Tag Camp Photo Album with Picaboo

I first heard about Picaboo from Robert Scoble a few days ago. Picaboo is a way to create, share and print photo albums. Picaboo was founded in September 2002 by Howard Field and Kevin McCurdy, and is

The Open Source RSS Reader

I’ve been using Blogbridge for a few weeks now. It’s the first time I’ve seriousy used a desktop application to read feeds – I really like web based readers because there is no

CourseCafe Adds to the Social Bookmarking Discussion

CourseCafe is a search and social bookmarking tool for students that the founder, Puneet Gupta, demo’d at TagCamp last weekend. The company is located in Mountain View and is angel funded. At fi

Real Estate vertical search with Trulia

Trulia is a vertical search engine for real estate. Pete Flint and Sami Inkinen, Stanford MBAs, founded Trulia in 2004, and just moved their ten person company into shiny new offices in San Francisco.

Speak With Me – Control Your Car by Voice

I had the opportunity to sit down with Ajay Juneja, the founder of Mountain View based Speak With Me, at Tag Camp this weekend. I had a half hour demo in his car and was completely blown away by what

Blogniscient v. Memeorandum

Ben Ruedlinger’s Blogniscient relaunched today with a completely new look and feel. An old screenshot of the service is here. Blogniscient is a blog news organizer that, like Memeorandum, uses a

Wow! Del.icio.us rolls out more stuff

In addition to the robust and open search functionality released by Del.icio.us earlier this week, there are at least two additional new features that are worth noting. I also have a few more thought

Shadows 1.0

I had an early peak at Shadows while it was still in beta, back in July. Shadows is a Pluck product. Last week, Pluck took the beta tag off of Shadows and released v 1.0. Dave Panos, Pluck’s CEO

My New Blog

I’ve launched a new companion blog to TechCrunch called CrunchNotes. I wrote a longish introductory post describing exactly why it exists (and why TechCrunch exists), but here’s the essenc

CircleOne Rumored to Launch Soon

Update: February 5, 2006: CircleOne is now called Prosper. Rumors are flying that a super-stealth BenchMark backed company called CircleOne (also known as p2pcredit) will be launching as soon as this

More Web 2.0 Humor

I came across two very funny web 2.0 satires today. Web Two Point Oh! is a site that will generate “a pre-created VC friendly Web 2.0 company just for you!”. My company is “zVodidoo&

Flickr Photo Printing

Flickr announced that they are now supporting photo printing. They are giving away 10 free 4×6 prints to each user to start. Only people with U.S. credit card addresses can participate for now. P

TechWeb BLOG-X Awards

TechWeb has opened nominations for its second annual BLOG-X Award. All technology blogs that are published independently of a major publishing company are eligible, and the ten blogs that receive the

First Screen Shots of Riya

Riya (formerly Ojos) will be opening its doors to 10 or so lucky alpha testers tomorrow morning. Riya leverages potent facial and text recognition technology with an intelligent interface to help peop

Psst…Want in to the Wink Beta?

Wink is a very interesting new search site that combines traditional search results with del.icio.us and other user generated metadata. We profiled Wink on October 12, 2005 and Michael Tanne, the CEO,

Voice Email with WaxMail

WaxMail is a free voice email service for Outlook from the guys who created Skylook (see our profile here). WaxMail requires a small download and a quick installation with Outlook. From there, all you

Kaboodle Launch: Bookmarking + Wiki

Company: Kaboodle Launched: October 26, 2005 Status: $1.5 m in angel funding Location: Santa Clara, CA Kaboodle opened its doors this afternoon for an official launch on Wednesday. I met with Manish C

VideoEgg News

VideoEgg is a web-based publishing service that allows users to capture video content from virtually any device and format and publish it to the web. We profiled it on September 21, 2005, just after t

Google Base to Launch

Reports are out that Google Base will be launching soon, perhaps even today. Dirson has a screen shot up on Flickr and additional images are on Wouter Schut’s blog. Google Base appears to be a

Del.icio.us Expands Search Feature

Fred Wilson reports that Del.icio.us has extended its existing user-only search to everyone. Previously search was available only if you were logged in to your del.icio.us account. Check it out on any
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