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AOL Rolls Out Bebo In Several European Countries Top
AOL’s People Networks division has today announced the launch of social networking site Bebo , which it acquired almost exactly one year ago, in several key European countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. Before, Bebo was only available in English and for some reason also Polish, but now it will use IP-based geo-targetting to cater services in users’ mother tongues. It launched a latino site for U.S.-based users just last week. Successfully rolling out social services across Europe is never an easy feat to accomplish, and Netlog and Facebook have a pretty strong foothold here, as does MySpace, although the latter appears to be struggling with their expansion strategy lately. Bebo is doing it the smart way - which is of course no guarantee for success - by teaming up with local media partners. Bebo is partnering with AlloCiné, RTL's Clipfish, Telecom Italia owned Yalp!, Diagonal View and Preview Networks' Filmtrailer, which will all be incorporated in Bebo's Open Media platform. Bebo is planning to let these and additional media partners put a button on their websites that lets users share content on their profiles via status updates. That’s the right strategy in my opinion, but they will find that competing against both the big boys who’re already present throughout Europe as well as the local players who’ve been around - in many cases - since the turn of the century, will be a long, hard battle. Those who have been following the developments in social networking services here in Europe, as well as the rough decline of online advertising budgets in general, would tell them the same. We’ve reported in the past that AOL might be contemplating a sale of Bebo , but the press release makes it sound like they’re in fact heavily relying on Bebo for their social strategy instead: Bebo forms the centrepiece of the AOL People Networks business unit. People Networks’ collection of community platforms help improve people's lives by connecting them with everyone and everything they care about. People Networks does this through a web-based experience on Bebo.com, through desktop clients and mobile devices. At the heart of People Networks is the Lifestream, a real-time, platform for aggregating and distributing social feeds across mediums. It will be interesting to look back in a couple of years and see if Bebo made the right decision at the right time, but I have my doubts about their capacity to effectively compete starting this late in the game. Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors
 
Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval Top
Y Combinator , a seed stage venture firm that has invested in a whopping 118 startups since summer 2005, has to date only invested capital provided by its four founders: Paul Graham , Jessica Livingston , Trevor Blackwell and Robert Morris . Now they are raising $2 million in capital themselves, from Sequoia Capital and a number of prominent angel investors. Sequoia partner Greg McAdoo is leading the investment. Sequoia and the angel investors ( Ron Conway , Paul Buchheit and Aydin Senkut ) aren’t investing directly in Y Combinator. Instead, they are putting money into a new entity, managed by Y Combinator, that will make investments in new startups going forward. In other words, Y Combinator won’t just be investing their own capital any more, and they’ve got a larger war chest to expand operations. In the past Y Combinator has invested in 40 or so new startups a year. Investments are small ($5,000 + $5,000/founder) in exchange for around 6% of equity, and the startups are typically very early, usually idea stage. Still, they’ve had some notable successes. Several of the startups have been acquired - Reddit (by Condé Nast) , Omnisio (by YouTube) , Zenter (by Google) , ClickPass (by Synthasite) Auctomatic (by Communicate) and others. A number of Y Combinator’s current startups are doing very well, too. Their publicly launched portfolio includes: Reddit, Loopt, Scribd, Justin.TV, OMGPOP, Xobni, Disqus, Heroku, Dropbox, Posterous, Backtype, Clustrix and ZumoDrive, among others . Sequoia has invested in three Y Combinator startups in the past (Loopt, Clustrix and Dropbox). The $2 million in new capital will go a long way for Y Combinator. They say they’ll increase the number of startups they invest in, from around 40/year to 60. But at an average investment of only about $15,000 per startup, that $2 million will last for about two years. Y Combinator startups get a big head start in the competitive tech world. The founders, often just out of school (or still in school), get enough money to pay the bills for a few months as they work on their projects. They also get mentoring and polish from the Y Combinator team and a chance to present to prominent angel investors and venture capitalists at twice-yearly demo days ( example ). A surprising percentage of the startups go on to raise bigger venture rounds and become real companies. Many of the founders that fail come back and try again. Y Combinator says that the investment by Sequoia and the angels won’t change how they do business (other a projected increase in the number of investments). The new investors won’t get any special investment rights in the new startups, or have any obligation to invest further in them. But it is a seal of approval in the Y Combinator model. And dozens more young founders will now get the chance to build their first startup. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
 
Daily News Habit Doubles Among U.S. Mobile Users Top
Mobile Web usage is still a nascent activity, but comScore put out some data on the information-consumption habits of consumers in the U.S. The number of people who access news and information daily on their mobile phones doubled from 10.8 million in January, 2008 to 22.4 million in January, 2009. The second most popular mobile activity was social networking, with 9.3 million daily mobile users (although for some reason this number also includes blog access). While social networking is only half as popular as reading news, it is growing four times as fast, up from 1.8 million users a year ago. An estimated 63 million people accessed news and information on their mobile phones at least once during the month. Of those, about a third did so via a downloaded application rather than a mobile browser, with the most popular downloaded app being maps. SMS-based search proved even more popular (with 14.1 million monthly users versus 8.2 million for downloaded maps. Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
 
Plugg 2009: Videos, Pictures And Presentations Top
As TechCrunch UK & Europe editor Mike Butcher already wrote, the Plugg 2009 conference is a wrap . As the organizer, I won’t say too much about the quality of the event other than that we’ve received a lot of positive feedback about the presenting keynote speakers and startups and that we were thrilled with the good vibe considering the economic turmoil we’re in. If you weren’t there to attend, don’t let that stop you to enjoy the content. If you would like to watch the videos that were recorded at the event, you can check our Vimeo channel or use the Embedr playlist widget below to browse most of them (we’re still uploading some). I’m also including some highlights of the conference that I think are worth your time. The official pictures are up on Flickr as well, and below is an embedded slideshow. We’ve even put all the presentations on a virtual fileserver powered by NomaDesk , so if you’re interested in downloading that material to your computer, you can install their free software suite and it will enable you to synch a folder on your desktop that contains all the slidedecks in the format that it was delivered in. The fileserver also contains the videos for the 10-minute pitches delivered by the 3 finalists: Jinni , Mendeley (the winner) and Myngle (winner of the audience’s choice award). You need to sign up for an invitation to the fileserver, and if you do this before the end of the month you can also win one of the NomaDesk USB modems that will be distributed to 10 randomly selected winners. For more detailed instructions on how to get to the public fileserver, read our latest blog post . Videos Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com Some highlights: Media Futurist Gerd Leonhard on “The Future Of Music And Media” The Future Of Music And Media from Plugg Conference on Vimeo . Inmaculada Martinez from Stradbroke Advisors on entrepreneurship in Europe. European Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly from Plugg Conference on Vimeo . The awesome VC Panel on “Where’s the money gone?” featuring Fred Destin (Atlas Venture) and Sake Bosch (Prime Technology Ventures) in an animated discussion with Anil Hansjee (Google, Head of Corporate Development EMEA) and moderator Matthäus Krzykowski from Venturebeat. If you don’t have time to watch the entire thing, jump to 14:00 but stick until the end. VC Panel: Where’s The Money Gone? from Plugg Conference on Vimeo . The winning pitch from Mendeley Startups Rally - Part 2.2 - Final Pitches from Plugg Conference on Vimeo . Pictures See you next year! Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
 
Cloudera Raises $5 Million Series A Round For Hadoop Commercialization Top
Cloudera is definitely a startup that will have many eyes fixed on it in the future. Backed by an impressive list of investors and advisors and run by a team of experienced technology veterans, it’s doing interesting things with equally interesting open-source software. The company is today announcing the general availability of its flagship product, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, in conjunction with a $5 million capital injection led by Accel Partners, where one of the founders was Entrepreneur in Residence. Cloudera is pushing a commercial distribution for Hadoop , a free Java software framework born out of an open-source implementation of Google's published computing infrastructure and fostered within the Apache Software Foundation. Hadoop supports distributed applications running on large clusters of commodity computers processing enormous amounts of data, technology that’s being put to use by Internet juggernauts like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, AOL, Baidu, The NY Times, Joost and many more . Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is distributed as a pre-packaged RPM bundle for Red Hat Linux systems or an Amazon EC2 image, for free under the Apache 2 software license. The startup is launching the my.cloudera.com portal today where people can use a Web-based configuration tool to create custom packages that are optimized to their specific needs. There are some big names involved with Cloudera. The founding team at Cloudera includes Mike Olson (former VP at Oracle and prior to that CEO at open source database pioneer Sleepycat Software), Christophe Bisciglia (created and led Google's Academic Cloud Computing Initiative), Dr. Amr Awadallah (co-founder of VivaSmart, acquired by Yahoo!) and Jeff Hammerbacher (key member of the data team at Facebook). Investors in and advisors to Cloudera include Diane Greene (formerly CEO VMware), Mike Abbott (senior VP, Palm), Caterina Fake (co-founder, Flickr), Dr. Qi Lu (president of the Online Services Group, Microsoft; former executive vice president, Yahoo!), Marten Mickos (former CEO, MySQL), Jeff Weiner (president, LinkedIn; former senior vice president, Yahoo!), Gideon Yu (Facebook CFO; former CFO at YouTube). The NY Times broke the news on Cloudera’s launch, and offers some interesting tidbits on the side, like the fact that Google CEO Eric Schmidt himself gave the startup its blessing even though the company could make reasonable claims to IP ownership, and more information about Hadoop’s underlying technology. Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0
 
Blellow: Like Yammer meets LinkedIn Meets Twitter In A Way That Makes Sense Top
To paraphrase Cracker, what the world needs now is another web-based Interactive micro-content production community like I need a hole in the head. But strangely enough, I think the world needs Blellow. Blellow is a fascinating collaboration tool a la Yammer but Blellow allows you to create groups based on projects - Wordpress Devs can group with other Wordpress Devs while freelance writers can kvetch with other writers, for example. To use the system you log-in and fill out a profile. Then you send messages - and ask questions - just like you would in Twitter or Yelp. The questions are actually the coolest part of the system. When you ask a question, everyone can see it and respond. You then thank folks who help you with Kudos and those users ride to the top of the heap in the system, thereby allowing potential employers to find the local experts in particular topics. You can join groups of like-minded individual, create private groups, and ask questions of your friends. You can also post jobs and paid projects for $24, which is where Blellow expects to make their cash. They’re also offering 10GB of storage space for $10 a month and the system accepts files of any size - up to your paid limit - to share with your peers. Just as Yammer is Twitter for business, Blellow seems to be Twitter for freelancers. But do we really need another Twitter? Sure, it’s a big world. In this economy, the little guy can use all the help he or she can get. UPDATE - Changed Yelp to Yammer. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
 
BestInClass Tries To Help Consumers Find The Perfect Digital Camera Top
Startup BestInClass is trying to solve a problem many consumers face when trying to pick out a digital camera that best suits their needs and preferences. Most consumers spend hours on the internet looking at editorial and user reviews to figure out what digital camera to buy. The site has launched a digital camera recommendation service that helps consumers sort through all of this information in one place and answer the question: “what is the best digital camera for me?” BestInClass.com uses the recommendations of professionals and hobbyists in the photography industry and then matches their product recommendations to consumer preferences using a proprietary algorithm.The site already has about 750 individual camera selections from photography experts, with more being added weekly. Basically, BestInClass tries to figure out the photography goals of consumers in order to determine what the right camera is for their needs. Consumers are asked several questions about how they intend to use the camera, trying to differentiate between whether the camera is being used for travel or family photos, how much the consumer wants to spend, or if they have specific areas where they want high quality features (color, pixels etc.). The site returns with a list of tailored product recommendations from experts who have already researched the best products for these needs. Consumers can also read why a particular product was recommended for them and how it compares to other top picks. Consumers can see a side-by-side comparison of editorial recommendations of a product with actual consumer reviews of the product and can buy the product through Amazon. BestInClass now only focuses on digital cameras but intends to add more consumer electronics products to the list in the near future, including laptops and flat screen televisions. I think BestInClass has a good concept in providing this tailored content to the consumer, but it certainly not an original idea. Competitors include TestFreaks and other sites that provide product reviews like CNET and CrunchGear . BestInClass’s search filter is pretty nifty and with the addition of more consumer electronics, the site could be a useful destination. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
 
Scoble's New Thing: Building 43 Top
A week ago we reported that blogger Robert Scoble is leaving his current job running FastCompany TV. Now he’s going to start talking about his new project - a new content and social networking community called Building 43 , which he’s building in partnership with his new employer, Rackspace . More details will be announced on the Gillmor Gang at 3 p.m. Saturday (today, Pacific Time) live at TWiT Live . Scoble will join Steve Gillmor live via Skype from Rackspace’s offices in Austin, Texas. Regarding the name Building 43: “The first time I visited Google they gave me a tour of Building 43. I found it to be a fanciful place where not only did the founders have offices, but they had this fun board in the lobby called “Google’s Master Plan.” VC Steve Jurvetson has a picture of that board here - seemed like a good metaphor for a community that’s for people who are fanatical about the Internet. Make Building 43 open to everyone.” Why Rackspace, a hosting provider? Scoble says he visited the company a year ago and was impressed with their approach to building communities and technologies. It’s also a good fit, he says, because the company has touch points with thousands of other companies (providing hosting and other services). A focus of Building 43 will be visiting and profiling these and other companies, with a look at how they grow over time. I asked Robert how Building 43 will differ from Channel 9 , the Microsoft video channel that he started in 2004 that tries to create discussions between Microsoft, its users and developers. His response: I was one of five guys who started that and, yes, we broke a lot of corporate rules. We put customers on the home page who could write “Microsoft sucks” and we wouldn’t take that down. We didn’t follow the color guidelines of Microsoft’s branding department. Channel 9 was one of the first corporate sites to have RSS feeds everywhere. It was also one of the first to have a wiki. Building 43 will definitely live by that same philosophy, but it will go a lot further. First, our content will be available via Creative Commons so you can use our videos or photos or other media on your own sites. You can cut it up, edit it, or claim it as your own. Second, Building 43 is not a place. It’s not a website. It’s a distributed community and you’ll engage with Building 43 on your favorite social network. No need to visit http://www.building43.com at all. Plus, we’ll have new videos that you can interact with via technology like that available on 12seconds.tv and seesmic.com so you can post your own video tips or techniques or demos. Second, on Building 43 you won’t just find information about Rackspace. We’re going to help the entire cloud computing industry get more adoption, users, customers. We’ll cover technologies from Rackspace’s competitors like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, GoGrid, IBM, and others. Our philosophy on Building 43 is a rising tide lifts all boats, so we’re going to look to get you the best advice on both how to build your business better on the Internet as well as have fun, too. We’ll also link to the best ideas, videos, demos, blogs, on the Internet. I’ve already been practicing that. In the past year I’ve linked to more than 16,000 things on http://www.friendfeed.com/scobleizer/likes my likes feed on friendfeed. Third, and this won’t be on Building 43 in the first stage, but in the future we want to make Building 43 a place where you come to build your own cloud-based applications or services or try out all sorts of new approaches that the industry is pitching our way. So, yes, we’ve learned from Channel 9, but we’re going to push it a lot further and a lot of that depends on how the community evolves on Building 43. Robert says his personal blog will remain a separate property, but he’ll move it from Wordpress to Rackspace hosting to “make that a showcase for new blogging technology (like the various commenting plugins that let you federate comments to friendfeed, for instance).” Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
 
Video: TechCrunch Roundtable In Paris - Where Next For France 2.0? Top
TechCrunch UK & Europe recently hosted a Roundtable & Meetup in Paris. Despite issues getting a live video stream and uploading the videos “TechCrunchTalk: What Next For France 2.0?” featured an afternoon of panel discussions with French startups and the investment community. The kinds of things that were discussed were pretty interesting, and something of a metaphor for the issues continental European startups face today. Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0
 
Spot Runner Is Running On Fumes: Another 60 To Lose Their Jobs Top
Yesterday was a particularly bad Friday the 13th at Spot Runner , the Los Angeles startup that is trying to Web advertising techniques to TV. The company told employees it would need to go through its third major round of layoffs in less than a year. At least 60 people were told the would be let go, the company confirms. We’ve added the 60 to our Layoff Tracker . This is on top of the 115 employees who lost their job s last November and the 50 more last August. Throw in natural attrition, and the company, which at one point numbered more than 500 employees, could soon be down to less than 120 people. The layoffs supposedly triggered the WARN Act , which requires companies to give employees 60 days notice for any mass layoff—defined as 33 percent or more of the active workforce. That would suggest Spot Runner currently employs less than 180 people, and after the layoffs take effect will employ less than the 120 mentioned above. Spokesperson Rosabel Tao disputes that math, saying, “As a private company, we do not disclose employee figures but it is out of hundreds.” She also notes that the California WARN Act is more stringent than the federal one and requires notice if 50 or more employees are effected, regardless of the percentage. Tips started coming in to us yesterday. One mentioned that Spot Runner employees were updating their Facebook statuses with references to “suite 2160,” the conference room where the last round of layoffs took place. Tao confirms that most of the layoffs will be coming from the local search and local outbound sales groups, which is the business Spot Runner got into when it acquired Weblistic a year ago. She writes in an email: The economic environment continues to worsen, with a rebound not expected until at least late next year. Companies are pulling back their marketing spend across all types of media. Local merchants simply aren't advertising to the degree they were before and are pulling back their budgets. Like everyone else, Spot Runner has been impacted by these changes and we are hunkering down to get through this recession. Our core focus has not changed. We are a tech platform business for video, TV and online. This is about continuing to tighten our focus and investing our capital resources in the areas where there is the most opportunity. As I said earlier, about 60 people were given notice that their jobs would be going away in a couple of months. . . . While there will be cuts throughout the company, they are primarily in two areas – local search and outbound sales for the local platform business. It is not the entire Weblistic team, but a good number of them. Just to be clear, we are not getting out of local TV but we are going to focus on our partnerships rather than independent local merchants. . . . Our top priority continues to be Project Malibu and we will continue to invest heavily in developing this technology. This is an all-digital platform that streamlines and enhances the process of buying and selling all forms of TV and video advertising to benefit media owners and their advertising clients. We believe this is a game changing product and that this will be a significant business for us. Whether or not the company has a future seems to be tied to the fate of “Project Malibu, ” a digital ad-buying platform for TV commercials which one former employee characterizes as its Hail Mary pass. Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0
 
Facebook's Dave Morin On The Search for a More Social Web; Connect Comes To The iPhone Top
We’re here at SXSW, where Facebook’s Senior Platform Manager Dave Morin is speaking about The Search for a More Social Web . He says that computers have largely been antisocial - it was only with the advent of the computer that we’ve been playing games with ourselves. Only in the last few years have computers really started to become social. The introduction of Facebook’s new real-time homepage has offered a big boost to becoming more social. Facebook’s new Pages allows us to follow the actions of our favorite brands and celebrities throughout the day. Gary Vaynerchuk has taken the stage. Vaynerchuk has begun to produce content on a new public profile, and is also offering some of his thoughts on the switch from a regular profile to his new Page . “I wanted more than 5,000 friends, that’s really what this allows me to do”. Vaynerchuk says that people are talking too much - this new product on Facebook allows people to listen, which is a key part of interaction. “It also saves me around 40 Emails a day of people asking for my friend requests”. Dave Morin is now speaking about the new home page, which should now be available for everyone (it has been gradually rolled out to users over the last few days). The new page makes it easier to filter through the items in your stream, which is becoming increasingly necessary. Now your stream is giving you more control than ever. Now shifting to Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect allows users to make their identities portable. It allows us to see what our friends are up to - he jokes “If your friend does something on the internet and nobody knows about it, did it actually happen?”. Points out TechCrunch, where comments have become more authentic than ever before because users can log in with real names, which are linked to their Facebook accounts. Also pointing out other Connect-enabled sites like Geni and Joost. Aardvark just launched with Facebook Connect as well. But Facebook Connect isn’t just about the web. He points out Xobni . Also, working alongside with Apple to seamlessly transfer photos to Facebook from iPhoto. Loic Le Meur has just taken the stage to announce the first desktop client with Facebook Connect integration - Seesmic . Now available. Morin has taken the stage once again, highlighting how Facebook is looking to be as open as possible. One more thing…. (Dave Morin pulls a Steve Jobs) Facebook Connect for the iPhone. Facebook Connect is now on the iPhone, allowing iPhone apps to tap into your social graph for the first time. Users can connect across platforms (You can play a game on the iPhone with a Facebook friend using a browser-based version). Launching today: Playfish COO Sebastien de Halleux is announcing that three of the top ten games on Facebook are now on the iPhone (Geo Challenge, Word Challenge, and Who Has The Biggest Brain). Who Has The Biggest Brain is now available on the App Store ( iTunes Link ). SGN CEO Shervin Pishevar has taken the stage. SGN apps have 10 million installs. SGN has created a new game called Agency Wars ( iTunes Link ). Gamers can play as CIA, MI6, and more. Can challenge your friends and assassinate them. Leave clues in the real world. iBowl (one of SGN’s popular Wii-like games) supports live gaming. Now you can bowl with your Facebook friends anywhere in the world live. Tapulous ’s Andrew Lacy is now speaking about Tap Tap Revenge 2 , which just launched last week. It is currently number one on the App Store. The game is now a lot more social, with the introduction of Facebook Connect. Want to increase engagement, by being more social. Patrick O’Donnell of Urbanspoon , a popular restaurant guide with over a million restaurants in its database. The iPhone app, which offers a slot-machine style recommendation engine for restaurants, has seen 4 million downloads and over 200 million ’shakes. Now supports Facebook Connect. Joe Greenstein of Flixster , which is used by around 17 million people per month to get movie recommendations. iPhone app has been out for around 8 months, with 3.3 million users. But there wasn’t a good way to connect what you were doing on the phone with what you had done on the web. Just approved in the App Store with version 2.0. Zynga’s Live Poker , Say 8’s Binary Game , and Whrrl have all introduced new apps featuring Facebook Connect. CitizenSports, Goodrec, limbo. Morin has just annouced a New Round of Funding For fbFund - Just for Facebook Connect, and developers on the iPhone. Q&A Q: Will there be geotagging through the iPhone uploading? A: Location is something we’re aware of, we know the world is heading that way, something we’re thinking about. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
 
Lance Armstrong: Natural Born Twitterer Top
This guest post is written by Narendra Rocherolle , who was the co-founder of Webshots, a company that he and his partners sold to Excite@Home in 1999 and then again to CNET Networks in 2004.  Now as a partner at 83 Degrees , he has been working on several products including 30 Boxes , fbExchange (sold to TMP), and most recently Power Twitter . When Lance Armstrong sat down with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit last November, he had been twittering for about 10 days and was jokingly asking that “shoe guy” to send some followers his way.  Now four months later, even Richard Rosenblatt , CEO of Demand Media and the guy who helped get Lance into Twitter, has been surprised by how much @lancearmstrong has taken to the platform: twittering and twitpic’n about training, races, travel, family, food, movies, and his mission to grow the fight against cancer. For those of you interested in more than 140 characters, Lance took some time out to discuss his new habit. Q: You started using Twitter back in November.  You are now closing in on 300,000 followers and you tweet more times per day than most people brush their teeth.  Can you point to a couple of factors that have resonated with you making Twitter part of your daily routine? Lance Armstrong: Well, 140 characters fits my personality well. I’m not much for small talk so 140 gets me that. I see long drawn out emails and I delete them. It also brings a certain transparency to my life that others may have never seen or realized. Lastly, it works great for talking about the thing I care about the most (behind my family) and that’s fighting cancer. Twitter builds grassroots movements quicker than anything I’ve ever seen. Q: Can you give an example of something that you were about to tweet but did NOT? Lance Armstrong: I try to keep it positive. There are plenty of times I felt like crushing someone for what they say or did but I avoid it. There’s plenty of negativity on the web as is so they don’t need me adding to it. Try to be careful with pics of my kids/family for obvious security reasons. Other than that, it’s basically an open book. I also will not tweet anything that someone asks me to. It’s my page so therefore I dictate what goes there. They want to tweet it then tweet from their page. It has to be 100% authentic. Q: One thing your critics can not argue with is your success as an extraordinary marketer and personal brand manager.  This may sound silly but I’ve heard you described as a “natural” when it comes to Twitter.  Can you talk about how you approach building “you” as a brand? Lance Armstrong: Um, hell, I have no idea. Again, I think people are smart. They know when they see something real. I talk about what’s happening “now” and it’s always the real scoop. I’ve been around too long to BS people. Q: The theft of your time trial bike recently created huge buzz in the twitterverse.  Was there an awareness by you (and Trek) that the theft was an incredible marketing opportunity? Lance Armstrong: They (Trek) were devastated. They thought I would be livid and while I was pretty seriously pissed, I told them to chill. The story was on the front page off cnn.com , espn, etc. Hell, it was on perez hilton . For a week or so it was the most talked about bike on planet earth. Bummer to get it ripped off but it was not bad for them. They make bikes as easily as you and I go for a walk. Still, you gotta be pretty dumb to steal a “one of a kind” bike. Q: Have you had any issues or push-back from your Twitter usage (e.g. friends telling you to put the blackberry away! Or moments when you catch yourself thinking you should be twittering something when in fact you should just be experiencing it)? Lance Armstrong: Nah, again it’s short and I type fast. Most tweets I send people don’t even notice. Q: Your Twitter stream depicts a relentless schedule that sounds downright exhausting.   Are you traveling/doing more this year than you have in past seasons leading up to the Tour de France? Lance Armstrong: Most definitely. Again, a great thing about the service is that people (fans, journalists, my fellow competitors) realize my life is quite different than theirs. Between my kids, my foundation, travel, training, and racing, it’s a big life. Q: Finally, for the readers out there making the pilgrimage to Austin for SxSW Interactive, would you name 3 restaurants they don’t want to miss? Lance Armstrong: Chuy’s , East Side Cafe , and the Salt Lick . There’s also Uchi , Hula Hut , Eddie V’s , and Fonda San Miguel . Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
 
Elevator Pitch Friday: HerHotSpot Is A Social Network Merged With Cosmopolitan Magazine Top
This week’s elevator pitch comes from HerHotSpot.com , an online community for Gen Y women to share stories, ask questions, and get advice on life, love, fashion, work and health. While the name is regrettable, the pitch by founder Brette Borow is well articulated and she does a good job of getting her points across. Launched last year, HerHotSpot is trying to merge the social features of Twitter and Facebook with the content that magazines like Glamour or Cosmopolitan provide. The site itself is geared towards several major issues in a Gen Y woman’s life—health, style, love, post-college life, work and pop culture. Part commentary from professional writers and part user-generated content, the site allows readers to post their own content and, like with Twitter, readers can follow other participants. Users can post video content as well. HerHotSpot is trying to be a content network as well as a social network, creating one big online forum that looks similar to the Sugar Network’s PopSugar. Instead of reinventing the social network wheel, HerHotSpot is hoping to get an influx of members by integrating with Facebook Connect. HerHotSpot has an interesting concept around providing hyper-targeted content built on top of a social network. And the content seems to be catchy, from “ A Girl’s Guide to Twitter ,” to “ Recession Friendly Luxury Shopping .” But I think in order to gain loyal followers, HerHotSpot needs to provide more valuable content. Right now, the site leans too heavily towards the user-generated stuff. Perhaps a fifty-fifty breakdown between forum and original editorial content would be ideal. And forums can be spun off of editorial content as well. Tell us what you think. Try to keep the comments clean. We know it’s hard. But try. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
 
Whoa, Twitter Mania Top
Maybe it is all the TV news mentions, but Twitter is seeing the growth in U.S visitors to its site accelerating. In February, 4 million people in the U.S. visited the site, up from 2.6 million the month before, according to the latest data from comScore. That represents a 55 percent month-over-month growth rate, compared to 33 percent growth in each of the two months prior. (ComScore has yet to release February figures for worldwide visitors, but for January that number is 6 million). These numbers are only for visitors to Twitter.com, and they do not capture usage on desktop or mobile clients. And the apps just keep on coming. For instance, Twitdom now counts 529 Twitter apps. But the site visitor numbers are indicative of the steep growth ramp Twitter is enjoying right now. It is still early days. Can its growth keep accelerating or is it unsustainable? Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
 
Is YouTube Bringing Back The Upload Status Bar? Top
Some things are so basic, there is just no excuse not to have them. For video-sharing sites, you’d think that a video upload status bar would be a standard feature—a progress bar that shows how much time you have left before your video is uploaded and ready for viewing. Yet YouTube just tells you to “Please Be Patient” while showing you an uploading icon that keeps spinning (see below). Apparently, it used to show a progress bar, which was taken away . (Perhaps YouTube didn’t want people to realize exactly how slow it takes to upload a video). Now, it may be coming back. While uploading a video today, Peter Ha at CrunchGear noticed a progress bar all of a sudden (screengrab above). I still get the “Please Be Patient” routine, so this might just be a bucket test. I have an email into YouTube asking about this. It is such a basic feature, though. They really need to bring it back. Maybe the uploads are getting fast enough that YouTube isn’t embarrassed any more to visually highlight how long they take. Anyone else see the upload status bar? Update : The feature is in beta. You can check it out here. And I’ve been able to confirm that YouTube will eventually roll out the feature to all users. Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
 
The Rules Apply To Everyone Top
The Elliot Spitzer phenomenon is part of being human. For whatever reason, people who obtain power can convince themselves that the very rules they create and enforce don’t apply to them. Elliot Spitzer and his prostitutes. Al Gore flying carbon-spewing private jets. Countless others. Whether the transgressions are large or small, something clicks inside the brain of some people or entities who’ve obtained power and they convince themselves they are above the rules. I’ve seen this in our world, too. When I questioned a New York Times reporter on why they felt they didn’t need to make disclosures in (very occasional) stories where they were conflicted ( here and here , for example), he said the newspaper was above suspicion and, therefore, disclosures weren’t necessary (yes, he actually said this). Conflicts of interest and ethical reporting are something that we are very careful about at TechCrunch. We write principally about new startups, and these companies are usually very nervous about early reviews of their products. We’ve been offered significant cash payments to write about some companies, which have always been rudely declined. We’ve always been extremely careful to disclose any conflicts of interest in our stories (which is usually that I’ve invested in a competitor). These conflicts are very rare. Despite that, some people have spread rumors that we’re dishonest in our coverage (from what we can tell, these usually start with an entrepreneur at a startup we’ve refused to cover, or gave a negative review to). All of these claims are false. From a reporter who spent years trying to nail us on a conflict of interest : Arrington, for a reason no one has ever pinpointed, attracts haters at a level far beyond what you’d expect for what is basically an online trade magazine. I learned this firsthand when I wrote for gossip site Valleywag from 2006 to 2008. Despite Valleywag’s cruel, personal posts, we received almost no hate mail and were never accosted in public. Instead, we got mail, phone calls and in-person pleas from people who begged us to take down Mike Arrington. The most common accusation was that TechCrunch sold endorsements of startups, either in exchange for advertising buys on the site, or for outright cash payments. This is important: None of these claims ever checked out. Sources would claim to know someone who knew something, but these mystery witnesses never showed up to tell their stories to a reporter. Arrington’s success, both as a blog-era publisher/writer and a startup businessman, inflames less successful entrepreneurs and journalists with off-the-scale envy. How does he do that? Anyone who knows TechCrunch understands why we flee from conflicts. Even if our moral compass didn’t steer us clear, everyone is trying to nail us. One slip and everyone would know about it. But most tech bloggers don’t have the constant attention to their ethics that we have here at TechCrunch, and those who lack the genetic makeup to always do the right thing are starting to make too many mistakes. One of our competitors, for example, pays their reporters a low base salary and then gives them a bonus for advertising they sell. The result is that when they interview a startup, the conversation ends with a request to buy advertising. Another competitor owns millions of dollars of stock in a public Internet company. The conflict is disclosed, but there is no one more conflicted in Silicon Valley than this blogger. And yet another competitor recently took a second job as a venture capitalist. I actually trust the reporting of both of these bloggers, but they are in an awkward position. Another problem we’re seeing is an astounding level of hypocrisy with certain bloggers. Yesterday super-blogger Dave Winer wrote a long post saying something funny was going on with Twitter, since they’ve made accounts for some bloggers (including us) “suggested accounts.” He says this will lead to a conflict of interest. Perhaps so, although it is important to note that we didn’t know about becoming a suggested account, didn’t ask for it and frankly don’t get that much value out of it. Still, it’s something we need to be aware of and perhaps disclose. We’re also a default feed in some feed readers, and we may need to disclose that as well. Where do we draw the line? I’m not sure, it may need to be continually pushed back as the landscape changes. Transparency is key. But it turns out Winer has a shady past when it comes to disclosing his own conflicts of interest. After his post yesterday, an ex-employee of his noted that Winer took at least one cash payment of $10,000 to promote a blog in a news aggregator he created. This wasn’t disclosed until the the person who paid blogged about it some time later. Credibility = Shot. Permanently. This is where the Spitzer phenomenon comes in. Winer doesn’t see his taking a payment as an issue, saying on Twitter “No regrets, we did the right thing, both in including him and in accepting his gratuity.” Sorry Dave, but you aren’t above the ethical rules you so keenly shout about. Back to transparency, one change I’m going to make at TechCrunch is to get rid of all of our investment conflicts. I’ve long been an angel investor and have continued to make a very few investments even after starting TechCrunch. These investments are always disclosed and in my opinion we do more than enough to maintain transparency there. But it’s also a weak point that competitors and disgruntled entrepreneurs use to attack our credibility. So over the next few months I’m going to divest myself of all of those investments in an orderly fashion, and I’ll update readers on the progress. I’ll also discontinue making any further investments. Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
 
Twitmatic Lets You Channel Surf Videos From Twitter Top
Just because it is shared on Twitter doesn’t make it good. Nevertheless, ffwd , the video-surfing recommendation site that borrows from StumbleVideo , has launched Twitmatic , a video site that plays only videos being shared on Twitter. (The name TwitterTV was already taken). The concept is very simple. You are presented with videos in an embedded player which you can watch, or skip to the next one. If you like a video, there is a “Tweet this video” button, which acts as an extra vote for the video since presumably ffwd is counting how many times a particular video is Tweeted to come up with its recommendations. The videos I saw on the site were pretty random, everything from the little boy David who just came back from dental surgery and a guy throwing his Wii controller through his TV screen to one where some guys are setting up a race track in their office. Interspersed in there were also really bad marketing videos for a Rodial Tummy Tuck machine (I’ll spare you the link), get-rich-quick schemes, and dry stock market analysis. People share all sorts of junk on Twitter. I’m not sure it works as an effective filter for video. But it does help kill some time. Ffwd also has set up a special SXSW version of Twitmatic showcasing videos from the conference in Austin which begins today. (See also, our previous coverage on ffwd). Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0
 
Aardvark Social Search Service Arrives Top
Aardvark , the secretive, invite-only social search service founded by ex-Googlers that we first mentioned late last year, is preparing to become a little less secretive (the company has changed its name from Mechanical Zoo to Aardvark). They’ll start giving users virtually unlimited invitations starting next week - until now invites have been limited to one or so per month per user. Aardvark is a way to get quick, quality answers to questions from your extended social network. You can ask questions via an instant message buddy or email. The questions are then farmed out to your contacts (and their contacts) based on what they say they have knowledge of. If you ask taste related questions about music, books, movies, restaurants, etc., they'll ask people who tend to show similar tastes as you in their profile. I’ve used it for feedback on restaurant recommendations in Paris, vacation rentals in Sonoma and wine bars in San Francisco. The service works best when you already have friends using it, which is why the company is focused on user invitations rather than just opening it up to the public. There is a wait list on the home page, and the company says they’ll start letting those people in, too. But they’ve found during beta testing that users who have a group of friends to ask and answer questions to have a better experience and are more likely to stick. One way for users to grab a quick friend list is to sign in via Facebook Connect, which imports all your Facebook friends who are already using it, and prompts you to invite those that aren’t. The company is also experimenting with a very promising sub-product that groups people under topics of interest. We could theoretically create a TechCrunch group, for example, that lets users ask questions about startups, venture funding and entrepreneurship to each other. All those questions and answers are populating a knowledge base in the background (think Yahoo Answers but with real content), and eventually Aardvark may leverage all that data. More on this in the coming months, says Aardvark co-founder Max Ventilla . Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
 
Twenty Years Later, The Web Is Finally Turning Into a Computer Top
Today, the Web turns 20 years old. In the TED talk embedded above, Tim Berners-Lee recalls how he invented the World Wide Web twenty years ago. It was a “play project” that his boss let him do on the side. Berners-Lee notes that the original Web was for connecting documents together online, and then argues quite eloquently why the Web now has to evolve from linked documents to linked data . Of course, that evolution is already well under way. Just look at the explosion of APIs everywhere. The Web is becoming a massive interlinked computer, and computers need data. As more and more data becomes linked across the Web, the more that it can be accessed, analyzed, and computed. As Berners-Lee says, “Data is relationships.” Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
 
FanSnap Is The New Kayak For Event Ticket Searches Top
Event tickets are a big business and startup FanSnap is entering the game with a compelling ticket search engine. FanSnap is launching the public beta of its nifty Kayak -like live ticket search engine for sports, concerts, and theater events. FanSnap, through partnerships, provides free ticket search results for close to 60 of the leading ticket providers, including StubHub , eBay, Ace Tickets, AllShows.com, Barry’s Tickets,Gold Coast Tickets, Las Vegas Tickets, RazorGator and TicketNetwork. The results include more than 12 million tickets to 40,000 events. FanSnap’s technology makes finding tickets to an event very simple. The site allows fans to see ticket selection and price ranges at-a-glance. FanSnap uses sliders to allow filter to see tickets by price range, date, time, number of tickets available, and by the series of the event (baseball homestand, a multi-night concert performance, or a week of Broadway shows). Users get a comprehensive list of comparable ticket offers from multiple providers. The search results also make it easy for users to see the full price of a ticket on a ticket vendor’s site, including all taxes, commissions, and fees that may come with a ticket. Similar to Kayak, when a user clicks on a desired ticket, he or she is taken to the vendor’s page. Here’s the really cool part. Next to the search results, FanSnap has an interactive map of the event venue, which includes a "best value" feature that highlights at-a-glance those ticket offers that are priced significantly lower than surrounding offers. The value of the tickets are color-coded, with yellow being the lowest price and dark red being the highest price. The available tickets are distributed over the venue map, with the “best value” tickets as determined by FanSnap’s technology (the best tickets for the lowest price) represented by stars. But that’s not all. FanSnap’s map then lets users zoom into a row-level view of the available seats map (only created for around 200 of the top venues of the U.S, but will be rolled out to more venues in the future), to see exactly where the desired seats are versus the rest of the stadium or event space. FanSnap says that they plan on including actual “views from the seat,” a photo from the actual seat, in the future (they already have a partnership with seating chart site SeatData to create this feature). Competitor SeatKarma already offers such court-view photos. FanSnap is led by some pretty experienced people in the online tickets and search aggregation industries. CEO and co-founder Mike Janes used to be StubHub’s chief marketing officer. Steve Hafner and Paul English, co-founders of Kayak, are on the board of advisers. Co-founder Rishi Garg was the director of strategy and business development for MTV Networks. And FanSnap received $10.5 million in Series A funding from General Catalyst Partners , which is also one of the primary investors in Kayak. Janes says FanSnap’s biggest competitor is Google, since many consumers will type in the name of a desired event to Google’s massive search engine. But FanSnap, he says, solves the problem of filtering the legitimate tickets from the fake ones, and also provides real-time data. Other competitors include event ticket aggregator TicketStumbler , but FanSnap appears to have more ticket vendors (and thus reach), more interactive images and more features. FanSnap’s search engine is disarmingly good. Not only is it comprehensive, but FanSnap’s focus on visuals and images makes it really easy for users to see exactly what they are getting both in terms of value and location of a seat. Ticket selling is a dynamic industry—consumers often get ripped off or are charged unwanted fees. FanSnap adds transparency to the market by making side-by-side comparisons of fees vendors are tacking onto the value of a ticket. And FanSnap says that it fully vets each ticket vendor to ensure legitimacy and customer service. Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors
 
Yahoo's Fire Eagle Soars Onto Facebook, Firefox Top
This morning Yahoo has released a pair of new applications that tap into Fire Eagle , Yahoo’s ambitious geo-location system that allows a wide variety of web services to share your location data (after being granted permission to do so). The new applications include a rich Facebook application called Friends on Fire and a Fire Eagle extension for Firefox that allows users to update their location directly from their browser without having to leave the site they’re viewing. Of the two, Friends on Fire for Facebook is the more consumer-friendly. The application allows you to pinpoint your current location on a map, as well as view the location of your friends (shared either through the Facebook app or any of the other 70+ supported Fire Eagle services). You can also append notes to any point on the map regardless of your current location (for example, I could tag my favorite restaurants in San Francisco, or point out a park where my friends should meet up later). The bottom of the app offers a listing of your friends’ recent locations and notes, and the app can also optionally syndicate your actions to Facebook’s news feeds. The Firefox extension works as advertised, offering a handy button at the bottom right corner of your browser that can be used to update your location. Unfortunately, getting it installed is a bit of hassle. Because it is an ‘experimental’ extension, you’ll need to first register with Mozilla. Then you’ll have to enter your Yahoo ID. If you don’t have Mozilla’s Geode location-services extension installed, you’ll need to grab that too. Given all of these hoops, I think the only people who are going to install this extension for now are the people that really want it. But once you’re set up, it works like a charm. On the development side of things, Fire Eagle has also rolled out a number of new features. The service now supports a new ActionScript library that makes the service more accessible to Flash developers. Fire Eagle has also implemented support for XMPP (used by many instant messaging systems) to offer real-time updating. Finally, the service will soon be able to associate location coordinates with nearby restaurants and locations. Fire Eagle continues to innovate, but it still faces some challenges, the largest of which is that most people probably don’t have too many friends who are using it quite yet. Geo-location is quickly gaining ground, but until it reaches critical mass the odds of randomly running into a friend for an impromptu get together are so low I doubt many people will take the time to manually update their location. And the fact that some these services are also segmenting their audiences (Google’s new Latitude service doesn’t play nice with Fire Eagle) isn’t helping. Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors
 
The 2009 List Of Tech Billionaires And How Much They Lost Top
Forbes released its list of the world’s billionaires and it looks like the U.S. tech billionaires took a pretty hefty hit from the economic crisis. The 40 tech billionaires we identified on the list collectively lost $81.5 billion compared to their standing in last year’s list. That is a drop in the bucket compared to the $1.4 trillion in net worth that disappeared from the entire Forbes’ list, which also saw the total number of billionaires drop to 793 from 1,125, the first year-to-year decrease since 2003. The tech billionaires are still collectively worth $203.4 billion. Although Bill Gates rose to the top of the list after falling to number 3 last year, the move was bittersweet. Gates lost a massive $18 billion in the past year. Larry Ellison from Oracle lost $2.5 billion but moved up 10 spots from last year, to number 4 on the list. Larry and Sergey from Google both took a hit of over $6 billion each. We also included some media moguls with technology-related businesses. Michael Bloomberg had a very good year. He rose nearly 50 spots on the list, with a gain of $5.5 billion. But News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch saw his net worth cut in half to $4 billion. Viacom’s Sumner Redstone plummeted down the list, from number 137 to number 701 on the list, losing $5.8 billion in the past year. Despite these massive losses in wealth, most of the big tech titans all made the list, including, Gates’ old partner Paul Allen , Michael Dell , and Steve Jobs . Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg didn’t make the list this year, however, with his estimated net worth dropping from $1.5 billion to $600 million. He’s still smiling though. 2009 Rank (2008) Name (Company) Net Worth Change From 2008 #1 (#3) William Gates III (Microsoft) $40.0 billion -$18.0 billion #4 (#14) Larry Ellison (Oracle) $22.5 billion -$2.5 billion #17 (#65) Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg) $16 billion +$5 billion #29 (#40) Michael Dell (Dell) $12.3 billion -$4.1 billion #26 (#32) Sergey Brin (Google) $12 billion -$6.7 billion #26 (#33) Larry Page (Google) $11 billion -$4 billion #29 (#43) Steven Ballmer (Microsoft) $11 billion -$4 billion #32 (#41) Paul Allen (Microsoft) $10.5 billion -$5.5 billion #68 (#110) Jeffrey Bezos (Amazon) $6.8 billion -$1.4 billion #119 (#142) Eric Schmidt (Google) $4.4 billion -$2.2 billion #132 (#109) Rupert Murdoch (News Corp.) $4 billion -$4.3 billion #146 (#87) Charles Ergen (EchoStar) $3.9 billion -$5.6 billion #156 (#120) Pierre Omidyar (Ebay) $3.6 billion -$4.4 billion #178 (#189) Steven Jobs (Apple) $3.4 billion -$2 billion #196 (#236) John Sall (SAS Institute) $3.1 billion -$1.3 billion #205 (#277) George Lucas (LucasArts) $3.0 billion -$0.9 billion #246 (#288) Gordon Moore (Intel) $2.6 billion -$1.1 billion #261 (#462) David Sun (Kingston Technologies) $2.5 billion 0 #261 (#462) John Tu (Kingston Technologies) $2.5 billion 0 #296 (#446) Mark Cuban (Broadcast.com) $2.3 billion -$0.3 billion #296 (#307) Ray Dolby (Dolby) $2.3 billion -$1.2 billion #397 (#286) Jeffrey Skoll (Ebay) $1.8 billion -$1.8 billion #430 (#503) William Randolph Hearst III (Media, Kleiner Perkins) $1.7 billion -$0.7 billion #468 (#652) Thomas Siebel (Siebel Systems) $1.5 billion -$0.4 billion #522 (#605) Andreas von Bechtolsheim (Sun, Google investor) $1.4 billion -$0.6 billion #522 (#533) Omid Kordestani (Google) $1.4 billion -$0.8 billion #559 (#652) Henry Samueli (Broadcom) $1.3 billion -$0.6 billion #559 (#462) Craig McCaw (McCaw Cellular) $1.3 billion -$1.2 billion #559 (#743) Irwin Jacobs (Qualcomm) $1.3 billion -$0.3 billion #559 (#785) Todd Wagner (Broadcast.com) $1.3 billion -$0.2 billion #601 (#707) L. John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins) $1.2 billion -$0.5 billion #601 (#677) Henry Nicholas III (Broadcom) $1.2 billion -$0.6 billion #601 (#461) David Filo (Yahoo) $1.2 billion -$1.3 billion #647 (#785) Vinod Khosla (Kleiner Perkins) $1.1 billion -$0.4 billion #701 (#137) Sumner Redstone (Viacom) $1 billion -$5.8 billion #701 (#897) Scott Cook (Intuit) $1 billion -$0.3 billion #701 (#897) David Duffield (PeopleSoft) $1 billion -$0.3 billion #701 (#897) Barry Diller (IAC) $1 billion -$0.3 billion #701 (#847) Richard Egan (EMC) $1 billion -$0.4 billion #701 (#785) Theodore Waitt (Gateway) $1 billion -$0.5 billion 40 names Totals $203.4 billion -$81.5 billion Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
 

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