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TC50: Threadsy, A Communications Stream To Rule Them All
by MG Siegler on September 15, 2009
Email. Twitter. Instant Messaging. Facebook. Those are just four of the most popular ways to communicate online. And actually, the average 23-year-old has 6 different accounts that they check for messages each day. Maintaining and keeping up with that is either basically impossible, or flat-out impossible. That’s [...]
TC50: Lissn Is A Broader Twitter Meets A Simpler Google Wave
by MG Siegler on September 15, 2009
A lot of people use Twitter to have conversations with others, but that’s not really what it was built for. Initially, Twitter was just supposed to be a place to update what you are doing; the @reply only came around because people started using it to direct [...]
TC50: Meet The Whuffie, A New Currency That’s Based On Your Online Reputation
by Jason Kincaid on September 15, 2009
It’s a sad fact of life that many of the most insightful and helpful people on the web (and in real life, for that matter) aren’t financially rewarded for their efforts — they may well be satisfied with the good they’ve done, but that doesn’t help to [...]
TC50: Simply Add A Social Network To Any Site With Stribe
by MG Siegler on September 15, 2009
The idea of adding a social network to any site is a compelling one. Currently, most sites do this by creating their own networks using service like Facebook Groups and Ning. But those obviously aren’t actually your own site, they are other sites set up under your [...]
TC50: Clixtr Launches Location-Aware Photo Sharing For The iPhone
by Jason Kincaid on September 15, 2009
We’ve all been there: the classic group photo, with twelve friends side by side doing their best to look as happy as humanly possible. The first shot is easy — but wait, the guy next to you has their own camera, so it’s time for another one. And [...]
TC50: Hark! Launches A Plugin To Bring Real-Time Sharing To Your Browser
by Jason Kincaid on September 15, 2009
Hark, a new startup that’s launching today at TechCrunch50, is looking to help friends share media and webpages with each other with as little friction as possible. The company offers a browser plugin that makes it easy to share links with friends, as well as interact though [...]
