Overview Of The Japanese Web And An Interview With the CEO Of Japan's Biggest Social Network Mixi (GeeksOnAPlane In Tokyo)

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/startonomics-215x48.jpg" width="215" height="48" />The second day of the <a href="http://www.geeksonaplane.com/">Geeks on a Plane</a> geeky sp

Yahoo Becomes More FriendFeed-like, Adds Updates From 20 Outside Sites

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/open-sign.jpg" /> As part of its <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2008/12/15/yahoo-announces-next-steps-in-open-strategy/">Open Strategy</a

The Early Adopter Gets the Worm

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/rogerscurve1.png" />There are a dizzying number of cool new services, applications, and gadgets available to citizens of the world today.

15 Year Old Entrepreneur Launches Teens In Tech

Teenage entrepreneurs aren’t a new phenomenon in the valley – 17 year old Kristopher Tate founded Zooomr back in 2006, and Jessica Mah could call herself a serial entrepreneur by age 17. B

Guy Kawasaki's Alltop Launches Frienderati: The Top Friends From FriendFeed

If you want to know what the “top people on FriendFeed” are saying, you can now see their feeds on a new Alltop page called Frienderati. It is just a list of the top 100 or so names on Fri

Image Recognition Problem Finally Solved: Let's Pay People To Tag Photos

Most people have thousands of digital photos sitting on their hard drive. And the vast majority of those photos aren’t tagged or searchable. Want to find the 300 pictures of your youngest son am

Zooomr Goes Japanese

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=352732&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=01AAEA Zooomr has taken its social photo shar

Eventstreaming: The Seed Of A Revolution

An interesting thing happened during yesterdays iPhone launch and it wasn’t just observing Robert Scoble’s mastery of self promotion (in a good way of course). Thousands of people* who wer

Watch The iQueue Live On Ustream

For the sleepless or bored, and who can think of nothing but the iPhone: the iPhone queue Live from Palo Alto, staring Robert Scoble and friends. The broadcast is said to continue until the iPhone goe

Zooomr Mark III: New Features, Better Look

Zooomr has launched its latest version, Zooomr Mark III today with over 250 additional features, enhancements and upgrades. The photo sharing company headed by the just turned 19 Kristopher Tate provi

MyBlogLog Bans Blogger; Backlash Begins

Update (Arrington): MyBlogLog has responded, apologized and reinstated Shoemoney. Caterina Fake of Yahoo (MyBlogLog’s parent company) has written her thoughts as well. It’s time to move on

Zooomr Doubles Flickr's Monthly Photo Upload Limits

As of tonight, upstart photo sharing site Zooomr has increased its monthly photo upload limits for free and pro accounts. Free account holders will be allowed 100 MB of photo uploads per month and pro

More Merger Rumors – Xuqa, Dovetail, Zooomr

The acquisition rumor train is running at full steam. We’ve got the really small deals going through ebay (see our post yesterday rounding up the recent ones), and lots of chatter about the larg

Splashcast Aims to Offer A Frictionless Web Media Player

I got an early look last week at a media publishing tool being developed by Portland startup Splashcast and what I saw looked like something that anyone tired of overbranding and limited options in on

Zooomr launches zoomable picture in picture feature

Photosharing upstart Zooomr launched a number of new features today, the most notable one called Portals. It’s a means of linking zoomable pictures inside of each other. It’s quite strikin

AOL Pictures goes social and it's not pretty

The new version of AOL Pictures came out of beta today and it’s thoroughly underwhelming. The new features are basically all the social things that are standard from a Web 2.0 perspective &#8211

Thank You For Coming To TechCrunch 7

The TechCrunch August Capital Party last night was a big success (if you define success as the police showing up at a top tier venture fund’s offices at midnight to shut a party down). Not every

Zooomr Being Courted

Rumors are circulating that controversial photo sharing site Zooomr, the creation of 18 year old Kristopher Tate, is in acquisition discussions with at least three possible acquirors, with discussions

Flickr to offer drag and drop geotagging?

Several Flickr users noticed a brief appearance this morning of a new option on their dashboards to map the location of their photos. Flickr user Brad77 reports on his blog that for just a few minutes

YouTube pulls a Facebook move, circa 2004

YouTube has opened a new section of its site called Colleges on YouTube. Students, staff and alumni of 30 universities can access video from their school community by using a .edu email address and ot
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