October 2005

We are proud to annouce the sponsors of the third TechCrunch party this weekend. Thank You: Edgeio, Flock, Goowy, Loomia, Pandora, Real Travel, Shasta Ventures, Simply Hired, Wink, Zazzle. If…

Most venture capitalists don’t understand tagging, blogs, rss, ajax, or the two way web. They scoff at social bookmarking sites and think podcasting is a fad (maybe it is). They…

The founders of Jux2, a great metasearch engine, put it up for sale on ebay yesterday. John Battelle wrote about this yesterday as well. Aaref Hilaly, one of the founders…

We are having our next TechCrunch party in Atherton this Friday (October 21) afternoon and evening. Sign up here. Our last meetup drew about 100 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, bloggers and…

This is too good not to post. Web2.0 or Not? is the tongue-in-cheek, hugely sarcastic and quite funny creation of Ryan King and Eran Globen. Yeah, its HotOrNot for Web…

Flock‘s CEO Bart Decrem expanded the beta over the weekend to 1,007 people, most of whom are now blogging about it. The product, which was good back in August when…

Alex Bard’s flash-based desktop replacement Goowy, based in San Diego, has impressed me from the start. We originally profiled Goowy on August 17, 2005 and again a couple of weeks…

Company: HealthLine Launched: October 16, 2005 Location: San Francisco HealthLine, a very smart medical search engine with web 2.0 features, launched this evening. Tony Gentile, HealthLine’s VP Product Management, writes…

Web 2.0 This Week October 9 – 15 Location: Silicon Valley Tons of new companies launched this week. My guess is they were aiming for the Web 2.0 Conference last…

Company: Inform.com Launched: October 16, 2005 Founder: Neal Goldman Employees: 55 Location: New York Inform.com launched today with a splashy New York Times article. Steve Rubel has some kind words.…

Dave Winer has been thinking about, and recently writing about, a new idea: Reading Lists. OPML is a really useful file structure that just about everyone who uses a feed…

Company: PreviewSeek Launched: August 2005 Status: Angel Funding Location: London, UK PreviewSeek is a new London-based search engine created by Chris Hong that is very quietly impressing people with a…

Company: Sphere Launched: Private Beta Launch this Weekend Status: Funded by Doug MacKenzie, Kevin Compton, Phil Black, Will Hearst, David Mahoney, Vince Vannelli and Mike Winton Previous Post: October 8,…

If you haven’t seen the Web2.0WorkGroup yet, check it out. My original post on it is here. We’ve added two new resources – Podtech.net and SolutionWatch. Podtech.net is a very…

Company: Rememberthemilk Launched: October 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia RememberTheMilk is a new ajax-rich to-do list that is similar to 37 Signal’s Ta-Da Lists. RememberTheMilk lists are organized by tabs. Items…

Qumana is an excellent wysiwyg online/offline tool for editing blogs. We’ve written about Qumana before and described their service, which is completely free. Yesterday Qumana launched v 2.0 of their…

Company: Yelp Launched: in Beta (since late 2004) Location: San Francisco Yelp is a website that allows users to write and share reviews of local businesses. It also has social…

I’ve previously profiled Memeorandum, and there are no major announcements or feature releases to spur this new post. However, something much more significant is happening because of Memeorandum, and I…

I am very pleased to announce that TheTwoWayWeb, written by Dave Winer, has joined our Web 2.0 WorkGroup. See our introduction to the workgroup here. TheTwoWayWeb is one of Dave’s…

Jeffrey Veen of Adaptive Path writes about Measure Map for the first time today. Measure Map is an incredibly easy to use flash and ajax application that monitors blog traffic…

Company: Wink Launched: in Private Beta Status: Funded by Greylock Partners Location: Mountain View Wink gave a brief demo at at Web2.0 last week and we were immediately hooked. Wink…

There is buzz that Microsoft and Yahoo will announce tomorrow that their instant messaging clients will beome interoperable. The catalyst seems to be the surge in Skype and Google Talk…

Google has quietly launched a nascent bookmarking and tagging product as a feature to search history. It’s not “social” bookmarking, like del.icio.us, because bookmarks are not public and cannot be…

There are a number of weblogs that I read religiously – of the 400+ feeds that I read, there are 15 or so that I check multiple times a day…

Yahoo released a blog search product tonight at 7 pm. John Battelle had the scoop. Unlike their podcasting product, released last night, the blog search product is not much more…

We wrote about Google Reader over the weekend and gave what I felt was a factually correct review of the product. However, some of the comments I’ve received to the…

Company: Gada Launched: October 10, 2005 Founder: Chris Pirillo Location: Seattle, WA Chris Pirillo has launched Gada.be today – a powerful tag meta-search engine that has an incredibly simple and…

Microsoft’s new ajax Hotmail client, called Kahuna, is massively expanding its beta group today, to approximatley 200,000 users. Until today the beta was extremely difficult to get into, frustrating some…

Web 2.0 This Week October 2 – 8 What a week! Web 2.0 was absolutely terrific. There were hundreds of smart and interesting people milling about and cross pollinating their…

Yahoo just launched a comprehensive podcasting search, directory and listening service called Yahoo Podcasts (URL will be working in the next couple of hours). John Furrier at Podtech.net nailed this…