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Amazon To Acquire AbeBooks, And With It A Stake In Library Thing (01 August 09:19) |
| Amazon has acquired twelve year old Canadian company Abebooks (formerly the Advanced Book Exchange), the companies just announced. AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books focusing on use... |
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The Reports of Usenet’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated (01 August 08:48) |
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Sascha at PCMag writes a charming little piece on the death of Usenet as a method of discourse and its eventual rebirth as a repository for porn, spam, and pirated warez. He recalls the day... |
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Skyfire Brings Full Browser Experience To Nokia S60 Phones (200 Private Beta Invites) (01 August 08:09) |
| Throw out that WAP browser on your cell phone. We are quickly approaching a point where a full browser experience is available on our mobile devices. And it is not just the iPhone. A star... |
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Yahoo Turns Yelp, Yahoo Local and LinkedIn SearchMonkey Apps On In Search (01 August 10:01) |
| Yahoo is making a number of changes to its default search experience tonight to add more structured data to results. Yelp, Yahoo Local and LinkedIn SearchMonkey widgets are being added to se... |
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Tethering Briefly Comes To The iPhone, Tempers Flare (01 August 08:43) |
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Macrumors reports that Apple’s App Store was selling a tethering app compatible with the iPhone (both 3G and EDGE) for a brief period earlier this evening. The $10 application, calle... |
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Tap Tap Revenge Approaches 1 Million Users, Music Industry Takes Notice (01 August 06:20) |
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Tapulous, the company behind Tap Tap Revenge, has announced that the popular iPhone app will hit 1 million installs some time this weekend. The app is the second we’ve heard from to ... |
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NBC Launches On-Demand Olympic Coverage In HD (01 August 05:09) |
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NBC has launched its online video hub for the 2008 Olympics, which features free on-demand video for over 20 sports. In order to maximize quality, the videos are available as downloads (yo... |
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Philip Rosedale Doesn’t See Browser-Based Virtual Worlds As A Threat to Second Life. Is He In Denial? (01 August 04:08) |
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Recently, there’s been a growing wave of startups and products appearing that are bringing 3-D virtual worlds to the browser. These include Vivaty, Google’s Lively project, and... |
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GumGum Rethinks Its Approach. Drops Flash (01 August 02:43) |
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Music and movies may grab the most headlines when it comes to piracy, but many content providers on the web are also having trouble managing their images, which are easy to crop, resize, an... |
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New Recommendation System = 40 Percent More Diggs (01 August 01:58) |
| One month after launching its new recommendation system, Digg is already reporting positive results. Digg recommends stories based on other members with similar voting patterns and interest... |
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Wikinvest Gives the World Embeddable, Interactive Stock Charts (01 August 01:00) |
| Embedable stock charts are nothing new, and neither are interactive charts that give you price information as you mouse over different dates. Both Yahoo Finance and Google Finance offer int... |
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Having Won his Board Seats, Icahn Decides To Skip Yahoo Shareholder Meeting (01 August 12:54) |
| Secure in knowing that he will get minority seats on Yahoo’s board, Carl Icahn has decided to skip tomorrow’s shareholder meeting. He doesn’t want to cause a “media ... |
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Delicious 2.0 Launches. Really. It Totally Launched. (31 July 11:42) |
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YAY! The long awaited, much promised, never delivered Delicious 2.0 will launch in the next few minutes, just like they promised again last week.
The new Delicious is just like the old Deli... |
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SEC To Recognize Corporate Blogs as Public Disclosure. Can We Now Kill the Press Release? (31 July 11:23) |
| For several years, Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz has lobbied the SEC to allow disclosure of financial information through corporate blogs. In a landmark announcement, it seems that Mr. Schwartz... |
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Apple Releases Push Notification Services Developer Kit, Background Apps FTW (31 July 09:47) |
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I think it’s safe to say that iPhone OS 2.0 is far from perfect and anyone saying otherwise must be on Apple’s payroll. Other than the horrendous battery life (on the iP3G), wha... |
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Kleiner Perkins’ iFund Invests In Stealth Gaming Startup ngmoco (31 July 08:31) |
| Kleiner Perkins is adding to its iFund portfolio of iPhone-focused startups. It’s latest investment is a series A round in stealth gaming company ngmoco. Kleiner partner Bing Gordon,... |
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Wordscraper Hurts My Eyes (31 July 07:47) |
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Yesterday, one day after taking down Scrabuluos in the U.S. and Canada in response to a lawsuit from Hasbro, the Indian brothers behind Scrabulous, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, released a br... |
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LG Releases Blu-ray Player with Netflix Streaming (31 July 06:21) |
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CG’s Doug writes:
Remember the great Blu-ray versus HD DVD debate of 2008? When Blu-ray finally won, some claimed that it didn’t really matter, as streaming and/or downloadable onl... |
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Dr. Horrible Not So Horrible, And It’s Now On Hulu (Update: And International) (31 July 02:15) |
| Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog is a 40 minute musical that stars Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible, a bumbling, video blogging super villain who’s trying to... |
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Flickr Co-Founder Caterina Fake Joins New Startup, Hunch (31 July 11:41) |
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Caterina Fake, who co-founded Flickr along with her husband Stewart Butterfield in 2004, has announced her plans to join a fledgling new startup called Hunch. Flickr is one of the web̵... |
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Facebook Connect Coming To iPhone This Fall (24 July 03:38) |
| Today at the f8 conference Benjamin Ling revealed that Facebook will be releasing a Cocoa framework for the iPhone that will allow application developers to integrate with Facebook Connect. ... |
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Liveblogging the Facebook Developer Conference (24 July 01:53) |
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The TechCrunch team is on site at the Facebook Developer conference, and we’ll be live blogging the news. Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote starts at 1:30 pm PST.
Facebook’s press... |
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Facebook Launches Preferred App Program, Translation Services (24 July 01:50) |
| Facebook just issued the press release for today’s F8 conference. The release is below, with the most important points bolded.:
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Facebook f8 Conference, July... |
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Trouble in Online Travel: American Airlines Ditches Kayak (Maybe Orbitz Too) (24 July 01:26) |
| After years of ceding the upper hand in online travel to booking sites like Kayak and Orbitz, American Airlines is about to fight back. According to the CEO of a competing travel site, Ameri... |
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Google Launches Knol, The Monetizable Wikipedia (24 July 01:02) |
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Today Google has launched Knol, its Wikipedia alternative that holds authors accountable for the articles they write. Each article is created by a team of authors who receive attribution, ... |
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MySpace’s DeWolfe Says New Music Joint Venture to Launch in September (24 July 12:41) |
| MySpace’s upcoming music joint venture with 3 of the 4 major labels, first announced in April, will launch in September (EMI is still a holdout, but from what we hear they may be ready... |
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Liveblogging Eric Schmidt/Google Interview at Brainstorm (23 July 11:54) |
| Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on stage right now at Fortune’s Brainstorm conference being interviewed by Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick. Here are my notes live:
Q: What is Google’s ... |
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Facebook Growth Explodes Globally, Levels Off In The US (23 July 11:53) |
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Comscore has just released the latest data on Facebook growth patterns, which clearly show that Facebook’s recent push to expand abroad has paid off. The site has seen extremely high... |
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Max Levchin To Facebook: Developers Need More Certainty (And A Payment System Would be Nice Too) (23 July 08:46) |
| Slide was not too happy when Facebook temporarily pulled one of its most popular applications, Top Friends, from the social networking site for exposing too much profile information to peopl... |
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A Quick Look at the Beats by Dr. Dre Noise-canceling Headphones (23 July 08:44) |
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Thought this might be interesting for the jet-setters in the Web 2.0 world. Monster Cable, the makers of cable, just sent us the new Beats by Dr. Dre, a pair of noise-canceling “studi... |
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Mobile Search Trends Show Economic Decline And Rise In Pizza (23 July 08:30) |
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V-Enable, a voice-enabled mobile 411 system, conducted a study by taking a random sampling of 20,000 searches in major metropolitan areas from customers of several V-Enable partner carriers... |
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It’s Facebook Day! Say Hello To The Three Tier App System (23 July 04:25) |
| Today is definitely Facebook day as they hold their second annual F8 developers conference in San Francisco. Last year they released their developer platform, which led competitors to hurrie... |
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Video: Scoble Tells the Comment Trolls To Go Back to Digg (23 July 03:28) |
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Robert Scoble caused a stir yesterday with a post on how tech bloggers are failing our readers. We all chase the same stories, get spun like a top by the PR machine, and can’t sustai... |
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Glam Media Snags A Google Exec To Head Up Corporate Development (23 July 01:19) |
| Glam Media has hired Michael Adair, most recently Google’s head of North American sales finance, as their new VP Corporate Development and Finance. Prior to Google Adair was an investm... |
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MedPedia Is Wikifying the Medical Search Space (23 July 12:30) |
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The medical industry is one that thrives on innovation and evolution. New procedures, medicines, diseases, and theories are released practically every day. In such an environment, the nee... |
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Zynga Raises $29 Million B Round (Led By Kleiner Perkins) and Buys Virtual-World Facebook App YoVille (23 July 09:30) |
| Social gaming network Zynga just got some serious funding. It raised $29 million in a B round led by Kleiner Perkins. (IVP and prior investors Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group and Aval... |
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Yet Another Open Data Foundation? (23 July 09:05) |
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Chris Saad, a co-founder of the Data Portability project has posted that tomorrow at OSCON a new Open Data Web Foundation will be announced by David Recordon and others.
The goal of the ne... |
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Episodic Makes Flash Videos iPhone-Friendly (23 July 08:19) |
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One of the most frustrating things about the iPhone is that it can’t handle Flash, which has become the standard for streaming video on the web. YouTube managed to work around this b... |
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GigaOm Buys A Mobile Blog - One Less Independent Blog In The World (23 July 06:30) |
| Blogging network GigaOm will announce the acquisition of the small but excellent mobile-focused blog jkOnTheRun this evening. Founders James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel will remain in Houston a... |
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Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million” (23 July 04:09) |
| Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside and outside of Google. The two companie... |
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Apple Launching App Store Beta Program (23 July 04:07) |
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Apple’s App Store has seen an unprecedented amount of success and exposure since its launch, with millions of total downloads and 909 applications already available. Unfortunately, A... |
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Sugar Inc Breaks Up With NBC, Brings Ad Sales In House (23 July 03:33) |
| Fast growing women-focused blog network Sugar Inc announced that they’ve terminated their year-old ad sales relationship with NBC. All ad sales will now be via an in-house sales team, ... |
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TicketLeap Gets $2 Million For Modest-Sized Event Ticketing (23 July 01:45) |
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TicketLeap, a service that helps promoters sell tickets to their events though a self-serve platform, has raised $2 million in a Series A funding round led by MentorTech Ventures and Ben Fr... |
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Chad Dickerson To Leave Yahoo For Etsy (23 July 12:55) |
| Chad Dickerson, a long time Yahoo exec and the head of their Brickhouse special projects group, is leaving the company to become the CTO of Etsy, a a website that allows users to buy and sel... |
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Are Facebook Ads Going to Zero? Lookery Lowers Its Guarantee to 7.5-Cent CPMs. (22 July 10:44) |
| Nobody can make money on social network ads. Even Google (which controls a lot of the inventory on MySpace) is having a hard time. How worthless are these ads? Lookery, an ad network for ... |
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Engadget Chief Ryan Block Confirms Resignation, To Start New Company With Peter Rojas (22 July 10:29) |
| Ryan Block confirms our previous story that he’s stepping down from the top spot at gadget blog Engadget.
He will be launching an as-yet-to-be-named startup with Peter Rojas, Engadget... |
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MySpace Confirms OpenID Support, Launches Data Availability On Flixster and Eventful (22 July 09:32) |
| MySpace is rolling out a couple of announcements this morning a day ahead of Facebook’s F8 developer conference.
The first is confirmation of our story that they are supporting OpenID... |
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Kluster Launches Private Survey Manager (22 July 08:30) |
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Kluster, the crowd sourcing startup that launched earlier this year, has introduced support for new private Klusters designed to help groups manage decision making.
Each Kluster offers user... |
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Propeller 2.0 Launches: Ditching The Vote Count, Adding A Mascot (22 July 04:05) |
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Propeller, AOL’s Digg-like news site, launches version 2.0 later this morning. The site sports a new design and logo and now has a mascot - described as “part professor, part ci... |
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Ok, We Have Our First DNA-Based Dating Service: GenePartner (22 July 03:18) |
| It was only a matter of time before someone launched a dating site that looks for potential matches based on DNA compatibility. That time is apparently today with the launch of GenePartner (... |
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