ReadWrite Web has discovered a way to make a simple tweak to the URL that Google returns and get back real time results. However, as you can see from the images below, they still have a way to go. For example, a search for NFL surfaced 10 result. Meanwhile Twitter alone is seeing hundreds of tweets per minute, each of which has it's own permalinked page. So even though it's not ready for prime time, the move is work watching. If you're interested [...]

As more of us around the world join the web, a lot content is going to start to be produced in non-English languages. This hasn't been a factor for a lot of us, but I suspect it will as we begin to discover content-rich resources and individuals we want to interact with. Case in point. Recently I started reading a German blog that covers technology. It has a lot rich content, like for example the latest build of a portable version of Google [...]

As I understand it, Twitter doesn't make more than your last 3000 tweets archived or searchable. But you can go store them going forward using Twistory and Google Calendar. I had signed up for Twistory way back in late 2007 and added it to Google Calendar. However, I had forgotten all about it since I had that calendar hidden from the default view. I was delighted today when while tinkering that all of my tweets since have been archived! [...]

via appadvice.com One of the big things that Facebook brings to the age of streams is instant messaging and presence indicators - the ability to see who is online right now and active on the service so you can chat in real time. I hope that sites like Twitter (and its ecosystem of apps) do the same. My bet is that they will soon tie into IM networks more in the near future. In the meantime, I am very interested in what AOL has been up to lately in [...]

Two sites. One, Facebook, goes light (in the US and India only for now). The other, Seesmic Web, goes dark. Which one do you like better? It seems like there's a splintering approach to web UI's lately, one light one dark. One simple, another more complex. I just want to skin the web. See and download the full gallery on posterous Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Мои друзья из студии дизайна блогов Блогоарт проводят конкурс. В конкурсе разыгрывается дизайн для блога. Бесплатно! Ваша задача: Написать свое нестандартное ТЗ для дизайнеров. К примеру, если вы Артемий Лебедев, то пишете ТЗ с матами и отправляете на [...]

Про просмотре Вебинформа пришла замечательная идея по видео рекламе. Идея: Биржа вирусной видео рекламы Аналог тизерным системам типа luxup.ru и биржам типа Blogun. Выглядит все примерно так: Пользователь заливает свой видео-ролик (и выбирает, если хочет, [...]

Читатели часто присылают мне свои проекты с просьбой написать о них. И хотя среди них встречаются действительно дельные (к примеру, profitbid.ru - возврат комисии при покупке на Ebay), не каждым таким проектом я могу воспользоваться. Этим смог.Идея: Создать [...]

В последнее время я занимаюсь раскруткой группы Вконтакте и анализирую ситуацию внутри этого сервиса. Что интересно - крупных брендов в группах там пока мало (я нашел группы  Галактика Intel и клуб владельцев NOKIA) . Но есть много групп мелкого и среднего [...]

Эту идею навеяла поездка в деревню. В ней мало про IT и социальные сети, но больше про реальное хозяйство. Надеюсь, что вы оцените по достоинству. Идея: Сервис по микро-инвестициям в сельское хозяйство. Многих сельчан интересуют небольшие (по меркам [...]

So that was day one of Techcrunch 50. The best tech conference in the universe, that pays my wages. And what did I learn today? Today I learned that the Rocky soundtrack makes any technical hitch a million times more dramatic. I learned that Yossi Vardi believes that any disaster can be solved with a show [...]TechCrunch50 Conference 2009: September 14-15, 2009, San Francisco

Soft-spoken Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh had some surprisingly harsh criticism for the TC50 companies he saw today: Why aren't you trying to change the world? I asked him more about that in our backstage sidestage interview during the TC50 cocktail party. "To be fair, is selling shoes changing the world?" I asked. Watch the clip after the jump to hear his answer. I pressed Hsieh on details about his relationship with Jeff Bezos and Amazon. He can't really [...]

He calls me out on it in the video below so I might as well admit it: I've been a bit hard on Paul Graham and Y Combinator in the past. It's not that I think he hasn't been a great mentor to young entrepreneurs-- he has. But that's a lot of equity to give up and to date no Y Combinator company has really hit it huge. Graham says that's going to change. "Four or five of our companies could go public," he says in the interview after the jump and names [...]

The second company to emerge from the TechCrunch50 DemoPit as a peoples' choice winner is YourVersion, a discovery engine that looks to help recommend new content based on your past searches and interests. The company was among the top two recipients of TechCrunch50 tokens, which are used by conference attendees to vote on their favorite companies in the DemoPit, and shares today's Peoples' Choice Award with oDesk. YourVersion launched today, and [...]

Each year we see hundreds of impressive applications to TechCrunch50 — unfortunately, we always have a number of great companies that deserve attention but don't quite make the cut as finalists. That's why we have our TC50 DemoPit, where we invite a few dozen other strong startups to demonstrate their wares in the conference building's main hall. Each conference attendee is given two TechCrunch50 tokens — one for each day — which they use [...]