Pandora Goes Social
Pandora, which plays streaming music for free via a flash player on its site, is one of the first companies we profiled on TechCrunch, back in August 2005 during the original Bar Camp meetup. I still...
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Being a blogger, one of my long-standing wishlist items for del.icio.us has been to find some way to get more of what's going on here to show up out there. Instead of just simple links, I've wanted t...
BBC moves to file-sharing sites
Hundreds of episodes of BBC programmes will be made available on a file-sharing network for the first time, the corporation has announced. — The move follows a deal between the commercial arm of the...
2007 Web Predictions
Written by Richard MacManus, Ebrahim Ezzy, Emre Sokullu, Alex Iskold and Rudy De Waele. Also John Milan wanted to contribute, but unfortunately got caught up in the Seattle storm - so best wishes to ...
Google's true search market share is 70%
Sitting here in Palo Alto, running a web business, it's pretty clear who the winner of the search game is. But every month I have to suffer through reading about Google's supposed 40-something percen...
Google Steps More Boldly Into PayPal's Territory
"I think it's fantastic," Steven Grossberg, who sells video games in Wellington, Fla., said of Checkout. "I'm selling the product. Google is getting tons of customers to sign up for Checkout." — S...
Finance, Real Estate Data coming to Ask City
Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp plans to fit financial services and real estate data into its Ask City (http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page= 3624097) service as part of a deliberate plan to use As...
Windows Vista and protection from malware
This entry updated at 8:49 PST on Tuesday 19 December 2006. — On November 30, Sophos issued its monthly report on the top ten threats reported to them in November of 2006. As a part of this, Sophos...
It's Time for Traffic Stats to Die
Yahoo's Chief of Insights reflects what Evan Williams and I have been saying for awhile now: the page view is indeed dead. He's calling on the industry to develop new metrics that measure this new wo...
10 Internet Acquisitions from 2006
Bubble? What bubble? Check Out a Few of the Year's Major Media Transactions. — 1 YouTube by Google , $1.65 billion — The year's biggest valuation is also the most debated: Is YouTube going to be...
Viacom Backs Out of Web Venture Talks
The new Internet video Website collaboration that has been discussed by media heavy hitters including NBC Universal, News Corp., CBS, and Viacom may be on the rocks after Viacom backed out Tuesday aft...
Enterprise 2.0 year in review
Though the eponymous title of this blog refers to the application of all aspects of Web 2.0 to the enterprise both large and small, the big story this year has really been about a collaborative subset...
Akamai Content Distribution Infrastructure Adopted in PLAYSTATION(R)Network
TOKYO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an English translation of the original Japanese version, prepared for the convenience of our non-Japanese-speaking readers.
Q&A: Doug Lowenstein, going the distance
The news of Lowenstein's imminent departure from the ESA hit the industry like hammer today. Here, the outgoing president talks about the future ahead for himself, as well as the organization he foun...
Microsoft Launching Live Drive @ CES?
Josh just received his CES 2007 guide, and in it was this ad from Microsoft: — Could this be the Windows Live Drive that we've been waiting for? — Share this post
To Lure Teens to Its Latest Web Site, Conde Nast Turns to the 'Flip Squad'
One recent rainy day after classes, seven high-school girls gathered around a table piled with Twizzlers candy and Planter's peanuts to talk about their favorite celebrities, the PSAT's and the diffic...
Break Your Cingular Contract Without Fee, Thanks 2 Txt Msg $ Raise
Gimlet-eyed Cingular customers may have noticed the cellphne provider changing its text message rates from $.10 to $.15 and realized they can use that to escape contract without early termination fee.