Archive for March, 2008

• Google And Virgin Team For Human Settlement On Mars (65 comments)
• Gmail April Fools Not Very Funny. On the Upside, They Started A Wikipedia War (81 comments)
• ChaCha Ditches Guided Search Model. I Love To Hate This Startup (57 comments)
• YouTube RickRolls Users (65 comments)
• Why We’re Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages (300 comments)
• Google Launches Future Search (66 comments)
• Whisher: Metered Wi-Fi made easy (16 comments)
• Ping.fm Centralizes Status Updates, But Is It Enough? (19 comments)
• Google Docs Inches Offline (30 comments)
• Venture Capitalists Fight Back Against TheFunded (53 comments)
• Facebook Gets Aggressive On Translations, Adding 22 More Languages (21 comments)
• WetPaint Preparing Embeddable Wiki Product Called Balco (25 comments)
• Another Fun Tool From Aviary: A Photo Time Machine (38 comments)
• Here’s A ScreenShot Of Publish2 (23 comments)
• Xoopit Makes Your Inbox More Social. Raises $5 Million and Launches Private Beta (Invites) (32 comments)
• Amsterdam-Bound: TechCrunch At The Next Web (20 comments)
• Diller Wins Break-Up Battle In Court (15 comments)
• AdMob Passes The 20 Billion Ads Served Mark (18 comments)
• Reality Digital Raises $6.3 Million Series B (13 comments)
• vTap Wants to Be Your Personal Online Video Curator (9 comments)
• Publish2 To Launch Digg Variation As Journalist Resource (20 comments)
• AOL Launches Mobile Portal Powered By Cellufun (6 comments)
• Yahoo Shines A Light On Women 25 To 54 (49 comments)
• StyleFeeder.com Offers API (6 comments)
• Barnes & Noble’s New How-To Site Quamut Already Being Link Spammed (28 comments)
• Stats Junkies Get Another Fix: Woopra (68 comments)
• Six Months In, And 600 Posts Later . . . The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide (In My Brain) (85 comments)
• Google Powering America’s First Line Of Defense (31 comments)
• FriendFeed, The Centralized Me, and Data Portability (91 comments)
• Revision3 Acquired By Fox News, Says Kevin Rose (43 comments)
• Image Recognition Problem Finally Solved: Let’s Pay People To Tag Photos (77 comments)
• WordPress Gets Major Overhaul (60 comments)
• Yahoo’s New Rock Star Retention Program (54 comments)
• Glam Makes Big Cuts In Publisher Payments - “Up To 80% Drop In Revenue” (69 comments)
• Turn Your Lights Off, Google Needs Extra Power Today (67 comments)
• Adobe AIR Desktop App For FriendFeed Coming (33 comments)
• LinkedIn Now Offering Network RSS Feeds (28 comments)
• Decline Of US Newspapers Accelerating (45 comments)
• Google Risks Muslim Backlash By Hosting Fitna (234 comments)
• Montgomery & Co. Raises $50 Million For Realtime Worlds (17 comments)
• 10 Millionth Article Written on Wikipedia (44 comments)
• European news roundup (11 comments)
• Wakozi is Kozmo For Booze (17 comments)
• Music Tax Details From Source: “Pay Us Not To Sue You” (142 comments)
• EMI Suffers A Setback In Case Against MP3Tunes (20 comments)
• Fourth Release of TechCrunch MeetUp LA Tickets: Geek Goes Chic (8 comments)
• Could China Throw a Wrench in Microsoft’s Yahoo Deal? (23 comments)
• Loopt Embraced by Verizon; Starts to Spread Its Mobile Wings (32 comments)
• Craigslist, Coming Soon In A Language Near You (37 comments)
• Amazon Muscles Print-On-Demand Services (36 comments)
• The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme (136 comments)
• The Zoho Business Machine Rolls Forward: Invoices Next (31 comments)
• TechCrunch DeadPooled My Company And All I Got Was This Lousy iPod Shuffle (31 comments)
• Handipoints Thinks a Virtual World Could Make Kids Do Chores in the Real One (20 comments)
• Stealth Startup Glassdoor.com Takes $3 Million Series B (22 comments)
• CBS Testing HD Streaming (36 comments)
• The New York Post Got It Wrong—Microsoft’s Alternate Board Slate For Yahoo Is All Sewn Up (18 comments)
• Hong Kong Billionaire Puts Another $40 Million Into Facebook (43 comments)
• An Interview with Virgin America’s head of In-Flight Entertainment (16 comments)
• First “Machine Listening” API Flies From The Echo Nest (21 comments)
• More DoGooders On The Internet: Intent To Focus On Wellness (26 comments)
• For Chinese IM Portal Tencent, The Money Is In Micro-Transactions (37 comments)
• Yahoo! loses head of its developer network to UK paper (16 comments)
• Comcast and BitTorrent Patch Things Up (27 comments)
• A content suggestion engine for blogging? That could work… (81 comments)
• Pirillo Starts Large Scale Community CMS Project (67 comments)
• Google (ironically) Goes Black In Support Of Earth Hour (74 comments)
• Riding Up the Hudson With a Dash GPS On My Dash (18 comments)
• Slice and Dice Online Videos with Omnisio (26 comments)
• YouTube Now Offering Video Statistics (22 comments)
• BeInSync Acquired by Phoenix Technologies for $25M (5 comments)
• Adobe Unveils Webtop Version of Photoshop. Picnik Is Not Scared. (46 comments)
• Phishing Scam Targeting Facebook Users (33 comments)
• Little By Little, Google Docs Gets More Office Like (42 comments)
• AT&T Is Working on Its Own 3D Browser (Pogo). What Are They Thinking? (73 comments)
• CNET Cuts 10% Of Workforce, Effective Immediately (Updated With Internal Memo) (19 comments)
• Mozilla Discusses Firefox 3 and Microsoft’s Public Embrace of Open Standards (22 comments)
• How To Bring Internet Advertising to TV—The Long View (46 comments)
• Why Cable And WiMax Shouldn’t Mix (31 comments)
• FotoFlexer Tries To Take On Picnik With a New Look (20 comments)
• CG News: Motorola splits (21 comments)
• Communicate Acquires Y Combinator Startup Auctomatic, Unveils New Business Strategy (41 comments)
• $3 Million Donation For The Sum Of All Human Knowledge (31 comments)
• WePlay Takes $1.87 Million, Wants Rights To Kids Videos Before They Are Stars (29 comments)
• Craigslist Is Our Mirror, Nothing Better (Or Worse) (67 comments)
• Footnote Digitizes the Vietnam War Memorial (11 comments)
• Peerflix Procrastinating On Customer Refunds (21 comments)
• Just In Time For Campaign Season, Spot Runner Gets Into Politics (14 comments)
• Loladex—Local Search With A Little Help From Your Facebook Friends (24 comments)
• Google Recommends No Vote On Human Rights, Anti-Censorship Proposals (47 comments)
• Facebook Tidbits From Snap Summit In San Francisco (19 comments)
• Citigroup Raises Yahoo Target To $34 Based On Revised Microsoft Bid (12 comments)
• Great Moments in Linux History (21 comments)
• Revision3 Strengthens Blip.tv’s Roster With Syndication Deal (10 comments)
• TechCrunch Sponsors Rock (0 comments)
• Liveblogging the OpenSocial.org Conference Call (17 comments)
• Defection Watch: Google’s Director of Social Media Decides It’s More Social at Facebook (39 comments)
• Microsoft: MS Office on iPhone? It could happen (18 comments)
• Save the Developers! Stop Using Internet Explorer 6 (161 comments)
• As Predicted, Yahoo Joins OpenSocial. But Wait, There’s More (24 comments)
• Microsoft Embracing Data Portability? Partnerships WIth Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, LinkedIn and Tagged (23 comments)
• Computer vs. Realtor: Computer Wins. Twice. (49 comments)
• Mixx’s New Feature Aims To Get Breaking News To Home Page Faster Than Digg (32 comments)
• Peerflix To Close DVD Business, Continue As Ad Seller Only (23 comments)
• ReVou Lets You Host Your Own Twitter (29 comments)
• Imeem Makes Its Own Platform Play For Music Apps. Who’s OpenSocial? (10 comments)
• Yeah, But He Didn’t Predict The iPhone, Did He? (38 comments)
• Facebook To Launch Preferred Application Program (25 comments)
• Skydeck Helps You Manage The Social Network Locked In Your Phone (500 Invites For Private Beta) (19 comments)
• Finally, FriendFeed Answers The Twitter Conundrum (15 comments)
• The Secret To Google’s Success: Free Beer And Sushi (25 comments)
• Google Throws Another Wireless Ball in The Air: WiFi 2.0 (14 comments)
• Mixwit’s Mixtapes and Broader Social Media Ambitions (15 comments)
• Yahoo, Tata Subsiduary In Research Pact (9 comments)
• South Park Studios - It’s Like AllSP, But Legal (38 comments)
• The DOJ Finally Realizes That A Sirius/XM Radio Merger Isn’t a Serious Threat to Anyone (27 comments)
• Viewdle Funded by KIT Capital, Partners with ROO (17 comments)
• Can Google Fix Its MySpace Problem With Demographic Targeting? (38 comments)
• Survey Says: Tech Workers Also Like McCain and Obama (16 comments)
• Justin.TV’s Birthday Stats—57 Years Worth of Video and Counting. (49 comments)
• Is OpenID Being Exploited By The Big Internet Companies? (67 comments)
• $100 Million Coming To Israeli Startup Modu (28 comments)
• LongJump Wants You to Stop Pushing Paper Around the Office (12 comments)
• Quotably: The Perfect Tool To Make Sense Of Twitter (47 comments)
• Some Retailers Oppose Google’s Secondary Search Feature (37 comments)
• 2,433 Unread Emails Is An Opportunity For An Entrepreneur (231 comments)
• These Crazy Musicians Still Think They Should Get Paid For Recorded Music (331 comments)
• Bridging Desktop And Web Applications - A Look At Mozilla Prism (83 comments)
• Battle Of The Podcasting Geek Chicks (110 comments)
• Startups Battle Over Who Invented Risk-Like War Game First (50 comments)
• CrunchBoard This Week (Comments Off)
• Time Waster: Test Your Stock Trading Chops On Inspectd (38 comments)
• At Launch, Mytopia Shows Social Networks How To Play Nicely Together (46 comments)
• Get Into The SearchMe Private Beta Right Now (62 comments)
• CBS Sports Facing March Madness Backlash on Facebook. “This App Blows.” (46 comments)
• Federated Media’s Battelle Slams Rival, Hints At Investing In Publishers (51 comments)
• Australian Startup Carnival Highlights Antipodean StartUps (20 comments)
• Euro startups plugged at Plugg (11 comments)
• Creating the Social Media Broadcast (Sonecast) (15 comments)
• God 2.0 Online This Easter (80 comments)
• LinkedIn, Now For Companies (43 comments)
• BlogCatalog.com Adds Cross-Network Search (21 comments)
• eBay Terminates 125, But Will Hire More Long Term (12 comments)
• Ning: All Our Charts Point Up And To The Right (35 comments)
• Venture Hacks Branches Out From Blogging, Launches Recommendations System (17 comments)
• CrunchGear this Week (4 comments)
• Our Master Plan (55 comments)
• Breaking: FCC Confirms that Big Winner in Spectrum Auction is Verizon. So Why Is Google Smiling? (42 comments)
• SpinVox Translates Voice-to-Text Service Into A $100 Million Round (24 comments)
• Amazon Takes the Humans Out of Fulfillment With New API (33 comments)
• Smelling Trouble Behind AOL’s $850 Million Bebo Deal (30 comments)
• Pulver Launches An Online TV Guide In The Form of a Cube (PrimeTimeRewindTV) (27 comments)
• Diigo Revamps Social Bookmarking Service with v3.0 (44 comments)
• Chart Me Up: Web 2.0 Venture Deals (21 comments)
• Retrevo Raises $8M More for Aggregation of Consumer Electronics Information (13 comments)
• Sequoia’s Gospel of Startups More True Than Ever (54 comments)
• Oddcast to Let You Put Your Face on a Movie Star’s (32 comments)
• Jailed Moroccan Facebook Poser Released and Pardoned (20 comments)
• Is Facebook Playing Favorites With App Developers? (67 comments)
• Capazoo Blows $25+ Million, Heading To The DeadPool (44 comments)
• Sharpcast (Finally) Releases SugarSync for Synchronization of Data Across Devices (16 comments)
• Google Mobile Learns the Need For Speed, But Is Still Not Fast Enough (20 comments)
• CNET Soap Opera Continues; CEO Neil Ashe May Be Fighting For His Job (12 comments)
• Honey, I Shrunk the Crunchies Monkey (18 comments)
• Kampyle Closes The Feedback Loop (28 comments)
• Viddyou Debuts High Definition Video and Premium Memberships (33 comments)
• Magnify Wants to Turn Video Channels Into Social Networks. Good Luck. (10 comments)
• He’s Baaack! Quattrone Starts Qatalyst Partners. (19 comments)
• SlideRocket Presentation Web App Enters Private Beta; Get Your Invite Here (24 comments)
• Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $19.6 Billion. We Still Don’t Know Who Won. (11 comments)
• Would You Pay An Extra $100 For An All-You-Can-Listen-To iPod (70 comments)
• Fynanz: How Students Spell Peer-to-Peer Loans (21 comments)
• The Semantic Hacker One-Million Dollar Challenge (40 comments)
• More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant. (207 comments)
• Tracking Web 2.0 (34 comments)
• Odeo Acquires BlogDigger (13 comments)
• Adobe Forging Ahead with Flash for the iPhone Despite Jobs’ Remarks (23 comments)
• How GeoSign Blew $160 Million (40 comments)
• FanBox Listens To TechCrunch Commenters (24 comments)
• Forget the Movie, Go To A Concert (27 comments)
• KidZui: The Kid Safe Browser (33 comments)
• Google Launches Non-Profit Portal (25 comments)
• BracketBrains Giving Sports Bettors An Edge (37 comments)
• Vale Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008 (28 comments)
• Google Maps, Wiki-Style (27 comments)
• Exclusive Video of Facebook Chat Demo (50 comments)
• Disqus Picks Up A Half-Million Dollars From Fred Wilson And Angels (24 comments)
• Fixya Raises $6 Million B Round for Crowdsourced Tech-Support (12 comments)
• Facebook To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms Chat Is Coming (40 comments)
• Facebook Press Event: Our (Almost) Live Notes (25 comments)
• Instablogs Negotiating $3 Million Round (41 comments)
• Yahoo’s Three-Year Plan: Grow Revenues 73 Percent By Focusing on Display Ads, Mobile, and Better Search (36 comments)
• Third Release of LA MeetUp Tickets: Geek Goes Chic (9 comments)
• Taaz Gives Me A Reasonable Excuse To Post Pictures Of Angelina Jolie (44 comments)
• The Web in Charts—Google vs. Microsoft-Yahoo vs. China (58 comments)
• Is Meebo Worth Half a Slide? (38 comments)
• Charlie Rose Face Plants To Save His MacBook Air (159 comments)
• BroadSoft Going Up Against Ribbit with VoIP Platform for Web Apps (10 comments)
• FriendFeed Adds Search, And Suddenly Feels Like A Destination Site (58 comments)
• Push To Classify Internet Addiction As a Mental Disorder (35 comments)
• 3D Social Networking Destination RipLounge Moves Into Beta (23 comments)
• Supreme Court Clears The Way For Novell To Seek Revenge From Microsoft For Crushing WordPerfect (80 comments)
• Happy St. Patrick’s Day from CrunchGear (10 comments)
• WebVisible Takes $12 Million Series B (5 comments)
• Car Advisory Network Takes $6.5 Million Series A (9 comments)
• Photoshop Dreams of an iFlipPhone (18 comments)
• Eight Years Later, Vivisimo Raises $4 Million For Enterprise Search. (36 comments)
• Microsoft Adopts Flash Lite For Windows Mobile As a Stopgap Measure (30 comments)
• The Censors Take Down YouTube and Google News in China. How Will Google Respond? (96 comments)
• McCain Embraces Tech Executives For White House Push - TechCrunch Interviews Carly Fiorina (35 comments)
• Why Is Natali Del Conte Speaking Spanish? (52 comments)
• Surprise! The Bux.to Pyramid Scheme Is A Fraud (89 comments)
• Blogger & Podcaster Magazine To Launch Blog Advertising Network, Provide Health Care To Solo Bloggers (19 comments)
• Streamed Gameshow PlayCafe Takes Funding (13 comments)
• Gizmoz Raises $6.5M from Japan’s DoCoMo; Integrates with AIM (17 comments)
• RetailMeNot Adds Social Network (39 comments)
• Yahoo Buzz: Yahoo Reveals Stats From The First Two Weeks (88 comments)
• Numbrosia - Merit Based News (18 comments)
• Video Coming To Flickr Soon. Really. (99 comments)
• A Funny Moment At The Flickr Party Tonight (53 comments)
• Japanese ISPs To Ban File Sharers (1151 comments)
• Songkick Launches “Alexa For Bands” (32 comments)
• So That’s What The EU Does With All That Microsoft Money (167 comments)
• Bungee Labs Takes $8 Million Series C (10 comments)
• Wundrbar: A Smart Search and Account Management Tool (32 comments)
• Facebook To Launch Instant Messaging Service (121 comments)
• What Media Company Gained the Most Market Share in 2007? (Hint: It Starts With a G). (30 comments)
• Delicious 2.0 News Finally Comes To New York (21 comments)
• Y Combinator Demo Day Roundup for Spring 2008 (62 comments)
• An Alexaholic Moment: Visual Search Engine ManagedQ Gets Snapped (58 comments)
• Microsoft Picks Up Another Ad Startup: Rapt (17 comments)
• Justin.TV Teams With Qik For Live Mobile Streaming (17 comments)
• FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter, But Why? (105 comments)
• MyBlogLog Founder To Launch New Startup Gnip With $1 Million In Funding (23 comments)
• AOL On A Bender - KickApps May Be Next Acquisition (9 comments)
• Google Sky, Now in Your Web Browser (40 comments)
• PBWiki Gets An Overhaul (24 comments)
• Yahoo Relocating European HQ From UK To Switzerland (21 comments)
• Partial List: Microsoft’s Nominees For The Yahoo Board (49 comments)
• MySpace Opens Up The OpenSocial Spigot: App Gallery Goes Live (31 comments)
• ObamaIn30Seconds: Make a TV Ad For Obama, And MoveOn.Org Will Air It Nationally (36 comments)
• Judge Throws Out CNET’s Objections to Investor Lawsuit (11 comments)
• Hummer Winblad Partner Will Price Resigns To Head WidgetBox (28 comments)
• Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry (105 comments)
• AOL Buys Bebo For $850 Million (104 comments)
• ShareThis Raises $15M: A Lot of Dough for One Widget (25 comments)
• Happy Birthday, Mike (52 comments)
• Benchmark and Benioff Put $6.5 Million Into Zuora to Create a Salesforce for Online Billing (17 comments)
• Hi5 Gets Ready to Take OpenSocial Global (11 comments)
• iPhone 2.0 “sneak peek” (21 comments)
• Mullenweg Steps Up Automattic, SixApart War of Words (49 comments)
• Google Enters The Ad Management Game (42 comments)
• The Future Of Voice May Be Voiceless (34 comments)
• Global Or Die: Is There A Future For Local Startups? (63 comments)
• Could Spitzer Scandal Take Skype Video Mainstream? (15 comments)
• Disney: $122.8 Million Reasons To Sell On iTunes (6 comments)
• WeGame’s 19 Year Old Founder Raises $3 million Financing (41 comments)
• Amazon’s Latest Product Launch is a Couple of Facebook Apps (25 comments)
• Snaptalent Targets Job Candidates Where They Work and Spend Time Online (40 comments)
• Google Now Selling SEO Services Via Performics (64 comments)
• Animoto Rocks (Automatically Turns Your Photos Into a Music Video Slide Show) (52 comments)
• Yahoo To Join OpenSocial in April, Microsoft Groans. (36 comments)
• YouTube: The Platform (50 comments)
• Next New Networks - $15 million From Velocity Interactive Group And Goldman Sachs (12 comments)
• MyLoki Lets You Tell the World That You Are Here (51 comments)
• Anticlimax: YouTube Announces More Open API’s (24 comments)
• Official: AOL On The Table For A Deal (38 comments)
• Yahoo In Discussions To Join Google OpenSocial (31 comments)
• Healthline Partners With Aetna For Personalized Medical Portal (7 comments)
• Click Forensics Raises $10 Million B Round (10 comments)
• Mixx Gets Credibility Boost From NYTimes (25 comments)
• Invoke Solutions Takes $7 Million (7 comments)
• Facebook Pays $25 For User Testing; We’ll Double That For Leaks (34 comments)
• Content Marketplace Helium Officially Launches (21 comments)
• The British are coming! (16 comments)