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During its iPhone 4.0 developer preview this morning Steve Jobs announced that iBooks, the hybrid E-reader/book store application that launched alongside the iPad, will be coming to the iPhone. The interface and store look the same as they do on the iPad, and you’ll be able to purchase a book using either device and sync [...]
Thu, April 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Time to live blog April Fools 2010! Some of us got a jump start on the time-honored tradition (not to name any names here), but we still have about 24 hours of shenanigans left. As the new hire, I have the dubious honor of managing the TechCrunch April Fool’s Scorecard.
If you spot a good [...]
Thu, April 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Whenever there’s a big event, like SXSW, we usually have people there to live-blog the important keynotes and/or write recaps of it afterwards. I’m not gonna lie, sometimes those are boring. You know what’s better? Rap songs that recap keynotes.
Hip-hop artist SaulPaul has released a video on YouTube which recaps the keynote Spotify CEO Daniel [...]
Sat, March 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
I’m here at the last keynote of SXSW, where Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is being interviewed by Wired’s Eliot Van Buskirk. Ek will likely be revealing some new announcements about Spotify during this interview. I’ll be live blogging my notes below.
Van Buskirk kicked off the keynote by asking how many people in the audience [...]
Wed, March 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
OMGTwitterisdownagain. Or extremely flaky, at least. This time, the problems seem to occur only when trying to access the Twitter website, as the API seems to be fully functional and thus not causing any trouble for third-party clients.
Search also seems to work fine, as you can tell from all the people tweeting that Twitter is [...]
Sun, March 14 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
You know how TweetMeme started out trying to be the Techmeme of Twitter before it ventured off plastering its ReTweet buttons on every blog on the Web? Well now there’s a site that just launched today that wants to be the TweetMeme of Google Buzz called ReBuzzThis.
It is not much to look at right [...]
Fri, March 5 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
By now, you’ve probably heard of Chatroulette, the website where one can anonymously have video chat conversations with random strangers from around the world. Needless to say, this freaks out just about everyone who has tried the service so far, which was started by 17-year-old high school student Andrey Ternovskiy from Moscow.
Check out SFWeekly editor [...]
Sun, February 21 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
As you may have noticed, TechCrunch was down for an extended period of time this afternoon. In case you haven’t read about why yet, it’s because WordPress.com suffered through some 110 minutes of downtime, as WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has explained just now on the company’s blog.
TechCrunch is one of the millions of blogs hosted [...]
Thu, February 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
You may recall that last year we poked fun at Pepsi for sending us a few cases of Aquafina water bottles. First of all, we’re a tech blog. Secondly, the point of the outreach was to showcase Aquafina’s new plastic bottles that apparently use much less plastic than the old ones. Of course, they sent [...]
Thu, February 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
In December 2008, Six Apart acquired Pownce, a microblogging service that never managed to attract a large following. Pownce was shuttered after the acquisition, but its two-person team joined Six Apart to help integrate the technology into Six Apart’s blogging services. Today Pownce founder Leah Culver has written on her blog that she’s [...]
Sat, February 13 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
