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TechCrunch
Twitter has apparently come across the Holy Grail of advertising, and it's coming soon. Today during his interview at the RealTime CrunchUp , Twitter COO Dick Costolo told the audience a bit about the company's upcoming advertising business. Costolo was vague on the details, but he did make some promises: "It will be fascinating. Non-traditional.
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What Twitter's New Geolocation Makes Possible
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Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is made clear by comparing it with last week's release of 500 million time-stamped Twitter messages for analysis. "You take this data, mash it up with any other very large ...
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
RealTime CrunchUp: Conversation With Twitter COO Dick Costolo
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Opening our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco is Twitter COO Dick Costolo . Our own Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor are sitting down with Costolo for a 30 minute conversation. Twitter is one of the hottest players in the realtime field right now. And it has a $1 billion valuation , which has been the source of much controversy. ...
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
Brizzly Opens To All. And Snatches Someone From Facebook.
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Brizzly was first unveiled in private beta at our first CrunchUp event in July, so it's only appropriate that today, the day of our next CrunchUp, it's being opened to the public. Now, to be clear, the product is still technically in beta, but that's only so the team at Thing Labs can keep experimenting with new ways to make Brizzly even better. ...
Barb Dybwad
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Mashable!
Seesmic Launches Mobile Apps for Android and BlackBerry
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Hot on the heels of the launch of the Windows desktop app preview , Seesmic has brought its Twitter client to the mobile arena as well with the launch of clients for the Android and BlackBerry platforms. Both apps are available for free — get the Android version from the Android Market and the BlackBerry version by pointing your BlackBerry ...
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Scripting News
Where is RSS?
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I watched the morning session of TechCrunch's second realtime conference, including the half hour interview with Dick Costolo, the COO of Twitter. Of course Mike Arrington asked him the "Is RSS Dead?" question, and thankfully Costolo didn't want to go there. It would be ingracious of him, of course, because he made $100 million with RSS. He said ...
Jennifer Van Grove
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Mashable!
3 Creative Ways SMBs Can Use Social Media for Holiday Discounts
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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Every year consumers turn to the web to scour for the best holiday shopping deals. Black Friday has practically become a holiday of its own, with retailers jumping on the ...
Jeremy Muncy
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Top News
The Twilight Saga: New Moon Takes Over Social Media
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Shhh, can you hear that? What you're hearing is the collective shrieks from Twihards everywhere as The Twilight Saga: New Moon is upon us. For those of you asking yourself, what is a Twihard? I’ve included the definition below. twi-hard noun A serious/obsessive reader of the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer, one leap above Twilighters. Are ...
Chris Crum
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Top News
If You Care About Search, You Must Care About Social Media
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All of the search engines are rushing to incorporate more social media elements into their interfaces. Examples of this are evident in things like Google and Bing's deals with Twitter and Facebook . You can see it in Yahoo's new Twitter tab for news results . You can see it in Google's Social Search lab . Really you can see it in everyday search ...
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Twitter gets $4M in revenue, is working on plan for posting ads
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Twitter, the free micro-blogging system that lets users post 140-character messages, is getting more than $4 million a year in revenue from companies that use Twitter data, according to Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo, who spoke at a conference in San Francisco on Friday.
Mike Butcher
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TechCrunch Europe
Video: Reid Hoffman, @stephenfry and @Biz on social media
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[UK] This week Stephen Fry - British actor, journalist, celebrity 'Tweeter' and self-confessed technophile - appeared alongside Biz Stone, Founder and Chief Executive of Twitter and Reid Hoffman, Founder and Chief Executive of LinkedIn. They discussed the future impact of social media. The discussion was not very 'tech' or 'startup' oriented, but ...
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
I'm a big fan of keeping things simple , but that doesn't mean things have to be bland. Google search results are pretty bland. Sure, sometimes you get returned things like YouTube thumbnails or pictures, but many results are still just a monotonous stream of blue links. Google tried to break this stream up a bit with its Search Options, an ...
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New Google News for mobile
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At Google, we are committed to giving you a consistent user experience across products and devices, and we really value the feedback you've given us about Google News for mobile. Today we're excited to announce a completely new Google News offering for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. (We already offer a mobile-optimized version of Google ...
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Richard Lawler
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Engadget
YouTube pulls a Hulu -- yanking API access from Popcorn Hour
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Hope you weren't enjoying watching YouTube on the television screen via Popcorn Hour and other set-top boxes, as they have been given notice by the newly 1080p and network TV-friendly website that they are no longer welcome to access its content. The new Hulu-ish Terms of Service (section II, item 10) restricts API clients from the ability to " ...
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Tom Krazit
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Webware.com
Brin: Google's OSes likely to converge
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Puzzled onlookers have wondered why Google is overseeing two separate operating-system projects. Co-founder Sergey Brin thinks that at some point the two will become one. Originally posted at Relevant Results
Searchengineland.com
Google Tackles Its “UI Jazz” Problem, Tests Streamlining Search Options Feature
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Sometime later today, a small number of Google users will see a new look to Google’s Search Options feature. If all goes well, the cleaner display may be launched across Google after the New Year. And it’s all because Google’s vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Mayer doesn’t like jazz.
Threatpost.com
Microsoft finds security flaw in Google Chrome Frame
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Back in September, when Google launched the Google Chome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer users, Microsoft immediately warned that the move would increase the attack surface and make IE users less secure.
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The Plot Thickens Around The Google Phone
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The Google phone is all over the Internet, thanks to a fresh wave of new leaks and speculations. It looks like the Google phone is ‘very real’ and it is being developed by Google as you read this. This news, brought to us by the good folks at TechCrunch, has created quite a sensation everywhere. [...]
Brian X. Chen
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Wired
Why Google Should Cool It With Chrome OS
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Sometimes you have to take a step down to step up. That’s what Google should’ve done with its open source PC operating system Chrome OS, which the corporation demonstrated Thursday. Instead, Google is positioning Google Chrome OS against Microsoft with a lightweight OS shipping with netbooks next year. Chrome OS will function as a ...
Sebastian Rupley
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GigaOM
4 Big Gambles Google Is Taking With Chrome OS
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You’ve gotta hand it to Google: The company is never shy about throwing the proverbial spaghetti against the wall to see if it will stick. Over the years, it’s introduced countless projects that have gone through long beta cycles only to fail miserably — or achieve a degree of success far below what was expected. [...]
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Scripting News
An open letter to Google
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I had an interesting but somewhat disturbing exchange with a Google guy on Twitter today. It reveals a bunch of disconnects, that I'm going to try, in this post, to address. 1. Please take these statements at face value. 2. I am just a person, I am not in competition with Google. 3. I am a Google user. My primary email account is on GMail. I just ...
Innovation
Bing: Google gets some real competition
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It’s hard to compete when your opponent’s name is so popular that it’s become a verb. Such is the plight of every search engine that dares to challenge Google. Last year, four search engines made up more than 95 percent of all search traffic: Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask. Only Google ...
EWeek
Microsoft Countering Google Chrome OS Release with Windows 7
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Microsoft issued an official response to news of Google releasing its Chrome Operating System to open source for developers. Although the Chrome OS will not be available to end users for at least another year, Microsoft is already citing Windows 7 as a more viable alternative for working on both the Web and the desktop. The initial target of the ...
PhysOrg Team
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PhysOrg.com
Google books hearing set for February 18
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A US judge set February 18 for a hearing on the revised legal settlement between Google and US authors and publishers that would allow the Internet giant to scan and sell millions of books online.
Chris Crum
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Top News
Bing Gets a Bunch of New Search Features
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Update: According to Bing, all of the features that were announced are now live. However, they do not appear to be live yet for me. I am guessing they will be soon at least. Original Article: Microsoft has announced the addition of a number of new features to its Bing search engine. The company says it has been examining the trends in search and ...
Innovation
Google phone rumors put damper on Droid buzz
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As if we weren't already buried in Android buzz. A week after Verizon Wireless rolled out the Droid, a smartphone manufactured by Motorola and powered by Google’s Android operating system, one blogger is reporting that Google is prepping its very own Android handset. According to the estimable Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, ...
Search Engine Watch Blog
Google News Updates Mobile Site for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre
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Google has made some enhancements to its mobile news site . The updates are just for the iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre. The look and feel is pretty much the same. What's new is more stories, sources, and images. A new "Jump to" link brings a pop up box offering quick access to a specific news category. Any personalizations you make on your ...
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Betanews
10 things about Microsoft's PDC 2009: The good, the bad and the ugly
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By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Microsoft's 2009 developer conference wrapped up yesterday in Los Angeles. Not since PDC 2003 has Microsoft talked so much and said so little. As I listened to the keynotes and have reviewed the sessions, words "series finale" repeatedly popped into my head -- like a TV show coming to its end after a long run. Good or ...
Macworld
Google adds captions to YouTube search
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In a step to make YouTube videos more accessible to deaf people as well as to anyone else searching for videos online, Google has launched an automatic video captioning service.
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Erick Schonfeld
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TechCrunch
Yesterday, Twitter changed its organizing question from "What Are You Doing?" to "What's Happening?" But the new call to action might be better suited to Hot Potato, a startup launching right now at our Realtime CrunchUp. Hot Potato is releasing an iPhone app which lets you create a stream of conversations around events based both on your ...
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Gizmodo
Black Friday Deals: The Only List You Need
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Black Friday is a week away, and thousands of markdowns are already announced. Our master list of Giz-friendly deals—a hefty read—includes similar items priced differently at different stores. Keep it refreshed, cuz we'll be updating it all week. UPDATE: We had to add a Page 2 with TVs, Video Games, Printers and Software Doorbuster ...
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TechCrunch
RealTime CrunchUp: Filtering The Stream Roundtable
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At our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco, the first roundtable is entitled "Filtering the Stream: Getting Rid of the Noise." The panel is populated by a lot of big players in the space: Facebook, VP of Product Chris Cox , Google, Google Fellow, Amit Singhal , Seesmic, CEO Loic Le Meur , Futurity Ventures, investor/entrepreneur Edo ...
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Leena Rao
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TechCrunch
Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference earlier this week. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today, Seesmic is launching its first venture into the mobile space with impressive apps for both the ...
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Crackberry.com
Live Images of the New 3G BlackBerry Pearl 9100!!
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OoohHHH BaBy!! Any BlackBerry Pearl fans out there? I know there are. And I know so many of you have been waiting for Research in Motion to release an updated version of the candybar-styled BlackBerry Pearl 81xx Series Smartphone. Good news. The wait is getting shorter, because what you're looking at in these photos is the new BlackBerry Pearl ...
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Roselyn Roark
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Wired
Android Version of Foursquare Combines Function and Fun
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It’s surprising that Yelp, the go-to site for finding restaurants, bars and other venues, has no presence in the Android Market. But that’s okay. Foursquare does the job with a social incentive to boot. Foursquare is a location-based social mobile network that allows users to check-in at different places, post tips and to-do items ...
Robin Wauters
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TechCrunch
Accommodation Portal AirBnB Adds Groups, Locations All Around The World
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Like a love child of eBay and CouchSurfing.com or craigslist, AirBnB lets anyone that owns space fit for accommodating travelers - be it a couch in a small apartment or the master bedroom of a 19th-century castle - post that space as a listing on its website and connect potential renters to its respective owners. Once called Airbed and Breakfast ...
EWeek
New RIM BlackBerry, Sony Phones Offer Big Cameras, Bigger App Stores
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The holidays are upon us, and new devices from Research In Motion, Sony, and other manufacturers offer users a host of new multimedia capabilities. RIMs BlackBerry line seems to be incorporating more consumer-style features such as dedicated music buttons with every passing generation, and Sony is embracing both Google Android and Windows Mobile 6.
Yahoo! News
Gameloft to cut back on Android development
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Macworld.com - Though you may think us to be iPhone fans all the time, we really do want to root for the underdog. Whether it's Google's Android or Palm's webOS, the smartphone industry could really use a David to the iPhone's Goliath to promote competition and better products all around.
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TechCrunch
Qwisk, which is launching today at the Real-Time CrunchUp, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser. The site, which is a product of Y Combinator -funded company Socialbrowse, connects with you with your friends on Facebook and Twitter in real-time as you browse the web. We have 500 invites exclusively for TechCrunch users. ...
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Facebook acts on follower trade
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Facebook has threatened legal action against a service that sells friends on the social networking site. It said it would take the action against marketing firm USocial unless it stopped violating Facebook's rights.
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Tamar Weinberg
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Mashable!
Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters
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Thanks to this week’s advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. Mashable’s sponsors are as social media savvy as our readers! Advertise with us and get noticed. Help us to help you. Mashable is seeking out site sponsors for our large, diverse audience — social media users, ...
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ReadWriteWeb
The Future Is All About Context: The Pragmatic Web
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The semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web. Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more meaningful and relevant based on the AI-esque computational power of natural-language processing (NLP) and structured data that is understandable by machines for interpretation. However, with the rise of the ...
Doug Caverly
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Top News
Bebo May Beat Retreat From Australia
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Sometimes you just have to know when to call it quits, and a new report indicates that Bebo has decided now's the time to cut its losses in Australia. Bebo is supposed to end its operations in the country before the end of the year. Paul McIntyre , who was the first to report this potential move, noted today that nothing official's been announced.
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TechCrunch
We're here at the second TechCrunch RealTime CrunchUp in San Francisco, where we'll be taking a deeper dive into realtime technology and where the streams are taking us. Kicking off the event is a conversation with Twitter COO Dick Costolo. And we'll have much more real-time goodness coming your way throughout the day (see the agenda below). ...
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RealTime CrunchUp: Win A Signed Copy Of Benioff’s ‘Behind The Cloud’
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Today at the RealTime CrunchUp Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff took the stage to talk about the social enterprise with Erick Schonfeld and Steve Gillmor (he also introduced us to a new real-time Salesforce Chatter platform). Benioff has also signed a pair of copies of his book Behind The Cloud , which we're going to be giving away to attendees of ...
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SocalTECH.com
Rippol Launches Video Discovery Service
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San Diego-based Rippol, a new startup looking to help people discovery and find online videos, is launching today at the TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. The new site uses social networking features, including links to Facebook and Twitter, to help users find and discover video based on information from friends and family. Rippol ...
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Jason Kincaid
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TechCrunch
With services like Ustream.tv , Justin.tv , Kyte , and Qik bringing live video streaming to the masses, the web is turning into a viable competitor to television for real-time content. But while all of these services are great for bloggers remotely broadcasting footage,or streaming live events, but they come with a few problems: video content isn'
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Closed Captioning Search Options
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Those of you interested in closed captioning may have noticed a new feature on this front- the ability to search only for closed-captioned videos. Naturally this is very useful for people like myself who can't hear the audio, but of course there are many others who either want the sound off or who can understand the writing better than the speech.
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Mashable!
50 Cent Symbolizes the Impending Live Video Explosion
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Some of the recent numbers being put up by live video events on the Web are giving TV a run for its money. Take for example the New Moon Premiere , which attracted 3 million viewers in total, a U2 concert on YouTube that reached 10 million, and the red carpet event for This Is It , which saw 1.8 million tune in. Today, we have yet another big ...
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Leena Rao
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TechCrunch
There are a number of real-time search engines in the space, including Collecta and OneRiot. Today, at the Real-Time CrunchUp, Infoaxe debuts its real time search engine. What makes Infoaxe unique is that it doesn't tap into streams from Twitter, Facebook, or Digg for content. Infoaxe's search engine relies completely on attention data generated ...
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Chris Crum
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Top News
Microsoft Takes Users Behind Bing
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Microsoft has launched a new site for Bing, where users can go to find out the latest features that have been implemented into the search engine (excuse me, "decision engine"). The site's called Behind Bing . "You can see each feature in action though a screencast, see me talk about why we did it the way we did (for those who like ...
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PhysOrg.com
Suit over search-engine keywords tries new angle
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(AP) -- A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's.
The Seattle Times
Suit over search-engine keywords tries new angle
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A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's.
Stowe Boyd
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Message
The Coming Real Time Revolution
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[originally posted on Get Real, January 19, 2005] [These are the prepared notes for my introductory remarks for yesterday's Get Real Show, largely derived form a report I wrote for Cutter a few years ago, called Time to Get Real:...
Stowe Boyd
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Message
Moving Toward The Real-Time Enterprise
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Time to Get Real: Moving Toward the Real-Time Enterprise There is no shortage of reading material on the rise of the real-time enterprise. But it's time to look beyond the verbiage so that organizations can decide what they must do...
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
You know the retweet button you see on content spread throughout the web? You can thank TweetMeme for that. Long before Twitter's new Retweet functionality existed, this button was the way to share on Twitter. And it still is for content not on twitter.com. But now it's time for TweetMeme to think about making money. And they've come up with a ...
MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
The first randomly selected audience winner today at the RealTime CrunchUp is SuperFeedr . They are an API service that works with both XMPP and PubSubHubbub (which launched at the frist CrunchUp) to create realtime content feeds. As they noted on stage, it's hard to demo something that is API only, but one implementation that we've written ...
Jason Kincaid
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TechCrunch
Last year, we saw the launch of identi.ca , the open-sourced alternative to Twitter. At the time, we wrote that the company was never going to rival Twitter. As it turns out, that's not the goal of parent company StatusNet. Instead, the startup is looking to become something akin to a 'WordPress for microblogs'. That is to say, they make a ...
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Tools Collection
The New P2 Is Awesome
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During WordCamp New York, I and many others had the chance to view a demo of the new P2 theme that will be released to WordPress.org users in due time. It’s already live for WordPress.com users in case you use that system. The New P2 improves on the first version by adding support for custom
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Leena Rao
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TechCrunch
Angstro, a 2008 TechCrunch50 startup, launched with a product that socialized the content on the web by tapping into your social graph. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today the startup is launching Knx.to, a real-time search engine capability and API that looks up most recent social information about any of your friends, from their LinkedIn profile ...
Robin Wauters
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TechCrunch
Frustrated with the fact that Pandora does not provide its streaming service in Canada, Vancouver-based Jeff Anderson set out to build a community-driven Internet radio service of his own along with other music fanatics, and dubbed the project Listen.fm . Currently still in private beta, Listen.fm is not going to be a 'revolutionary' service, ...
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[UK] London-based Fingertips.net lets users create their own personalised online newspaper "from the publications they want". Or at least that's the claim. The reality is that the RSS-driven service isn't nearly as customisable as its many competitors, such as start page Netvibes or more similar aggregators like Meehive . Instead, Fingertips ...
This is our third guest post written by a London-based VC. To allow them to speak plainly without jeopardising their fund or their career in the small village that is the London VC scene, I'm allowing them to post anonymously. FYI, LondonVC is a genuine VC and TechCrunch Europe has met them face to face. One of the biggest challenges for any ...
[Holland] This week we've got Rutger van Waveren, Founder of Spectives.com, doing an elevator pitch. Spectives.com allows people to use images to keep track of the latest news from their favorite sites. Think of Spectives as a visual RSS, Alltop, or as a kind of Netvibes for visual news. Unlike RSS where you have to scan text headlines for ...
[Belgium] Earlier this week, 3D gesture recognition software developer Softkinetic and VUB university spin-off company Optrima, inventor of patented 3D sensing technology announced a joint venture offering what they say is the most complete 3D depth-sensing imaging and gesture recognition interface solution on the market. It’s available now,
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