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Mog, a music-centric blogging network that launched back in 2006, is evolving once again. The site has relaunched its homepage at Mog.com to serve as an authoritative destination site for music news. It has lofty goals, aspiring to become something akin to a 'Huffington Post for music' with a constant stream of content that lures visitors to come back multiple times a day. Coming up with that much quality content isn't normally easy or cheap, but MOG has at least one ace in the hole: its...
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Frames are definitely back. More and more Web apps like the Diggbar are using frames to overlay a thin toolbar on top of other Websites, and the practice is causing some controversy because frames are generally frowned upon as messy Web design. Today, VideoEgg is introducing a new ad unit called the Twig, which looks like a toolbar either at the top or bottom of a Web page. The Twig ad bar frames the site and is always visible no matter how far a reader scrolls down the page. When you click...
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Sharing photographs and other images on Twitter is a fairly natural and thus wildly popular extension of the micro-sharing service's main reason for being, and we've earlier noticed how TwitPic seems to have emerged as the leader of the pack, its growth rate practically up to par with the increase in visitors and users Twitter itself is seeing the past couple of months. Traffic to TwitPic.com has spiked to about 2.3 million unique visitors per months according to Compete stats (which, based on...
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They say numbers don’t lie, and in recent months the number of people populating virtual world Second Life has started to rise again. Mark Kingdon, CEO of parent company Linden Lab, has been touting the return to steady user growth; to back up his claims, he shared with us the chart below, which tracks the [...]
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SocialYell is a new community website for people who are interested in discussing, promoting and discovering 'good' organizations, meaning companies that are "socially responsible, environmentally progressive and globally aware", business or non-profits alike. The website is launching sometime today, but you can already access it using the passcode 'techcrunch' if you're interested in trying it out yourself.
From a technical or feature standpoint, SocialYell doesn't bring anything new to the...
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Yesterday, Silicon Valley's local CBS affiliate ran a story (video here) about a woman getting her purse snatched. But what's interesting is the way she got it back: With an assist from Google Latitude.
You see, in her purse, her phone had Google's location-based social networking service installed, and it was updating the location of her phone in real-time. So even though the thief hopped in a car, when the girl called her sister, she was able to tell police exactly where the criminal was....
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Steven Brill launched American Lawyer magazine, Court TV, Brill's Content and those airport security fast-passes. Now he wants to help newspapers broker their online content. Clue: Smarter people...
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iSkoot's Notifier product takes some of the most popular social services on the web, and puts in a format that's easy to read on average phones. By "average" I don't mean smartphones, because remember, most of the world still does not have those. Today, iSkoot is taking the Notifier product international thanks to a deal with German carrier E-Plus.
While it's certainly no App Store (or even App World, App Catalog, Market or Windows Marketplace for Mobile), if you visit E-Plus' beta2go site,...
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Socializr, an Evite competitor that allows users to coordinate party planning and invitations, is launching a new product today called 'Event Connect' that allows users to aggregate and respond to all of their events from sites like Facebook, Meetup, MySpace, and Evite in one place.
The site has integrated with each of these social networks/event sites using services like Facebook Connect, allowing users to see available events that they've been invited to, as well as the events their friends...
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AOL's Propeller launched in 2006 as a "Digg Killer" - a Digg like site with editorial oversight that had massive netscape.com traffic directed to it. All those Netscape users were used to seeing a standard news page, though, and didn't quite know what to do at the new site.
A variety of changes were made over time, including paying news submitters to lure them from Digg, changing the name to Propeller.com, and occasional layoffs. They even added a mascot. But nothing has stopped the decline...
