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Check-In For Charity During SXSW With CauseWorld And TechCrunch

There are no shortage of location-based services launching this week at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Many of them allow you to “check-in” places to let others know you are there. So how do you differentiate between then and decide which to use? Well, here’s one good way.
CauseWorld, is a free iPhone and Android app that [...]

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Fri, March 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

doubleTwist’s iTunes Alternative (That Works With Android) Adds Podcast Support

Over the last six months, doubleTwist, the iTunes alternative that lets you manage your music, videos, and photos, has really been stepping up its game. In October the company integrated an Amazon-powered MP3 store, allowing users to download and sync their music directly with any of hundreds of compatible devices, much as they would with the [...]

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Wed, March 10 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Y Combinator’s Browsarity Allows You To Donate Affiliate Fees To Charity

Affiliate fees are all over the web and often we don’t even know that we are clicking on affiliate links when we click through to make purchases at our favorite online retailers. On average, affiliate fees can range from 3 to 10 percent of the price of a product. Browsarity is hoping to put money [...]

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Fri, March 5 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

The Ten Most Likely M&A Deals In Online Video

Editor’s note: Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo. Below are his picks for the ten most likely M&A deals in online video. Previously, he wrote a series if posts about the state of online video (Part I, II, III, and IV).
Which online video companies will [...]

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Sun, February 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

The Facebook Imperative

Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. In it, he explains why enterprise software should take its cues from Facebook and become more social.
I quit my job at Oracle in 1999 because I couldn’t stop thinking about a simple question: “Why isn’t all enterprise software like [...]

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Thu, February 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Welcome To TechCrunch Or 5z8.info/dicksonparade_k5f1f_hackwebcam

The web has no shortage of URL shorteners. In fact, there are so many that they’re all kind of blending together and I have no idea where to turn beyond the de-facto one Twitter uses, Bit.ly. But today, a new one has piqued my interest.
ShadyURL (made by Wonder-Tonic) is awesome because well, it creates shady [...]

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Sat, February 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

App Store Now Has 150,000 Apps. Great News For The iPad: Paid Books Rule.

During Apple’s iPad event in January, CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple now had over 140,000 apps in the App Store (along with over 3 billion downloads). If the numbers by app analytics company Distimo are correct, that number is now past 150,000.
But the App Store is growing so big, so quickly that these milestones [...]

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Fri, February 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

NSFW: Hey, 1997 – Macmillan called, they want the Net Book Agreement back

This time last week I rattled off the world’s laziest column. I was struggling against my book deadline which expired 24 hours later and I simply didn’t have time to write anything else. This week should have been different; I should have finished the book days ago and now be sitting on a beach in [...]

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Sun, February 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Amazon Says No To Blippy

Blippy, the Twitter-like service that lets users publish the details of all their purchases, is just a couple of months old. But it already got Stephen Colbert’s attention (thumbs up). And now it has Amazon’s too (thumbs down).
Cofounder Philip Kaplan first mentioned that Amazon had turned off Blippy’s access to the service on an episode [...]

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Sat, February 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments