Posts Tagged ‘techcrunch’

March 27, 2008

TechCrunch SO Wrong on TV Ads

Today on TechCrunch Erick Schonfeld explored what he believes will be the answer to save TV advertising:
“We have a long way to go, but it boils down to two things: 1) replacing 30-second commercials on TV with relevant ad overlays that pop up at exactly the right moment during a show, and 2) automating the [...]

March 24, 2008

Bloggers V. News Sites

On Publishing2.0 There is a look at the way TechCrunch, Digg and the NYT each decide to “publish” the news on their websites.
TechCrunch is a tradition blog in that you will always see things with the newest post on top.  Digg is similar but it also allows you to reorganize by number of “diggs.”  Then [...]

February 20, 2008

YouTube Turns 3

Wired points out that YouTube made it’s appearance on the scene only three short years ago.  Amazing to think it has been such a brief period of time:
“The video-sharing site, founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, has, in three short years, become the third-most-visited website worldwide, trailing only Yahoo and YouTube’s parent [...]

February 20, 2008

Yahoo Tries to Block Pirate Bay

TechCrunch has a look at the attempts of Yahoo to block folks who are searching for the infamous bittorent site, PirateBay.
When I tried to search for it myself I received NO direct links to the site on Yahoo.
However, when I did the same search on Google, the Pirate Bay was the top hit.
Not sure what [...]

February 13, 2008

Pro Sports, Time to Step Up to the Plate

A number of years ago, around the time of the first dot-boom, there was a site that let regular folks “broadcast” live sporting events over the internet.  Basically, you tuned into the sporting event on TV, killled your volume and turned up your computer to the novice announcer of your choice.
Now, one can argue just [...]