“The most publicized improvements to email in recent memory haven’ t been browser-based, they’ ve been extensions like Xobni and Xoopit that latch onto your existing mail client and provide auxiliary services. This tactic makes good business sense – who wants to try convincing Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and Gmail users to take a leap of faith and walk [...]”
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Archive for April, 2008
Zenbe: Next-Generation Webmail, With A Platform Twist
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Are You Frustrated With Firefox?
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008“I’ m a guy who builds his own computers, and I always take care to have a very stable and very fast machine. However, lately I haven’ t been happy with its performance; it simply doesn’ t work as well as it should – it stutters, stops, coughs, freezes, waits, buffers and loads something way too often. Unfortunately, [...]”
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iGoogle Has A Bunch Of New Themes
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008“Google has teamed up with almost 70 artists from around the world to finally create a decent assortment of themes for their personalized portal, iGoogle. By the way, sometimes I think they chose the name iGoogle just to prevent anyone else from even thinking about using it and/or to annoy Apple, since it differs from [...]”
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DoubleClick Mobile Integrates With Outside Networks
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008“Roughly one week ago Google introduced mobile image ads within the AdWords network. Today DoubleClick, Google’s most ambitious acquisition of late, of which it was officially granted tutelage not too long ago after passing through numerous regulatory hurdles, is putting its own heft behind Mountain View’s mobile ad systems. It is doing so by integrating [...]”
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Busy Wednesday? Come See A Pre-Screening Of Iron Man With Us
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008“Iron Man Exclusive Trailer CrunchGear and TechCrunch are hosting a special event tomorrow, April 30 (Wednesday) in San Francisco – a special screening of the movie Iron Man, two days before the official May 2 release. We’ ve rented out the largest theater we could find in the area – The AMC Metreon in San Francisco, which will [...]”
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Updated: We Now Know 8 of Microsoft’s 12 Proposed Yahoo Board Members
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008“In March we wrote a preliminary list of the people Microsoft will propose as the alternate board of directors in the event their acquisition efforts go hostile. See our recent interview with Citi analyst Mark Mahaney who discusses the probable outcomes to Microsoft’ s effort. Microsoft is proposing ten new board members, plus two alternates (here’ s the [...]”
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Oh. My. God.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008“We’ re not canceling the Iron Man event yet, stay posted until we hear more. Just to be clear, we paid the full ticket price for every seat. This is unbelievable and stupid in so many ways. Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’ s time for you to find a new Job2.0″
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Metacafe Founders Ditch, Reportedly Cash Out Their Shares For $5 Million
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008“The co-founders of once-hot video startup Metacafe, Arik Czerniak (pictured with his son) and Ofer Adler, have left the company and cashed out their shares for $5 million, according to an article in the Israeli paper The Marker (in Hebrew). Czerniak stepped down as CEO in February, 2007, when he was replaced by [...]”
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URockHard: Just When You Thought They Couldn’t Make Any More Social Networks
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008“If you’ re like me, and I know you are, you love Rock Band. The rest of those guys can have their GTA IV. I’ ll be where I belong, behind a cheap-o drum kit with a crappy kick pedal. There are lots of us, so many in fact that there’ s now a social network just for us [...]”
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End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008“Speculation about Twitter’ s new round of financing is leading everyone to speculate on Twitter’ s actual penetration into the mainstream, or lack thereof. Hitwise says web visits have increased 8x in the last year, albeit from a minuscule base. Compete shows about 900,000 U.S. monthly website visitors. Comscore puts the worldwide number at 1.3 million unique monthly [...]”
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