mike | Shared With: Everyone - 17 days ago | foxmarks, techcrunch, search, bookmarks
mike | Shared With: Everyone - 23 days ago | search, microsoft, powerset, techcrunch, ramez naam, friends
Ramez was the MS rep on the call about the PowerSet acquisition.
MS acquired PowerSet to add natural language capability to the Live Search engine. The guess is that this was a $100M deal. Which shows there is still room for innovation in the search realm - it's good to see MS taking a stab at innovating in search.
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 19 2008 | alexa, cozi, techcrunch, robbie cape
Cozi, Robbie Cape's company, started out focused on family organization tools centered on the "living room" (e.g., using Windows Media Center apps). That now seems to have morphed to a more traditional online service (but now with Outlook(?) integration).
New investment by Gannett (Topix) brings total startup cost to around $15M. They are claiming 600,000 registered users and adding 2,000 per day. Their Alexa number are in the toilet, however (162,000), which begs the question, how are they getting all this usage, and not registering on Alexa?
Quoted: Cozi, an intriguing Seattle based startup that's most easily described as a social network for a family unit, is announcing an investment and ...
mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 25 2008 | steve gillmor, techcrunch, podcast, gillmor gang, startups
An hour-long conference call podcast EVERY DAY (sheesh) which frequently includes Arrington, Scoble, Cantor, and Calacanis.
I only recently started reading Steve Gillmor in the form of his posts on TechCrunch. Unfortunately, I don't think he's a very good writer; he seems inclined to produce a Joycean stream-of-consciousness wandering rant that can only be understood by the most inner-circle of Silicon Valley groupies and tech weenies.
I'm listening to the May 23, 2008 podcast with Google Engineer David Glazer. He explains oAuth and the rationale for the Google IO conference.
These calls look like they have some good gems in them - I just can't imagine devoting the time to listed to 7 hours per week to cull the wheat from the chaff.
mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 09 2008 | bookmarks, social, faves, mento, techcrunch
New social bookmarking site gets coverage on TechCrunch despite launching into a super crowded space with a closed beta.
I was pretty disappointed on the lack of a 1) Faves mention or 2) any sort of analysis on the uniqueness of the service.
Seems like any startup can get a TechCrunch mention now by just offering "exclusive signups" for TechCrunch readers!
Quoted: The tagging and link-sharing market has no shortage of competition, but that doesn't seem to be deterring many developers. Mento, which has just ...
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 21 2008 | conference, startups, google, ruby, techcrunch
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 12 2008 | faves, techcrunch, crunchbase, startups
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 15 2008 | rescuetime, seattle, startups, y combinator, incubator, techcrunch
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 09 2008 | video, interview, techcrunch, michael arrington
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 19 2008 | hosting, mosso, rackspace, techcrunch, rails, python, php, .net
Descriptionof Mosso's (Rackspace sub) hosting offerings. $100/month gets you:
—50 GB of storage
—500 GB of bandwidth for transferring data
—3 million HTTP requests.Quoted: Last week's incident with Amazon Web Services briefly going down may have raised questions about the reliability of cloud computing, but demand is ...
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