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1.0Combo Wants to be the Social Network Hub for Your iPhone
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1.4Massively Me Working on Kiwi Heroes, A Socially Responsible Virtual World for Children
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3.8No XMPP: What Is Twitter Protecting?
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6.1Angry Businesses Organize Anti-Yelp Websites. This Is A Sure Sign Of Their Success.
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5.0Exclusive Offer For TechCrunch Readers: Sell Your Old iPhone For Quick Cash
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6.6Poking Holes In The Long Tail Theory
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5.8Baseball Boss: If You Don’t Love Baseball Yet, You Will Now
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5.0Blogged Tries To Make A Human-Powered Techmeme For Everything
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2.6200 More Tickets for the TechCrunch August Capital MeetUp; Announcing an Android Vs. iPhone Roundtable
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5.1Summer Travel Tip: Check If Those Frequent Flyer Award Seats Are Available on ExpertFlyer
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1.8PLYmedia Said To Raise $6 Million From Greylock And Elron
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5.5Apple Confirms: No Online iPhone 3G Sales, In-Store Activation Only
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5.1Interview With Barney Pell and Ramez Naam About Microsoft’s Powerset Acquisition: Integration By End Of Year
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3.8Tipit Lets You Transfer Money Over Twitter. Sort of.
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4.2Ballmer on Yahoo Deal: The Bankers “screwed everything up.”
Thursday July 3rd, 2008
1.0
Combo Wants to be the Social Network Hub for Your iPhone
From TechCrunch, 18 hours ago,
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Many of the startups we come across are “beta” in name only - they’re feature complete, with thousands of users and only a few (if any) bugs. Combo, a new startup that is looking to offer users a central hub for communication across their social networks, isn’t any of these things.
Combo is [...]
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Massively Me Working on Kiwi Heroes, A Socially Responsible Virtual World for Children
From TechCrunch, 18 hours ago,
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Massively Me, a stealth gaming company, has announced the upcoming launch of it’s MMOG for kids and young teenagers, Kiwi Heroes.
Scheduled for release later this year, Kiwi Heroes will be a Flash-based game that attempts to strike a balance between a virtual world and a traditional MMOG (like WOW). Massively Me claims [...]
3.8
No XMPP: What Is Twitter Protecting?
From TechCrunch, 23 hours ago,
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It turns out the battle for control of Twitter rests almost exclusively in the unique value proposition of XMPP-served track. As Twitter strips away various features of its service to rebuild a scalable fail-whale -proof version, the one remaining hurdle is restoration of a fully-functional Track over IM.
For the last two weeks, a one-way [...]
6.1
Angry Businesses Organize Anti-Yelp Websites. This Is A Sure Sign Of Their Success.
From TechCrunch, 1 day ago,
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Yelp, a user-generated database of customer reviews of local businesses, first launched in October 2004. Users rate and leave reviews for local businesses, participate in forums, and can generally get social around local businesses.
Yelp almost immediately caught on organically in San Francisco, but founders Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons ran into some early criticism. Rumors [...]
Wednesday July 2nd, 2008
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Exclusive Offer For TechCrunch Readers: Sell Your Old iPhone For Quick Cash
From TechCrunch, 1 day ago,
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We’re one week away from the debut of the 3G iPhone, and the question on everyone’s mind seems to be, “What’s going to happen to the six million first-gen iPhones that are on the fast track to obsolescence?” The iPhone - the ultimate in “cool” for the last twelve months - is about to [...]
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Poking Holes In The Long Tail Theory
From TechCrunch, 1 day ago,
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Just because the Internet makes it possible to offer a near-infinite inventory of goods for sale does not mean that consumers will start wanting more obscure items in any great numbers. That is the conclusion Harvard Business School associate professor Anita Elberse comes to in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review that [...]
5.8
Baseball Boss: If You Don’t Love Baseball Yet, You Will Now
From TechCrunch, 1 day ago,
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First off, if you love Baseball, skip this post for a minute and go claim one of the 1,000 beta accounts we have for Baseball Boss - click “register” on the top left and use the code “techcrunch” to get in. Then come back here and see why you’ll be glad you did.
Baseball Boss is [...]
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Blogged Tries To Make A Human-Powered Techmeme For Everything
From TechCrunch, 1 day ago,
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Blogged, the blog directory that we introduced last February, has launched a news portal that aspires to hand-pick the most interesting stories from across the blogosphere. The company has employed a team of editors to identify trends and popular stories from around the web, which are presented in categories that include technology, entertainment, politics, [...]
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200 More Tickets for the TechCrunch August Capital MeetUp; Announcing an Android Vs. iPhone Roundtable
From TechCrunch, 1 day ago,
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Update: This batch sold out in 20 minutes. We will release one more smaller batch in the coming weeks.
We are releasing the next batch of 200 tickets to the 3rd annual August Capital MeetUp on Friday, July 25, 2008, in Menlo Park, California. Our last release of tickets sold out in less than [...]
5.1
Summer Travel Tip: Check If Those Frequent Flyer Award Seats Are Available on ExpertFlyer
From TechCrunch, 1 day ago,
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There is nothing more annoying than trying to use up your hard-earned frequent-flyer miles only to be told that the flight you want has no frequent flier seats available. Many airlines block out seats and dates for frequent-flyer eligibility. And their sites make it especially difficult to find out which flights have such [...]
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PLYmedia Said To Raise $6 Million From Greylock And Elron
From TechCrunch, 1 day ago,
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Web video startup PLYmedia recently raised a round of $6 million to $6.5 million, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. The funding has not yet been announced, but the investors are believed to be Greylock and Elron Electronic Industries, an Israeli holding company. (In fact, Elron already disclosed its investment in [...]
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Apple Confirms: No Online iPhone 3G Sales, In-Store Activation Only
From TechCrunch, 1 day ago,
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Reader Steve has been chatting with Apple.com CSRs today - he’s already talked to two - and they’ve both confirmed my worst fears: you will not be able to order the IP3G online and it will only be available in stores and it will be activated in-store, provided you wish to purchase it at contract [...]
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Interview With Barney Pell and Ramez Naam About Microsoft’s Powerset Acquisition: Integration By End Of Year
From TechCrunch, 1 day ago,
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I spoke with Powerset cofounder/CEO Barney Pell and Microsoft’s Live Search General Program Manager Ramez Naam shortly after Microsoft’s announcement of their acquisition of Powerset earlier today.
Microsoft intends to use Powerset’s natural language search technology as a major differentiating factor v. no. 1 search player Google (see our recent coverage of Live Search [...]
3.8
Tipit Lets You Transfer Money Over Twitter. Sort of.
From TechCrunch, 1 day ago,
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Tipit, a startup that lets users tip website owners for their content, has launched integration with Twitter. Users can now ‘Tweet’ their tips to websites and Twitter users, even those without an account. There isn’t any kind of installation required: users simply tweet a message in the format “d tipit TARGET AMOUNT MESSAGE” [...]
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Ballmer on Yahoo Deal: The Bankers “screwed everything up.”
From TechCrunch, 1 day ago,
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Interesting and surprisingly detailed story in the Wall Street Journal tonight about the ongoing (never ending) Microsoft/Yahoo deal. The headline is that Microsoft, apparently not happy with simply destroying Yahoo’s credibility, is now hoping to rip it apart and divide up the pieces.
Microsoft Corp., positioning itself for a new run for Yahoo Inc.’s search business, [...]