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While Apple And NBC Squabble Like Girls In A Schoolyard, Bit Torrent Keeps On Rolling
NBC Dumps iTunes! Apple Dumps NBC! What ever the headline, one thing is sure: by making it even more difficult to obtain affordable, legal downloads of TV shows, more and more people will be turning to Bit Torrent. In Apple’s case, it’s not really their problem, but with NBC you really have to question the [...]

Like Sands Through The Hour Glass, Another Person Is Claiming To Have Founded Facebook
The New York Times has discovered a new claimant for the title of founder of Facebook.Aaron Greenspan, a Harvard classmate of Mark Zuckerberg claims that he created the original college social networking system, before either Facebook or ConnectU were founded.Mr. Greenspan is said to have established a web service that he called houseSYSTEM in 2003, [...]

Google Earths Easter Egg: A Flight Simulator
We’ve always known that Google has wanted to challenge Microsoft’s desktop dominance in a number of areas, but to date we didn’t know that extended to gaming.Hidden inside Google Earth is a secret Flight Simulator that takes full advantage of Google’s extensive satellite imagery.To access the hidden feature, open Google Earth and hit Command+Option+A (note [...]

Update On Netscape.com: Its Done, Possibly Moving To WOW.com
We’ve gotten an update on the controversial post we wrote earlier this month on the possible shutdown of the fourteen-month-old old Digg-clone Netscape. Too many AOL execs have had their eye on the Netscape.com domain name, which brings in 3 million or so page views per day. The most likely scenario - The current home [...]

1.9 Billion Words; Scribd Users Have A Lot To Say
Wikipedia attracted a lot of attention earlier this week when Nikola Smolenski calculated how much paper it would take to print out the English entries in Wikipedia. Smolenski calculated that as of last September, Wikipedia’s English index of informative/controversial articles would fill about 750 400 page volumes. Under the assumption of a 6MB volume, the [...]

Ross Levinsohn And Jonathan Miller To Announce New Buyout Fund Next Week
This news has been simmering for a while. When Ross Levinsohn resigned as the President of Fox Interactive Media late last year it was rumored that he intended to raise a large fund to acquire Internet startups. He soon partnered with Jonathan Miller, the former Chairman and CEO of America Online and the two have [...]

TechCrunch/Seedcamp Party Next Week In London
We are hosting a party next week on Thursday, September 6 to support the Seedcamp event in central London and to announce some TechCrunch UK news. Most of the spots are reserved for Seedcamp attendees, but we are opening up 100 tickets to the public as well. To discourage no shows, we are charging a [...]

Fliqz Toolbar: Easily Upload And Embed Videos Anywhere
White label video host Fliqz launched a toolbar (IE only) that lets you easily upload and embed video content anywhere embed code is accepted. It doesn’t require a registration and hosts the videos on Fliqz servers for free. It’s kind of like taking your YouTube account around with you.Getting a video up is simple. Just [...]