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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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RealTime CrunchUp: Conversation With Twitter COO Dick Costolo
Opening our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco is Twitter COO Dick Costolo. Our own Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor are sitting down with Costolo for a 30 minute conversation. Twitter is one of the hottest players in the realtime field right now. And it has a $1 billion valuation, wh …
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Live From The RealTime CrunchUp
Were here at the second TechCrunch RealTime CrunchUp in San Francisco, where well be taking a deeper dive into realtime technology and where the streams are taking us. Kicking off the event is a conversation with Twitter COO Dick Costolo. And well have much more real-time goodness coming your way th …
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Infoaxe Launches Real-Time Search Engine Based On Web History Platform
There are a number of real-time search engines in the space, including Collecta and OneRiot. Today, at the Real-Time CrunchUp, Infoaxe debuts its real time search engine. What makes Infoaxe unique is that it doesnt tap into streams from Twitter, Facebook, or Digg for content. Infoaxes search engine …
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Reminder: New York CG Meet-Up Is Tonight, Meet the CrunchBoys and Cali Lewis
Sorry for the short notice but I thought it might be fun to toast to Turkey Day and the launch of our our Gift Guide. I'm teaming up with Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.TV for an impromptu CG meet-up in New York. We'll be meeting at 7pm Friday at Heartland Brewery, 35 Union Square West, in Manhattan. We s …
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Brizzly Opens To All. And Snatches Someone From Facebook.
Brizzly was first unveiled in private beta at our first CrunchUp event in July, so its only appropriate that today, the day of our next CrunchUp, its being opened to the public. Now, to be clear, the product is still technically in beta, but thats only so the team at Thing Labs can keep experimentin …
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Remains Of Streamzy Picked Up, Reborn As Web Radio Service Listen.fm
Frustrated with the fact that Pandora does not provide its streaming service in Canada, Vancouver-based Jeff Anderson set out to build a community-driven Internet radio service of his own along with other music fanatics, and dubbed the project Listen.fm. Currently still in private beta, Listen.fm i …
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Accommodation Portal AirBnB Adds Groups, Locations All Around The World
Like a love child of eBay and CouchSurfing.com or craigslist, AirBnB lets anyone that owns space fit for accommodating travelers be it a couch in a small apartment or the master bedroom of a 19th-century castle post that space as a listing on its website and connect potential renters to its respec …
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Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here’s How.
The public debut of Google Chrome OS today has the press abuzz over the potential of the new web-based operating system. And now that its open sourced, you have the chance to try it out for yourself. Unfortunately, most people arent ready to undertake the daunting task of actually taking Googles re …
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CrunchGear Gift Guide 2009: Wireless E-book Readers
We're only about five weeks away from Christmas, so now's as good a time as any to talk about (drum roll, please) e-books. Amazon kick-started the e-book market (with apologies to earlier e-book readers) with the introduction of the Kindle in the fall of 2007. Two years later, Barnes and Noble, IREX …
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Cisco Lets You Access Network Security Information On The Go Via iPhone App
For security nuts and enterprise clients, Cisco is launching an iPhone app, called Cisco SIO, to put Cisco Security Intelligence Operations in users’ hands. The app gives giving users real-time access to security information and also lets users create personalized alerts to show security threats tha …
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