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Friday, June 20th, 2008Today at the Supernova conference there was a panel about who owns the social graph. The panelists were Kevin Marks from Google, Joseph Smarr from Plaxo and Dave Morin, Facebook’s Senior Platform Manager. The conversation turned very interesting when moderator Tantek Celik pointed out a post by David Recordon that showed how Facebook is blocking [...]
Kaltura Releases Revamped MediaWiki Extension
Friday, June 20th, 2008Kaltura, the open-source video platform, has released a new version of its MediaWiki extension that allows users to embed and edit video, images, and audio on wiki pages. MediaWiki is a wiki software package that was initially developed for Wikipedia and has since been used by a number of other sites.
Kaltura says that the new [...]
Update: Reddit Tries To Compete the Open-Source Way
Friday, June 20th, 2008It is not easy being No.2. As we hinted yesterday, Reddit, the news voting site that was bought by Conde Nast in 2006, is making the code behind its site open source. (The code can be found here). That means anyone can now make their own Digg-like site. Not that there has been any [...]
Twitturly Living Up To Its Potential As Great News Source
Friday, June 20th, 2008I wrote about twitturly in April. The service scans Twitter, looks for links that people are talking about then organizes them by popularity on the home page, and the stories then degrade over time. Anyone who uses Digg, TechMeme, Reddit or other news aggregators will feel at home there.
Right now, for example, the page is [...]
The Next-Gen Web: HTML5 - Will We Ever See A Real Standard?
Friday, June 20th, 2008Last week we looked at how some browsers and plug-ins were adopting storage-related API’s that are a part of the new HTML5 draft specification. While Gears, Opera and Webkit have implemented structured storage API’s, the remainder of the HTML5 spec currently remains mostly unimplemented and also in a state of flux. HTML5 is a super-sized [...]
Google Apps
Friday, February 29th, 2008Google has just released a new product called Google Sites, and you can start using it today!
What is Google Sites?
It’s an online application that makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. You can quickly gather a variety of information in one place — including videos, calendars, [...]
Facebook Gets More Orderly: Multi-Tab For Profiles
Thursday, February 28th, 2008From Techcrunch
Facebook has always had much cleaner, less chaotic profile pages than “anything goes” competitor MySpace (MySpace continues to experiment with less chaotic default themes). Facebook just seems to like things to stay orderly and structured on their site. But as users add dozens of applications and other content to their profiles, it’s becoming harder [...]
Eurekster Debuts Improved Swicki Results Pages
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Site-specific search provider Eurekster is today releasing a new version of its Swicki product that features a set community features on its results and home pages.
The free Swicki search widget, used here on TechCrunch in the right-hand column, provides a cloud of popular search terms and leads to a page with results voted on by [...]
MoFuse Instantly Converts Sites for the iPhone
Thursday, February 28th, 2008MoFuse is a service that will take your website and instantly create a mobile version of it, sparing you the development costs of doing so by hand. Today the company is announcing that it will now automatically create iPhone versions of sites in addition to the standard versions for dumbed down mobile browsers.
Starting immediately, when [...]
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 [...]
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