everyone Needs To Calm Down. (60 comments)
• The Future Of Copyright Protection Is Here And It Costs $11 An Hour (18 comments)
• Pickle Purchased For $4.1 Million (17 comments)
• New Live.com Look & Feel, More Information On Windows Live SkyDrive (23 comments)
• The Fascination With ToDo Lists Continues (54 comments)
• Spock Open Public Beta (48 comments)
• From Garage to Cubicle: JS-Kit Closes $1.2 Million Seed Round (18 comments)
• Hearst Acquires Kaboodle for $30+ million (20 comments)
• Scrybe Closes Series A (22 comments)
• Verwandt.de: German Geni Clone (85 comments)
• Acquisition for Clipmarks (12 comments)
• Intense Debate Soups Up Your Blog Comments (48 comments)
• Megavideo: Does It “Beat” YouTube? (95 comments)
• Google Street View Adds Four Cities (16 comments)
• SF Chronicle Trims Business Section; The Best Are Gone (41 comments)
• Meetro And AOL Quietly Developing New Forum Products (13 comments)
• Leveraging Facebook To Compete With eBay Won’t Work (39 comments)
• Nirvanix To Challenge Amazon S3 (29 comments)
• More Lawsuit Fun For Facebook (63 comments)
• Ready To Kill Some Time (And Some Enemies)? Try Duels.com (71 comments)
• The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (27 comments)
• Event Tickets Are Big Business: European Startup Invades U.S. (27 comments)
• Facebook Embarrassment For Rudy Giuliani (85 comments)
• ICQ Founders Start KnockaTV (32 comments)
• Amie Street Closes Series A Financing Led By Amazon.com (27 comments)
• Microsoft Photosynth Covers Shuttle Endeavour Pre-Launch (20 comments)
• Prosper’s P2P Lending Spreads To Asia (14 comments)
• Is Blogging Ready For a Unionized Workforce? (48 comments)
• Fake Steve Jobs = Daniel Lyons (26 comments)
• Orbious Will Make Forwarding Confidential Documents Dangerous (44 comments)
• Virtual World Hangouts: So Many To Choose From (59 comments)
• ClickTale explores further heatmap analytics (39 comments)
• NoFoodHere: Search Results In Real Time (49 comments)
• Facebook Advertising Cancelations: The Thin End Of The Wedge? (57 comments)
• Mundu Has A Great iPhone Chat Application. Why Will They Charge For It? (74 comments)
• Amazon Flexible Payments Service Launches (26 comments)
• Bear Stearns: Yahoo Must Form A Social Networking Strategy (89 comments)
• Reconfirmation: Flickr To Add Video (59 comments)
• First TechStars Company Launches: MadKast (31 comments)
• Buxfer Adds Payments; Now Perfect For Settling Your Bar Tab (11 comments)
• Plaxo Prepares To Launch Pulse Social Network - Will Users Trust It? (45 comments)
• Docstoc Says Big Round Of Funding Coming; Counting Unhatched Chickens (31 comments)
• WebbAlert Day 2: This Show Rocks (95 comments)
• Vonage Beta Testing New Ambit VOIP Gateway (10 comments)
• Find A Career Path With PayScale’s GigZig (9 comments)
• Listen To Your iTunes Library On The Web With Anywhere.FM (61 comments)
• Time.com Slams Spock; Launches Next Wednesday (20 comments)
• Netvibes Launches Facebook Widget; It’s A Little Buggy (19 comments)
• Virtual Relay Earns Real Money For Cancer Research (11 comments)
• Yelp API Released (46 comments)
• WebbAlert: A Lot Like Rocketboom, Except It’s Interesting (121 comments)
• Personalize Your Site’s Content With MineKey (39 comments)
• Remember Webvan? So Does Amazon (82 comments)
• Thank You Readers And Sponsors (0 comments)
• GoFish Dropping Bolt, Share Price, and Ad Rates (8 comments)
• Extremely Happy Feet: Disney Acquires Club Penguin For Up To $700 million (49 comments)
• MeeMix: A New Breed of Music Personalization is Born (62 comments)
• Discovery Acquires TreeHugger.com For $10million (35 comments)
• SplashCast Bringing “Sexy Back” to Facebook (14 comments)
• CAMfess: Because Jerry Springer Isn’t Enough (26 comments)
• Amazon To Launch Payments Services; Will Compete With PayPal and Google Checkout (67 comments)
• TC Interns’ 10 Favorite Facebook Applications (98 comments)
• Scouta Brings Recommendations To iTunes (7 comments)