Archive for October, 2007

• Life After Text Links: ScratchBack (28 comments)
• Pringo Powering Social Network From Yokohama (15 comments)
• Google Is Courting Facebook Developers In More Ways Than One (25 comments)
• Google OpenSocial Image Gallery (24 comments)
• TechCrunch Sponsors (Comments Off)
• Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No, It’s Google’s Share Price! (25 comments)
• 1,000 WooMe Invitations for TechCrunch Readers (20 comments)
• Google Culture Creep At YouTube (18 comments)
• Using Pubmatic Could Land You Some Free Advertising (9 comments)
• What Will You Be For Halloween? (44 comments)
• Prosper Registers With SEC to Create a $500 Million Secondary Market in Peer-to-Peer Loans (18 comments)
• More Tickets for Boston-Bound TechCrunch MeetUp 11 (16 comments)
• More Facebook Music Rumors (33 comments)
• When Will Ask.com’s Ad Campaign Start Paying For Itself? (28 comments)
• Google Tries To Land Mobile Phone Deals With Sprint, Verizon . . . Anyone (40 comments)
• 4INFO Takes NBC Investment, Signs Mobile Partnership (8 comments)
• Big Bucks For Better Comments; SezWho Raises $1 Million (32 comments)
• Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday (289 comments)
• Virtual Pedophilia Report Bad News For Second Life (78 comments)
• Web-Integrated Media Player Songbird Releases v0.3 (19 comments)
• Mahalo Daily Preview: Actually Pretty Good (29 comments)
• Enurgi to Help the Elderly and Disabled Find Better Care (24 comments)
• Best Buy takes minority stake in Mydeo for video sharing (9 comments)
• Y Europe’s First Startup, Soup.io (13 comments)
• Intense Debate’s Commenting System Out Of Beta And Very Open (40 comments)
• Happy Halloween From The Sick People at JibJab (33 comments)
• Internet One Step Closer To Staying Tax Free (14 comments)
• Facebook’s Social Ad Network: What We (Think We) Know So Far (67 comments)
• Disqus Joins The Battle For Your Blog’s Comments (30 comments)
• Docstoc Opens For Business (Documents) (25 comments)
• Better Late Than Never: Pownce Gets A Public API (22 comments)
• PicksPal Takes $3 Million Series C (12 comments)
• Dig A Silicon Valley Girl: Exactly As The Name Suggests (70 comments)
• MySpace Gets Some Razzle Zazzle (25 comments)
• Meebo Platform Launches With Big San Francisco Party (37 comments)
• Yahoo Messenger for Windows Gets a Tune-Up with v9.0 (22 comments)
• Fora.TV Raises $2 Million Seed Round From Adobe and Will Hearst (14 comments)
• Automattic Spurns $200 Million Acquisition Offer (67 comments)
• Free From iTunes Addiction, NBC Universal Seizes Control Of Digital Destiny (15 comments)
• Maps + News = YourStreet (38 comments)
• Live Search Maps Getting Better At Giving Directions (26 comments)
• eXelate Raises $4M for Delayed-Ad Exchange (18 comments)
• Newsweek Confirms MySpace CoFounder Lied About Age (98 comments)
• EveryScape Takes Streetview Indoors (12 comments)
• Google’s Response to Facebook: “Maka-Maka” (109 comments)
• Simpler Video Ads (for advertisers) With Adap.tv (9 comments)
• More Hulu Goodness: Embedded Video (56 comments)
• Alibaba Set to Be Second Biggest Internet IPO Ever (14 comments)
• Skype Launches Its Mobile Phone Overseas (17 comments)
• When Google Strikes: The Story Of EnjoyPerth.net (73 comments)
• Imeem Adds EMI To Its Stable (10 comments)
• OnTargetjobs Acquires JobLoft.com (16 comments)
• Skinkers Raises $16 Million Series B (7 comments)
• No Need to Wait: Hulu Videos Already Available on AOL (27 comments)
• Hulu Launches Private Beta, Makes Very Good First Impressions (80 comments)
• Zooomr Goes Japanese (11 comments)
• Zazzle Beefs Up Management Team With Former Fox Exec (17 comments)
• EasySponsorship: DIY Fundraising (15 comments)
• iPhone Going To Be Expensive In Canada, Eh?! (37 comments)
• Roll Your Own Widgets With OS X Leopard (20 comments)
• IMThere Joins MadeIt As The Most Recent Attempts To Crack The Event Nut (32 comments)
• Flixster For Sale; IAC Interested (44 comments)
• Bug.gd: Collaborative Search And Bug Solutions (26 comments)
• Do The Right Thing: Save An Alien (and this startup) (83 comments)
• Epson Joins Sprint: They Suck And Their New Website Is Stupid (85 comments)
• Apple Cracks Down on iPhone Resellers By Restricting Sales (30 comments)
• Meetro Working to Make Forum Creation Dead Simple (38 comments)
• MYSQL IPO Chatter Picking Up Again (31 comments)
• Senators Threatening Telcos With Probe Over Net Neutrality (33 comments)
• Fuzzy Math That Works? TrialPay Says They Can Make Money From Free Products (22 comments)
• The Microsoft Machine Keeps Chugging Along (48 comments)
• Digg Images On The Way (43 comments)
• Mac OSX Leopard: Worth The Wait (71 comments)
• Google’s SearchMash Adds Snap Shot Previews. But Why Is It In Flash? (54 comments)
• Check Out The New Windows Home Server Demo. But Why Is It In Flash? (53 comments)
• CNET Sells Webshots For $45 Million; Other News (29 comments)
• E-Commerce Sales Up 23 Percent in Third Quarter (11 comments)
• CNET’s Shiny New $250 Million Credit Line: What Will They Use It For? (42 comments)
• Facebook Taps Into Hedge Funds For $500 Million More? (95 comments)
• Patent Monkey Joins Deadpool, Only To Rise Again as Patents.com (17 comments)
• Perspective: Facebook Is Now 5th Most Valuable U.S. Internet Company (106 comments)
• Yahoo Shares Some Link Love From Its Homepage (25 comments)
• Synchronize Your Browsing Habits with Opera Link (25 comments)
• Friendster Announces Developer Platform; Can You Say “Commodity”? (27 comments)
• Worlds Worst Email App Gets Worse: Aircraft Simulation Meets Inbox (83 comments)
• PodTech Heading Towards The Deadpool? (63 comments)
• A Peek At CrunchBase (79 comments)
• Liveblogging The Facebook Press Conference (88 comments)
• Facebook Takes the Microsoft Money And Runs. (151 comments)
• 1,000 Invites For P2P Storage App Wuala (19 comments)
• Facebook Platform Cozies Up To Mobile Phones (10 comments)
• Gigapan Project Brings Gigapixel Panoramas to the Web (16 comments)
• Copyright News: Oink and Tv-Links Down, Demonoid Back Up (35 comments)
• Social Site Rankings (September, 2007) (48 comments)
• CrunchGear Introduces BFF (24 comments)
• Google And Nielsen Link Up To Measure TV Ads (20 comments)
• Google Declares Jihad On Blog Link Farms (195 comments)
• Porn Set Free: Age Record Keeping Deemed Unconstitutional (35 comments)
• TasteBook Launches With Lots Of Help From Condé Nast (21 comments)
• Trusted Opinion Takes $1.3 Million Series A (7 comments)
• BOOMj.com Acquired By Time Lending California (10 comments)
• Gmail Apparently Enabling IMAP Support (68 comments)
• JackBe Raises $9.5M, Provides Mashups for the Enterprise (14 comments)
• Gnarley: FunnyOrDie Extends Into Extreme Sports (5 comments)
• Yappd Didn’t Last Long. DeadPool. (30 comments)
• Judy’s Book To Shut Down. Yelp Is The Last of The Local Review Sites Still Standing. (61 comments)
• Google Continues to Bankroll Mozilla (30 comments)
• Yang Decides to Shut Down Yahoo 360—Nobody Notices (62 comments)
• EchoSign Closes $6 Million Round (15 comments)
• Pixsy To Power Search Engine On LastMinute.com (10 comments)
• Hulu Set to Launch on Monday (22 comments)
• With FriendCSV, Data Sneaks Out Facebook’s Back Door (54 comments)
• Digging Into Apple’s iPhone Numbers (21 comments)
• Sohu.com Claims Exclusive Internet Advertising Rights For Beijing Olympics (10 comments)
• Stanford Wants Its Students To Be Healthy As Well As Rich (20 comments)
• Zango Acquires Smart Shopper For $9 Million: Now More Evil (11 comments)
• Has America’s First Friend Been Lying About His Age? (173 comments)
• Memeorandum Leaderboard Shows Mainstream Media Leading In Political Coverage (12 comments)
• ProQuo Will Kill Junk Mail (30 comments)
• MySpace Announces New Gaming Channel (11 comments)
• Plaxo Launches Pulse Widget (15 comments)
• StumbleUpon Expands Social Search Across the Web (21 comments)
• Bountii Launches, Aims At Better Price Comparison Shopping (23 comments)
• Weather Channel To Offer Mobile Video Forecasts (5 comments)
• This Website Will Tell You Who To Vote For (26 comments)
• Stealth Startup Wix To Help Users Build Flash Websites (39 comments)
• CrunchBoard Jobs (Comments Off)
• Songkick: Live Music Lovers Will Love This (18 comments)
• Slide is Pitching For A $200 Million Valuation. Or Not. (22 comments)
• Payoneer Collects $3M from Greylock, Signs-up iStockphoto (16 comments)
• What Was Skype’s Shortfall? (27 comments)
• Blogger Goes Offline With Google Gears (15 comments)
• Got a Gadget to Show Off? Meet Up with CrunchGear in San Francisco (6 comments)
• The China Bubble (46 comments)
• Facebook Experiments With Ads Targeting People’s Interests (49 comments)
• SanDisk Wants To Simplify Your PC To TV Viewing (35 comments)
• Meebo Has Ads (34 comments)
• Upcoming Podcast With Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney - We Need Your Help (80 comments)
• BlinkBox: User Generated Ads For Movies, TV (and it’s fun) (16 comments)
• AT&T Signs Napster Mobile Deal (14 comments)
• Has The MySpace To Facebook Switch Begun? (50 comments)
• TapeItOffTheInternet wins Series A from Pond Ventures (11 comments)
• Powerset Testing Search Results At Mechanical Turk (33 comments)
• Information R/evolution (37 comments)
• GoodBarry GoodBusiness Aims To Make Ecommerce Easier (21 comments)
• CSI:NY Comes To Second Life Wednesday (45 comments)
• YieldBuild Will Try To Optimize AdSense, Pay You More (37 comments)
• Doerr Wants To Take Down The Telcos (And Save The Planet) (15 comments)
• Amazon’s $100,000 Startup Challenge (45 comments)
• Flickr To Add Online Photo Editing Tools Via Picnik (41 comments)
• Joost Coming To The Browser? (35 comments)
• InterviewUp Wants to Make Interviews Less Painful (12 comments)
• Mr. Murdoch, Take Down This (Other) Wall! (32 comments)
• Dash Wants To Bring Web Mashups To Your Car (37 comments)
• Flock 1.0 Beta Released: Surprisingly Very Good (48 comments)
• Twine Launches A Smarter Way To Organize Your Online Life (27 comments)
• Flickr To Launch New Geotagging and Places Pages (29 comments)
• Dispatch From the Web 2.0 Launch Pad (13 comments)
• Google Reports Impressive 46% Jump in Q3 Profit (22 comments)
• If You Are A Frequent Traveler, You Are Going To Love Tripit (43 comments)
• The Web is the Platform (58 comments)
• The Motivation Behind the Anti-Google Copyright Protection Coalition (11 comments)
• Ambulance Chasers Have A New Home, SueEasy (29 comments)
• Submit Your Startup to the LeWeb3 Competition in Paris (15 comments)
• Remember PointCast? Meet Chirpscreen (28 comments)
• StylePath Wants to Personalize Your Shopping Experience (16 comments)
• eBay’s Skype Conundrum (38 comments)
• Microsoft Launches Drag-And-Drop App Builder Popfly (58 comments)
• TechCrunch Goes to Boston, Join Us for MeetUp 11 (37 comments)
• Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites (180 comments)
• Social Mapping: Game Not Over Yet (15 comments)
• The Daily Show Gets Its Own Website: Colbert Still Better (21 comments)
• Interwoven Acquires Optimost For $52 Million (9 comments)
• edocr joins Scribd, Docstoc in document sharing (14 comments)
• Big Anti-Piracy Alliance To Be Launched Friday (17 comments)
• SocialMedia Networks Takes $3.5 Million Series A (12 comments)
• Skype To Launch Own Mobile Phone (20 comments)
• Baidu Hijacking Google Traffic In China (87 comments)
• Counterstrike: Murdoch, DeWolfe Announce MySpace Platform and New Privacy Controls (44 comments)
• Automattic Acquires Gravatar (28 comments)
• HP’s Tabblo Inks Web-To-Print Deals With Disney, Flickr, and Others (9 comments)
• BTW, Live Search 411 Is Taking On GOOG 411 (8 comments)
• Nokia’s Latest Pocket Computer (the N810) as Mobile Platform (13 comments)
• App-Camp 2007 to Facilitate Discussion about Open Platforms this Saturday in San Francisco (3 comments)
• Even Free Can’t Compete With Music Piracy (39 comments)
• Dollars For Doostang (13 comments)
• Zuckerberg Plays Coy at Web 2.0 (23 comments)
• Meebo Adds IM to Firefox (18 comments)
• Google Extends Their Social Agenda To Maps (18 comments)
• MTV Launches Hot or Not Competitor, NextorNot (54 comments)
• If Only Users Were Gold: Skype Hits 10M Simultaneous Users Mark (21 comments)
• Weather Derivatives Provider WeatherBill Takes $12.5 Million More (34 comments)
• Social.FM Signs Microsoft Deal, Launches New Client (29 comments)
• iBrick Latest: Free Unlock Now Available (12 comments)
• Next New Networks Acquires BarelyPolitical.com (5 comments)
• Ezmo: Another Online Music Application Nibbling At iTunes (19 comments)
• MadeIt Leverages Social Networking to Take On Evite (19 comments)
• Private BuyOut Of Ancestry.com For $300+ Million (41 comments)
• CircleLending Becomes Virgin Money USA; Gets Makeover and Millions in Funding (12 comments)
• Skype Equips MySpace Users to Make Free Calls (21 comments)
• Signs of Life at Yahoo (28 comments)
• Blurb launches crowd-sourced books (20 comments)
• Should HotorNot Become Just a Facebook App? (20 comments)
• Does Your Building Need A Social Network? Why Not. (85 comments)
• Leopard’s Best Web 2.0 Feature: Web Clip (38 comments)
• Mint’s $4.7 Million A-Round (75 comments)
• Mochi Media Moves Out Of Closed Beta (10 comments)
• Exclusive: AdMob Snares Google’s Kevin Scott (31 comments)
• Google Urchin v.6 Rumored To Launch Today (23 comments)
• 50x Faster Than BitTorrent: I Want (94 comments)
• AdReady Lets You Create Tacky Home Loan Ads Too (14 comments)
• YuMe Closes $9 Million Series B (2 comments)
• Napster Dumping Client Download, Prays For DRM Free Music (14 comments)
• Great News, We’re Not Being Sued. (76 comments)
• Justin.TV Lifecasters Not Welcome Everywhere (like movie theaters) (103 comments)
• Alibaba.com To Raise $1.3 Billion From IPO (24 comments)
• Fix8 Raises $3 Million (17 comments)
• YouTube Tries a Little Harder to Protect Copyright Holders (19 comments)
• DocSyncer Bridges Your Desktop With Google Docs (31 comments)
• Jiglu: enterprise-level tagging starts at free (23 comments)
• Hatebook Embraces the “Evil” Side of Social Networking (50 comments)
• Another 2,000 Heads Roll at AOL (30 comments)
• Google Tops Feed Reader and Social Bookmark Rankings (39 comments)
• TokBox Gets Some NYTimes Love (57 comments)
• Discovery Acquires How Stuff Works For $250 Million (35 comments)
• The Declining US Dollar: Winners And Losers (69 comments)
• Introducing Digg-Like Voting To Celebrity Gossip Aficionados (29 comments)
• Bubble Activity? Dot.mobi Names Sold For 6 Figures (29 comments)
• Greenpeace: iPhone Not Good For The Environment (32 comments)
• Top Blogs On Google Reader (128 comments)
• Websites May Require Visually Impaired Access In California (132 comments)
• Facebook Has LinkedIn In Their Crosshairs (65 comments)
• eXpresso Gets $2 Million To Grow An Online Office Suite (29 comments)
• Supply Side Economics Fail Music Industry Again (72 comments)
• Exclusive: MapQuest Plays Catch-Up With Launch of Beta (29 comments)
• The Clock is Ticking for Joost (92 comments)
• Windows Live SkyDrive Doubles Storage to 1GB, Still Can’t Keep Up With Gmail (94 comments)
• The Man In The Arena (80 comments)
• DivShare Upgrades its One-stop shop Free File Hosting Service (24 comments)
• Snocap Drops 60% Of Staff And On The Market: Looking Good For The Deadpool (19 comments)
• Wikipedia Hits Mid Life Slow Down (30 comments)
• Netscape Was Better As A Digg Clone: Viewers (29 comments)
• Does Google’s Equality Drive Extend To Old People? (77 comments)
• Google Math: Buy $1,000 in Radio Ads, And We’ll Give You $2,000 Back (40 comments)
• Windows Live Adds Events to Its Roster (19 comments)
• Being Stupid And Litigious Is No Way To Go Through Life (655 comments)
• There’s More To The FaceBook Traffic Story (81 comments)
• Watch YouTube Videos In Google Earth (21 comments)
• Facebook Debate: Valuation, Value To Developers and Random Ad Hominem Attacks (16 comments)
• Stealth Startup Kango Working on Semantic Search For Travel (50 comments)
• Tales From The Deadpool: Amp’d Mobile’s Sordid Remains (38 comments)
• Polyvore To Tempt Fashionistas To Create, Then Spend (33 comments)
• Twitter + Second Life = Spontaneous Web Meetspace (33 comments)
• Dear Parents: Save Some Money, Use Kindersay. (43 comments)
• And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Madonna Dumps Record Industry (121 comments)
• P2P Music Sharing Service Grooveshark Ups Compensation (22 comments)
• Facebook Vs ConnectU: “Facebook Makes Untrue Assertions” Claims ConnectU (19 comments)
• Yahoo’s Australia Arm Undergoes Shakeup (21 comments)
• Happy 1st Anniversary YouTube and Google; Now Move Over a Bit (63 comments)
• Accel Pours $8M into Israeli RayV (12 comments)
• AniBoom Gets Its Own Channel on Joost (22 comments)
• Wikimedia Is Moving Out West (20 comments)
• SnapLayout: The Profile Editor MySpace Should Have Made (38 comments)
• Firefox Coming To Your Phone (52 comments)
• MySpace Platform To Launch Next Week (102 comments)
• eBay Launches Shopping Social Networks (34 comments)
• Blinkx AdHoc Lets Publishers Monetize Your Embedded Videos Too (14 comments)
• IBM And Linden Lab Team For Virtual World Interoperability (14 comments)
• AdBidCentral Launches Futures Marketplace For Advertising (13 comments)
• An Ignominious End: Business 2.0’s Farewell Spam Email (58 comments)
• Facebook Versus the Web (83 comments)
• Google buys social mobile startup Jaiku (63 comments)
• Bubble Indicators (60 comments)
• CNET Founder Shelby Bonnie Unveils His New Startup: PoliticalBase (33 comments)
• Mixaloo: Share Mixtapes and Make Money While Doing It (15 comments)
• Real’s Rhapsody On TiVo: Will It Be Blue? (8 comments)
• BitTorrent DNA: Torrenting No Longer A Dirty Word (19 comments)
• No More Catalogs, Please (17 comments)
• More Information On Google’s Social Networking Plans (37 comments)
• FotoFlexer Continues To Innovate; People Love It (31 comments)
• PayPerPost Launches Random New Service. They’re Up To Something, I’m Sure. (29 comments)
• YouTube Videos Coming To Google Adsense (28 comments)
• Search Engine Marketing Firm ReachLocal Takes $55.2 Million (24 comments)
• Nine Inch Nails Help Seal Record Industry’s Coffin (86 comments)
• Facebook Mass Rejects All fbFund Applicants And Starts Over (34 comments)
• Twitter Testing Text Footer Ads (16 comments)
• Acquisition No. 2 For Sugar Inc.: Coutorture (12 comments)
• Zolve: A Social Network for Real Estate Agents (64 comments)
• DonorsChoose Doing Well, But Fred Wilson Needs To Be Stopped (28 comments)
• SpeedDate: Matchmaking for Hyper-Busy Singles (40 comments)
• Facebook Apps Ruled By the Few (57 comments)
• New CrunchBoard Jobs (Comments Off)
• The More Gphones, the Better (73 comments)
• Rubicon Project Launches: A Network of Ad Networks (