CrunchNetwork May 1 Meet-up in NYC Update: More room, pending venue change
April 11th, 2008 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »With the excitement brewing about our Meet-Up on May 1 in New York, we’ve decided to slowly open up RSVPs to about 200 more people in the expectation that we’ll have a bigger venue picked by the middle of next week. Sponsorships are lining up quite nicely and we look forward to some amazing giveaways [...]
Microsoft Live Maps Drinks Google Maps’ Milkshake
April 11th, 2008 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »Last night, Microsoft pushed out a ton of new features to Windows Live Maps, including a face-lift to some of its 3-D cities (Las Vegas, Dallas, Denver and Phoenix), the ability to export your collections to GPS devices and GeoRSS feeds (which means I can make custom maps for my Dash GPS), support for 3D-map [...]
CrunchNetwork May 1 Mobile Meet-up in NYC Update: More room, pending venue change
April 11th, 2008 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »With the excitement brewing about our mobile Meet-Up on May 1 in New York, we’ve decided to slowly open up RSVPs to about 200 more people in the expectation that we’ll have a bigger venue picked by the middle of next week. Sponsorships are lining up quite nicely and we look forward to some amazing [...]
Stats: Obama Still Winning On the Web
April 11th, 2008 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »We all know by now that if you could vote on the Internet, Barack Obama would already be president. His Website has always attracted more traffic than those of other candidates. Unaffiliated video-endorsement site YouBama popped up spontaneously to collect video endorsements from supporters. MoveOn.org is getting its constituents across the [...]
V-Enable Adds Real Humans For New 411 Pitch
April 11th, 2008 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »San Diego based V-Enable, a free 411 service provider we first wrote about in December is celebrating April 11 (4/11) with a new product that adds real humans to the mix.
FreeMobile411 (available at both freemobile411.com and fm411.mobi) expands on V-Enables previous handset only offering by providing any mobile free 411 service complete with the regular [...]
Gartner Says Vista Will Collapse. And That’s Why The Yahoo Deal Must Happen
April 11th, 2008 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald told a conference audience yesterday that Microsoft’s Windows product is collapsing and must make radical changes to its operating system or risk becoming a has-been.
They specifically pointed out the slow adoption rate by businesses – just 6% to date – and the fact that the Vista code [...]
Google Launching ToDo List Product?
April 11th, 2008 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »TechCrunch reader Nicolas Hoizey noticed a blog post on the official Google Docs Blog today written by Andrew Cheng, a Google Marketing Manager. Hoizey sent us the NetNewsWire screen shot above (click for large view).
The post, based on the screen shot, appears to be a simple to do list. But the post was removed [...]
Google Calls Quattrone For Yahoo/Microsoft Advice
April 11th, 2008 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »Google has hired boutique investment bank Qatalyst Group to provide advice on the ongoing battle between Microsoft and Yahoo.
Qatalyst Group is headed by colorful Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattrone, who as we noted in March has returned to the Valley after spending years in the wilderness fighting obstruction of justice charges.
Quattrone was head technology [...]
Do You Support Video On Flickr?
April 11th, 2008 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »In fine Flickr tradition, users are protesting against the latest change at Flickr, Tuesday’s introduction of video. Over 24,000 members have joined the We Say NO to Videos on Flickr group and NO VIDEO ON FLICKR!!! has 10,000 members.
Complaints against video on Flickr range from slowing Flickr down, lack of community consultation and video [...]
Delicious Not Shrinking, But Another Problem Looms
April 10th, 2008 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »Earlier today, venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures wrote a post expressing concern that Web startups tend to languish after they are bought by big companies. To help make his point, Wilson reproduced the comScore chart above, which suggests that the number of people visiting the bookmarking service del.icio.us, which is owned [...]