MyAWOL Becomes LP33.TV, Launches IMDB For Musicians (3)
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Last July I wrote about MyAWOL, a web-centric music label looking to compete with traditional labels, which are becoming increasingly less relevant as artists turn to digital distribution methods to gain exposure. While the site has the potential to break some new ground in the online music world, it has run into a major snag during its buildup to launch: its name sounds almost exactly like My.AOL when spoken aloud. In light of this, the ...
SideTaker: Crowdsourcing Your Private Disputes, With Hilarious Results (29)
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Every couple has its ups and downs, but most people try to keep their dirty laundry to themselves. But what about those times when you just can’t come to an agreement with your significant other? Today sees the launch of SideTaker a site that asks couples to upload both sides of their arguments and let the crowd settle their debates. SideTaker members can vote on which side they agree with, or leave comments to ask ...
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Funny reads on this site, but some of the stories are hard to believe.
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this is great. x.x or =P
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Pretty fantastic.
Wixi’s Media-Centric Social Webtop Launches To The Public (16)
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Wixi, the social filesharing network that debuted at TechCrunch40, has finally been released to the public. The site offers a media-centric virtual desktop that allows users to play their media files from any computer that supports Flash, and also serves as a service for file sharing between friends. Any users that sign up by October 1 will get unlimited storage for life, while members joining after that date will need to pay $5 a month ...
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Kluzter said:
NO TE ROLES!.espacio ilimitado para compartir archivos sin que todos tengan que crear cuentas...¡¡¡dame dame dame dameee!!!
Can’t Survive A Day In World Of Warcraft? Get A Private Game Tutor (12)
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There are few things more hilariously hopeless than watching someone play a modern video game for the first time: their targeting cursors wobble aimlessly across the screen, unleashing a stream of bullets that manage to hit everything but their target. And amid their cries of frustration and accusations of cheating, they seem to inevitably come to one conclusion: “this game sucks”. Unfortunately, this phenomenon is bad for the industry, as a bad experience can turn ...
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This is a business model to watch.
"My Documents" Replacement Comes to the Web (42)
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Docstoc, the professional document network, has launched a pair of new features that help transition the site from primarily a document sharing platform to a personal document archive as well. The features, dubbed MyDocs and Sync, allow users to quickly upload their files to the web, where they can be quickly accessed from any computer that supports the ubiquitous Flash plugin. MyDocs is essentially a dashboard for users’ documents, not unlike an online version of ...
DreamIt Incubator Holds Funding Day To Commemorate First Graduating Class (8)
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Today marks DreamIt Ventures’ first Funding Day, during which the new startup incubator will introduce a dozen new companies to a collection of founders and venture capitalists. DreamIt is a program in the same vein as Y Combinator and TechStars, offering startups seed funding, guidance, and connections in exchange for equity. We’ve written brief introductions to each of the startups, which you can view below: SCVNGR: SCVNGR is a promising startup that allows users to ...
Overlay.TV Helps You Customize, Monetize Streaming Video (14)
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Overlay.TV, a startup that lets users augment streaming videos with customized text, audio, images, and links, has launched to the public. The service overlays videos from a number of video sharing sites with a new layer containing this customized content, which can be used for entertainment purposes or as an easy (and potentially effective) means of monetizing video. To use Overlay.TV, you first give the site the source URL of the video you’d like to ...
Raptr Launches 1337 Gaming Network To The Public (22)
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Raptr, the social network that revolves around gaming, has launched in public beta. The robust site allows users to keep tabs on what their friends are doing throughout the gaming world, and also offers gaming recommendations, accomplishment updates, and a host of other features. The site is designed to appeal to casual and hardcore gamers alike. In fact, Raptr avoids using the term “gamer” entirely, instead choosing to describe itself as a “social platform for ...
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http://raptr.com/muffinhunter
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Eric Atkins said:
Bad reporting by TechCrunch as they didn't mention Xfire which does many of the things raptr does along with a host of things that raptr doesn't do. Also, Xfire (I believe) is the largest social gaming network. At one time it was bigger than XBOX Live and Steam combined.
Microsoft’s Answer To Google Docs Hits 1 Million Users (14)
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Microsoft has announced that its Office Live Workspace Beta has reached its one millionth user. The service, which serves as both an extension to Office and a direct competitor to Google Docs and startups like Zoho, was announced last winter and opened in public beta last March. When we originally covered Live Workspace, we criticized its underwhelming web-based text editor. Rather than focusing its efforts on improving webtop document editing, which is offered by rival ...
BlueHaze Enhances Your Concert Experience With Geo-Tagged Photos, Social Networking (8)
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Concerts hold a unique position in the entertainment world. They have a huge audience, with an estimated 70% of American adults attending a concert every year. And, unlike movies and music, they’re impossible to pirate (sure you can always get a bootleg recording, but people go to concerts for the experience, not just the music). But while a number of startups have sprung up trying to connect users with their favorite artists as well as ...
Journeys: A Virtual World Mashup With Real-World Destinations (11)
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Most of today’s virtual worlds are set in mythical places, with landmarks that no newcomer would be familiar with. While this may suit most people just fine, it can be unsettling for those who have never been exposed to a virtual world. Today sees the launch of Journeys, a mashup that hopes to appeal to these users by leveraging Flickr and Yahoo Maps APIs to create what it calls a “virtual world based on real ...
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JuicyCampus Expands Its Libelous Gossip Machine (5)
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JuicyCampus, the controversial site that lets students post totally anonymous (and often malicious) comments about their college classmates, has launched a new version of its site and opened support to over 185 new campuses, with 500 expected by the end of the month. JuicyCampus is essentially a public, anonymous bulletin board that encourages users to gossip about eachother, often referring to their targets by their full names. The site’s founder, Matt Ivester, continues to portray ...
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Es como el quemoooon del club 34 pero en internet y con gente que realmente conoces XD... puro chisme caliente.
Greenseng: A Green Search Engine That Actually Conserves Energy (7)
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We’ve seen a few sites attempt to help turn the web green, but most of them have been little more than gimmicks. Blackle purports to conserve energy by offering a “black” version of Google, which it says uses less energy than the engine’s standard white. But Google has gone on to say that black may actually increase the amount of energy consumed by visitors (of course, this didn’t stop Google Israel from turning its site ...
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The Mysterious Ways Of Apple’s Top Apps List (19)
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Apple’s App Store is quickly becoming a hotbed for elite developers looking to capitalize on the store’s easy distribution model and huge exposure opportunities. Since the store’s launch less than two months ago, we’ve seen reports of apps reaching massive user bases and and collecting millions of dollars. But while the store has seen its share of its successes, it also has its flaws - most notably in the way it exposes users to apps ...
LinkedIn Rolls Out Enhanced Groups Features (24)
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Last week, we wrote about LinkedIn’s recent issues with its Groups - as part of a new platform rollout, a number of management features were apparently buggy, while others had been removed entirely. Tonight sees the release of a number of new features on the platform that should quell some of these concerns. Among the new features are a centralized hub page for every group, where group members can come together and converse with each ...
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Still no links with other social networking sites like Twitter or Blogging sites
Scribd.com Gets A Redesign (28)
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Scribd, the popular document sharing hub, has finally rolled out a much-needed redesign. The site has long been hampered by a messy homepage that wasn’t attractive for first-time visitors, displaying a list of its top features in lieu of a YouTube-esque stream of featured documents. The old design made it clear that Scribd worked well as a utility, but didn’t make it attractive as a destination site. Now, the new site highlights a sampling of ...
LinkedIn Rolls Out Enhanced Groups Features (14)
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Last week, we wrote about LinkedIn’s recent issues with its Groups - as part of a new platform rollout, a number of management features were apparently buggy, while others had been removed entirely. Tonight sees the release of a number of new features on the platform that should quell some of these concerns. Among the new features are a centralized hub page for every group, where group members can come together and converse with each ...
Can We Predict The Outcome of The Presidential Election With Each Candidate’s Traffic Data? (32)
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Can traffic to a Presidential Candidate’s homepage be used to gauge who will win this year’s election? Hitwise has published recent data on the traffic both American presidential candidates have seen in the last month (ending 8/23), and while the results may not shed much light on the forthcoming election’s outcome, they reveal a few interesting trends. Hitwise has ranked each state by two criteria: its contribution to each site’s total traffic, and the the ...
