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Just saw on the Google blog that Google Answers is no more. Predating crowdsourcing products from Yahoo, Microsoft, and Amazon, Google went the more elitist route of building a team of experts — 800 of them over the last four years. Ah well, guess it’s back to algorithms at the ‘Plex.

GigaOM technical architect Nitin Borwankar usually stays behind the scenes, but he got so excited about vertical code search he stepped in and wrote a post about it.
STARTUP: Krugle
ELEVATOR PITCH: “Find, fix, and learn.” Vertical search engine and web-based work support for developers.
WHAT THEY DO: Create value for developers who use open source and freely [...]

Fred Wilson’s assessment of the YouTube-Verizon Wireless deal is spot on. The limited amount of YouTube inventory over Verizon wireless network and devices, “violates the entire ethos of YouTube, not free, not open, exclusive, no community, limited, censorship, etc, etc.” The likelihood of such a deal has been talked about for a while.
Despite Verizon network’s [...]

Stickis, a plug-in that helps you add your own notes to web pages (similar to Medium, Trailfire, Fleck, and Diigo) launches today at noon. The idea of writing on the web is pretty cool, but Stickis’ confusing interface does not appear to be at all ready for prime-time. Still, there’s one feature that caught our [...]

So Verizon Wireless confirmed the speculation this morning of its deal to offer the equivalent of YouTube lite — select, approved content — through its VCast service. The deal is big news because the size of the companies involved, but this particular agreement is really just about trying to bring YouTube’s cool-factor branding to Verizon’s [...]

Reuters reports Dick Parsons said today he expects Time Warner to participate in download-to-burn releases of movies on the same day as DVDs sometime in 2007. C’mon, the technology is ready… why not this holiday season?