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BubbleShare – Best Photo Service Yet? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 20 | Toronto-based online photo sharing is just wonderful, and ridiculously easy to use. Their interface team deserves a gold star or something, because I don’t think I’ve ever used a site’s full functionality without consulting a single FAQ or other instruction. BubbleShare allows users to upload photos without registrat... |
V4S – Voicemail for Skype | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 20 | I read about Orb’s on and . V4S is a good, free tool for sending voicemails to Skype and Outlook contacts. V4S joins a whole bunch of products attacking the same or similar market (sending voicemails over the web): , , , and even the humble . |
Three Cheers For Bloglines | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 20 | I have to admit, I was hoping for the best but feared the worst as Bloglines moved over to a new data center last night. Their have enraged me in the past, although their stellar customer service almost completely made up for it (emails are returned instantaneously). Everything seems to be working very well. Blogline... |
Edge Of Network Reviews – KritX | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 18 | is very raw, but they are on to something big – aggregation of reviews from blogs (the edge of the network). I wrote in a (no. 9) that I’d like to see someting like this be built. Don’t look so much at the current execution of Kritx and judge them too quickly – think about the idea that they are trying to exploit. T... |
Canadians Sure Do Love Beer | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 18 | This mashup certainly caught my eye – . Unlike California, where you can buy alcohol just about anywhere until 2 am, parts of Canada have very restrictive alcohol laws – its hard to find a place to buy it, and the hours of operation are erratic. I know this because I lived in Ottawa a couple of years ago. I remembe... |
Riya Goes it Alone | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 18 | Riya, the celebrated that has allowed in a few lucky alpha testers over the last few months, was the subject of significant a few weeks ago. “Sources” put the price in the $30 million range, although the company was understandably silent, even during their a few days later. Tonight, Founder and CEO Munjal Shah ... |
Yep, One More Ajax Desktop – Pageflakes | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 18 | I recently that the Ajax desktop space was getting crazy-crowded. That was before Google released their and launched. And now we have a developer release of a new ajax desktop called (available only in IE). Pageflakes has a number of features – rss reading, email checking, note taking, searching, etc. It also h... |
Diigo – Enough Evolution? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 27 | , which stands for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff”, is a social bookmarking site that allows users to highlight multiple content areas, including pictures, tag the page, and bookmark it. Users can also add sticky notes to a highlighted text area. It has other good features as well – see the f... |
Gaming Digg | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 27 | Getting on to the home page of Digg ( ) sends a site a lot of traffic, and some folks will do just about anything for traffic. I know a lot of people who claim to have multiple Digg accounts to give their posts a lift, but it appears that the practice has become more…professional recently. has done some research on ... |
LibriVox Offers Free Audio Book Downloads | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 27 | Hugh McGuire’s goal is to make all public domain (expired copyright) books available free online in audio format. He’s created to reach that goal, and it is a terrific open source, public domain project. suggest public domain books and record chapters. Finished books are and podcasted LibriVox volunteers record... |
TechCrunch Turns 6 Months Old Today | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 11 | TechCrunch turned six months old today – my first post was on June 11, 2005. It’s more fun than ever. Thank you to everyone who reads my blog. Knowing people are out there keeps me going. I got a nice half birthday present from Technorati. :-) |
Dave Winer's Newest Adventure | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 29 | Dave Winer announced today that he’s built a new RSS aggregator, built on his OPML editor platform. He’s released it to the OPML community for early testing. . The aggregator will have advanced podcasting/videocasting support and will also include a “ ” feature. The idea around reading lists is to allow people to subsc... |
Podtranscript to Transcribe Podcasts | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 16 | I’ve received dozens of follow up emails to a post I wrote last month called . Today I saw another one, from Joe Mendoza, announcing the imminent launch of , a service which will transcribe podcasts for publishers. This was no. 8 on my list. Hi Michael, I read your blog entry titled “Companies I’d like to profile (bu... |
Magnatune's Answer to the Music Problem | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 28 | , founded by John Buckman in 2003, is a music label with an associated website. Today was the first time I heard about Magnatune (thanks to ), but I agree entirely with their business philosophy. I really think this is the music business model of the future. There are two key business model issues to note that make Ma... |
Meebo Confirms Sequoia Funding | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 16 | Meebo the that they have received funding from Sequoia Capital on their blog. Congratulations to everyone involved. No real details yet, but I’m hearing that the pre-money valuation was $9 million, not $10 million as I originaly reported. I assume the investment was in the $3 – $4m range. |
WordPress 2.0 – The Good and the Bad | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 28 | We’ve switched TechCrunch over to . Not everyone is interested in the feature set of the WordPress blogging platform, so I’ll keep this brief. To see a good overview of the new features, see . A big change is the ability to create categories on the fly, from the post page, with Ajax. This was previously a multi step ... |
Omnidrive – Online Storage Perfection | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 28 | I’ve been testing ‘s very early beta product over the last few days. Omnidrive will be launching in January, 2006. I’ve spent hours with it (and previously posted ) – significantly more than I spend with most products. The reason? This is a product that I and millions of others really – a pure and functional online... |
Google Taunts Skype, Releases GTalk API | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 17 | Google has just released a set of components called that allow third party applications to interact with . The components, which include some source code, are being released under a very liberal allowing for free incorporation into commercial and non-commercial software. We are releasing this source code as part o... |
Oodle to Add Events | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 17 | Oodle a vertical search engine for classified ads, is set to add events as a category in the next week or so. Oodle’s current categories include For Sale, Cars, Housing, Jobs and Services. With events, they will have the ability to pair revenue-generating services such as ticket sales and related items with the classif... |
Writely Is Kicking A** | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 10 | ( ) continues to in online ajax word products. Writely has had great features from day 1: import and export into Word format, embedded images, a wysiwyg editor, drag and drop functionality, sharing with others, and tagging of documents. They are also rolling out new features regularly and annoucing them on the . A ... |
Microsoft Wallop in User Trials | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 19 | I’ve been hearing a bit about Microsoft’s project from users (apparently its at least two years old). Microsoft describes Wallop as a place to ” share photos, blog, and interact with your friends”. Ok, that pretty much doesn’t narrow it down much at all. The beta is closed and as I said above there isn’t a whole lot ... |
Flock Says "Enough" | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 21 | has gotten a lot of criticism lately. The reason for this particular round of naysaying is the launch of the impressive Firefox plugin that allows extremely easy blogging, from Firefox, for WordPress, MovableType or Blogger. Performancing is getting extremely good reviews from top bloggers like , and . But the a... |
Indeed's Launches IM Interface | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 19 | Check this out: add “IndeedJobs” as a friend on Google Talk and say “hello”. You’ll get a nice (and fast) interface to the job search engine. Nice tool. |
GoodStorm's Feel Good Capitalism | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 21 | Maybe it’s because it’s the holiday season, but it seems impossible to me not to like San Francisco-based . It’s a competitor to Kleiner-backed , and CafePress – basically they let you set up shop and sell items with your logo on it. As with all of these services, they do all the hard work – producing and shipping th... |
Oodle Does add Events/Tickets Category | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 21 | I last week – and now has officially added events and tickets as a category. This seem to be primarily a combination of and tickets from a . There’s lots on money in this space from affiliate fees, so it’s a smart move. |
The Hyperwords Plugin | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 26 | I generally don’t write about Firefox plugins, but is one that’s gotten my attention. Like says, it’s a must-have product to aid the browsing experience. And I see a business model here, too. Hyperwords gives users a number of choices whenever a piece of text is selected. The options simply pop up – right click fun... |
Gravee Takes a New Approach to Search | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 21 | soft launched tonight. It has an interesting business model. In addition to pulling in search results from Google, MSN and Yahoo (Alexa coming soon), Gravee also allows publishers to claim their site and, theoretically, get a piece of Gravee’s revenue. Here’s : With Gravee’s AdShare program, when a user clicks an ad ... |
Is FeedBurner Pushing the Envelope on Trust? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 7 | I’m a big fan of and write about them often. I’m also a “pro” subscriber now and pay the $5/month for that service, which I think is more than fair given how much value they add. I like having the insight into RSS analytics, and FeedBurner has never broken on me. I also consider many of the Feedburner guys friends. E... |
Microsoft Live Local to Launch Thursday | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 7 | Microsoft will relaunch tomorrow under , around 9 am PST. This is a continuation of Microsoft’s rebranding campaign to place online consumer services under the brand. had a briefing with Erik Jorgensen, GM of Microsoft’s new Search & Mapping group today and includes additional details on her blog. Local.live will... |
Gawker Launches New Blog, Consumerist | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 7 | Gawker continues to drive its busines forward amidst rumors of an acquisition in the works with the . In addition to their to promote their content within Yahoo, Gawker today the launch of its newest blog, , a humorous slant on today’s consumptive world: “We here at Gawker Media love to spend our money, but we ha... |
Wall Street Journal Discusses the Rise of Bloggers | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 7 | wrote about Memeorandum, Blogniscient and TechCrunch in the Wall Street Journal today. It’s an interesting column discussing the rise of blogs as “journalists” and the usefullness of blog aggregators in filtering out the most important writing. The reality is that while there are now as many tech blogs as stars in the... |
Ajax Desktops Won't Stop | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 7 | is the most recent entrant into the crazy-crowded Ajax desktop space. Eskobo has (now) standard drag and drop modules. Everything is customizable except the adertising, which can be moved, but not removed, from the page. Why do people continue to produce these? Google and Microsoft already have compelling products, an... |
CNET Acquires Consumating | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 7 | , a dating site with tagging that I , has been . Congratulations to . I didn’t know that Adaptive Path had helped design Consumating until reading about it on blog today. I am increasingly impressed by the value that AP adds to companies that work with them. |
Yahoo.icio.us? – Yahoo Acquires Del.icio.us | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 9 | I just got off an instant message conversation with Joshua Schachter, the founder of Del.icio.us. I was asking him for any comment on the Yahoo acquisition rumors and he pointed me to the del.icio.us blog. , which has approximately 300,000 users: We’re proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. T... |
The Favor Exchange | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 30 | It’s the last business day of the year, which obviously leads me to think about last minute tax writeoffs. One of the best tax writeoffs, of course, is a charitable contribution. Then I remind myself that donating to charity isn’t just about the tax writeoff – it has the ancilliary benefit of helping others,too. :-) An... |
Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 30 | There have been numerous 2005 “best of” and 2006 “predictions” posts over the last few weeks as the year comes to an end. I’m not going to write one of those. Giving out “best of” awards seems presumptuous to me, given that I’ve been blogging all of six months. And while predictions are fun, they aren’t all that useful... |
Rallypoint Offers an Ajax Word Solution | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 8 | I’m loving the ajax office solutions tonight. In addition to , I’ve been playing around with , an online ajax word/wiki product. Rallypoint joins , , and others (I lump services like and the yet-to-be-launched in this category as well – a wysiwyg wiki and a sharable online version of word are effectively syn... |
JotSpot Tracker Furthers Office Online Experiment | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 8 | Jotspot continues to roll out interesting, easy to use wiki products. I wrote about back in September. This week they released , a spreadsheet wiki that allows users to both import and export excel spreadsheets. As more office applications move online, JotSpot Tracker joins and the open-source in the spreadsheet... |
Yahoo Answers Launches | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 8 | launched . The service allows any Yahoo user to ask any question and get answers and advice from other Yahoo users. The community picks the “best” answer, and everything is archived for search. There is a product tour available . A similr service, , launched earlier this year. Yahoo Answers is taking a different (a... |
Sponit Goes Into Private Beta | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 8 | I recently spoke with one of the founders of , a new service that will be launching in the next month or so. Sponit, which is being created by three U.C. Berkeley students, is an innovative new group “blogging” platform that is quite addictive. As I’ve said before, I’m a sucker for the closed-beta, give-us-your-email ... |
Jookster v. Wink | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 1 | ‘s search engine launched yesterday. Like , Jookster is aiming to provide more relevant search results by putting user-generated bookmarked links above normal results. Unlike Wink, which allows users to add significant metadata to bookmarked pages (tags and reviews), Jookster determines relevance of bookmarked queries ... |
More Video Tools – Grouper V2.0 Rocks | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 6 | As I continue my journey to find the , I may have found the (near) perfect product – version 2 of which launches tonight. Grouper is only available for windows and requires a download. But it’s worth it. The product is currently free and allows unlimited uploads of photos and video. Each piece of content can be shar... |
Skype Video Launches | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 1 | As , Skype v2.0 with video functionality before the holidays. Skype Video is available only for Windows users currently (and the compression technology they are using is , which could significantly delay an Mac version). While video functionality is great, I’d actually much prefer the ability to share applications ... |
Outlook 12 to have RSS Integration | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 24 | In news that certainly is not making the existing RSS Aggregator companies happy, Microsoft Outlook program manager Michael Affronti has that RSS will be integrated with Outlook 12. This will not only hurt the NewsGators and Attensas of the RSS space (those that have Outlook plugins to display RSS feeds). It will als... |
PostSecret Book Arrived | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 24 | The book that I arrived from Amazon. I spent some time going through it last night and I really like it. PostSecret is one of the more interesting Web 2.0 companies (if you can call it a company). It certainly creates conversation, evokes emotion, and merges the online and offline worlds beautifully. If you’d like ... |
TalkDigger 2.0 | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 24 | I’m a little late writing about this, but , which launched a week and a half ago, has really evolved since the original version that I . TalkDigger queries major blog (and other) search engines on a given URL and returns relevant results. Since all of the search engines vary in their results, this is the quickest wa... |
Browsr Has One Interesting Feature | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 24 | I first heard about in a comment to one of my posts. In some ways it’s a standard bookmarking site, but at this point lacks most of the advanced features of Del.icio.us, Shadows, Wink, etc. But Browsr does have one feature that is interesting. Bookmarks are categorized, and others can rate the usefullness of the book... |
MusicStrands Does Music Search, Too. | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 15 | If isn’t for you, check out , a young company that its site yesterday. The company is based in Corvallis, OR (where is that?) and Barcelona, Spain. MusicStrands had results for every band I threw at it. Lots of stats, and links to buy music from amazon and iTunes. And it has excellent web 2.0 features as well, incl... |
Google Music Search | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 15 | It certainly isn’t the much anticipated Google Music Store, but to incorporate music information into normal google search results in the same way they incorporate and information. If Google recognizes the band, album or song, they will put results at the top of search. Now you can search for a popular artist nam... |
Blog Network Rankings | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 12 | Blog Network Watch has a list of the , based on various metrics from Technorati, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. I’m happy to note that our very own , which is a loose affiliation of top blogs, is No. 4 on the list behind Gawker, Pajamas Media and Weblogs, Inc. Of course, it’s nice to have heavy hitters like to anchor... |
Alexa Totally Gets It, Opens Up API | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 12 | has the scoop – Alexa is making its dataI available on the Amazon.com , and it’s a really big deal. Amazon’s Alexa is opening up its 5 billion web documents and 100 terabytes of data to . Included in this data are Alexa’s famous based on toolbar users. As John says, this certainly opens up entirely new classes of... |
Get the Blogosphere's Opinion – OpinMind | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 12 | Santa Clara based has a neat service that polls the blogophere for its opinion on the topic of your choice. OpinMind claims to index 1.7 million blogs today. Type in a search engine-like query (or click on popular searches like “ “) and see a result categorized into “positive” and “negative” for your query. OpinMind... |
Yahoo Teams with Movable Type | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 12 | and have partnered to pre-install Movable Type on Yahoo’s small business hosting. Yahoo’s hosting customers will now be offered Movable Type pre-installed. This should help Yahoo move a few more hosting units, and will certainly expand the playing field for Six Apart. It’s a good deal for both companies, particularly... |
Meebo's Impressive Growth | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 12 | ( ) is clearly going to be raising venture capital and/or be acquired in the very near future. I spoke with Founder Seth Sternberg yesterday about site growth and he revealed some impressive stats. Meebo is now averaging about 250,000 logins per day. On December 7, twelve weeks after launch, Meebo had 236,000 successf... |
New Stuff at Basecamp | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 13 | 37 Signals’ announced a couple of new features yesterday and today for their popular (100,000 users claimed on home page) and useful project management product. First, Basecamp now without the need to set up your own FTP server. Files as large as 20 mb can be uploaded. Second, Basecamp has created a . If an affili... |
TagWorld Launches Music. The War Begins. | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 12 | Over the weekend , a young, self-funded startup in Santa Monica that’s all of a month old, a music product that is turning heads. TagWorld is targeting the MySpace crowd – generally people under 25, who all want a blogging/home page presence on the web. Sites like MySpace, and Xanga are generating a truly massive ... |
Gritwire – Cool Flash Reader, Stupid Launch Party | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 13 | Illinois-based , a new Flash based RSS reader, today at the Syndicate Conference in San Francisco. These new Flash applications are always visually stunning, even if they are not as fast as their Ajax counterparts. GritWire is no exception – its well designed. The RSS reader is functional but not spectacular. There a... |
Meebo Funded by Sequoia? | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 14 | I just got back from back-to-back (to back) holiday parties and the rumors are flying that , which I wrote about a noting their stellar growth, has closed funding from Sequoia Capital at a $10 million pre-money valuation. I have not confirmed this with the company and it could be inaccurate. That’s quite a valuation... |
Meetro Goes Mac | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 13 | , an interesting location-based instant messaging client that’s compatible with AOL, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo!, is now alpha testing a Mac version of their software. I , If you are a Mac user and want to try Meetro, email mac@meetro.com and include your city, state (if applicable) and country of residence. |
Google's Ajax Desktop is Now Extensible | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 14 | I swore to myself that I wouldn’t write about for a while (and held steady even though launched), but today I’m breaking that promise, because Google just did something really cool with their customizable Ajax desktop. The desktop was and can be accessed at or by clicking on “Personalized Home” on the Google mai... |
Technorati Explore Smells Like Memeorandum | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 14 | Whoa. Niall Kennedy nonchalantly earlier today about Technorati’s version of Google Labs, called . It’s where Technorati is putting it’s not-fully-baked beta products. There’s only one project there now, and it’s called “ “. Explore sure looks a like it was inspired by :
Find out what bloggers are saying right now... |
Omnidrive's Online Storage Actually Works | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 25 | I’ve been talking to , the founder of Sydney, Australia based , since I posted about the in November (see no. 1 in that post). I’ve had the chance to test it over the last few days. It’s pre-beta but will be launching soon. They’ve solved a lot of the problems associated with storage away from the network, and has ... |
Wink Launches | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 22 | The user-enhanced search engine, in for the last few months, launches Thursday morning to the world. Wink has evolved substantially since my . Wink is, at its core, a combination of traditional search with feature-rich social bookmarking. Bookmarked/tagged results appear above normal search. Search results can be ... |
FeedBurner Integrates Web Services Into Feeds | Michael Arrington | 2,005 | 12 | 13 | is tonight – a group of web services that can be integrated by the publisher into her/his feed. FeedFlare is located under the “Optimize” tab within the FeedBurner dashboard. FeedBurner is also releasing a full set of open APIs to allow third party developers to build and integrate customized services. Give your sub... |
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