Apr 10, 2009

Lifehacker There are some Gmail Labs features that are creative, neat, and truly new. Then there are the things that make email veterans say, "Well, finally!" Inline image additions certainly fall in the latter category. The Gmail team points to our own HTML work-around as the only means Gmail users had to get an image embedded amidst (Read More)

Apr 09, 2009

wired-top-stories Vevo will launch later this year, a collaboration between Universal Music Group and Google the partners expect to be the leading music video service in the world from day one. (Read More)

Apr 06, 2009

Webware.com If you've ever used Read It Later, you'll probably like a new service called "I Need to Read This." It does the same thing, letting you bookmark stories that you want to read, but not right away. Where it differs though, is in doing it all through bookmarklets instead of requiring you to install anything in your browser. Th (Read More)

Apr 06, 2009

Download Squad Filed under: Mozilla, Beta, BrowsersWith Firefox 3.5 set to emerge from beta soon, the folks at Mozilla are setting goals for Firefox 3.6. One of the most exciting changes scheduled for that release is the ability to install and activate themes and add-ons without restarting the browser. Sort of. Right now the goal is to de (Read More)

Apr 06, 2009

Mashable! According to CNET, YouTube is in talks to acquire licensing rights to full-length content, which includes many hit movies such as The Da Vinci Code and Spiderman, from Sony Pictures. If the deal goes through, it may be the first major YouTube foray into premium content (dabbling with content from CBS, MGM, and recently Disn (Read More)

Apr 06, 2009

FriendFeed Blog We’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how to improve FriendFeed. And we’ve been tinkering with those ideas at http://beta.friendfeed.com.Today, we’re opening up that site for you to try it for yourself.It’s a pretty significant change for us, and we wanted to tell you a little about what’s new, and also, give you (Read More)

Apr 06, 2009

TechCrunchIT FriendFeed cofounder Paul Bucheit was recently asked what it was like to be the R&D department for Facebook. His response was appropriately humble, but you can’t help but wonder how long it will be before Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed all start to look pretty much identical as the services simply copy the best features f (Read More)

Apr 04, 2009

TwitLinks I have tried TweetDeck a number of times but I keep uninstalling it because it puts a drain on my system and I find it distracting. Still, I want fast access to my Twitter account and to be able to track my replies, direct messages and to also quickly glance at what my favorite users are posting. Enter the amazing Twitter (Read More)

Apr 03, 2009

io9 To many people, the Terminator franchise consists of two movies, and it ended in 1991. Those people are missing out. The Terminator universe will never be as complex, and crazy-making, as it is now. (Read More)

Apr 03, 2009

TechCrunch Meeting24.tv is a new web conference system that lets up to 24 users simultaneously hold meetings online through an extra-simple UI. The service is offered by WIT, a Tokyo-based research lab (meeting.24 is available in both English and Japanese). Utagoe, the same Tokyo- (and San Jose)-based company that runs Utagoe Live 100 (Read More)

Apr 03, 2009

Lifehacker Windows only: Free application Portable Ubuntu for Windows runs an entire Linux operating system as a Windows application. As if that weren't cool enough, it's portable, so you can carry it on your thumb drive. Built from the same guts as the andLinux system that lets you seamlessly run Linux apps on your Windows desktop, P (Read More)

Apr 03, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Yahoo unveiled major changes to its image search service this morning and the user experience is now better than Google Image Search. Google may have all kinds of special collections (like the new Life Magazine archives) but Yahoo's image search is just more pleasing to use.The new Yahoo! interface includes more recommende (Read More)

Apr 02, 2009

Crunch Gear Windows Live may seem like a failure in the eyes of many a TechCrunch reader, but there are a number of services that continue to thrive within the scope of a vast, mainstream audience. Hence it's worth noting that Microsoft has released a new application for Windows Mobile devices that encompasses a slew of Live services u (Read More)

Apr 01, 2009

All Facebook Facebook continues to be growing at the rate of around 5 million users a week according to the latest numbers but Twitter, the latest Silicon Valley darling, is posting some impressive growth figures of its own. The most recent data provided by Google Trends shows that Twitter has reached a search volume in just over a yea (Read More)

Apr 02, 2009

Twitter Blog A few weeks ago we started testing Twitter Search in the web interface for a subset of folks. We had the search box way up near the top of the page and the results on a separate page. It turns out that's not the awesome way to do it. The best way to experience Twitter Search is when it's a natural part of your normal Twitte (Read More)

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