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Profile: BoingBoing | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 1 | January 21. 2000 (as a weblog) If you haven’t heard of BoingBoing, you are seriously behind in contemporary Internet culture. It is the number one most linked to blog according to Technorati ( ), by a huge margin. It is a must-read every day here at Techcrunch. It is a self-described “directory of wonderful things”,... |
Web 2.0 This Week (July 17 – 23) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 23 | It’s been a helluva week. Myspace got bought for over half a billion dollars. Podcasting died (but not really), and an important development in beer tapping technology was announced. Oh yeah, we spent the week at and learned a lot about social networking in the real world. :-) For a wrapup of AlwaysOn, see our profil... |
Profile – AttentionTrust | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 23 | Today (I believe) Attention Trust is a project led by Steve Gillmor and others that is the next evolution of his idea. It is a From a post by Steve Gillmor on March 28, 2005: So what is AttentionTrust? It’s light on content for now, but it proposes a basic set of user rights to their attention data: The idea of... |
Update: Always On (Day Three) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 23 | , , Day Three at Always On for us was a busy mishmash of hallway meetings, quick (and not so quick) trips over to Sand Hill Road, and jumping in and out of the final panels. Schedule link is . : : On Bill Joy’s fear of the power an individual has to use technology to harm us and counter-points by George Gilde... |
Update – Feedburner (BuzzBoost) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 15 | Chicago
, FeedBurner has been launching a ton of lately, and , is worth noting. In their own words, * Feed Title
* Item publication date
* Individual item headlines, headlines and plain text, or headlines and original HTML
* Plain text item excerpt length
* Link to download podcast e... |
Profile – Wikipedia | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 12 | January 15, 2001 Wikipedia has been around for over 5 years, is the (by far) and serves over 400 million page views per month (to compare, USA Today has about 300 million). Wikipedia is a free, online, user-written encyclopedia in wiki format that was created in 2001 by and . It has grown at an astonishing rate... |
Profile – Judy's Book | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 15 | July 2005 Seattle, WA Judy’s Book is a site that allows people to write 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 trust what their friends think more than advertising. The reviews are easy to writ... |
Pluck Features the TechCrunch Feed | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 22 | made TechCrunch a “featured feed” today ( ). For new subscribers (and there have been a bunch – thanks Pluck), we apologize for the slow review day today. We are still recovering from the AlwaysOn conference. Tomorrow’s weekly wrapup will be a great one, though, and we have a ton of great reviews coming up! For those ... |
Profile – Gataga (its gone) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 13 | and Just as background, Gataga was a wonderful tool for searching multiple tagging services in one go. enter a tag on the command line, and see results from delicious, furl, flickr, etc… See our profiles above more more information. We just received an email from Vic at Gataga: Just to let you know that we’ve had t... |
Profile – Browster | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 13 | Beta in February 2005, Version 1.0 launched today, Browster is a tool, (damn, I just lost half of my readers right there) that pre-fetches content from links on a web page, and makes that content available by mousing-over the link. Too see it visually click . So we dusted off IE (used only for FTP these days), do... |
Iconize Me – Online Caricatures for $15 | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 3 | will create a hand-drawn caricature of a picture that you supply to them, for $15. . Iconize Me is the creation of and and is based in New York. The service was launched two years ago, but was re-launched recently. They use Adobe Illustrator to draw and color, Adobe Photoshop so make JPEGs and GIFs, and IconFacto... |
Profile – MSN Virtual Earth | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 7 | 25 | July 23, 2005 MSN Virtual Earth is an excellent mapping/satellite imagery application. Much like ( ), it is fascinating to look at, and very useful as well. There is no download required (whereas Google Earth has a 10 meg download). In addition to excellent search features, you can autolocate via your IP address (... |
Findory is your Personalized Newspaper | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 3 | I’ve recently become interested in companies that exploit the actions and of users to provide personalized content recommendations. We wrote about efforts in this area earlier this week. is also taking a very creative crack at solving the problem (update on them soon). , which is almost two years old, is a pionee... |
Web 2.0 This Week (Aug 28 – Sept 3) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 4 | What a week. Yes, I wrote about new companies (and there are some very interesting ones), but every day brought more heartbreaking news about . By late Thursday night, I was reading on and hearing just the opposite from our federal and state leaders. Like others, I just couldn’t focus on writing about new companie... |
PocketMod – Type Stuff and Print It | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 4 | I wasn’t going to write about , and I know people are going to give me crap about it, but I keep seeing posts on it and so I finally tried it out. Other than the fact that folding the paper correctly (see screen shot below) is harder than tying a bow tie, there are one or two things I like about it. But I get ahead of... |
Organize Your Stuff With Listal | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 5 | is a very early beta product that allows you to catalog, tag and share your physical media. At this point it is free. While functionality is currently limited (heck, it’s only a few days old), the site clearly anticipates upcoming features and it looks like it can become quite useful. Since there are limited solutions... |
We're not Blogging Today | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 2 | The Katrina situation is just too horrible. I can’t get passionate about tech when a million people’s homes have been destroyed, there are dead bodies in the streets of New Orleans, our military is pointing their guns at people who just want water, and entire cities have been wiped out. Forget TechCrunch. Read and ... |
Del.icio.us Toolbar Coming | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 5 | This is definitely filed under the rumor category, but two people have separately pointed out to me a (user’s links are posted under the URL del.icio.us/[username]). Fred links to a del.icio.us toolbar Firefox Extension called (see below). In the notes section, he writes “what do we think of this one? i might try i... |
Google Wifi to Launch | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 20 | Google will in the near future. Details are slim, but the buzz is growing. It looks like the basic concept is a secure VPN – you sacrifice having Google see everything you do to ensure that other people on whatever wifi network you are on cannot (wifi sniffing is easy and widespread, and many passwords are transmitte... |
Web 2.0 This Week (September 11-17) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 18 | What a week! Skype gets acquired, Google launches RSS search and del.icio.us turns two. Lots of good web 2.0 stuff below. TechCrunch has moved from our offices in Los Angeles to Atherton, right in the heart of silicon valley. We had a and will have another one this Thursday, September 22, from 5 pm to about 10 pm (alt... |
Memeorandum Is Exceptional | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 18 | I’ve been using for about a month (since in August). Gabe Rivera, the creator, gave me a private demo and set up a demo site for me (no longer active). Like , I was hooked immediately. This is a HUGE thing to me. If you are a busy executive and only have five minutes a day to see what the blogs are saying, this is... |
JotSpot Live – The Perfect Wiki? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 27 | , a company, launched today. They’ve created an awesome wiki tool that solves at least two common wiki problems – the specialized markup language and multiple simultaneous users. I love wikis. . They are perfect for group collaboration. But wiki code is different from everything else and while it isn’t difficult, it... |
OPML – An Awesome Experiment | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 29 | We’ve been following the evolution of Dave Winer’s for most of this year ( ). We’ve experimented with it, but never fully understood all of the incredible potential that it has to organize and distribute information.. . We’ve created a directory, in OPML format, of every TechCrunch company profile. Dave has put the T... |
Pluck Expands Product Line | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 16 | ( ) is quietly building a very nice suite of web 2.0 products (see as well). They on September 12 – InSite RSS and InSite Blogging. Both products are aimed at online content publishers, particularly online newspapers. Both can generate significant revenue for Pluck, as they charge for these services. Pluck also ... |
TechCrunch MeetUp Tonight | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 16 | We had a TechCrunch BBQ tonight in Atherton, California. It started off as an informal get together but ended up with quite a few web 2.0 entrepreneurs and bloggers. Entertainment included Costco hamburgers and many bottles of good California wine. Attendees included , , , Michael Duran, , , Daniel Gould & Brian N... |
Major Overhaul at Loomia | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 16 | David Marks, the CEO of ( ) emailed me last night to tell me about new functionality and a new look and feel at the site. Loomia is an excellent podcasting and videocasting resource. You can subscribe to podcasts, and listen to them via the site or download them to your computer or device. The key value-add is their ... |
FilmLoop Demo Video | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 28 | ( ) has a 6 minute video of the founders demo’ing their product on the . It looks pretty slick. And a lot like . |
(Just a bit) More on Measure Map | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 17 | We’ve been beta testing , ‘s new blog analytics tool, for a couple of weeks now. We previously wrote about and Heather Green also wrote about it . Measure Map is an extremely useful tool for bloggers. It uses ajax and flash intelligently. Integration is very simple (adding a javascript snippet into the blog templ... |
Happy Birthday Del.icio.us! | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 17 | Del.icio.us on September 15, 2005. Happy Birthday, and Congratulations Joshua! |
Rollyo Search Launches Today | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 28 |
, which launched today, allows you to create and publish your own search engines, based on websites you decide to include. and wrote about Rollyo earlier today as well. The basic idea? Create customized searches (built on Yahoo search) that include only those sites you want to include. Search those sites for info... |
Flock Evolves, Announces Public Launch | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 17 | If you haven’t heard about yet, check out this and our from August 26, 2005. It is still in private beta, although you can request a beta invitation on their . Not sure of . sent out an email to Flock beta testers yesterday announcing that they are moving from beta 0.2 to 0.5 and making some product changes. S... |
Ajax Dictionary – ObjectGraph | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 19 | has a basic dictionary web app with ajax that’s worth mentioning. Type in a term and the results appear as you type each letter. It works much like . There are a number of dictionary options, and a thesaurus. From . Personally, I find this much more useful – but ObjectGraph’s ajax implementation gets them extra po... |
TechCrunch Meetup This Thursday | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 19 | After the success of our in Atherton last Thursday, we’re . About 25 people showed up last week, and we expect quite a few more this week. If you are in the bay area, please join us. The event is being held at our house/office in Atherton. . If you are coming, please add your name to the bottom of the wiki. If you ... |
FilmLoop! | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 19 | is a winner. You can quote me on that. There are obvious similarities with , but FilmLoop is different. (he told me yesterday something cool was launching today), FilmLoop took another step clser to launching, replacing a nondescript “sign up here” page with a full description and demo of their product. Full detai... |
70% of TechCrunch Readers use Firefox | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 26 | One of the great features of (profiled and ) is that it gives you real time stats on almost every aspect of your blog. One of the features I like to check out every once in a while is “Browsers your visitors used today”. Today I noticed that 69% of TechCrunch visitors use Firefox, whereas only 16% used Internet Ex... |
Skype Adding Video & Other Features | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 26 | Skype released parts of their product roadmap at VON in Boston last week, and screen shots are up at . Hai, Mark Blue Chinese Brah! Upcoming version 1.5, schedule to be released in October, is to add video and client-side web presence features. Version 1.6, in November, streamlines the client and adds social networkin... |
PubSub's List of Most Influential Blogs | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 26 | ( ) has been experimenting with blog stats recently (see their page). reported earlier today that PubSub has released it’s newest stats tool – a list of the . The PubSub LinkRanks 1000 is a list of the most consistently influential sites that publish feeds, based on their average LinkRank scores over the past 30 ... |
Web 2.0 This Week (September 18-24) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 26 | We had a terrific turnout for our on Thursday and look forward to hosting future events regularly (at least monthly). It is wonderful to have so many smart, obsessive people in one house for an evening – the demos were absolutely fantastic and lots of cross-pollination occured throughout the evening. Thank you again ... |
Zvents Launches Next Week | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 26 | I had a chance to see a demo of the upcoming Zvents service this evening at the office on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. Mark this one down as an ajax showcase. Zvents is a complete events ecosystem, with search, event creation, calendaring, sharing and blogging/webmaster tools (lots of ajax here) for promotion of eve... |
TailRank – A Tool for the Long Tail | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 21 | just released an alpha product for their new analytics service. My understanding is that it is a personalized search/recommendation/ranking engine for the long tail of blog content. Kevin Burton (co-founder of ), is TailRank’s founder and writes about the launch on his (subscribe to this blog if you haven’t). TailR... |
VideoEgg Launches | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 21 | , founded by three Yale graduates, launched at in Huntington Beach, CA on Monday. Given the light content on their website, my bet is that the folks at VideoEgg have been working quite hard over the last few weeks to get the product ready for release. VideoEgg is a web-based publishing service that allows users to ca... |
More SearchFox Beta Invitations Available | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 21 | ( ) just the availablility of additional invitations to their beta. If you’d like an invitation to try it out, email “support at searchfox dot com” with your preferred username, and reference code xb17. As you may have read in our , we believe they have created a potentially disruptive product in the RSS Aggregator... |
Update: TechCrunch Meetup Tomorrow | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 21 | for the this Thursday, September 22, are starting to roll in. If you are coming, please remember to sign in at the . If you’d like to give a private or public demo, please note that as well on the wiki. See you tomorrow! |
Truveo – Video Search | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 21 | is a video search engine that beta-launched a few days ago. Jeff Clavier, an investor, . If you are looking for video content, this is the place to go. Founded two years ago by a seriously of search experts, Truveo is tackling the very difficult problem of creating metadata from video out of whole cloth – unlike te... |
85% of College Students use FaceBook | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 7 |
February 4, 2004
Funded by and
32 in Palo Alto, 4 in Boston
Palo Alto I’ve long been intrigued by , the fantastically popular social network site for college and university students. FaceBook raised about $500,000 from Peter Thiel in an angel round, and $12.2 million from Accel Partners in April 2005 (a... |
Feedburner Releases Important Stats | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 21 | released on their service yesterday. If you are unfamiliar with Feedburner, check out our original . The graphs show total feeds managed by feedburner and total subscribers to those feeds. Both show hockey-stick like growth that looks similar to data released by Technorati (see item no. 2 in a past ). I believe th... |
Feedster loses CEO, gains Investor | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 7 | Big news at . Mitsui & Co., Ltd. made an (size undisclosed) in Feedster today. “We are pleased to have Mitsui as an investor,” says Chris Redlitz, Feedster’s Vice President, Sales and Marketing. “Feedster is already a market leader in blog search and content syndication. With this investment we continue to dis... |
FeedBurner's New Design | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 7 | Last week, announced a of their site. I didn’t post on it right away because the basic stats functionality remains the same. People are with the change. And I have to say FeedBurner is one of my favorite tools – without it I would have a very difficult time understanding how much of our traffic was coming thr... |
CustomScoop Offers Advanced Prospective Search | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 30 | What I like best about ‘s new prospective search/press clippings product is that it is dead simple to use. I spoke to , CustomScoop’s Chief Innovation Officer and founder, tonight about his new service. Steve Rubel has been testing CustomScoop and . CustomScoop has had a for five years. ranges from $300 – $1,500 ... |
Top Ten Things You Can Do To Get Blogged | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 8 | Our primary goal here at TechCrunch is to profile new web 2.0 companies. Finding and experiencing what new companies have to offer is exciting for us. It what gets us up in the morning. We are honestly deeply passionate about this stuff. Usually, the passion, drive and intelligence of the creators is reflected in the c... |
Goowy adds Calendar and Other Features | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 30 | is a browser based desktop tool built on Flash. See our for additional information. Until recently, Goowy’s main draw (other than it is extremely fast) was a very nice email application. Goowy also allows access of your regular email account in the Goowy UI via pop. Goowy has launched new applications on their flas... |
The Ugly (but necessary?) side of Wikipedia | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 7 | As before, I like a lot. I link to it often. And it’s getting : : “The Wikipedia, which has surged this year to become the most popular reference site on the Web, is fast overtaking several major news sites as the place where people swarm for context on breaking events.” (Steve Rubel on a Reuters article) But t... |
Free Wiki Solutions | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 1 | I’ve come accross a couple of free Wiki solutions lately and thought I’d post them here. Check out and if you’re looking for a bare bones and free Wiki solution. PBwiki also has very nice privacy features, so you can make a wiki public or private, and turn on or off editing credentials for individuals. |
WSFinder – A Wiki for open APIs | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 8 | is a wiki that provides information on existing open APIs and web services. It launched and badly needs a logo. :-) Chris Law, one of the early employees of and creator of WSFinder, : I’ve been scouring the web for some time trying to compile an initial list of APIs that people could use to create applications wi... |
Technorati Releases Major New Feature | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 1 | Dave Sifry the this evening. Derek Powazek at Technorati also posts on Blog Finder . What is it? It’s a ranked list of blogs. By Tag. David Powazek calls it “a mini Top 100 for any topic you can imagine”. Here’s . Here’s . Here’s . How good is it? I think it has some problems. Tags are publisher created and so ... |
Kiko – a Screenshot | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 1 | Kiko (see our ), an ajax calendar application, is working now and we were able to grab a screenshot. First impression: Kiko is a usable calendaring application with nice sharing features. Try it. |
Kiko – Ajax + Calendar | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 1 | Online calendar solutions are launching quite regularly now – see and for examples. But while Trumba is charging $40 a year, and Hula is an open source project, not an application that we can just use, seems to be free, simple to use, and ajax based. At least, I can’t find anything on the site referring to a fee.... |
Feedster to Release new Feature? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 6 | Somebody pointed out to me today that Tony Guntharp, a senior software engineer at Feedster (previous ), this on his blog today: So I’ve been busting my ass the past few weeks getting ready for a new feature launch for work. I’ll post more updates more frequently after the 6th including screenshots and thoughts from... |
Fooky Tests AI Search | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 6 | Ed Dunn has been developing since 1999. While it’s currently in private beta, I’ve had the opportunity to swap emails with Ed and check out the service in its current form. There is definitely something interesting about the service, and it will be worth checking out once it goes live. For now, you can view low quali... |
Remote Control Mail is a Great Idea | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 24 |
: Closing Angel Round
Portland, OR (development also in Russia) will provide you with a permanent (snail) mail address, gather all of your incoming mail, scan (the outside), notify you of its existence (with the outside scan), scan the inside if you like (for a fee), and then either forward it to you or sh... |
Successful Meetup Last Night | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 23 | Thank you to our meetup/bbq last night in Atherton. We are definitely going to do this at least monthly, and we had a number of offers for corporate sponsorships last night to cover food, drinks, etc. in the future. If you have any pictures from last night, please upload them to the (or place a link to buzznet or f... |
SoloSub takes a step towards fixing RSS | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 6 | allows sites with RSS to point to a single URL and allow the reader to then decide which RSS reader they want to use. Example is . RSS feeds today are a pain – you either need to include tons of subscription buttons to make it easier on people who don’t fully understand what the “XML” button means, or rely on autodis... |
Yahoo Releases Instant Search | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 15 | Yahoo last night (more info on this ). Like and , Yahoo has added ajax functionality to search. It’s different, though. Google Suggest and Snap use ajax to suggest search queries based on what you’ve typed in so far, whereas Yahoo has integrated basic search results into the interface. This means you can get an... |
Zimbra – Web/Ajax Based Outlook | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 12 | We saw that really well done Ajax web applications like can to the future of the computing and the place that web 2.0 has in that future. When you first view the demo you may have a similar experience. Zimbra is, basically, a web based outlook/iCal/Thunderbird application in the same way that Writely is a web bas... |
Skype sells to eBay for $4.1 Billion | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 12 | eBay the acquisition of ( ) for $4.1 billion today. $2.6 billion is being paid up front – half cash and half eBay shares. Another $1.5 billion will be paid in 2008 or later based on performance goals. Skype has 50 million registered users and about $7 million in revenue last year. This year’s revenue is projected... |
People Need to be fired at Juicy Fruit | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 13 | If you take everything good about blogging and web 2.0 and chuck it out the window, and then add back in everything that is wrong with traditional marketing, you’d end up with the . I agree with – it’s a train wreck. I am posting about it here because companies need to be ridiculed for creating crap like this. Juicy... |
SearchFox – Personalized RSS Reader | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 12 | is in private beta testing of a potentially disruptive RSS reader. It’s the first product I’ve seen that does a good job of prioritizing new content from feeds based on your historical reading behavior, as well as data gathered from the SearchFox community as a whole. This is a very big problem that I’ve written about... |
Meebo – Instant Messaging with Ajax | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 14 | Meebo, an ajax-rich web-based instant messenger application, launched today. It’s elegant and useful. There are a number of problems with instant messaging. First, most of us have too many client applications to run at one time (skype, msn, AOL, Yahoo, Google Talk, Meetro, etc…) (solutions like Trillian attempt to solv... |
Attensa Adds Tagging | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 25 | , which we , has of its feed reader for Outlook. The main new feature in the release is support for tagging of feeds, blogs and posts: We’ve integrated an incredibly easy way to tag articles and feeds using the Attensa Toolbar for Internet Explorer. Tags are simply keywords you add to add context to RSS feeds, art... |
Findory Adds Self-Evolving Feed Reader | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 25 | has a first-class personalization engine for blog and other news (see our on September 3, 2005). Findory has built up a loyal following in the nearly two years since its launch. However, many users requested the ability to include RSS feeds of their choice directly into their blog and news channels. just , making... |
Google Blog Search – First Impressions | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 14 | last night and hit the blogospere by storm. We’ve had a chance to bang on it for most of the night and morning and have a few things to report. Overall, Google Blog Search is a very worthy addition to the ranks of blog search engines. The search is completely separate from normal Google search. It can be accessed in... |
Send Voice Messages with Slawesome | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 9 | 25 | , which demo’d at the TechCrunch last Thursday, is a neat tool for recording and sending voice messages via email. Unlike , slawesome does not require a download. And unlike , Slawesome is free. Once you’ve registered, you can record a message of up to 2 minutes and send it to any number of email addresses. A link ... |
Profile – MSN Start.com | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 3 | Start.com, an RSS aggregator and search service, is one of Microsoft’s “ ” projects ( is another one). It is an application. Start.com is comparable to . The primary features include a drag and drop interface, easy addition of RSS feeds (although auto-discovery doesn’t seem to work very well, it hung multiple ti... |
Update – Browster (for Firefox) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 3 | Browster announced . See our for more information on what Browster does. From their : Browster pre-fetches Web pages listed in search results and includes the first instant page rendering capability. Users can then view this page, or the entire web site in the Browster window. As users browse their search links, B... |
Profile – Best Page in the Universe | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 3 | This website is very, very funny. I’m not allowed to make normal postings today because and he’s demanded that (i) I start using Photoshop for images, and (ii) I write only “standards based postings”. :-) So in the meantime I though I’d profile “The Best Page in the Universe”, a very funny site. My favorite page is h... |
TechCrunch News | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 3 | has hit a milestone, and is celebrating with a makeover. We grew to over 500 daily RSS readers yesterday (about six weeks after our initial launch). People seem to like our content and until now have overlooked our fairly pathetic design skills. Well, today that changes! We hired all-star developer and web designer ... |
Profile – Indeed | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 4 | Indeed is not a newly launched site, but the job space seems to be and so we are going to profile a number of web 2.0 jobs-related sites and services in the coming week. Upcoming profiles include , , and others. At its core, is a vertical search engine for jobs. It has a huge data set – Indeed gathers jobs from... |
Profile – Simply Hired | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 5 | Yes, we have been infatuated with jobs sites these couple of days. Trust me, there’s more to come. This space is moving and we fully intend to jump on the train. Or in front of it. Hope to have a profiel of up later today as well.
is a vertical search engine for jobs and can be compared to , its primary compet... |
Profile – Collaborative Rank (Del.icio.us) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 4 | is an experiment created by The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. It is a search engine front end for bookmarks. The search engine is heavily influenced by what they describe as the . This doesn’t just look at who bookmarks the most pages, but who bookmarks things quickly, and in ways that other... |
Update – IceRocket (Link Tracker) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 5 | released their tool for website owners. There are a couple of fairly simple integration options. This tool will insert a link at the bottom of each of your posts. The link will be to an IceRocket page that shows all posts and websites linking to your post’s URI. Along with comments, trackbacks and pingbacks, this i... |
Profile – Protopage | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 18 | Virtual desktops are in vogue this week. Unlike Goowy ( ), which is flash based, is all Ajax, baby. Visually is is both functional and beautiful. Drag, drop, add, and delete. Totally cool. Applications are somewhat limited for now: sticky notes, to-dolists, favorite links and quick searches. Also, the initial start p... |
Profile – Skylook (for Skype) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 20 | Outlook is cool. Skype is cool. Get a couple of Australians to bang them together and what do you get? . It skypefies Outlook and it’s awesome. Skype does already have a product for Outlook, which we . Skylook is much more advanced and easy to use (although, unlike Skype’s Outlook Toolbar, it is not free). The downlo... |
Dig into the Music Long Tail – Pandora | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 20 | (formerly Savage Beast Technologies)
(private alpha)
Within two weeks
50 (including 30 musicians)
Oakland, CA Do you love music? Are you the kind of person who’s pissed off because your iPod only holds 60 gigs? If you are, stop reading this, click over to and request an invitation to their private al... |
Weblogs Work – These Guys Build Cool Stuff | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 27 | , based in Dallas, Texas, is a web 2.0 consultancy, incubator and overall cool group of people. I’m finding that I spend more and more time talking with these guys about new ideas, and we are linking to eachother so often that people are starting to talk. :-) Weblogs Work designs, builds and promotes new applications, ... |
Profile – Blogtronix | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 18 | Corporations, even , are starting to blog and otherwise interact directly with their customers. New startups are rushing to fill the blogging needs of these corporations.
is the newest entrant in this space. , Blogtronix is headquartered in Oakland, CA, and has additional offices in Colorado and Bulgaria. Blogtron... |
Update – Technorati (being Acquired?) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 11 | A by B.L. Ochman ignited rumors that may be acquired in the near future: Here’s a tip I was given this morning from a venture capitalist who is “heavily invested” in the blogosphere: Technorati is about to be sold to a large search engine company. The deal should go down in about a week. My bet is on Yahoo! Where’s... |
Update – Pluck (new product releases) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 11 | Pluck three product updates on August 9, 2005 – Pluck 2.0 for Internet Explorer, Firefox and their Web product (web product image on left). A key new feature is that all of these products syncronize feeds (and will hopefully syncronized read/unread posts in the next version). Pluck also does an excellent job of expla... |
Group Search with Raw Sugar | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 27 | is somewhat similar to , which we profiled yesterday. Raw Sugar basically combines del.icio.us type social bookmarking, with search (of your and other’s bookmarks, along with google results). You can save a URI found in Raw Sugar Search results, or use a bookmarklet to save any browsed page (support at this time for ... |
Update – Qumana (new feature) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 11 | (TechCrunch ) is a blog editor that works with virtually all blogging software. See our previous profile for more information, but you can drag and drop images, have the text look exactly like you want it to without html or formatting tags, and write and edit posts even when you are offline. In our opinion it is th... |
Update – Browster (Firefox surging ahead) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 11 | Scott Milener, the CEO of Browster, just left a on our last Browster posting. After supporting Firefox for only a couple of weeks (actually, about a week), it accounts for 1/3 of total downloads: thanks for posting and for the kind words about Browster. We’re really happy to be supporting Firefox. We’re now getti... |
Feed Aggregator Market Share | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 11 | TechCrunch is two months old today. To celebrate, I thought we’d reveal our RSS Aggregator market share breakdown. Our numbers are much different than those published by and . The main difference is Pluck has surged way, way ahead – are others seeing this trend as well? (July 2005) (removing 10 most popular feeds):... |
Profile – Bitty Browser | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 16 | is a mini-browser that can be embedded into a web page. It is the creation of Scott Matthews. I spoke with Scott earlier today. He’s taking customer feedback and will be releasing new features soon. Scott calls his project “picture-in-picture” for the web. He also points out that it is a perfect way to bridge the ... |
Attensa – The Smart RSS Reader | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 29 | is a world class RSS reader that is attacking the multi-platform syncronization problem (I’ll explain that) and is also looking very seriously at the issue from a unique perspective (a good thing). Attensa launched their first product at Gnomedex in June – an Outlook based reader that is lightning fast and has been ... |
Rate Your Date on Gahbunga | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 29 | launched . It was created by the guys at ( ) and is at least as interesting as , another Texas dating startup (I think these two companies should work together). The idea? It’s “hot or not” for your cell phone. You take a picture of someone (hopefully with their permission). It’s sent to your friends and, if you d... |
BAR Camp & OPML Roadshow | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 16 | What a great weekend to be in the bay area: For those of us not invited to this year, there is an alternative which looks to be equally (or more) exciting: . No invitation required. It’s not anti-Foo Camp, it’s just different. I’m looking forward to attending (and blogging) about the event. As Ross Mayfield , “The ... |
Profile – Kahuna (Hotmail beta) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 16 | Kahuna (the new hotmail with Ajax) hasn’t launched yet, but the Start.com team ( ) has been working on it seriously since May 2005 and it is now in ( ). From posts by the Kahuna team (see below) and various ( watching the space), it looks like it as as signifcant an enhancement to Hotmail as is to the old ... |
Profile – Vemail | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 16 | Vemail is a cool little (234k download) voice-2-email application for windows machines. There aren’t many features, but it does what it does well. Once you install and launch the application, you simply type in an email address (no support for multiple emails), hold the F6 button and talk. If you have a microphone, i... |
TechCrunch blew a hard drive today | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 16 | We’ve had a in traffic these last few days and apparently our server had something to say about it. We’ve lost everything since yesterday (last backup) but will get the recent posts up again later tonight. Apologies. |
Pandora is Launching, Right Now | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 28 | just stopped playing music. I went to their site and saw this message: After a successful preview period, Pandora will be open to the public starting very soon. We’re updating our systems to support the full public version. Please check back tomorrow… and enjoy the music! By the time I wake up tomorrow I expect Pandor... |
Collaborative Writing – Unblokt | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 28 | Sometimes blog (and any other) writing day after day is hard. The creative juices stop flowing. You have something interesting to talk about, but the words just don’t . reads (real books) to blog better. Others take the weekend off (I don’t remember where I read this). I just sit in front of my computer and listen to... |
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