3ones
The Simplest Stable Structure
March 11, 2010
NYCA
By Michael Mark, Creative Director/CEO @ NYCA
No brief.
No outline.
No beginning.
No deadline.
No target audience.
No focus group.
No responsibility.
So essential.
So purposeful.
So valuable.
So liberating.
So easy.
So hard.
So alive.
So much R.O....
March 9, 2010
NYCA
By Michael Mark, Creative Director/CEO @ NYCA
The most dramatic change since I started in advertising is the big idea. In the hallways and conference rooms, that’s all you heard: “You got a big idea? Client is demanding a big idea.” We would work ...
February 23, 2010
NYCA
By Michael Mark, Creative Director/CEO @ NYCA
Every idea has its creator in it. The uninspired idea has nothing more.
A good idea has its own self in it as well; its voice, mission.
A great idea has other voices in it. The client’s, the consumer’s...
August 17, 2009
TechCrunch
If you think the posts about me quitting the iPhone are just a stunt, think again. Ive been using the TMobile myTouch for a couple of weeks now and havent looked back at the iPhone at all (background apps + full Google Voice Integration is awesome...
In a world where print media is collapsing, it would seem that fashion magazines could easily make a case for why theyll still exist in the future. As great as their content may or may not be, a large part of their success is about seeing the pict...
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Translated into this Twitter world we now live in, thats like, thousands of characters. Thousands easily beats 140, so the people constantly complaining about Twitters brevity need to check out ...
Centerd, the service that looks to help you figure out what to do with your day, has released a new iPhone application that lets you tap into the sites restaurant, event, and activity recommendation engine on the go. The application is free and y...
Personal finance tracking site Mint.com added a bunch of new budgeting and trending features today. Mint presents consumers with a financial dashboard based on spending and income data from their bank, credit card, and other financial accounts. ...
When it comes to shortening links, the brevity of the URL is not the only factor you should consider. Speed and reliability are also important. After all, the main purpose of URL shortening services such as bit.ly and TinyURL are to redirect yo...
Scientist wannabes, rejoice!
Discovery Communications has released a Discovery Channel application on the iTunes App Store, bringing heaps of video content produced by the popular non-fiction media company to the iPhone and iPod Touch. In addition...
Facebook for iPhone version 3.0 will hopefully soon be made available through the iTunes App Store, but lead engineer Joe Hewitt has apparently already graced the team over at Appadvice with an early look.
Check out their review for more details, ...
Over and out for the MVNO model?
Qwest has this morning announced that it will be shutting down its Wireless service on Oct. 31, 2009. Formerly in bed with Sprint, Qwest started offering the wireless service in collaboration with Verizon just ove...
Scoreloop has closed its second financing round, with a $2.8 million / €2 million cash injection from new investors Earlybird and existing investor Target Partners, which was the seed funder for the Munich-based company.
The funds will be used to...
Gogul (sound familiar?) a new project specifically designed for safe searching and surfing for children has launched in Russia - but it has shades of Chinas infamous Green Dam project.
The new online service, consisting of a search engine and Int...
In Amsterdam today, the makers of mobile Augmented Reality (AR) browser Layar announced version 2.0 of the browser as well as a slew of new layars which have been produced since they opened up their API to developers.
A layar is information overl...
Facebooks (now former) Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly doesnt have to worry about frivolous privacy lawsuits any more. Thats because hes moving on to run for Attorney General of California in the 2010 election. His Facebook campaign page is her...
Microblogging is one popular type of cake, and Six Apart damn well wants a piece of it too. The company has just added a new element to its TypePad offering: a so-called microblog-style blog, which I imagine could just as well simply be dubbed a m...
Stock photography sites are moving towards free, with either free samples (Photoxpress) or ad-supported images (Fotoglif, GumGum, PicApp). In an effort to encourage a broader distribution of its ad-carrying photos, Fotoglif is opening up a reven...
Jambool, the startup behind the Social Gold micropayments platform, has closed a $5 million funding round led by Madrona Venture Group, with Bay Partners participating as well. The company has now raised around $6 million, after a $1 million roun...
The unemployment rate in the U.S. was still 9.4 percent in July, but some cities are better than others to look for a job. Of the top 50 metro areas, Washington, D.C., is the easiest for unemployed workers to find a job, while Detroit is the har...
A new lawsuit filed against Facebook in the Superior Court of California in Orange County is one of the more entertaining documents weve had the pleasure of reading recently. A lot of lawsuits against Facebook are fairly serious, but this one cert...
As much as we'd like the Tapplet, or iPad, to make its debut next month, it's looking like that won't be the case as we've heard. "Sources close to the company" say that the event will be on September 9th and will most assuredly not be Tablet-rel...
What were you doing in 1999? Maybe you were following the Kosovo War. Maybe you were starting to use Napster. Maybe you were entering your senior year of high school (I was). Or maybe you started blogging. After all, on August 23, 1999, Pyra Labs ...
Just in from a source involved with the transaction - the $100 million Facebook Employee share buyback has been oversubscribed (its not clear by how much), and ex-employees are being cut back significantly.
The program was announced on July 13. Up...
As promised, Google has just launched bookmark syncing for users on the dev channel of its Chrome web browser. This allows you to keep your browser bookmarks in sync no matter which of your computers you are using.
Syncing has been a standard feat...
Another month, another report that Bing is chiming slightly louder. Analytics firm comScore has just released its latest figures on search market share, and once again Microsofts search engine has managed to grow while its competitors have seen ...
TechCrunch
Lets not beat around the bush: The G1 was not a very good phone. Thats not to say Android isnt a good mobile OS — it is, its just that the initial hardware built to run the OS didnt do it justice. It was poorly designed and had a fairly cheap feel...
Oh, this is rich. The Nambu Network, owners of the URL-shortening service Tr.im announced today that the service will go open source on or before September 15 of this year. Thats odd since the service has now gone from completely shutting down, to...
A Manifesto
I believe in Twitter. I believe people want to use it and that it is useful to them. Im less sure of its susceptibility to monetization, but then again, I cover cameras and ramen-bots, not internet business. Still, since Im coming dow...
As more details emerge about the MySpace-iLike acquisition, all sorts of interesting observations and questions pop up. A few thoughts:
The Facebook Angle
This is by far the most interesting angle to the deal. iLike is the most popular music appli...
Local news always seems to get the short end of the stick, both in terms of coverage and advertising dollars. And as the entire newspaper industry continues to struggle for survival, the prospects for local news looks particularly bleak. It jus...
Live video streaming service Ustream is being sued by Square Ring, Inc, a boxing promotional company owned by professional boxer Roy Jones, Jr. The suit alleges that Ustream has committed massive and blatant copyright infringement by allowing 2,3...
The aptly named Bryan Appleyard had an interesting profile in the Times of London. He wrote about Steve Jobs without actually being allowed to talk to the man and resulting tale sounds more like a Mark Oliver profile of the Bilderbergers than a f...
Even though they havent really found a big audience yet, hyperlocal news sites are becoming a hot commodity. In June, AOL bought Patch for $7 million, and today MSNBC acquired EveryBlock. EveryBlock was previously funded by a grant from the Knight Foundation, which ended in June. The five employees will now work at MSNBC.
The price was not disclosed, but like the Patch acquisition, it is not an audience acquisition. Rather it is a hyperlocal platform play which MSNBC can now plug into its site and push...
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We're a few weeks away from the official release of Snow Leopard and I'm here to tell you things are really heating up in the realm of Exchange Support, OpenCL, and being able to click on an icon to make all of its windows appear.
Sorry. I'm just...
BlogTalkRadio is a popular podcasting site with about 4.5 million listeners a month. And its no stranger to large-scale live podcasts, as some pull in more than 20,000 listeners while theyre going on. But on Wednesday, the service is likely to see...
Benchmark Capital is investing in Danish startup Zendesk, and led a $6 million B round of funding. Benchmarks rock star partner Peter Fenton is joining the board.
Zendesk just raised money in May in an A round from Charles River Partners, which...
MySpace is close to acquiring popular social music service iLike, weve confirmed with multiple sources. The deal, which should close this week, will be MySpaces first acquisition since new CEO Owen Van Natta took control of the company in April 20...
We first broke the news about Dell releasing a smartphone exclusively for the Chinese market eight days ago. Some pieces of information on the so-called Mini 3i leaked a few days after, and today the Android device finally saw the light of day d...
We'll probably have some more details on this later today, but we're able to spill some of it now seeing as much of it just went live on Samsung's own site.
If you haven't been keeping up with all the latest in Samsung news, here's what you nee...
Its less than two months old, and GDGT is already getting some high profile attention, and maybe even a few acquisition sniffs.
One of our reliable sources told us today that they had reason to believe both CBS/CNET and Amazon were considering ac...
Wakoopa tracks your desktop application usage in order to recommend new software, games and web applications. It has two main groups of users: professionals and hedonists. The professionals are using it to track their working hours, while hedonist...
Last month, our post about MySpace debuting Pearl Jams new single turned into a debate over who could rightly claim to be the true kings of grunge. Regardless of where you stand on that, lets agree that Pearl Jams new album is starting to sound gr...
Having witnessed the extent to which humans are involved in transcribing messages for SpinVox (the voicemail to text service), I have become concerned about the privacy of my data and personal communications. Although Ive now cancelled my SpinVox ...
A team of Yahoo veterans who built its behavioral targeting advertising technology are publicly launching a hybrid ad network today called Rocket Fuel, which theyve tested over the past year with major brands including Nike, Dell, Microsoft, and...
August 15, 2009
TechCrunch
Y Combinator sees no shortage of startups that apply to be a part of their funding cycles. But they dont always see all the ideas theyd like to see come out of the classes. So starting with the upcoming Winter 2010 cycle, they have a new idea call...
Firefox 3.5, which weve Firefox 3.5, which weve ranted about recently, is not playing nicely with Twitter. In fact, for the last week at least users (including me, including today) have had a lot of problems updating status messages and following ...
Here we go again. The newspaper industry is blaming online news aggregators for its dwindling profits and inability to adapt to a world of links and truly-free flowing information. (They like it when information flows freely into their pages, bu...
Weve been gushing for weeks now about the latest Chromium builds for Mac. Every day, they seem to get better. The problem is that every day, several updates are released and you have to manually go to the site and scroll down a long list to find t...
Facebook has submitted v. 3.0 of their iPhone application to Apple, Joe Hewitt says via Twitter: Just uploaded Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to the App Store for review. :)
Hewitt also says hell post screen shots and more detais on this Facebook page fo...
This guest post was written by Alex Ahlund, founder of AppVee.
We are just past of a year since the App Store launched and there are more than 60,000 applications released for the iPhone and iPod Touch. When we wrote our 2008 year-end app wrap-u...
August 14, 2009
TechCrunch
Are Penn and Teller really launching a product at TechCrunch 50?
As I typed the message to Arrington, I could barely contain my glee. because if so, my column this week just wrote itself.
For a few strange years, starting towards the end of my tee...
Good afternoon and welcome to Chez Apple Rumors. Your first lunch course will be an iPod Touch with a camera followed by the accidental insertion of something called the IPAD into a survey for Borders Books. Can I get anyone anything to drink?
So...
Its the location of Googles San Francisco office (floors 2-4)
Its the location of the Secret Services San Francisco field office (floors 5-6)
And someone who works there has a license plate that says Drunk
Your assignment, should you choose to ...
As Apples Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, youd have to imagine that Phil Schiller is a pretty busy guy. Hes also been moonlighting as Apples keynote speaker during Steve Jobs medical leave of absence. But now its really start...
Good thing Gmail is out of beta. It is now the third largest Web mail service in the U.S. In July, Gmail nudged past AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors compared to 36.4 million for AOL, according to comScore estimates. (Gmail is the oran...
CubeTree, the collaboration suite built on an enterprise social networking platform, has launched a new group chat feature today that should allow its customers to communicate more efficiently with chat room functionality.
CEO and Co-Founder Carli...
Its been a long time coming, but its almost here: Tapulous is putting the finishing touches on Tap Tap Revenge 3, the next installment of its wildly sucessful iPhone music game. The game, which is best described as a Guitar Hero for the iPhone, w...
August 11, 2009
TechCrunch
The Onion strikes again, announcing Google Opt Out today, a product that lets people opt out of Googles information gathering activities by having their home destroyed and moving to a covered villiage complex at an undisclosed location. As always,...
Weve already written a half dozen times or so about how the Mac version of Googles Chrome browser continues to surge towards being fully usable on a daily basis. And today brings another update on that front.
The latest builds of Chromium for Mac ...
This is going to end well, and no one will be upset about this. Also, everything I said in that last sentence is probably wrong.
When Debian developer Joey Hess started tinkering with webOS, he noticed that it was sending something to Palm once...
Mint, the popular personal finance site that won 2007s TechCrunch40 conference, has closed a new $14 million Series C funding round. Silicon Alley Insider discovered the round in an SEC filing this morning, and weve just gotten off the phone with...
Apples App Store policies have been under fire for months now. It looks like tensions are starting to thaw following a couple of emails from Apple Senior VP Phil Schiller to some vocal bloggers. But it seemed a bit odd that it was Schiller doing t...
Do you guys remember my belt buckle? It's cool, right? What could be cooler than a QR code belt buckle? How about a silver brooch that displays a topographical map? I know, right?!
At almost 300 euros the Earth Brooch imposes a pretty hefty premi...
Socialcast, the realtime collaboration software platform, today announced the release of its official developer API after weeks of beta-testing. Essentially, Socialcast lets employees in companies communicate via activity streams, create groups, a...
If it wasnt bad enough that Facebook bought FriendFeed on Monday and turned on real-time search to better compete against Twitter in the Stream Wars, and is playing around with a lite version that resembles Twitter even more, now Twitter really h...
iGoogle, a personalized homepage that competes with My Yahoo, My MSN, My AOL, Netvibes and others, will release 19 new in-house and third party iGoogle widgets today that add new social and sharing features to users of the service. An overview of ...
As Erick pointed out yesterday, IPO registrations are up. But even if all of these companies go out, does this mean VCs are out of the no liquidity woods? Hardly.
Sure everyone brings up LinkedIn and Facebook as the potentially huge homerun IPOs i...
So, apparently, Apple's Phil Schiller is starting to talk about Apple's missteps. After months of silence, one of Apple's top executives (and possibly the most public-facing one next to Jobs) has started to reach out to the tech community to help ...
Microsoft and Nokia announced a broad ranging alliance this morning which will bring Microsoft Office and other productivity software to a Nokia phones. The agreement marks the first time Microsoft will make Office for non windows mobile phones,...
Boxee, the media center software startup, has won a lot of fans with its open approach to streaming content. And as a result it has won some more money, to the tune of a $6 million second round, led by Bostons General Catalyst Partners. The new mo...
Go ahead and clean up the coffee you just spit all over your keyboard. We'll wait. Back? OK. A judge and Texas as ruled that Microsoft Word's XML systems violate patents by Toronoto-based i4i Inc. Word uses XML in reading and writing XML, DOCX, an...
I suspect the femtocell has missed its chance, wrote Charles Arthur in the Guardian recently. Not so fast. It seems the existing shareholders of femtocell manufacturer Ubiquisys beg to differ, because theyve just pumped a further $11m into the com...
So, weve already explained why the newly revealed Facebook Lite at the very least wasnt conceived to be a Twitter-killer, but it does look interesting. The service, which is currently being tested in India (and sadly, not in the U.S. despite the m...
So, the web pretty much exploded tonight over the appearance of something called Facebook Lite, a new service thats apparently being beta tested by Facebook. But users who received the message that they were invited to test it out, were frustrated...
GigLocator, a live music aggregator, launches today in open beta. It promises to offer a large collection of gig listings worldwide, sourced from major ticket providers and a number of independents too. It enables users of keep track of their favourite artists and venues while offering a discovery mechanism to help you find more gigs you might like.
It has a smart search engine which knows if youre looking for artists, venues and so on. Enter multiple Last.fm, Pandora or iLike usernames and the site will k...
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LinkedIn tonight celebrated their 45 millionth user sign up, according to LinkedIns Marketing Project Manager Florina Xhabijas Twitter message.
According to comScore, LinkedIn had 16 million worldwide monthly unique visitors and 331 million page ...
It looks like Facebook has tonight turned on a feature called Facebook Lite for some users to test out. Were getting bombarded by tips about it, and some of us are seeing it as well. Unfortunately, it appears that it may not be fully ready for p...
By now, most businesses and self-employed individuals know that they can use social media services like Twitter and Facebook to help themselves grow their customer base and (hopefully) make some money. But for most people, actually using these se...
Weve known for a while that Googles Knol is no Wikipedia killer, but now the knowledge-sharing site is being reduced to a sad Craigslist wannabe. The original idea behind Knol was that people could collaboratively write definitive articles about...
As weve seen before, DVD Jon loves messing with Apple. And now hell get his chance in a major way. Jon Lech Johansen (better known as DVD Jon), the co-founder of doubleTwist, a company attempting to circumvent the iTunes/iPod ecosystem, has posted...
Another small sign that the worst of the recession may be behind us: IPO registrations are clawing their way back from the shadow of the valley of death (also known as the first quarter if 2009, when there were zero IPOs registered with the SEC)....
A few weeks ago, we wrote about Steven Frank, a well-known Mac developer who was giving up his iPhone over his disgust with the ways Apple is managing the App Store. (This was right before Mike also gave up his iPhone). Well, Frank is already cons...
The tough thing about being a startup is that no one is willing to share their numbers with you.
With that in mind, wed like to announce the 2009 TechCrunch Web App Survey.
Its an (optionally) anonymous survey where we can all share a bit of data ...
August 6, 2009
TechCrunch
Anyone who has ever used Googles automated translation service knows that its not exactly perfect — generally youll wind up with words that are close approximations of what you started with, but Google inevitably decides to change the meaning of a...
The Microsoft PR team tweeted out the first image to Twitpic of the Microsoft Retail Store opening in Scottsdale and Mission Viejo. The stores are slated to open sometime in the fall, with more locations opening after. In July, Microsofts master p...
As we noted early this morning, Twitter is still having some major issues getting its service stabilized following the DDoS attacks. Co-founder Biz Stone has posted a new update on the situation on Twitters blog today. Apparently, the attacks are ...
Assetize, the startup known for selling Facebook vanity URLs, has launched a new service targeted at Twitter users with unused, unwanted accounts. The same concept from Facebook vanity URLs carries over to the Twittersphere. Assetize will let you park Twitter accounts, like domain names, for future use and in the meantime put ads on the account while you sit back and make money. To park your Twitter account, simply register with Assetize for an invite, then put in all of your account information, give keywo...
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Everybody's making noise about the upcoming Apple tablet, and who can blame them? It'll certainly be an interesting device, but the thing is that nobody really knows what it's going to be. Flat, to be sure, and tablet-shaped in all likelihood, but...
Twitter was down for a little while yesterday (its still a little iffy), and it was the closest the United States of America has ever come to collapsing.
P.S. I know the song is played out; thats why I picked it!
Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because its time for you to find a new Job2.0
When Amazon paid $928 million for Zappos in July, it got a little something extra in the box: the Clothes.com domain. It turns out that Zappos bought the domain last year from Idealab for $4.9 million (Bill Gross strikes again).
The detail is t...
Weve done more digging on the Spotify cap table story from yesterday, and have confirmed with one source that the company did close on at least part of the new round of financing the Financial Times reported they were negotiating earlier this week...
Silicon Valleys electric car company, Tesla Motors, says that it hit profitability in July. The private company reports that it made approximately $1 million of earnings on revenues of $20 million, and that it shipped 109 Roadsters, its $109,000...
If you’re craving city life or a university setting, Ann Arbor, Michigan is the place to be. Ann Arbor is the seventh largest city in the state of Michigan, with a population of 114,386, of which more than 30% are college or university students. ...
I had never heard of Spacelocker before, have you? Apparently, its a social network where you can go to meet friends and connect to online stuff but not to upload and store photos, videos, or music. So essentially its like Facebook or MySpace but ...
Going over the 10 startups that were profiled by guest author Don Dodge yesterday on the occasion of their TechStars 2009 graduation, Next Big Sound to me seemed one of the more interesting ones and I wanted to take a closer look at it. Basically,...
Hot European music startup Spotify is back in the news today. On August 4 we broke the news that the big music labels have secretly been shareholders in the company since 2008, and that they paid roughly the same price for their preferred stock as venture capital investors Northzone Ventures and Creandum paid last year.
Now, though, Swedish news site ComputerSweden is reporting that those music labels actually got their stock for free. Sony BMG, Universal Music, Warner Music, EMI and Merlinbought at the tim...
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Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal spent yesterday battling a DDOS attack that started around 6 am California time. Twitter and LiveJournal went down hard, Facebook stayed mostly online but was clearly under strain. CNET reports that a single indi...
With Twitter down this morning and reports of failure all over the social Web, I figured FriendFeed would be up, if denuded by the Twitter outage. Well, sorta. In fact, FriendFeed searches are down. How the hell does a denial of service attack pla...
Since the early days of the Facebook Platform, Causes has been one of the most popular apps. Its also big on MySpace, and the company behind it recently announced that they had raised some $10,000,000 for various causes in two years. It makes sens...
Earlier today I had a debate about the Realtime Web with author Andrew Keen on a Blogtalk Radio podcast hosted by Supernovas Howard Greenstein. (It is embedded below if you have an extra hour to spare).
Andrew thinks that real time streams such a...
As an online entity, Google is constantly evolving and improving its products. Some updates are silly, but some are far more serious and meant for good. Its update today to Google Earth to expand its Darfur coverage, is the latter.
Using data from...
August 3, 2009
TechCrunch
NetMarketShare has just released its latest report on browser usage, covering the months of June and July. The results show the impact of the launch of Firefox 3.5 on the browser market, as well as the steady decline of Internet Explorer 6 and 7 ...
Searching for photos on the Web takes way too much time. There are simply too many photos to sort through and not enough good ones. Image search is a major priority for all the big search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Bing), and theyve all been t...
There's a lot of talk of 2010 being the year of the tablet or, more correctly, the year of the Mobile Internet Device (MID). These devices were supposed to change the world a few years ago (remember Origami?) but never did and we basically bumped ...
Weve written about Foursquare a number of times. Its a really nice tool for keeping track of where your friends are, while at the same time playing this oddly competitive social game. As a stand-alone app, its great. But the data its collecting ma...
When I walked in to SpinVox’s plush UK HQ this morning the tension in the building was obvious. Following a fortnight of controversy and allegations that the whole thing is powered not by technology but by a simple, massive, call center operation, this was the first ever live demo to the media of their famed voice to text platform. There were nervously exchanged glances and bad jokes from senior staff. But the guys managed to hold it together for long enough to usher us in to a conference room and ply us wi...
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Last March, two reporters for Current TV were caught and detained by the North Korean military after illegally crossing into the country from China as they reported on fleeing refugees. While some intial reports seemed optomistic that the pair ...
When Heath Ledger passed away in January 2008, he had no shortage of things he was working on. Just about everyone in the world, it seems, saw The Dark Knight, but he had smaller projects too. One of those was directing a music video for the band ...
When I walk into a bar, its always been a dream of mine that theyll play a theme song for me. You know, kind of like how when a batter steps up to the plate in a baseball game, he gets his own song. (Okay, really what Im thinking is more along the...
The global rise of Facebook is nothing less than astounding. In the month of June alone it gained 24 million unique visitors worldwide, compared to the month before, for a total of 340 million unique visitors worldwide. It is now the fourth lar...
Over the last few months, YouTube has made it clear thats its keen on helping its premium content partners monetize as effectively as possible — and its obviously having some success doing it, with the number of monetized views increasing rapidly....
Lightspeed Venture Partners and Pitango Venture Capital are pouring more capital into WeFi, operator of a global, community-based network of WiFi hotspots, in an undisclosed Series B round of funding and following an earlier round by both investor...
Delicious was once one of the hottest social sites on the Internet. Thats why Yahoo bought it in 2005. But its weird now to even think about it as a social site, I get more of the utilitarian vibe from it these days. People still use it, but its m...
Ginipic is a nice desktop application that allows you to crawl a host of photo sharing services as well as your own machine for pictures, making it a close to ideal image search tool. Cant believe it took me so long to discover it (Orli was quicke...
Sure you're not going to make a Hatori Hanzo sword - yet - but Shapeways, a 3D fabrication service, has just announced stainless steel printing, allowing you to make steel objects as easily as you would made resin or plastic prototypes. That's ri...
Has European music startup Spotify finally figured out the online music business? Some big investors seem to think so. Rumors surfaced today that the company is raising a new round of financing of $50 million or so, at valuation of $250 million. ...
iLike is launching a new iPhone application today that takes advantage of the iPhone 3.0 updates new features in some of the best ways that weve seen yet. Dubbed Local Concerts, the application lets you follow any artist youd like and receive ale...
Lets start off by saying the clip below, taken from the new Adam Sandler movie Funny People, is NSFW. So dont click it if you dont want to deal with a lot of swearing. About Facebook.
And apologies for the atrocious quality. The studio said it wo...
It must be disconcerting to a big Internet company to shut down a whole website and nobody even notices. Not even a short note on Twitter from a concerned user until now. But thats what apparently happened.
At some point Yahoo shut down Bix, a kar...
Social recruitment service KODA.us has just raised $1 million in funding from a group of private angel investors, bringing the total of seed investment injected into the San Francisco startup to $3 million.
KODA.us essentially wants to bring soci...
Bill.com has closed an $8.5 million funding round led by August Capital, with previous investors DCM and Emergence Capital also participating in the round. As part of the deal, August Capitals David Hornik will be joining Bill.coms board. Bill...
Revision3s PR firm is urging me to write about the upcoming Diggnation episode being filmed in at the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas with Kevin Rose and Ashton Kutcher. And I aim to please. But what I cant figure out is, how do projects with ...
A short post on the Google News blog today revealed a big number: Google recently quadrupled the number of newspaper articles in its News Archive Search. You may recall that at TechCrunch50 last year, Googles Marissa Mayer demoed this powerful new...
Were big fans of JibJab, the popular comedy site that offers an arrary of original parody videos and Ecards, most of which you can customize with goofy pictures of your friends. The site has previously Elfed the TechCrunch crew, stuck our editors into a Pepsi Ad and more. But tonight, JibJab is really outdoing itself, adding an extra boost of star power that takes its videos to the next level: its letting you appear in a music video with parody song legend Weird Al.
Scoff all you want, but the man really ...
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Last month, we were first to report that Google Engineering Director Mark Lucovsky was leaving the company to join VMware. Lucovsky was with the company for nearly 5 years and was very instrumental in its APIs. And now theyre losing another long-t...
After going a year with nary a venture-backed IPO in sight, heres more proof that things are finally beginning to perk up: Ancestry.com, a genealogy service that allows user to map out and search for their family history, has filed for a $75 mill...
Well, Twitter didnt win a Nobel Peace Prize for its role in getting the word out about the Iran election protests earlier this summer, but it did gain about 7 million new visitors in the month of June. Twitters website attracted a total of 44.5...
Youd think in the midst of a recession domain name sales would become less common and be negotiated for far less than the high-priced .com acquisitions we remember from the late nineties and during the dotcom boom.
The reality, however, is that w...
iPhone app developers who choose to go the free route typically try to make money by placing ads in their apps. But now there are so many mobile ad networks competing to serve those ads that iPhone app analytics startup Mobclix is creating a mob...
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. -John Wanamaker
Advertising and branding are very complicated and very unpredictable fields, and success can be measured according to any number of metrics. ...