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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

All the videos of the talks at StartupSchool '08 are online here.

- Peter Novig (Google)
- Paul Graham (YCombinator)
- Marc Andreesen (Ning)
- Mike Arrington (TechCrunch)
- Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
- David Heinemeier (37 Signals)

The Crunchbase page on Faves has gotten really cool. Besides the TechCrunch-written summary of the company, they now show:

- Posts from the Faves blog.
- Traffic data from Quantcast and Compete.

Seattle-based startup, RescueTime, got some more TechCrunch coverage for the upcoming Y Combinator Demo Day (March 18th).

Quoted: The fledgling startups listed below will present their ideas and initial products to investors at this spring's Y Combinator Demo Day on March ...

Michael did a great job on his Charlie Rose interview (also see the Chris Anderson (of Wired and "The Long Tail") - for a very insightful conversation on the trends in the digital economy.

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 ...