Last week Google launched the Music Onebox — a special new search result that lets users stream songs in their entirety for free. The feature is being powered through partnerships with MySpace and Lala , who are providing the song streams, with contributions from a host of other partners like Pandora and imeem . [...more]
Gazopa , a search engine that uses features from an image to retrieve similar images, has been in private beta since it launched during TechCrunch50 last year . To recap, Gazopa lets users upload a picture, enter a URL of an image, create a drawing or right-click on an image anywhere on the web (via a plug-in ) and retrieves similar images. [...more]
Zynga founder Mark Pincus is the final speaker at Y Combinator Startup School 2009. My notes on his talk are below [...more]
Social gaming companies like Zynga and Playdom have proven that casual/social gaming can be an extremely lucrative business. But their success can’t be solely attributed to the quality of their games — they’re also finely tuned to maximize their virality. Users are often asked to invite their friends to join them, or publish stories to their accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and other services [...more]
The background debate about whether or not Twitter can actually scale has intensified. [...more]
Yahoo is killing support for a popular Gmail plug-in from Xoopit, a startup it acquired in July . An email was sent out today to Xoopit users on Gmail tited, “Xoopit for Gmail is closing. Here’s the info you’ll need.” It details different ways users can export their files, photos, videos, and other attachments which may be stored on the service [...more]
Texting while driving is incredibly unsafe (and making calls, for that matter). Even more so than drinking and driving , which YOU SHOULD NEVER DO, EVER. [...more]
Oh, TLA Systems , you clever, clever bastards . As we all learned from that one awkwardly-mature kid in our first grade class, there is a glaring fault in nearly every calculator ever made: they double as a means of smuggling smut into the classroom. In an otherwise sterile and pure environment, these tools allow for children (CHILDREN!) to be corrupted (and to subsequently corrupt each other) by displaying words such as “BOOBIES” and “HELL” simply by punching in a series of numbers and turning the calculator upside down [...more]
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What if the desktop on your computer was just like your actual desktop? That’s the core idea behind BumpTop , a really nice looking graphical overlay for Windows-based operating systems. [...more]
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