I’ve been called an idiot many times in my life, but the number of times I’ve been labeled as such dramatically increased since I’ve become a tech blogger (you know how cranky pundits get).  Still, being generically called out as such in a recent post by Nalts (entitled: “Hey, Idiot. Missing “View Through” Data on ...

@marshallk Just pinged us on what sounds like will be a pretty interesting event: “I’m doing briefings with some of the most innovative people and companies doing real work with real-time web technology and we’re going to leverage all that learning and those connections to put on one hell of an event. I promise you ...

Jeff Nolan posted earlier here today in brief on the need for the media to let go of traditional definitions of journalism. I’ve had conversations with those involved with media from all levels, from the beat reporter to the blogger, from the pundit to the presidents of papers.  Without much variation, almost all writers and ...

@arrington: Twitter’s Raising More Money [rumor] Mike says that Twitter’s working on raising another $50 million at a $1 billion valuation. They have around $30 million still in the bank after their last fundraising effort, which netted them $35 million at a $250 million valuation. Fuller story here at Techcrunch – (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/16/twitter-closing-new-venture-round-with-1-billion-valuation/ ) I’m convinced, ...

Facebook’s big news from TC50: 1) 300 Million Users. 2) Cash Flow Positive. More from MG here (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/15/facebook-crosses-300-million-users-oh-yeah-and-their-cash-flow-just-went-positive/ ). More liveblogging here (http://siliconangle.com/ver2/tc50-2009/ ). John’s thread on the TC50 Liveblog on it: (http://siliconangle.net/ver2/tc50-2009/2009/09/15/i-got-to-chat-with-the-facebook-team-her/ ). Mark Zuckerberg’s released statement on the event: (http://siliconangle.net/ver2/sabackchan/2009/09/15/facebook%e2%80%99s-big-news-from-tc50-1-300-%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-1494 ). Updates to the story in the comments. Click on through for more.

Partnerships are all the rage in the new media business. Online video technology companies, in fact, are betting on alliances with other like-minded firms to help grow business and win new customers. This week’s episode of the New Media Minute looks in depth at the new partners that both Brightcove and thePlatform have brought on ...

Today is day two of Techcrunch50, and the final day of demonstrations.  Most of the team will either be there at the event or here at the blog liveblogging what’s going on again.  The team you’ll see show up includes Michael Sean Wright, Sean P. Aune, James Watters, Nate D’amico, and Kristen Nicole. Again, usability ...

The Internet can serve as a means for enhancing consumer protections, provided that government agencies play their appropriate role in regulating and disclosing the practices of broadband providers, according to a several consumer advocates. Speaking at the September 9 workshop of the Federal Communications Commission, the advocates observed that the FCC and the Federal Trade ...

Watching Penn and Teller present their iPhone app this morning was pretty interesting (and infuriating, since I couldn’t to see them in person), but of the startups I’ve seen thus far, the most innovative presentation has been the one from the FluidHTML folks. The short version of what their attempting to solve is the index-ability ...

Throughout the next couple of days, for the duration of Techcrunch50, much of the team will be at least slightly distracted by conference.  We decided to liveblog as much of it as we could, by those of us who are there in person, and those of us stuck doing work from livingroom. If you want ...