TechAddress http://www.techaddress.com Providing the Latest User-Generated and Aggregate Technology News Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:22:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 en Bubblewatch: Sean Kingston gets violent with BitTorrent http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/19/bubblewatch-sean-kingston-gets-violent-with-bittorrent/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/19/bubblewatch-sean-kingston-gets-violent-with-bittorrent/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:59:04 +0000 BitTorrent Party Report hotornot Bubble 2.0 Bram Cohen ashwin navin Bubblewatch James Hong http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/19/bubblewatch-sean-kingston-gets-violent-with-bittorrent/ Source:Valleywag

Writes HotorNot founder James Hong on BitTorrent’s party this week at Fluid, where rapper Sean Kingston took the stage:

Last night, almost as if to out-LA LA, SF company BitTorrent had a small party at fluid to celebrate the launch of their CDN network (brilliant business move!). They apparently arranged in conjuction with a local radio station for Ashanti and Sean Kingston to perform to the tiny crowd. I took a picture of BitTorrent’s founders Bram and Ashwin to memorialize the moment, sensing that it denoted SOMETHING.. whether it’s a sign that the bubble is getting bigger, or the more likely conclusion that techie work is now getting more main stream and therefore a lot cooler remains to be seen! :)

One wonders if Kingston is familiar with Cohen’s written work. Violent misogyny — it’s not just for rap lyrics anymore!

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/19/bubblewatch-sean-kingston-gets-violent-with-bittorrent/feed/ Should HotorNot Become Just a Facebook App? http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/16/should-hotornot-become-just-a-facebook-app/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/16/should-hotornot-become-just-a-facebook-app/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:30:08 +0000 Company & Product Profiles Slide hotornot http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/16/should-hotornot-become-just-a-facebook-app/ Source:Techcrunch
Yahoo’s third quarter earnings came in this afternoon above Wall Street’s estimates ($0.11 per share versus the expected $0.08), but its net income of $151.3 million (on revenues of $1.8 billion) was still down five percent from last year. The biggest sign of life, though, is that its Panama ad-serving technology is finally starting […]Source:Techcrunch
Ever since HotorNot abandoned it’s experiment with going totally free last month, the traffic to its destination site, HotorNot.com, has predictably leveled off. Meanwhile, its application on Facebook is doing pretty well, already accounting for about a third of its daily logins, and 40 percent of it total unique visitors (although the two […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/16/should-hotornot-become-just-a-facebook-app/feed/ Piczo Zone: Better User Profiling Through Viral UGC http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/26/piczo-zone-better-user-profiling-through-viral-ugc/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/26/piczo-zone-better-user-profiling-through-viral-ugc/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:30:11 +0000 piczo Company & Product Profiles hotornot http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/26/piczo-zone-better-user-profiling-through-viral-ugc/ Source:Techcrunch
Domain holding company Demand Media has taken $100 million Series C funding in a round led by Goldman Sachs that included 3i Group, Generation Partners, Oak Investment Partners and Spectrum Equity Investors. The new round takes Demand Media’s total funding to the rather extraordinary figure of $320 million and values Demand Media at $1 billion.
Demand […]Source:Techcrunch
Social network Piczo has released a new feature into private beta: Piczo Zone. It’s being tested by a small group of users now and will be released generally in a few weeks.
What is it? Product Evangelist Keith Crowell says its a way for users to decorate their profile pages in much the same way as […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/26/piczo-zone-better-user-profiling-through-viral-ugc/feed/ Hot Or Not Abandons Free Model http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/18/hot-or-not-abandons-free-model/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/18/hot-or-not-abandons-free-model/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:30:05 +0000 Company & Product Profiles hotornot http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/18/hot-or-not-abandons-free-model/ Source:Techcrunch
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Spottt (Adbrite)
Spottt (Adbrite) helps like-minded sites promote each other for free. Just put a Spottt on your site, blog, or MySpace profile. Every time you show someone else’s ad, they’ll show yours. Spottt […]Source:Techcrunch
On stage is Google for the formal presentation of Google Presently. See our previous summary here.
New name, Google Docs.
Demo includes pics of Michael Arrington, nice touch.

The sharing features of Presently being emphasized, includes group chat.
Questions: Michael asks what Google’s take is on Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra. A: compeitition is important and great for everyone.
Q: offline […]Source:Techcrunch
Hot or Not have abandoned their much publicized move to a free model.
According to an email from Hot or Not’s founders, since moving to a free model the site had become inundated by spam:
You also warned us that this would probably lead to more spammers and fake profiles. You were right, this is exactly […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/18/hot-or-not-abandons-free-model/feed/ Crunchyroll Pushes the Envelope On Video Copyright http://www.techaddress.com/2007/08/30/crunchyroll-pushes-the-envelope-on-video-copyright/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/08/30/crunchyroll-pushes-the-envelope-on-video-copyright/#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:30:05 +0000 Company & Product Profiles crunchyroll hotornot http://www.techaddress.com/2007/08/30/crunchyroll-pushes-the-envelope-on-video-copyright/ Source:Techcrunch
SayNow, a service that enables “celebrities to connect to their audience over the phone” will announce $7.5 million Series A funding September 12, in a round led by Shasta Partners. Tugboat Ventures’ Dave Whorton, a SayNow advisor since early 2006, also participated in the round as did Costella Kirsch. Rob Coneybeer, MD of Shasta Ventures […]Source:Techcrunch
Crunchyroll is a San Francisco based startup that is a sort of YouTube for anime and other mostly Asian video content. The three founders, who asked to remain anonymous, are all employees of HotOrNot and the company operates our of HotOrNot’s San Francisco offices (although HotOrNot has no financial interest in the company, according to […]

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