From TechCrunch, popular since 6 hoursSeattle based wiki startup Wetpaint has always been ahead of the pack in terms of design and usability. Now, a couple of years after launch, they’re starting to see real usage traction as well.The product isn’t just about wikis - [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 9 hoursSmalltown, a company out to help local businesses establish themselves online, is spreading its reach on the web by founding a new site at WebCards.com.We first reviewed Smalltown in October 2006 when it launched a destination site for so-called “WebCards”. [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 13 hoursOne of the most frustrating tasks about my job is finding reliable traffic and other usage data about websites. But today, Mozilla CEO John Lilly and VP Engineering Mike Schroepfer said they may fix that problem in the future, via [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 17 hoursMicrosoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth. We’ll have a detailed review up shortly. Until then, head [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 1 dayRIM has finally made the new version of its messaging phone, the Bold, official. No exact release date yet, but the press release does mention that the Bold should be available “around the world beginning this summer. ”Key points from [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 1 dayThis is a follow up to our post last month that listed some of the top tech bloggers according to TechMeme. The goal was to be able to take a look at the individual bloggers who were writing headlines, not [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 2 daysThe Apple online store has stopped selling iPhones completely, stating they are currently unavailable. What does it mean? In some way I’m inclined to say “not much.” Apple rarely telegraphs its moves this far in advance. However, since O2 in [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 2 daysEditor’s note: The press release is the least loved document in the media universe. We get way too many here at TechCrunch, and some bloggers equate them to spam. But they do have their uses. In this guest post, Brian [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 3 daysFacebook is raising $100 million in debt, reports VentureBeat and Business Week. bringing their total capital raised to nearly half a billion dollars.This most recent round will be used to scale the service via another 50,000 or so servers. Facebook [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 3 daysDon’t they say good things come in threes? Well, regardless, we’ve heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 4 daysA class at MIT built some mobile apps for Google’s Android operating system and presented them today. CrunchGear’s own superblogger Doug Aamoth reports on the seven apps—loco, Flare, GeoLife, Re:public, Locale, Kei, and snap—that he saw. Below is a slightly [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 4 daysDaniel Burka, co-founder and head designer for Pownce, has generated some buzz by posting a screenshot teaser of an upcoming release (shown above).From what we can see in the shot - a search box, an upload link, and parts of [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 4 daysFacebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week.There are stories around why the limitation exists at all. The official reason is that Facebook [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 4 daysToday sees the launch of Doko, a social networking game aimed at the tween market which claims to be “The World’s First Global Trading Game”. The game revolves around metal discs about the size of poker chips that are emblazoned [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 4 daysSometimes the only way to get new products out the door at a big company like Yahoo is to launch it far away from HQ. That’s what happened with Yahoo Glue, a new way to present search results more visually [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 5 daysThe tagging and link-sharing market has no shortage of competition, but that doesn’t seem to be deterring many developers. Mento, which has just launched in an invite-only beta, is the latest to arrive on the scene, sporting a very well [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 5 daysMicrosoft is taking one of its options off the table in its on-again, off-again pursuit of Yahoo. It has told members of the alternate board of directors it had lined up for a possible hostile proxy battle over Yahoo that [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 5 daysShawn Fanning, best known for founding Napster, has a new job. He will be working at Electronic Arts, which has bought his social-network-gaming startup Rupture for $30 million, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. His co-founder Jon Baudanza [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 5 daysHeroku, the online Ruby on Rails (RoR) development and hosting environment, has raised $3 million from Redpoint Ventures and other angel investors. The Y Combinator startup aims to make software development more accessible for a wider range of people. It [...]Read more
From TechCrunch, popular since 5 daysWe are announcing a new partnership today with WashingtonPost.com - TechCrunch stories will be syndicated to their site and added to the Technology section. The press release is here.I think this is a good experiment for the Washington Post - [...]Read more