TalkCrunch
TalkCrunch is a weekly podcast that discusses new web 2.0 companies, features and news. TalkCrunch is a TechCrunch Network company.
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Interview With Product Manager For Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft made a number of major announcements today around their new Silverlight platform at their annual Mix conference in Las Vegas. Silverlight is a new cross-platform, cross-browser platform for creating rich Internet applications, and competes directly with Adobe Flash (and their related Flex ...
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Zimbra Goes ???Offline???
Zimbra announces Zimbra Desktop, a way to access the Zimbra website and all of your user data when offline. I spoke to Zimbra CEO and Co-founder Satish Dharmaraj this morning about the product, and we also talk extensively about the background of Zimbra in general. The company has 6 million paid use ...
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Talk With Yahoo Music Execs on the Fate of DRM
About a year ago, Yahoo Music GM David Goldberg stunned attendees of the Music 2.0 conference by urging major labels to abandon DRM and give unrestricted MP3 sales a try. The biggest side effect of DRM, he said, was that it tended to lock users into a single service and a single device - not [...]
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Interview With Digg Team - New Stats, New Features
Digg is launching several new features this morning that signal a strategic shift in the companys all news focus to date. Theyve added a podcasting content area, enhanced the video area and are signalling that new content areas are coming as well. Among the changes, users will now be able to consume ...
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Here Comes Adobe Apollo
Steve Gillmor and I recently spoke with Adobe senior vice president and chief software architect Kevin Lynch about the upcoming release of the Apollo platform. Apollo, the code name for a cross-operating system runtime is a platform that will allow developers to create to desktop applications using ...
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Interview With Jeff Bezos
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been talking about their web services business unit a lot lately. Moments after he left the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I was able to speak to him about three of their most recent web service offerings: Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and ...
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Reddit Acquired: Interview With Founders
Cond?? Nast announced the acquisition of Reddit, a social news site, this morning for an undisclosed price. Reddit was founded in 2005 and has just four employees. This is a model company for young entrepreneurs looking to create a new startup with limited resources. Marshall Kirkpatrick and I inter ...
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Interview With Jingle CEO and Venture Capitalist
Michael Arrington interviews Jingle Networks CEO George Garrick and investor Josh Kopelman about todays big financing news as well as the history and future of their free, ad supported 411 service called 1-800-Free-411. Key facts from the discussion: Jingle currently has costs of around $0.25 per ca ...
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MediaTemple Launches Grid Server
If you are looking for a hosting provider, you need to check out Media Temples new Grid Server product that launched this morning. For $20 per month (the same price as most low end shared hosting providers), they are offering a fully scalable hosting product that will grow (or spike) along with your ...
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Episode 14: Interview With Pageflakes Founder
Ajax home page Pageflakes, headquartered in Germany, is just settling down after its recently announced venture financing from BenchMark Capital. In the next few days theyll be launching Pageflakes 2.0, a significant upgrade to the current offering CEO and co-founder Christoph Janz tells Michael Arr ...
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Episode 13: PayPerPost Raises $3 million
See TechCrunch for the details on PayPerPosts announcement of its $3 million Series A round of financing by Inflexion Partners, Villiage Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Michael Arrington and Rob Hof (Silicon Valley Bureau Chief at Business Week) took a few minutes today to talk to Ted Murphy ( ...
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Episode 12: Featuring Om Malik, Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington
Episode 12 of TalkCrunch features Robert Scoble at Scobleizer, Om Malik at Gigaom and Michael Arrington at TechCrunch. They speak for just over an hour about their favorite startups and the hot news this week in tech. Topics covered include the state of VOIP, next weeks Yahoo Hack Day and Robert Sco ...
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Episode 11: Elliot Noss Talks About Kiko Acquisition
Kiko, one of the first online Ajax calendars, gave up in the face of intense competition just a year after funding (by Ycombinator) and launch. The founders put the site up for sale on ebayand it sold for $258,100. The buyer was a twelve year old Toronto-based Internet company called Tucows. Tucows ...
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Episode 10: Digg 3.0 Launches - Interview With Founders Kevin Rose & Jay Adelson
Digg 3.0 is set to launch on Monday, June 26, 2006. Screen shots and a feature overview are available on TechCrunch and Read/Write Web. Here on TalkCrunch, Richard MacManus and Michael Arrington interview Digg founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson on a wide range of topics, including the history of Di ...
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Episode 9: Flock Launches - An Interview with the founders
Flock is launching it first public beta this evening (Tuesday, June 13, 2006). See the launch post on TechCrunch, and listen to Michael Arrington interview Flock founders Bart Decrem, Geoffrey Arone and Anthony Young, as well as Shasta Ventures investor Jason Pressman, in the attached podcast. The c ...
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Episode 8 - Gil Penchina On Leaving eBay for Wikia
Gil Penchina leaves eBay (see TechCrunch post) to become the first CEO of Bessemer funded Wikia, the new for-profit venture of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch speaks with Gil about his decision to leave, his game plan for Wikia and some of the hot startups hes recently ...
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Episode 7 - Live PBS Recording on Web 2.0
Tom Fudge, host of the KPBS San Diego show These Days, had CNET Editor-at-large Brian Cooley and TechCrunchs Michael Arrington on his live show on Monday, May 8, 2006. The topic? Web 2.0 and what it means to the average Internet user. With KPBS permission we are adding a recording of the show here a ...
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Episode 6: Sphere Launch
The long-awaited blog search engine Sphere launches at 10 PM tonight. In this episode of Talkcrunch we speak with Tony Conrad and Toni Schneider about the Sphere story. Tony Conrad is the CEO and co-founder of Sphere. Toni Schneider, formerly the CEO of Oddpost, is currently the CEO of Automattic ( ...
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Episode 5: Riya Launch
According to Riya there are 300 billion digital photographs stored in various places today, and they want to help us organise them. Riya is a photo sharing and search site that will tag and index your photos automatically using intelligent recognition. Riya took the web by storm when it launched its ...
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Episode 4: Battle of the Online Feed Readers
The fourth episode of TalkCrunch is a discussion with executives of four of my favorite online feed readers: NewsGator, Attensa, Rojo and Feedlounge. I brought on Frank Gruber as a co-host, who wrote a comparison post of nine online readers last week on TechCrunch. The conversation focuses on featur ...
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