Joey Chestnut Beats Kobayashi Again in Hot-Dog Eating Contest» Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:20:09 +0000It’s not the 4th of July without the Coney Island Hot-Dog Eating Contest (that’s how we celebrate in Brooklyn, by stuffing our faces with as many hot dogs we can fit). This year’s winner is defending champion Joey “Jaws” Chestunt, who won in overtime from six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi. Both ate 59 hot [...] more...
The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter» Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:57:51 +0000The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitter’s all-too-regular downtime. (That problem has reached comical proportions, with the familiar Twitter Fail Whale now appearing on T-shirts and kitschy art). Identi.ca’s answer to Twitter’s scaling issues is by [...] more...
Follow Animal Migrations On Google Earth» Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:50:56 +0000Google 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 [...] more...
Independence Day» Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:44:53 +0000Tomorrow we celebrate July 4th, and a week later our long National Nightmare is over. On the 11th we deposit our 2G iPhones in the FriendFeed donation bins and officially hook ourselves up to the Enterprise iPhone. The ePhone will change how we work and play, and in the process free us from the tyranny [...] more...
Regator Wants To Be A Blog Reader For The Masses» Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:40:00 +0000Regator, a new blog aggregator that hopes to reduce the blogosphere down to consumable chunks for the average user, has launched today in private beta. The site acts like a combination between Digg and a standard RSS reader, allowing users to vote on the most popular stories drawn from 3,000 blogs that have been [...] more...
Google, You Can Eat My Cookies Anytime» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:45:41 +0000Google has just released a lengthy blog post to announce that it has finally put its privacy policy on its homepage. The search giant has been repeatedly questioned over the last few months over its lack of a readily available privacy policy, which until now has been buried in the “About Google” section of [...] more...
This Week on CrunchBoard» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:13 +0000Here are some of the jobs listed on CrunchBoard over the last week: Fulltime Senior AJAX/PHP Web DeveloperDriverSide - San Francisco, CA QA EngineerGx5 - Anywhere Software Support SpecialistK&L Wine Merchants - Redwood City, CA GoodBarry .NET Web Development NinjaGoodBarry - San Francisco, CA Head of Web Design & Front-End DevelopmentGlobal Campus - London, UK Quality Assurance CowboyJanus Health - San [...] more...
Department of Civil Disobedience: Google Should Deliver Its YouTube Data to Viacom in Paper Form» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:12:30 +0000The 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. [...] more...
Streamzy: A Fresh Face For Seeqpod’s Streaming Music» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:31:37 +0000We’ve seen a number of music sites like Seeqpod and Grooveshark that leverage user-uploaded music scattered across the web to offer free, on-demand jukeboxes. These services manage to skirt legal repercussions by only serving content that is hosted on other sites, which makes them harder to sue (though some have tried). Streamzy, a [...] more...
James Dyson Tells Us What He Thinks About The iPhone» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:09:22 +0000While at Dyson HQ, I had the pleasure, once again, of interviewing the man himself. I had to ask what his thoughts were on the iPhone, and James’ answers were both entertaining and interesting. I have an iPhone and a BlackBerry. And I have to confess that I use the BlackBerry more. But I really wanted [...] more...
Did the “Enron of Norway” Pull a Fast One On Microsoft? More Details About the Mess at Fast Search & Transfer» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:37:08 +0000Even back in January when Microsoft agreed to pay $1.2 billion for enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer, it was mired in an accounting scandal and trading in its stock had been suspended. Its aggressive accounting for phantom deals that never materialized earned it the moniker the “Enron of Norway.” But more [...] more...
How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000 (Say Hello To Matt)» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:10:03 +0000In 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 [...] more...
Google Talk For the iPhone: Not What You Think» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:53:41 +0000Google has announced an iPhone version of Google Talk which is simply an iPhone-ized browser-formatted version of the Google’s text chat application. This means you can’t talk over the Interwebs but you can tap out halting messages to your friends on the iPhone’s screen and, thanks to Safari’s tendency to clear pages randomly, you probably [...] more...
Normal-sized business cards at last from Moo» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:35:10 +0000Just as The Governator tries to pursue green policies, like keeping Tesla’s electric production car local, you’ll now also be able to hand out full-sized “green” business cards with Flickr images, courtesy of the same guys who brought us those cool little mini-cards, Moo.com. They are launching full-sized business cards with a new partner, LinkedIn, [...] more...
Flowgram Reinvents The Screencast (1,000 Beta Invites)» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:30:15 +0000What you see above is not a video or a slide show, it is a Flowgram. If you click on it, you will be taken to a full-screen player with what appears to be a screencast with a voiceover. Except that you can control the pages by scrolling up and down, watching any [...] more...
Judge Protects YouTube’s Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:04:33 +0000The 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 [...] more...
Europe’s Mobile 2.0 startups come together» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:00:36 +0000Europe is a hotbed of mobile startups right now, so appropriately enough the Mobile 2.0 event which started in San Francisco is putting on a one-day international event tomorrow in Barcelona which focuses on mobile startups, dubbed Mobile 2.0 Europe. I’ll be moderating a panel there, hosting a TechCrunch networking party and we now have [...] more...
Combo Wants to be the Social Network Hub for Your iPhone» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:38:22 +0000Many of the startups we come across are “beta” in name only - they’re feature complete, with thousands of users and only a few (if any) bugs. Combo, a new startup that is looking to offer users a central hub for communication across their social networks, isn’t any of these things. Combo is [...] more...
Massively Me Working on Kiwi Heroes, A Socially Responsible Virtual World for Children» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:06:12 +0000Massively Me, a stealth gaming company, has announced the upcoming launch of it’s MMOG for kids and young teenagers, Kiwi Heroes. Scheduled for release later this year, Kiwi Heroes will be a Flash-based game that attempts to strike a balance between a virtual world and a traditional MMOG (like WOW). Massively Me claims [...] more...
No XMPP: What Is Twitter Protecting?» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:08:38 +0000It turns out the battle for control of Twitter rests almost exclusively in the unique value proposition of XMPP-served track. As Twitter strips away various features of its service to rebuild a scalable fail-whale -proof version, the one remaining hurdle is restoration of a fully-functional Track over IM. For the last two weeks, a one-way [...] more...
Angry Businesses Organize Anti-Yelp Websites. This Is A Sure Sign Of Their Success.» Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:40:46 +0000Yelp, a user-generated database of customer reviews of local businesses, first launched in October 2004. Users rate and leave reviews for local businesses, participate in forums, and can generally get social around local businesses. Yelp almost immediately caught on organically in San Francisco, but founders Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons ran into some early criticism. Rumors [...] more...
Exclusive Offer For TechCrunch Readers: Sell Your Old iPhone For Quick Cash» Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:32:20 +0000We’re one week away from the debut of the 3G iPhone, and the question on everyone’s mind seems to be, “What’s going to happen to the six million first-gen iPhones that are on the fast track to obsolescence?” The iPhone - the ultimate in “cool” for the last twelve months - is about to [...] more...
Poking Holes In The Long Tail Theory» Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:15:18 +0000Just 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 [...] more...
Baseball Boss: If You Don’t Love Baseball Yet, You Will Now» Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:36:01 +0000First 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 [...] more...
Blogged Tries To Make A Human-Powered Techmeme For Everything» Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:00:38 +0000Blogged, the blog directory that we introduced last February, has launched a news portal that aspires to hand-pick the most interesting stories from across the blogosphere. The company has employed a team of editors to identify trends and popular stories from around the web, which are presented in categories that include technology, entertainment, politics, [...] more... |