New FriendFeed Room

We’re checking out FriendFeed, and it’s pretty cool. There’s some new functionality that lets you create your own rooms. Come check out ours.
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/austinstartup

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Get Thee Into Crunchbase

The folks over at TechCrunch announced today that they’ve opened up an API to CrunchBase, their comprehensive wiki of tech companies. We’re going to start using the CrunchBase widget here in AustinStartup, so if you want to see a nice widget of your company below any postings of your company make sure you are in [...]

Follow AustinStartup on Twitter

For all you Tweets out there, if you want the news items from AustinStartup fed to your Twitter feed, try:

follow austinstartup

For each new post, you will receive a Tweet with the news headline, and a tinyurl to the full story itself. Headline writing suddenly became much more important around here!

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Blog Readers Favor Firefox

Last week for the first time ever, the number of unique visitors using the Firefox browser was larger than the number of visitors using Internet Explorer. Browsing the web is no longer a strategic effort for Microsoft anyway, as the company’s stated #1 goal is to own paid search.

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AustinStartup Now Featured on Alltop

We’re proud to announce that your favorite Austin tech blog is now featured at startups.alltop.com. If you’re interested in even more great resources about startups, but don’t want to download and configure an RSS reader, startups.alltop.com will give you the top startup feeds including PresentationZen, TechCrunch, StartupWeekend, and StartupHouston.
If you want to look at all the [...]

Blog Happenings

The transition to Wordpress has largely been a good one. We’ve been able to do a lot more things on the blog, and there’s more coming.
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In the right hand bar there is a link that says “Add this blog to my Technorati favorites.” If you like the blog, please consider making us a favorite. It [...]

A New Year at AustinStartup!

It’s a new year and a new look for AustinStartup. We’re using some new software for the blog which will give us some exciting new capabilities in 2008. You might be seeing them already up in the menu bar. Some new sections for you:

Calendar — We’re hoping to start automatically syndicating calendars from your favorite [...]