Lots of jawing yesterday over reports that Palm is paying developers to bring their mobile apps to the webOS platform. An interesting claim–were it true. But according to multiple sources, it’s not.
Goodbye, Web 2.0. I hope I never have to type those words again.”
– TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington offers up an ironic eulogy for the hundreds of Web 2.0 start-ups in the TechCrunch company index
Of the 40 companies who presented at TechCrunch40 over the past two days, the judges determined Mint to be the best and awarded the online financial-management service the conference’s $50,000 grand prize. Not all that surprising, really. Chatter in the conference lobby had the company pegged as a favorite to win early on and, let’s [...]
MC Hammer in da house yo, and sitting on the afternoon judges panel as well. Please Hammer, don’t hurt ‘em…
Another round of presentations by start-ups at this session of TechCrunch40, this time a group of mainstream (and not-so-mainstream) media-manipulation companies. In addition to Hammer, the panel of judges (new for this session) includes Caterina Fake [...]
At this midday panel, TechCrunch40 co-host Jason Calacanis moderated a discussion with Jay Adelson (Digg), David Sacks (Geni), Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Sumant Mandel (Clearstone), George Zachary (Charles River Ventures), Hank Barry (Howard Rice), and Jeff Clavier (SoftTech VC).
(Quick aside: Before the panel begins, the woman sitting next to me is investigating the contents of [...]
Today’s session on revenue models and analytics, the sixth in TechCrunch40’s two-day schedule, featured the same judges panel as in the fifth session: Roelof Botha of Sequoia Capital, digital pioneer Esther Dyson and VC guru Guy Kawasaki.
Following is a summary of company presentations and what the judges had to say:
Spottt: Phil Kaplan, of Ask Pud [...]
After today’s first session of TechCrunch40 on productivity and Web applications, Google announced it was launching a Web-based collaborative presentation tool to go with its Docs and Spreadsheets.
No big surprises from the company, though. Jen Mazzon, product manager of Google Docs, took the stage to announce the company’ presentation application to its online Google Docs [...]
Today, the second of the two-day TechCrunch40 conference in San Francisco (sponsored by TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington and entrepreneur Jason Calacanis), began with a panel on productivity and Web apps. (For a rundown of the presentations of all companies involved, check out Barron’s Tech Trader Daily blogger Eric Savitz’s report.)
Here’s an abbreviated summary (some of it [...]
Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski is blogging from TechCrunch40 in San Francisco, a two-day conference highlighting what its organizers consider “40 of the hottest new start-ups” from around the globe. Additionally, another hundred or so companies are demoing their products, some of which he’ll feature here.
While John settles in for this morning’s first session about productivity [...]
Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski is blogging from TechCrunch40 in San Francisco. Technical difficulties at the conference site prevented him from live-blogging, so he summarized the day’s closing session, a “chat” between TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski is blogging from TechCrunch40 in San Francisco. Technical difficulties at the conference site prevent him from live-blogging, so he summarized the fourth session on crowd-sourcing.
Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski is blogging from TechCrunch40 in San Francisco. Technical difficulties at the conference site prevent him from live-blogging, so he summarized the third session on community and collaboration.
Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski is blogging from TechCrunch40 in San Francisco. Technical difficulties at the conference site prevent him from live-blogging, so he summarized this demo of AOL’s new Bluestring “personal media service,” which the company says will enable users to upload photos, music and video files to the Web and create multimedia shows to [...]
Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski is blogging from TechCrunch40 in San Francisco. Technical difficulties at the conference site prevent him from live-blogging, so he is summarizing with the following report on the second session.
Jason Calacanis is back onstage, describing the voting process employed by a panel of judges (which will be done with poker chips).
Cubic Telecom [...]
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
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12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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