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Spring and FallFall. Yellow and brick red leaves cling, trembling, to the trees. A gust of crisp wind, and a few are dislodged and scatter to the ground to join the ones that crackle under my feet. It is ten a.m. in New Zealand, and the grass is still coated with dew.  My tennis shoes leave shiny prints on the lawn, ending where I head across the gravel trail. I hear each step, register the crunch of the tiny rocks crushed and spat out from my feet. The air is chilly here in the North Island, twenty degrees or so cooler than...
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TechCrunch Feed Reader Breakdown - Outlook Rules Them AllEvery once in a while we show some of the stats about the feed readers people are using to access TechCrunch content. Since we recently passed a million daily RSS readers, now is a good time for a new update. In June 2006 Firefox, Bloglines and Newsgator were the three largest readers, in that order. Feedburner did an analysis later in 2006 with similar results. Long ago Google reader eclipsed all of those readers. And recently, Outlook has surged as the feed reader of choice. Of our roughly 1.4 million RSS readers, 520,000, or about 38%, come from Outlook. 390,000,...
Surprisingly, 38% of all TechCrunch RSS readers do so in Outlook, higher than any other feed reader. - Louis Gray
Outlook... *shivers* - Aram Zucker-Scharff
great statistics - but netvibes and bloglines are so bad in numbers. - Erhan Erdogan
That is because Outlook is soo easy - it brings all of your inbound comms into 1 place. - Angus Logan
@Angus, totally agree. While I don't use the native RSS functionality in Outlook I do use the Attensa Outlook Plugin so that everything is in one place (for business at least). At home I do the same thing with Thunderbird. Well, not exactly the same since Attensa doesn't have a Thunderbird plugin. - Kenton
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Hmm???Is This Bug a Problem, or Nothing to Worry About? Tech Crunch is reporting that a flaw in iPhone security allows software developers to circumvent security so that arbitrary code can be updated and run at will.  The exploit takes advantage of pre-set ???default.png??? images???such as the current date and time, or a ???loading??? image???that is run when new software is being loaded.  By putting a workaround into an application to be loaded, the software tricks the iPhone into giving access to the default.png images and allowing arbitrary code to be uploaded and run at will.  The bug completely circumvents the Apple???s App Store approval process.Is this really a...
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Daily Crunch: Web Space Edition Kingston bumps thumbdrive capacities to 64GB Space: Astronaut loses grip on tools, finds out it’s even worse than dropping your keys in a lake Review: Zlatoust Diver The thermometer gets a mother’s touch upgrade Nanoscaffolding regrows limbs, organs Contest: Win a copy of Target Limited Edition Shaun White Snowboarding for the Xbox 360...
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Joan Bakewell urges broadcasters to untangle 'moral muddle'Joan Bakewell has called for broadcasters to adopt "a clear moral framework" to help them recover from the recent tide of taste and decency and trust scandals.Delivering the annual Hetherington Memorial Lecture, in honour of the former Guardian editor Alastair Hetherington in Edinburgh last night, Bakewell said the "recent Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand scandal demonstrates that a continuing moral crisis haunts the BBC" and branded it a "moral muddle".The veteran broadcaster and writer added that "Channel 4 and ITV too are having their own integrity questioned", as an "insidious falling away of moral integrity has crept into broadcasting to...
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Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware....
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It’s hard to believe that nearly a year has gone by since we gave out those crazy gorilla awards to the best startup and product successes in Silicon Valley and around the world. Some of the photos from last year are here. The Crunchies are back. We are once again partnering with some of our favorite blogs - thank you to co-hosts GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider and VentureBeat (click the links for their announcements). The Awards Ceremony will be held on Jan. 9, 2009, 7:30 pm at the Herbst Theater across the street from City Hall in San Francisco. The...
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It’s not easy being a wrestler. Inside the ring your pounding an opponent’s head against the corner post, but outside the ring it’s hard to meet people. Nobody really wants to be your friend. Not even on MySpace. They say their your friends, but they are not really your friends. Wrestlers aren’t stupid. They know everybody thinks they are just a bunch of clowns. That’s why the company that employs all the wrestlers you see on TV, World Wrestling Entertainment, created WWE Universe, a social network just for them and their fans. Okay, it’s not really a social network....
FAIL. - Derrick
Right? It's just oozing and dripping with fail. Sorry, Vince McMahon. - Derrick
"It’s not easy being a wrestler. Inside the ring your pounding an opponent’s head against the corner post, but outside the ring it’s hard to meet people. Nobody really wants to be your friend. Not even on MySpace. They say their your friends, but they are not really your friends." LOL - Dieter Schwarz
Lonely Wrestlers Create Their Own Social Network - Dieter Schwarz
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Even Google is getting into the downsizing spirit. It just announced that it is killing Lively, its browser-baseed virtual worlds that could be embedded into other Websites. Lively launched just last July. The death notice on the site says it will shut down on December 31, so we are adding Lively to the deadpool. Lively just never took off, and was extremely far afield for Google. A post on the Google Blog explains the decision: . . . we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business. We...
Maybe Google didn't kill Lively so much as mercifully pull the plug. This is a good sign actually that Google is willing to weed out non-performing products. What else is being cut at Google? - huixing
long live lively.... oh wait - Vishwajith
Google Kills Lively - Vishwajith
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Yahoo Brings Glue To U.S.: A Plethora of Aggregated Topical Third Party Content Yahoo Glue, a new search results page design that the company has been testing in India, is rolling out to the US market this evening. You can view it at glue.yahoo.com, although Yahoo says it is rolling out in stages, so sit tight if you don’t see it. It’s also a little different than the Indian version, and includes a number of resources beyond simple search results. On a typical query, content from Wikipedia, Yahoo Shopping, Yahoo Answers, blog search results (from Google) and YouTube videos are shown. For the US, Yahoo is starting with a limited set of...
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The cutbacks continue, even at seemingly healthy startups. Social recommendation engine Strands let exactly 10 percent, or 14 people go (7 in the U.S. and 7 in Spain), the company confirms. Strands has raised a total of $55 million, still employs 125 people, and is hiring for other positions. It also just announced a mobile version for Nokia S60 phones. Qik, which lets you stream live video from your cell phone, also laid off about 10 percent of its employees, which in its case amounted to five people. We got a tip that the reason for the layoffs is...
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Mozilla Add-Ons Hit One Billion Downloads In other Mozilla news, Firefox and other Mozilla products hit a major milestone today with the one billionth download of add-on software for the browser. That feat took three and half years. Many of those downloads are never used more than once or twice, of course. But there is no doubt about it that Firefox is major software platform. Just look at StumbleUpon, it was built on top of Firefox. What is atop the current list of most popular add-ons? Adblock Plus, followed by a bunch of download tools. And let’s not forget Greesemonkey at No. 9, which is...
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Chinese Democracy, the first new Guns N’ Roses album since 1991, debuts tonight at 9 PM PST exclusively on MySpace Music, where fans can listen to it for free. Well, actually it debuted on BitTorrent a while ago, but we’re not talking about that. Also, the band has previously released two songs, Chinese Democracy and Better, to radio stations and music sites in the past couple of weeks. But tonight is the big debut, and for most people it will be the first time they hear the music. It will be available in 25 countries: US, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil,...
All I have to say is Appetite for Destruction is the best damn butt metal rock album from '87 and then some... afterwards? eh - Sociosophy Reviews
First Guns N’ Roses Album In 17 Years Debuts Tonight On MySpace Music - ~C4Chaos
"Chinese Democracy, the first new Guns N’ Roses album since 1991, debuts tonight at 9 PM PST exclusively on MySpace Music, where fans can listen to it for free." - ~C4Chaos
Chinese Democracy, the first new Guns N’ Roses album since 1991, debuts tonight at 9 PM PST exclusively on MySpace Music, where fans can listen to it for free. - huixing
First Guns N’ Roses Album In 17 Years Debuts Tonight On MySpace Music - huixing
I have a couple of Rugs & Noses albums. Dunno if I'll buy this one, though. - Pat Rice
The few tracks I've heard, its just not Guns N' Roses no matter how much Axl wants it to be. It was funny hearing You Could Me Mine on a SoCo w/Lime commercial last night. Axl realizing HE isn't GNR is starting to pimp out the catalog. - Tony Kanzia
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2007 person-to-person music downloads were worth a staggering $69 billion, and movie/television piracy continues to grow, says a new study. And all that free promotion didn’t cost them a penny. At least, that’s how Techdirt sees it. And I agree. Instead of embracing what might be the largest free marketing giveaway in the history of the world, the music labels instead sue their customers. And ask the social networks for handouts. Somebody over there needs to put their thinking cap on, quit screwing around and just give the damn music away for free with no lawsuit strings attached. Then use...
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Apparently a lucky few Gmail users had a “Themes” tab pop up under settings. No longer do you have to suffer through the boring-if-functional standard Gmail interface for the 16 hours a day that you keep the page loaded. Try “Ninja” instead. Thanks for the tip Dan. Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0...
Gmail Themes. That’s Totally Ninja. - Rubin
Gmail Themes. That’s Totally Ninja. - Matteo
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Insidious New SEO Ad Product Will Be Hard For Google To DetectNew York-based advertising firm MediaWhiz, never one to worry about gray areas when it comes to advertising, has launched a new product today called InLinks. It’s fairly straightforward - advertisers who want their sites associated with specific keywords simply buy ads. Links to those sites are then added to publishers sites whenever those words pop up in content. These aren’t ghost links like Kontera and others include in content - they’re full blown links without any notation (like a nofollow) that they are advertisements meant primarily for SEO juice. Content sites are paid a flat rate per month per ad...
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Video infrastructure site Delve Networks launched TroopTube in partnership with the Department of Defense a few days ago as a more secure alternative to YouTube, which the DoD banned in 2007. TroopTube is basically Youtube, but without the embedding feature, and the DoD has moderation and censorship controls. Now Delve Networks CEO says Google is up to no good, trying to convince the DoD that TroopTube won’t scale, and that YouTube’s exclusive arrangement with Barack Obama means the troops won’t be able to watch the president’s weekly talks. “Google is trying to attack TroopTube,” he says. The email is below,...
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A team of ex-Googlers, with backing from Y Combinator, the Friendfeed founders and others, have created what might be both the ugliest and most useful group productivity app we’ve seen. Etherpad, a new product from Appjet, launches this morning, and you must try it out. It’s comparable to Google Docs or a wiki, but it’s far more useful. You start off by creating a new workspace. You type basic text on numbered lines at will. Then invite someone else in and have them type as well. Each user’s edits are highlighted a different color. Changes are made in absolute...
How cool would it be to do some sort of Madlib experiment with this. - Globecode
Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done - Paul Buchheit
"It’s comparable to Google Docs or a wiki, but it’s far more useful. You start off by creating a new workspace. You type basic text on numbered lines at will. Then invite someone else in and have them type as well. Each user’s edits are highlighted a different color. Changes are made in absolute real time, something even Google hasn’t been able to do (Google docs update every fifteen seconds). Users can also chat in the sidebar, save versions and make a few tweaks to the settings like removing line numbers. One great feature optionally highlights Javascript syntax (making this a great way to write code collaboratively)" - Paul Buchheit
Etherpad may be a new tool in the Real Time Web kit. Collaboration on a non-flow basis. - Cliff Gerrish
Interesting - wasn't sure if AppJet was a worthwhile platform - this makes me much more interested - Christopher Galtenberg
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Mobile advertising network Apptera has closed a $10.5 million funding round led by Alloy Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Walden International. The company is also announcing that David Karnstedt, Yahoo’s former SVP of North American Sales who has extensive experience in advertising, has joined its board. Apptera offers a suite of audio and visual advertising solutions for companies looking to place ads on mobile devices. The company is behind many of the voice ads when you hear on free 411 services, as well as the ads found on AOL’s Moviefone. The company estimates that its ads reach over 100...
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Local review site Yelp is not going to sit around and let competitor CitySearch have even a day to celebrate their new beta launch. CEO Jeremy Stopellman, noticing our Comscore comparison of the services - “According to comScore, Citysearch brought in 14.6 million unique visitors in the U.S in October, compared to 143 million uniques across its ad network. (Yelp, by the way, did 6 million uniques)” - emailed us with some of their internal traffic numbers and stats. Yelp’s Google Analytics stats for the past thirty days show 15.8 million unique visitors, way above the six million Comscore records....
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