Posts Tagged with ‘techcrunch’

MySpace recently announced that it will be teaming up with the FOX television network and the Producers Guild of America to find television pilots. The “Storyteller Challenge,” beginning September 4, will be a contest in which MySpace will ask for 5-to 7-minute television pilots to be submitted and voted on by the other users of the site. Two winners will then be chosen and rewarded with a $25,000 prize, as well as the possibility of a development deal with [...]

Tired of all the social networking news circulating the blogosphere? You’re not alone. There are lots of folks who can’t take the headlines about Facebook, MySpace and all the rest.
But the venture capitalist crowd feels the complete opposite.
Yes, they’re still very bullish, apparently. Very recently word filtered around that Hi5, a very popular and quickly expanding network due to increasing interest outside the US (Alexa now ranks the network as the 11th most popular site on the Internet) [...]

Profy correspondent Cyndy Aleo-Carreira was right on when she told of how fantastic InviteShare was - in Michael Arrington’s view. So fantastic, apparently, that he’s gone ahead and made it his own.
That’s right. The service that could very well turn out to be much more of a hindrance in the beta sphere than an aid is now under the Crunch cloud. According to Mr Arrington himself, he’ll be using it to disseminate access keys and codes to his [...]

For every great Web 2.0 company, service, or application, there are probably 5 or 10 that shouldn't exist. I'd be willing to bet that they don't even have a business plan.
Here are my latest "wasting bandwidth" award winners:
Can't get enough of Google Street View? Streetviewr is a cutesy little app that allows you to submit funny and bizarre pictures found on Google Street View. Considering the fact that Street View itself has no inherent value, piggybacking on top of it [...]

Thanks to a hand injury, I've had a lot of time the past two weeks to read news but not a lot of opportunity to write about it. In some ways, that's been good, because I've been able to sit and think about some issues I might otherwise have written a knee-jerk reaction to.
I've spent a lot of words here at Profy discussing the new media and the concept of citizen journalism, mulling over how Web 2.0 has changed the [...]

Ask.com. There’s a lot of love for the fourth-most-popular search engine on the Net. It’s an industry player that’s okay with not having to fight for the top spot. (Though it certainly would take it if the crown were offered.) It caters to loyalists and is content in knowing it offers more bang for the buck than just about any portal in existence today. Of course, it’d enhance it’s allure even further if I’d take Jeeves out of retirement to [...]

Spock has been a much anticipated startup with a vision for a much deeper people search capability. This private beta was announced at the Web 2.0 Expo back in April and the stated mission has been to organize information around people and to create a search result for everyone on the planet. What Spock is trying to develop is the most accurate and relevant search application focused on people.
The company was founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh. [...]

This is our first in a series of profiles about people of Web 2.0, and perhaps this kind of post is the most appropriate after all. In our excursions across the blogosphere we run across some of the most interesting people, but too often we take them for granted or lose track of the fact that Web 2.0 really IS people. So here is my first installment in recognition of the famous and semi-famous of Web 2.0.
Requiem for a [...]

In February of this year, Evan Williams, the mind behind Odeo, a podcast-centric startup, put his business up on the auction block. Here we are several months later, and he’s got a buyer: New York-based SonicMountain. The new owner of the audio aggregator allegedly forked over just north of $1 million in cash for the whole nine yards.
Upon hearing this news, many of you familiar with Ev Williams and his ideas might be wondering whether Twitter, the abomination public blog [...]