Web 2.0 Startup Simulator
10:35 am PDT • September 27, 2007
Time-waster of the day: Sim Web 2.0. It’s a little flash game that automatically generates a name for your Web 2.0 startup, like Twitcast or Youcrunch, a press clip, and…
ZiiTrend: The Latest Social Prediction Website
10:34 am PDT • September 27, 2007
Do you think you know who is going to buy Facebook, or how many copies of Halo 3 will be sold by the end of the year? You can make…
AOL Is Gussying Itself Up for an Advertising IPO
7:13 am PDT • September 27, 2007
What’s behind all the shuffling going on at AOL lately? New CEO Randy Falco is moving the headquarters from Dulles, Va. to New York City, more layoffs are rumored at…
Google: 99.999 Percent Reliable, in Brazil
7:00 am PDT • September 27, 2007
The folks at Pingdom measure the uptime of Google in different countries around the world. Google users in Brazil encounter the fewest hiccups. Google’s Brazil site was down only three…
Bill Gross Is Into Atoms
7:00 am PDT • September 27, 2007
As my final act for the print edition of Business 2.0, I interviewed serial entrepreneur Bill Gross of Idealab. Gross is best known for his Web 1.0 companies, especially GoTo.com/Overture…
MSN Video's New Look
11:51 am PDT • September 26, 2007
MSN Video just upgraded its video search page. It sports a new user interface that lets you search videos and watch them at the same time on a split screen.…
How Much Is The Huffington Post Worth?
8:43 am PDT • September 26, 2007
In other blogging news, the Huffington Post has raised another $5 million (bringing the total raised to $10 million), from existing investors Softbank Capital, Greycroft Partners, and former AOL COO…
Sling Media Sells Out to EchoStar
8:02 am PDT • September 26, 2007
EchoStar’s $380 million purchase of Sling Media once again raises the question of whether a consumer TV-device company can exist as a standalone entity. History has not been kind to…
Hello, TechCrunch
6:53 am PDT • September 26, 2007
It was only last week that Michael Arrington announced that I would be joining TechCrunch as co-editor. For those of you who don’t know me, I am a technology journalist…
Exclusive: Podango Juices Podcast Network With Software From GigaVox Media
3:00 am PDT • September 25, 2007
Podcast network and hosting service Podango is beefing up its service with the purchase of podcast publishing software from GigaVox Media. The content-management system, called GigaVox Audio Lite, allows podcasters…
Rocketboom Moves to Blip.tv
5:00 am PDT • September 24, 2007
The popular daily videoblog Rocketboom is joining online video network blip.tv, which will now host all of Rocketboom‘s videos and sell ads for the show. Rocketboom joins a growing crowd…
Attendi Wants to Search Inside Your Head
4:00 am PDT • September 24, 2007
As if the more than 20 billion Web pages out there aren’t enough, a new startup coming out of stealth mode today called Attendi has come up with a new…