TechSheep (Free subscription) | yesterday
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Google Chrome For Mac Is Here! — The wait is over. Google Chrome for Mac is now available in beta. It’s still missing a few features that are in the Windows version (like support for extensions), but the browser is lickety-split and more-or-less stable. — I’ve been holding off really using [...]
Snarkmarket (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch has the skinny on why magazine publishers are pushing for a “Hulu for magazines” to get magazines on the iPhone: Why are these print publishers reinventing the digital wheel? A popular app store already exists. It’s called iTunes. And people don’t mind paying for apps there. By creating their own app store, [...]
New World Notes (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Poor Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch probably didn't know what hit him. In a short toss-off post noting the Second Life documentary screening at Sundance I reported about last week, Erick briefly opined that SL "seems like a ghost town these...
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: See That Funny 2D Barcode In The Store Window? It Might Pull Up A Google Listing. — What if every store had a bar-code sticker on its window so that you could pull out your iPhone, wave it in front of the bar code and get all sorts of information about [...]
SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Erick Schonfeld submits: The magazine industry is falling over itself over a new shiny object. It wants to remake its product for a new class of digital tablets with color screens and touch screens. Tuesday, a group of big publishers—Condé Nast, Time Inc. ( TWX ), News Corp. ( NWS ) Hearst, and Meredith ( MDP )—announced a joint venture to create standards for digital...
The Augmented Environment (Free subscription) | yesterday
M.I.T., Google, And Umberto Eco Want To Erect a Realtime Cloud Over The 2012 London Olympics from TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld What is it with architects that they feel the need to glom onto the latest buzzwords to justify their projects? A group from M.I.T.’s Senseable City Lab is looking for funding for an ambitious observation deck [...]
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Erick Schonfeld submits: The wait is over. Google Chrome for Mac is now available in beta. It’s still missing a few features that are in the Windows version (like support for extensions), but the browser is lickety-split and more-or-less stable. Complete Story »
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Erick Schonfeld submits: It was bad enough when Bing put ads on Google ( GOOG ) and in AdSense during its launch to get people to come check it out. (In fact, it’s still the top sponsored results when you search for “ bing” on Google, even though Bing.com is also the top organic result at this point also). But now the shoe is on the other foot and Google is buying search...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Erick Schonfeld submits: Are people who arrive at a Website through an organic search on Bing more click-happy than those who come from Google? Back in July, we reported some numbers from search-advertising network Chitika which showed that people from Bing clicked on ads about 50 percent more than people from Google. Chitika just ran the numbers again, and the clickthrough rate (CTR)...
TechDusts (Free subscription) | yesterday
... For Mac Now Available For Download! by Alex Wilhelm TechCrunch : Google Chrome For Mac Is Here! by Erick Schonfeld theAppleBlog : Chrome for Mac Beta Available Now by Darrell Etherington Download Squad : Google Chrome Extensions Gallery is open for business! by Lee Mathews
Beet.TV (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
TubeMogul, the Emeryville-based video syndication and analytics company , has entered into a agreement with Brightcove to provide analytics tools to the big Boston-area video services company. Analytics around Web video usage has become essential to many publishers and advertisers. More on this development reported by Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch . TubeMogul's New Cost-Per-View Product...
Hardware Sphere (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Time Inc. has gotten into the tablet device niche by demonstrating their personal magazine tablet with full touch-friendly display similar to Crunchpad. According to Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch, Time’s Tablet is a digital magazine that let you swipe through pages and photo easily. When you tap your finger on the… Time Jumped into Tablet Device Bandwagon Visit HardwareSphere...
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Erick Schonfeld submits: AOL won’t officially become an independently traded company again until December 10 when CEO Tim Armstrong is scheduled to ring the bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. When AOL announced the details of the spin-off last month, it was possible to estimate a valuation for AOL at about $3.15 billion , but as I noted then, we wouldn’t really...
SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Erick Schonfeld submits: Google’s ( GOOG ) been taking a beating from the newspaper industry lately, and Rupert Murdoch in particular. But the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal let Google CEO Eric Schmidt respond Thursday in an Op-Ed piece which basically says: Hey, we know the Internet is killing your business, but don’t blame us. Google is here to help. Complete Story »...
trading as wdr (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The five click thing, with Google News offering a deal to news publishers, who may now specify that a user can only read a limited number of news stories a day is weird. I tried reading the story on the subscription-based Washington Post site. That allowed me free access to the Reuters copy on the subject. The site also offered the first lines of an article on the same subject by Erick Schonfeld...
