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TechCrunch Feb 27 09
At today's TechCrunch Cloud Computing Roundtable event, a new storage company called Diomede launched in private beta with the goal of offering low cost cloud-based storage that is also very energy efficient. The basic premise behind the service is that not all data in the cloud needs to be immediately available, but that most people still pay for the immediate access anyway. While most data centers have their servers and disk drives operating 24/7 with near-immediate access, Diomede allows customers to designate files that they don't need instant access to, and places them either as 'nearline' or 'offline'. Full story...
For years, YouTube has allowed its users to upload however many videos they wanted, but with a catch: unless you were part of one of YouTube's special partner programs, no video could be more than 10 minutes in length.
Google's mobile ads are becoming more location-aware. Today, Google is introducing mobile display ads for both the iPhone and Android phones which can be geo-targeted.
TechCrunch reader Saul Lustgarten checks in to tell us he logged on to Facebook this morning and noticed that the list of his friends who are having their birthday today was preceded by a crude message, reading "fuck you bitches".
Amazon announced the Kindle 3 last night, and it doesn’t look too shabby at all. The most important part is the inclusion of the next-generation E-Ink display, previously only found in the too-big-for-casual-use Kindle DX.
Double rainbow awesome. There's no other modern way to describe this.
I won't spoil it too much, but whatever you do today, visit that website and select some of your closest friends from your Facebook graphwhen prompted.
Mobile phone maker HTC this morning announced a series of executive promotions and newly created management positions.
Zynga issued a press release tonight confirming the more than month-old news of an investment by Softbank - $150 million - and are announcing a joint venture to "develop and distribute social games across Japan.
People don't send postcards anymore. Why bother when you can photo MMS a friend? Attempting to restore some of the social experience behind photography.
Amazon's Kindle has always been an interesting device to me. When I first heard about it in late 2007, I was sure I wouldn't want one.
Local deal goliath Groupon is launching a major new feature today: deal personalization, giving the site the ability to send you the deals it thinks you'll be most interested in.