Skydeck Goes Social And Releases APIs (700 Invites)
6:51 am PDT • June 2, 2008
In a New York Times Op-Ed last December, Tim O’Reilly fantasized: Imagine, for a moment, that Verizon were to think like Google or Amazon. It could give you access to…
NetSuite Buys OpenAir For $26 million
6:48 am PDT • June 2, 2008
NetSuite added to its online CRM and accounting applications today by acquiring OpenAir for $26 million, including the assumption of $5 million of restricted stock that will continue to vest…
Webtop Watch: Adobe Launches Acrobat.com and Releases Acrobat 9 (With Flash).
8:58 pm PDT • June 1, 2008
Continuing its push to become a major provider of Webtop software, Adobe is releasing two new products on Monday: Acrobat.com and Acrobat 9. Adobe’s Webtop arsenal already includes the recently…
The MacBook Air: Thin Enough To Slice A Cake
6:55 am PDT • June 1, 2008
Rahul Sood, the CTO of HP’s gaming systems division (formerly VoodooPC), has found a new use for the MacBook Air: slicing cake. Handed a MacBook Air as a “present” at…
Like.com's Creepy, But Effective, Facebook Ads
6:23 am PDT • June 1, 2008
Is a picture worth a thousand clicks? You’ve heard of contextual ads triggered by keywords on a Web page. Now, get ready for contextual ads triggered by images on the…
Bezos Talks Web Services
5:04 am PDT • June 1, 2008
Last week at the D6 conference, Om Malik caught Jeff Bezos on video after his on-stage appearance (in which he talked about a new pay-per-download movie service). In the five-minute…
Mötley Crüe Song Sells More on Xbox Than On iTunes
2:43 pm PDT • May 30, 2008
Can video games save the music industry? Probably not. But video games are emerging as a powerful distribution channel for digital music downloads. Players of Grand Theft Auto IV can…
FeedBurner Finally Rolls Out AdSense
1:48 pm PDT • May 30, 2008
Nearly a year after it was bought by Google for $100 million, FeedBurner is finally going to roll out Google’s AdSense as an advertising option for blogs and Websites that…
Walmart Launches Classified Listings
11:07 am PDT • May 30, 2008
Walmart has added a classified listings service to their site. Silicon Valley startup Oodle, which was founded in 2004, is powering the service. The listings are free, which means Walmart…
Celebrity Baby Blog is Acquired: People.com's Gain Is FM Publishing's Loss
10:07 am PDT • May 30, 2008
It’s nice to see blogs growing up, even if they are about babies. People.com has bought Celebrity Baby Blog, a fast-growing blog started four years ago by Danielle Friedland. She…
Is YouTube Building Market Dominance At The Expense of Building A Business?
7:40 am PDT • May 30, 2008
If you look at YouTube’s numbers, one thing is clear: It completely dominates online video. YouTube accounts for 37 percent of all videos watched on the Internet and attracts about…
How Beautiful is Glam?
9:16 am PDT • May 29, 2008
Women’s ad network Glam Media thinks it’s worth more than $1.3 billion, reports Matt Marshall at VentureBeat. That’s how much an unnamed suitor is supposedly offering for Glam. But Marshall…
Netvibes CEO Steps Down; Widget Platform Will Open Up
3:49 pm PDT • May 28, 2008
The founder of Netvibes is moving on. Tariq Krim is stepping down as CEO of Netvibes to “spend less time day-to-day” at the company and work on a “new project,”…
ComScore Buys M:Metrics For $44 Million to Measure the Mobile Web
1:44 pm PDT • May 28, 2008
Web measurement firm comScore is going mobile. The company is buying M:Metrics for $44.3 million plus 50,000 options of comScore stock. M:Metrics measures mobile Web usage, and will give comScore…
Yahoo Unveils Webtop Plugin, BrowserPlus, Before It's Ready
12:55 pm PDT • May 28, 2008
As Web and desktop applications merge, Yahoo doesn’t want to be left out of the Webtop party. That’s especially true as Adobe Air and Google Gears apps begin to gain…
AOL Joins OpenSocial
11:33 am PDT • May 28, 2008
OpenSocial gained a new convert today. AOL is officially joining the initiative to standardize social-networking apps, Google VP of Engineering David Glazer announced today at the Google I/O event. TechCrunch’s…
Amazon Ready To Unbox Video Streaming For Digital Movies
9:40 am PDT • May 28, 2008
Jeff Bezos leaked a little nugget of news during an interview on stage at the D conference this morning: Amazon is getting ready to release a pay-per-view streaming service for…
3G iPhones At Any Cost? Cell Tower Deaths on the Rise.
8:42 am PDT • May 28, 2008
Is AT&T pushing tower-climbing workers too hard as it rolls out its 3G data network in preparation for the launch of the next iPhone? Philip Elmer-Dewitt at Apple 2.0 notes…
Mobaganda: A Dead-Simple Invite Site Built On Google's App Engine
3:10 pm PDT • May 27, 2008
If you like your invite apps dead-simple, check out Mobaganda. You don’t even have to log in. Just click on start, add the name, date & time, and location, and…
The fbOpen Initiative: Facebook Confirms Plans to Open-Source Its Platform
12:50 pm PDT • May 27, 2008
A Facebook spokesperson has confirmed to us that the social networking company will announce an open-source initiative around its Facebook Platform sometime today or tomorrow. We originally broke this story…
At $130-A-Barrel Oil, Electric Cars Look Cheap
11:04 am PDT • May 27, 2008
With oil prices so high, how much would it cost to convert every registered car in America to an electric vehicle? Nothing, according to computer scientist Philip Greenspun. Well, nothing…
More TC50 Expert Panelists: Ron Conway, Sheryl Sandberg, and Yossi Vardi
9:50 am PDT • May 27, 2008
We are thrilled to announce the next three expert panelists participating in TechCrunch50. Joining Marc Andreessen, Roelof Botha and Marissa Mayer as TechCrunch50 experts are Ron Conway, Sheryl Sandberg and…
TipJoy's New API Lets Web Apps Share the Love (and Cash) With Their Contributors
7:47 am PDT • May 27, 2008
How do you get more people top leave tips on blogs? Try to make your tip jar app into a platform that spreads the wealth to more people. Y Combinator…
The Seeds Of a Good Idée: TinEye Image Search (500 Invites)
9:09 pm PDT • May 26, 2008
Image search is a hard problem. That is especially true when you are searching with no information other than the image itself (no tags, titles, or descriptions, just the photo).…
Old Media Still Needs to Get Over its Control Issues
10:39 am PDT • May 26, 2008
The wonderful thing about the Internet is that nobody controls it. And if you can’t control the medium, you can’t control the message. That seems obvious enough in this age…
Demo of iPhone Earth
6:06 am PDT • May 26, 2008
Want to see what the earth would look like in your iPhone? Watch the video below, which was shot by Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog. It shows a…
(Cover) Flowww For Your Tech News
8:40 pm PDT • May 25, 2008
Does Cover Flow work for browsing the Web? Increasingly, I’ve been seeing Flash-based Websites adopt the visual metaphor of Apple’s iTunes Cover Flow as a navigational tool to quickly flip…
FriendFeed Still Has a Lot of Killing to Do
6:01 am PDT • May 24, 2008
With Twitter down all the time, the super-early adopters are getting frustrated and looking to FriendFeed as their salvation. Duncan (over at Inquisitr now) argues that it is time for…
GigPark: Recommendations From Your Friends
3:30 pm PDT • May 23, 2008
Yesterday at the Mesh conference in Toronto I met Noah Godfrey, one of the founders of GigPark. A social recommendation Website that launched last February, the site recently pushed out…
Hints of a Facebook Operating System In New Design
1:20 pm PDT • May 23, 2008
It’s become a common trope to say that Facebook and Google are vying to become the operating system of the Internet. But there are some very clear hints of that…