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« Previous Entries Next Entries »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, [...]
Watch out Craigslist, Sister Site Kijiji Is Taking Off.
Friday, February 15th, 2008It’s not yet a Craigslist killer, but eBay’s free classifieds site Kijiji is taking off in the U.S. eBay, of course, is also an investor in Craigslist, but its 25 percent stake doesn’t give it a controlling interest and the other 75 percent is not for sale. So in March, 2005, eBay launched Kijiji as [...]
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 [...]
How Frequently Should You Change Your Blog’s Theme?
Friday, February 15th, 2008Some of the biggest decisions bloggers face involve their blog theme. Should you change your theme? Should you pay for a premium theme or a custom theme? What should you look for in a new theme ?
With so many free themes readily available (especially for WordPress users) you could literally change [...]
Sun to Nab MySQL For $1 Billion
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 January 16, 2008
UPDATED: In a surprise move, Sun Microsystems today said it’s acquiring privately held open source database vendor MySQL AB for approximately $1 billion.
The move is a bold one for Sun, which analysts note has been under pressure to make money from its Solaris enterprise software since it began offering it [...]
Joomla 1.5 Stable Released
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008It is with great pride that the Joomla! community announces to the world the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5 Stable [Khepri]. As a community of contributors, we have been through celebrations and tribulations. We have had fun, and we have worked hard. We have learned from and helped one another. What started two and [...]
Google Tops Feed Reader and Social Bookmark Rankings
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Some interesting audience-engagement data just came out from AddThis.com, which ranks the top feed readers and bookmarking services by how actively they are used. These rankings are based on how many times people across the Web add a link to a bookmarking service or a feed to an RSS reader using the AddThis button. (That’s [...]
Web 2.0 and Social Media Optimization Trends: Memetrackers
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007I have been scoring the Internet the last few days trying to find resources related to Web 2.0 and/or Social Media Optimization and I came across the idea of “Memetracker Web Sites.” From a Web 2.0 perspective these sites are geared towards collecting information about “hot topics” or things that create a “buzz” in the [...]
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