Archive for April, 2008

• eBay Vs CraigsList Complaint Released (31 comments)
• New Relic to Monitor Performance of Rails Applications (19 comments)
• Adobe’s Open Screen Project: Write Once, Flash Everywhere (42 comments)
• It’s Official: Meebo Raises $25 Million From Jafco, Time Warner and KTB (13 comments)
• Chinese Facebook Clone Xiaonei Raises $430 Million (64 comments)
• Xobni Walks Away From A Microsoft Deal (87 comments)
• Microsoft Says They’ll Pay More (31 comments)
• Meebo Closes Big Funding Round (14 comments)
• Robert Scoble Sell Out Complete (72 comments)
• Watercooler’s SN Apps for Fans Backed by $4M (4 comments)
• Kongregate Gets $3 Million From Bezos: Growing Fast and About To Unleash Its Games on Facebook (37 comments)
• Goodness Prevails: Iron Man Screening Is ON. (55 comments)
• May 1 Meet-up is On Like a Chicken Bone (8 comments)
• AOL’s Ad Strategy Still Waiting to Kick In (15 comments)
• Zenbe: Next-Generation Webmail, With A Platform Twist (58 comments)
• The New IAC: Riding On Google’s Coattails (7 comments)
• AdMob Offers Free Mobile Metrics Package (10 comments)
• Project Vino Twitter Wine Tasting (22 comments)
• Pontiflex Raises $2.5 Million in Series A Funding (14 comments)
• Strike Two: DataPortability Workgroup Logo Challenged, Again (61 comments)
• Melbourne IT Acquires Versign DBMS For $50 Million (4 comments)
• Sick of IKEA? Design Your Own Stuff, And Get Rich While You’re At It (16 comments)
• It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it. (22 comments)
• Mint Moves Into Investment Tracking (30 comments)
• Panedia Offers Georeferenced Panoramic Images (14 comments)
• EA-Land (The Sims Online) Joins The Deadpool (17 comments)
• Weplug Social Network Launches: Where’s the Beef? (12 comments)
• Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi (36 comments)
• Wishpot Takes $1 Million Series A (5 comments)
• Google Relaunching Measure Map (21 comments)
• AT&T to Sell 3G iPhone for As Low as $199 in U.S. (31 comments)
• IndoChino Offers Tailor-Made Suits (24 comments)
• Oh. My. God. Marvel Moves To Shut Down Our Iron Man Screening (235 comments)
• Ready To Rumble: Here’s Who Microsoft Will Bring To a Hostile Fight Over Yahoo (29 comments)
• Chumby To Get Accelerometer-based Casual Games and Flash Animation (3 comments)
• No more UK domain for MySpace (11 comments)
• End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers (137 comments)
• Update: We Now Know 8 of Microsoft’s 12 Proposed Yahoo Board Members (22 comments)
• Cortera Raises $8 Million in Funding Round Led By CIBC (2 comments)
• GroupTweet Back Online, Promises No More Privacy Slip Ups (10 comments)
• Record Labels Strategically Invest $2.8M in MOG (17 comments)
• Microsoft Stops Fighting Linux, And Tries To Give It A Big Bear Hug Instead (20 comments)
• URockHard: Just When You Thought They Couldn’t Make Any More Social Networks (9 comments)
• Busy Wednesday? Come See A Pre-Screening Of Iron Man With Us (66 comments)
• Metacafe Founders Ditch, Reportedly Cash Out Their Shares For $5 Million (20 comments)
• Wigix Brings Order to World of Online Trading (37 comments)
• Sonic Solutions Acquires PhotoShow Developer (8 comments)
• JAJAH Lands 97 Million Yahoo Users (26 comments)
• Interview With Citi Analyst Mark Mahaney On Yahoo/Microsoft/Google (27 comments)
• InvenSense Takes $19 Million Series C (4 comments)
• $3.25 Million More For Embeddable Flash Documents (17 comments)
• Adventurers Unite on National Geographic’s TOPO Explorer (12 comments)
• BeamMe.Info Offers Information Sharing Via SMS (12 comments)
• Yelp Lets Businesses Fight Back (30 comments)
• Artemis Eternal Brings “Crowd-Funding” To Movie Making (44 comments)
• Ad Platform Adify Sold To Cox Enterprises For $300 Million (Updated: Confirmation) (22 comments)
• Two Years Later, MySpace Karaoke Launches (20 comments)
• I Want My MTV…Voki Playground? (15 comments)
• 1,000 Wix Invites for TechCrunch Readers (34 comments)
• Ten Free Tickets to Google I/O Developer Event (104 comments)
• Blodget Says Facebook Is Only Worth $9 Billion, Hypothetically Speaking (63 comments)
• How Much Is Twitter Worth? (66 comments)
• Xobni’s Secret Project: Merge Outlook With Yahoo Mail (34 comments)
• Zoho Adds Macros and Pivot Tables to Online Spreadsheets (17 comments)
• Morgan Stanley’s March Internet Trends Report: Social Applications Dominating (73 comments)
• Akoha Raises $1.9 Million Angel Round To Build Online/Offline Game (19 comments)
• Twitturly Cracks The TwitterMeme Nut (43 comments)
• With Nile Guide, You Can Whittle Down Your Travel Options (16 comments)
• Will The Microsoft Hammer Fall This Week? (24 comments)
• Reminder: May 1 CrunchNetwork Meet-up is GO (8 comments)
• Google Experiments With Next Generation Image Search (64 comments)
• Microsoft Says Yes With Mesh (102 comments)
• Source: Benchmark Invests In TuneWiki To Bring Song Lyrics To iPhone (42 comments)
• RevResponse Pays You On Free Magazine Subscriptions (24 comments)
• Update: Rackspace Files IPO, Will Set Price Via Auction (42 comments)
• Widgets: The Marketer’s Recession Survival Tool (53 comments)
• You Didn’t Realize It, But You Really Want Those Twitter Messages In Your Calendar (50 comments)
• CBS SportsLine Founder to Launch OPEN Sports Network (27 comments)
• Twitter Reportedly Putting More Gas In The Tank (28 comments)
• Wix: The Bold Web Content Creator (37 comments)
• Hey That’s Pretty Smart - Amazon Launches A Gadget Blog (22 comments)
• Presdo, The Magical Online Scheduler (82 comments)
• Minggl Offers (Yet) Another Way to Keep Tabs on Your Friends (15 comments)
• Maybe The Fight Against Click Fraud Isn’t Hopeless After All (23 comments)
• Lightspeed Funding Turns Facebook Application Into “Serious Business” (52 comments)
• Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point? (100 comments)
• Skype Offers Half Pregnant Java Mobile Phone Client (25 comments)
• PlayMyGame Goes For A Sedo Exit (14 comments)
• AOL Sees Strong Growth In Sites After Year Long Revamping (48 comments)
• Retail Convergence Takes $25 Million Series A (4 comments)
• AOL Acquires Fantasy Sports Site Fleaflicker (34 comments)
• Majority Stake In MyPlayList Free To A Good Home (10 comments)
• Eight Years Later, Is Rackspace Finally Going To Try For Another IPO? (25 comments)
• The New Yahoo: Sticky, Viral, And Most Of All, Friendly (85 comments)
• Chilirec Is Like TiVo for Internet Radio (28 comments)
• FirewallScript Provides PHP-Based Protection (17 comments)
• Microsoft Stands Firm on Yahoo Bid As It Reports Flat Revenues And A Big Drop In Operating Income (16 comments)
• Niche Dating Sites Grow Steadily As Mainstream Ones Flail (48 comments)
• CrunchGear This Week: Sweater Friends and Seattle Mini-Meet-Up Tomorrow (1 comment)
• The Enterprise Social Network, Auto-Generated And Visually Mapped (17 comments)
• Create Your Own YouTube, Pray You Can Make Money (62 comments)
• CondeNet Tries To Blogify Concierge.com By Buying Two Travel Blogs (SFO Media) (10 comments)
• The British Are Coming… Back Soon (13 comments)
• Filtering Google Searches By Freshness (34 comments)
• We Have Liftoff: The Web 2.0 Expo Launch Pad (23 comments)
• CrunchGear/TechCrunch Meet-up in Prague, May 23 (31 comments)
• ReviewGist.com Collates and Snips Reviews (24 comments)
• Zoho Launches In China With Baihui (22 comments)
• Motorola’s Loss Is Apple’s Gain: That $2.1 Billion Sucking Sound Is Coming From The iPhone (31 comments)
• Yahoo SearchMonkey Launches Into Private Beta (46 comments)
• Does The Google-Yahoo Advertising Test Amount To Collusion? (18 comments)
• MySpace Apps Moves Out Of Beta (8 comments)
• VP Lee Mighdoll Out At Twitter, Business Plan Still MIA (56 comments)
• May 1 CrunchNetwork: Waiting List, Anyone? (9 comments)
• Google Now Offering Mobile Banner Ads (36 comments)
• Videophlow Makes YouTube a Group Experience (39 comments)
• Helium’s Reward-A-Thon (Occasionally) Leads to Big Paydays (9 comments)
• SlideShare Slammed with DDOS Attacks from China (92 comments)
• Google Says “No Photos” Of Web 2.0 Booth. Photos Are Taken Anyway. (61 comments)
• Salesforce Stock Price Up 10% To All Time High: Google Acquisition Rumors Played A Part (25 comments)
• No One’s Laughing At Tickle (18 comments)
• Facebook Platform Faces Rough Road Ahead, Despite Successes (49 comments)
• Apple Steams Ahead On Strong Q2 Financials (16 comments)
• Yahoo “Refunds” Disappointed Search Advertiser $9 Billion. Now, That’s Customer Service! (39 comments)
• Alert Thingy 1.3 Released: Single User Interface For Twitter And FriendFeed (43 comments)
• Five Million Users And Nearly Five Billion Stumbles Later (41 comments)
• New: Video Comments On All TechCrunch Blogs (214 comments)
• And We Have A New DataPortability Logo (59 comments)
• Get Blown On Facebook (15 comments)
• Amateur Hour Over At Twitter? (260 comments)
• Twitter Trends: Twist (29 comments)
• Lightpole Implements Fire Eagle, Helps You Get to Know the World Around You (9 comments)
• Privacy Disaster At Twitter: Direct Messages Exposed (Update: GroupTweet Is Likely Culprit) (139 comments)
• Want goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com? Too Late (82 comments)
• The Ozzie Memo: Software is Dead, Long Live the Web (51 comments)
• ZoomProspector Puts Geographical Data at Businesses’ Fingertips (6 comments)
• Twitter! Japan! Ads! (24 comments)
• Facebook Finishes Chat Integration, Makes This Blogger’s Life Miserable (39 comments)
• Microsoft’s Mesh Revealed—Sync All Apps And All Files To All Devices (As Long As They’re Windows) (102 comments)
• EcoCho Apparently Not Green Enough For Google (52 comments)
• The Importance of a Good Name: Ditching SimulScribe For PhoneTag (51 comments)
• Sony Buys Gracenote for $260M (39 comments)
• Liveblogging Yahoo Q1 Do-Or-Die Earnings Call (24 comments)
• Yahoo Q1 Earnings Released, Revenues and Earnings Above Expectations (36 comments)
• Widgetbox Unveils New iPhone Widget Gallery (10 comments)
• New Service Will Monitor Your Site For Typos (25 comments)
• DigitalJournal Rev Shares With Their Citizen Journalists (18 comments)
• Confirmed: Zyb Bought Imity (20 comments)
• 5min Releases Embeddable Player That Can Handle Text, Images, and Video (22 comments)
• Apple Shares Slump As AT&T Gives Vague Details On iPhone Growth (31 comments)
• Intel Tries Hand At Consumer Mashups (15 comments)
• Oosah: A Hub for Your Personal Online Media (20 comments)
• Photobucket Plays Catch Up To Flickr, Public API Released (14 comments)
• Dan Ackerman Greenberg Theory Turned Into YouTube Comedy, Funded By Warner Bros (6 comments)
• Miss Tormenting ChaCha Operators? Let Me Introduce You To Stumpedia (21 comments)
• Twitter May Not Have To Care About Uptime Any Longer (120 comments)
• MySocial 24×7 Is An Excellent Tool For FriendFeed Junkies (17 comments)
• Upcoming.org Founder Creates Fireball (Fire Eagle + DodgeBall + Twitter) (22 comments)
• The Guild Takes $2.5 Million Series C (7 comments)
• Grou.ps: All Your Collaboration Tools In One Place (14 comments)
• Do Or Die Week For Yahoo (16 comments)
• Rearden Commerce Raises $100 Million For Enterprise Services (Or, “Mashups For Adults”) (7 comments)
• StyleFeeder Joins Glam, Partners With Shopping.com (0 comments)
• Buzzlogic To Track Reading Habits With Acquisition of Activeweave (BlogRovR) (6 comments)
• Sonific Heading To The Deadpool: Record Labels Blamed (13 comments)
• HiPiHi Opens Its Doors To The Public (11 comments)
• Shelfari Hopes to Bring Authors and Readers Together Over Wikis (25 comments)
• Health Plan One Takes $6.5 Million Series A (13 comments)
• Who Are The Biggest Users of Amazon Web Services? It’s Not Startups. (36 comments)
• Facebook Publishes “Insider’s Guide To Viral Marketing” (51 comments)
• NYC May 1 CrunchNetwork Meet-up: The Good, the Bad, and the Sponsors (29 comments)
• Hints of iGoogle Turning Into Its Own Social Network (35 comments)
• Why ComScore’s Google Paid Click Estimates Are Not Predictive Of Google’s Revenues (25 comments)
• TeachStreet Turns The Lights On (25 comments)
• Sprout: Now A Viral Distribution Platform for Web Services (18 comments)
• A Better Interface For Image Search? (48 comments)
• Chinese Hackers Take Down SportsNetwork (99 comments)
• House Republicans Move To Increase H1B Visa Quota (153 comments)
• Etelos Lets Your Web Apps Run Offline (8 comments)
• Fix8 Lets Users Join The Presidential Primaries (11 comments)
• TwittEarth Makes Twitter A Global Experience (20 comments)
• Six Apart Launches Ad Network, Moves Into Services (32 comments)
• UserVoice Offers A Better Way To Take Customer Suggestions (18 comments)
• Rentoid Wants To Be The Place For Renting Anything (18 comments)
• Mollom May Soon Offer Serious Competition To Akismet (25 comments)
• Skype Co-Founding Engineers Invest In Pet Social Network (25 comments)
• Who Are The Top Tech Bloggers? (116 comments)
• TeachStreet Emerges To Help You Find The Best Yoga and Cooking Classes (24 comments)
• Sources: Microsoft Signs Letter Of Intent To Acquire Xobni (64 comments)
• VC Deals In Charts (Q1 2008)—Welcome To The Slowdown (30 comments)
• Packed House At Y Combinator Startup School (64 comments)
• Yahoo Offers Limited Release Of BrowserPlus (15 comments)
• Deadpool: Red Envelope Files For Bankruptcy (29 comments)
• Who Did Six Apart Acquire? (405 comments)
• European news round-up (23 comments)
• Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers (153 comments)
• Is The Venture Capital Party Over? (35 comments)
• WeeWorld: South Park Style Avatars Designed By Girls And Big Business (14 comments)
• Report: eBay Says It May Sell Skype (33 comments)
• HP Upline? More Like HP Downtime (41 comments)
• Ning Worth Half A Billion Dollars (76 comments)
• Dial Plus Fetches Information As You Talk (9 comments)
• Gillmor Gang Now Part Of TechCrunch Network (32 comments)
• German Startup Community Makes Us Proud Once Again: Freundefeed (96 comments)
• ChunkIt—Yet Another Search Plug-In. Yawn. (25 comments)
• The Brooklyn Museum Lets the Crowd Curate a Show (10 comments)
• Facebook Rewords Mini-Feed Notification, Privacy Issue Remains (44 comments)
• Yahoo Tweaks Its (Advertising) Algorithm (32 comments)
• Pageflakes Acquisition Confirmed (44 comments)
• Secret Merger Talks Between Technorati And b5media Blow Up (52 comments)
• Holy Facebook, Batman! Let’s fight crime in Manchester, England! (12 comments)
• German Startup Nails Pre-Launch Marketing Gimmick (39 comments)
• Tools For Your Video Career (42 comments)
• YouFig Community Collaboration Tools Enter Public Beta (16 comments)
• MediaScrape Takes $3.2 Million (16 comments)
• Socrato Crowdsources Test Prep Materials (25 comments)
• Microsoft Acquires Farecast For $115M (31 comments)
• Amazon Web Services Rolls Out Red Carpet Support (17 comments)
• Liveblogging Google Q1 Earnings Report—Fears Were Overblown (54 comments)
• Web 3.0 Will Be About Reducing the Noise—And Twhirl Isn’t Helping (163 comments)
• First Facebook Beacon Lawsuit Hits Blockbuster (27 comments)
• SezWho 2.0: Now Available For More Platforms (22 comments)
• Live Current Media Signs a $50 Million Deal For Exclusive Online Rights To Indian Cricket (48 comments)
• TripIt Raises $5.1 Million in Series B Funding (9 comments)
• SocialText Putting A Little Social Into…Enterprise Wikis (24 comments)
• Cheap Calls! Truphone Raises £16.5 million In Series B (17 comments)
• Yahoo Puts All The Chips On The Table. Time For Somebody To Fold. (59 comments)
• The Twitter/FriendFeed Desktop Client Arms Race Continues (61 comments)
• Lonelygirl15 and KateModern Creators Raise $5 million, Form EQAL (29 comments)
• Central Desktop Takes $7 Million (29 comments)
• Alexa Overhauls Ranking System (82 comments)
• Skype Reports 61% YOY Growth; All Quiet On Google Front (22 comments)
• MyPlayList Combines Flickr And Online Music (25 comments)
• Watch Out Salesforce. Intuit Opens Up QuickBase To Developers (15 comments)
• The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service (29 comments)
• EB Exchange Funds Provides Safety Net for Entrepreneurs (6 comments)
• Microsoft Does Some Amazing Things, This Isn’t One Of Them (99 comments)
• YouTube Expands Partner Program, $1 Million Distributed So Far (8 comments)
• mKhoj Rings in $7.1 Million in Series A funding from KPCB and Sherpalo (22 comments)
• Big String Secures IM Messages (23 comments)
• Last Call for CrunchNetwork Sponsorship Opportunity (3 comments)
• IMAP Support Disappears From Gmail [Updated] (48 comments)
• Soocial Makes Plaxo Look Lame (Beta Invites) (77 comments)
• Valleywag Fires Writer Who Criticized Valleywag (74 comments)
• Google Finally Takes Urchin Out Of Beta (12 comments)
• Look Out Twhirl, Alert Thingy Adds Twitter Support (36 comments)
• When Everyone Talks About Weakness At Google, Wall Street Buys the Stock (23 comments)
• Social Gaming Network Buys Facebook Market Share (10 comments)
• 100 More Invites For The Filter (7 comments)
• Music Tax: The iPod Approach (61 comments)
• Tungle Brings Own Approach to Scheduling Meetings (17 comments)
• Twitter Saves Man From Egyptian Justice (89 comments)
• Chinese Internet Users Say “Enough” To International Bullying (365 comments)
• PluggedIn Wants to be Hulu For Music Videos (30 comments)
• Chinese Photo Site Tuyuan May Do Facial Recognition. Or It May Just Put Boxes Around People’s Heads (31 comments)
• ExitReality Turns Social Network Profiles Into 3D Spaces (35 comments)
• Ecocho Means Well, I’m Sure (42 comments)
• Grooveshark Launches Web Media Player (30 comments)
• AdRoll Emerges From Private Beta With Co-Op Economics For Blog Advertising (20 comments)
• Six Apart Launches BlogIt Quick Post Application For Facebook (36 comments)
• More Money for Collective Intellect to Keep Fingers on Pulse of Internet (8 comments)
• 2,100 People Party In LA With PopSugar And TechCrunch, Raise $13k For OpenId And DataPortability (43 comments)
• AllYouCanUpload Slips Quietly Into Deadpool (17 comments)
• Googolopoly (55 comments)
• Your Chance Of Becoming A Mahalo Millionaire With Mahalo Idol (38 comments)
• Cuill Secures $25M More For Next Generation Search (20 comments)
• Where Have All the Bold VCs Gone? (42 comments)
• Cloud File Services Springing Up Everywhere, But Where’s My GDrive? (51 comments)
• DataPortability Launches New Logo Contest (43 comments)
• Major Security Hole at Tumblr (55 comments)
• Mobile Marriage In Scandinavia (3 comments)
• Facebook Opens Up Mini-Feed To 3rd Party Services (21 comments)
• First Look and Invites To Peter Gabriel’s New Music Discovery Site: The Filter (21 comments)
• Update: Fring’s Jailbroken iPhone App Now Live (55 comments)
• Strutta: I’m the best around, nothing’s ever gonna bring me down (41 comments)
• Federated Media’s $50 Million C-Round Confirmed—No Plans to Buy Up Blog Partners (23 comments)
• Mowser Founder Says Mobile Web Is Dead. It’s The Opposite: The Mobile Web Was Born Only Yesterday (63 comments)
• Realtime Worlds confirms $50m Series B (6 comments)