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CrunchGear Gift Guide 2009: Portable Media Players
The common portable media player has a tough existence. It's expected to handle many tasks well, while being rugged enough to withstand daily (ab)use. It's expected to look nice, it's expected to provide more-than-decent battery life, and it's expected to provide a simple enough interface that it ca …
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The Latest News From Bing
Remember the flurry of new features Bing rolled out last week? Bing announced Wolfram Alpha results for nutrition searches, more in-depth weather results, enhanced hover previews, better maps, and turned MSN Video into Bing Videos. Well, it turns out it is also quietly launched another feature whi …
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Mplayit Launches Mobile App Discovery Directory On Facebook
There are a host of directories of iPhone apps on the web as well as applications that make personalized recommendations of apps, such as Chorus, that might catch your fancy. Mplayit enters this space hoping to combine these two ambitions into one, comprehensive Facebook app. Mplayits directory of …
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SharedDoc Launches Document Commenting Platform
SharedDoc is an online document platform that lets anyone upload a document online and then share the file to a community, so they can add comments. We have 500 free invites for TechCrunch readers here. Once you upload a Word or Google Docs document to SharedDocs platform, you can send email invite …
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OkCupid Checks Out The Dynamics Of Attraction And Your Love Inbox
Every few weeks Internet dating site OkCupid uses the power of anonymized data to share a few truths about the online dating scene and human nature in general. To be sure, these reports are often highly controversial and arent going to be showing up in scientific literature any time soon, but theyr …
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TweetPhoto CEO Says Too Much In Interview, Gets Fired. And That’s Just The Beginning…
This story just screams amateur hour, although I cant figure out exactly whos the amateur. Maybe everyone. A CEO says too much in an interview and gets fired. Lawyers go after the blogger to get content removed. And a partner is pissed off. Not bad for a days work. It involves TweetPhoto, a service …
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Loaner Tesla Used And Abused By Eager Game Designers
For the last 20 years I've been playing racing games here and there, and when they started becoming realistic (i.e. the cars weren't square and the engine noises weren't square waves), the enormity of the sound challenge never really struck me. Engine, road, and tire noise, plus accurate doppler eff …
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Condé Nast Will Officially Be Apple Tablet Ready In 2010, Apparently Without Apple’s Help
Well done, Apple. You've finally done it. You've got the world bending the knee for a device they've never seen, and which you deny exists. Condé Nast has declared that Wired will be Apple tablet-compatible by mid-2010, although they admit that Apple hasn't actually told them how they might go about …
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Cisco Confirms New Flip Camera Will Have Wi-Fi
Cisco has confirmed that the next version of the Flip Video camera, everyones favorite tiny video camera, is getting Wi-Fi. The model is described as having "a large screen that slides to reveal the record and menu buttons underneath." Pocket-lint is also reporting there won't be a touchscreen. You …
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Last Minute New York Meet-Up: A Bit of Holiday Cheer With Cali Lewis and CrunchGear
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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Adknowledge Continues Shopping Spree, Acquires SocialMedia.com’s Ad Network
Online advertising company Adknowledge has obtained the advertising business of SocialMedia.com, a social media advertising platform. The terms of the agreement have not been disclosed. Adknowledge says that the move will strengthen the companys position as a monetization platform for publishers of …
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Hey Apple, Google, et al.: Why Do You Hate Christmas?
As the TechCrunch Networks resident mobile guy, I was given the task of writing up a list of apps for each smartphone platform that you ought to buy as little e-stocking stuffers for your loved ones. It was to be my primary contribution to CrunchGears ultra-amazing Holiday Gift Guide; my festively t …
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Like.com Acquires Street Style Fashion Community Weardrobe
Im a big fan of street style focused-fashion, microblogging sites, like Weardrobe, where anyone can post pictures of their coordinated outfits for others to admire and emulate. Like.com, a visual shopping search engine, has acquired Weardrobe for an undisclosed amount. Weardrobe is user generated, s …
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MySpace Signs Agreement To Acquire iMeem
On Monday we broke the news that MySpace was in late stage negotiations to acquire music service iMeem. Those negotiations are now concluded, weve heard from multiple sources, and an agreement has been signed. MySpace will acquire most of the assets of iMeem for a purchase price of around $1 million …
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Look Mom, Cooliris Is On TV.com!
I dont know about you, but I have a male geek crush on Cooliris, the startup behind this splendid technology that enables users to browse photos and videos from the Web, their desktops or their iPhone devices in a visually attractive 3D manner that one really has to try to get a feel of how amazing …
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Mozilla’s Road To Camino 2.0 For Mac Users Is Complete
Regular readers will know that my browser of choice has long been Camino. Its that other browser built under the brand of Firefox-makers Mozilla, that runs on the Mac platform and is entirely open-source and volunteer-built. I love it because its much lighter and faster than Firefox is, while being …
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Twitter Lists Get A Bit More Descriptive
Back when Twitter Lists first started to roll out to everyone, there was quite a bit of hype over how lists would have a major impact on the way people use the service. The extent of that change remains to be seen (many Twitter clients still havent integrated Lists so plenty of people probably have …
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Everything Old Is New Again: Microsoft MinWin Attempts to Modularize Windows
There have, historically, been two competing models of operating systems development. There's the UNIX mentality, of small pieces loosely joined. That is, you have a whole bunch of little, stand-alone applications that all work together to accomplish more complex tasks running atop a svelte kernel t …
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Zynga To Launch Smash Hit FarmVille On FarmVille.com
Zynga is planning to bring FarmVille, the mega-hit Facebook game that currently has over 65 million monthly active users, to its own web portal at Farmville.com, according to sources familiar with the launch. The new site will use Facebook Connect integration to bring the popular game to standalon …
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Good Question! The Eight Best Questions We Got While Raising Venture Capital
Editors note: Guest writer Glenn Kelman is the CEO of Redfin, an online real estate broker that seeks to give consumers the information and tools once limited to real estate agents. Previously, he was a co-founder of Plumtree Software, which had a public offering in 2002 but is now part of Oracle. …
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