Academia.edu: A Geni For Researchers- September 17, 2008 Collaboration has long been one of the most fundamental components of science. From handwritten letters and essays to professional publications like Science and Nature, scientists rely on each other to test their theories and to help formulate new ones. Given this inherently social nature of science, it's surprising that no website has emerged as the de facto meeting place for academics online. Academia.edu, a San Francisco-based startup that launches today to the public, is looking to fill.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/9cdtUHei3QI/ MySpace Music Billboards Go Up In Los Angeles, New York- September 17, 2008 It sure looks like MySpace is spending a ton of cash on next week's launch of the MySpace Music joint venture with the major labels. The first advertising blitz hits Los Angeles (Hollywood on Sunset) and New York (Times Square). The billboards feature artists Lil Wayne, M.I.A., Jonas Brothers and others. MySpace won't comment on how much these billboards costs, or what the total market budget for the launch is. Any ad buyers out there care to speculate on what these might costhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/LtGNJ7ADwhg/ Digg Grabs Senior Yahooer To Lead Communications- September 17, 2008 Will the last person out please turn off the lights: Yahoo's Director Communications &038; Communities Kiersten Hollars (pictured right along with CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker) will shortly be leaving the company to lead Digg's communication team.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/90qmx_Ot6LU/ PeopleJar Joins The Social Networking Fray- September 17, 2008 PeopleJar, a startup that hopes to help users with similar interests connect using a highly-customizable search engine, has soft launched to the public. The site is very well done, sporting a clean and intuitive interface, an exhaustively customizable search engine, and generally high production values. After creating a detailed profile that includes information on their education, country of origin, and interests, users can browse through a number of Networks ranging from Science and...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/nHjPIq27KPw/ Googles 12 Hour (and counting) Custom Search Outage- September 17, 2008 Google's Custom Search product, a customizable search engine for sites, has been down for at least some users for more than twelve hours. The popular service lets websites tailor Google search results and customize the results screen for their own look and feel. Google's own example sites seem to work fine, but, but some sites in the forum are pointing to their sites, which clearly aren't working. A search simply refreshes the original page, with no results.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/bCZf1LFNKVk/ The Mess On Wall Street: Four Trillion Dollars Down The Drain- September 16, 2008 The collapse of so many major financial institutions in the past year, and over the past few days especially, is hard to fathom in its enormity. Sometimes you need a good visual to put things in perspective. The New York Times has an interactive graphic up on its site that pretty much says it all. It shows that $4 trillion has been wiped off the total market capitalization of the U.S. stock market since last October. Of that, nearly $1 trillion is from the decline in the financial...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/xWH5k_a5Ass/ Samsung Attempts SanDisk Takeover Even in this Economy- September 16, 2008 It looks as if those rumors of a Samsung buyout were true after all. The board of directors at SanDisk were sent the following proposal to swoop the memory manufacturer up at $26 per share, cash. The letter states that SanDisk investors would see a 93 percent premium based on the surge SanDisks stock saw when it was first reported that Samsung was interested.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/YC8t0O5NOh4/ Yahoo Loses Search Monkey Product Manager- September 16, 2008 Yahoo may be pushing ahead with its strategy to open itself up to outsiders (this weekend was Hack Day), but insiders are still streaming out the door. Even some of the product managers driving the open strategy are not sticking around. We have learned that Amit Kumar, the director of product management behind Yahoo's Search Monkey and semantic Web initiatives, is leaving by the end of the week. He will be joining semantic Web startup Dapper as Vice President of product management.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/OdFdgWGMaWs/ Expensify: The Corporate Card For The Rest Of Us- September 16, 2008 Business expense accounts may sound glamorous, but for most frequent travelers they're more of a hassle than anything. Sure, there's always the novelty of being able to go out to to dinner on the company's dime, but this wears thin after a few days of stuffing your wallet full of receipts. Expensify, the startup that took second place at TC50's DemoPit, is hoping to ameliorate these issues as much as possible by keeping track of your expenses for you. CEO David Barrett says that while...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/RlMuAGiKsIY/ Slacker G2 gets reviewed- September 16, 2008 Filed under: Portable Audio Slacker must have figured our jetsetter friends at Gadling needed some more tunes for their travels, because it hooked them up with an early review unit of the new Slacker G2 WiFi radio. Nothing much has changed about the Slacker service, which basically auto-downloads your choice of pre-programmed channels to the 4 or 8GB or internal storage over WiFi (you can get on Wayport and AT&T hotspots using Devicescape), but the G2 hardware is significantly revised, with.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/393894618/ |