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Signing Off, And What Does A Blogger Actually Use?

Duncan Riley, the veteran expert on Australian politics and well known blogger, extremely prolific at TechCrunch is quitting after exactly one year. He bids adieu and in his final post, he shares the more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Online Apps and Widgets  |  

Bloggers are raising money and eyebrows

Caution: A nice long post by Michael Arrington about bloggers raising money and how the landscape could shape up. Just a month ago VentureBeat reported a $320,000 raise. In 2007 we saw Sugar Inc. ($10 more...
Discuss  |  Topic: New Media  |  

Startup Disqus Gets VC Funding

New York City-based VC Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures), along with well-known angel investors Naval Ravikant, Howard Lindzon and ex-Googler Aydin Senkut are putting in half a million dollars in Disqus more...
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Analyzing the Twitter-Jaiku-Pownce Business Model and Issues

Micro- or Nano-blogging, Presence Messengers and ways to share or send stuff are part of the same ecosystem: services that operate with a slightly different or overlapping focus. Tumblr, Dodgeball, Jaiku, more...
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Pownce lets you share your stuff and life with your friends

I have been checking out Pownce. I am not impressed by the browser interface but the desktop application is much cooler since it is based on Adobe’s AIR. While we are still waiting for the Pownce API more...
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Live Blogging TechCrunch 40: Startups in Productivity and Web Apps space

Live coverage of TechCrunch40 presenting companies by blognation in Productivity and WebApps space. The article covers Xobni, Orgoo, App2You, Mint & Kerpoof. Very Nice and thorough coverage by Ewan Spence. more...
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VC's split over use of blogging

A rift is growing in the VC community over the use of blogging for their work. more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Venture Capital  |  

Magnify.net Releases a Video Blogging Platform

Mark Hendrickson of TechCrunch is writing about Magnify.net which is broadening its focus with the release of a service that lets you record video clips directly into the browser using a webcam. Is this more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Internet Video  |  

Scoble Going To Fast Company

Duncan Riley reaffirms the earlier TechCrunch breaking news that well known video blogger Robert Scoble will be building an army of Scoble-show style clones into a new Fast Company business video blogging more...
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Six Apart Gets Into Microblogging with Activity Streams

Six Apart this morning launched a plugin for their MovableType blogging platform that aggregates and displays a user's activity from social web sites. Similar to FriendFeed, the Action Streams plugin displays more...
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