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Amazon Applying For In-Book Advertisement Patent
Before everyone gets in a huff, let's consider Amazon's intentions with these patent applications. Surely they would never allow advertisements to be placed in books which you have purchased legitimately at full price, so let's put that out of our...
Interview: Karen Dyer, video game actor
Dearest CrunchGear readers: I recently had the honor and privilege of speaking to Karen Dyer, who is not only the voice of Sheva Alomar, from Resident Evil 5, but who also did said character's motion capture. I hope you enjoy it on this day, our d...
PollDaddy Traffic Soars, Releases Ratings Widget With Possible Digg Competitor On The Horizon
Its no secret that bloggers love their polls — theyre a great way to increase user engagement, and sometimes you can even get some useful data from them. But most people probably dont realize just how popular these polls really can be. PollDaddy...
Short Is Sweet: Postcards Begat SMS Begat Twitter
Recently, Ive noticed something. If you send me an email, the likelihood that Im going to respond is pretty small. But if you send me a message on Twitter, the likelihood that Ill respond is much higher. Certainly, part of it is that I get less me...
What’s Right and Wrong with Media Now
Like most things on the Internet, there’s a good side and a dark side to where the media business is headed. The good side is very good: thousands of layers of mostly needless middlemen and processes are being eliminated as journalists get a direc...
The beta testing stage can be the cornerstone to the successful development of a new site. And many startups have to conduct and implement beta testing of sites, surveys and analytics internally, which can be an daunting task when you are launching a site. Prefinery lets startups outsource the whole beta invite process, from start to finish. Prefinery is offering 100 TechCrunch readers with beta invites to test the site. You can sign up here. Use the invitation code "TECHCRUNCH" when signing up for the se...
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CallWave Delists From NASDAQ; Fuze Meeting Rises From The Ashes
Its not easy to launch a successful WebEx competitor. Most businesses have long since established their system for dealing with web meetings, using old standbys like WebEx or GoToMeeting. And those businesses that are willing to venture into the ...
Microsoft And Linux Hold Peace Tweets
Okay, its not exactly the Camp David Summit that took place in 2000 between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but sometimes the littlest gestures can go a long way. A couple of days ago, upon hearing that Microsoft had officially joined Twitter, ...