Posts Tagged with ‘techcrunch’

I have received an invitation for our readers to attend private screening of the Dark Knight at the Matreon in San Francisco on July 17 (this Thursday) and the after party at the DNA Lounge (which is pretty good, this is where the VIP party for Web 2.0 Expo exhibitors and sponsors took place back in April so highly recommended). The previous day (Wednesday) MySpace and Techcrunch are hosting an exclusive screening in Los Angeles but for [...]

It was a peculiar day for Digg yesterday, I think. Yes, we all know that it is getting harder and harder to get to the front page of Digg due to Kevin and the team changing the algorithm so that votes from submitter's friends counted less than non-friends votes. And yes, we all know that you can't get on Digg front page just by writing a great (newsworthy, breaking actually, stylish - whatever) piece of content that [...]

Though it's been some time coming, Twitter has finally revealed its private funding sources. With the latest boost in funding, the Twitter team should be able to deliver on its promise to the community to boost support for the platform across the board.
Twitter revealed, at long last, its sources of private funding, which are Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos of his very own Bezos Expeditions. Neither investors are what you'd call small-time, as Sabet [...]

Well, it is official: Google has now infiltrated Yahoo via ads. Has Google found the back door in to taking over the struggling company, or is it truly only in this for good, not evil, as per the famous Google motto? Google took the time to release a statement about the new ad arrangement with Yahoo on its blog as a kind of preemptive strike against just that kind of speculation.
I could be wrong on this, but I just don't [...]

In case you are living in a cave this weekend, I'll tell you the "big new" in Web 2.0: Seesmic managed the coup of getting Steve Spielberg, George Lucas, and a good portion of the cast of the upcoming Indiana Jones movie to set up channels and respond to questions posed by The Guardian's Jemima Kiss. The one person you'd expect to be crowing about it would be Seesmic friend/investor/cheerleader Mike Arrington, but he's pretty ticked off about the whole [...]

The other night, my husband asked me a question I had no answer for: when we've moved on to whatever Web 3.0 is going to be, what will be left of Web 2.0? There are carryovers from the 1.0 Bubble, but when you think about it, the Web itself is 1.0. And Tim Berners-Lee himself has argued that we can't delineate Web 2.0 since so much of the technology has existed since the beginning of the Web.
Everyone has tried to [...]

I'm starting to think I may just want to skip right over the rest of 2008 and start fresh in 2009 when companies come to their senses. First HP decides to acquire support service dinosaur EDS, then Comcast snaps up Plaxo (all the better to throttle your bandwidth AND that of your social graph, my pretties!), and now CBS buys CNET.
I'm sure CNET is ecstatic about the news; several of their properties have been financially struggling now for what seems [...]

Apparently, Viewzi had its private beta launch when I was in San Francisco for Web 2.0 Expo, because how I missed it, I have no idea. I've never been a big fan of visual search, but I'm always willing to give it a try, going in with the expectation that I'll be doing a lot of eye-rolling. Viewzi was a pleasant surprise.
Viewzi is a new way of looking at visual search: it realizes that not all searches are the same. [...]

I have been using Twitter for a while now, and it is quite a useful tool. I don't know that it is an indispensable utility that I depend on, but it does help generate short conversations and has many other helpful uses.
With any new communication tool that pops up on the web nowadays, there are sure to be spammers and others who exploit the good intentions of others, which is why today's story at TechCrunch concerning spam on Twitter [...]