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Twitter didn’t fix itself in 2016 and Wall Street isn’t happy | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | Layoffs, a borked acquisition and continued tepid user growth defined Twitter in 2016. And these are all things that make Twitter’s future uncertain, which we know Wall Street does not like. Jack Dorsey’s one-year tenure as CEO was price and, amid all its attempts to try and re-make the service and make it more palat... |
Android Wear 2.0 debuts on two partner flagship smartwatches in early 2017 | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | Google will debut two “flagship smartwatches” running Android Wear 2.0 in the first quarter of 2017, according to a new report from , citing information direct from Android Wear product manager Jeff Chang. The two new watches won’t be Pixel devices, as some have speculated, but will sainted carry the branding of a com... |
Pokémon Go arrives on the Apple Watch | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | Following an claiming that Niantic’s plans to bring Pokémon Go to the Apple Watch were canceled, the company today put those rumors to rest with more than a mere : it has now launched the Apple Watch version of its popular game. The new smartwatch app lets you more easily play Pokémon without having to always pull... |
Privacy is still alive and kicking in the digital age | Gry Hasselbalch | 2,016 | 12 | 25 |
Our lives are lived in data. Data crossing borders and connected in virtual space. Most often, it appears, we live in open and too easily accessible data networks. States and corporations are watching us through data, and we are watching each other through data. What does individual mean in this data saturated envi... |
The drought is over… a torrent of tech IPOs is expected in 2017 | Sandy Miller | 2,016 | 12 | 25 |
We’ve just witnessed one of the most surprising tech IPO markets in decades. Wall Street set record upon record throughout 2016, and tech stocks led the way, hitting all-time highs. And yet, we saw a mere 13 IPOs for venture-backed U.S. technology companies during the entire year. I’ve been working in this industry f... |
Will technology prevent the next food shortage crisis? | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 12 | 25 |
If (CNA) has it right, mankind is inching toward a dystopian future where trigger riots and wars. That might be stretching it a bit, but the upcoming is serious, and the CNA, a federally funded research and development center, believes production permanently fall short of consumption. With the UN es... |
Dear Air Canada: a systems analysis of a comically colossal cascading failure | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 12 | 25 | I’ll be blunt; I’m here to vent my fury. On your behalf, dear reader! Honest. When a corporation gets things terribly wrong, those of us with platforms need to turn our wrath upon them. It’s the only feedback that actually matters. But there’s a larger issue here: the way that poisonously rigid corporate software, when... |
WTF is a liquidation preference? | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 12 | 25 | in the tech industry, you’ve undoubtedly heard the term “liquidation preference” at some point. WTF? Let’s walk through the basics. Broadly, a liquidation preference determines who gets what when a company is liquidated. This can mean when a company is merged, when it’s sold, when there’s a change of control of the co... |
Snapchat has quietly acquired an Israeli startup for a reported $30 million to $40 million | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 12 | 25 | Snapchat sewed up its first acquisition in Israel this week, according to the outlet . It acquired four-year-old , whose augmented reality platform lets consumers instantly visualize products they want to buy in their intended location, paying what Calcalist says was between $30 million and $40 million. According to ... |
Insert Ads into Podcasts with Fruitcast | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 3 | launched today. It’s a service that automatically inserts 15 second sound advertisements directly into a publsiher’s podcast (either at the beginning, or the end, or both). They’ve focused on keeping things ultra simple. You simply publish your podcast through a feed they create for you, and the advertisements are aut... |
Google Lunch? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 4 | As many people know, Google offers its employees free lunch and free dinner at the campus (Yahoo charges its employees). It’s a lavish affair, with many different types of high quality food, drinks, desert, etc. I like visiting Google for lunch, and accept nearly every offer I get from a Google employee. To get into Go... |
Technorati Extends Search Functionality | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 3 | at has just informed me that they have quietly updated their with full boolean search functionality. In August, Technorati to tag search. On a search for “apple OR microsoft”, the results would include any posts that included either tag. While useful, this functionality essentially just reduced the number of sea... |
Amazon finally reveals itself as the Matrix | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 4 | Amazon’s new product is brilliant because it will help application developers overcome certain types of problems (resulting in the possibility for new kinds of applications) and somewhat scary because I can’t get the Matrix-we-are-all-plugged-into-a-machine vision out of my head. The “machine” is a that Amazon is c... |
YackPack Joins the Click, Record Crowd | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 5 | is one of a growing group of companies (see our recent for the list) that is allowing consumers to easily create a quick recording to share with friends. It’s still in private beta, although you can get a good understanding of the service by watching the they’ve created. likes the effort YackPack has put into cre... |
Zoozio – Hey, Another AJAX Desktop! | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 4 | It looks like Redwood City-based will be the next horse in the AJAX desktop race. We already have , (our favorite) and (flash-based) . Oh yeah, and . Wait, too. There’s not much info on the site yet. I hope these guys have some interesting features if they want into this already crowded . Thanks for the tip... |
Odeo Disappoints | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 4 | My patience with has run out. The first time I wrote about Odeo was on . The service actually launched on , about the time that iTunes 4.9 was released and hit the podcasting world like a ton of bricks. Odeo had tools to listen and sync, and a directory (iTunes, iTunes,and iTunes), but lacked the feature that everyo... |
New Yahoo Maps Shows Power of Flash | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 2 | An all new at 9 pm PST. I spoke with Paul Levine, the General Manager of Local, Jeremy Kreitler, a Senior Product Manager of Maps and Local, and Diana Vincent, a PR Manager, earlier today about Yahoo Maps. Unlike Google and Microsoft maps, Yahoo has chosen to use Flash over AJAX in building its new service, and the... |
Office Live Will Be A Huge Productivity Tool | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 2 | The other product announced yesterday at the Microsoft Preview event in San Francisco was . Office Live will launch in Q1 2006. My raw notes from the event are on , and my went up last night. Rajesh Jha presented the product. Office Live is an online version of Office. Office Live is a set of free, ad-supported p... |
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Mindmapping Movies and Music With LivePlasma | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 20 | I’m a sucker for good looking Flash sites, and Frederic Vavrille’s , based in France, is a great one. He’s mashed up the Amazon recommendation API for music and movies to visually show the relationship between bands/artists/movies. The results are very relevant and there are links to purchase anything you see that you... |
Instantly Hooked on Diggdot.us | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 20 | Three sites I use often are Digg, Slashdot and del.icio.us/popular. If you want to find out what’s hot right now on the Internet, those sites will tell you (although Memeorandum usually gets the news even before these sites). I saw a on Programmable Web about , which launched yesterday. Diggdot.us combines results f... |
Skype Video within 30 days | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 18 | Strong rumors are afoot that Skype version 1.5 with video will be launching before Christmas. They are clearly behind the at VON Boston, which anticipated v 1.5, with video and other features, in October. |
Waxmail Update | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 18 | is a great productity tool that allows you to attach mp3 audio files to an email. We first when they released their Outlook product. Waxmail just announced that they now have support for Outlook Express. I’m hoping they include other email applications over time – like Mail and Entourage for the Mac. A lot of people... |
Why I don't like Riffs | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 20 | , a review site for anything, launched quietly last week. It takes a hybrid wiki/social bookmarking approach. Any user can add a URL to begin a discussion (or just begin a discussion without a URL), and the Riffs community votes on the thing and discusses it in wiki fashion. All pages have RSS and the clean interface ... |
Another Tool For Domain Name Nuts | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 20 | is similar to a site I wrote about a week ago called . Ajaxwhois is similar to Instant Domain Search in that it has a nice Ajax interface. It’s has better functionality, though, because it pulls whois information directly into the results page and allow queries on top level domains beyond .com and .net (it even retur... |
Advertising on TechCrunch | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 18 | As many of you know, writing TechCrunch is and has been a hobby/obsession of mine for over 5 months now. To this point, TechCrunch has not generated revenue of any kind, other than a couple of thousand dollars paid by of our to offset party costs. Revenue generation from advertising isn’t and won’t be the primary g... |
Intuit's Zipingo Joins Local Business Review Sites | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 27 | joins the ranks of local business review and ranking services such as , (which just from Mobius Venture Capital, Ignition Partners and Ackerley Partners) and idealab’s . Like the other sites, Zipingo aims to pair yellow page-like contact information for local businesses with user reviews. It was created (and own... |
23 is too much like Flickr | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 27 | is a lot like flickr. Almost a clone, even down to the UI and feature comparisons. The service is free, for up to 15 MB of uploading a month. 29 EUR gets you an unlimited bandwidth account. The things I like best about right now are the “sets” (23 calls them albums) and the which takes the pain out of uploading ma... |
A Profile of Tagworld | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 11 | Santa Monica based has been quietly beta testing its product for a few months, and officially opened its doors earlier this week. They now have 75,000 members and are growing by thousands per day. The funny thing is that I had never heard of them before last week when I was contacted by Carmen Hughes of for a previ... |
RSS is Now Integrated into Yahoo Mail and Alerts | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 29 | Yahoo gathered a small group of bloggers, press and others at Sauce in San Francisco tonight to announce the launch of two new RSS products. They have integrated an RSS reader directly into Beta, and are expanding to include RSS feeds. These are significant new products, aimed squarely at new and mainstream RSS use... |
More on Songbird | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 29 | replaced its landing page with a blog and is giving more information on the product (I had next to no details for my earlier this month). The site now has additional and a few posts that begin to talk about the product. I am alpha testing Songbird now and am very impressed, even though they say it is only 30% done ... |
Is the Gawker-Yahoo Deal Important? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 16 | , a blog network similar to Weblogs, Inc., and Yahoo a syndication deal today that brings Gawker content to . Content from the largest Gawker blogs is already included – Wonkette, Gizmodo, Defamer, Lifehacker, and Gawker itself. More may be coming. The financial terms are undisclosed, but here’s what is now on Yahoo:... |
Hyper-Contextual Search Results with Swicki | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 16 | Eurekster’s search service officially launches later today (November 16, 2005). Eurekster, a twenty person company located in San Francisco and New Zealand, has a profitable business (called Search Publisher) that provides customized search results to a number of large websites. Steven Marder, Eurekster’s CEO, tells m... |
The Riya-Google Rumor | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 17 | Rumors are flying this morning that (a ) has been or is being acquired by Google in the $40 million range. See , and . Even though everyone is blogging about it, this is nothing more than a rumor at this point. It is a rumor, however, that has been confirmed to me by employees of companies that were also appar... |
Microsoft "Fremont" to Launch | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 28 | Microsoft will be beta launching a new web 2.0 service under the Live.com brand in the next few weeks. The final name is TDB, but the current project name is “Fremont” and the URL will redirect once its fully live. I had a chance to see a demo of the product – it’s very cool and will definitely shake things up. |
Fotolia's P2P Photo Sales | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 10 | Like , New York based is a new, specialized p2p ecommerce site that combines an innovative business model with Ajax, tagging, rss and great design. Fotolia yesterday. Fotolia is a site where photographers can sell their images directly to consumers. They offer only royalty free images ( , for instance, offers a mix... |
TechCrunch Meetup #4 – Riya Launch Party | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 10 | is holding its launch party here at the TechCrunch house next Friday, November 18, 2005. If you are in the area, make sure to drop by. Our last party/meetup was a and I expect this one to be even bigger. Lots to eat and drink, and Riya will be giving a very cool presentation. The wiki for the party is . Signup page... |
Pandora is Now Free | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 10 | , the great music disovery service and player, is now offering a free version of its service. Pandora has hired 30 musicians who have spent years analyzing 400 attributes of songs, like melody, rhythm and vocals. They’ve analyzed over 10,000 artists and 300,000 songs to date. Users pick a band or song to get started, a... |
WordPress.com Out Of Beta | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 21 | Matthew Mullenweg today that , the hosted (and free) (and extensible) version of is now available without an invite. I’ve created a test blog, and other than the fact that you cannot set additional ping servers (an advanced feature that only matters to some people), its an awesome product. If you are looking for a... |
TechCrunch – After 5 Months | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 10 | Tomorrow, November 11, is ‘s five month anniversary – my (Technorati) was on June 11, 2005. I’ve been blogging personally for some time but this was my first attempt to write for an audience larger than my immediate family and friends. It’s been a wonderful experience – and I have countless new friends (bloggers, re... |
Riya's Launch Party @ TechCrunch | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 19 | We reached a new milestone in our ongoing experiment to see how many people can fit inside my house before the police come and arrest me: over 250 last night (previous record was ) at the Launch Party. The thing I liked best about this party was that from Riya and from Just Starting Up took care of everything – ... |
New Look At Del.icio.us | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 21 | just put up a completely new site. Recent bookmarks on the left, popular bookmarks on the right. It’s about time. :-) Nice one, Joshua. Logged In: Logged Out: Thanks for the tip . |
Feedster Enters Podcast Search Market | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 7 | Scott Johnson announced Feedster Podcast Search tonight . An example is . They’ve also added a “Play Latest Episode” link to episodes to listen or download the podcast directly from Feedster. |
Companies I'd like to Profile (but don't exist) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 21 | There are companies I review every day that I don’t write about. Reasons vary – it’s been done already and the product isn’t even as good as what’s been done, its a mostly or totally one-way application, or it isn’t consumer focused (or have implications for consumer focused applications). Even with this filtering, I g... |
PubSub Launches Community Lists | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 7 | PubSub launched a new product today called “ “. They’ve taken topic specific feeds from experts and have ranked the feeds according to their . There are four lists currently and my understanding is that they plan to expand the number greatly in the near future. The current Lists: The feeds from each list are availabe ... |
People Tagging with Tagalag | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 9 | is a service that lets you tag , via their email address. It’s not a “tribute” site like , because only people who know a person’s email address can add tags for that person. If you create a profile you can add personal and geographical information about yourself. I don’t know if Tagalag is onto a viable business mo... |
Tag your books with Library Thing | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 9 | Writing about got me fired up on tagging again, so I am going to write about at least two tagging sites tonight that I’ve been testing. The first is , which is turning into quite a nice service for tagging your real-world books. Registration is simple – give it a username and a password. No other personal informatio... |
Newsvine to Enter Social News Ranks | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 9 | hasn’t launched yet, but the founder and CEO Mike Davidson has once it does. Newsvine will be a collaborative, social news site. Like other sites, Newsvine will show major news publications. However, readers can comment on news items, allowing for a discussion to ensue. They are also adding tagging. Any user can book... |
New Companies Will Be Built with SSE | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 21 | Wow, am I excited this morning to see Microsoft announce Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE), which turns RSS bidirectional and which is released under the Creative Commons License. I wrote more about this at , but I want to mention it here because this is an incredibly important technology that will allow . ‘s excited ... |
Backbeat Podcast Network Launches | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 30 | There’s a ton of podcasting news coming out. I’ll profile a couple of other companies tomorrow but I thought it was worth mentioning that launched a today with three initial participants – , and . My understanding is that Backbeat will provide advertising sponsorships and some operational support to participati... |
Digg is (almost) as big as Slashdot | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 9 | continues to increase its traffic at an impressive rate, and is clearly set to within a month or so (thanks for the link ). The image, from , shows Digg nearing Slashdot traffic levels after less than a year after launch. Slashdot is red, Digg is blue. Digg allows anyone to submit news stories, and other users vot... |
Gtalkr, Flash + Gtalk | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 30 | , a flash-based website to access Google’s Gtalk, yesterday. It allows you to access your Gtalk instant messaging account without a client, from any computer. Comparisons will inevitably be drawn to , a similar service, although built on Ajax, that allows users to access a variety of instant messaging services (incl... |
Steve Rubel Highlights Technorati Features | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 8 | Steve Rubel’s “ ” is outstanding. If you are looking to exploit the deeper features of Technorati, read his post. My favorite features: I’ve been spending a lot of time on Technorati lately. They are doing a much better job indexing blogs quickly and in general posts are appearing in near real-time. Yahoo, Google, Top... |
Facebook Users sure are Passionate | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 9 | is on a tear. There are rumors that their total page views will surpass some of the top internet sites in the next few months. 85%+ of all college students us it and 70% of them log in daily. Somehow a post I wrote on is the number two search result on Google for “ ” and the post is consistently one of the top three... |
Gada.be Refines Features | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 30 | Chris Pirillo’s continues to roll out . They’ve also made a change to the URL structure for tag queries to become better indexed by search engines. This tag based search engine is still somewhat under the radar for many people, but it is quickly becoming one of my most-used sites for research. It’s also the best pla... |
Etsy – P2P Commerce with Tagging | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 8 | A relatively new company called has recently captured my attention. Etsy is a P2P ecommerce company (like ebay) that currently limits sales to handmade items. It’s smart to focus on a niche to iron things out…and Etsy could easily expand into other categories as well. Etsy does lots of things like ebay – They charge ... |
Windows Live and Office Live | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 1 | Microsoft is announcing Windows Live and Office Live, both online services, right now (10 am PST) at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. I am . Windows Live is “live” at . |
Great Search Event this Week | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 6 | If you are interested in meeting the founders of four of the search engines I’ve profiled here at Techcrunch – , , and , make sure you show up for on Thursday, November 10. Cost? $15. Location? Microsoft Mountain View offices. because the event only holds 270 people. Then carpool with me up to the in San Fran... |
Topix Does What Yahoo Wouldn't | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 6 | Topix.net into its news engine today. Unlike Yahoo, which took the step of integrating blog search results into the news area but , Topix has integrated blog posts into results in the same manner as their other 12,000 news feeds. The Topix blog post the addition gives great information on how they chose the 15,000... |
Windows Live – More than an AJAX Desktop | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 1 | I blogged my raw, unedited notes from the Microsoft press meeting today . One of the two major announcements was (best viewed on IE of course). Office Live was also announced, which I will be writing about later tonight. Windows Live is a free, ad-supported AJAX virtual desktop. Most of the functionality could be se... |
NumSum | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 23 | isn’t new, but I hadn’t really played with it until today (it’s actually nice that things are slowing down for Thanksgiving, giving me time to check out stuff I’ve missed). It’s well thought through Ajax spreadsheet application, with very basic functions. They’ve added tagging, and you can generate a permanent URL for... |
Web 2.0 WorkGroup Now Has 20 Blogs | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 23 | formed the about a month and a half ago. We’ve now grown to twenty blogs: , Our goal is to provide a list of high quality blogs that are writing about recent trends on the web. We continue to add blogs regularly and are working on a number of ways to make their content more accessible. Today, we’ve broken the blogs... |
Comparing The Flickrs of Video | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 6 | I’ve been tracking a number of sites that offer flickr-like services for video. I’ve taken a look at as many of these services that I could find. The most well known is , which we and which recently raised venture money from Sequoia. But there are at least eight others worth looking at as well. In addition to YouTub... |
Deep Web Search – Two Approaches | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 24 | had an interesting article about Palo Alto based yesterday ( ), a product designed to help websites make their content more indexable by search engines. Much, if not most, of the web is considered “dark” because the data is not readily available via a permanent URI. Cookies, forms, javascript and flash can affect wh... |
BLOG-X Award | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 15 | TechWeb’s Second Annual BLOGX Award is now in the final stage. Vote for your . |
Ajaxed Domain Names Search | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 13 | is a great, simple Ajax tool for finding available .com and .net domain names. Enter a desired domain, and results appear instantly as you type. There are links to Yahoo and Register.com if a domain is available and you’d like to register it. If the domain is not available there are links to the whois registration inf... |
Google Base Launched. Yuck. | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 15 | officially announces the launch of . We previously anticipated the launch of Google Base (along with everyone else) in . : This is not a very interesting application in its current form. says it’s like a 1985 dBASE file with less functionality. It’s ugly. It’s centralized content with less functionality than ebay... |
Yahoo Shoposphere Just Launched | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 14 | launches tonight (well, officially at 6 am EST tomorrow, but I’ve gotten permission to write about it tonight). I met with Rob Solomon, Yahoo’s GM of Shopping, and Sabrina Crider, a Yahoo PR Manager, last week to take it for a test drive. Yahoo is making a major push into search personalization and recommendations – t... |
Amazon Tags | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 14 | Amazon is into product pages (see image below). Tags are public by default and can be managed under a “your tags” area that I am failing to find. You must first select a “Real Name” (odd choice of names given the old company called RealNames). Once you’ve signed up and started adding tags, you can delete them or make... |
So what exactly is Renkoo? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 25 | Joyce Park’s looks interesting. give a number of interesting feature hints. It looks to be an event/calendaring application, but it seems to include chat and other features as well. It is the goal of Renkoo to help people plan and remember and share peak experiences. and The Renkoo’s application interface intentio... |
Google Analytics Swings at Measure Map | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 14 | Google took the wrapper off today. It is a rebranding of their Urchin acquisition from earlier this year. It works in much the same way as – using it requires the addition of javascript into a couple of files on your blog. It has deep integration into Adwords as well. Google Analytics is mostly free (up to 5 millio... |
Songbird | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 14 | I just heard about , which should be launching in December. I have very little information on it currently. Whatever it is (client? Web app?), it looks like a music/podcast player of some sort and it’s certainly visually appealing. More (perhaps) on this later. You can sign up for Songbird announcements . |
Root.Net's "Lead" Market | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 25 | I’m intruiged by Seth Goldstein’s , the first commercial application of the platform (see my Attention Trust posts and ). Seth wrote a lengthy and descriptive post outlining the service for all participants on . The core service leverages the Attention Trust Recorder, which can be installed by an internet user (... |
Feedster Top 500 Update | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 22 | . Scott Johnson, Feedster’s CTO, writes about it . The first list was published in August. The new list incorporates recent links and has changed substantially from the previous version. In particular, they’ve added user tagging and a tag cloud to assist in search/find. The tagging interface is in Ajax (with captcha t... |
Keep an eye on CollectiveX | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 25 | , a new venture backed by serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist , has put up a and is taking requests for people interested in taking part in their early 2006 beta. I’ve known Clarence for years (I used to be his attorney), and I’ve heard his ideas for CollectiveX. It’s going to be an awesome web application fo... |
Windows Live Email Service | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 11 | 25 | Domains.Live.com is a free new email service offered by Microsoft. It’s a simple but very useful tool. And, like , it is disruptive to the existing domain name registrar market (are they even paying attention?). So the basic service is this: Microsoft will host email and instant messaging for you in a domain you own. ... |
BrainJam Meetup this Friday | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 3 | has organized a in San Francisco this Friday, October 7 from 1-5 pm. The nascent wiki is . , so we’ll drop by for the “after party” that begins at 5:30. The cost? $2.80. :-) Since I spent $2k for Web 2.0, this dollar-cost-averages down my per-event cost for the week to about $1k. Nice. |
1-800-Free-411: Free Directory Calls | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 3 | Directory assistance calls are expensive – $1 and higher – and yet 6 billion of them are made every year in the U.S. is a new and brilliant service from Jingle Networks that provides this service to consumers for free.
The service is made possible by thousands of national and local businesses who sponsor this servic... |
iKarma has Potential to Be Huge | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 3 | is an online feedback and reputation system that we’ve been kicking the tires on for a few days. While there are many closed, centralized feedback services that are quite useful (ebay’s feedback, for instance), they are a part of the service they support and cannot be leveraged effectively outside of those services. I... |
Google Office – WTF? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 4 | , which was . And as far as we could tell, the never worked. Overall, a big disappointment. People wasted an yesterday on this non story, which basically boils down to people being given the option of downloading Google’s toolbar in addition to JRE or Open Office. snooooooooooooze. |
24 Hour Laundry Launches as Ning | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 4 | 24 Hour Laundry launched moments ago as . We’re profiling now. |
The Companies of Web 2.0, Part 2 | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 5 | Here’s the second set of companies that presented at the Launchpad workshop. See . My friend Ethan Stock showed off , which launched last night. We’ve written about here and . In a nutshell, Zvents helps you create and locate the tens of thousands of monthly local events and has tons of awesome ajax, tagging a... |
AOL Acquires Weblogs, Inc. | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 5 | that AOL has acquired . and will officially announce it later this week. The acquisition price, including earnouts, is reported to be $20-35 million. Weblogs, Inc., founded by and was launched just two years ago and is funded by Mark Cuban. Calacanis has reported a revenue run rate of about $2 million. Congra... |
More Details on Attention Trust | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 5 | I’m sitting in the Attention Trust public board meeting at the Web 2.0 conference and getting more details on their . Everything is centered around the Attention Trust Recorder Firefox extension (they’re calling it ATX). Once installed, if you turn it on, it monitors your click stream. ATX also tells you if the site y... |
Attention Trust Recorder | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 5 | ( ) announced a number of updates to its service today. The underlying philosophy of this nonprofit corporation is described in Seth GoldStein and Greg Yardley’s post . In addition to a new look and feel to the site, AttentionTrust has also releaseed the , a Firefox extension that records your browsing history and ... |
Flock Expanding Beta Today | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 5 | I met with and at headquarters in Palo Alto yesterday to see the new Flock browser. Flock is expanding the beta group from a hundred or so individuals to a couple of thousand today. We begged a beta invitation to Flock a while back and wrote about it in There have been significant improvements since then. The bl... |
The Companies of Web 2.0, Part 1 | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 5 | The kicked off today with a number of great . The highlights for us were the Attention Trust board meeting ( ) and, , the Launchpad workshop where a dozen companies presented in an hour and a half. My notes on each company are below. Many of these have been profiled here before, and we hope to get full profiles of... |
Web 2.0 This Week (Sept 25 – Oct 1) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 2 | The excitement is building over this week’s upcoming (October 5-7) in San Francisco. The event is sold out. It’s clear that a number of companies intend to launch this week, and so I expect we’ll be kept quite busy checking them all out. , , , , , , , , (update), , , Richard MacManus this week’s evoluti... |
zvents Launches Today | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 5 | The took the wrapper off their social event manager/calendar today. The timing of the announcement couldn’t be better, as Upcoming.org (a competitor) by Yahoo yesterday. Ethan Stock posted about the launch on the . Key features include best of breed event search, tagging of events, easy blogging and blog/website... |
Ojos is now Riya | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 20 | , which never owned ojos.com (they used ojos-inc.com) has found a permanent name – . More on this on the and . Riya has a facial and text recognition technology that automatically tags photos with who’s in them. We . Riya is preparing to start their private alpha and will hopefull launch within a couple of months.... |
Zoho Writer – Another Ajax Word Processor | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 2 | We’ve been looking at a lot of Ajax Office applications (see and on this as well) and lately. Quite frankly, it’s many people’s opinion (ours included) that , , , and others are ultimately addressing the same customer pool – those who want to create, share, and group-edit documents online. Zoho Writer is t... |
Flock has Launched | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 20 | I just heard from Geoffrey Arone at that they will be launching it to the general public within 3 hours (by 5 pm PST). Feedback to their recent has been so positive, Geoffrey tells me, that there is no reason to delay any longer. Congratulations Flock! I imagine tens of thousands of people will be downloading and u... |
Writeboard Launches But Needs Feature Upgrades | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 2 | 37signals (creators of , , etc.) , an application to build sharable text documents online, today (Jason Fried’s post is ). It’s a nice collaboration tool, but recently released products such as and have much richer feature sets. Writeboard, which is free, allows a user to create a new document very quickly, p... |
Want to Buy A Search Engine? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 18 | The founders of , a great metasearch engine, put it up yesterday. wrote about this yesterday as well. Aaref Hilaly, one of the founders (and a friend) emailed to tell me about it, saying that the founders just don’t have enough time to put into the project and deal with growth. Starting price? $0.01, with no reserv... |
TechCrunch Party This Friday | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 18 | We are having our next TechCrunch party in Atherton this Friday (October 21) afternoon and evening. . Our drew about 100 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, bloggers and beer drinkers, and I am hoping this one will draw at least that number. We are changing to a socialtext wiki and it will be up later today along wi... |
Web2.0 or Not? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 18 | This is too good not to post. is the tongue-in-cheek, hugely sarcastic and quite funny creation of and . Yeah, its for Web 2.0 companies. These two guys, who by the way are brilliant engineers (Ryan consults with Technorati, Eran works at Jeteye), have been keeping things lively with their various projects, anot... |
CircleOne Rumored to Launch Soon | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 27 | February 5, 2006: CircleOne is now called . Rumors are flying that a super-stealth backed company called CircleOne (also known as p2pcredit) will be launching as soon as this weekend. The domain name, , is not yet live. If the rumors are correct, the company will be similar to , a London based company that we . ... |
More Web 2.0 Humor | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 27 | I came across two very funny web 2.0 satires today. is a site that will generate . My company is “zVodidoo” and my product is “rss-based collaborative document editing via ajax”. I like ‘s too – Blinonorati, a “tag-based wiki via flash”. And finally categorizes all of these new companies in an intelligent way. “Sc... |
Flickr Photo Printing | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 27 | that they are now supporting photo printing. They are giving away 10 free 4×6 prints to each user to start. Only people with U.S. credit card addresses can participate for now. Photos can be delivered, or picked up at any Target store with one hour processing. The costs are very reasonable, too. See the . On a separa... |
TechWeb BLOG-X Awards | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 27 | TechWeb has . All technology blogs that are published independently of a major publishing company are eligible, and the ten blogs that receive the most nominations by December 9, 2005 will have the chance to win the award. You can nominate up to five blogs. Please if it is one of your favorites. |
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