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  YellowPages Paid $3.85 Million For YP.com. Bargain…

  Posted: December 30th, 2008, 11:19am MST

  Robin Wauters of Techcrunch shared an interesting little nugget of information today. News that AT&T’s Yellow Pages purchased the domain name YP.com from LiveDeal (formerly YP Corp.) for $3.85 million. For LiveDeal, a leader in free local online classifieds, it’s a much needed cash injection. After higher than expected cost of services and lower revenues in 2008, the company made a loss of $1.53 million last year. A year ago, RoyalPingdom collated the top 20 most expensive domain name acq
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  MarCom Launches as The Web 2.0 Community For Marketers

  Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:24pm MST

  Could MarCom (mar.com) be the marketing community’s answer to Techmeme? TechCrunch thinks not… but I’m not sure that’s the aim of MarCom anyway. MarCom doesn’t claim to be a news aggregrator so much as a news and social community for marketers. Indeed, MarCom describes itself as a ‘comprehensive web 2.0 community for offline and online markers with ranked news, articles and advice.’ According to its ‘about’ blurb, MarCom will allow marketers to network with other online marketers, and get the
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  Startups.com'dan yeni siteler

  Posted: December 20th, 2008, 2:03am MST

  Aslında amacım TechCruch'da robin wauters tarafından yayınlanan dataopedia incelemesinden alıntılar yapmaktı ama bu siteyi geliştiren startups.com'un diğer uygulamalarını görünce hepsini birden tanıtmak gibi zor bir işe soyunmaya karar verdim. KillerStartups.com'un sahipleri 6 haneli bir rakama startups.com domain ismini aldıktan sonra önce twingr.com'u şimdi de dataopedia'yı hizmete aldılar. KillerStartups bu uygulama aslında basit bir blog havasında, yeni çıkan siteleri tanıtıyor ama Ame
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  Funding in Europe Continues with Oxynade/Happenr

  Posted: December 19th, 2008, 6:26am MST

  European firm Oxynade recently raised 1 Million Euros of first round venture funding from venture capital firm Arkafund and Flanders-based seed investor Vinnof. Oxynade, co-founded by Belgium based engineers Hans Nissens and Niko Nelissen, will be using the funding primarily to continue development into Oxynade’s flagship product Happenr. Happenr is essentially an events search engine for Europe. The site makes it’s database of indexed events available via search on the homepage as well as of
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  TechCrunch’s Yertle the Turtle Tantrum Over Embargoes

  Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:48pm MST

  Yesterday, the one-man-band of a tech blogger, Michael Arrington, let loose with yet another outrageously indignant diatribe–this time that he and his TechCrunch site would forthwith break all news embargoes. Not content with the traffic generated last week by his obviously faked Wrestlemania bout with French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur about the lazy-lunching Europeans, he moved onto a more promising, but ultimately meaningless riff on PR people versus journalists over embargo-breaking. It’
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  TechCrunch’s Yertle the Turtle Tantrum Over News Embargoes

  Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:48pm MST

  [UPDATE below.] Yesterday, the one-man-band of a tech blogger, Michael Arrington, let loose with yet another outrageously indignant diatribe–this time that he and his TechCrunch site would forthwith break all news embargoes. Not content with the traffic generated last week by his obviously faked Wrestlemania bout with French entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur about the lazy-lunching Europeans, he moved on to a more promising, but ultimately meaningless, riff on PR people versus journalists, over em
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  Yahoo räumt auf - Portale werden geschlossen

  Posted: December 18th, 2008, 5:59am MST

  Ihre Hand ist schon fast an der Glühbirne… Photo: screenshot Erst kürzlich ging die Twittermeldung von Andreas v.d. Castel um den Globus: “studiZV legt Ende Januar 2009 internationale Seiten still. Die internationalen Benutzer werden dazu aufgefordert sich auf meinVZ zu registrieren”, verkündete er am 15. Dezember und löste bis zur Bestätigung der Nachricht eine Vielzahl von Reaktionen im Netz aus. Nach StudiVZ, die die französischen, italienischen, spanischen und polnischen Ableger dicht ma
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  Top 3 Twitterers of Each Country in the World based on Number of Followers

  Posted: December 17th, 2008, 5:51am MST

  Top 3 Twitterers of Each Country based on Number of Followers: Argentina 1. Adbert – 1,300 followers 2. Conz – 1,271 3. Mariano Amartino – 1,178 Australia 1. Darren Rowse – 20,885 2. Andrew Richardson – 9,773 3. Tim Buchalka – 5,683 Austria 1. Transitenator – 2,645 2. Lookcook – 1,997 3. Datadirt – 2,031 Bangladesh 1. Asif Anwar – 508 2. Morshad – 428 3. Russell John – 173 Belgium 1. Veerle Pieters – 5,278 2. Robin Wauters
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  Twingly Uses ‘BlogRank’ To Rank The Top 100 Blogs

  Posted: December 17th, 2008, 4:57am MST

  Swedish social blog search engine Twingly has introduced its proprietary BlogRank system to rank the relative importance of blogs. To mark the launch, Twingly has also released its 100 most important blogs in 12 different languages. What makes one blog more important than another? According to TechCrunch, the only thing Twingly will disclose about its ranking technology is that its based on ‘inlinks and likes among other things’. Twingly also admits that the list is based on its data and not n
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  Changing your domain is NOT good for blog ranking

  Posted: December 17th, 2008, 4:05am MST

  Twingly launched a new blog ranking tool yesterday. In a very modest way, the gentlemen from Sweden explain what’s it all about: “It’s like Google’s PageRank but only for blogs.” Plus, there’s a local touch, based on language. The largest blogs in Swedish gets BlogRank 10, the largest in Dutch get BlogRank 10 and the largest in English get BlogRank 10. This new blog rank serves as the basis for a take on Technorati’s Top 100. Yes, Twingly is launching 12 different top 100 blogs lists (Danish,
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  世界各国 Top 3 Twitterers 都是谁？

  Posted: December 16th, 2008, 2:27am MST

  这个世界各国 Top 3 Twitterers 排行榜是利用 Twitterholic 的服务，在 Followers 数量排名前1000位的 Twitterers 基础上，基于地区位置总结分类得出的。 这些最 Top 的 Twitterers 基本都是各国的政要、名人或网络红人，甚至新闻媒体…例如如美国的 Top 3 Twitterers 分别是新一届总统 Barack Obama 、Digg 创始人 Kevin Rose 和美国有线电视新闻网 CNN。 中国的 Top 3 Twitterers 是IT评价作家keso(洪波)、文化鱼有限公司 CEO Lonniehodge (刘彦志)和就职于 Feedsky 的 WebLeOn 。而台湾的 Top 3 Twitterers 都是部落格红人：Carol、kenworker(工頭)、Vista，在这里再次祝愿工頭生日快乐…最想不到还是香港，因为 Top 3 的 Twitterers 都是非中文。 这个世界各国 Top 3 Twitterers 排行榜可能是不太准确的。因为利用 Twitterholic 搜索基于地理位置的
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  Embotics Raises $4 Million From Covington Capital Corporation

  Posted: December 15th, 2008, 8:40am MST

  Embotics Raises $4 Million From Covington Capital Corporation Embotics last week announced the closing of a $4 million round of financing, led by Covington Capital Corporation and Tera Capital. The financing will be used to advance product development for Embotics’ server virtualization management technology and expand global sales and operations. 15Dec2008 | Robin Wauters
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  Phony Legal Issue of the Year

  Posted: December 10th, 2008, 10:01pm MST

  Background: From the December 5th Daily Telegraph (U.K.) : A New York barmaid was sacked after blogging about the Belgian defence minister's alleged antics during an official visit to the city. Nathalie Lubbe Bakker was fired from her job after government officials rang the bar owner to complain about the claims relating to Pieter De Crem . Miss Lubbe Bakker, also a Belgian, said she was shocked when she recognised the defence minister among a rowdy party of her countrymen who "stumble
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  Bookmark and play mp3 through Delicious

  Posted: December 9th, 2008, 12:17am MST

  Delicious Has A Brand New Audio Player For MP3 Bookmarks by Robin Wauters, TechCrunch (Dec 6) Delicious, the social bookmarking tools, has added "a brand new audio player to play your MP3 bookmarks inside the browser."
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  Hey Guys - I Got Google Friend Connect Now….Join ME! :-)

  Posted: December 8th, 2008, 11:56am MST

  Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Google just sent me a go ahead e-mail letting me know the other day I’m good to use the new Google Friend Connect that launched December 3, 2008. I am pleased to have Mr. Shawn Collins, CEO of Affiliate Summit as the 1st new official Google connect networking friend. I feel it would be beneficial for the affiliates from all affiliate networks to make friends with everyone else and share valuable knowledge in networking with one another! Related article
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  Delicious Audio Player

  Posted: December 6th, 2008, 10:26pm MST

  Robin Wauters of Techcrunch reports that the social bookmarking pioneer - Delicious has recently updated their IE and Firefox add-ons - which includes fixing a couple of known bugs and adding some cool new features. Among the new feature what caught attention of many user is - a brand new audio player to play your MP3 bookmarks inside the browser. Former GM of Yahoo! Music Ian Rogers confirms that Delicious is actually using Yahoo! Mediaplayer to support this cool new feature. He writes: I
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  Political Blog Raises $25 Million In Venture Capital

  Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 4:18am MST

  While newspapers are struggling… blogs are thriving. Well, if traffic increases and capital raisings are any indication. In particular, political blog, The Huffington Post, has seen its unique visitors increase from around 500,000 unique visitors per month in August 2007 to around 5 million in October 2008 (based on comScore figures) and has just raised $25 million in venture capital. This third round capital injection from Oak Investment Partners brings The Huffington Post’s total amount of f
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  Political Blog Raises $25 Million In Venture Capital

  Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 4:18am MST

  While newspapers are struggling… blogs are thriving. Well, if traffic increases and capital raisings are any indication. In particular, political blog, The Huffington Post, has seen its unique visitors increase from around 500,000 unique visitors per month in August 2007 to around 5 million in October 2008 (based on comScore figures) and has just raised $25 million in venture capital. This third round capital injection from Oak Investment Partners brings The Huffington Post’s total amount of f
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  Website Down? Get Notified When It’s Up Again

  Posted: December 1st, 2008, 3:41am MST

  Courtesy of the folks at TechCrunch who look out for these things, here are a couple of nifty web services to help you when you encounter a site that’s down and want to know when it’s up again: NotifyMeWhenIt’sUp.com; and DingIt’sUp.com In either case you just type in the website URL and your email address, and you’ll receive an email when the site is up again. So now you know what to do if when a server crashes during a big product launch! Source: Robin Wauters, “Get Notified When Your Fav