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Waveboard Puts Google Wave iPhone Application Up For Sale

TechCrunch  Nov 04 09

We already knew Waveboard was bringing Google Wave to both the desktop and the iPhone with two dedicated clients, but you'll be interested to know the iPhone app is now live on the App Store and available for less than a buck (iTunes link). As you can tell from the short demo video below, the app does exactly what you think it does: it displays 'waves' and lets you search historical ones, start new ones and manage your contacts. It also opens external links in a custom browser without the need to leave the app. Waveboard also supports push notifications through a workaround (you need both the Prowl iPhone app and the Mac version of Waveboard), although they did say the next iteration will have proper push notifications. Full story...

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

TechCrunch  4 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  5 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  8 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  9 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  9 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  10 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  10 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  11 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.

The Ten Biggest Advertising Publishers On The Web

TechCrunch  11 hours ago

Last year, Yahoo still dominated display advertising on the Web in terms of sheer number of ad impressions on its properties, but social networking sites MySpace and Facebook came on strong.

Google Launches Phone Support For The Nexus One, Lowers ETF By $200

TechCrunch  12 hours ago

Since the launch of the Nexus One, early adopters have likely had one question lurking in the back of their minds: who to take the phone to if it broke.



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