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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008I checked into a charming little hotel while on assignment in San Diego recently. When I opened the door, the soft, diffused light streaming into the room through the windows was beautiful. There were flowers on the table in the alcove. I had to have a photograph of it. There was one tiny problem. No [...]
Yahoo Can’t Find the Pirate Bay
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008A search for “pirate bay” on Yahoo no longer turns up a link to the controversial BitTorrent search engine. It appears that Yahoo has decided to filter the site from its search results. Clear references to the site appear in Yahoo’s drop-down search assistant, but when you click on those, you still don’t get [...]
Microsoft To Announce WorldWide Telescope On February 27
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008A source close to Microsoft says the company will launch new desktop software called WorldWide Telescope on February 27 at the TED Conference in Monterey, California. Our guess is that this is what Robert Scoble was talking about last week when he said he saw a new Microsoft project that brought him to tears.
The service [...]
Microsoft To Give Students Dev Software For Free
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008At a talk tomorrow at Stanford University, Bill Gates will announce that they are making much of their developer software free to college and university students. The program, called Microsoft DreamSpark, will be run by Joe Wilson, Senior Director of Academic Initiatives.Covered software includes Visual Studio Professional Edition, XNA Game Studio, Expression Studio, SQL Server [...]
Mixx To Cluster Related Stories - Digg Should Have Done This
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Digg competitor Mixx continues to impress us with new features (although the exodus of Digg users to them may have been short lived).A new feature launches this week on Mixx called Related Items. It solves a common problem found on Digg and other sites where multiple articles on the same story compete with each other [...]
Rackspace Offers Cloud Computing with Mosso
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Last week’s incident with Amazon Web Services briefly going down may have raised questions about the reliability of cloud computing, but demand is high enough for competitors to keep trying to get into the game. The more companies that enter this space, the cheaper and more competitive that Web-scale computing should become.
Today, hosting provider Rackspace [...]
We cover a lot of startups here at TechCrunch, but I don’t recall ever having covered a startup that thinks it can use artificial intelligence to predict whether other startups will be successful. YouNoodle promises to do just that.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008We cover a lot of startups here at TechCrunch, but I don’t recall ever having covered a startup that thinks it can use artificial intelligence to predict whether other startups will be successful. YouNoodle promises to do just that.
The site opens to the public today, and they chose the NY Times to pitch their product:
Kirill [...]
Chinese Government May Be Concerned About Microsoft’s Takeover of Yahoo
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008An interesting report from Reuters/ eWeek suggests the Chinese Government may be concerned about Microsoft, a firm that uses “monopolistic tactics” buying Yahoo, which will mean Microsoft will become the biggest shareholder in Alibaba, one of China’s biggest internet firms.According to the report Alibaba “will seek a stronger voice for its management team in Microsoft’s [...]
First Look: Kluster’s Market Approach to Crowdsourcing
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Crowdsourcing may work for Wikipedia, but few commercial companies have figured out how to make it work for them. The basic concept is to get outsiders, preferably customers, to swarm together to design a product or complete some other project. Crowdsourcing is quickly becoming a crowded field—there’s Innocentive, Cambrian House, the soon-to-launch CrowdSpirit, and Ideablob, [...]
Game On: Zynga and SGN Battle For Social Gaming Developers
Friday, February 15th, 2008From Techcrunch:
The social networking game is all about scale. There are so many apps now on Facebook alone, nearly 16,000, that it is nearly impossible to get noticed unless you are already part of one of the bigger app companies. Cross promotion between apps is the key. Some of the largest app companies like Slide [...]