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Web 2.0 This Week (August 21-27) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 28 | I spent most of this week in Palo Alto working on Archimedes Ventures projects. I was able to post about most of the companies I met at Bar Camp (with one notable exception, which is to come). Lots of interesting Web 2.0 news to report from the week as well. continues to lead the small but growing group of blogs defin... |
Update – Technorati (multiple tag search) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 17 | just announced that . With this new functionality, you can do a single search and find posts that have any of the two or more tags you type in. Niall says: You can now search Technorati for multiple tags! Just separate each tag with the word “OR” to add an posts tagged with your specified tag to your search results. ... |
Profile – Goowy | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 17 | has rebuilt a number of commonly used applicatons (like email) in Flash. It includes traditional web services such as email, contacts, calendar, games and widgets. Goowy is highly interactive and, as you’d expect with a flash application – fast. Visually it is a very beautiful site as well, and I wasted a good amount ... |
Event – Bar Camp (Day 1) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 19 | Today I drove over 300 miles (Los Angeles to Palo Alto) to get to . I believe that was the farthest distance anyone traveled, although I haven’t fact-checked that yet. In fact, I haven’t fact checked anything below, so if there are errors please email me or leave a comment and I’ll fix it. It was worth the drive. The ... |
Update – Rojo (new stuff) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 19 | Rojo launched two new features this week: expanded tag functionality and top 100 feeds. Rojo now lists the subscribed to by users. The top ten include the usual suspects, which at least shows that Rojo users are pretty mainstream v. other readers. They call it the . You can also view the most read feeds for any give... |
The Big Moo by Seth Godin | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 26 | is my favorite business writer right now. In fact, as I look around, my desk is littered with copies of his books – (my favorite), , and . Read these books and learn about how to build and market products that will excite your customers. See for a short interview with Seth by Brian Oberkirch. I haven’t had the o... |
Rollyo – Roll your own search engine | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 26 | Due to a misunderstanding, I posted a profile of Rollyo while the company was in private beta and did not want any publicity (the misunderstanding was that I didn’t know this when I posted). They have requested that I remove the post for now, and I am complying. Nothing heavy, I just received a very polite email reque... |
Flock – Social Browsing is Cool | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 26 | is a new browser, built on top of firefox. It is a functional browser with excellent features (including firefox features like tabbed browsing, etc.). What really makes is stand out are two additional features they’ve added to build social networking directly into the browsing experience: social bookmarking and a wysi... |
Event – Bar Camp (Day 2) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 21 | Day 2 of was, if possible, more interesting than Day 1 (perhaps becasue Day 1 was only 5 hours, while Day 2 was a full 24 hours). I had to slip out in the late afternoon to go to the in Berkeley, but saunterd back in late evening just as the drinking binge was getting into full swing. But the drinking and partying ... |
Google Sidebar to Launch Monday | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 21 | I just saw this link to . Thanks ! The is reporting that Google will release a new product tomorrow called “Sidebar”. As far as I can tell the product is not available at Google yet (as of 10:00 PM PST on Sunday). The WSJ reports that Sidebar will be available on Monday and will provide information including email,... |
Dave Winer's Purple Cow – the OPML Editor | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 21 | Dave Winer has been working on outlining software for over 20 years. Check out his (OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language) that has recently come out of private beta – people are using it for everything from writing and updating simple to-do lists to creating and editing blogs. It’s extremely versatile an... |
Web 2.0 This Week (July 31 – Aug. 6) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 7 | A lot happened in our web 2.0 world this last week. Lots of new data was published by Dave Sifry and Technorati, additional work was done on the definition of “web 2.0″, as well as lots of other developments (see below for all). I was forced to cut some things from the wrapup this week because otherwise it would hav... |
Profile – Zopa | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 7 | , based in London, is a lending network. Zopa synidicates loans requested by “borrower” members out to “lender” members, based on criteria and parameters set by both parties. Zopa stands for “Zone of Possible Agreement”, which “is the overlap between one person’s bottom line (the lowest they’re prepared to get for ... |
Skype Now Has Call Forwarding | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 31 | (previous ) – 1.4.0.45 – of their client today. There are a bunch of new features (all are listed below), but there is one that really interesting feature that in my opinion changes the whole VOIP game. Skype now has a true call forwarding feature, I hadn’t picked up on this until I read a great Skype blog called ... |
Update – Meetro (Google Acquisition?) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 9 | There are that ( ), a location aware instant messaging platform and application, may be this week. We’ve been using meetro for a couple of weeks and love the service. |
Profile – MSN Filter | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 9 | is the latest MSN product release from Microsoft. Filter is a blogging network similar to ( ) and – meaning they have hired bloggers to blog about specific subject areas and let them go. They’ve already evolved the product (by adding the blogger’s name, something they were originally criticized for not having), an... |
Google Purge is on the way (humor) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 31 | The (yeah, the Onion :-)) that Google will soon be launching “Google Purge”. Google Purge will, apparently, be an effort to . I’m a big fan of the Onion, and they really nailed it this time. From the article: The new project, dubbed Google Purge, will join such popular services as Google Images, Google News, and G... |
Ojos – Auto Name & Tag Your Photos | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 31 | hasn’t launched yet, and may even change it’s name. But a bit of buzz has started about them already, stoked by a post by and followed by . The company’s founders include Burak Gokturk, a Stanford Ph.D. who holds 15 patents in facial recognition (according to Rob Hof) (other team members below), which gives us some... |
Writely – Process Words with your Browser | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 31 | Imagine Word, but as an ajax browser application that was free. And allowed tagging of documents. And you could set reader permissions for each document you create and allow others to edit the document, or just read it. That’s what is. pointed it out to me this evening during a long Google Talk chat. It is a very f... |
Profile – YouTube | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 8 | YouTube is very much like flickr ( ), but for videos. You can upload videos in a number of different formats ( .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG ). Videos can be of any length, but must be less than 100 mb in total size. Editorial restrictions consist of no “nudity and your video must be appropriate for all audiences.” ( ). For add... |
Update – Indeed (Raised Money) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 8 | from the New York Times, and Allen & Company. This comes on the heals of Simply Hired’s last week ( ). Congratulations Indeed! The money aside, a strategic partnership with the NYT is absolutely tremendous. (Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham) and Allen & Co. is also worth more than the money they’ve raised. This re... |
XMHD (Gmail Hard Drive) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 1 | XMHD is a service that allows you to use a Google Gmail account as a virtual hard drive. If you don’t have a gmail account (which requires an invitation), don’t worry. They’ll invite you. XMHD is similar to , which we profiled yesterday. However, whereas Gmail Drive is an actual virtual drive on your Windows machine (... |
Profile – Blinksale | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 6 | Want an easier way to manage invoices? is for you. And even if invoices aren’t a problem for you, take a minute and check out their site. It is visually and functionally . It oozes AJAX and Rails, and thoughtful, creative design. That’s not surprising, since a design company specializing in AJAX, , created the site... |
Meetro | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 1 | Wired published an on Meetro today. Meetro is an instant messaging service that works both as a stand alone client and also integrates with other IM services (AOL and ICQ for now, others to come later). Meetro determines where you are phyically located automatically (or you can override by telling it manually) and s... |
Profile – YorZ | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 6 | YorZ (pronounced “Y” “or” “Z”, but the founders about it) is a job referral site that pays bounties to people who refer the person who becomes employed. It is very early stage but nevertheless has an interesting business model and a of founders and employees. I spoke with the two founders today, Brian Goler and Kev... |
Update – AttentionTrust | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 6 | (TechCrunch ) has started to approve websites, and Steve was nice enough to send our’s today. Your application for the AttentionTrust has been accepted. Your name will now appear on the list of supporters on www.attentiontrust.org. Please use the HTML code below to display the AttentionTrust badge on your site. ———... |
Kahuna (Hotmail Beta) – extreme marketing, new teasers | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 24 | I am a little bit annoyed right now. Sometimes people get a little too cute. Microsoft’s Kahuna may be falling into that category. I’m pretty excited about Kahuna because I love ajax and this is going to be one cool ajax application. It looks like (and should be) the new version of Hotmail will act very much like a des... |
Google Talk Live, Functional | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 23 | There’s been blog chatter all day about . I didn’t write about it because I couldn’t use it (it hadn’t launched yet) and I certainly wasn’t “breaking” the story. Not only that, it seems to me that Skype already has a quite nice and functional application to do this type of thing. made me sort of think things had go... |
Hula – (possibly) a New Ajax Calendar | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 23 | We just heard about a new online calendar application called Hula that’s ajax-based. It hasn’t launched and we can’t find the website for it, are linking to a couple of flash movies that show it in action. This reminds us of Apple’s iCal. The power of Ajax to make web apps work like desktop apps is awesome. I jus... |
Update – Del.icio.us (search & recommend) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 15 | , a social bookmarking service (see previous profiles above), launched two new important features recently – and . Both of these features are much needed tools to help users find tagged URIs. These tools will greatly assist users in researching related tags and to find good, related content to stuff they are interes... |
Profile – Pheedo | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 12 | is a network that brings advertisers to blogs. I spoke with , Pheedo’s Chief Marketing Officer, earlier this week to get a better understanding of the business. Bill joined Pheedo as part of their . Advertisements are inserted into feeds and/or the blog itself. Today, ads are text-based, with graphical ads being rol... |
Profile – Consumating | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 13 | is dating 2.0. Yes, it’s . They also use a bit of Ajax in their interface. After registering (it’s free), you create an online profile. The key difference between this and other dating sites is that you write tags for what you are looking for, and how you describe yourself. I registered (purely for research purposes,... |
Profile – FeedCatch | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 13 | Thanks to who pointed me to ‘s new . FeedCatch is a nice little tool that allows you to take any feed and archive posts indefinetely (or less so if you set the parameters to do so). there are a number of default options, including: It takes just a few seconds to set up a feed and choose the parameters for archivi... |
TechCrunch on Slashdot | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 14 | Our was “ ” today. I was wondering why traffic spiked 4x this morning. Congrats to , and good luck with your servers. :-) Mercury News also picked up the YouTube profile on (Matt Marshall). YouTube is having a good PR day. |
Web 2.0 This Week (August 7-13) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 14 | This has been a week of challenges and successes. Challenging because I am on a driving trip from Anacortes, WA to Los Angeles, and although you can now get , I have no tools for getting access in a car, or dealing with sun glare. Successful because we’ve met and profiled some great new companies (see no. 1 below), an... |
Measure Map is Coming | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 22 | I just heard a very juicy rumor (some already on Technorati about this) that Adaptive Path is coming out with a very cool new Ajax application called . The site is taking registration requests now. People who are participating in the alpha are drooling. It’s apparently a blog analytics tool that crushes everything e... |
The Personal Bee – A Better Way to Read News | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 22 | There’s something I’ve been griping about for a long time (most recently to on the first evening of ): I read hundreds of feeds every day (320 as of today), and it takes frickin forever to go through it all. in a massive number of posts from hundreds of feeds than clicking on each feed and screening it yourself. ... |
Web 2.0 This Week (August 14-20) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 22 | It’s late on Sunday night and I have so much to write about – this last week was absolutely amazing. I met so many interesting people at and added their blogs to my reader. I am now reading over 320 blogs and loving the Internet more than ever. I’m tired, but full of energy! This week’s summary is below. As I’ve me... |
Pandora to launch next week | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 8 | 25 | ‘s founder, Tim Westergren, sent an email out to all beta testers announcing that Pandora will go live next week, and extending the free trial period for beta testers to September 28. Pandora has had an overwhelmingly positive blogger response to their beta. I assume the general launch will be well received as well. Ou... |
Profile: Google Wallet | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 20 | Google (Wallet) This hasn’t launched yet, but there is some buzz around the blogosphere (and the ) that Google is planning on launching a competing payment service to . Is this Web 2.0? I so. If its p2p, which I imagine it would be, then it certainly is. From the WSJ article: Google has a hill to climb – paypal... |
Profile: Weblogs, Inc. | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 20 | September 24, 2003 Weblogs, Inc.
2200 Colorado Avenue, Suite 729
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone: 310-828-8284
Fax: 310-861-0600 or Weblogs, Inc.
The Chrysler Building
132 East 43rd Street, Suite 1000
New York, New York 10017 The Weblogs, Inc. network of weblogs (WIN) is a blog network – literally an affiliation... |
Profile: Technorati (New) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 20 | Technorati fully launched their new beta with a slightly different look than the beta announced 10 days ago (profile ). Complete list of new features can be seen (Dave Sifry’s blog) and at the new Technorati corporate Blog ( ). I saw this earlier at the technorati site, and saw at The Blog Herald. The new site is... |
Profile: BlogAds | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 18 | BlogAds is an Ad network for big blogs, and only big blogs. From their site, you generally need at least 1,000 daily readers. From their FAQs: The ads are “skyscraper” format and can include images, text and a link. See the screen shots below for examples. Publishers choose the blog(s) that they would like to adverti... |
Profile: Digg | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 18 | More recent profile of Digg . Digg is very early stage, sort of pre-beta. But its getting some buzz. Think of it as slashdot but potentially better. We first came accross it at and after checking out the service ourselves we were quite impressed. In their own words, Stories are first submitted by a user, along wi... |
Profile: Celebrity Flicker | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 27 |
May 2005 Celebrity Flicker is a website that posts pictures of celebrities and related images (movie art, etc.). The site isn’t very deep and appears to focus on less-than-fully-dressed women, so it isn’t exactly an imdb.com replacement. However, it has a single interesting feature that makes it web 2.0 relevant –... |
Profile: PostSecret | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 18 |
Germantown, Md. January 1, 2005 Postsecret is a weblog that asks people to submit 4-by-6-inch postcards that contain anonymous secrets. The postcards are scanned and placed on the website. PostSecret has thousands of daily visitors and a quick check of RSS reed subscriptions shows thousand of people get RSS feeds... |
Profile: Google Video | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 27 | June 27, 2005. The service is now live. To use it, you must download their VLC client (about 1 mb) . Once it is installed, you can search for videos ( ), and videos that have an arrow icon next to them (see screen shots below) can be viewed by clicking on the icon. Non-free videos will eventually be integrated wit... |
Google Video Launching Today? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 27 | The net is ablaze with stories that Google will release its video viewer today (uploads have been available since ). The viewer will be based on the open-source . We will profile this as soon as it becomes available. There is a at Google Video for the viewer, but an install on our Windows machine did not work pro... |
Plazes Profile | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 11 | Plazes made an announcement at in Copenhagen on June 10, 2005, although the service has been around since at least January. In their own words, To gain full functionality, you must install a 1.11 mb file on your computer. I did this, and it had trouble syncing with my router. I’m not surprised, since my internet c... |
FeedLounge Profile | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 11 |
The FeedLounge web-based RSS reader was announced on June 9, 2005. Feedlounge is the newest entrant into the increasingly crowded RSS Reader space. Feedlounge is web-based, like , , and , and has tagging (both feeds and posts), saving items indefinitely, and flagging items. Scott Sanders, one of the founder... |
Technorati Beta Profile | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 11 | (Public Beta Redesign) Technorati is Web 2.0 “old school”: one of the original (and best) real-time search engines. It requested customer feedback and has used it to launch an extensive redesign of their site as a public beta. The original site is still up at and the beta, for now, is at . Technorati claims to be... |
Weblogs, Inc. adds Spanish & Japanese sites | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 27 | Previous Profile: June 20, 2005 ( ) Weblogs, Inc. has launched , and versions of it’s popular blog engadget.
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Profile: Yahoo My Web 2.0 | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 29 | June 29, 2005 MyWeb2.0 is a social search engine We’ve used and abused it for a day, and in our opinion it’s good – a bit like regular yahoo plus furl ( ). It was launched today as an early beta version “for a limited number of users.” There could be a cutoff, so it’s a good idea to sign up soon if you want an early... |
Profile: Rainy Daze | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 29 |
Rainy Daze is NOT web 2.0. It screams web 1.0. But there is a reason why its here. I read an article today (referred from ) that was written by Troy Angrinon called “Shifting paradigms: The mental evolutionary process of moving from web 1.0 to web 2.0 in 17 steps” ( ) (and who, I note, writes with ( ). The artic... |
Profile: Feedster | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 29 | March 2003 Founded by Scott Johnson in March 2003. Merged with RSS-Search founded by François Schiettecatte in June 2003. Announced Series A funding on June 2, 2005 led by Selby Venture Partners. Other investors include Omidyar Network, members of the New York Angels, Kevin Hartz, co-founder of Xoom, Joe Kraus, co... |
Profile: Flickr | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 16 | Acquired by Yahoo in March 2005 – Flickr is one of the defining web 2.0 applications. You can upload photos. Lots of services do that. But what Flickr did as well was to allow sharing and tagging of photos, allowing for rich networking and sharing of pictures and, more importantly, . And, Flickr has the critical m... |
Profile: Del.icio.us | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 16 | early 2004 Seed funding in early April, 2005 (rumored $2 millionish) by Union Square Ventures, Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital, Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein, Josh Kopelman, Howard Morgan, Tim O’Reilly, and Bob Young. Deli.cio.us is also one of the defining web 2.0 applications. It was created by . Delicio... |
Profile: Trumba | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 16 | : June 10, 2005 $4.75 million in July, 2004 – Funded by August Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Trumba is an online calendar. Think Outlook but where multiple people/groups can author and view the calendar. Share it with some people, or publish it to the web. Yes, it’s Outlook on steroids. Trumba bring... |
Profile – eTamp | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 16 | eTamp is a web-based RSS reader. As a publisher you can add your feed without authentication (you must input your RSS feed, it cannot pull it from the base URL). It was easy to add Techcrunch. As a user, you can add from pre-selected content via browsing or searching. It doesn’t appear to flag new content.
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Update: Google Video Cracked | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 29 | June 27, 2005. , A Norwegian guy took one day to crack Google’s new video viewer so that it plays video from any server, which is what VLC originally did. This is what Google should have done in the first place anyway. Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, posted software on his “So Sue Me” Web site that he sa... |
Profile: iTunes 4.9 | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 28 | June 28, 2005
As was widely anticipated, iTunes 4.9 launched today (22 mb download) for both windows and mac platforms. It includes significant new and enhanced features, including, most notably, support for podcasts. Michael Gartenberg on iTunes 4.9: The software is excellent and includes – all podcasts are cu... |
Profile: Rojo | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 17 | San Francisco, CA Closed Beta – October 2004, Open Beta – April 20, 2005 Rojo is a web-based RSS Reader (list of all ) that combines great “standard” RSS feader features with tagging and social networking. It is an interesting experiment that is getting a lot of buzz. The service is completely free for users. I... |
Profile: Podscope | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 17 | Fairfield CT April 19, 2005 Podscope makes audio files searchable by text keywords. It works pretty well. Search results show lists of podcasts that include the keyword, with links to the podcast. Also, you can also listen to a short 10 second snippet of the portion of the cast that includes the term you’ve searched... |
Profile: Del.icio.us Direc.tor | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 26 | June 22, 2005 del.icio.us direc.tor is an Ajax client-side bookmarklet application that, in the words of , From the site: It is easy to install and is a wonderful interface for Delicious. Johnvey Hwang
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Profile: PodTech | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 21 | May 23, 2005 ( ) PodTech is a wonderful set of podcast interviews that is updated very frequently and features top tech celebrities (recent podcasts include interviews with , , , , and others). What got our attention is the sheer quality (not to mention quality) of people John is interviewing, and how quickly h... |
Profile: Furl | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 19 | Founded in the spring of 2003 by Mike Giles. Acquired by on September 23, 2004 “The origin of the name came from the very geeky description of what the system does – File URLs. If you can enter a URL and see it in your browser, we can save it for you. Once the name started being used and it was time to find a rep... |
Profile: Gataga (extended features) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 21 | Previous Profile: Gataga has just notified TechCrunch of new functionality: – (through Flickr)
– The new functionality allows tag searches of flickr images. It works well, if a little slow (give them time, their server has been crushed with users). This is a great addition to the overall tagging meta-search, and... |
Profile: BadFruit | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 21 | BadFruit has a product called BadApple that is a plug-in for iTunes. It expands ITunes functionality to view and add podcasts directly into iTunes. This is NOT the iTunes support for podcasts announced by Steve Jobs a few weeks ago that will be included in the next version (4.9) of iTunes (and will allow for creation... |
Profile: FeedNation | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 30 | FeedNation is a web-based RSS aggregator that just opened up for business. It has some cool features, like RSS2Email that are very interesting. It looks like it supports tagging as well. Full Profile later. |
Profile: Vertical Leap Conference | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 30 | Tuesday, June 28 2005, 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM Vertical Leap was an exceptional one-day conference held in the heart of Silicon Valley earlier this week, hosted by and . In their own words, The event focused on search, obviously, and web 2.0 themes were prevalent throughout. The event was very well blogged and we’ve ... |
Profile: PodShow | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 24 | Miami & New York 2004 (PodShow site launched March 2005)
PodShow.com is part of a family of companies/shows under , which was founded in 2004 by and Ron Bloom.
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These companies each do different things: looks to be the main brand for the network of companies. It is currently mostly an i... |
Profile: Twingine | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 24 | Norway Twingine was created by . It was previously, infamously, known as “YaGoohoo!gle”, but after discussions with Yahoo and Google Trademark lawyers, Asgeir to “Twingine”. It’s a fun tool. A search yields a two pane results screen with Yahoo and Google results side-by-side. Asgeir Nilsen
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Profile: BuzzNet | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 23 | March 2003 Buzznet, Inc.
2404 Wilshire Blvd. #11b
Los Angeles, CA 90057
(213) 252-8999 phone
(213) 252-8955 fax BuzzNet is a photo-sharing community. It’s hard to talk about BuzzNet without comparing and contrasting it to Flickr. It shares most or all of Flickr’s strengths, and has a few additional features as w... |
Profile – Talkr | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 15 | New Hampshire April 18, 2005
Talkr is a site/service that converts text feeds directly into audio files. For instance, to listen to this post, click . As a blogger, signing up is relatively simply. Steps: 1. Make a request at the site
2. They quickly send a follow up email, with a link to a that you must phy... |
Profile – Qumana | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 15 | In fact, I’m using Qumana right now to write this post. :-) |
Profile – VSkype | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 15 | Santa Cruz, California June 15, 2005
vSkype is a new product launch by (disclaimer: , a partner at Archimedes Ventures, was formerly the CEO of Santa Cruz Networks). vSkype is an add-on to Skype that lets you have up to on a . We tested the software out this morning and it works very, very well. Voice and vi... |
Google Reviews Profile | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 12 | There’s not much on the web about this yet, but Google is apparently looking at the reviews space and has put a very light experiment up on their site. I say “light” because the only product reviews they have up as of today are for Star Wars III. It looks like the first post on Google Reviews was by in a post dated M... |
BackPack Profile | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 12 | BackPack launched in early May 2005, and it is one of the defining web 2.0 applications. BackPack does one thing very, very well – organize your personal information online. It has a basic package that is free, and it is one of the first applications built on and . If you aren’t familiar with these development pla... |
Odeo Profile | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 13 | : San Francisco Private Beta
Odeo will be a a podcast service that lets users search, find, and subscribe to podcasts, as well as a tool to create your own podcasts with minimal hardware. Odeo is built on . In their own words, There isn’t much to see yet because their product is only available via an invitation-... |
YubNub Profile | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 13 |
At first glance this looks sort of like a search engine or something, but its not. It is way neater than that. YubNub is a “command line for the web” and was built with . What this means is that you can access web applications (like google, amazon, and everything else) via the command box on YubNub’s website. A co... |
SNOCAP Profile | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 14 |
September, 2002 Snocap allows those who own rights to music to place them onto p2p networks and retail sites with . This means that, through Snocap, music can theoretically be controlled (charged for and copies restricted) and still leverage the extremely popular p2p sites for distribution. It was founded by ... |
FeedBurner Profile | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 14 | Chicago FeedBurner is a service that takes a normal, everyday RSS or Atom feed of any kind and turns (burns) it into a feed that you can then distribute to readers for use in any RSS reader. The company currently hosts more than 60,000 combined RSS and Atom feeds for over 40,000 content publishers. The company’s ... |
Profile – PubSub | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 14 | New York February 9, 2004 PubSub, which is short for “publish and subscribe”, is a future search engine. It’s also called “persistent search”. Users input keywords on subjects that they are interested in. The keywords are stored, or “persistent”. PubSub’s matching engine compares these stored/persistent queries aga... |
Gataga Profile | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 13 | <img src='https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/07/gatagalogo.gif' alt='' / What is it? Gataga is a social bookmarking search engine. As of today, it indexes bookmarks from , , , , , , and . They added furl, simpy, spurl and connotea literally overnight at the request of . Alexandra also suggested R... |
Profile: Odeo (Update) | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 22 | June 13, 2005 Lots of Odeo beta invites went out today, and TechCrunch received one. We signed up. We did things. Everything worked, except the “create podcast”, which they told us up front wouldn’t work. In their own words, – 6.3 meg syncr download (allows easy syncing with mp3 players, auto adding, etc.)
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Profile: Sxip | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 22 | October 2003 Vancouver, BC, Canada The Sxip Network (“sxip” is pronounced “skip”) is an identity management registry for both users and websites/services/ASPs. They have presented at conference and have generated lots of discussion. This is a single-sign-on solution. Think Passport, but decentralized and you don’t... |
Profile: ufeed | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 22 | June 2005 ufeed aggregates posts from your blog, posts to delicious and pictures posted to flickr into a single web page that they host, with an RSS feed. The service is associated with . It’s pretty raw right now, but functional, and new features are promised. You can use their service without registering, althoug... |
Profile: Bloglines | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 6 | 22 | Oakland, CA July 1, 2003 ( ) Acquired by Ask Jeeves on February 8, 2005 ( ) Bloglines is a free, web based RSS reader. It’s the most popular, with NewsGator/Feeddemon a close second by number of users. If you are new to RSS, Bloglines is a very good place to start (for a complete list of web-based RSS readers, see ... |
Glide Effortless is Too Much Effort | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 5 | is a service that will help you upload and share just about any type of file – photos, MP3 files, video clips and even Word, PowerPoint or PDF documents. A article by David Pogue talks about the service in mostly glowing prose: THIS system means that you never actually send any files, so you don’t clog anyone’s in-b... |
Boltfolio Launches – Share Any Media | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 5 | I received scored of emails on “ ” post last month from passionate users of various products as well as a number of stealth companies preparing for launch. One of the most interesting companies to launch in this space is New York based . Until recently, Boltfolio was unknown to me. What I like best about Boltfolio is ... |
Protopage v 2.0 | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 5 | version 2.0 of its Ajax desktop today. I previously in August. There are a number of new and interesting features, which are described in the Protopage . It continues to be extremely fast and easy to use. Protopage was an earlyish entrant into the Ajax desktop market, which is now crowded with products like , ,... |
Inform.com Re-Launches with Major Feature Changes | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 5 | , a recently launched news aggregator, is re-launching on Monday with a number of feature additions and enhancements. I am calling this a “re-launch” because the changes are significant and affect the core platform of the site. The most significant change is that Inform is no longer operating within a “pop-up”, a proce... |
iPod Video Dating, with Tags | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 3 | , which on November 16, is a video dating site with tagging that focuses on allowing members to download videos of people they are interested in to their iPod. The service is free and allows searching by tag, gender and zip code. It seems like adding an RSS feed for a search is an obvious feature to add, but it’s not... |
Transcribing Podcasts | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 2 | at the Business 2.0 blog found a company that is tackling one of the opportunities I mentioned in an – providing transcriptions of recordings to podcasters so that they can post searchable text along with the audio file. is not live yet, although they have a landing page up with some limited search capabilities and... |
Attensa Announces Financing | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 5 | will today (Monday). The round is being financed by , the venture capital fund announced in June 2005 by Jim Moore, John Palfrey and Richard Fishman. Attensa has previously raised capital from Craig Barnes (co-founder and CEO) SmartForest Ventures of Portland, Oregon, 2nd Avenue Partners of Seattle and angel inves... |
Oboe's Web Music Locker | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 2 | I begged for this in a about companies I’d like to profile that don’t exist yet (no. 1 – “better and cheaper online storage”). nailed it with a product suite called Oboe. Oboe offers unlimited online storage of music for $40/year. A free version of the product is also available, although it has extremely limited fu... |
Web 2.0 DNA | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 2 | Brandon Schauer’s and historical timeline is an excellent resource to put web 2.0 companies into perspective and to understand their place in the overall ecosystem. I’ll be referring to it often in TechCrunch posts. More on . |
ajchat – AJax Instant Messaging on the Fly | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 20 | I’ve been testing out tonight with (a fellow web 2.0 workgroup member). Like , and e-messenger.net, ajchat is an ajax instant messaging on the fly, that allows you to log in or type anonymously. It’s free. The ajchat blog is . At this point, it appears that all chat sessions are public and linked from the home p... |
Web 2.0 WorkGroup Expands to 25 Members | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 20 | The Web continues its expansion with the addition of three awesome new bloggers – , and . joined last week. It’s becoming an increasingly fun place to hang out, even if lost their minds earlier this week (temporarily I hope). What I’m really looking forward to is seeing if Ben Barren writes emails the same wa... |
Automattic, Home of WordPress, Launches | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 20 | Matt Mullenweg and Ryan Boren have launched the Automattic site, which organizes their various WordPress and other projects. at Silicon Beat has the details. Also, and as predicted by , WordPress.org also that they will be integrated into Yahoo hosting in a similar deal as that last week. has more. |
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