Mar 13, 2008

Submitted by Whatever: you in my face. (Read More)

Mar 13, 2008

Submitted by Whatever: short not on a topic, testing. (Read More)

Mar 13, 2008

TechCrunch When Tien Tzuo was the chief strategy officer at Salesforce.com, he sat in on a pitch to CEO Marc Benioff for an on-demand software tool startup looking for funding. Benioff was lukewarm to the idea. “If there was one thing you would want to outsource, what would it be?” asked one of the pitching executives. (Read More)

Mar 13, 2008

TechCrunch Today is Michael Arrington’s birthday. Our good friend, and awesome Web 2.0 blogger, Oril Yakuel made the above video for him, using Animoto (see yesterday’s post). Happy Birthday, Mike. You can go to sleep now. Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. . (Read More)

Mar 13, 2008

TechCrunch Yahoo’s embrace of all things open continues today - expect an announcement in an hour or so that they are expanding their Open Search Platform that we wrote about last month. In that previous announcement, Yahoo talked about their plans to allow third parties to alter and enhance search results with structured data t (Read More)

Mar 13, 2008

paidContent.org AOL (NYSE: TWX) and Bebo bosses hosted reporters and analysts on a conference call to explain the reasons for the $850 million acquisition.-- AOL CEO Randy Falco (left): "This is a tremendous acquisition and one I think is game-changing for AOL - it puts us squarely as a leader in social media. Bebo will be the cornerstone (Read More)

Mar 12, 2008

TechCrunch In case there was still any doubt that Google wants to use YouTube to host all the video on the Web, it’s announcement earlier today to broaden its APIs makes it clear that is its goal. Once again, instead of making it easier to search videos elsewhere, Google is making it easier to host videos on YouTube. Except tha (Read More)

Mar 13, 2008

TechCrunch AOL has acquired social networking site Bebo for $850 million. This is a story we’ve been tracking closely since early February (here and here), although frankly the leads dried up on who was acquiring them in the last couple of weeks. Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. . (Read More)

Mar 13, 2008

Mashable! Google isn’t wasting any time after its $3.1 billion worth acquisition of DoubleClick. A new, free service is in the works, as reported by WSJ. It’s called Google Ad Manager and it lets you manage ads on your website and make better use of your advertising inventory. The idea behind this one is that Ad Manager u (Read More)

Mar 13, 2008

Submitted by Sunil: http://www.social.com/a. (Read More)

Mar 13, 2008

Submitted by Jasongoldberg: Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, the digital media arm of WaPo has made an early-stage investment in SocialMedian, the yet-to-launch social news company/site founded by Jason Goldberg, former chief of Web 2.0 jobs site Jobster.com. The amount was not disclosed. We reported earlier on his $1 million seed round raise. Eve (Read More)

Mar 13, 2008

TechCrunch Another Y Combinator startup launches today, this one with the intent of making online job listings more effective. Snaptalent is essentially an advertising network for jobs (currently, jobs for developers in particular). Employers add their job listings and the service displays them on the sites of participating publishers (Read More)

Mar 13, 2008

USAElectionPolls.com Obama Plays 2nd Fiddle to Clinton in Pennsylvania Democratic Primary: In a Democratic Primary in Pennsylvania today, 03/11/08, six weeks to the vote, Hillary Clinton defeats Barack Obama 55% to 36%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for WCAU-TV Philadelphia, KDKA-TV Pittsburgh, WHP-TV Harrisburg, and WNEP- (Read More)

Mar 13, 2008

TIME The rivals/colleagues spend several intense minutes talking during a Senate vote. Must-see video– click above to watch. The two greet each other, then Obama guides Clinton to chairs for a compelling, three-minute face-to-face. Conversation appeared amicable, but what they said was anyone’s guess. . (Read More)

Mar 13, 2008

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