Yesterday I detailed my quest to find the throngs of Droid fans who had woken up at the crack of dawn to grab a place in line before Verizon unleashed the phone to the masses. Yet despite reports of lines elsewhere, I failed — the Verizon store in Palo Alto was a ghost town, as was the Best Buy down the street. Some commenters took my story and similar reports as an indication that the Droid's launch had bombed, doomed to play out the same fate of the numerous supposed 'iPhone killers' before it. It looks like they may be wrong — that store sold over 70 Droids yesterday, according to one of its employees. Full story...
I'm a big fan of keeping things simple, but that doesn't mean things have to be bland. Google search results are pretty bland.
Angstro, a 2008 TechCrunch50 startup, launched with a product that socialized the content on the web by tapping into your social graph.
Qwisk, which is launching today at the Real-Time CrunchUp, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser.
Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference earlier this week.
Everyone loves picture messaging - or at least, they love the idea of it. The iPhone carrying masses clamored for it, then celebrated once they got it by sending everyone pictures of their immediate surroundings and beloved pets before forgetting the feature exists.
At our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco, the first roundtable is entitled "Filtering the Stream: Getting Rid of the Noise.
Twitter has apparently come across the Holy Grail of advertising, and it's coming soon. Today during his interview at the RealTime CrunchUp, Twitter COO Dick Costolo told the audience a bit about the company's upcoming advertising business.
Opening our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco is Twitter COO Dick Costolo. Our own Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor are sitting down with Costolo for a 30 minute conversation.
We're here at the second TechCrunch RealTime CrunchUp in San Francisco, where we'll be taking a deeper dive into realtime technology and where the streams are taking us.
There are a number of real-time search engines in the space, including Collecta and OneRiot. Today, at the Real-Time CrunchUp, Infoaxe debuts its real time search engine.