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Yahoo’s Helpful Shortcut To Pictures Of Underage Girls
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on July 05, 2008
Yahoo Shortcuts automatically finds and underlines interesting items in articles and provides additional information via a pop up window (Yahoo Shortcuts also refers to shortcuts in Yahoo Search for common things like travel search). “People, places, organizations, and other things of interest are underlined,” says the FAQ.One blogger is pointing out, though, that the tool may be going a...
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Follow Animal Migrations On Google Earth
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on July 04, 2008
Google Earth is turning out to be a great resource for scientists to visualize and communicate the phenomena they study. You can see the migration patterns of endangered and other threatened animals, based on data collected by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. (The image above shows the range of both the Northern spotted owl and the Mexican spotted owl).Anybody can take geographical...
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Tipit Lets You Transfer Money Over Twitter. Sort of.
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on July 02, 2008
Tipit, a startup that lets users tip website owners for their content, has launched integration with Twitter. Users can now ‘Tweet’ their tips to websites and Twitter users, even those without an account. There isn’t any kind of installation required: users simply tweet a message in the format “d tipit TARGET AMOUNT MESSAGE” (ex: “‘d tipit @Techcrunch 50″). Recipients can then...
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How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000 (Say Hello To Matt)
via TechCrunch by Guest Author on July 03, 2008
In this post, guest author Ryan Carson goes through some of the lessons learned from building a Web app in four days. Carson is the co-founder of Carsonified, a web shop in Bath, UK. They’ve built four web apps, created ThinkVitamin.com and run events like Future of Web Apps. If you’re bored you can follow Ryan on Twitter.The time it takes to design, build and deploy web applications has...
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Department of Civil Disobedience: Google Should Deliver Its YouTube Data to Viacom in Paper Form
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on July 03, 2008
The recent court order directing Google to hand over data to Viacom about every YouTube video ever watched strikes many people as an absurd overreach of the law into the privacy of anyone who has ever used YouTube (i.e., almost everyone on the Internet). Google should definitely keep fighting the ruling if it can. But if it can’t, perhaps it should comply with it in a creative way. The data...
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Baseball Boss: If You Don’t Love Baseball Yet, You Will Now
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on July 02, 2008
First off, if you love Baseball, skip this post for a minute and go claim one of the 1,000 beta accounts we have for Baseball Boss - click “register” on the top left and use the code “techcrunch” to get in. Then come back here and see why you’ll be glad you did.Baseball Boss is the second game title from Texas-based Challenge Games, which launched Duels.com in August 2007. Duels is an...
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Judge Protects YouTube’s Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on July 03, 2008
The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom. If the data is actually released, the consequences could be far more serious than the 2006 AOL Search debacle. Louis L. Stanton, the senior judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York,...
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Poking Holes In The Long Tail Theory
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on July 02, 2008
Just because the Internet makes it possible to offer a near-infinite inventory of goods for sale does not mean that consumers will start wanting more obscure items in any great numbers. That is the conclusion Harvard Business School associate professor Anita Elberse comes to in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review that takes on some of the sacred cows of the Long Tail theory. The...
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Poking Holes In The Long Tail Theory
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on July 02, 2008
Just because the Internet makes it possible to offer a near-infinite inventory of goods for sale does not mean that consumers will start wanting more obscure items in any great numbers. That is the conclusion Harvard Business School associate professor Anita Elberse comes to in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review that takes on some of the sacred cows of the Long Tail theory. The...
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Twitter Conversations Come To A Screaming Halt; Users Simply Move To Friendfeed
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on June 27, 2008
A key feature of Twitter has been down most of this week: Replies. The core Twitter service itself is alive, but the team took the Reply feature down on Tuesday when the service started to slow. As of now, Friday afternoon, Replies are still down. Disabling certain features is Twitter’s recent attempt to keep their frail architecture from failing completely. They tried it out during Apple’s...
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