{"id":2132,"date":"2007-05-30T20:22:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T01:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2007-05-30T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T01:23:34","slug":"techcrunch-is-loaded-today-lastfm-to-cbs-twitter-to-work-mahalo-human-powered-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/techcrunch-is-loaded-today-lastfm-to-cbs-twitter-to-work-mahalo-human-powered-search\/","title":{"rendered":"TechCrunch is loaded today: Last.FM to CBS, Twitter to work, Mahalo: Human Powered Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among today&#8217;s news in tech, first found by me at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/05\/29\/greatful-dead-fan-site-reborn-as-social-network\/\">Dead.net relaunched as a Drupal-powered social network<\/a>. Mah Gawd! You would have thought that Deadheads would be the leaders in social networking.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/05\/30\/cbs-acquires-lastfm-for-280m\/\">CBS bought Last.FM for $280 Million! An ALL Cash deal!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/05\/30\/widgetbox-remote-gallery-an-open-platform-for-widgets\/\">Widgetbox Remote Gallery <\/a>lets you host your widgets centrally for use on selected social networking sites. Very cool if you have multiple presences for example.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/05\/30\/twitter-back-on-the-straight-and-narrow\/\">&#8220;Twitter Back On The Straight And Narrow: Interview With Founder Biz Stone&#8221;<\/a> At least that&#8217;s what they claim. I thought it was down some today. This looks like a spin story to me. <em>Twitter: Odi et Amo<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/05\/30\/ebays-stumbleupon-acquisition-confirmed-at-75-million\/\">&#8220;eBay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s StumbleUpon Acquisition: Confirmed at $75 Million&#8221;<\/a> When you see the growth chart associated with the story, you&#8217;ll understand why this was a good deal for eBay.<\/li>\n<li>The first real breakthrough in searching in a while? Mahalo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/05\/30\/jason-calacanis-launches-mahalo-today-human-powered-search\/\">announced today<\/a>, attempts to add a human factor into searching and search results. But I get: <em>Oops! We haven&#8217;t hand-written a result page for &#8220;paul jones&#8221; yet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahalo.com\/Mahalo_No_Results\">Why?<\/a> Notify me when Mahalo creates a result page for &#8220;paul jones&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among today&#8217;s news in tech, first found by me at TechCrunch: Dead.net relaunched as a Drupal-powered social network. Mah Gawd! You would have thought that Deadheads would be the leaders in social networking. CBS bought Last.FM for $280 Million! An ALL Cash deal! Widgetbox Remote Gallery lets you host your widgets centrally for use on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}