Quoted: Shasta Ventures, a venture fund managing $460 million and investments in startups like Mint, Flock and Turn, has promoted Jason Pressman to Managing Director and added a new associate, Evan Liang, to the team. Pressman, which we named a VC to watch back in 2005, was previsously the VP strategy, business development and operations at Walmart.com. Pressman’s

Quoted: Every couple has its ups and downs, but most people try to keep their dirty laundry to themselves. But what about those times when you just can't come to an agreement with your significant other? Today sees the launch of SideTaker a site that asks couples to upload both sides of their arguments and let the crowd settle their debates. SideTaker members

Quoted: Last July I wrote about MyAWOL, a web-centric music label looking to compete with traditional labels, which are becoming increasingly less relevant as artists turn to digital distribution methods to gain exposure. While the site has the potential to break some new ground in the online music world, it has run into a major snag during its buildup to

Quoted: Tatango, the ad-supported group SMS service previously known as networkText, spent the last few months in a private beta following a functional and visual overhaul and a round of funding by Bellingham Angel Organization. Now everyone is free to get in on the group texting good times; they’ve opened the doors to the public. The service is dead simple

Quoted: On the heels of a major upgrade earlier this week that added facial recognition and video-editing features to its Picasa photo management service, Google added a new Explore page today that shows off the most popular public photos uploaded by members. In addition to the featured photos, shown in a 3 X 4 grid, the Explore page also shows the most recent

Quoted: From: "John S." Date: September 5, 2008 11:43:36 AM PDT To: tips@techcrunch.com Subject: Celebrity Dating Network How is it that Techcrunch will do countless stories on every idiotic widget created by countless 19 year olds who manage to get their uncles at some VC to fund it because they can back door money to each other yet you guys won't cover something

Quoted: So much for Joost's carefully prepared plans to release a browser version of their TV over IP service later this month. News leaked this morning that Joost would be abandoning their year old XUL based desktop client in favor of a browser based service that's more like Hulu and YouTube. Users will still be required to download a plugin that facilitates

Quoted: Researchers at Foundation for Research and Technology in Heraklion, Greece - that hotbed of Facebook research - have created a small Facebook application that causes a DDOS on a certain website. The application masquerades as a "picture of the day" app and shows an image from National Geographic. When someone clicks on it, however, it makes a request

Quoted: Joost, battling for relevance in the online tv world against Hulu and others, will soon no longer require users to download separate desktop software to access the service (its existing software is based on Xul). Instead users will be able to access Joost via a small browser plugin that will continue to use Joost's P2P technology to distribute video