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1. Google Makes FeedBurner Services Free - 2007-07-03 11:32:28-04
   FeedBurner has ceased charging for two premium features following their acquisition by Google in May. FeedBurner Stats PRO, a service that provides detailed statistics including subscriber numbers, item clickthrough tracking, podcast downloads and aggregate item uses amongst other features, becomes free. FeedBurner MyBrand, a service that allows users to control the URL of feeds is now free [...]
   
2. Amie Street Celebrates First Birthday: Free Music For TechCrunch Readers - 2007-07-03 11:36:26-04
   Amie Street, one of our favorite new music distribution services (SellABand is up there, too), turns one year old today - we first wrote about them last year a couple of weeks after launching. Amie Street's business model is dead simple - Artists upload their music for download on the site. Users download songs, with the [...]
   
3. eBay To Craigslist: Game On With US Version Of Kijiji - 2007-07-03 22:41:03-04
   eBay has opened a US version of its classifieds site Kijiji. Kijiji has previously been available in Canada as well as parts of Europe and Asia, and is a direct competitor to Craigslist. The Wall Street Journal reports that Kijiji is immediately available in 220 cities in all 50 US states. Like Craigslist, advertising is free with [...]
   
4. Technorati Loses Two Three More - 2007-07-03 23:44:00-04
   The news is just coming out that Technorati have lost two more employees. Tantek Celik has left after serving as 3 years as head of technology at Technorati and Adam Hertz has also left, after also serving for 3 years as the VP of Engineering. Both Tantek and Adam have played important roles in developing [...]
   
5. Respectance: Social Networking With A Deadly Twist - 2007-07-04 01:37:49-04
   It must be niche social networking week. Following my review yesterday of Bakespace, a social networking site for people who like cooking, another interesting site hit my inbox: Respectance. Respectance is a social networking site for online tributes, or as the email sent to me so nicely put it: "MySpace for dead people". Respectance provides a [...]
   
6. Second Life Copyright Infringement Claim Heads To Court - 2007-07-04 03:19:46-04
   A case of alleged copyright infringement in Second Life is heading to court. According to Reuters, Second Life entrepreneur Kevin Alderman, the owner of Eros LLC, a company that makes virtual sex beds, filed the "Eros LLC vs John Doe" lawsuit on Tuesday. Second Life user Volkov Catteneo is alleged to have copied and distributed the [...]
   
7. iPhone Weekend One: 700,000 Sold, $200million+ Profit For Apple - 2007-07-04 04:25:34-04
   After speculation earlier in the week that Apple had sold between 400-500,000 iPhones, the actual new sales figures for the iPhone are even wilder than earlier figures: Apple and AT&T moved 700,000 iPhones to the close of business Sunday. According to MacNN, Apple is said to have sold out of iPhones in 95 of 164 stores [...]
   
8. Web Sheriff DMCA's Scouta Over YouTube Content Uploaded By Warner Music - 2007-07-04 09:16:16-04
   Online music recommendation and sharing site Scouta has received a DMCA notice from IP enforcement group Web Sheriff, demanding that a White Stripes video hosted on YouTube and displayed on Scouta, be removed from Scouta due to copyright infringement. This despite the video being uploaded to YouTube by Warner Music, the White Stripes current record [...]
   
9. Laws of Physics Apparently Being Rewritten Today - 2007-07-04 17:46:34-04
   No reason U.S. independence day should slow the news down in Europe. Look for the long awaited demo from London of Steorn's new Orbo device today, which supposedly creates a steady stream of energy from magnetic fields: Orbo produces free, clean and constant energy - that is our claim. By free we mean that the energy [...]
   
10. Trendmill: Clothes Darling, Clothes! - 2007-07-04 22:58:32-04
    Keeping with this weeks evolving theme of niche social networking sites comes Trendmill, a social networking destination for lovers of clothes. Trendmill allows users to upload images of their own clothes or clothes they wish they owned. Members are able to "tip people off" on what they think is hot, vote on other people's clothes and [...]
    
11. Mozilla And eBay Launch Firefox eBay Edition And Addon - 2007-07-05 04:17:31-04
    Mozilla and eBay have launched Firefox eBay Edition, an eBay focused version of the popular Firefox browser, along with an official eBay addon for existing Firefox users. Firefox eBay Edition and the alternative addon works for European eBay sites including the UK, France and Germany. Functions include - An eBay sidebar that provides quick access and real-time updates [...]
    
12. iPhone Coming To The UK, Exclusive To O2 - 2007-07-05 07:36:09-04
    UK phone operator O2 is said to be close to securing the rights to sell the iPhone in the United Kingdom. A BBC report states that O2 is set to sign an exclusive contract shortly and should have the iPhone on sale in the UK in time for Christmas. The iPhone is expected to retail in the [...]
    
13. NBBC Joins The Deadpool - 2007-07-05 08:15:13-04
    NBBC, a video aggregation service launched by NBC last September has joined the TechCrunch Deadpool. The remains of NBBC will be merged into the NBC/ News Corp joint venture first announced in March. The new service, dubbed Clown Co by some has long been discussed but to date is yet to appear. Strangely, News Corp recently launched [...]
    
14. Skype To Use Jingle's 411 Service - 2007-07-05 12:00:10-04
    Skype and Jingle Networks, operator of a free 411 service, are working together - U.S. Skype users will have access to Jingle for 411 calls. Users can also add "Free411USA" to their Skype friends list. Users must be on Skype 3.5 for Window. This news comes very quickly after Jingle announced a patent on ad-supported 411 [...]
    
15. $50,000 Prize For Top Company At TechCrunch20 - 2007-07-05 15:21:02-04
    If you aren't one of the 200 companies who've submitted their application to launch at our upcoming TechCrunch20 conference, now's the time to do it. The deadline is tomorrow, July 6. We will begin to announce some of the selected companies next week. Not only will launching companies attend and present for free in front of [...]
    
16. Belgium Says ISPs Must Protect Copyright - 2007-07-05 18:18:44-04
    A court in Belgium has ruled that an Internet Service Provider bears the responsibility for stopping illegal file-sharing on its network. Although the ruling was made in Belgium, it relies on the E.U. copyright directive and may set precedent for the entire Union according to IFPI, an organization that represents the recording industry world wide. [...]
    
17. Sphere Quietly Nailing Its Business Model - 2007-07-05 20:29:08-04
    Blog search engine Sphere has kept a relatively quiet profile recently. After a private beta launch in late 2005 and a big-press full launch in the spring of 2006, they've kept mostly to themselves. Instead of focusing on building a better blog search engine (an area that Google now dominates after a recent Technorati refocus), Sphere [...]
    
18. Backfence Joins The Deadpool - 2007-07-05 22:15:08-04
    Community focused citizen journalism site Backfence announced June 29 that it is closing. Perhaps demonstrating how dire their situation had become, no one noticed until today. Backfence had been in trouble for some time; In January CEO and co-founder Susan DeFife resigned and the company reduced staff from 18 to 6. The company took $3million in [...]
    
19. "Digg for Deals" Up for Sale on eBay - 2007-07-05 22:48:02-04
    Deal site Trezr is yet another eBay exit for a website (here). The site is like Digg for frugal shoppers looking for deals, coupons, and tips on how to save money. Users submit tips to the site, which other users can vote up in importance. Trezr has a rather clever way of making money, by monetizing [...]
    
20. Facebook Users Up 89% Over Last Year; Demographic Shift - 2007-07-06 03:48:26-04
    Comscore has reported some interesting stats on Facebook, shedding light on the site's growth after opening up last September and their demographics. Over the past year (May '06 - May '07), Facebook saw an 89% increase in unique visitors to the site at 26,649,000 uniques, with a 143% increase in page views at 15.8 billion. [...]