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Plan B
via TechCrunch by Steve Gillmor on June 01, 2008
In the past, you could measure Microsoft’s success by others’ weakness. This time it’s different. Google rolls out a five-pronged disruption to the smart phone, the Visual Studio developer base, social media, offline storage, and Webtone pricing - and it bolsters Ray Ozzie’s hand. With a month to go, Bill Gates’ “transition” from 80-20 to 20-80 has Redmond shaking.The old games just...
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Google To Launch Large Scale Geo-Services
via TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic on May 30, 2008
Our sister publication Techcrunch UK noticed that a Location services API had been added to Google Gears. The developers behind Gears have been plotting out future API additions for a while, and those plans have included having Geo-data available to mobile app developers (see the spec here). We found out today that Google is backing up their Location API with a large effort to map out cell-phone...
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Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst Media To Release Interactive Web Content
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 29, 2008
Katalyst Media founders Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg were in Silicon Valley today. They stopped by TechCrunch HQ (aka my house) before heading off to more important meetings with Dan Rosensweig at Quadrangle Group (and the former COO of Yahoo) and YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley. The reason for the visit? They are preparing to launch new interactive web content (with an emphasis on the...
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Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 30, 2008
Lately Twitter has been cleaning house, raising money, doing interviews and actually talking to users. In a blog post last week they did a Q&A session, directly answering questions about Twitter’s architecture.So I have a couple of questions, too, based on a couple of discussions I’ve had with people who say they’ve seen Twitter’s architecture. Is it true that you only have a single...
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Weinberger and Jarvis (Why I Love Twitter #2)
via |Message by stowe.boyd@gmail.com (Stowe Boyd) on May 30, 2008
Weinberger and Jarvis, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. This could be good.
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The Next-Gen Web: Browser Storage Support
via TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic on May 28, 2008
The next-gen web is starting to gather pace, as this week MySpace integrated Google Gears, Yahoo! announced their new BrowserPlus product and Google launched a browser-based edition of their 3D Earth product. Technologies and formats such as AIR, Silverlight, JavaFX, Gears, XUL, Web Applications 1.0 (DOM5, HTML5 etc.) allow developers to accelerate beyond AJAX and towards a new generation of web...
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Is YouTube Building Market Dominance At The Expense of Building A Business?
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 29, 2008
If you look at YouTube’s numbers, one thing is clear: It completely dominates online video. YouTube accounts for 37 percent of all videos watched on the Internet and attracts about half of the audience, according to comScore. (And if you add in Google Video, that brings the total to 38 percent of videos watched). The No. 2 player, Fox Interactive Media (i.e., MySpace), accounts for only 4.2...
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Free Live Online TV Streams
via TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic on May 24, 2008
Most television studios have caught up with the web and made their shows available online, either with their own websites or with an aggregate effort such as Hulu. However most studios are still far away from offering live television online, leaving web users having to revert to an alternative means to source live TV web feeds. TVChannelsFree is a website that has aggregated live streaming video...
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Yahoo Unveils Webtop Plugin, BrowserPlus, Before It’s Ready
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 27, 2008
As Web and desktop applications merge, Yahoo doesn’t want to be left out of the Webtop party. That’s especially true as Adobe Air and Google Gears apps begin to gain some traction (for instance, see the MySpace-Gears announcement from earlier today). It turns out that for the past year Yahoo has been working on BrowserPlus, a browser plugin that lets developers add desktop-like features to...
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Google Earth’s 3D Goodness Comes to the Browser
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on May 27, 2008
... embed 3D maps, which can be modified using Google’s JavaScript API to add KML data, draw 3D buildings, attach callbacks, and more. The entire embed is powered by a special Google Earth Browser Plugin that end users must install. Unfortunately, it’s only available for Internet Explorer and Firefox users on Windows.Peter Birch from the Google Earth team stressed to me at Google I/O the ...
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