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Carly Fiorina On TalkCrunch
As part of our election series, I spoke to Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard and the newly announced Victory Chairman for the Republican National Committee. We’ve spoken with most of the top presidential candidates over the last few months to get their on record position on ten key technology issues (Ron Paul, Barack [...]
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Talk With WCBS Radio’s Robert Hawley On Our Tech President Endorsements
Last week we fit in a long interview with Rob Hawley at the nationally syndicated Dishin Digital about our Tech President endorsements. Other media coverage of the endorsements is here. Two things I like about radio - you have a lot more time to express your ideas v. a quick tv spot, and you don’t have [...]
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The TechCrunch Ron Paul Interview
We were not able to schedule time with Congressman Ron Paul, a Republican candidate for president in 2008, until after we made our presidential endorsements this morning. No worries, though. Dr. Paul took the user voting portion of the endorsements in a landslide, although we endorsed rival John McCain over him in the editorial portion [...]
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Crunchies On Alice 97.3 FM San Francisco
The Crunchies are tonight. Alice 97.3 mentioned it on air today during their morning show, which is no. 1 rated in this market. The event is this evening, see you all there!
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Interview (almost) With Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich was too far behind in the polls to get invited to today’s ABC/Facebook presidential debate - he was cut along with Duncan Hunter and Mike Gravel. Instead, we scheduled time to talk with him about his positions on technical policies, something we’ve already done with Barack Obama, John McCain, John [...]
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Q&A With 2008 Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel
Next up in our series of talks with 2008 presidential candidates is Senator Mike Gravel, a Democrat. In addition to Senator Gravel, you can find podcasts and written Q&As that we have recorded with Senator Obama, Senator Edwards, Governor Romney and Senator McCain here and on TechCrunch. This discussion was much longer than previous [...]
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Interview With Senator John McCain
Next in our series of talks with 2008 presidential candidates on their positions on key technology issues is Senator John McCain. McCain made no stipulations on what we talked about before the podcast, and our conversation sort of roamed over a number of important current events and issues. We’ll have the full transcript up on [...]
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Interview With 2008 Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney
Last week I mentioned that we had scheduled a podcast interview with Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican candidate for President in 2008. In our original post we asked the readers to come up with questions that they would like us to ask Governor Romney. The feedback was great, and we put together a list of what [...]
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Interview With Joe Hewitt, iPhone God
Nik Cubrilovic and I managed to get the very busy Joe Hewitt on the phone for an interview about the new Facebook iPhone application that he built. Hewitt joined Facebook when the company he co-founded with Blake Ross, Parakey, was acquired in July. Hewitt has become a major contributor to the iPhone development community. He participates [...]
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Interview With Ooma Execs Andrew Frame and Ashton Kutcher
The long awaited “Vonage Killer” Ooma has launched into private beta. The product allows consumers to get “free phone service for life” after purchasing special hardware that you plug normal phones into. We have a much longer article up on TechCrunch describing the service in detail. The Ooma management team, which is very deep, includes actor [...]
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A Talk With James Hong, Co-Founder of HotOrNot
I finally had a chance to record a call with James Hong, the co-founder of HotOrNot, to discuss their new Hotlist product (see TechCrunch coverage on this today for a full overview). In the first part of the interview, Hong talks about the history of the six year old company, which has never taken venture capital [...]
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New format for Web Trend News Brief! - Single Story Focus
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Interview With Product Manager For Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft made a number of major announcements today around their new Silverlight platform at their annual Mix conference in Las Vegas. Silverlight is a new cross-platform, cross-browser platform for creating rich Internet applications, and competes directly with Adobe Flash (and their related Flex and Apollo platforms). Nik Cubrilovic and I had the opportunity to interview Brian [...]
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Web Trend News Brief - 27 Apr 2007
Blogging Bubble Bursting? Another bubble bursts: blogs Blog: New numbers suggest interest in blogging may be reaching a plateau. [CNET News.com - The Net] April 27, 2007 7:29 AM PDT Another bubble bursts: blogs Posted by Margaret Kane Has growth in blogging stalled? A new article in BusinessWeek says the numbers are pointing to a plateau in active blogs. The magazine is using stats from Technorati for the analysis, which found a decline in the percentage of blogs that are active compared to the total number of blogs tracked by Technorati. It's a familiar pattern--millions of people got excited by blogging and set up pages of their own. But after a while, they grew tired of maintaining them--or moved on to newer social phenomena like MySpace or Twitter--and let their blogs go silent. Does this mean blogging has joined the ranks of "mature" media? And is that good or bad? The bloggers who are still around are debating the issue. Blog community response: "Why, after all, do we do it? If we really had a good answer to that we'd be in a better position to understand why so many of us stop." --Virtual Economics "If the 15 million blog figure is, indeed, accurate, I'm torn. On one hand, it's disappointing to see the medium lose some of its momentum. On the other hand, the disappearance of blogging wannabes, personal diaries, etc. may be a healthy development if it raises the profile of blogs generating solid content on a regular basis." --Mark Evans "Interesting reporting by Green, but I see this as the inevitable shakeout that had to be coming to the blogosphere. Those that aren't committed to the space will go away, and leave less clutter for the rest of us to wade through. That makes the better blogs that continue to grow and thrive, that much easier to find, and more influential. I see that as a good thing." --The Viral Garden Net Radio: Second Chance for a Fair Deal A Reprieve For Net Radio? Porsupah writes "The Register reports that "Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL) have headed the 'Internet Radio Equality Act,' which aims to stop the controversial March 2 decision which puts royalty of a .08 cent per song per listener, retroactively from 2006 to 2010 on internet radio," as imposed by a recent decision from the Copyright Royalty Board. "If passed, today's bill would set new rates at 7.5 percent of the webcaster's revenue ? the same rate paid by satellite radio."" Read more of this story at Slashdot. [Slashdot] Google, MySpace: China or Bust Google aims to expand China market share (AP)AP - Google Inc., No. 2 in China's Web search market, is giving its local managers more autonomy and investing more in China in an effort to make up for its late entry and take the lead in the industry, CEO Eric Schmidt said Friday. [Yahoo! News - Technology] MySpace launches new China service (AP)AP - News Corp.'s popular social networking site MySpace launched a test version of its new China service on Friday, making a late entry into the intensely competitive Chinese Internet market. [Yahoo! News - Technology] Wiki Nichi Wah In Brief: Wikipedia appears on cellphones in Japan (InfoWorld)InfoWorld - A Japanese Web portal operator has repackaged the content of Wikipedia so it can be searched and viewed on cell phones. [Yahoo! News - Technology] Young Many, is THAT an iPod You are Cheating with? Schools banning iPods to beat cheaters (AP)AP - Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious ? students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools started banning cell phones, realizing students could text message the answers to each other. Now, schools across the country are targeting digital media players as a potential cheating device. [Yahoo! News - Technology] Vista Security Still Struggling, Microsoft Securities Not Even a Little Vista Security (PC World)PC World - Though Windows Vista may be safer than XP, Microsoft's far-from-impregnable new operating system is already proving to be vulnerable. [Yahoo! News - Technology] Security experts still proclaim Vista a major improvement over previous Windows versions, and readily say that its important new safety features--including an improved firewall, a "Protected Mode" for Internet Explorer, and User Account Control--make it much more resistant to the most common forms of spyware and malware. However, this latest flaw (now fixed) is a major black eye for Microsoft; along with two other critical security patches issued for Vista in its first three months on shelves, the problem has tarnished Vista's security sheen (see "Vista's Vulnerabilities" for details). The new OS may be safer, but its users must still be on their guard. Nagging Defense User Account Control (UAC) has the best of intentions behind it. According to Microsoft's own estimates, a whopping 95 percent of all pre-Vista Windows users perform everyday tasks logged in with Administrator credentials that let them make any kind of system changes--but that also allow malicious hackers to hijack a PC easily. By default, UAC requires a password for such tasks, keeping users--or malware--from haphazardly changing sensitive parts of the OS. But UAC is its own worst enemy. Its frequent pop-up prompts seriously annoy many users, particularly during setup of a new machine. The prompts appear less often after about ten days of heavy use, but some early adopters have never made it that far. Dividends UP! Microsoft's Vista sales boost 3Q profit (AP)AP - Shares of Microsoft Corp. soared nearly 5 percent Friday, after the company posted a 65 percent jump in third-quarter profit, boosted by sales of its new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007, and by upgrade coupons issued over the holidays. [Yahoo! News - Technology] '$100 laptop' to cost $175 (AP)AP - The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface. [Yahoo! News - Technology] Jobs: No Subscription Any Time Soon Steve Jobs: ?People want to own their music?Apple?s Steve Jobs, perhaps the most important person in the music industry today, says again that Apple is not planning on selling music via a subscription model like many of his competitors. The strategy certainly makes sense as long as as Jobs continues to win territory in his war against DRM, and the subscription music services fail to lure a critical mass of consumers. More than 2.5 billion songs have now been purchased from iTunes and they control 85% or so of the download music market. DRM free songs on iTunes cost 30 cents more, almost certainly creating greater margin for Apple per song. The subscription music services are highly competitive, leaving little profit for the providers. As long as Apple can keep selling tracks for a dollar or more per track, they?ll resist entering this market. Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily. [TechCrunch] Dirty Blog Spotlight: TechDirt Cheating just a little... TechDirt (http://www.techdirt.com/)
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Web Trend News Brief - 20 Apr 2007
The latest, most interesting highlights of web 2.0 news: Google Profits and Marratech acquisition, Apple Security Patch, Dell Brings back XP, NBC Stupid Branding, Circuit City and Napster, Blackberry Blackout, Call for Open Web Metrics and Measurement
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Web Immigrant Show No. 5 - Web 2.0 is Up-Side-Down
This episode focuses on how publishing and distribution have become so cheap and available that pepople no longer have to line up book publishing deals or record label deals to get the masses to pay attention to their work. We no longer filter, edit and then publish, we simply publish, then the new web gives us tools with which to sort, sift and prioritize content... to filter it.
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Web Trend News Brief - 4 Apr 2007
The latest, most interesting highlights of web 2.0 news: Show Notes: Web Trend News Brief 2007-04-04 Amazon Patents Humans Assisting Computers theodp writes "Amazon's latest patent, the Hybrid Machine/Human Computing Arrangement, reads like scary sci-fi, with claims covering the use of humans 'of college educated, at most high school educated, at most elementary school educated, and not formally educated' to perform subtasks dispatched by a computer. From the patent: 'For examples, the task on hand requires French speaking humans, and Task Server has requested that each subtask be performed by at least 10 humans with a past accuracy record of at least 90%.' Yikes." http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/106439614/article.pl FCC says 'no' to cell phones on planes (AP) AP - Striking a blow for cell phone haters everywhere, a government agency on Tuesday said it will keep a rule in place that requires the divisive devices to be turned off during airline flights. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_go_ot/cell_phones_airplanes InfoWorld - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has ended a proceeding that would have allowed mobile phone calls on airplanes, for now ending the possibility of phone conversations during flights. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070403/tc_infoworld/87399 Class Action Suit: Microsoft Used Deceptive Marketing (PC World) PC World - Microsoft Corp. unfairly labeled PCs "Windows Vista Capable" even when the computers could only run the most basic form of the operating system, according to a lawsuit filed against the software giant on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070403/tc_pcworld/130372 New Algorithms Improve Image Search bc90021 writes "Electrical engineers from UC San Diego are making progress on an image search engine that analyzes the images themselves. At the core of this Supervised Multiclass Labeling system is a set of simple yet powerful algorithms developed at UCSD. Once you train the system (the 'supervised' part), you can set it loose on a database of unlabeled images. The system calculates the probability that various objects it has been trained to recognize are present, and labels the images accordingly. After labeling, images can be retrieved via keyword searches. Accuracy of the UCSD system has outpaced that of other content-based image labeling and retrieval systems in the literature. One of the co-authors works at Google, where the researchers have access to image collections at the largest of scales." http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/106397205/article.pl FBI checks gambling in Second Life virtual world (Reuters) Reuters - FBI investigators have visited Second Life's Internet casinos at the invitation of the virtual world's creator Linden Lab, but the U.S. government has not decided on the legality of virtual gambling. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070403/wr_nm/secondlife_gambling_dc Microsoft releases emergency software patch (AFP) AFP - Microsoft on Tuesday released a high-priority software patch intended to fix a dangerous vulnerability in its Vista and Windows operating systems. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070404/tc_afp/usitinternetsoftwarehackercompanymicrosoft VoteForTheWorst.com has 'American Idol's' number With a little help from Howard Stern, the Web site backs singers of whom the hit show's judges are not terribly fond. http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-6173028.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1023_3-0-5&subj=news Blog Spotlight: MySpace Will Hold Presidential Primary TechCrunch: MySpace has more registered members than Mexico has people. If it was a country it would be the 11th largest in the world. So while it may be a major marketing event for MySpace to say it?s holding a presidential primary next January, you can be sure the candidates will take it seriously. The MySpace primary will be held on January 1 & 2, 2008, before any of the official state primaries. Every user will be asked to vote for their favorite candidate. Most of the candidates already have MySpace pages. See, for example, Hillary Clinton (7,468 friends), John Edwards (16,921 friends), Rudy Guiliani (private profile), John McCain (3,596 friends) and Barack Obama (89,465 friends). See all of the candidates here. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/106272328/ CNET coverage also: http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6172862.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1023_3-0-5&subj=news
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Web Trend News Brief - 29 Mar 2007
The latest in Web 2.0 news, performed in a fun, upbeat tone by Lee Gibbons (and his imaginary friends): Yahoo mail gives unlimited storage, Yahoo to open mail APIs, Viacome's turn to be Sued, Intel with new chip set plans, Jake Luddington's Digital Lifestyle Blog
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Web Trend News Brief - 21 Mar 2007
The latest in Web 2.0 news, performed in a fun, upbeat tone by Lee Gibbons (and his imaginary friends): Viacom goes with Joost, XM and Serious, New Samsung iPhone competitor, Etc.
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Zimbra Goes“Offline”
Zimbra announces Zimbra Desktop, a way to access the Zimbra website and all of your user data when offline. I spoke to Zimbra CEO and Co-founder Satish Dharmaraj this morning about the product, and we also talk extensively about the background of Zimbra in general. The company has 6 million paid users, and is moving [...]
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Web Immigrant No. 4 - Web 2.0 Terminology Tour
A friendly tour of Web 2.0 terminology that provides not only definitions, but also example web sites where these common web 2.0 buzz words are actually illustrated and working. Terms included in this Terminology Tour include: Folksonomy - Wikipedia Remix - Creative Commons.org Mashup - You Tube - Transformers Lord of the Rings Trailer Mashup Blog - BoingBoing.com Wiki - Wikipedia, Wetpaint Solcial Tagging - Digg, del.icio.us RSS feeds - Podango, FeedBurner Ajax - Google Suggest Attention - GestureBank Etc.
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Web Immigrant No. 3 - The Long Tail Part 2
In this episode, Lee discusses the Long Tail in greater depth, citing examples of companies that operate based upon the principles of the Long Tail.
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Web Trend News Brief - 20 Feb 2007
The web is changing daily. In each episode, Lee Gibbons, Podango CEO (and his imaginary friends), delivers cutting edge, must know Web 2.O news, performed in a fun, easy, yet informative show. This episode includes stories about: a hot new EM-one cell phone from Sharp, some looming dark days ahead for Vonage users, how the deal between the two satellite radio companies might not be so hot for consumers, a content licensing deal between Joost and Viacom, a fresh IPTV and social networking mashup called Raketu, and a Web Trend Blog Spotlight on web metrics
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Web Immigrant No. 2 - The Long Tail Part 1
This episode defines and teaches the concept of the long tail and sets the stage for "The Long Tail Part 2," where the application of the long tail concept is explored.
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The Show Must Go On
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Web Trend News Brief - 17 Jan 2007
This edition of Web Trend News Brief convers: Don Hinchcliff's Product Design 2.0, Twitter, Microsoft's New Web 2.0 Guru Recruited from IBM, What not to Server at your Web 2.0 Company Launch Party, A new Party Planning Web 2.0 App., and more...
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Talk With Yahoo Music Execs on the Fate of DRM
About a year ago, Yahoo Music GM David Goldberg stunned attendees of the Music 2.0 conference by urging major labels to abandon DRM and give unrestricted MP3 sales a try. The biggest side effect of DRM, he said, was that it tended to lock users into a single service and a single device - not [...]
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Talk With Yahoo Music Execs on the Fate of DRM
About a year ago, Yahoo Music GM David Goldberg stunned attendees of the Music 2.0 conference by urging major labels to abandon DRM and give unrestricted MP3 sales a try. The biggest side effect of DRM, he said, was that it tended to lock users into a single service and a single device - not [...]
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Web Immigrant No. 1 - Are you one?
Episode No. 1 - Are you one, too? (Sponsored by ShieldZone) Lee explains what a web immigrant is, what the podcast is all about, and what is coming up in future episodes.
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Interview With Digg Team - New Stats, New Features
Digg is launching several new features this morning that signal a strategic shift in the company’s all news focus to date. They’ve added a podcasting content area, enhanced the video area and are signalling that new content areas are coming as well. Among the changes, users will now be able to consume audio and video [...]
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Here Comes Adobe Apollo
Steve Gillmor and I recently spoke with Adobe senior vice president and chief software architect Kevin Lynch about the upcoming release of the Apollo platform. Apollo, the code name for “a cross-operating system runtime” is a platform that will allow developers to create to desktop applications using existing web development skills such as Flash, Flex, [...]
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Interview With Jeff Bezos
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been talking about their web services business unit a lot lately. Moments after he left the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I was able to speak to him about three of their most recent web service offerings: Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic [...]
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Interview With Jeff Bezos
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been talking about their web services business unit a lot lately. Moments after he left the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I was able to speak to him about three of their most recent web service offerings: Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic [...]
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Reddit Acquired: Interview With Founders
Cond Nast announced the acquisition of Reddit, a social news site, this morning for an undisclosed price. Reddit was founded in 2005 and has just four employees. This is a model company for young entrepreneurs looking to create a new startup with limited resources. Marshall Kirkpatrick and I interviewed founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian today [...]
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Reddit Acquired: Interview With Founders
Cond Nast announced the acquisition of Reddit, a social news site, this morning for an undisclosed price. Reddit was founded in 2005 and has just four employees. This is a model company for young entrepreneurs looking to create a new startup with limited resources. Marshall Kirkpatrick and I interviewed founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian today [...]
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Interview With Jingle CEO and Venture Capitalist
Michael Arrington interviews Jingle Networks CEO George Garrick and investor Josh Kopelman about today’s big financing news as well as the history and future of their free, ad supported 411 service called 1-800-Free-411. Key facts from the discussion: Jingle currently has costs of around $0.25 per call, and revenue of $0.20, although Garrick feels that [...]
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MediaTemple Launches Grid Server
If you are looking for a hosting provider, you need to check out Media Temple’s new Grid Server product that launched this morning. For $20 per month (the same price as most low end shared hosting providers), they are offering a fully scalable hosting product that will grow (or spike) along with your site. See [...]
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Google-YouTube Acquisition: Media Conference Call
Google announced the $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube today and held a brief conference call with media to discuss the deal. A full recording of the call is enclosed here as a podcast. Thanks to EarningsCast for recording this. Michael Arrington’s notes on the conference call are here.
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Google-YouTube Acquisition: Media Conference Call
Google announced the $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube today and held a brief conference call with media to discuss the deal. A full recording of the call is enclosed here as a podcast. Thanks to EarningsCast for recording this. Michael Arrington’s notes on the conference call are here.
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Episode 14: Interview With Pageflakes Founder
Ajax home page Pageflakes, headquartered in Germany, is just settling down after its recently announced venture financing from BenchMark Capital. In the next few days they’ll be launching Pageflakes 2.0, a “significant upgrade to the current offering” CEO and co-founder Christoph Janz tells me. Get the details at TechCrunch, and listen to my conversation with [...]
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Episode 13: PayPerPost Raises $3 million
See TechCrunch for the details on PayPerPost’s announcement of its $3 million Series A round of financing by Inflexion Partners, Villiage Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Michael Arrington and Rob Hof at Business Week, took a few minutes today to talk to Ted Murphy (founder and CEO of PayPerPost) and Josh Stein (a Director at [...]
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Episode 12: Featuring Om Malik, Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington
Episode 12 of TalkCrunch features Robert Scoble, Om Malik and Michael Arrington. They speak for just over an hour about their favorite startups and the hot news this week in tech. Topics covered include the state of VOIP, next week’s Yahoo Hack Day and Robert Scoble’s hot new tv show that’s launching Monday, ScobleShow (see [...]
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Episode 11: Elliot Noss Talks About Kiko Acquisition
Kiko, one of the first online Ajax calendars, gave up in the face of intense competition just a year after funding (by Ycombinator) and launch. The founders put the site up for sale on ebay…and it sold for $258,100. The buyer was a twelve year old Toronto-based Internet company called Tucows. Tucows CEO Elliot Noss wrote [...]
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Episode 10: Digg 3.0 Launches - Interview With Founders Kevin Rose&Jay Adelson
Digg 3.0 is set to launch on Monday, June 26, 2006. Screen shots and a feature overview are available on TechCrunch and Read/Write Web. Here on TalkCrunch, Richard MacManus and Michael Arrington interview Digg founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson on a wide range of topics, including the history of Digg, features included in Digg [...]
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Episode 9: Flock Launches - An Interview with the founders
Flock is launching it first public beta this evening (Tuesday, June 13, 2006). See the launch post on TechCrunch, and listen to Michael Arrington interview Flock founders Bart Decrem, Geoffrey Arone and Anthony Young, as well as Shasta Ventures investor Jason Pressman, in the attached podcast. The conversation touches on Flock features, the business model [...]
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Episode 8 - Gil Penchina On Leaving eBay for Wikia
Gil Penchina leaves eBay (see TechCrunch post) to become the first CEO of Bessemer funded Wikia, the new for-profit venture of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch speaks with Gil about his decision to leave, his game plan for Wikia and some of the hot startups he’s recently invested in. Running Time: 27:40 Size: 12.7 [...]
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Episode 7 - Live PBS Recording on Web 2.0
Tom Fudge, host of the KPBS San Diego show “These Days“, had CNET Editor-at-large Brian Cooley and TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington on his live show on Monday, May 8, 2006. The topic? Web 2.0 and what it means to the average Internet user. With KPBS’ permission we are adding a recording of the show here at [...]
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Episode 6: Sphere Launch
The long-awaited blog search engine Sphere launches at 10 PM tonight. In this episode of Talkcrunch we speak with Tony Conrad and Toni Schneider about the Sphere story. Tony Conrad is the CEO and co-founder of Sphere. Toni Schneider, formerly the CEO of Oddpost, is currently the CEO of Automattic (wordpress.com, wordpress.org, etc.) and an [...]
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Episode 6: Sphere Launch
The long-awaited blog search engine Sphere launches at 10 PM tonight. In this episode of Talkcrunch we speak with Tony Conrad and Toni Schneider about the Sphere story. Tony Conrad is the CEO and co-founder of Sphere. Toni Schneider, formerly the CEO of Oddpost, is currently the CEO of Automattic (wordpress.com, wordpress.org, etc.) and an [...]
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Episode 5: Riya Launch
According to Riya there are 300 billion digital photographs stored in various places today, and they want to help us organise them. Riya is a photo sharing and search site that will tag and index your photos automatically using intelligent recognition. Riya took the web by storm when it launched it’s beta last year and [...]
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Episode 5: Riya Launch
According to Riya there are 300 billion digital photographs stored in various places today, and they want to help us organise them. Riya is a photo sharing and search site that will tag and index your photos automatically using intelligent recognition. Riya took the web by storm when it launched it’s beta last year and [...]
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Episode 4: Battle of the Online Feed Readers
The fourth episode of TalkCrunch is a discussion with executives of four of my favorite online feed readers: NewsGator, Attensa, Rojo and Feedlounge. I brought on Frank Gruber as a co-host, who wrote a comparison post of nine online readers last week on TechCrunch. The conversation focuses on feature comparisions, issues around slowdown as all of [...]
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Episode 4: Battle of the Online Feed Readers
The fourth episode of TalkCrunch is a discussion with executives of four of my favorite online feed readers: NewsGator, Attensa, Rojo and Feedlounge. I brought on Frank Gruber as a co-host, who wrote a comparison post of nine online readers last week on TechCrunch. The conversation focuses on feature comparisions, issues around slowdown as all of [...]
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Episode 3: Amazon’s New Grid Storage Service
The third episode of TalkCrunch is all about Amazon’s game changing new S3 Grid Storage web service that I wrote about on TechCrunch last week when it launched. Co hosted with Keith Teare and Nik Cubrilovic, we bring on two guests from the Amazon Web Services group: Adam Selipsky (VP of Product Management and Developer [...]
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Episode 3: Amazonâ??s New Grid Storage Service
The third episode of TalkCrunch is all about Amazon’s game changing new S3 Grid Storage web service that I wrote about on TechCrunch last week when it launched. Co hosted with Keith Teare and Nik Cubrilovic, we bring on two guests from the Amazon Web Services group: Adam Selipsky (VP of Product Management and Developer [...]
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Episode 2: Social Networks 3.0
In our second episode of TalkCrunch we talk to LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman and August Capital VC David Hornik about social networks on the web. We also talk a bit about the main news from the past week, and other topics such as web video and podcasting. Podcast hosted by TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington and Nik [...]
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Episode 2: Social Networks 3.0
In our second episode of TalkCrunch we talk to LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman and August Capital VC David Hornik about social networks on the web. We also talk a bit about the main news from the past week, and other topics such as web video and podcasting. Podcast hosted by TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington and Nik [...]
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Episode 1: Google Calendar v. the Competition
For our inaugural podcast, we invite Ethan Stock, Founder of Zvents and Narendra Rocherolle, Founder of 30boxes, to discuss Google’s new Calendar product, to be called “CL2″. We also talk about how Zvents and 30Boxes will (somehow) find a way to compete as the big guys enter the space with next generation calendar and event [...]
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