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Plus ça change

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2008-07-05 18:51:56 by Steve Gillmor in TechCrunch
Holiday weekends, especially the ones that bracket the summer months, tend to be stress tests for the tech media. With the proliferation of smart phones, social media aggregators, and of course the Twitter clonestakes, its now trivial to get a snapshot of what is going on throughout the time off Is nothing going on? Has the TechMeme conversation...
 
Tags: social media aggregators, techmeme conversation dried, cherry bombs subside, crunch network, stress tests, crunchgear drool, tech media, smart phones, summer months
 
 
 
 
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Think Before You Voicemail

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2008-07-05 16:00:34 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch
Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so theyll stop using it When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. I remember people talking about the pros and cons of various enterprise voicemail systems - which had the best forwarding and group messaging, which allowed for archiving,...
 
Tags: voicemail, voicemail transcription services, typical voicemail messages, mid-nineties voicemail, convert voicemail, voicemail accounts, enterprise voicemail systems, predominantly anti-voicemail, message box
 
 
 
 
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Yahoos Helpful Shortcut To Pictures Of Underage Girls

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2008-07-05 12:51:06 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch
Yahoo Shortcuts automatically finds and underlines interesting items in articles and provides additional information via a pop up window (Yahoo Shortcuts also refers to shortcuts in Yahoo Search for common things like travel search). People, places, organizations, and other things of interest are underlined, says the FAQ One blogger is pointing...
 
Tags: yahoo, yahoo shortcut, underage, yahoo shortcuts, shortcuts, term underage girl, term, mobilecrunch mobile gadgets, crunch network
 
 
 
 
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Joey Chestnut Beats Kobayashi Again in Hot-Dog Eating Contest

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2008-07-04 20:20:09 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
Its not the 4th of July without the Coney Island Hot-Dog Eating Contest (thats how we celebrate in Brooklyn, by stuffing our faces with as many hot dogs we can fit). This years winner is defending champion Joey Jaws Chestunt, who won in overtime from six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi Both ate 59 hot dogs during the 10 minute contest (down from...
 
Tags: additional hot dogs, hot dogs, mobilecrunch mobile gadgets, 4th, happy 4th, coney island hot-dog, crunch network, july, overtime
 
 
 
 
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The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter

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2008-07-04 16:57:51 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitters 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.cas answer to Twitters scaling issues is by...
 
Tags: twitter, identi, twitter clone identi, host identi, twitters all-too-regular downtime, twitters, twitters erratic outages, service, time
 
 
 
 
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Follow Animal Migrations On Google Earth

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2008-07-04 14:50:56 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
Google 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 owl and the...
 
Tags: earth, google earth, google, regular google maps, bird flu mutations, data, geographical data, popular science article, emotional stress levels
 
 
 
 
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Independence Day

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2008-07-04 04:44:53 by Steve Gillmor in TechCrunch
Tomorrow 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 of our jobs as consumers When the iPhone...
 
Tags: iphone, mobilecrunch mobile gadgets, enterprise iphone, crunch network, push email, national nightmare, process free, july 4th, secure deployability
 
 
 
 
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Regator Wants To Be A Blog Reader For The Masses

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2008-07-04 03:40:00 by Jason Kincaid in TechCrunch
Regator , 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 hand-picked by Regator editors....
 
Tags: regator, regator offers, site acts, site, regator editors, ajax-heavy site, standard rss reader, users, similar feature yesterday
 
 
 
 
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Google, You Can Eat My Cookies Anytime

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2008-07-03 23:45:41 by Jason Kincaid in TechCrunch
Google 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 the site. The explanation has always been...
 
Tags: google, google repeatedly, repeatedly, google section, privacy, privacy policy, post, homepage, lengthy blog post
 
 
 
 
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This Week on CrunchBoard

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2008-07-03 23:44:13 by Peter Sauer in TechCrunch
...Software Support Specialist K&L Wine Merchants - Redwood City, CA GoodBarry .NET Web Development Ninja GoodBarry - San Francisco, CA Head of Web Design & Front-End Development Global Campus - London, UK Quality Assurance Cowboy Janus Health - San Diego, CA Web Developer Wall Street On Demand - Boulder, CO Operations Support Engineer...
 
Tags: operations support engineer, engineer, san francisco, crunchboard, software support specialist, french job boards, quality assurance cowboy, front-end development, crunch network