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Twitter has just released of the top trending topics on the service for 2009. For the list, they’ve broken it down into: New Events, People, Movies, TV Shows, Sports, Technology, and Hash Tags. ...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 4:42 pm
It’s easy to look at sites like Reddit, Digg, or any other substantially large web community, and view their aggregate userbase with a certain level of distain —  anonymity has the nasty habi...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 4:41 pm
You know whats nerdier than contrasting the merits of the iPhone versus those of the Motorola Droid (twice)? Pitting the two phones against each other in a sound effect remix battle. You know whatR...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 3:29 pm
As Foursquare has shown so far, gaming elements are an intriguing part of location-based services. And more recently, Gowalla has started moving more towards that space as well. And just in time for t...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 2:52 pm
Most press releases are extremely boring. They all say the same things. Not this one. Today, my inbox was graced by pitch that can only be described as stimulating. It made me laugh, it made me quest...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 2:27 pm
I’ve been pretty pumped about Swype’s ultra-speedy alternative typing solution for touchscreen devices ever since it first debuted at TechCrunch50 2008. My excitement only grew when it fin...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 2:21 pm
Twitter’s U.S. traffic rose by a little over 100,000 visitors, to 19.37 million unique visitors from 19.24 million unique visitors in October. It’s no surprise that Twitter’s U.S. growth is stal...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 1:40 pm
About 24 hours ago news broke that Microsoft China appeared to rip off both the look and feel as well as much of the code of a microblogging service called Plurk. Last night they issued a statement sa...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 1:32 pm
Just last week, Aol celebrated its re-emergence as an independently-traded company. But its one main advantage is that it still commands a large audience, and in fact was the fourth largest Website i...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 11:54 am
The battle for the hearts and minds of geo developers creating map-based apps is on. Last month, Twitter turned on its geo API, and services like SimpleGeo and the GeoAPI are offering to do a lot of ...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 11:45 am
Mobile content delivery company Myxer Myxer is getting into the marketing arena with the launch of MobileStage, a suite of mobile marketing services aimed towards the music industry. The suite of serv...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 11:19 am
Last July, we covered the initial debut of JS-Kit’s Echo, a real-time commenting system.This morning during a media conference call, the CEO Khris Loux announced that in light of the success of ...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 11:05 am
Mobile services startup ShoZu is in talks to be acquired by Critical Path, a well-placed source with access to inside information tells us. Critical Path’s board of directors and shareholders ...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 10:20 am
India is a huge market for social networks, with Facebook, Orkut and even Twitter vying for a share of a the growing number web-users who are increasingly flocking to social networks in their day...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 9:45 am
You like music, right? How about CDs? Do you still have CDs? Don't have any cash this week? Did you spend a lot of money on presents for the kids already? Do you want one of these Olive No 4 Hi-Fi...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 9:01 am
Book publishers are increasingly embracing digital books, and not just on Amazon’s Kindle.  Today, John Wiley and Sons, Barnes and Noble imprint Sterling Publishing, Chronicle Books, and the Un...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 8:23 am
The second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch combines our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Christmas party, in one handy gift-wrapped package. This year we’re basing it the h...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 8:19 am
Justin.tv, one of the most popular live webcasting services on the net, will be testifying in a hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow morning. The topic of the hearing: the future of ...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 15, 2009, 7:52 am
The winner of DEMO’s enterprise category and people’s choice award, Liaise, is moving from private to open beta by launching their much anticipated mobile calendar integration and introduc...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 1:33 pm
Austin, Texas based mobile social network GoWalla’s pre-money valuation in their recent financing was $20 million, we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. The company raised $8.4 million in...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 1:26 pm
Spinvox, Spinvox, Spinvox. It promised so much but in the end delivered only so much. Like a latter-day Boo.com it hyped its magical voice-to-text service to the stars, apparently built on highly adva...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 11:54 am
Last month Google unveiled enhancements to Google Translate. Among the new features was a simple text-to-speech function. You can try it out, or watch this video to see how it works (skip to 0:45). T...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 11:25 am
Los Angeles based Demand Media, a sprawling network of content sites (that was a big part of a post yesterday on the end of hand crafted content), is rumored to be shopping itself to the big Internet ...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 11:15 am
For all of you waiting for mobile data networks to catch up to broadband speeds on cable and DSL, the first 4G/LTE network has arrived . . . in Sweden (and Norway too). The Scandinavians get everythi...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 10:55 am
Qik is a service built on the premise of being able to stream videos from your mobile device to the web as they’re happening live. But many videos that get streamed are short (1 to 2 minute aver...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 10:27 am
Not sure what presents to get for the holidays? How about giving away a free browser? Your friends and relatives won’t think you are too cheap to get them a real present. They might even thank...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 9:20 am
If Google Analytics just isn’t fast enough for you, there’s Chartbeat, a betaworks company which provides realtime analytics to Website owners. It gives Website publishers a second-by-sec...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 9:19 am
Microblogging startup Plurk may not have become hugely popular in these parts, where Twitter rules the lands, but it has been making strides in Asia. Recently, the fledgling company has gotten a feare...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 9:00 am
If you think that the online job board vertical occupied by the likes of Monster.com can’t be shaken up, think again. Case in point: Realmatch, an Israeli founded startup that is climbing up the...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 5:58 am
It’s not long out but Google Chrome is getting a major marketing boost in the UK. Today there are wrap-around cover adverts in the free Metro newspaper which circulates across the UK to morning ...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 4:30 am
We recently wrote about Babble, a magazine and parenting community site aimed at urban hipsters, after the startup raised $1 million in funding from Greycroft Partners. Spun off from sex and dating c...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 4:00 am
There’s an absolute eruption of activity around location-based services right now. Companies are getting funded left and right, new ones are popping up daily, and certain ones are seemingly star...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 3:57 am
Boobledee ooh ooh woo woo ha lala! We're coming at you with a fancy Monster Miles Davis Headphone pack. The kit includes Monster Miles Davis Tribute Jazz In-Ear Headphones, three albums, and a sas...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 1:58 am
Today, Branchr Advertising is announcing a new ad network called CPMForest. The new network focuses on using a CPM model for billing, which the company has not offered until now. CPMForest is designe...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 14, 2009, 1:26 am
It’s been nearly a week since MySpace Music closed its acquisition of some of the assets of music service Imeem and redirected imeem.com to music.myspace.com. MySpace took a lot of heat for the ...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 13, 2009, 4:55 pm
A number of companies are pursuing AOL’s ICQ instant messaging product, we’re hearing. Russian press is saying DST (a recent Facebook investor) is talking about buying the service. Our sou...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 13, 2009, 4:01 pm
Those Googlers are apparently having quite a bit of fun with their new Google Phones (aka Nexus One). From the looks of it, they’ve set up some sort of holiday game that’s a twist on the g...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 13, 2009, 2:04 pm
Day two of Le Web and I’m hard at work: perched on the edge of a gigantic bed in the speakers’ lounge, having an important meeting with my friend Andy. Our agenda: trying to come up with a...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 13, 2009, 2:00 pm
An easy to use digital camera that automatically uploads pictures to various websites without using a USB cable, a memory card reader or Eye-Fi? If that’s something you’ve always wanted, t...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 13, 2009, 12:59 am
Apparently, Googler’s aren’t supposed to be tweeting the details of the Google Phone, but they have no problem tweeting about how awesome it is. And they also apparently have no problem sh...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 12, 2009, 10:54 pm
When a man in the UK was asked to be the best man at his friend’s wedding, he was touched. So touched, that he promised not to pull any pranks before or during the wedding. After the wedding tho...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 12, 2009, 6:25 pm
Sean Parker (Founders Fund, Facebook, Plaxo, Napster) and angel investor Ron Conway are doing a little smack talking over who’ll raise the most money for charity. Conway is raising for the UCSF ...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 12, 2009, 1:09 pm
We’re at TEDxSV, a Silicon Valley outpost of TED’s conferences on innovation, which is taking place today at Stanford University. First up is LinkedIn founder and angel investor Reid Hoffm...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 12, 2009, 12:32 pm
This morning, a blogging platform and a microblogging platform have become more symbiotic. WordPress has enabled posting and reading the blogs the platform powers via the Twitter API. This means any...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 12, 2009, 11:47 am
Last night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an “all hands” meeting. Now Google is...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 12, 2009, 11:34 am
Editor’s note:  This guest post is written by Seth Goldstein (@seth),  the Co-Founder of socialmedia.com, which is building the first ad server based on people not pages. Its platform provide...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 12, 2009, 8:56 am
The one skill which entrepreneurs need is something they don’t teach in business school—selling.  Yes, I know that “selling” conjures up negative images of used-car salesmen peddling clunkers...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 12, 2009, 5:56 am
We don't have much information on the Google Phone just yet. In fact, it sounds more like a party favor than anything else. However, if and when Google starts selling this thing, prepare for some ...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 12, 2009, 5:40 am
I’m sitting in Buenos Aires now, but last week I was in Puyuehue. Yeah, I had no clue where that was either when I got talked into embarking on a 20-something-hour day of travel to get there. If you...
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TC Demo posted an article on TechCrunch - Dec 12, 2009, 5:17 am
I don’t want to write about Le Web this year. Really I don’t. This time last year, while I was still at the Guardian, I stumbled back to my Parisian hotel room at the end of the first da...
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