Archive for December, 2007

• Baidu Loses CFO, Wins Piracy Case (21 comments)
• Pointui Launches For Those With iPhone Envy (54 comments)
• Who Is The Openest Of Them All? (27 comments)
• Thiel Invests in Israeli Stealth Startup Hooja (8 comments)
• New Blackberry 9000 in iPhone Black? (36 comments)
• Most Bookmarked TechCrunch Posts of 2007 (10 comments)
• The Year in Launches (2007 Edition) (9 comments)
• New Years Eve, Live On The Net (23 comments)
• Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet (148 comments)
• A Sign Of The Times (15 comments)
• 8Apps Rounds Out The Deadpool for 2007 (17 comments)
• Microsoft Using YouTube To Promote Vista & Live, Leaves Comments Open (40 comments)
• Zivity Founder Bares All To Promote Her Startup (63 comments)
• Gmail To Offer Friend Updates? (27 comments)
• Subvert And Profit Unapologetically Targets YouTube (37 comments)
• Glogster - Like Geocities (in a bad way), And In Flash (31 comments)
• Jim Choma’s Career Joins The Deadpool, Maybe (59 comments)
• Digg May Land Digg Girl Record Contract (55 comments)
• 20 Free Blogfuse Accounts For TechCrunch Readers (85 comments)
• The Year in DeadPool (2007 Edition) (27 comments)
• RIAA’s Target In 2008: You (39 comments)
• Most Popular TechCrunch Posts of 2007 (5 comments)
• The Year in TechCrunch Headlines (2007 Edition) (9 comments)
• The Year In Deals (2007 Edition) (9 comments)
• Amazon’s Kindle Knows Where You Are (17 comments)
• PlayboyU: All Tease and No Action (11 comments)
• A Sad Milestone: AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development (116 comments)
• Need a Baby Name? Nymbler Has A Hunch About What You Might Like. (20 comments)
• Here Comes The Google Mafia (34 comments)
• Wal-Mart Shuts Movie Download Service, Offers SEM Services Instead (30 comments)
• Bunchball: Cross-Platform, Real-Time Games. A Sign of Social Networking’s Future? (27 comments)
• CrunchGear This Week (5 comments)
• 2007 Had Its Share Of Internet Woes (26 comments)
• Apple Tries To Patent A Way to Avoid Long Lines (56 comments)
• Amazon Adds Warner Music to DRM-Free Roster (24 comments)
• GPhone To Debut In February? (44 comments)
• Apple To Offer Fox Video Rentals On iTunes (27 comments)
• Google One-Ups Yahoo In Japan (20 comments)
• EU: Microsoft’s Last Stand Against Google’s Acquisition of DoubleClick (31 comments)
• Jim Clark Has The Miami Real-Estate Blues (29 comments)
• Radiohead To Promote Album With New Year’s Eve Concert on Current TV (21 comments)
• Kwout, A Simple Quote Tool For Bloggers (29 comments)
• Foonz, The Deadpool Is Calling (23 comments)
• 2007 In Numbers: Low Traffic Is One Problem Yahoo Doesn’t Have (20 comments)
• Is Google Reader Sharing Too Much? (44 comments)
• A Very Amazon Christmas For Apple, Nintendo, and the BBC (12 comments)
• Christmas Day Or April Fools?: Prediction That Web 2.0 Will Die in 2008 Due To Lack Of Advertising (64 comments)
• HoHoHo: Digg Might Be Acquiring Menéame and CoRank (26 comments)
• Christmas Recovery Web 2.0 Style (32 comments)
• Merry Christmas, Everyone (43 comments)
• 2007 In Numbers: More People Using Yahoo Mail This Christmas Than Gmail (83 comments)
• Google’s Biggest App Distributor May Be Moving To India (51 comments)
• Online TV Ads Suck Less Than TV Ads On TV: Study (30 comments)
• 2007 In Numbers: The Ask Mouse Squeaked A Little Louder This Year (29 comments)
• Digital Fear-Mongering And Hollywood Accounting (34 comments)
• Yahoo Launches BravoNation. I’m Not Loving It. (35 comments)
• Google Helps NORAD Track Santa (23 comments)
• Digg, The Song (85 comments)
• Wikia Search Launches Private Beta; Public Launch On January 7 (26 comments)
• Top 2007 Education Apps: Learning 2.0 (58 comments)
• 2007 In Numbers: The Year AOL Killed Netscape’s Traffic (38 comments)
• Product Clash: Sort Of Digg For Product Comparisons (18 comments)
• Wikia Will Search. But When? (36 comments)
• Her Majesty The Queen Joins YouTube (38 comments)
• Mozilla Expands Its Universe With Weave (50 comments)
• Tech President Endorsement On Local Fox Affiliate (43 comments)
• 2007 In Numbers: iGoogle Google’s Homegrown Star Performer This Year (45 comments)
• The Crunchies: Finalists Are Up, Vote For the Winners (60 comments)
• PayPerPost Suspends Zookoda, Deadpool Looking Likely (30 comments)
• TechCrunch Sponsors (Comments Off)
• Tesla Asks Investors For Another $40 Million To Start Its Engines. (57 comments)
• Perez Hilton Bitch Slaps YouTube (24 comments)
• Edgeio Assets Acquired By LookSmart (35 comments)
• Photology Makes Sorting Through Photos A Snap (18 comments)
• One Million Deaths Per Day On Duels.com (27 comments)
• The Daily Show and Colbert Decide to Wing It Without Writers (27 comments)
• Going.com Gets Extra Social On Events (15 comments)
• Can You Spare The Odd Pea For A Good Cause? (21 comments)
• Mixx Democratizes Categories: Something Digg Should Have (44 comments)
• Photobucket Now Available Inline For MySpace Users (12 comments)
• Rachel Ray Gets Shangby’d (22 comments)
• ♫ Deck The Halls With Google Gadgets… ♫ (18 comments)
• Is Pownce Going To The DeadPool? (68 comments)
• Breaking: Kayak Raises $196 Million, Buys Rival SideStep (59 comments)
• Peer Into The Minds Of Digg Users: Digg Adds New Photo Visualization (14 comments)
• Who Will Be The First Tech President? Help Us Endorse A Candidate (113 comments)
• Fotolia Branches Out from Micro-Stock Photography, Incorporates Traditional Collections (15 comments)
• Google-DoubleClick Deal Passes FTC Hurdle. Now Comes the Hard Part: Europe (17 comments)
• CrunchGear This Week (3 comments)
• Fair Use Vs. Free Speech in the Internet Age: The Lane Hartwell Problem (136 comments)
• Jango Introduces a Slick Jukebox Widget (13 comments)
• Twitter Downtime On the Upswing (39 comments)
• Ho Ho Ho: 5,000 Hulu Invites for Our Readers (60 comments)
• Oh My God! Apple Killed Think Secret! Those Bastards! (52 comments)
• Google Set To Get DoubleClick Approval As Christmas Present (13 comments)
• Fraxi - a “Ning” For Digg Clones (27 comments)
• Microsoft’s Car Product In The Wild (22 comments)
• Definition Of A Successful PR Stunt (46 comments)
• NetSuite - All Grown Up, Worth Over $1 Billion (16 comments)
• Study: 59% Of Teens Create Content Online (28 comments)
• Treemo Becomes Mobile Media Distribution Platform with Widgets, Facebook Application (14 comments)
• Kyte Takes $15 Million Series B (15 comments)
• VCs Push 3Guppies Into The Deadpool (15 comments)
• Intel Takes Stake In Amazon S3 Competitor Nirvanix (17 comments)
• Google Poaching Beacon Partners For “Universal Activity Stream” (23 comments)
• GodTube Launches A Virtual Prayer Wall. This Is Just What I Needed (50 comments)
• CrunchBoard Jobs (6 comments)
• Viacom Inks $500 Million Ad Deal With Microsoft; Makes a Hollywood Play For Videogames Too (24 comments)
• FCC Reveals 700MHz Wireless Auction Bidders (27 comments)
• Magnify.net Releases Video Blogging Platform, Seesmic Competitor? (18 comments)
• Google Talk Gets One Step Closer To The Ultimate Babel Fish (45 comments)
• Amazon Helping To Change The Business Of Music (36 comments)
• “The Bubble” Is Back (116 comments)
• Vuze Raises $20M More in Series C, Brings Aboard TiVo Co-Founder Ramsay (7 comments)
• PlayFirst Takes $16.5 Million Series C, Inks Deal With RockYou (3 comments)
• National Lampoon Takes Stake In Capazoo (24 comments)
• Google Knows How Late Your Flight Is Running (41 comments)
• American Shoppers Can’t Find Walmart, But V-Enable Helps Them (17 comments)
• Fashion Social Network Chictini Harmonizes with SeeqPod (9 comments)
• What Do Venture Capitalists Know? (38 comments)
• uTest Gets $1.7M for Crowd-Sourced Quality Assurance (34 comments)
• FlixWagon Jumps On The Live-Mobile-Video Bandwagon (6 comments)
• Google’s Norvig Is Down On Natural Language Search (42 comments)
• The Big Switch: 12 Signed Pre-Release Copies For TechCrunch Readers (248 comments)
• UStream.TV Gets Some Cash And General Wesley Clark (27 comments)
• Is It Going To Be a Wii, or Why Can’t I Get One, Christmas? (42 comments)
• Nanosolar Is Gunning For Coal. (41 comments)
• Kango Announces $4 Million Round From Shasta Ventures (16 comments)
• Google Wants To Index Your Videos (18 comments)
• Majority Of Americans On Google Docs: “What You Talkin Bout Willis?” (73 comments)
• No Dreams For One Third Of Electric Sheep Company Employees This Christmas (16 comments)
• Android Prototype: Lets Hope Looks Can Be Deceiving (41 comments)
• Bloglines Gets A Triple Dose Of New Features (32 comments)
• ComVentures Merges With Velocity, Gets A Much Needed Fresh Start (19 comments)
• Founders Fund Closes $220 Million Second Fund (55 comments)
• Summize: A Sentiment Engine For The “Reviewosphere” (24 comments)
• For Sale: Used Social Voting Site, Asking Price $300 Million, Goes By The Name Of Digg (91 comments)
• Monday Fundings: Live Gamer Raises $24 Million, Streamezzo Raises $22 million (14 comments)
• Jiggy: An Easy Web-Based IDE for iPhones (7 comments)
• BitTorrent Is Now Streaming Movies (With Ads). But Where’s The Good Stuff? (12 comments)
• Facebook Is MySpace With ADD (20 comments)
• Ads-Click Introduces MicroSocialAds In Beta. Now Get Paid to Spam Your Friends on Facebook. (59 comments)
• Ribbit Pulls Back the Covers On Its Voice 2.0 Master Plan (And Raises $10 Million B Round) (34 comments)
• Qik streams live video from cell to Web (17 comments)
• A Few Thoughts On Google Knol (89 comments)
• Goodreads Raises Angel Round To Help You Find That Perfect Book (34 comments)
• Why Can’t Yahoo Search Marketing Block Fraudulent Transactions? (40 comments)
• Loren Feldman Trashes Seesmic; Founder Loic Le Meur Takes The Bait (96 comments)
• Bizarre: Al-Qaeda To Emulate YouTube Debates? (33 comments)
• Who Will Google Buy Or Clone In 2008? (84 comments)
• 23andMe Step 2: Spitting In A Tube (32 comments)
• Do You Use Google For Vanity Searching? You’re Not Alone (19 comments)
• Facebook Sues Porn Company Over Hacking Attempt (15 comments)
• Google Starts Rolling Out Centralized Profiles (54 comments)
• Misunderstanding Copyright Law And Ruining Everyone’s Fun (159 comments)
• Yahoo Launches Dashboard For 2008 Elections (39 comments)
• Fluid Is Great For People Who Are More Comfortable With Desktop Apps (35 comments)
• You Can Now Share Reader Content With Google Talk Friends (16 comments)
• Newly Redesigned CrunchGear Launched (24 comments)
• CrunchGear This Week (16 comments)
• Paramount To Sell Movie Tickets Using Tailgate (10 comments)
• Control Someone’s Behavior for an Hour with Mod My Life (30 comments)
• T-Mobile Turns Off Twitter? (71 comments)
• Revolution Money Thinks It Can Win Friends On Facebook (45 comments)
• Sold Out Kindles Going For Up To $1,500 On Ebay (52 comments)
• Cybercafe Regulars Can Now Manage Their Digital Lives with Jooce (24 comments)
• Amazon Takes on Oracle and IBM With SimpleDB (94 comments)
• Google Pushes YouTube As An “Alternative” Way To Search for Video (32 comments)
• Path Intelligence Monitors Foot Traffic in Retail Stores By Pinging People’s Phones (42 comments)
• Google Knol: A Step Too Far? (159 comments)
• Google Preparing To Launch Game Changing Wikipedia Meets Squidoo Project (80 comments)
• Flickr Adds Stats To Photo Pro Accounts (30 comments)
• Google Answers Stirs Zombie-Like as Google Q&A (18 comments)
• While You Are Reading About The Steroids Report, Here Are Some Related Products You Might Enjoy (31 comments)
• Simkl Keeps Record of Your IM Conversations Online (25 comments)
• Kwiry Launches. Will Anyone Use It? (49 comments)
• Google Zeitgeist’s 2007 Verdict: “Mozart” Is So 2006. (20 comments)
• P2P Loans GainingTraction. Lending Club Goes Nationwide (32 comments)
• Meebo Brings Chat to Facebook Apps; Hits 20 Million Monthly Users (16 comments)
• Magnify.net And ClipSyndicate Partner For Embedded Content (15 comments)
• NewsGator Gets $12 Million (32 comments)
• CNET To Shutter Newsburst RSS Reader (10 comments)
• As Google Maps Comes To New Zealand, PM Responds To Blog (20 comments)
• New Jackass Movie To Be Offered Free Online (30 comments)
• Online Ad Spending Growth To Slow, No Need To Panic (26 comments)
• Adobe Releases BlazeDS, Open Source Version of LiveCycle Data Services (18 comments)
• eBay Takes a $30 Million Hit Over Buy It Now Patent (30 comments)
• Dead Tree Media Watch: BusinessWeek Lays Off 12 (17 comments)
• Google Updates Toolbar, Offers iPhone Version of Picasa (15 comments)
• Last Chance to Nominate Startups For the Crunchies (Nearly 72,000 Entries So Far) (29 comments)
• Mobile Social Network Crush or Flush Shares Growth Stats (15 comments)
• Analysis: Bebo Snubs Google With Facebook Platform Clone (48 comments)
• Bebo Embraces Facebook Apps With Its “Open Applications Platform” (33 comments)
• Google Checkout Tries To Ring Up Market-Share Gains With Free Transactions (18 comments)
• Update: Classmates IPO is Pulled (13 comments)
• Microsoft Buys Multimap for a Reported $50 Million (21 comments)
• Movable Type Finally Goes Open-Source (48 comments)
• Scoble To Leave PodTech, Heading For Fast Company (103 comments)
• Zoho Show 2.0, Cleaner Look, New Features (15 comments)
• AppJet Makes Simple Web Apps A Breeze (31 comments)
• Mahalo Goes Social (27 comments)
• Why Isn’t BlogCharm Paying Its Bloggers? (27 comments)
• Confirmed: Penthouse Buys AdultFriendFinder For $500 Million (39 comments)
• MOG Integrates Rhapsody’s Streaming Music Collection, Launches Redesign (37 comments)
• Twitter As a Conduit For Fiction? (48 comments)
• Edgeio Bids Start At $250,000 (98 comments)
• Forget the SanDisk Deal, NBC Direct Will Soon Have Free Downloads in HD (19 comments)
• Dutch Startup Libersy Gets €1.2 Million For Distributed Booking Service (16 comments)
• Wakoopa Launching “Alexa” For Desktop Apps (16 comments)
• Facebook Stirring Up Anger For Disabling Accounts (80 comments)
• Wuala Invitations Now Available on InviteShare (21 comments)
• Track Blog Reactions To Your Brands With Scout Labs (58 comments)
• Tell CG a Holiday Travel Horror Story, Win a Blackberry Curve (14 comments)
• REVShare Raises $20 Million For Cost-Per-Action TV Ad Business (9 comments)
• Plaxo Offers Pulse Plugin For Outlook (7 comments)
• Amazon Invests in Bill Me Later (33 comments)
• Coghead Pursues Platform Strategy With Launch Of Affiliates Program (24 comments)
• FolderShare AutoDeletes Files. Whoops (27 comments)
• Shareapic Pays You To Host Pictures (60 comments)
• MSN Gets Mobile Advertising (10 comments)
• YouTube Shares the Wealth With Everyone. Apply Now (44 comments)
• Jaxtr Racks Up Over 5 Million Users In Under 5 Months (19 comments)
• Ask Lets You Delete Your Search History … Yawn (22 comments)
• Capazoo Wants To Pay You For Your Social Networking Time (44 comments)
• Funding News: Smilebox Raises $7M, Bahu Gets $1M (10 comments)
• Scheme to Destroy Your Competition with RivalMap (34 comments)
• Spokeo 2.0: A Feed Reader For Your Friends (70 comments)
• Sequoia Invests in SEM-Automator Kenshoo (28 comments)
• NYTimes Surges, CNet Slumps (54 comments)
• Health Search + Patient Social Network = iMedix (30 comments)
• Office Live Workspace (Beta) Finally Goes Live. Still Needs Work. (33 comments)
• AGLOCO Doesn’t Pay To Surf, Joins Deadpool (65 comments)
• LinkedIn API and New Homepage Drawing Near (37 comments)
• WetPaint White Labels For Businesses And Brands (7 comments)
• Imeem Pens a Deal with Universal Music. Now Has All the Majors. (20 comments)
• Nobel Laureate Says The Internet Makes Us Dumb, We Say: Meh (173 comments)
• CDNs Are Big Business, EdgeCast Get $6 Million (10 comments)
• Ijji.com: The Future Of Casual Online Gaming? (27 comments)
• Facebook Photos get an Ajax Upgrade. Will Pageviews Suffer? (37 comments)
• The Twice Shy Entrepreneur (168 comments)
• Anchor Intelligence To Audit Click Fraud (31 comments)
• Making Fun Of Facebook Is Fun: Add Fake Beacon Actions (35 comments)
• 50 Cent: File Sharing Doesn’t Hurt Artists (73 comments)
• LifeInTheFishBowl Is Going To Be One Awesome Dating Site (88 comments)
• Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel Does Things A Little Differently (54 comments)
• Pass The Bong, It’s Another Whacky Zune Commercial (67 comments)
• CompUSA Goes Into The DeadPool. Good. (124 comments)
• Fark Wants To Trademark Not Safe For Work (38 comments)
• 13,000 Nominations So Far For The Crunchies (28 comments)
• Blognation May Rise From The Ashes (60 comments)
• Google Spreadsheets Edges Out Google Docs in Usage (43 comments)
• EchoStar to Split in Two: Satellite TV and Sling-Top Boxes (16 comments)
• How Do You Build an Airline? Offer Free Wi-Fi. (41 comments)
• FTC Slaps AdultFriendFinder For Porn Pop-ups (21 comments)
• Twenga Gets €2.6 Million For Product Search (15 comments)
• CNET Provides Branded Widgets, But Who Will Use Them? (17 comments)
• Edgeio To Shut Down - In The DeadPool (173 comments)
• Wikipedia Sued For Nazi Sympathies (45 comments)
• SmugMug Automatically Scales Photos and Video, Supports High Definition Video (41 comments)
• CrunchGear this Week (8 comments)
• LimeJuice’s Mobile Social Network: It’s Easy, And So People May Use It (28 comments)
• The Blog Council: Bad Or Inspired Idea? (28 comments)
• Is Beacon Inflating Facebook’s Visitor Numbers? (28 comments)
• Hey Facebook, WTF? Stay Away From TechCrunchers (135 comments)
• Yahoo Drops MingleNow into Deadpool (13 comments)
• OpenSocial Still “Not Open for Business” (37 comments)
• Freewebs Drops The “Free” And Launches It’s Own Facebook Gaming Network (23 comments)
• College Tonight Teams Up with Jangl, Hints at Upcoming Mobile Features (14 comments)
• I Was Just Waving At My Phone (12 comments)
• LinkedIn Turns On Its Own News Feeds (in Beta) (23 comments)
• Operator11 is Dead to Me: Is There Anything Out There Similar to It? (48 comments)
• TripIt Adds Calendar Sync, Travel Confirmations (25 comments)
• Google Books Adds Hand Scans (44 comments)
• Third Time’s a Charm: Dan Greenberg Polishes His Viral Video Message (40 comments)
• Step 1: I Purchased A 23AndMe DNA Test (62 comments)
• Facebook Messages: Small Change, Big Impact. (60 comments)
• Future Scanner: A Digg Clone That Tracks The Future (41 comments)
• Oh So Shiny Yahoo Messenger for Vista Released (49 comments)
• ReProduct: Recyclable Greeting Cards (14 comments)
• Buy A Virtual Gift And Fight Malaria (23 comments)
• Good News/Bad News For Startup Founder Cliff Shaw (20 comments)
• Loic Le Meur’s Ten Rules For Startup Success (104 comments)
• Zuckerberg Saves Face, Apologizes For Beacon (84 comments)
• Tvinci Makes MTV Israel Rock So Much Harder Than MTV.com (26 comments)
• JibJab Now Puts You In a Pepsi Ad—Thanks Lloyd Braun (25 comments)
• Blognation Meltdown: Writers Never Paid, Promises Not Kept (16