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Facebook Chat Launches, For Some
We’ve received word that Facebook has released its much anticipated chat/IM application to a few unspecified networks. The “pre-launch beta”, as Facebook is calling it, started sometime last night. InsideFacebook has some screenshots ...

Writing & Publishing Orgs Line Up to Condemn Amazon’s Bullying
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Stanford Launches On-Campus Venture Fund, SSE Ventures
Countless startups, such as Sun, Yahoo and Google (as well as newcomers like Meebo) were started at Stanford, or by Stanford graduates. Now Stanford wants to help its students by providing seed funding directly, and in the process will ...

Europe Is Searching For Its Silicon Valley
Over the past few days at the Next Web conference in Amsterdam, I had the opportunity to hang out with about 700 Internet entrepreneurs from all over Europe. The startup scene in Europe reminds me of Silicon Valley four or five years ...

Dan Ackerman Greenberg Remixed
One, if not the most controversial post ever published on TechCrunch was Dan Ackerman Greenberg’s The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos. A TechCrunch reader took this post and mixed it into his own viral video, as above. ...

Joost To Undertake Major Restructure
Joost is said to be preparing a “major retrenchment” of staff as part of a restructure that will see Joost abandon its global ambitions for the US only. According to the Sunday Times, Joost has struggled to convince media and sports ...

Possibly The Most Ridiculous DMCA Take Down Yet
If you don’t like something on the Internet, it seems that sending a DMCA notice is a nearly sure-fire way to get it taken down. We’ve seen some people fight back against fake notices, particularly the EFF. In fact, I’ve criticized the ...

Flying Pickle: Successful Community Blogging
Hyperlocal blogging models have tried and failed in an attempt to bring blogging to a community level, but New Zealand enterprise Flying Pickle is proving that done right, small scale independent local news does have a future. ...

Sunday’s blog posts - breath in public speaking, speaking to market,
When Robert Middleton moved his marketing consulting practice, Action Plan Marketing, to Palo Alto, California several years ago, he started his business from scratch. He had left his well-established client base several miles away and ...

Best Price SEO Launches Premium SEO Service
Says the company “As business tightens the budget marketing must make decisions that will restructure the expense ratio for all web related marketing efforts. We recognize this fact of economic cycles and have created a premium ...