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Morning Buzz: Live From Google’s Major Step Into The Social Spotlight
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This morning, Google is hosting an event at its Mountain View, CA headquarters to show off a new social product it has been working on. Google VP of Product Management Bradley Horowitz, VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra, and product manager Todd Jackson are on hand to show it off.Below, follow our live notes (paraphrased):
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DotNetNuke Scores Another $8 Million In Series B Funding
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DotNetNuke Corporation, the owner and maintainer of the open source web application framework that goes by the same name, has raised $8 Million Series B funding from new investor UV Partners and prior backers August Capital and Sierra Ventures. The company had earlier raised an undisclosed amount of financing from the latter two investors back in November 2008.
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Bubble Motion Launches Twitter-Like Voice Blogging Service For Mobile Phones
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Sequoia-backed voice messaging company Bubble Motion is getting into the microblogging space today, that is the voice-based microblogging space. The startup is launching Bubbly, a voice-blogging social network built for mobile phones. With Bubbly, you can record and broadcast messages from any mobile device. When a users records audio messages and updates, followers can listen in whenever t...
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No Sense Of Humor, TechCrunch Is Blocked In China
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Over the past 48 hours, and perhaps longer, it appears that TechCrunch is being blocked inside China. We've confirmed this with contacts and tipsters inside China who can no longer access our site, as well as through Web tools such as WebsitePulse and Just Ping which pings sites from inside China's Great Firewall. Both of those services indicate that, at least in Shanghai, readers cannot co...
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In 2010, It’s Time To Kill Off The Dotcom Hero CEO
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As I sit here listening to Ben Cohen's radio documentary about how he nearly became a teenage dotcom millionaire, I'm reminded of how tedious us journalists all found him back in the late 90s. We don't now of course - now that's he's grown up and actually turned out to be a pretty good tech reporter for Channel 4 News, and quite an OK guy, I'd quite happily have a pint with him. But the story...
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Fotomoto Upgrades Service; Attracts New Users, Investors And Board Members
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In May 2009, we covered the launch of Fotomoto, a Web-based photo monetization service built by the eponymous startup based out of San Francisco.The product has grown a lot since then, and founder & CEO Ahmad Kiarostami informs us that they have signed up 2800 website publishers since launching publicly, which translates to some 610,000 photos to date.
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CrunchGear Reviews the Withings Tweeting WiFi Scale
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So the Internet made me fat. That and all the beer. Anyway, now I'm going to depend on the Internet to make me skinny again and I think the Withings WiFi scale is just the thing to get me back in Abraham Lincoln mode.This glass scale features a body mass sensor complete with invisible electrodes as well as a backlit OLED readout. To start, you connect the scale to your computer via USB and as...
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Pursway Scores $6 Million To Help Companies Leverage The Power Of Social Influencers
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We wrote about the power of brand buzz on social media sites yesterday, and one contributing aspect to buzz are individuals who are "influencers," similar in some ways to the trend that Malcolm Gladwell highlighted in The Tipping Point. But how do companies find and then leverage the power of these influencers on the web? Israeli startup Pursway (formerly known as Datanetis), aims to help com...
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IVT Raises $5.5 Million For Webcasting Software
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IVT, a company that produces enterprise-friendly webcasting software, has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding from Syncom Venture Partners with Barshop Ventures, Monitor Ventures and Tudor Ventures participating in the investment round. IVT raised $3 million in Series A funding in 2006. IVT's SaaS offering not only helps power webcasts, but also converts multimedia files, such as slide...
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Twilio’s Telephony API Now Lets Applications Send And Receive SMS Messages
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Back in November 2008, we covered the launch of Twilio, a startup that's akin to an Amazon Web Services for telephony apps. After signing up for a phone number, Twilio lets you integrate phone services into your application using intuitive tags like Dial when you want your app to place a call. Today, the company is expanding to include support for the world's most popular data channel: SMS mes...
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Apple Releases Aperture 3 – Retail Price Is $199, Upgrade Costs $99
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It's been almost 2 years to the day when Apple released Aperture 2.0, and this morning the company announced that the third iteration of the photo editing and management software is available. Some of the new features include Faces, Places and Brushes, some of which will be familiar to those using iPhoto '09.With the new version, Apple is making Aperture more consumer friendly, while still pr...
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Flush With $10 Million In Fresh Cash, Yammer Strengthens Executive Team
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Yammer, the San Francisco startup that offers a solid enterprise-grade microsharing and realtime communications service, is expanding its executive team after successfully closing a Series B funding round to the tune of $10 million earlier this month.The company made one internal promotion, appointing co-founder and VP of Technology Adam Pisoni to CTO. In addition, Yammer recruited David Satt...
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Tiny Speck Uncovers Glitch, A New Flash-Based Massively Multiplayer Game
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Last July, we reported that the new company by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield had received a name, and was looking to hire. Tonight, Tiny Speck's first project has revealed itself to the world: Glitch.So what is it? As we suspected, it's an online game in the vein of Game Neverending, the gaming project that eventually became Flickr (weird, I know). It's a Flash-based massively multipl...
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Back to the Future: How Apple is Becoming More Like a Carrier Every Day
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Editor's note: Is Apple going too far with its restrictions on developers? Alistair Goodman thinks so and explains why in this guest post. He is the CEO of 1020 Placecast, a location-based mobile advertising startup.Apple’s recent behavior bears an increasing resemblance to carriers with respect to the walled garden they are creating around the iPhone. Restricting applications, restricting...
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Foursquare Signing Mainstream Partnership Deals Left And Right
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Foursquare continues to sign interesting deals with major players in a wide range of fields. Following the service's Bravo deal a couple weeks ago, they've reached a deal with restaurant rating guide Zagat, according to The New York Times. And AdAge has some details about deals with even more partners, including HBO, Warner Brothers, and the History Channel.The service has been on a roll late...
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The Value Of Online Buzz For The Top 20 Brands
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Nowadays, buzz around brands on the news, blogs, tweets and other social media that spreads through product launches, PR campaigns, earnings reports are as valuable as traditional ad campaigns. But buzz and social dialogue on the web is tough to quantify. General Sentiment has released a report that calculates the dollar value of the buzz, content, and conversation taking place online. Genera...
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The Long Tail Of Video Sites Capture Half Of All Viewing Minutes
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YouTube might be streaming more than 13 billion videos a month, or nearly 40 percent of total individual streams, but when you measure by time spent YouTube only accounted for 26 percent of all viewing minutes on the Web last year.  It is not surprising that it commands a smaller share of time spent watching videos than number of streams watched, since most YouTube videos are so short.  But w...
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blueKiwi Rides the Freemium Wave
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With the continued success of Twitter and other social networking tools, any criticism (or praise) of products and companies is becoming increasingly public. Finding a way to manage these external communications in the internal decision-making process is an ongoing challenge for many businesses. Today, in an effort to help marketers and community managers better deal with such outside corresp...
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Video: “Parisian Oops” Mocks Google’s Super Bowl Commercial
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It actually took longer than I would have expected for someone to come up with a good mocking of Google's "Parisian Love" commercial that played during the Super Bowl yesterday. But today brings us just that.The video comes compliments of the Upright Citizens Brigade Beta Team "The Brig." They've named their video "Parisian Oops" and have given it the tagline, "Romance, Consequences, Awkwardn...
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The Ten Biggest Advertising Publishers On The Web
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Last year, Yahoo still dominated display advertising on the Web in terms of sheer number of ad impressions on its properties, but social networking sites MySpace and Facebook came on strong. Some new data from comScore in its just-released 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review ranks the top Web properties by the number of display ad impressions. Yahoo served up an estimated 521 billion impres...
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