Ever wonder what stories of 2009 the people of the Internet find most interesting? I can't really help you there, but I can tell you which stories on MobileCrunch got the most pageviews. Now, you might assume that most of our popular stories involved the iPhone, but -- well, actually, you'd be right. The iPhone isn't alone on the list, of course; Android makes a handful of appearances amongst our most popular stories, including one that I never would have seen coming. Full story...
TechCrunch50 startup CrowdFlower has been attracting a lot of attention, even raising $5 million in funding recently.
According to investir.fi and various other sources, the world's leading people search engine 123people, which strives from Austria, has been acquired by the leading french yellow pages company PagesJaunes.
GROU.PS, a do-it-yourself social network focused on moderated online collaboration has unveiled a synchronization tool that allows the group administrators on Yahoo Groups to sync with GROU.
We haven't heard all that much from Siri, the venture-backed startup that is working on virtual assistant applications for smartphones.
A few days ago, we noted that Facebook was testing putting links to QR codes on their main profile pages.
Look, I'm all for privacy, liberty, rights, etc. But this video (embedded below) is pretty ridiculous.
Google may have hired Plaxo's Chief Technology Officer Joseph Smarr late last year, but it's Yahoo that's finally adding the 8-year old idea of turning the address book model upside down and letting people subscribe to it rather than keep their own quickly outdated lists.
We're still going through these recently released YouTube/Viacom litigation documents, and it's becoming clear that we can't take everything that's being said by either party at face value (as if we didn't know that already).
There are good things about conferences and there are bad things about conferences. One of the bad things is how little the audience gets to participate directly in the content being created.
I'm hopelessly addicted to Push Notifications on the iPhone. Unfortunately, the system is flawed, in that the more notifications you get, the worse the experience is because it can be hard to manage them all.