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Rippol’s Video Discovery Engine Launches To The Public
Rippol, the video discovery site that combines both complex algorithms with user suggestions to surface interesting content, has launched to the public at todays RealTime CrunchUp. We recently took an in-depth look at the service, but for those who havent seen it yet, heres a recap: Rippol looks a …
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RealTime CrunchUp: Media Streams As The Ultimate Marketing Vehicle
At our Real-Time CrunchUp today in San Francisco, we are hosting a panel titles Media Streams: Are These The Utlimate Marketing Vehicle include Sean Rad, CEO of Ad.ly; Ryan Amos, co-founder of DailyBooth; Jesse Engle, CEO of CoTweet; Robin Bechtel, a celebrity agent and Philip Nelson, SVP of strateg …
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VideoLobby Wants To Help You Create Your Own Custom-Branded Live Webcasts
Today at the RealTime CrunchUp we saw the launch of VideoLobby, a new service founded by Peter Urban thats looking to make it easier to create professional-looking webcasts, complete with custom branding. The service is an extension of Urbans sales software for real people service Smibs. Urban say …
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FlixUp Is Rotten Tomatoes For Twitter Movie Talk
Rotten Tomatoes is a great site because it takes all the movie reviews from around the web and condenses them into an easy-to-understand aggregate score. But lets be honest: Most movie reviewers suck. Why not instead rely on people in your social circle to recommend movies to you? Thats the idea beh …
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Retweets Are Hot. Will Retweeting Ads Be? TweetMeme Thinks So.
You know the retweet button you see on content spread throughout the web? You can thank TweetMeme for that. Long before Twitters new Retweet functionality existed, this button was the way to share on Twitter. And it still is for content not on twitter.com. But now its time for TweetMeme to think abo …
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SuperFeedr Wants To Speed Your Feeds
The first randomly selected audience winner today at the RealTime CrunchUp is SuperFeedr. They are an API service that works with both XMPP and PubSubHubbub (which launched at the frist CrunchUp) to create realtime content feeds. As they noted on stage, its hard to demo something that is API only, b …
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PlyMedia: Transcribing And Captioning Videos In Real Time
With services like Ustream.tv, Justin.tv, Kyte, and Qik bringing live video streaming to the masses, the web is turning into a viable competitor to television for real-time content. But while all of these services are great for bloggers remotely broadcasting footage,or streaming live events, but th …
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Mozzler’s Real-Time Search Engine Scours Twitter For The Most Retweeted News
At todays Real-Time CrunchUp, Mozzler launched its real-time search engine based on Twitter. Mozzler, which has real-time functionality, searches Twitter for the most popular content in the last six hours based on retweets. You can search Mozzler by keyword, similar to searches you can do on OneRiot …
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Status.Net: The WordPress For Microblogs Gets A Hosted Solution
Last year, we saw the launch of identi.ca, the open-sourced alternative to Twitter. At the time, we wrote that the company was never going to rival Twitter. As it turns out, thats not the goal of parent company StatusNet. Instead, the startup is looking to become something akin to a WordPress for …
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Google And The Amazing Technicolor Search Options
Im a big fan of keeping things simple, but that doesnt mean things have to be bland. Google search results are pretty bland. Sure, sometimes you get returned things like YouTube thumbnails or pictures, but many results are still just a monotonous stream of blue links. Google tried to break this stre …
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Knx.To Is Your Social Graph And Address Book Rolled Into One
Angstro, a 2008 TechCrunch50 startup, launched with a product that socialized the content on the web by tapping into your social graph. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today the startup is launching Knx.to, a real-time search engine capability and API that looks up most recent social information about any …
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Qwisk Brings Your Social Networks To The Browser
Qwisk, which is launching today at the Real-Time CrunchUp, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser. The site, which is a product of Y Combinator-funded company Socialbrowse, connects with you with your friends on Facebook and Twitter in real-time as you browse the web. We have …
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Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry
Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsofts Professional Developer Conference earlier this week. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today, Seesmic is launching its first venture into the mobi …
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Hot Potato Organizes The Stream Around What’s Really Happening Now
Yesterday, Twitter changed its organizing question from What Are You Doing? to Whats Happening? But if you want to know whats really happening now, check out Hot Potato, a startup launching right now at our Realtime CrunchUp. Hot Potato is releasing an iPhone app which lets you create a stream of …
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RealTime CrunchUp: Win A Signed Copy Of Benioff’s ‘Behind The Cloud’
Today at the RealTime CrunchUp Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff took the stage to talk about the social enterprise with Erick Schonfeld and Steve Gillmor (he also introduced us to a new real-time Salesforce Chatter platform). Benioff has also signed a pair of copies of his book Behind The Cloud, which w …
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Facebook Agrees To Set Friend Lists Free. Mashups With Twitter Lists Should Follow.
Today, during the Filtering the Stream roundtable at our RealTime CrunchUp, Seesmics Loic Le Meur asked why Facebook isnt giving third parties access to their Friend Lists. Obviously, thats a good question now that Twitter has starting giving third parties access to its Lists feature via an API. Nor …
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RealTime CrunchUp: Salesforce’s Benioff Talks Social Enterprise Strategy, Chatter And More
Salesforce.com co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff is sitting down with TechCrunch IT editor Steve Gillmor and TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld to discuss the socialization of the enterprise. Benioff recently unveiled his own social strategy for Salesforce: Chatter. Debuted at the companys Dreamforc …
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FunMail Takes The Work Out Of Picture Messaging
Everyone loves picture messaging or at least, they love the idea of it. The iPhone carrying masses clamored for it, then celebrated once they got it by sending everyone pictures of their immediate surroundings and beloved pets before forgetting the feature exists. After the novelty wears off, its g …
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RealTime CrunchUp: Filtering The Stream Roundtable
At our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco, the first roundtable is entitled Filtering the Stream: Getting Rid of the Noise. The panel is populated by a lot of big players in the space: Facebook, VP of Product Chris Cox, Google, Google Fellow, Amit Singhal, Seesmic, CEO Loic Le Meur, Futu …
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Twitter COO: We’ll Have An Advertising Business Soon. And You’re Going To Love It.
Twitter has apparently come across the Holy Grail of advertising, and its coming soon. Today during his interview at the RealTime CrunchUp, Twitter COO Dick Costolo told the audience a bit about the companys upcoming advertising business. Costolo was vague on the details, but he did make some prom …
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