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“TechCrunch are Full of Shit” says Last.fm

Last.fm says Techcrunch full of shitLast.fm rumored about Techcrunch, was called 'full of shit'. Find the complete details below. The news that was floating all over the web last weekend was the rumored post by Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch titled Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?. After the 'leaked U2 album' mishap, the RIAA was looking to investigate the matter in details (which was understandable) but TechCrunch,a silicon valley tech blog crafted a whole story around a tip(with no facts backing it up) that TechCrunch received which claimed that Last.fm,a music listening web service passed over the music listening data details to RIAA and is supposedly helping out RIAA in singling out individuals who are the early listeners to the leaked U2 album. This would help RIAA identify the 'show spilling individuals' and possibly convict them. Last.fm staffers(from founder to other folks) had their weekend pissed off,answering countless folks on emails,Twitter,forums,phone calls that the so called breaking news TechCrunch has written about is a "Complete bullshit". Richard Jones,Last.fm's co-founder commented on the Techcrunch's

‘TinkOMatic’ saves you time with ‘Parallel Searching’ : 100 Beta Invites !

tinkomaticIn this article we will tell you about tinkomatic multiple site searching. If you are one of those who do a lot of parallel searching for any product/service you are going to buy online and also tend to track the auctions status time and again then TinkOMatic might come handy to you. TinkOMatic is a web service that makes searching and tracking classifieds or auctions for multiple items much easier and time saving.It lets you search out for products such as cars,bikes,stuff for sale,jobs etc simutaneously on eBay,Craigslist,Kijiji & oodle and save your search results for tracking anytime later. Usually,for doing constant tracking and parallel searching,we manually go back to the auction/product listing sites and repeat our search or subscribe to product RSS or may subscribe to email notifications,which mostly become frustrating for the user with bulk of spammy notifications landing to the inbox.So,thinking this aspect,TinkOMatic seems a good option.

Twitter gets ‘Richer’ this Valentine.Adds $35Mn+ to its Reserves

twitterIn this article we will tell you about twitter funding founders as Twitter has raised yet another round of funding of over $35Mn led by Benchmark and IVP.
Twitter,one of the fastest growing web services last year has raised yet another round of funding of over $35Mn led by Benchmark and IVP($21 million and $14 million respectively).The early investors of Twitter namely Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital have also jumped in this time but the funding amount is still under cover. With the latest update on Twitter blog,it seems that the entire Twitter team(29 folks) is happy with the overwhelming growth and future prospects and we can expect Twitter to show up a lot of cards to the world in near future,turning itself a good proposition as a 'Profit making business'. And now when Twitter has attracted more than $55Mn of cumulative investment so far,a stable business model is a 'Must have' for the micro-blogging service.On the contrast,the encouraging fact for Twitter is that they have secured enough funds in their bank that they can last for years without generating

Google Devalues Everything It Touches

Poor CPM on Google adsPoor CPM on Google ads devalues everything says WSJ chief. The complete details are given below. In a conversation about the Future of Journalism with Walter Isaacson of "Time",Robert Thomson of "Wall Street Journal" and Mort Zuckerman of "The New York Daily News",here are few of the statements that caught everybody's attention. As all the three interviewed gentlemen represent the 'Old Media' today,they sounded biased and emotionally bound to the old media practices.They are well aware of the fact that 'old media'(mainly newspapers) is steadily losing its readership and more people are relying on information sources on web for staying updated. They admitted one big advantage of 'New media' is the 'Instantaneous' nature of web based information sources such as news websites and blogs.With Social media and citizen journalism playing its role quite efficiently,any news that breaks out today doesn't have to wait for a whole day to get printed on paper and get delivered to one's doorstep. But the three 'old media flagbearers'
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