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MySpace looks to mobile to take the fight back to Facebook (2)
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MySpace clearly intends to use the mobile as a way to stem Facebook’s growth in Europe. It’s just launched a new localised MySpace Mobile page across all EU countries, http://m.myspace.com. In particular, in the UK it’s worked with Vodafone, launching a customised page on Vodafone live! back in June and now enhancing it to the point where users can update status, see friends’ status and updates and add friends, check mail and post blogs. It ...Shared by ElanLohmann (4) Eoin (14)Contribute comment -
Shrewder mobile bills with Shrooda? (2)
onShrooda.com is a fascinating new startup that offers a mobile price comparison engine. Here’s how it works. You enter your username and password for your mobile phone services online billing. Shrooda then takes your itemised bills and determines the best price plan available to you in the UK. The site uses product feeds from the major retailers of mobile phones and supports the UK’s four largest mobile networks so far. Now, there are other sites ...Shared by Dominik Lukeš (36) StevieB (71)Contribute comment
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7digital puts out Universal catalogue in MP3 320K (3)
on7digital - the privately held London-based digital media startup backed by Benchmark Capital - has quietly launched the Universal catalogue in the high quality MP3 320K format, the first distributor to do so in Europe. For instance, Abba’s greatest hits is now in MP3 320K. In March of 2008, the company secured the first deal to exclusively sell Warner Music’s full catalogue of DRM-free music across Europe.The site already had a deal to sell EMI’s ...Contribute comment
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WeHeartPlaces tries to be a delicious for places (1)
onWe Heart Places describes itself as a “delicious for places”. Users drag a bookmarklet to their browser, then click the link anytime they’re on a webpage with a place they’d like to visit, and the place gets saved to their account. The site also works on the iphone / mobile. Adding places from a site is ok, but how do you enter the street address of a place in the middle of nowhere? A pin ...Shared by Diana (20)Contribute comment
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Is Playfish the ‘million dollar a month’ facebook developer? (1)
onRecently the Facebook watching blog AllFacebook claimed: There’s a pretty well known secret among top Facebook application developers: one developer is generating over $1 million a month. Who is that developer exactly? Well, most people won’t talk about it and after some prodding around we’ve narrowed down the suspects. We aren’t going to post them though because ultimately it doesn’t matter who the individual is. TechCrunch speculated that potentially this might apply to Offerpal Media, ...Shared by Andrew Girdwood (33)Contribute comment
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ITV brands Friends Reunited re-launch a success - but where are the missing 12 million? (1)
onPerhaps the era when old media companies bought new social networks is now over? Why? Because an old media company has now re-made a social network on its own - and it appears to be working. After a fashion. The company in question is ITV, and the network is Friends Reunited. ITV says today that Friends Reunited has hit what it describes as “record numbers”, or 6.6m unique users across its network of sites. The ...Shared by Paul (19)Contribute comment
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£30,000 is the price for that tired old Web 1.0 site (2)
onHow much does an old Web 1.0 startup go for these days? Well, here’s an indication. Pub listings guide BeerintheEvening.com - running since the late 90s - was for £30,000, confirms Chris Hughes of new owner Neransk, a UK-based communities operator. The sale actually happened about a year ago but Neransk only just got back to me with the confirmation. Would it have been better to use the cash to build a better Web 2.0 ...Shared by Stephen (17) Tony Ruscoe (14)Contribute comment
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Getting European Startups Together (7)
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A big problem in Europe - and something I found out during my TechCrunch Euro Tour this Summer - is that startups have very few opportunities to meet and network. If a startup eco-system in Europe is ever really going to take off, startups need to get together more often. Silicon Valley had Mike Arrington’s back yard for BBQs. We need to find ours. Berlin is centrally located for the rest of Europe (East and ...Shared by Alex (17) Cem (12) Daniel Feygin (2) Jacob Friis Saxberg (3) Johan (14) lizunlong (9) magica (42)Contribute comment -
Getting European Startups Together (5)
onA big problem in Europe - and something I found out during my TechCrunch Euro Tour this Summer - is that startups have very few opportunities to meet and network. If a startup eco-system in Europe is ever really going to take off, startups need to get together more often. Silicon Valley had Mike Arrington’s back yard for BBQs. We need to find ours. Berlin is centrally located for the rest of Europe (East and ...Contribute comment
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Diary.com - Scrapbooking For The Twitter Generation? (16)
onGuess what the URL Diary.com has been doing since 1996? Not much. But now the owner, a guy in London, is looking to re-imagine the concept of the diary for the Twitter generation. Diary.com has a clean interface, a little like Twitter, but instead of 140 characters you plug in 1000. As well as text, users can plug in URLs for images and videos which will pull those into your diary. Diaries can be private ...Shared by angel (253) Benedict Lee Zhi En (163) dedrick (10) digits12 (716) druqbar (5) FAUCHER Thierry (34) Hakicoma (13) Josh (5) Kate (314) Keith B (3) Keith Bradbury (3) Marcus (0) Mark (1) RyneNelson (273) Sportbuzz (0) 叶春水 (9)
- Marcus said: Might be cool way to share your life..,
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Diary.com - Scrapbooking For The Twitter Generation? (11)
onGuess what the URL Diary.com has been doing since 1996? Not much. But now the owner, a guy in London, is looking to re-imagine the concept of the diary for the Twitter generation. Diary.com has a clean interface, a little like Twitter, but instead of 140 characters you plug in 1000. As well as text, users can plug in URLs for images and videos which will pull those into your diary. Diaries can be private ...Shared by Chanse Arrington (19) DarkBls (73) dedrick (10) druqbar (5) Hisham (23) Josh (5) Kerry (31) Mark (1) Rizzn (76) Sam (7) Wayne (48)
- DarkBls said: La différence avec un blog ?
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TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Diary.com re-invents diaries as private and shared digital scrapbooking (5)
onWhen the history of the Internet is one day written, as it will be, URLs will probably figure high on the list of the jewels Web companies tried to amass, alongside the services themselves. Some of them have been notorious, like Sex.com (wiki entry). But the best are always those that bring something new to the party, not just a memorable address and a dull, predictable application. Which is why it’s encouraging to see a ...Contribute comment
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Diary.com - Scrapbooking For The Twitter Generation? (1)
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Guess what the URL Diary.com has been doing since 1996? Not much. But now the owner, a guy in London, is looking to re-imagine the concept of the diary for the Twitter generation. Diary.com has a clean interface, a little like Twitter, but instead of 140 characters you plug in 1000. As well as text, users can plug in URLs for images and videos which will pull those into your diary. Diaries can be private ...Shared by ckaroli (45)Contribute comment -
ProofHQ makes proofing artwork collaborative (21)
onSo there have been many attempts to make it easier to collaborate over projects. You’ve got apps that will put yellow stickies onto web pages (like Fleck) and lots of collaboration apps from the likes of Basecamp, Huddle, Sosius and Ximdesk. But as far as I know none have concentrated on the single core use for many companies, which is just proofing artwork. So this is a collaboration niche we’re talking about: agencies, designers, print ...Shared by aaron (124) Adam Selwood (22) andré.friedrichs (57) AndyF (3) Coolbox (22) Dave C. (17) Harrison (7) hyderabadblues (5) Jaime (13) JUSTIN (13) Kin (23) Maggie (5) MrT (10) Mushin (51) pvantees (10) Rafael (9) Sandaruwan (16) sillyjw (10) Syng Shin (105) Timothy O'Neil (0) Valto (7)Contribute comment
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ProofHQ makes artwork proofing collaborative (2)
onSo there have been many attempts to make it easier to collaborate over projects. You’ve got apps that will put yellow stickies onto web pages (like Fleck) and lots of collaboration apps from the likes of Basecamp, Huddle, Sosius and Ximdesk. There is Conceptshare, Octopz, Cozimo, and Thinkature but fe have concentrated on the single core use for many companies, which is just proofing artwork. London-based ProofHQ, in private beta since January, launches today aiming ...Shared by Caspar (26) YuSuPh (5)Contribute comment
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Are you a European startup going to TechCrunch 50? (1)
onIf you’re a European startup going to TechCrunch 50 (either as a demo company, individual, or even if you’re just thinking about being in San Francisco while the event is on) then please let me know or leave a comment below. There may well be scope for a “UK/Irish/Euro Meetup” if people are interested…Shared by Bill Shakes (0)Contribute comment
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The top 15 ways to get on with TechCrunch UK, and maybe other media (14)
onSo as this terrible wet August / Summer ends and online battle re-commences once more, I thought I may as well have a stab at giving you some ideas about how to interact with a blog like this. I’m going to use as inspiration Jason Calacanis’ post on SAI today and also one some points Michael Arrington made at Y Combinator’s Startup School a few months back. But I’ll re-filter it via a transatlantic journey ...Shared by Albert Willis (12) alison (5) Ashraf (5) Becky Mcmichael (2) Bill Shakes (0) Fabio De Bernardi (1) Imran Ali (5) James Whatley (41) nikan (41) Paul (19) Paul S (9) Sebastian (0) Tom (0) wwdj (9)
- Paul S said: Very good common sense advice
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As Twitter withdraws SMS, startups rush to fill the void (7)
onAssuming the founders of Twitter are listening, then they will have been be hearing about the outcry from users outside the US (just read these comments) after they completely cut off all outbound SMS services in the UK and chose not to replace them with premium rate SMS services - services which, surprise, surprise - millions of people in Europe already happily pay for. But no matter. Twitter’s loss is the startups’ gain, and a ...Shared by Andrew Whitehouse (3) Laurent (6) Leonid Mamchenkov (12) nikan (41) oliver gassner (14) Si Jobling (5) Stefan (19)
- Leonid Mamchenkov said: The tough tough world of the modern startups...
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Twitter cuts UK SMS - there goes another business model (3)
onTwitter has killed its outbound SMS services outside of the United States, Canada or India, and with it a potentially highly lucrative business model in Europe. In the UK you’ll still be able to send Twitter an SMS to update your status, but you won’t be receiving them. Apparently rising rising costs made it impractical, and we have been getting those SMSs for free. In a blog post co-founder Biz Stone says: “Even with a ...Contribute comment
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Wuala、ソーシャルグリッドストレージの公開ベータを明日開始 (2)
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これは何かの記録になるはずだ。スタートアップの公開ベータが予定どおりの日に開始されようとしている。スイス発のスタートアップで、P2Pのソーシャルグリッドストレージを作っているWualaが、明日（米国時間8/14） www.wua.laで公開ベータを... 先月、われわれが記事［英文］に書いた同社の詳しい情報は以下のとおり。 Wualaを支えるコアテクノロジーは、ETH Zurich（スイス国立工科大学）で行われた研究に基づくものだ。ファイルは暗号化された小さな断片に分けられ、ユーザーの「Wuala Grid」に分散される。さらにWualaのサーバーにもミラーリングされる。よって、他のユーザーがオンラインでないときでも自分のファイルにアクセスできる。ユーザーは最初にストレージを1GB無料で与えられるが、もっと欲しければ、自分のハードディスクを他のユーザーに供出してストレージを拡張することができる。ユーザーはストレージのトレードをしなくてもよい。例えば100GBを100ユーロで購入することがてきる。ユーザーのパソコン上ではファイルがすべて暗号化されており、どのフォルダーを誰がアクセスできるかはユーザーが決める。Wualaを含めて他人は誰もファイルを見ることができない。ユーザーのパソコンに置かれる他人のファイルの断片は実行不可だ。ウェブストレージとは異なり、Wualaにはオンラインでもオフラインでもファイルをドラッグ＆ドロップできる。 WualaはXdriveやBox.netなどとストレージ分野で競合することになるが、著しい違いがいくつかある。ファイルは暗号化された小さな断片になってユーザーの「Wuala Grid」全体に分散されて保存され、Wualaサーバーにミラーリングされる。ウェブストレージと異なり、オフラインでもWualaにファイルをドラッグ＆ドロップできる。TechCrunch UKが昨年10月にWualaに関する最初の記事を書いた。また先月同サイトがちら見せプレビューを一般公開した。 CrunchBase Information Wuala Information provided by CrunchBase [原文へ] （翻訳：Nob Takahashi）Shared by gnusic (78) からす (9)Contribute comment
