Tag: michael_arrington

  • Ad supported Office in the works?

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    I see Microsoft are following Google into the Advertising business with their announced purchase of aQuantive for $6bn. Advertising definitely seems to be where the money is at right now – as Michael Arrington put it earlier on TechCrunch: Google bought Doubleclick for $3.1 billion in April. Later that same month, Yahoo acquired competitor RightMedia…

  • Yak4ever is Allfreecalls.net relaunched and re-branded

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    Pat Phelan is persistence personified! He launched Allfreecalls.net earlier this year to some considerable acclaim only to have to shut it down after legal action by AT&T! Pat has been plugging away in the background ever since trying to get the service back up and running again. Yesterday Pat announced that Allfreecalls.net is back up…

  • Yahoo's open hackday

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    Yahoo’s first open Hackday is starting this coming Friday (29th) in Sunnyvale California. Upcoming.org has more details including details on how to register. Michael Arrington is MC’ing the event and good friend Salim Ismail is one of the judges. Apparently there is a surprise band showing up as well – no I can’t confirm it…

  • Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 to be abandoned?

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    Microsoft has announced today that Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 is available for download. In the Microsoft announcement, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer development at Microsoft, said the timeline for further releases is: Windows Vista Beta 2, and then Beta 3 of IE7, release candidates, and then a final release before end of…

  • Sneak peek at edgeio!

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    I received an invite to take a sneak peek at edgeio this morning – edgeio is Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame’s latest startup. The tagline for edgeio is “Listings from the edge” so the name comes from the word “edge” and “io” (input/output?). The idea behind edgeio is that people can advertise items for sale…

  • Michael Arrington Podcast

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    As I mentioned previously, I interviewed Michael Arrington of TechCrunch last week as part of my ongoing series of recorded and podcast phone interviews. Michael really impressed me in the interview with his humour, his obvious intelligence and his humility. This is definitely one of the most stimulating interviews I have recorded yet – despite…

  • How to make your website more indexable by search engines

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    I see Michael Arrington has a post on TechCrunch today about Dipsie dCloak – this is a product which is supposed to help websites make their content more indexable by search engines. That sounds laudable enough I hear you say – but wait a minute, I know two words which can help you do that…

  • Michael Arrington interview

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    I was talking to Michele Neylon last night and he was in great form noting that the number of subscribers to his site had passed the 100 hundred mark – I’m afraid I punctured his balloon when I mentioned I had just been interviewing Michael Arrington – Michael only set up his TechCrunch blog reviewing…