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Google Launches Knol, The Monetizable Wikipedia

Today Google has launched Knol, its Wikipedia alternative that holds authors accountable for the articles they write. Each article is created by a team of authors who receive attribution, and are...

Trouble in Online Travel: American Airlines Ditches Kayak (Maybe Orbitz Too)

After years of ceding the upper hand in online travel to booking sites like Kayak and Orbitz, American Airlines is about to fight back. According to the CEO of a competing travel site, American...

Facebook Launches Preferred App Program, Translation Services

Facebook just issued the press release for today’s F8 conference. The release is below, with the most important points bolded.:SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Facebook f8 Conference, July 23, 2008 –...

Liveblogging the Facebook Developer Conference

The TechCrunch team is on site at the Facebook Developer conference, and we’ll be live blogging the news. Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote starts at 1:30 pm PST. David Glazer (Director of...

It’s Facebook Day! Say Hello To The Three Tier App System

Today is definitely Facebook day as they hold their second annual F8 developers conference in San Francisco. Last year they released their developer platform, which led competitors to hurriedly...

Video: Scoble Tells the Comment Trolls To Go Back to Digg

Robert Scoble caused a stir yesterday with a post on how tech bloggers are failing our readers. We all chase the same stories, get spun like a top by the PR machine, and can’t sustain a...

Glam Media Snags A Google Exec To Head Up Corporate Development

Glam Media has hired Michael Adair, most recently Google’s head of North American sales finance, as their new VP Corporate Development and Finance. Prior to Google Adair was an investment...

MedPedia Is Wikifying the Medical Search Space

The medical industry is one that thrives on innovation and evolution. New procedures, medicines, diseases, and theories are released practically every day. In such an environment, the need for a...

Zynga Raises $29 Million B Round (Led By Kleiner Perkins) and Buys Virtual-World Facebook App YoVil

Social gaming network Zynga just got some serious funding. It raised $29 million in a B round led by Kleiner Perkins. (IVP and prior investors Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group and Avalon...

Yet Another Open Data Foundation?

Chris Saad, a co-founder of the Data Portability project has posted that tomorrow at OSCON a new Open Data Web Foundation will be announced by David Recordon and others. The goal of the new...