Jack Dorsey, Ron Conway to attend The Crunchies Awards

It’s time to get excited for The Crunchies Awards. The final line-up of notable guests has been released, making us all the more excited to co-host this star-studded event.

Harris Wittels, “Parks and Recreation” writer and all-around funny guy, will take the stage as the host of the 2011 Crunchies Awards next Tuesday night, January 31. VentureBeat, GigaOm, and TechCrunch are hosting the event, awarding the best tech innovation of 2011.

The event is chock-full … Continue Reading

Tiny Review iPhone app makes everyday photos into special moments (exclusive)

As photos become the new status update, we’re going to see big changes in the way people create, combine and consume words and images. The latest example is from a 500 Startups company called Tiny Review, which unites microblogging and social photo-sharing in its free photo storytelling app. And with a new update for the app out today, the Tiny Review craze is about to take off.

With Tiny Review, users take photos on their … Continue Reading

With $1.5 million investment Google Ventures thinks Milk will make a splash

Google Ventures has invested $1.5 million into mobile application development studio Milk, the new project from Digg co-founder Kevin Rose. The investment is both strategic and pragmatic, and will help the startup to build out its team with top talent — an area where Google has always been strong.

“It’s been nice to able to ping them when we have certain questions, and to tap into the vast amount of experience they’ve had when building … Continue Reading

Kevin Rose launches Oink on iPhone: Yelp, Instagram and a dash of Foursquare

Digg co-founder Kevin Rose has just launched his new discovery app Oink, which lets users tag and rate the things around them.

Oink users take photos with their iPhone, tag their location, and can use photo filters, so the concept combines what people like about photo sharing app Instagram, reviews site Yelp, and the location service Foursquare.

Oink differentiates itself from other mobile and social apps because of its emphasis on rankings-based discovery, and it … Continue Reading

Philip Rosedale’s new startup creates marketplace for small, fun jobs

From the maker of Second Life, here comes an interesting new startup. Coffee & Power says it is creating an online marketplace where people can buy and sell small jobs.

The San Francisco-based startup is the brainchild of Philip Rosedale, founder of Linden Lab and its virtual world Second Life. The marketplace can connect workers in a way that Rosedale says is fast, low-friction, and fun. The market has its own virtual currency and payment … Continue Reading

Digg founder Kevin Rose cashes (partially) out of Twitter

Digg founder Kevin Rose, an investor in Twitter, Zynga, Ngmoco and a later investor in Facebook, has cashed out 20 percent of his shares in Twitter.

Twitter’s most recent funding round gave the company’s shareholders an option to sell 20 percent or 100 percent of their shares if they wanted to cash out. Rose did not specify which option he took, but he said he sold shares in Twitter and “still believed in the company.”… Continue Reading

Founder Kevin Rose is so totally over Digg

It looks like Kevin Rose isn’t taking his departure from news aggregator Digg so badly.

Rose said on Twitter Thursday that he doesn’t even use aggregators like Digg as part of his online reading habits. Which is peculiar, given that he founded one of the first and most popular news aggregation sites in the world.

“My tech news reading behaviors have changed,” he said on his Twitter account. “I click @techmeme browse their tweets, then … Continue Reading