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- Startup School 2009: 37 Signals has some lessons for European startups eu.techcrunch.com
Always do good things, never do bad things.
- Cylon precursor lives to help you discover new music uk.techcrunch.com
Twitter users sending a tweet with the name of a band or artist to MuZoid receive a reply in less than 2.5 seconds with a link to a bespoke webpage containing gig listings, a discography, a recommendation of similar artists that the user might like. If MuZoid doesn’t know an artist, she makes a note of it and gets busy learning. Once enough information’s available, she’ll tweet back to the original querant with an update.
- Location Technologies Primer techcrunch.com
Being location aware is the single most important feature in a mobile device that otherwise suffers in comparison with desktop and laptop Internet devices
What does all this mean? It means we can expect the web to get itself organized, in a hurry. At stake is a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo search, and anyone else that may choose to build applications on top of this data.
- WetPaint White Labels For Businesses And Brands techcrunch.com
Just Add Wetpaint gives businesses an easy way to generate an official community, as has been done with CSI, Dexter, Tmobile, the always-awesome Myth Busters, and even Oracle.
You can’t skip the ads or remove them without making the film unwatchable. But it does mean the file could go anywhere on the Net and still show adverts based on the user’s preferences when the registered to get the codec.
- AdMob + iPhone + LandRover = Good Results techcrunch.com
"The iPhone has become a more effective means of targeted mobile advertising campaigns than regular phones; the integration with Google Maps and the display of video provides a richer experience for both the viewer, and for the company seeking to expose t