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Splurb Surfaces The Most Popular Links Across Social Media Sites

TechCrunch  Nov 08 09

There are many sites that show trending links across the web including TweetMeme, Topsy, and Bit.ly. Recently launched splurb is now in the mix with its site that shows the most popular links that are trending on social media sites. splurb currently indexes Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, TweetMeme, Yahoo Buzz and Fark. Splurb tallies the number of votes from the various sites and number of sources that list links. The more sources that cite a link, the larger the story appears on splurb. To get listed, a link must be popular on at least two social websites. Full story...

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Company.com Debuts Social Community For Businesses

TechCrunch  about an hour ago

Today sees the public launch of Company.com, a new social community service for small to medium-sized businesses.

Apple Releases Aperture 3 – Retail Price Is $199, Upgrade Costs $99

TechCrunch  2 hours ago

It's been almost 2 years to the day when Apple released Aperture 2.0, and this morning the company announced that the third iteration of the photo editing and management software is available.

Flush With $10 Million In Fresh Cash, Yammer Strengthens Executive Team

TechCrunch  5 hours ago

Yammer, the San Francisco startup that offers a solid enterprise-grade microsharing and realtime communications service, is expanding its executive team after successfully closing a Series B funding round to the tune of $10 million earlier this month.

Tiny Speck Gives Birth To Glitch, A New Flash-Based Massively Multiplayer Game

TechCrunch  6 hours ago

Last July, we reported that the new company by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield had received a name, and was looking to hire.

Back to the Future: How Apple is Becoming More Like a Carrier Every Day

TechCrunch  9 hours ago

Editor's note: Is Apple going to far with its restrictions on developers? Alistair Goodman thinks so and explains why in this guest post.

Foursquare Signing Mainstream Partnership Deals Left And Right

TechCrunch  10 hours ago

Foursquare continues to sign interesting deals with major players in a wide range of fields. Following the service's Bravo deal a couple weeks ago, they've reached a deal with restaurant rating guide Zagat, according to The New York Times.

The Value Of Online Buzz For The Top 20 Brands

TechCrunch  10 hours ago

Nowadays, buzz around brands on the news, blogs, tweets and other social media that spreads through product launches, PR campaigns, earnings reports are as valuable as traditional ad campaigns.

The Long Tail Of Video Sites Capture Half Of All Viewing Minutes

TechCrunch  11 hours ago

YouTube might be streaming more than 13 billion videos a month, or nearly 40 percent of total individual streams, but when you measure by time spent YouTube only accounted for 26 percent of all viewing minutes on the Web last year.

BlueKiwi Rides the Freemium Wave

TechCrunch  11 hours ago

With the continued success of Twitter and other social networking tools, any criticism (or praise) of products and companies is becoming increasingly public.

Video: “Parisian Oops” Mocks Google’s Super Bowl Commercial

TechCrunch  12 hours ago

It actually took longer than I would have expected for someone to come up with a good mocking of Google's "Parisian Love" commercial that played during the Super Bowl yesterday.



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