Citizen journalism: I'll take it, flaws and all
Paul Carr, who started writing for TechCrunch not long ago, is an entertaining writer, and he often puts his finger on issues that others tend to avoid in their headlong rush towards whatever is shiny...
Bid to block paedophiles from Facebook fails
Government plan to stop sex offenders using social networking sites would breach human rights law — Government plans to block paedophiles from using social networking sites such as Facebook and MySp...
Google Wave vs Twitter at conferences
Twitter has quickly become the must-have channel for conference back-chat. Reading what other people tweet during a speech provides an extra dimension as you get a sense of what the audience is think...
Verizon takes another swing at AT&T, puts iPhone on the Island of Misfit Toys
AT&T might be suing Verizon for misrepresenting its network in ads, but that doesn't seem to have dissuaded Big Red from using that same map image in this new spot, which casts the iPhone away to the ...
NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can't handle the truth
I'd probably feel slightly smug, if I didn't feel so sick. — Smug that after two weeks of me suggesting that social media might not be an unequivocally Good Thing in terms of privacy and human decen...
IBM's Steve Mills on RealTime
As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we're seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the ope...
Ensuring zynga's user experience - removing all cpa offers
michael arrington posted yesterday on mobile offerings still being shown in our new game fishville. I want to explain why this occurred and how we are taking more aggressive steps to ensure this neve...
New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher
Image based on Kevin Van Aelst's original. — Since it's apparently all the rage to design your own features for Twitter now, I figured I'd build on my success with the hashtag and crank out a few mo...
Apple Still Not Allowing VoIP Calls Over 3G
Earlier today in response to my post about Nimbuzz, a good pal emailed to find out why the service didn't work over the iPhone's 3G connection. After all, a few weeks ago AT&T announced support for V...
iPhone Tethering on AT&T: One Year and Counting
Exactly one year ago, on November 6th, 2008, I was siting in the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit when AT&T Mobility President Ralph De La Vega shared good news from the stage: The company would “soon” ...