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The Real Video Twitter: 12seconds.tv (500 Alpha Invites)

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2008-07-24 14:58:17 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
Some people think that Seesmic is the video Twitter . They are wrong (even if they are investors in the companyMike). The real video Twitter is 12seconds.tv. On Twitter, you have 140 characters to make your point. On 12seconds.tv, you have, well, 12 seconds. (On Seesmic, you can drone on forever or for 10 minutes, whichever comes first). We have...
 
Tags: real video twitter, video twitter, twitter, video, 12seconds, twitter account, tv, 12seconds account, couple sample videos
 
 
 
 
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AdMob Makes Mobile Ads Suck Less. Will Give Away One Million Dollars Worth of Ads To iPhone App Developers.

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2008-07-24 13:31:08 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
 
On the iPhone, even the ads are cool. Mobile advertising network AdMob is launching a whole new set of customized ads for iPhone apps. As CEO Omar Hamoui explains in the video above, the ads are specifically designed for iPhone apps. Rather than the static text or image ads that make up most of its mobile ad inventory today, these take advantage...
 
Tags: iphone, ads, iphone app developers, iphone apps, free ads, iphone app, million mobile ads, developers, mobile
 
 
 
 
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AddictingGames To Hold Awards Show For Casual Gaming

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2008-07-24 13:30:23 by Jason Kincaid in TechCrunch
AddictingGames , a popular Flash game portal, has announced plans to hold a large-scale awards show pertaining to casual games. The show will take place in 2009, with a series of voting rounds conducted on the site that will allow AddictingGames users to decide the final outcome (though judges will have some say The show will be open to any...
 
Tags: addictinggames, games, junk games, casual games, addictinggames users, entire nickelodeonmtvn kids, popular developers, litter countless sites, mobilecrunch mobile gadgets
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Takes The Fast Lane To Boring

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2008-07-24 12:01:56 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch
I agree with Sam Gustin when he says that yesterdays Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco was in the end a snoozer, but not because CEO Mark Zuckerberg failed on stage First of all, saying the event itself was sleep-inducing is just factually incorrect. Before and after the keynote they played music so loud that a deaf person would...
 
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Microsoft Rumbles, Rearms For Online War It Cant Win Without Yahoo

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2008-07-24 10:04:35 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch
...software profits wont last forever, particularly since Google is eating away at that via their suite of free Office products The first thing Microsoft needs to do is buy Yahoo - all of it. That brings them to half of Googles market share in search, and at least theyre in the game Another thing Microsoft needs to do is simply pick a brand name...
 
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Opposing Views Launches As A Debate Site Where Experts Go Head-To-Head

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2008-07-24 07:01:46 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
Getting average know-nothings to create content for your site is easy enough and well understood by now. But how do you get experts to create in-depth topic pages about the hot-button issues of the day, complete with videos, links, and healthy commenting? Russell Fine is trying to do that with Opposing Views, a site that launched a few hours...
 
Tags: experts, site, multiple experts weigh, topic, single topic, pits experts, fine, in-depth topic pages, views
 
 
 
 
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Zimbra Releases Version 3 Of Open Source Email Client, And Its Awesome

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2008-07-24 06:59:28 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch
Yahoos Zimbra launches version 3 of its open source desktop email client this morning that is designed to compete with Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mac Mail, etc. This is a new iteration of their browser-based offline product announced in March 2007 Zimbra Desktop, which is built on Mozilla Prism , is available for Windows, Mac and linux...
 
Tags: product, product promises, outlook express, mac, zimbra desktop, outlook, mac mail, mozilla thunderbird, thunderbird
 
 
 
 
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Playfish: Using Facebook As Its Gaming Console

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2008-07-24 06:23:36 by Nick Gonzalez in TechCrunch
If you glance at the top lineup of gaming applications on the Facebook or MySpace platform, youll notice an interesting fact. Not one is the product of a major gaming publisher. Instead a group of independent gaming startups have been the leaders in publishing games within social networks Co-founders of the gaming publisher Playfish, Kristian...
 
Tags: playfish, facebook, games, top, console games, top game, game, game set, flashy facebook games
 
 
 
 
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A Xobni Executive Leaves The Red-Hot Startup. But Why?

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2008-07-24 02:48:22 by Jason Kincaid in TechCrunch
Xobni , the Y Combinator email startup that turned down an acquisition offer from Microsoft earlier this year, has just lost its VP Engineering and first employee, Gabor Cselle . Cselle joined the company in March 2007, sporting a seemingly perfect resume that included work on the Gmail team and a Masters thesis on Organizing Email The departure...
 
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Digg To (Finally) Integrate OpenID, If This Picture Is To Be Believed

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