The Latest from Henry Work
Startup2Startup Unites Startup Rookies With Veterans; Five Invites For TechCrunch Readers
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<a href="http://startup2startup.com/">Startup2Startup</a>, a popular invite-only Silicon Valley networking event
131 Rails Apps Launched This Past Weekend; You Get To Vote For The Best
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The 2008 <a href="http://www.railsrumble.com">Rails Rumble</a>, a competition for Ruby on Rails cod
Geode: The New Geo-Tagging Project From Mozilla Labs
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Tomorrow <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla</a> will launch a new geotagging project called Geode
Elevator Pitch Friday: Challenge Your Fellow Man
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Some CrunchBase API Stats and Apps
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The State of WordPress 2008: Awesome Growth
Today at WordCamp, a User and Developer 1-day conference for the WordPress blogging platform, Founder Matt Mullenweg announced impressive growth figures and reaffirmed Automattic‘s focus on fixi
CrunchBase Now Has An API, So Grab Our Data
Today we’re excited to announce a free, open, and easily-accessible API for all data included in CrunchBase, our tech company database. It is available immediately to all developers. Since we re
CrunchBase: Now With Maps, Advanced Search, Jobs, And Milestones
We’re proud to announce today a slew of new improvements to CrunchBase, our directory for information about the tech startup ecosystem. Maps Company and financial organization headquarters are n
Don't Debug Alone With FiveRuns' TuneUp
As Ruby on Rails devotees converge upon RailsConf 2008 (and the simultaneously held un-conference CabooseConf), performance startup FiveRuns is launching TuneUp, a “social” debugging tool
Who Are The Top Tech Bloggers?
We’ve been analyzing historical TechMeme data to dig a little deeper than the leaderboard information on the site that shows top blogs over the trailing 30 days. Mark McGranaghan and I are slici
TechCrunch Labs: Our Experience Building And Launching An App On Google App Engine
Last night, Google announced App Engine, a hosted web application platform. We’ve now tested the service directly by writing and deploying a test application called appengine.crunchbase.com—a
Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort
Scalr is a recently open-sourced framework for managing the massive serving power of Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service. While web services have been using EC2 for increased capacity
Live at the HP Labs Event
The iPhone SDK event isn’t the only live blogging event today (though it did successfully bully HP Labs out of a morning timeslot), CG is live at a big event held at HP Labs, one of the biggest
Yelp Raises $15 Million Fourth Round, Rumored Valuation $200 Million
Yelp, the popular local review site, will soon announce a new $15 million dollar round of financing led by DAG Ventures. The valuation is rumored to be in the $200 million range. Yelp says that they w
Simple Bookmarking Now Available with Instapaper
Instapaper is a cool new service taking bookmarks back to basics. If you come across some websites that you want to read but are too busy to do so, you can click on an Instapaper browser bookmarklet a
EveryBlock Launches as Local News Aggregator for SF, NYC, and Chicago
EveryBlock launches today as a geographically-filtered news and data aggregation service for San Francisco, New York City, and Chicago. The site attempts to answer one deceptively simple question: 
Pleo Dinosaur Robot Marches Its Way into My Heart
Pleo is a new $350 ‘life form’ dinosaur robot created by Ugobe. Unlike all the robot dinosaurs I know (e.g. the WowWee Roboraptor), the Pleo is not remote-controlled. It’s ‘sel