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MSN and Yahoo to Link IM | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 11 | There is that Microsoft and Yahoo will announce tomorrow that their instant messaging clients will beome interoperable. The catalyst seems to be the surge in Skype and Google Talk usage. Together MSN and Yahoo account for 44% of total IM usage today (not counting Skype and Google), and reach about 33.5 million monthl... |
Google Targets Del.icio.us | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 11 | Google has as a feature to search history. It’s not “social” bookmarking, like del.icio.us, because bookmarks are not public and cannot be shared among users. The product also requires way too many steps to create a bookmark. To bookmark a site, make sure your google search history is turned on. Click “search history... |
Blogniscient v. Memeorandum | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 29 | Ben Ruedlinger’s relaunched with a completely new look and feel. An old screenshot of the service is . Blogniscient is a blog news organizer that, like , uses a propreitary algorithm for determining what’s hot in the blogosphere at any given time. Unlike , which creates news items based on user bookmarking and s... |
Wow! Del.icio.us rolls out more stuff | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 29 | In addition to the robust and open by Del.icio.us earlier this week, there are at least two additional new features that are worth noting. I also have a few more thought on the search function below. Del.icio.us has . If you find a link to a MP3 file, a small icon appears to the left of the bookmark that can be clic... |
Inform.com Doesn't | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 16 | launched today with a splashy article. has some kind words. isn’t so kind – he says “It fails miserably.” I agree. I honestly can’t figure out what it is, even after reading the Times fluff piece. They say its an RSS Reader but adding feeds is anything but easy. Newbies need . Oldbies want something that handles ... |
My Thoughts on Reading Lists | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 16 | Dave Winer has been thinking about, and recently about, a new idea: Reading Lists. is a really useful file structure that just about everyone who uses a feed aggregator, like bloglines, is already using without necessarily knowing it. Most readers keep subscribed feeds for a user in OPML format, for easy importing a... |
PreviewSeek – New Web Search Engine | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 16 | PreviewSeek is a new London-based search engine created by Chris Hong that is very quietly impressing people with a number of innovating features. Basic search results are great but nothing to get overly excited about. The useful features include disambiguation of queries (are you searching for “apple” the fruit, or “a... |
Shadows 1.0 | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 28 | I had an early peak at while it was still in beta, . Shadows is a product. Last week, Pluck took the beta tag off of Shadows and . Dave Panos, Pluck’s CEO, gave me a walk through of the new functionality last night. Shadows is a social bookmarking site with good features, and all of the expected bells and whistle... |
My New Blog | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 28 | I’ve launched a new companion blog to TechCrunch called . I wrote a longish describing exactly why it exists (and why TechCrunch exists), but here’s the essence: The main reason is that I find that sometimes, I want to talk about more than just new companies and products. Sometimes I have something to say about wha... |
Goowy Charges Ahead | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 17 | Alex Bard’s flash-based desktop replacement , based in San Diego, has impressed me from the start. We originally profiled Goowy on and again a ago. Today Goowy released further functionality. First, they . While that storage is only for use with email now, they will soon be releasing a virtual file storage produc... |
The Web 2.0 WorkGroup | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 10 | There are a number of weblogs that I read religiously – of the 400+ feeds that I read, there are 15 or so that I check multiple times a day for new content. Two of those blogs are Richard MacManus’ and Fred Oliveira’s . Richard and Fred write blogs that are very complimentary to TechCrunch. While we generally focus ... |
HealthLine – Reliable Medical Information | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 17 | , a very smart medical search engine with web 2.0 features, launched this evening. Tony Gentile, HealthLine’s VP Product Management, . First, its a good search engine. Normal language is translated into medical terms, and refinement options are shown for related information. For instance, a search for breast cancer sh... |
Flock's Refines Features, Expands Beta | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 17 | ‘s CEO Bart Decrem expanded the beta over the weekend to 1,007 people, most of whom are now about it. The product, which was good , is even better today. I’m a big supporter of Flock. I am even writing this post while wearing a Flock tshirt. Flock is definitely the Flickr of browsers. :-) The three most powerful too... |
Web 2.0 This Week (October 9-15) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 17 | Tons of new companies launched this week. My guess is they were aiming for the Web 2.0 Conference last week but had to delay. This may have worked out for the best as the covereage they received was probably much better after the press chaos last week. Most bloggers have probably noticed that is back in the bay area. ... |
Yahoo Blog Search Launched | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 10 | Yahoo a tonight at 7 pm. had the scoop. Unlike their podcasting product, , the blog search product is not much more than a quick add-on to Yahoo News. Frankly, I am more than disappointed. Instead of launching a stand alone property, Yahoo has integrated blog search into Yahoo News. Blog search results are prese... |
Gada.be – Tag Meta Search Done Right | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 10 | has launched today – a powerful tag meta-search engine that has an incredibly simple and thoughtful design. Shayne Sweeney is the developer who’s building . Gada takes a query and runs it against sites like Google News, Technorati, Flickr, IceRocket, Amazon, Wikipedia, 43Things, etc. Searches can be narrowed via a ... |
Google Reader – Was I Too Quick to Criticize? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 10 | over the weekend and gave what I felt was a factually correct review of the product. However, some of the comments I’ve received to the post, along with a couple of emails, suggested some of my criticisms were off the mark. I took another look today and I must say that I was dead wrong on a few points. I’ve copied my ... |
Hotmail expanding Kahuna Beta | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 10 | Microsoft’s new ajax Hotmail client, called Kahuna, is its beta group today, to approximatley 200,000 users. the beta was extremely difficult to get into, frustrating some hotmail users. We’ve been beta testing Kahuna for a few weeks. It is a big improvement on the old Hotmail interface, using ajax to provide a much... |
Update: TechCrunch Party This Friday | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 19 | We are proud to annouce the sponsors of the this weekend. , , , , , , , , , . If you plan on attending, . Demos start at 6 pm sharp. We are going to reduce the demo time to 15 minutes to get more companies in. At 7 pm we’ll take a 15-20 minute break for toasts and a . I’m pretty fired up about these demo... |
Web 2.0 This Week (October 2 – 8) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 10 | What a week! Web 2.0 was absolutely terrific. There were hundreds of smart and interesting people milling about and cross pollinating their ideas. Our focus was on the new companies, of course, and we briefly wrote about each and every one of them in our two part post “The Companies of Web 2.0”. See and . Here’s thi... |
Top Five Web 2.0 Venture Capitalists | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 19 | Most venture capitalists don’t understand tagging, blogs, rss, ajax, or the two way web. They scoff at social bookmarking sites and think podcasting is a fad (maybe it is). They desparately “want in” to this renaissance of the web, but can’t be bothered to open up the simplest RSS reader and understand the power of dec... |
First Screen Shots of Riya | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 26 | (formerly ) will be opening its doors to 10 or so lucky alpha testers tomorrow morning. Riya leverages potent facial and text recognition technology with an intelligent interface to help people make sense of the thousands of untitled and untagged photos that are building up on their hard drives (and on the web). We p... |
Psst…Want in to the Wink Beta? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 26 | is a very interesting new search site that combines traditional search results with del.icio.us and other user generated metadata. We profiled Wink on and Michael Tanne, the CEO, gave a demo at our . Wink was also one of the of our party. Wink is in private beta right now and are dripping in new users a few at a ... |
Voice Email with WaxMail | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 26 | is a free voice email service for Outlook from the guys who created (see ). WaxMail requires a small download and a quick installation with Outlook. From there, all you have to do is click a button to record a voicemail. The sound file is saved as an MP3 and is attached to the email, which can also include text and... |
Dave Winer To Give the Flickr of Keynotes tonight | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 21 | Everything is all set for tonight’s party and we’ve very quietly re-opened to attendees. It also looks like we’ll have 50+ people via festoon. We will be having demos from 6 pm to about 10:30, starting with the first public look at At 7, we’ll take a break and have sponsor speeches and a keynote by Dave Winer. His... |
OPML Experiment – Version 2.0 | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 7 | Our with (listen to Dave’s podcast too) has of a bunch of people, and new applications to leverage directories of blogs are being created by some really smart people. Here’s what we have so far: As soon as I can find the time I am going to implement Matt’s wordpress plugin to output our posts automatically, and... |
Memeorandum Hype and New Feature | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 21 | continues to be , and it is starting to get real traction outside of the core blogosphere as well. posted an in depth review of Gabe Rivera’s Memeorandum this morning. Gabe Rivera, the 32-year-old programmer who quit his job at Intel to found the site, says he built Memeorandum thinking of the “live web as an editor... |
edgeio launching soon | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 7 | is a company that , , Matt Kaufman, and I have been working on for most of this year. It willl be launching in the near future. If you’d like to be notified of the launch, . If you have a weblog and you’d like to be part of early testing, there is a field for giving us your blog address as well. Edgeio will also... |
Tag Camp Photo Album with Picaboo | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 31 | I first heard about from a few days ago. Picaboo is a way to create, share and print photo albums. Picaboo was founded in September 2002 by Howard Field and Kevin McCurdy, and is funded by Kleiner Perkins and Softbank. They launched in May 2005. It only works on Windows right now (although Mac user have built in so... |
Yahoo Launches Major Podcasting Service | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 9 | Yahoo just a comprehensive podcasting search, directory and listening service called (URL will be working in the next couple of hours). nailed this story and has posted an exclusive podcast with , Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer. John has also posted the transcript of the interview below the podast link. Geoff has... |
The Open Source RSS Reader | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 31 | I’ve been using for a few weeks now. It’s the first time I’ve seriousy used a desktop application to read feeds – I really like web based readers because there is no software download, compatibility issues, etc., and because many of the desktop readers are not free. But so many Blogbridge fans have emailed me suggest... |
CourseCafe Adds to the Social Bookmarking Discussion | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 31 | is a search and social bookmarking tool for students that the founder, Puneet Gupta, demo’d at TagCamp last weekend. The company is located in Mountain View and is angel funded. At first blush, the question came to mind as to why students can’t just use existing search tools like Google and social bookmarking applicat... |
Verisign Acquires Weblogs.com | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 6 | Verisign has their acquisition of the ping server network and related assets. See the Verisign as well. We aren’t going to write a lot about it here on TechCrunch because and I were advisors to Weblogs.com on the deal. I will say that I believe this is a game-changing event for the blogosphere. Dave Winer, the ... |
Real Estate vertical search with Trulia | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 30 | is a vertical search engine for real estate. Pete Flint and Sami Inkinen, Stanford MBAs, founded Trulia in 2004, and just moved their ten person company into shiny new offices in San Francisco. Trulia is currently angel funded. The site launched a month ago with California listings only. Trulia will be rolling out ne... |
Will Sphere Solve the Blog Relevance Problem? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 8 | writes about , a new blog search service that appears to be getting ready to launch. Sphere is taking a crack at building a more relevant blog search engine. Traditional link analysis just doesn’t work with blog posts because new posts don’t have time to gather links. Instead, Sphere seems to be be trying to determin... |
Speak With Me – Control Your Car by Voice | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 30 | I had the opportunity to sit down with Ajay Juneja, the founder of Mountain View based , at Tag Camp this weekend. I had a half hour demo in his car and was completely blown away by what he’s created. You can see pictures of Ajay and his car . What’s so special about his car? He’s layered a proprietary dialog manager... |
Del.icio.us Expands Search Feature | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 24 | reports that has extended its existing user-only search to everyone. search was available only if you were logged in to your del.icio.us account. Check it out on any del.icio.us page, including . Joshua Schachter has not yet written about this on the . Search functionality has also been expanded. In addition to ... |
Google Reader – Beautiful, Needs Work | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 8 | Google a web-based yesterday at Web2.0. The coverage saturated . Unlike Bloglines, which uses frames to avoid page refreshes, Google Reader uses Ajax. The reader is visually stunning and at first glance appeared to be a contender. However, upon further review we’ve found what we consider to be some serious structur... |
A Second Look at Inform.com | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 24 | on last week following their launch and a fluffy article in the New York Times. Inform.com’s goal is to provide a useful news interface – both blog and non-blog – and to show the interconnectedness of all of the content. We had a number of concerns with the service. It’s a full page popup to ensure that they entirel... |
Annotating Your Web with Stickis | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 24 | In 1999 Eng-Sion Tan launched a company called Third Voice, a browser plug-in that created a sidebar on web pages and allowed surfers to annotate the page by adding their comments. The service quickly devolved into web graffiti and two years later. Even though Third Voice is gone, the idea had some value. And soon ... |
The PostSecret Book | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 23 | Frank Warren the creator of the increasingly is now coming out with a book entitled . The PostSecret book is a hardcover with 288 pages published by Harper Collins/Regan Books. Inside, there are hundreds of color images of postcards. Many of the PostSecrets have never been seen before. Postsecret has been a favorite... |
Dave Winer Joins Web 2.0 WorkGroup | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 12 | I am very pleased to announce that , written by , has joined our . See our introduction to the here. is one of Dave’s blogs where he writes longer, essay style posts on web 2.0 topics. Unlike Scripting News, Dave allows comments and trackbacks on this site. It is an excellent resource for web 2.0 thinking and ne... |
Yelp's Local Reviews | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 12 | is a website that allows users to write and share reviews of local businesses. It also has social networking features (adding friends, groups, etc.) to share reviews with a trust network. The idea is that people generally trust their freinds’ recommendations. All of this user-generated content on local businesses, com... |
Memeorandum is Changing the Web | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 12 | I’ve previously profiled , and there are no major announcements or feature releases to spur this new post. However, something much more significant is happening because of Memeorandum, and I am not the only person to notice it. If you don’t know about yet, check out the site and . Memeorandum is the “newspaper”... |
Measure Map To Launch by Year End | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 12 | Jeffrey Veen of Adaptive Path about for the first time today. Measure Map is an incredibly easy to use flash and ajax application that monitors blog traffic and analytics in many, many different ways. You can slice data almost every way imaginable. I’ll do a full review as soon as I have their permission. In his po... |
Wink – People Powered Search | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 12 | gave a brief and we were immediately hooked. Wink is still in private beta (you can request an account on their home page), but I’ve had a chance to talk with CEO Michael Tanne and I’ve been using it all week. At its core Wink is a search engine, and they’ve intelligently layered in shared user participation to give... |
RememberTheMilk To Do Lists | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 13 | is a new ajax-rich to-do list that is similar to 37 Signal’s . RememberTheMilk lists are organized by tabs. Items are easily entered (although there is an extra click in there that bugs me). Clicking between lists is very straightforward. Items can be easily reordered. And you can also share lists and/or choose to ma... |
Qumana's Simple Ad Inclusion for Blogs | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 13 | is an excellent wysiwyg online/offline tool for editing blogs. about and described their service, which is completely free. Yesterday Qumana v 2.0 of their product. The primary feature addition is the ability to easily, very easily, add pay-per-click ads directly into blog posts. Ads can be positioned anywhere, ... |
First Screen Shot of Sphere | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 14 | I met with , one of the founders of , today at our office (ok, its a house, but it’s also an office – just ask the IRS). Sphere is a new blog search engine that quite frankly blows everything, and I mean everything, I’ve seen out of the water in terms of relevance (and, by the way, design…Adaptive Path was involved).... |
Podtech and SolutionWatch Join Web 2.0 WorkGroup | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 14 | If you haven’t seen the yet, check it out. My original . We’ve added two new resources – and . Podtech.net is a very popular podcast site hosted by John Furrier that is redefining corporate press practices. Recently, for instance, Yahoo gave Podtech an pre-announcement right to discuss their last weekend. Solut... |
Ma.gnolia: More Social Bookmarking | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 22 | I’m looking forward to seeing what is all about. It appears to be a social bookmarking service with a twist of some sort. I hope its a good twist because this space is getting a bit crowded to say the least. Ma.gnolia describes itself as “Found is the New Search” and “Social Bookmarking to build an information commun... |
Thank You For Coming To Our Party | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 22 | I believe we had as many as 200 people here last night for . The last of the guests left at 4 am. Thank you to everyone who came and everyone who tried to attend via festoon. Scott Beale took my of the event. Here’s : Kevin Burton hard at work on TailRank – using my oven as a desk. Thanks to our very generous we w... |
VideoEgg News | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 25 | is a web-based publishing service that allows users to capture video content from virtually any device and format and publish it to the web. We profiled it on , just after they launched at DEMO. that VideoEgg is moving the company from New Haven, Connecticut to Silicon Valley. Michael also reports more interesting n... |
Google Base to Launch | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 25 | Reports are out that Google Base will be launching soon, perhaps even today. Dirson has a up on Flickr and additional images are on . Google Base appears to be a service to publish content directly to google and have them host it in a centralized way. If so, this would be going completely against the accelerating tr... |
Kaboodle Launch: Bookmarking + Wiki | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 10 | 25 | opened its doors this afternoon for an official launch on Wednesday. I met with Manish Chandra, the CEO, earlier today for a walk through and came away very impressed. In addition to Manish, Kaboodle’s founders include Keiron McCammon and Chetan Pungaliya. Kaboodle is a free social bookmarking service. And it really d... |
Profile: Feedburner (New Features) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 4 | Chicago
Feedburner had a “Hackathon” (see ) day last Thursday, where engineers dropped their projects for a day and worked on new features that could be designed, implemented and tested in a single day. They came up with seven new features ( ): – – alert FeedBurner that your blog has been updated and would lik... |
Profile: DinnerBuzz | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 3 | June 2005 Dinnerbuzz is a new service that allows users to provide feedback on restaurants, bars and coffee shops. It leverages user-provided metadata (including tagging) to allow others to easily find and read content on restaurants. In their own words, So, what we have with Dinnerbuzz is a new social networking... |
Profile: Extisp.icio.us | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 4 | June 2005 Extispicious has two tools built on the back of delicious ( ) data: for viewing a random scattering of a user’s delicious tags, sized according to number of times used by that user, and for viewing a random set of yahoo images based on search results for that user’s tags. Each tag is clickable and goe... |
Profile: Venture Voice | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 5 | June 8, 2005 Venture Voice produces podcasts of interviews with interesting people. In their own words, Like ( ), they are interviewing some very high profile and interesting people in the technology industry. In the short time they’ve been live they’ve posted interviews with: Dick Costolo of FeedBurner ( ) ( )... |
Web 2.0 This Week (June 26 – July 1) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 2 | Beginning today, we are going to link to and summarize important web 2.0 developments, essays, posts and announcements published during the previous week. Many of you may read Richard MacManus’ excellent web 2.0 Weekly Wrapup at his site ( ). Richard, don’t think of this as stealing your idea. Rather, please consider ... |
Profile: TagCloud | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 5 | June 2005 Bellwood, PA Corporate name is TagCloud is a service that generates a “tagcloud” (see below) based on provided URLs or feeds. A tagcloud is basically a grouping of tags associated with content, from a single or multiple sources. Tagclouds are a visual tool – tags used more often are bigger and/or darker t... |
Profile: Google Earth | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 2 | ??? Well, it’s going to be a cool tool that “combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.” However, the download is delayed, so we can’t test it yet. The certainly looks cool though. When its live, we’ll profile it. |
Profile – Shadows | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 18 | Two weeks ago Austin, TX (this is a company) . Last week they released version 2.0 of their Firefox extension (see our ), which we are still drooling over (it’s ). Two weeks ago they very quietly launched Shadows, which is a social bookmarking site. Our understanding from Dave Panos, their CEO, and Andrew Busey, t... |
Profile – Zazzle | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 20 | 1999 (zazzle.com launched 2003)
Announced on July 18, 2005 Zazzle let’s customers create customized products, ranging from tshirts to stamps, and sell them on the zazzle website. In their own words, is a relatively straightforward process of choosing prodcuts (apparel, posters, stamps, etc.), uploading image... |
Profile – Loomia | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 27 | June, 2005 San Francisco Loomia provides search, recommendations, and personalization for podcasts, videocasts, and other syndicated media. In a nutshell, their goal is to help you find content that you will enjoy based on how you rate content you’ve already absorbed. The idea is awesome, and their approach is perf... |
Profile – Simpy | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 18 |
Simpy is a social bookmarking service that can be compared to , . In their own words,
Simpy has an excellent user interface and interesting features that the competitors haven’t added. Cool features include full text search of pages (Furl has this as well) and also the ability to find broken links and ... |
Profile – SpringDoo | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 27 | Today in the US (previsously New Zealand only) Springdoo is an easy to use service where you call a toll free phone number, record a message, and then can have the message sent via email to your contacts. The email contains a link to the springdoo site, where the message is automatically played – it is not sent as a fi... |
Profile – Digg 2.0 | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 11 |
Digg 2.0 Launched: 5 hours ago (July 10, 2005) See our on Digg for a description of its functionality. Its a very useful news site that leverages user submissions and “diggs” of stories to promote content higher in various categories and the home page. Digg released version 2.0 a few hours ago. New look and fee... |
Profile – Planet Web 2.0 | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 11 | about two weeks ago Planet Web 2.0 is a website (and more importantly an RSS feed) that aggregates content from web 2.0 publishers around the web. It’s a must add feed for anyone tracking web 2.0. The sources of the content are linked on the sidebar, and include TechCrunch. :-) We first discovered the site while rea... |
Profile – IceRocket | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 29 | (Soon to be renamed ) Dallas, Texas IceRocket is a blog search engine, and a damn good one, owned by Mark Cuban. In our opinion they aren’t quite ready to take on the yet, but they are feature rich and doing some things very, very well. There are two ways that people are comparing blog search engines today: total ... |
Web 2.0 This Week (July 10 – 16) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 16 | The main Web 2.0 news this week focused on Technorati (is it dyin or is it rockin?) and the release of Atom 1.0. Lots of other random and interesting stuff as well, including important chia-pet news.
has dominated web 2.0 news this week. Posts come at it from three different but related angles: – . See no. 5 from .... |
Profile – Pluck (For Firefox) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 16 | (For Firefox) June 13, 2005 (2.0 Beta for Firefox) has a number of excellent products, including a that competes with Bloglines, NewsGator and others (see our ) as well as an that is very popular. They’ve also quietly launched a social bookmarking site called that will have increased functionality added nex... |
Update – Simpy (New Features) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 28 |
Simpy is a social bookmarking service that can be compared to , , , . Simpy released new features today, including – full text search of bookmarked sites
– a tag cloud of your bookmarks
– remove, rename, split, and merge tags From Otis on the : The most notable features concern searching and tagging. ... |
Profile – BlogPulse | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 28 |
Cincinnati, OH BlogPulse is an exemplary real-time search engine, with additional features like trends, conversation tracker and blog profiles. It’s parent company is . In their own words, The BlogPulse site offers four main services that we profile here: Search, Conversation Tracker, Trends and Profiles. Bl... |
Profile – CommonTimes | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 28 | July 13, 2005 CommonTimes is a social bookmarking site for news. Stories are bookmarked by users from around the web, and tagged. The level of prominence is determined by the number of users who have tagged the news source. In their own words, If you imagine the mainstream media exists at one extreme of top-down co... |
Profile – Doostang | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 17 | Doostang, Inc.
160 Brannan St. Suite 306
San Francisco, CA 94107 E-mail: contact@doostang.com Recently Doostang is a trust network and employment service. Once you have joined, you can post a profile, upload a resume, post and search for jobs, write testimonials and invite other people. You can join by invitation ... |
Profile – Del.icio.us (new feature) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 10 | (new feature) Josh Schachter (the creator of del.icio.us) new “tags for two” functionality yesterday. It allows direct bookmarket notification to a person, to suggest they see specific content. We first noticed a trend towards people using del.icio.us as a recommendation engine about a month ago. Fred Wilson, in... |
Update: AlwaysOn (Day One) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 19 | Great start to the conference. Cocktail hour(s) followed by a number of panels and discussions. This is clearly going to be a great event – a live webcast is available , with over 900 reported participants. The chat is lively and interesting. Tom Byers, Stanford Professor, talks about the . Interesting Presentatio... |
Update: AlwaysOn (Day Two) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 21 | , Day Two at Always On was hectic. There are two channels here – the main room with panel discussions (see schedule below) and a side room with 5 minute CEO pitches. CEO’s were judged on three areas of their presentations: Opportunity, Go to market strategy and Overall Presentation. Both channels were interesting,... |
AlwaysOn Starts Today | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 19 | We’ll be attending the AlwaysOn Conference this week. The buzz is incredible and we look forward to seeing and writing about . Updates to come. There’s a profile of AlwaysOn founder Tony Perkins in (via ). |
Profile – Google RSS Reader | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 26 | July 25, 2005 Google has added RSS and bookmark functionality to its personalized home page. Bookmark functionality is very basic – it adds a link (with an optional title) to your Google home page. It will be more interesting if they add delicious or shadows-like functionality. The RSS functionality works very much ... |
Profile – ElfURL | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 21 | July 20, 2005 . I was reading Alexander Muse’s blog this morning and saw his on ElfURL: I decided that the elves at Weblogs Work should be able to create such a tool and assigned them the task. We decided to call the Web 2.0 application elfURL. The tool is almost complete (the tagging function is not complete and th... |
Profile – Konfabulator/Yahoo Widgets | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 26 | (now ) By Yahoo, announced July 25, 2005
Konfabulator was yesterday. In their own words, Konfabulator was originally launched on February 10, 2003, for Mac only. A Windows version launched in November 2004. Konfabulator required a download and works on both the Mac and Windows platforms. The Mac download is... |
7/7/2005 | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 7 | (via ) I was on a plane to Copenhagen when it happened, terrifically happy that I had wifi and blogging away about this and that, when the IMs started coming in from friends in London. Passengers and crew came by to get updates as the flight terminated. Thankfully my friends all seem to be ok, and are now taking very... |
Profile – Google Earth (relaunch) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 7 |
Just re-launched Google Earth combines satellite imagery, aerial photos, maps and Google Search create an interesting application that allows you to view just about anywhere on the planet in at least some level of detail. It is only available on the PC platform for now. In their own words, The idea is simpl... |
Profile – Gigablast (Blog Search) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 9 | Recently Gigablast just launched a beta blog search engine at blogs.gigablast.com. Results can be viewed by “revelvance” or date. There are other options as well. However, there is no “tag” search.
Matt Wells, CEO ( ) Links:
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Profile: RocketBoom | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 9 | RocketBoom New York, NY RocketBoom is a very popular Monday through Friday videoblog, or vblog. The segments are short – around 3 -5 minutes (or less) and released weekdays at 9 am EST. RocketBoom is extremely low-budget – ( ). In their own words, RocketBoom anchorwoman Amanda Congdon is the star of the show. She... |
Profile – Talk Digger | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 31 | TalkDigger queries major blog (and other) search engines on a given URL and returns total number of links in to the site as well as other data. Clicking on the total link number takes you to the selected search engine results. 1. Result. This is the number of links to that URL. If you click on that blue number, you ... |
Profile – BlinkList | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 31 | (a company) June 2005. Major feature release :
Mike Reining (Director)
MindValley LC
236 W. Rincon Ave #B
Campbell, California,
95008 USA
Tel: (650) 387 0920 :
Vishen Lakhiani (Director)
MindValley LC
Fabrikus Building
No.1, Jln 8-91,
Taman Shamelin Perkasa, Cheras, 56100
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: (+... |
Update – IceRocket (name change) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 31 | We wrote in our on IceRocket that they were changing their name to BlogScour (based on something Mark Cuban said at AlwaysOn). Blake Rhodes, IceRocket’s CEO, called to tell me that our facts were not quite right (he also thanked us for the post). They are not going to change their name to BlogScour, but they goin... |
Profile – Gmail Drive | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 31 | v. 1.0.6 was released on July 27, 2005 Gmail drive is a service that creates a virtual hard drive folder on your Windows system, accessible through “My Computer”, that allows you to store files in your Gmail email account. The current Gmail storage limitation is 2 gigs. In their own words, GMail Drive creates a vir... |
Web 2.0 This Week (July 3 – 9) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 8 | This week we saw a number of interesting web 2.0 developments. Far outstripping everything else, however, was the terrorist attack on London on July 7. Blogs and the Internet played a big role in getting information out to people, as television lagged way behind and the cell networks were jammed.
I was flying to Euro... |
Web 2.0 This Week (July 24 – 30) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 30 | It’s been a fun-filled Web 2.0 week, capped off with today. Good stuff below. The BlogHer Conference ’05 is today, at Techmart in Santa Clara. BlogHer Conference ’05 will provide an open, inclusive forum to: 1. Discuss the role of women within the larger blog community
2. Examine the developing (and debatable) code ... |
Profile – Weblogs.com (Ping Server) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 8 | 1999 Weblogs.com was the first blogging and remains the largest. A ping service is a server that takes “pings” from blogs (and other sources). The purpose of the ping is to notify the ping server that the source has added new content. This is aggregated with other pings and, if the ping server is open, the data bec... |
Profile – NewsGator Online v. Bloglines | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 8 | 2003. in May 2005. This profile reviews only NewsGator’s . NewsGator has a number of other popular products, including an and the products offered by (recently acquired by NewsGator). We will probably profile NewsGator’s other products soon. They’ve recently , and based on its complexity (and user feedback),... |
Profile – Skype (Outlook Toolbar) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 6 | Company: ( ) July 5, 2005 (Outlook Toolbar) The basic Skype service today allows anyone with a computer to register and call/IM with any other Skype user who’s accepted them as a contact. Think of it as instant messaging with sound. And lots of people are using Skype – they have well over 100 million downloads of th... |
Profile: Userplane | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 1 | 2001 Los Angeles Userplane is an application service provider to web 2.0 companies. They offer a suite of easy-to-integrate services, built on the flash platform, including , , a and, soon, a product. Typical Userplane customers are dating and social networking sites (any site that has users who would like to... |
Profile – Connexion (Boeing) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 6 |
It’s high speed internet access in the sky. I just posted a and did it all sitting here on an SAS flight from Seattle to Copenhagen (heading to the ICANN conference in Luxembourg next week). The technology for this has been around for a few years, but this is my first experience using it. I’m skype-outing at $0.... |
Profile – FeedShake | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 24 |
July 21, 2005 (estimated) FeedShake is a website that creates a single RSS feed from multiple RSS feeds. You can also filter out posts that contain specified keywords, and/or filter in posts only if they contain specified keywords. The site is incredibly easy to use (it takes mere moments to create an aggregated fee... |
Profile: Gizmo | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 1 | <img src='http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/gizmologo.gif' alt='' border=1 / Launched: June 30, 2005 Gizmo is like skype but is built on open source. It’s available for Mac and Windows (3.1 mb download on windows), with a Linux version promised in August. A problem with Skype is that it is a closed silo – it wi... |
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