• Profile: Vertical Leap Conference

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    Event: Vertical Leap Date: Tuesday, June 28 2005, 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM What was it? Vertical Leap was an exceptional one-day conference held in the heart of Silicon Valley earlier this week, hosted by Jeff Clavier and Dave McClure. In their own words, “A whole new crop of venture-funded startups focused on vertical search are beginning to enter the field and draw attention. Search… Read More

  • Profile: FeedNation

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    Company: FeedNation What is it? FeedNation is a web-based RSS aggregator that just opened up for business. It has some cool features, like RSS2Email that are very interesting. It looks like it supports tagging as well. Full Profile later. Tags: feednation, RSS, web2.0, techcrunch, RSS Readers Read More

  • Profile: Yahoo My Web 2.0

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    Service: Yahoo My Web 2.0 Launched: June 29, 2005 What is it? MyWeb2.0 is a social search engine “that complements web search by enabling users to search the knowledge and expertise of their friends and community in addition to the web.” We’ve used and abused it for a day, and in our opinion it’s good – a bit like regular yahoo plus furl (profile). It was… Read More

  • Profile: Rainy Daze

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    Editor’s Note: This is about Rainy Daze, but it’s also about the evolution of web 1.0 to web 2.0 and Rainy Daze is a useful conduit for this discussion. Company: Rainy Daze

    Why is Rainy Daze being Profiled on Techcrunch? Rainy Daze is NOT web 2.0. It screams web 1.0. But there is a reason why its here. I read an article today (referred from What’s Web 2.0?) that was written… Read More

  • Profile: Feedster

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    Company: Feedster Founded: March 2003 Status: Founded by Scott Johnson in March 2003. Merged with RSS-Search founded by François Schiettecatte in June 2003. Announced Series A funding on June 2, 2005 led by Selby Venture Partners. Other investors include Omidyar Network, members of the New York Angels, Kevin Hartz, co-founder of Xoom, Joe Kraus, co-founder of Excite and Jotspot, Josh… Read More

  • Update: Google Video Cracked

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    Service: Google Video Previous Posts: June 27, 2005. #1, #2 What’s new? Norwegian hacker cracks Google software A Norwegian guy took one day to crack Google’s new video viewer so that it plays video from any server, which is what VLC originally did. This is what Google should have done in the first place anyway. “The Norwegian who became a hacker hero for developing software… Read More

  • Profile: iTunes 4.9

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    Service: iTunes 4.9 with Podcasts Launched: June 28, 2005

    What is it? As was widely anticipated, iTunes 4.9 launched today (22 mb download) for both windows and mac platforms. It includes significant new and enhanced features, including, most notably, support for podcasts. Michael Gartenberg writes a wonderful post on iTunes 4.9: “I can download one, subscribe to a feed, keep a set… Read More

  • Profile: Celebrity Flicker

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    Company: Celebrity Flicker

    Launched: May 2005 What is it? Celebrity Flicker is a website that posts pictures of celebrities and related images (movie art, etc.). The site isn’t very deep and appears to focus on less-than-fully-dressed women, so it isn’t exactly an imdb.com replacement. However, it has a single interesting feature that makes it web 2.0 relevant –… Read More

  • Profile: Google Video

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    Editor’s Note: This is an update from an earlier post we made today. The service is now live. Service: Google Video Previous Profile: June 27, 2005. Link What is it? The service is now live. To use it, you must download their VLC client (about 1 mb) here. Once it is installed, you can search for videos (link), and videos that have an arrow icon next to them (see screen shots below) can… Read More

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  • Google Video Launching Today?

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    Service: Google Video What is it? The net is ablaze with stories that Google will release its video viewer today (uploads have been available since April 2005). The viewer will be based on the open-source VLC media viewer. We will profile this as soon as it becomes available. There is a download now available at Google Video for the viewer, but an install on our Windows machine did not… Read More

  • Weblogs, Inc. adds Spanish & Japanese sites

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    Company: Weblogs, Inc. Previous Profile: June 20, 2005 (Link) What’s new? Weblogs, Inc. has launched Spanish, Chinese and Japanese versions of it’s popular blog engadget. Screen Shots: Relevant Links: Jason Calcanis on Chinese engadget
    BlogHerald on Chinese site
    BlogHerald on Spanish and Japanese sites
    WeblogsSL on this Tags: weblogs, engadget, web2.0, techcrunch… Read More

  • Profile: Del.icio.us Direc.tor

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    Service: Del.icio.us Direc.tor Launched: June 22, 2005 What is it? del.icio.us direc.tor is an Ajax client-side bookmarklet application that, in the words of LifeHacker, “turns the Del.icio.us bookmark service into a gorgeous, lively, dynamic application that just about popped the eyeballs right out of my head.” From the site: “It leverages the XML and XSL services of… Read More

  • Profile: PodShow

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    Company: PodShow Location: Miami & New York Founded: 2004 (PodShow site launched March 2005)

    What is it? PodShow.com is part of a family of companies/shows under Boku Communications, which was founded in 2004 by Adam Curry and Ron Bloom.

    Boku Communications:
    PodShow.com
    iPodder.org
    Daily Source Code
    PodShow on Sirius Radio These companies each do different… Read More

  • Profile: Twingine

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    Company: Twingine Location: Norway What is it? Twingine was created by Asgeir Nilsen. It was previously, infamously, known as “YaGoohoo!gle”, but after discussions with Yahoo and Google Trademark lawyers, Asgeir changed the name to “Twingine”. It’s a fun tool. A search yields a two pane results screen with Yahoo and Google results side-by-side. Screen… Read More

  • Profile: BuzzNet

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    Company: BuzzNet Founded: March 2003 Location: Buzznet, Inc.
    2404 Wilshire Blvd. #11b
    Los Angeles, CA 90057
    (213) 252-8999 phone
    (213) 252-8955 fax What is it? BuzzNet is a photo-sharing community. It’s hard to talk about BuzzNet without comparing and contrasting it to Flickr. It shares most or all of Flickr’s strengths, and has a few additional features as well. It’s… Read More

  • Profile: Odeo (Update)

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    Editor’s Note: We apologize if the following profile lacks our usual excitement and enthusiasm. Odeo is great and works really well. We just have a funny feeling that iTunes 4.9 is going to have a somewhat substantial impact on the podcasting portal market. One thing to note, though, is that iTunes is only most of the online music market, not all of it. Odeo and others can help fill in… Read More

  • Profile: Sxip

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    Company: Sxip Founded: October 2003 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada What is it? The Sxip Network (“sxip” is pronounced “skip”) is an identity management registry for both users and websites/services/ASPs. They have presented at SuperNova conference and have generated lots of discussion. This is a single-sign-on solution. Think Passport, but decentralized and you… Read More

  • Profile: ufeed

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    Company: ufeed Launched: June 2005 What is it? ufeed aggregates posts from your blog, posts to delicious and pictures posted to flickr into a single web page that they host, with an RSS feed. The service is associated with SemSym. It’s pretty raw right now, but functional, and new features are promised. You can use their service without registering, although registration allows a number… Read More

  • Profile: Bloglines

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    Company: Bloglines Location: Oakland, CA Founded: July 1, 2003 (Link) Status: Acquired by Ask Jeeves on February 8, 2005 (Link) What is it? Bloglines is a free, web based RSS reader. It’s the most popular, with NewsGator/Feeddemon a close second by number of users. If you are new to RSS, Bloglines is a very good place to start (for a complete list of web-based RSS readers, see… Read More

  • Profile: PodTech

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    Company: PodTech Founded: May 23, 2005 (Link) What is it? PodTech is a wonderful set of podcast interviews that is updated very frequently and features top tech celebrities (recent podcasts include interviews with Robert Scoble, Dave Hornick, John Markoff, Chris Anderson, and others). What got our attention is the sheer quality (not to mention quality) of people John is interviewing, and… Read More

  • Profile: Gataga (extended features)

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    Company: Gataga <img src='https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2005/07/gatagalogo.gif' alt='' border=1 / Previous Profile: June 13, 2005 What’s New? Gataga has just notified TechCrunch of new functionality: – Gataga photo search (through Flickr)
    – Gataga Mobile Photo Search: The new functionality allows tag searches of flickr images. It works… Read More

  • Profile: BadFruit

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    Company: BadFruit What is it? BadFruit has a product called BadApple that is a plug-in for iTunes. It expands ITunes functionality to view and add podcasts directly into iTunes. This is NOT the iTunes support for podcasts announced by Steve Jobs a few weeks ago that will be included in the next version (4.9) of iTunes (and will allow for creation and charging as well). BadFruit is… Read More

  • Profile: Technorati (New)

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    Company: Technorati Technorati fully launched their new beta with a slightly different look than the beta announced 10 days ago (profile here). Complete list of new features can be seen here (Dave Sifry’s blog) and at the new Technorati corporate Blog (link). I saw this earlier at the technorati site, and saw this post at The Blog Herald. The new site is great, adds lots of new… Read More

  • Profile: Google Wallet

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    Company: Google (Wallet) What is it? This hasn’t launched yet, but there is some buzz around the blogosphere (and the Wall Street Journal) that Google is planning on launching a competing payment service to PayPal. Is this Web 2.0? I think so. If its p2p, which I imagine it would be, then it certainly is. From the WSJ article: “For Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., a… Read More

  • Profile: Weblogs, Inc.

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    Company: Weblogs, Inc. Founded: September 24, 2003 Location: Weblogs, Inc.
    2200 Colorado Avenue, Suite 729
    Santa Monica, CA 90404
    Phone: 310-828-8284
    Fax: 310-861-0600 or Weblogs, Inc.
    The Chrysler Building
    132 East 43rd Street, Suite 1000
    New York, New York 10017 What is it? The Weblogs, Inc. network of weblogs (WIN) is a blog network – literally an affiliation of weblogs that are… Read More

  • Profile: Furl

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    Company: Furl Status: Founded in the spring of 2003 by Mike Giles. Acquired by Looksmart on September 23, 2004 Origin of the Name: “The origin of the name came from the very geeky description of what the system does – File URLs. If you can enter a URL and see it in your browser, we can save it for you. Once the name started being used and it was time to find a replacement, we… Read More

  • Profile: Digg

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    UPDATE: More recent profile of Digg here. Company: Digg What is it? Digg is very early stage, sort of pre-beta. But its getting some buzz. Think of it as slashdot but potentially better. We first came accross it at TheShiftedLibrarian and after checking out the service ourselves we were quite impressed. In their own words, “Digg is a technology news website that gives editorial control… Read More

  • Profile: BlogAds

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    Company: BlogAds What is it? BlogAds is an Ad network for big blogs, and only big blogs. From their site, you generally need at least 1,000 daily readers. From their FAQs: “What is the minimum daily user number a blog should have before they can consider blogads?
    Blogs without a laser-sharp focus on one topic or community AND an audience of 1000 readers a day usually do not attract… Read More

  • Profile: PostSecret

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    Editors Note: PostSecret is not a for-profit company as far as I can tell. But it is beautiful and interesting and I feel like profiling it here because, as we say in our About section, we are profiling companies “that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the web 2.0 space”. Clearly, PostSecret is making a cultural impact on the web.

    Website… Read More

  • Profile: Rojo

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    Company: Rojo Location: San Francisco, CA Launched: Closed Beta – October 2004, Open Beta – April 20, 2005 Funding: “Rojo received seed financing from TPG Ventures and individuals such as Marc Andreessen and Ron Conway. Rojo’s most recent round of funding was lead by BV Capital and TPG Ventures.” What is it? Rojo is a web-based RSS Reader (list of all here)… Read More

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