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- MSN Redux. Significantly Less Blue. But With Added Facebook And Twitter!
- The Next Step For Twitter Lists — Entire Populations
- Skype Deal Is Turning Into A Bit Of A Cirque Du Freak
- Google's Music Search Launches Its Artist-Powered Promotion
- OneRiot Confirms They're Building Yahoo's Real Time Search Engine (Updated)
- DocVerse Turns Microsoft Office Into Google Docs With Collaboration Plug-In
| MSN Redux. Significantly Less Blue. But With Added Facebook And Twitter! | Top |
| More than 1/3 of all Internet users worldwide visit MSN every month. 400 million people. That’s way more than AOL’s 80 million, and not ridiculously out of reach of Yahoo’s nearly 600 million. But still, it’s the most popular Internet portal that no one actually ever goes to. Starting tonight though that’s going to change. Or at least, MSN is changing. We’ll have to wait and see how usage numbers are affected if at all. The most notable change is a new logo and lots less blue (a screen shot of the old MSN is below for posterity). Everything is sleeker and easier to read. Not as many links. More video (hot HD stuff using Silverlight). Lots and lots of Bing bling and Live.com services. And of course, there’s Facebook. And Twitter. Log right in on the bottom right of MSN. Half of their monthly visitors are already Facebook users, says Microsoft. And 15% use Twitter. So having the ability to read and create Facebook and Twitter messages right from the portal page is a good idea. For users with Silverlight, more advanced apps will be available. Microsoft will roll out the new version over time. But if you want in right now, and just absolutely positively can’t wait in line, you can see it immediately by going to http://preview.msn.com . Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. | |
| The Next Step For Twitter Lists — Entire Populations | Top |
| [Ireland] Social media consultants Simplyzesty started using Twitter Lists to list blogs. However, a brainwave has lead them to take Twitter Lists to their logical conclusion: creating lists of Twitter users in entire countries. They’ve launched a Twitter list for the UK and the list of users in Ireland is currently going crazy. They call it “crowdsourcing populations”. Who knows – this could end up being a sort of crowd-sourced yellow pages/people directory. A couple of hours ago they launched a USA version with a script built to make the listings automatic. The plan is to do is to cover the USA in 72 hours. Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 | |
| Skype Deal Is Turning Into A Bit Of A Cirque Du Freak | Top |
| In our October 8 post on the state of the Skype sale and litigation, we ended with a prediction: “The likely outcome of all of this remains the same – Joltid will get a stake of some size in Skype. But given the players involved, anything could still happen.” If GigaOm and the NYTimes are right, that’s exactly what’s happening. Even the “anything could still happen” part. The old Skype founders will now have a stake in Skype according to unnamed sources. That makes sense. It was what eBay was negotiating with Skype long before the current buyout offer , and the team has to get something in exchange for dropping the intellectual property litigation . But Index Ventures, the architect of the deal, is apparently out. For Silverlake Partners and Andreeseen Horowitz to agree to that either means there’s too much money involved for anyone to be worried about business loyalties, or there’s enough of a smoking gun that Index had no choice but to get away from the deal and all that liability . Whatever the truth, everyone is in for a wild ride. Nobody who does business with the Skype founders ever seems to come out of it happy. Maybe Marc Andreessen has the patience to change all that this time around. Just one problem, though. No one has ever described Marc Andreessen as a patient man. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. | |
| Google's Music Search Launches Its Artist-Powered Promotion | Top |
| Last night we broke the story that Google would be teaming with a number of well known artists to launch a promotion for its Music Onebox search, which was released last week. Turns out, it’s launching a bit sooner than we thought: beginning tonight a number of well known artists will be offering exclusive songs and free downloads through Google’s Music search. To get the freebies and exclusives, simply run a Google query for the artist’s name (the album name works too in some cases). One clarification: while these songs are being presented and promoted on Google, they’ll also be available on the site that’s actually streaming the songs — be it MySpace or Lala. In MySpace’s case the songs could also be potentially be surfaced on other search engines, though it sounds like artists will be asking their fans to search for them on Google as part of the promotion. Included among artists giving away free MP3s as part of the promotion are: Tim McGraw Phoenix Major Lazer Mos Def Zee Avi And the following exclusives are being showcased on Google as well: AFI – “Torch Song (Demo From Crash Love Sessions)” – Search on Google for “AFI” Arctic Monkeys – “Catapult” – Search on Google for “Arctic Monkeys” Bon Jovi – “We Weren’t Born To Follow [Acoustic Version] (Recorded Live From Inside The Actor’s Studio)” Dead by Sunrise – “Let Down [Live]” Green Day – “Know Your Enemy [Live In Tokyo]” Kings of Leon – “Crawl (Miike Snow Remix)” Lady Gaga – “Paparazzi (David Aude Remix)” Linkin Park – “New Divide [Live]” Luke Bryan – “Better Than My Heart” Norah Jones – “Young Blood” One Republic – “All The Right Moves (Live)” Paramore – “Where The Lines Overlap [Acoustic Version]” Snoop Dogg – “Upside Down (Featuring Nipsey Hussle)” The Fray – “Be The One (Demo Version)” Trey Songz – ” LOL [feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy Tell 'Em] [Logan deGaulle Remix]” Weezer – “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To (Live In Kansas City)” Zac Brown Band – “Chicken Fried [Live From Bonnaroo]” Image by thatcrazysteen . Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 | |
| OneRiot Confirms They're Building Yahoo's Real Time Search Engine (Updated) | Top |
| An update to our post in late October about OneRiot and Yahoo partnering to build real time search results into Yahoo : OneRiot CEO Kimbal Musk now confirms the relationship. The new search engine will go live tomorrow. In the email, Musk says that OneRiot results will appear in the main Yahoo search results page for certain queries: Today, we are pleased to confirm that OneRiot is working with Yahoo to deliver realtime search results to Yahoo users. We have been working with Yahoo for 18 months, initially as the launch partner for the Y!BOSS platform and now as the provider of realtime search results. Yahoo joins a list of 70+ partners who utilize the OneRiot realtime search API (others include Microsoft and Reed Elsevier). During an initial test phase, OneRiot results will appear on the main Yahoo Search Results Pages (SRPs) for certain queries, complementing Yahoo's usual results. OneRiot has a robust realtime index of the web and orders search results via PulseRank, the company's proprietary ranking algorithm which reflects the current social buzz around any piece of web content. Both Microsoft and Google are in the process of launching their own real time search engines via direct data relationships with Twitter and Facebook. Update: From Yahoo: Real-time search means different things to different people. For Yahoo!, we think of real-time search in terms of providing the most relevant, fresh information to people every time. Yahoo! Search is currently testing a new search shortcut that will include real-time results at the top of the search results page. The shortcut will only appear on certain queries that will be determined by Yahoo. This is a test designed to discover if showing such content is useful to people using Yahoo! Search. Yahoo! is focused on creating the most innovative, easy-to-use and valuable search experience for people, and after this test we will carefully evaluate whether we should integrate such results for everyone using Yahoo! Search. Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 | |
| DocVerse Turns Microsoft Office Into Google Docs With Collaboration Plug-In | Top |
| Collaboration on editing documents and spreadsheets is becoming a key feature in productivity suites with the emergence of Google Docs, Zoho, Etherpad and others. Even Microsoft is adding collaboration features to Excel in its new version of Office. While Microsoft is adding this limited functionality to its new version of office, DocVerse offers a plug-in for Word, PowerPoint and Excel that lets you collaborate with other users when editing a document. Once downloaded, the DocVerse plug-in will appear on the right-hand sidebar of any Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel file. You can invite other users to collaborate with you, and once all partied have downloaded the plug-in, you can share documents with each other. Whether users are working on a document online or offline, DocVerse will track, manages and sync all changes to merge them into one updated version of the document. You can communicate with other users via an IM feature within the plug-in as well. And DocVerse also allows for documents to be viewed on web. So you can transfer your document to the web, where DocVerse will render a high fidelity version of within it’s platform. You can also add comments from the web, which are synced automatically, enabling collaboration between people with and those without Microsoft Office software installed on their computers. Each DocVerse-edited document will feature an activity stream which is viewable via Microsoft Office, any Web browser, or an RSS stream. DocVerse is priced based upon users and number of documents. For example, the plug-in is $49 per month for 500 documents and up to ten users. Although DocVerse will face competition from Microsoft itself when Office is released with more collaboration features, the plug-in is extremely useful for past versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Founded in 2007 by Microsoft veterans Shan Sinha and Alex DeNeui, DocVerse has raised $1.3 million in seed funding from Baseline Ventures, Harrison Metal Capital, Naval Ravikant and others. The startup also recently made an enterprise play by integrating its plug-in with popular social collaboration platform Jive. Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 | |
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