Nat Goldhaber of Claremont Creek Ventures thinks that 2011 will be the year of the cleantech IPO …finally. So does that mean that America hasn’t totally lost the cleantech race after all?

Snaptu , a Sequoia-backed company that offers a suite of smartphone-like applications that can be installed on more basic handsets, has hit another major milestone: it’s now up to 20 million registered accounts, 5.5 million of which are active. And it’s adding users very quickly — it was only last June that the company announced that it had 10 million registered users, 2.5 million of which were active

Facebook has outlined a new “ Iframe POST Proposal” as a solution to prevent  User IDs from being passed through HTTP refferer headers .

It was inevitable, developer Jesse Stay has built a way  “Like” tweets on the Twitter homepage.

Well, this is interesting. Google’s Advertising Assistance Program extends to video ads. Earlier today I published an investigative post about Google’s relationship with Publicis and other large ad agencies and incentive programs whereby Google pays the ad agencies to use its advertising platform.

Ok TRON fans, have I got a treat for you! I just returned from a two day TRON press event with some awesome interviews from the creators, cast and crew of TRON: Legacy and the original TRON. I asked many of the questions I  solicited from TechCrunch commenters  and everyone seemed to love them — especially Jeff Bridges.

A new federal investigation is focusing on the legality of supply line leaks and their consequences on Wall Street. The poster boy for this would have to be Apple, around which an entire manufacturing and distribution channels has grown, and which is now too big to plug every leak — especially now that memetically propagating news magnifies every murmur into a clamor, for better or for worse

As Apple CEO Steve Jobs like to point out , the Android Market is great for users who want to find porn. While that may not be exactly true, other Android-based stores are trying to make it true

All signs point to this holiday season being a prosperous one for retailers.

In retrospect, Tesla may have been cleantech’s Netscape moment. It didn’t get off to the world’s greatest start, but like a few other venture-backed IPOs , lately it has been trading at nearly double its opening price. Meanwhile, a few other cleantech companies have filed S-1s and several more are waiting in the wings, watching to see what the market does.