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...
During my recent trip to India, I flew down to Bangalore for one reason: To meet N.R. Narayana Murthy.
Back in June, Google launched Sputnik, a suite of tools that runs over 5,000 tests to check a web browser's JavaScript conformance.
If you're a photographer and use a Mac, chances are you're using Lightroom or Aperture. Probably Lightroom, since Aperture is less popular among pros — and the latest version seems to be an acknowledgment of that.
Last month we wrote about Crocodoc, a new Y Combinator-funded company that makes it very easy to upload a text document or PowerPoint deck and mark it up online to share with your colleagues.
Back in January, Google announced that it would follow Mozilla's lead and start offering cash bounties for bugs found in the code of Chromium (the open-source browser behind Chrome), or Chrome by the community.
Banks, cable companies, and utilities all want to get rid of their paper bills and get customers on their electronic billing systems.
Editor's note: This post was written by Joe Stump, the co-founder of SimpleGeo, a geolocation infrastructure company.
There are only two weeks left until the iPad's April 3 launch date, and Apple has just started reaching out to developers to say that they're accepting applications that were developed specifically for the device.
One of Yahoo's key chief technologists, Sam Pullara, is leaving the company to become an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital.
Who says you can't attract a substantial number of users on a shoestring budget? Spain-based social networking platform provider Genoom, which lets family members communicate amongst each other on private online community sites, is about to sign up its millionth user.