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- YouNoodle In The News
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2.2OpenClip Brings Real Copy And Paste To The iPhone, But It Isn’t The Solution
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5.4Trilliant Raises $40 Million For Work On Smart Power Grid
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5.2Nrme’s Location-Based iPhone App Goes Live. But Will Anyone Use It?
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5.3Songsterr: A Flash Guitar Tab Player That Might Rock, Someday
- WSJ Creates BlackBerry App, Opens Some Previously Paid Content
- Real Estate Sites Are Holding Up, Despite The Housing Slump. Some (Trulia) Better Than Others (Zillow).
- CrunchGear Featured Review: Meastro Dobel Diamond Tequila
- Microspaces: Playing With Nested GUIs
- No, Tim. We’re Not As Bad As The New York Times
- Google Sinks $10 Million Into New Geothermal Technologies
- Google Tops Website Customer Satisfaction Index
- Android Video Walk-Through
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3.8Apple Is Flailing Badly At The Edges
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4.6NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source
Wednesday August 20th, 2008
YouNoodle In The News
From Techcrunch, 5 hours ago,
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The local ABC affiliate dropped by YouNoodle’s offices in San Francisco to get an idea of how useful their new startups valuation predictor is. ABC’s Sue Thompson interviewed CEO Bob Goodson on how the service works, and I dropped in for a cameo and a dose of healthy skepticism.
We first covered YouNoodle in February way [...]
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OpenClip Brings Real Copy And Paste To The iPhone, But It Isn’t The Solution
From Techcrunch, 8 hours ago,
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It’s a shame, really. A team of developers have partnered to finally bring a legitimate copy and paste solution to the iPhone - one that can actually move data between different applications (previous solutions could only shuffle data within the same app). But as great as it is to see a team of [...]
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Trilliant Raises $40 Million For Work On Smart Power Grid
From Techcrunch, 12 hours ago,
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Trilliant, a company that works on the nation’s “Smart Grid“, has closed a $40 million funding round led by MissionPoint Capital Partners and zouk ventures. As part of the deal, Mark J. Lewis of MissionPoint and Anthony Fox of zouk will be joining the company’s Board of Directors.
Smart Grid refers to the improved power [...]
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Nrme’s Location-Based iPhone App Goes Live. But Will Anyone Use It?
From Techcrunch, 14 hours ago,
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Last June we got a sneak peek at nrme, a location-based message service for the iPhone. The service behaves like a regional Twitter, but is geared towards sharing information rather than chatting - it’s sort of like a neighborhood bulletin board in the cloud. Instead of using a follow system, nrme makes all [...]
Tuesday August 19th, 2008
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Songsterr: A Flash Guitar Tab Player That Might Rock, Someday
From Techcrunch, 17 hours ago,
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One of the reasons why the guitar has become a staple in pop culture is its immediate accessibility. In lieu of standard notation, guitar players have developed tablature - a more intuitive representation of a song that uses numbers to indicate which fret on a guitar each note is played. Even the most [...]
WSJ Creates BlackBerry App, Opens Some Previously Paid Content
From Techcrunch, 19 hours ago,
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For those of you who read WSJ for the articles, the new BlackBerry-compatible WSJ.com Mobile Reader will open up the nasty walled garden that is WSJ.com. The application will be free and most of the content will be open, although there are plans to lock it down in the near future. The application will draw [...]
Real Estate Sites Are Holding Up, Despite The Housing Slump. Some (Trulia) Better Than Others (Zillow).
From Techcrunch, 20 hours ago,
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The real estate slump may still be helping to drag down the economy, but real-estate sites like Trulia and Zillow seem to be holding up just fine. In fact, the number of monthly unique visitors to Trulia has more than doubled to 2.4 million over the past year, according to comScore. Zillow, in [...]
CrunchGear Featured Review: Meastro Dobel Diamond Tequila
From Techcrunch, 20 hours ago,
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We’re a gadget blog, true, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get a mean drink on when we’re cornered. Luckily, Maestro Dobel was nice enough to send us a bottle of their $74.99 Diamond Tequila, offering us entree into a world that was once reserved for Jay Z and mortgage brokers between 2002 and 2007.
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Microspaces: Playing With Nested GUIs
From Techcrunch, 21 hours ago,
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We’re seeing a lot of desktop metaphors moving to Web interfaces in the browser. The latest example to cross our inbox is Microspaces, a service in private beta that lets you organize Web pages in folder-like Microspaces. But unlike desktop folders, the contents are made up of Web pages, so they [...]
No, Tim. We’re Not As Bad As The New York Times
From Techcrunch, 23 hours ago,
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Tim O’Reilly is tearing his hair out because he thinks that we link too much to CrunchBase, our startup database. He levels the unforgivable charge of self-linking at us, and puts us in the same company as the New York Times (which in this case is not a good thing). In his post [...]
Google Sinks $10 Million Into New Geothermal Technologies
From Techcrunch, 1 day ago,
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Google’s philanthropic arms, Google.org, is investing a little over $10 million into the development of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). Rather than extracting heat from the ground a few hundred feet down (or less) as traditional geothermal systems do, EGS goes several kilometers deep into the hot rock under the Earth.
If we could [...]
Google Tops Website Customer Satisfaction Index
From Techcrunch, 1 day ago,
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The University of Michigan’s quarterly customer satisfaction index came out today, and in the Website category Google came out on top with a score of 86 out of 100 (up 10 percent from last year). Yahoo slipped 3 percent to a score of 77. MSN’s score was flat at 75, and tied with [...]
Android Video Walk-Through
From Techcrunch, 1 day ago,
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MobileCrunch has a fairly detailed look at the new Android emulator. We go through all the current apps—the phone, the browser, Google Maps—and even crash the OS a few times for good measure.
Android adopts a traditional desktop user interface, letting you drag icons around that launch different apps, as well as look at [...]
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Apple Is Flailing Badly At The Edges
From Techcrunch, 1 day ago,
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My first computer, purchased by my parents after nearly a year of begging, was an Apple II+. That was 1982. I was a Windows user for the next 20 years, but went back to Mac when they switched to Intel chips a couple of years ago. Since then I’ve bought seven Macs for myself, as [...]
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NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source
From Techcrunch, 1 day ago,
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NewsCred, the news aggregator that ranks stories by the credibility of their source, has launched to the public. Instead of relying on popularity as many social news sites do, NewsCred instead allows users to rate each story, author, and publication’s credibility, which is then plugged into an algorithm to determine the site’s prominent headlines.
We [...]