WebLaunches » techcrunch http://weblaunches.com/wordpress We Provide Resources to Help You Launch Your Business, Product, Book or Website on the Web in Style Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:32:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en Yammer Takes Top Prize At TechCrunch50 http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/yammer-takes-top-prize-at-techcrunch50/ http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/yammer-takes-top-prize-at-techcrunch50/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:32:32 +0000 WebLaunches http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/2008/09/11/yammer-takes-top-prize-at-techcrunch50/ Three jam-packed days, and 52 startup demos later, we finally have a winner for this year’s TechCrunch50. But there must be a winner, and that winner is…YAMMER

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]]> http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/yammer-takes-top-prize-at-techcrunch50/feed/ TechCrunch 50 - Live Stream Of The Conference http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/techcrunch-50-live-stream-of-the-conference/ http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/techcrunch-50-live-stream-of-the-conference/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:39:04 +0000 WebLaunches http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/2008/09/09/techcrunch-50-live-stream-of-the-conference/ Watch Techcrunch50 Live via Ustream.tv

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]]> http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/techcrunch-50-live-stream-of-the-conference/feed/ Techcrunch50 Finalists http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/techcrunch50-finalists/ http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/techcrunch50-finalists/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:59:14 +0000 WebLaunches http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/?p=703 The following 52 companies have been selected from a pool of over 1,000 applicants. They will present their business plans at the TechCrunch50 conference. Information about them will become available as their particular presentation sessions begin.

  • Adgregate Markets
  • AdRocket
  • Akoha
  • Alfabetic
  • Atmosphir
  • Birdpost
  • BlahGirls
  • Bojam
  • Burt
  • Causecast
  • Closet Couture
  • Connective Logic
  • DemoPit Company
  • Devunity
  • DotSpots
  • DropBox
  • Emerginvest
  • ExchangeP
  • FairSoftware
  • FitBit
  • Footnote
  • Fotonauts
  • GazoPa
  • GoodGuide
  • Goodrec
  • GoPlanit

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]]> http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/techcrunch50-finalists/feed/ TechCrunch50 is Live September 8 thru 10th http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/techcrunch50-is-live-september-8-thru-10th/ http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/techcrunch50-is-live-september-8-thru-10th/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:48:34 +0000 WebLaunches http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/?p=702 TechCrunch Conference began with a simple goal: find the best start-ups and launch them in front of our industry’s most influential VCs, corporations, fellow entrepreneurs and press. They’ll launch 50 companies over three days, September 8-10. We have a great new venue, the San Francisco Design Center Concourse. Below is a complete schedule of events you can download for free.


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]]> http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/techcrunch50-is-live-september-8-thru-10th/feed/ Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/update-on-the-techcrunch-tablet-prototype-a/ http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/update-on-the-techcrunch-tablet-prototype-a/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:28:58 +0000 WebLaunches http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/2008/09/01/update-on-the-techcrunch-tablet-prototype-a/ Update on the TechCrunch Tablet: A humble (and messy) beginning. Prototype A has been built. It’s in a temporary aluminum case that a local sheet metal shop put together for us that’s at least twice as thick as it needs to be, but the hardware has been defined and is nearing lockdown. We booted the machine in the case for the first time today, acce

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]]> http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/update-on-the-techcrunch-tablet-prototype-a/feed/ TechCrunch50 Isn’t About The Parties http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/techcrunch50-isn%e2%80%99t-about-the-parties/ http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/techcrunch50-isn%e2%80%99t-about-the-parties/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:48:45 +0000 WebLaunches http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/2008/08/27/techcrunch50-isn%e2%80%99t-about-the-parties/ TechCrunch50 is all about the startups. But 50 startups (its actually 52) launching over three days is a lot to digest.

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]]> http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/techcrunch50-isn%e2%80%99t-about-the-parties/feed/ New Job Postings at CrunchBoard http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/new-job-postings-at-crunchboard/ http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/new-job-postings-at-crunchboard/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:36:02 +0000 WebLaunches http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/?p=248 Here are some of the jobs listed on CrunchBoard over the last week:

]]> http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/new-job-postings-at-crunchboard/feed/ Facebook To Announce Safety And Privacy Deal With 49 States http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/facebook-to-announce-safety-and-privacy-deal-with-49-states/ http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/facebook-to-announce-safety-and-privacy-deal-with-49-states/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 16:12:00 +0000 WebLaunches http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/?p=42 Techcrunch.com is reporting just now that The Attorney General of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, is about to make an announcement at noon ET that he and the attorneys generals from 48 other states have negotiated a deal with Facebook to implement new safety and privacy rules, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. Facebook will be making its own announcement later on today. This comes on the heels of a comprehensive agreement the 49 states made with MySpace last January. (The lone holdout in both cases is Texas). As I noted back then:

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]]> http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/facebook-to-announce-safety-and-privacy-deal-with-49-states/feed/ Yahoo Buzz Stats http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/yahoo-buzz-stats/ http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/yahoo-buzz-stats/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:12:27 +0000 WebLaunches http://weblaunches.com/wordpress/?p=34 One of my favorite blogs Techcrunch.com had this to say about Yahoo Buzz Stats…….

Yahoo Buzz, a Digg-like service that launched on February 25, is now nearly three weeks old. We asked Yahoo to share some of the data from those first two weeks.

The big benefit for publishers is that top Buzz stories are linked from the Yahoo home page, which turns a firehose of traffic onto a story. When those stories hit the home page there’s a good chance that the linked site will have a record day in traffic. Yahoo says they’ve sent 16 million visitors to outside sites in those first two weeks, and they’ve gathered data from some of the linked partners:

  • Salon got so excited about a February 28 link from the Yahoo home page to this story that they issued a press release - they had 1 million unique visitors that day, the most ever to the 12 year old site.
  • US Magazine was linked from Yahoo on February 27, and had the second highest traffic day ever. 32% of visits that day came from the Yahoo home page.
  • Huffington Post reported 800,000 unique visitors from a Yahoo-linked story
  • Smoking Gun, Portfolio.com, Dallas Morning News and Imaginova all reported significant traffic increases after links from the Yahoo home page.
  • Sugar, Inc. sites have had nearly 1.8 million unique visitors sent from five different Buzz stories on the Yahoo home page

Yesterday we were linked from the Yahoo home page as well, for this story by Duncan Riley on Japanese ISPs blocking file sharers (see image above, click for larger view of how the links look). The link went live at 5:45 PM PST as one of the bottom four links in the news box (these send less traffic) and was up through the day. Despite the fact that yesterday was a Saturday (slowest traffic day of the week) and that it was up only 1/4 of the day, we had our highest traffic day ever and over 1,000 comments were left on the post. The traffic almost brought our site down, but the guys at Media Temple kept it alive.

Yahoo is still ramping up the number of links it puts on the home page from Buzz, and is being careful about the potential to flat out nuke websites with all the traffic they can send. But it’s clear that a link from Yahoo.com blows away anything Digg or any other competitor can offer. That will keep the Buzz publishers, who must be invited into the service, paying attention.

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