Report: eBay Says It May Sell Skype | TechCrunch
eBay has gone on the record saying that they will sell Skype if they fail to find ways of using Skype to support its core ecommerce business. Richard Waters at the Financial Times got the scoop directly from eBay’s CEO John Donahoe: “What we’re testing this year are the synergies,” Mr Donahoe told the Financial Times this week after Ebay reported its latest earnings. “If the synergies are strong,
Twitter Testing Text Footer Ads | TechCrunch
Microblogging service Twitter, long questioned over its lack of an apparent business plan, is testing text footer ads below Tweets. This Is Going To Be Big captured the following image: The format is a one line tip directly below the Tweet. The message might be flattering to CNet’s Caroline McCarthy, but it’s a fair guess that this is a test message and that in future it might read something like
Twitter Gets Their Venture Round | TechCrunch
Twitter has raised a round of financing, led by Union Square Ventures. The size of the round has not been disclosed (yet), but additional investors include Charles River Ventures, Marc Andreessen, Dick Costolo, Ron Conway, and Naval Ravikant. The service, which has around 300,000 users, has grown rapidly in recent months. Pownce, Kyte and others are competitors. See Duncan Riley’s interview with f
Redefining The IMG Tag | TechCrunch
britepic_id = “297898” britepic_src=”http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/144942552_81a96c87cb_o.jpg”; britepic_keywords=”Laguna, dog, pets, cute, perfect”; britepic_show_ads=”1″; britepic_caption=”Laguna: Attack Dog”; britepic_width=”560″; The basic format for embedding images into a web page using the <img> tag has been around almost as long at HTML itself, since the first graphical web browser. It
Web-based Media Player Lets You Stream Your iTunes To Any Computer | TechCrunch
Web-based Media Player Lets You Stream Your iTunes To Any Computer Streampad is a Web-based media player that gives users access to their digital music library from any computer. Similar to Songbird, it streams your personal library from the Internet but it runs completely inside any browser. Streampad is a free service. Users download a Java desktop application that stores the metadata from all M
Replacing DRM With A Music Tax Is Incredibly Stupid | TechCrunch
A couple of weeks ago The Register’s Andrew Orlowski published an interview with Peter Jenner about the future of the major music labels and DRM. A number of blogs picked up the story and wrote about it in a resoundingly positive way. It certainly starts off well – Peter Jenner is a respected figure in the music industry (he was Pink Floyd’s first manager, as well as managing The Clash and other g
Can Paris Hilton boost YouTube? | TechCrunch
YouTube will unveil a number of custom branded commercial channels tomorrow in its latest move to monetize the site. The bizarre cultural icon Paris Hilton is already highlighted on the front page of the site with her own YouTube channel, to correspond with the release of her debut musical album on Tuesday. Fox has paid an undisclosed sum to advertise its TV show Prison Break on the YouTube channe
Brand your life story with Dandelife | TechCrunch
Dandelife is a fascinating new “social biography network” that launched its beta this week. Users tell their life stories with text, photos, videos and time lines. Part of the business model will be to license users’ stories to corporations seeking case studies and brandable narratives. I feel very ambivalent about this. The company is lead by Kelly Abbot of marketing firm Red Door Interactive and
MySpace in foreign languages due out this summer | TechCrunch
MySpace co-founder and chief executive Chris DeWolfe was quoted by the Financial Times yesterday and said that the first localized, non-English versions of MySpace will be available this summer. The company has designated 11 countries to target, naming specifically only France, Germany, China and India. I’ll place my bets on Japan, Korea, Brazil and Italy making the list as well, based on Technora
Comparing the Mapping Services | TechCrunch
Online mapping has come a long way in the last year. Google Maps entered the field and added satellite imagery to spring itself into the spotlight – challenging the colorful cartoon-like map images of longtime mapping frontrunner Mapquest. The Google Maps API enabled developers to create new applications and mashups, thereby pushing the Google Maps brand to mainstream audiences. Microsoft, Yahoo a
TechCrunch » Subscription Music Services Compared: Part 2
We’ve analyzed the services that sell digital music and are presenting the results in a two part post. This Part 2 compares the subcription music services that let you access an entire music library of up to 2 million songs for a single monthly fee. Part 1, posted last Thursday, focused on the pay-per-download services (such as iTunes). While the pay per download market is dominated by Apple iTune
TechCrunch » Let’s Buy Some Music: Part 1
We’ve analyzed the services that sell digital music (iTunes and its competitors). This Part 1 focuses on the pay-per-download services. In Part 2 (now posted) we’ll compare the all-you-can-eat subscription services. While compact disc sales have declined 19 percent since 2001, online music sales have started to boom. According to a recent report by the International Federation of the Phonographic
Pandora and Last.fm Together...sort of | TechCrunch
People who love music seems to either be Pandora folks or Last.fm folks, and the two groups often disagree (see, for example, the comments to this post). Quite frankly, the two services each do different things very well, although there is some overlap. Pandora is great for discovering new music based on what you like. Last.fm is also good at music discovery, but you can’t stream music directly fr
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