To everyone that came to our TechCrunch Portland party, thank you for coming out to show support for local companies and good people. Enjoy this stellar video that Dave put together.

The 2010 World Cup has begun! It's no surprise that we're huge fans and will be watching closely. There's no other sporting even like this in the world. Viva la fútbol!

Stop on by the Think Brilliant headquarters on Friday, June 11th! Come celebrate TechCrunch's 5th Anniversary with a bunch of local tech and marketing nerds.

You need to create an environment where everyone has winning ideas.

Hadar credits his success to his anti -- Silicon Valley approach. "I don't want to gauge value by how much funding I get," he says, "but by the success of my products."

An exciting new SoulPancake release brings some highly anticipated functionality, Facebook Connect integration and much, much more to our community.

Yammer, with its drop-dead simplicity, has quickly gained adoption within our team.

We recently gave an in depth look at the way we use Basecamp by 37signals. They published our article on their product blog.

In February, Google announced that it would deploy an experimental Gigabit internet network to a "small nu[...]