Media on the Web is going from a solo affair to a shared experience. We are seeing this in everything from CNN live news videos enabled with Facebook chat to Meebo Rooms and Tiny Chat. Today, a new startup from Los Angeles called Qlipso is launching its own virtual rooms where friends can share videos and play Flash games with each other. The service is in private beta and is a Windows-only browser plug-in for now, but you can get one of 1,000 invites here. Click on "Get Started" and ignore the beta key request. Send an email to the contact listed (betsy) and put "TechCrunch Invite" in the subject line. Full story...
Now that the Google event is over, the company has started turning on Buzz for Gmail users. Here are some quick screenshots of it in action.
See our live notes from today's Google Buzz event here.
Google has a problem. Despite having their hands in just about everything online, they've never been able to tackle what is a key part of the fabric of the web: social.
As location-based social networks gain serious traction, its inevitable that that these applications will become full-fledged platforms.
Google's Street View has gone to many strange places, even off-road. But in preparation for the Winter Olympics it equipped a snowmobile with 360-degree cameras and took it to the top of Whistler, the Canadian ski resort where the Games will take place.
This morning, Google is hosting an event at its Mountain View, CA headquarters to show off a new social product it has been working on.
DotNetNuke Corporation, the owner and maintainer of the open source web application framework that goes by the same name, has raised $8 Million Series B funding from new investor UV Partners and prior backers August Capital and Sierra Ventures.
Sequoia-backed voice messaging company Bubble Motion is getting into the microblogging space today, that is the voice-based microblogging space.
Over the past 48 hours, and perhaps longer, it appears that TechCrunch is being blocked inside China.
As I sit here listening to Ben Cohen's radio documentary about how he nearly became a teenage dotcom millionaire, I'm reminded of how tedious us journalists all found him back in the late 90s.
In May 2009, we covered the launch of Fotomoto, a Web-based photo monetization service built by the eponymous startup based out of San Francisco.