The guys who spent a lazy weekend writing a free iPhone IM client that currently has 30,000 users, Flick.IM, are back with a web chat client for AIM, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, and Jabber. I know, another multi-service chat client - *sigh*. There’s already Meebo, eBuddy, KoolIM, and a host of other services integrating existing [...]
Our sources are telling us that tomorrow afternoon Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang will be holding a confidential meeting for all Yahoo execs (vice presidents and above, called the “leadership team”) to map out his strategic plan for the company going forward. This is the next step in executing on his promised 100 day plan [...]
Time-waster of the day: Sim Web 2.0. It’s a little flash game that automatically generates a name for your Web 2.0 startup, like Twitcast or Youcrunch, a press clip, and a list of things to do to build the company:Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
Do you think you know who is going to buy Facebook, or how many copies of Halo 3 will be sold by the end of the year? You can make your make your best guess on ZiiTrend, a social prediction site that launched on Monday. (The answers to those two questions right now [...]
Seth Porges, who writes for a column called “The Futurist” every Thursday on CrunchGear, this week discusses what he thinks will eventually prove to be Web 2.0’s achilles heel.His thesis: “The Web 2.0 era will come to end sooner rather than later. Because if there is one immutable law of humankind, it is that we [...]
What’s behind all the shuffling going on at AOL lately? New CEO Randy Falco is moving the headquarters from Dulles, Va. to New York City, more layoffs are rumored at the dying dial-up business, and all the advertising businesses are now grouped together under the ominous name, Platform A. Falco is putting all [...]
The folks at Pingdom measure the uptime of Google in different countries around the world. Google users in Brazil encounter the fewest hiccups. Google’s Brazil site was down only three minutes in an entire year, giving it five 9s reliability. The U.S. search site was down ten times as much, giving it only 99.994 percent [...]
As my final act for the print edition of Business 2.0, I interviewed serial entrepreneur Bill Gross of Idealab. Gross is best known for his Web 1.0 companies, especially GoTo.com/Overture and CitySearch, and eToys. So he’s had his share of both successes and failures.But if you look at his portfolio of startups today, [...]
Microsoft has announced a set of what it claims are “significant advancements in core technology and consumer experience” for its search engine, Live Search.Among these advancements: improved results relevance, faster load times, UI enhancements, a search index four times larger than before, and special results pages for queries related to entertainment, shopping, health, and local [...]
This idea caught my eye, although so far execution consists of nothing more than a blog post on their site, payittome. Readers who want something take a picture of it along with the price and submit it to the site. Pictures will be chosen from those submitted and will appear on the home page. Advertisers [...]
Mayfiled, General Catalyst Partners, and Atomico Investments have put $5 million into Deca.tv, a newly launched production house for mainstream digital entertainment. Deca was started by Michael Wayne and Chris Kimbell, both from Sony Pictures.The company will be putting the investment into finding and financing novel digital entertainment web properties. Deca, however, will not serve [...]
On Friday LinkedIn plans to allow profile photos on its business-focused social network, in a move which reflects its increasingly international focus.It’s taken four years for LinkedIn to add photos, when every other social network has done it forever. The site for business professionals has always kept a conservative, business-like tone. But although it says [...]
As mentioned last week, Twitter has now launched a new mobile tracking feature.Users are able to subscribe to alerts based on keywords, for example a subscription for “NYC” will result in a user receiving copies of all tweets that mention NYC.To turn the tracking service on users should IM or TXT “Track search term”. [...]
Google has plugged the Google Web ToolKit demonstrating an iPhone specific version of Google Reader.The iPhone Reader combines the Google AJAX Feed API with a user interface geared for use on the iPhone.Google’s Research Actualization Engineer Bob Vawter said that the primary take-away from this project is to say ” The Google Web Toolkit can [...]
