May 18th, 2008 — Acquisition, Microsoft, yahoo
Great, Icahn just stirred Microsoft to do some more damage…
Microsoft announced that it is continuing to explore and pursue its alternatives to improve and expand its online services and advertising business. Microsoft is considering and has raised with Yahoo! an alternative that would involve a transaction with Yahoo! but not an acquisition of all of Yahoo! Microsoft is not proposing to make a new bid to acquire all of Yahoo! at this time, but reserves the right to reconsider that alternative depending on future developments and discussions that may take place with Yahoo! or discussions with shareholders of Yahoo! or Microsoft or with other third parties.
via techcrunch
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May 12th, 2008 — Launched, Search Engine
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Powerset launches its supposedly “human lauguage” search engine. Basically it’s only searching Wikipedia at this point but the search experience is very AJAXed out and good.
I looked up “zedomax” and only thing I could find was Zedomax.com linked to the Hacker article at Wikipedia, which I inserted long time ago.
Powerset looks like great for searching Wikipedia, as Wikipedia’s default search engine sucks.
It may explode onto the mass once Powerset gets more into mainstream search engine market.
Today marks another milestone for San Francisco based contextual search engine Powerset. They’ve launched a showcase for their user search experience - effectively the search engine minus the web crawl. For now, Powerset queries only Wikipedia and augments results with data from Freebase. The product launch comes just a day after reports that the company is being shopped to potential buyers by investment bank Allen & Co.
via techcrunch
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May 10th, 2008 — Zedomax Network News
Well, not that this is something we should be proud of but we are “rebuilding” this site itself.
Within 1 week, we went from 12 uniques to 132 uniques! Thanks everybody for supporting our small Web2.0 information operation.
Our goal is to become bigger than TechCrunch or Mashable. Why?
Why not, it’s all about covering the latest Web2.0+ news, and it’s fun for us! As long as we can stay passionate enough about what we are doing, we will keep growing at the 10X pace at we are at.
So subscribe, and make sure to send your latest launches to zedomax [at] gmail.com
Peace Out!
Max
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May 9th, 2008 — Launched, Social Bookmarking
Mento, a bookmarking service similar to Del.icio.us, has just launched. The only difference Mento does is that it’s really oriented so you can “send” your bookmarks to others using Twitter and social networks.
They are using beta invites so you need an invite to try the service out.
The service does look promising but only time will tell its success.
Beyond the features typically found on tagging sites, Mento strives to simplify sharing links with friends by allowing users to import and interact with their Facebook contacts. The site also differentiates itself by keeping track of how many times a link you’ve shared has been clicked, and which members have clicked it.
Mento can be used either with bookmarklets in your browser’s toolbar or as an extension that appears as a button (available for both Firefox and IE). The extension isn’t intrusive, but it doesn’t seem to offer much extra functionality over the bookmarklet at this point (though this will likely change in the future).
via techcrunch
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May 9th, 2008 — web2.0
In a recent article by Erick Schonfeld over at TechCrunch about WiMax, I read the article and do agree with some of the points such as Clearwire being not a good company, but I don’t think WiMax deal will be a disaster.
Why?
WiMax is the only available wireless broadband technology that has proven it’s versatility and speed over the current outdated 3G technology in the U.S.
WiMax is as fast as Cable DSL with download speeds up to 6Mbps.
In Korea, they call WiMax, WiBro. Internationally, it’s called mobile WiMax.
WiMax is an IEEE approved standard, IEEE 802.16.
As soon as WiMax hits Sprint networks, everyone will be going bonkers over the high speeds of being able to do more things such as watch movies on the cellphone, and use Skype to call instead of using up your minutes.
It will be like the iPhone buzz, except people will crave over the high data speeds.
People in Korea and other parts of Asia have been getting this for last 2 to 3 years!!!
Why am I so persistent about this topic?
I am just bitter because my blackberry internet is slow…AND I live in metro-area, San Francisco, the fastest speed possible.
I should be able to blog on my phone. Even with my blackberry with Opera browser installed, it takes me 20 minutes to write a blog post that would normally take me a minute on my PC.
With WiMax, I should be able to blog in about 3-5 minutes since I don’t have to wait for websites to load.
In all, I guess Clearwire is clearly not a company that’d do well for this Sprint WiMax deal but the point is that consumers need faster internet yesterday!
As a consumer, I’d pay $100/month for WiMax if it was available today. Let’s worry about the politics later and get that WiMax available.
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May 9th, 2008 — Blogging
Just in, TechCrunch blog posts will now appear on WashingtonPost.com.
This is one of the first major signs that blogs will eventually take over the traditional media including radio, newspaper, and TV.
Don’t have a blog? Start one today! 
We are announcing a new partnership today with WashingtonPost.com - TechCrunch stories will be syndicated to their site and added to the Technology section. The press release is here.
I think this is a good experiment for the Washington Post - adding new types of content to the site to retain reader interest, over and above their existing stories. And this is certainly a great partnership for us, allowing us to get our content in front of a larger, more mainstream audience.
via techcrunch
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