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Microsoft upgrades its web platform with Silverlight 3
Microsoft is has launched the next wave in its battle to provide the dominant platform for web media and applications with the release of its Silverlight 3 platform, and of Expression 3, its tool for building web applications. Silverlight 3 actually ...
Adobe Wave: Lets publishers “wave” hi to users directly from the desktop
Adobe announced a product today called Adobe Wave that lets publishers notify their users of updates directly on their desktop, in the latest effort by a large company to get in on the real-time notification craze. Readers opt-in for the updates. For...
Sequoia’s Moritz grills California’s controller on state budget issues
Mike Moritz, key player at Sequoia Capital, posed tough questions to California controller John Chiang regarding the state’s economy and budget deficit at yesterday’s Churchill Club breakfast in the Silicon Valley. With the state’s ...
New York sues social network Tagged for deceptive marketing and privacy violations
Even though it’s based in San Francisco, social network startup Tagged is getting busted by the state of New York for scraping users’ address books to send out millions of new invites. Spearheaded by attorney general Andrew Cuomo, the sui...
Ron Conway’s top ten ways to make money from real-time data
I’m here at TechCrunch’s “ Real-Time Stream CrunchUp ” event in Redwood City, California. Investors Ron Conway and John Borthwick are on stage, talking effusively about how Twitter — and real-time services in general ...
Yahoo to release Search Pad for your web notes
Much to the despair of old-school librarians, web search has become the default first stop when most people do research. Tomorrow, Yahoo is releasing a new tool called Search Pad to make that research even easier. The idea behind Search Pad is to int...
Say goodbye to CompuServe Classic
CompuServe Classic, the online service that provided the first gateway to the online world for a lot of us middle-aged folks, has been shut down . I thought it was already dead. I was among those that used the 30-year-old service to get online, way b...
WoWPals launches to hook-up World of Warcraft fans
World of Warcraft’s more than 11.5 million paying subscribers are spread all over the world, but it’s not easy to find them. That’s why WoWPals.net was formed. It’s a location-based social network that lets you find fellow Wo...
This 21-Gun Salute To America Blows Fireworks Away [Tgif]
You want fireworks for the Fourth? Oh, I've got some fireworks for you—21 crazy boomsticks, in fact. All in honor of our nation's 233 birthday. Get fired up A note about your second amendment rights [ Busted Tees ] Superweapons Metal Storm take...
Tweba turns Twitter into a social marketplace
With so many startups capitalizing on the Twitter platform these days, it’s not surprising that some are crossing into the domain of established sites. One prime example is young marketplace company Tweba ( formerly known as Tweebay ) which aim...
Laptop battery claims start heading toward class action lawsuit
A couple of weeks ago, Advanced Micro Devices blew the whistle on the claims made by computer manufacturers about battery life for laptops. The chip maker said that claims made in ads about battery life were in ideal conditions that users didn’...
Why bit.ly may beat Digg
URL shortening services are among the most arcane, seemingly trivial part of Web 2.0 services. Yet they’re a potential goldmine of information about what humans on the Internet, not automated bots, find valuable or at least interesting. The way...
Steve Jobs returns to work at Apple
Steve Jobs went back to work today at Apple . How about that? Other CEOs must be so jealous. Jobs makes news just by going to work. This is one of those days when I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the secretive Cupertino company, which has ma...
Vanity URLs: Facebook’s latest move to reach marketers
Names, in their simplest form, are how an association is created between an individual and tangible objects, actions and concepts. These labels and associations can affect how people will ultimately perceive an entity, both on and offline — so ...
Apple kills Routesy app, my iPhone gets less useful
The fuss continues over Apple ’s capricious acceptance policy for its iPhone/iPod Touch App Store, most recently with the rejection of an app called Hottest Girls . But for me and a few other San Franciscans, there’s a much bigger cause o...
Warner Bros. likely to buy bankrupt Mortal Kombat maker Midway Games
The game division of film studio W arner Bros. is expected to be the buyer of Midway Games, the once mighty owner of the Mortal Kombat franchise. The Los Angeles Times reported tonight that Warner Bros. has emerged as the only bidder for the bankrupt...
News sites collapsed as they fetched ads during Michael Jackson traffic surge
The tsunami of traffic related to Michael Jackson cripppled some web sites on Thursday because those sites had to wait for third party content, such as images for ads, according to a new analysis. Keynote Systems said in a report tonight that its ana...
WordSmyte: Find the right word to expose bad things
A single clever word or phrase can reshape how people think about an issue. A just-launched site called WordSmyte intends to take advantage of this phenomenon — and it’s focused on things that people hate. So, maybe this site will help pe...
Sprint takes a swing at high iPhone costs with ads
Sprint has begun running ads that promote the Pre as a more affordable smart phone in the long term than an Apple iPhone. The ads say that you can save $1,200 over two years, given how much you have to pay AT&T on an ongoing basis in comparison t...
Real-time search: more contenders flood the field
We didn’t quite catch everyone with the round-up of real-time search offerings we posted a few days ago. New entrants seem to be launching every week . Real-time search allows users to find out what’s happening now on any topic, unlike tr...
Security firms warn of bogus Michael Jackson messages
If someone you know shares an email with you to click on a link to see pictures of Michael Jackson’s body, don’t fall for it. Antivirus software vendors McAfee and Symantec are issuing warnings to consumers to watch out for celebrity deat...
Video site Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come
In the past, Seesmic (sometimes known as “ the Twitter of video “) had its share of detractors who wondered whether it could build a business around video conversations and comments. Now it looks like Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur has join...
With big cuts, now what for MySpace’s international efforts?
MySpace plans to lay off around 300 of its 450 international employees, and close at least four of its 15 international offices, as the company tries to figure out how to survive falling traffic and revenue numbers. It laid off about the same number ...
Conduit toolbars to get more content
For those of you who love browser toolbars, expect more options soon. Conduit , a company that lets web sites make their own, customized toolbars is letting its clients add a couple more features now. Sites can both syndicate their content to other s...
Super Rewards’ advertising offers come to Twitter games
As inevitable as spammy invites, advertising offers are now coming to games that use Twitter. Super Rewards , a leading provider of offers for games on Facebook and other social networks, is launching its service with 140 Mafia , a mafia-style Twitte...
