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DIY Instant Camera, But Not The Kind You're Imagining | John Biggs | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt5dBrXg8eY&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3] If you’ve been wildly despondent at the death of the Polaroid, there is still hope. This DIY “instant camera” by uses a simple digital camera and printer to take and print images. Here’s the bad part: the camera has ... |
LinkedIn Surpasses Myspace For U.S. Visitors To Become No. 2 Social Network; Twitter Not Far Behind | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | Professional social network Linkedin surpassed Myspace in terms of traffic to become the No. 2 most visited social networking site in the U.S. in June. LinkedIn, which has seen of traffic after , reached an all-time high of 33.9 million unique visitors in June compared to Myspace, which saw 33.5 million unique visit... |
Feast Your Eyes On Recipe Curation Site Gojee | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | There’s no shortage of food recipe sites on the web for virtually any kind of food. In fact, trying to find a recipe online can be overwhelming with all of the options available. Enter recently launched foodie favorite , which curates recipes from food bloggers around the web in a visually beautiful way. On Gojee, you... |
Carpooling Startup Zimride Hits 100 Million Miles Served [Infographic] | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | Though The American Automobile Association (AAA) is only expecting a relatively marginal 2.5 percent decrease in travel compared to last year, gas prices are currently averaging $3.57 across the U.S. — an 82-cent increase from the same time last year. In a timely piece of news for all those weekend riders out there,... |
Paul Adams: Seeing Google+ In Public Is Like Bumping Into An Ex-Girlfriend. | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | Ex-Google UX guy s is perhaps most known for his slideshow which highlighted the perils of having one default group for sharing and emphasized that the ideal social networking service would be designed for multiple groups. The slideshow illustrated the flaws in Facebook’s lump sum friend model and called for a social... |
WikiLeaks Intends To Sue Visa And MasterCard For Blocking Payment | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | and its credit card processing partner Datacell have announced their intent to file suit in the EU against credit card companies Visa and Mastercard for blocking donations to the service last year. In early December the two payments companies payments to the relatively quiet as of late organization, with Mastercar... |
Facebook Engineers Build Google+ Inspired Facebook Hack | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | With many that Google+ is heavily Facebook influenced, Facebook engineers , , , have flipped the switch and taken inspiration from the novel Google Circles design with , a much simpler tool to build Facebook Friend lists. Right now the only way you can create lists on Facebook is by going to the Friends page, c... |
Lion Good To Go – Should Ship On July 14th | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | OS X Lion (pictured at right), which was , is in “Gold Master” status and is “shipping” to developers. A curious set of terms for an OS that to cut ties with the old disc-based model for software distribution. also hears that it will be available for you and me come July 14th — coincidentally, the time we expect to... |
The US Group Buying Universe [Infographic] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | While the as to whether group buying as whole is a viable business model rages on post-Groupon 1, there’s no doubt that these social deal things keep sprouting up — Yesterday someone introduced themselves to me as the CEO of a Groupon for moms (and yes I thought it was a good idea). We’ve got Groupons for , a Group... |
Why Is Zynga Rushing Towards Its IPO? | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | The IPO window is now wide open, with everyone from to rushing towards it. Nobody knows how long that window will stay open (rule of thumb is 18 months), so better go public while you can. But today’s IPO filing from Zynga came particularly fast. According to one source, the actual writing of the was one of th... |
Samsung Offers Trimmed-Down Series 9 To Better Combat MacBook Air | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | If the $1649 is too rich for your blood, but you still want a Windows-based ultraportable (or ultrabook, whatever they’re calling them these days), consider… the Samsung Series 9. The 11-inch X1A version of Samsung’s Air-killer is now out, and it’s lighter by half a pound and a few hundred bucks. So for $1199, you lo... |
With 17M Registered Users, Tango Is Growing Twice As Fast As Skype Did Its First Year | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | Back in Skype’s early days, it was adding users so fast that it liked to that it was “the fastest growing, globally available communications tool in history.” Well, by at least one measure (registered users 9 months after launch), mobile video chat service is outpacing Skype. Tango now has 17 million registered u... |
CrunchDeals: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 For $5 (Again!) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 1 |
, BC2 was on Impulse, and my colleagues were earnestly recommending it to me. Now, I’m earnestly recommending it to you. There’s lots of good stuff being sold at the , but . Solid single-player, awesome multiplayer, just a fantastic game. |
Ad software startup Burt closes new funding to expand internationally | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | Former TechCrunch 50 company Burt www.burtcorp.com, which creates software for ad agencies, has closed €1.6 million ($3m) in funding. Swedish investor , which took to IPO, lead the round. Burt founders, Gustav and Gustav Martner, along with the investment firm Tornstaden are also throwing in €2.2 million. The funds... |
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Foursquare Finds Its Way To Windows Phone 7 | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | Ah-hah! There we go. Just days ago how strange it was that Foursquare didn’t have a proper Windows Phone 7 application (especially as Microsoft had touted Foursquare around as a partner since the very beginning), and now they’ve gone and made things right. Following Gowalla into the Windows Phone fray by less than ... |
Google's Nexus Contraptions Bring A Rube Goldberg Diversion To YouTube | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 1 |
Here’s a good way to spend the last few hours of your work week as we head into the long holiday weekend: Google has just launched a new game called . It’s full of slick graphics, physics, and gadgetry, and while I’m not entirely sure what it has to do with Android, it’s fun. The game is similar to a handful of games... |
Weekend Giveaway: Toshiba 47-inch TL515 Series 3D LED TV | John Biggs | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a with natural, passive 3D display, choose TriVector 2D to 3D Conversion, 3D Resolution+, 3D Cross Talk Cancellers and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and Toshiba’s first Natural 3D LED TV as it creates stunning 3D images... |
Google Flirts With Hulu As It Searches For The Key To Video's Heart | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | Google is ambitious, trying to fight the war for web audience on . And just as it’s officially begun the , today hold that the search company is trying to court streaming video service Hulu away from Yahoo, presumably for the potential licensing and advertising deals from major brands like Coca Cola and Disney. M... |
TC Cribs Bloopers – A Side Of Jason Kincaid You Have Never Seen Before (TCTV) | Jon Orlin | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | I need to start with a warning. Depending on your work environment, this may not be safe for work. Especially if you don’t want to hear a lot of four letter words. It may not be safe around small children either. But for everyone else, you might enjoy watching this video over and over again. One of our popular TCTV s... |
LinkedIn Cuts Off API Access To BranchOut, Monster's BeKnown And Others For TOS Violations | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | Professional social network LinkedIn has shut down API access to a number of developers for terms of service violations, according to the company. The six developers whose access to LinkedIn’s API include Facebook-focused professional network BranchOut, Monster’s social recruiting app , brand management app , resume... |
Google Responds To Nortel Patent Loss: "The Outcome Is Disappointing" | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | Late last night, it was revealed that Nortel had . To the surprise of many, that winner was not Google, which had put up the “stalking horse” bid to get the ball rolling. Instead, the winner was a “consortium” of industry players — a consortium that includes Apple, RIM, Microsoft, Sony, and others. In other words, t... |
Facebook Will Launch In-Browser Video Chat Next Week In Partnership With Skype | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | Earlier this week while visiting Seattle, Facebook CEO tipped off Seattle press that the company would be launching an next week that has been built by Facebook’s Seattle team. The press invitations to that event went out today, saying nothing more than “Please join us for an event at Facebook” on July 6. So what i... |
Zuckerberg's Not So Subtle Dig At Google Circles | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | Even as Facebook revealed some on Wednesday, the was Google’s latest attempt to create a social network, Google+. Mark Zuckerberg tried deflect direct comparisons by saying, “Every app is going to be social.” But he did make one remark, which suggested how he really feels about Google+ and one of its main features... |
It's A Pretty Big Ship: HP Isn't After Apple, It's After The Enterprise | John Biggs | 2,011 | 7 | 1 | has an interview with HP’s developer relations guy, Richard Kerris, where he basically says that WebOS is HP’s enterprise strategy, not their consumer play. He says: “We think there’s a better opportunity for us to go after the enterprise space and those consumers that use PCs,” said Kerris. “This market is in it’s in... |
I’m Quitting Email | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | It started as an idea. Well, , really. What if I just responding to email? Sure, at first it was said in half-jest after a few drinks. It was me channeling my inner — “I’m just gonna stop going” — while I’m sitting here in Washington D.C. completely buried in email after not getting to it all day. But the motivati... |
Wi-Fi Xoom Drops To $499 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | Are you still pining for a ? . But really, who am I to judge? Have I not made mistakes of my own? For instance, every time I order a shot of Fireball. But I digress. You were looking for a Xoom, yes? I can’t interest you in the slimmer , or the upcoming ? No? Not an inexpensive , or even a ? No? All right then,... |
Say What? Thanks To Digital Music, Album Sales Up For The First Time Since 2004 | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | , Nielsen’s report that tracks point-of-purchase music sales across real and digital sources, was released today, and at long last contains a few rays of hope for the beleaguered music industry. The midyear sales data shows that, among other things, for the first time since 2004, album sales actually increased in the... |
Giant VR Helmet Is Very 90s, Yet Way Cooler | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW_-bGyiKGs&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3]
You might remember trying on one of these big-ass VR helmets ten or fifteen years ago, maybe at a big arcade or some sort of tech show. They were pretty cool, but were mainly used for plain orientation of the head in ... |
Sony S1 And S2 Go Wild On Video In Italy | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 6 |
Anyone speak Italian? Eh, I think you get the gist from watching. These two videos show the elusive (though decreasingly so) we heard about from Sony back in April. You can see the Playstation Suite with games and movie trailers in one, and the other gives a slightly blurry tour of the hardware itself, which is actu... |
Breaking: Spotify Announces Impending US launch (really) | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | Streaming music service , which is gunning to compete with iTunes, just put up a which will presumably be launched soon. Users are being asked to enter an e-mail address on its U.S. site to get an update. Date, pricing and partners are not yet specified but it looks like they landed the final music label deals they... |
Mark Zuckerberg Explains His Law Of Social Sharing [Video] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | Facebook CEO punctuated his today by revealing that users are now publicly sharing around 4 billion “things” (status updates, images, etc) on Facebook a day. Zuckerberg explained that in accordance with Facebook’s data, social sharing functions exponentially, so that the amount of stuff you shared today is double... |
Video: Robot Mimics Snail Style For Omnidirectional Movement | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbcHptH947w&w=640&h=390]
Biomimetic are nothing new ( , , ), but as there is a great variety of animals to mimic, there’s no shortage of interesting takes on the idea. (how I would love to work at a place with a name like that), uses the movement principle favored by the c... |
Amazon Cloud Drive Now To Include Unlimited Music, But It Will Cost $20/Year | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | Back in March, to the “music locker” punch with their “Cloud Drive” and “Cloud Player”, which offered 5 GB of free storage space and an accompanying music player, respectively. At the time of release, both the Cloud Drive and the Cloud Player were only available on the Web and Android. Today, Amazon is announcing a ... |
ZeroCater: Because Lunch At The Office Doesn't Have To Be A Complete Pain | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | Lunch at the TechCrunch office has always been an interesting affair. We’re fortunate enough to have it paid for by the company several times a week, but the logistics involved — in other words, ordering enough food for everyone while taking their taste preferences into account — cause a real headache. For a long time ... |
Exec Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud After Spilling Apple's Secrets | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | If I can steal a quote from Mr. Shimoon, has long been “crazy” about keeping new products a secret. Analysts love to throw out , but when we get down to the truth of the matter, none of us knows anything about Apple’s secrets until Jobs himself wants us to. That is, except for component suppliers and their employees... |
Remember When Twitter Was A Joke? No One Is Laughing Anymore. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | I recall a time a few years ago when Twitter was scoffed at. It was the . It was the stupid little service that no one in their right mind would ever use. It was for people who wanted to share the mundane bits of their lives — that no one else wanted to read. It was for egomaniacs. Or losers. It would never catch on. ... |
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim To Get Proper PC Version | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 6 |
Some developers have been answering questions in the Elder Scrolls forums, and have confirmed that Skyrim will indeed get , and should be free of the kind of console holdovers that plagued Crysis 2. Not that every game doing it right needs a post here, but after playing what I could of , I’m really glad to see a d... |
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What Do Facebook T-Shirts Look Like In Seattle? | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | Why they have the on them of course! Our illustrious model here is none other than , the main (and only full-time) Facebook engineer behind the announced today. While the Facebook Seattle T-shirts have been around for nine months, Facebook has been pushing its Seattle team lately, with Zuckerberg giving the infam... |
Virgin Mobile To Switch Up Plan Prices, Drop $10 Monthly BlackBerry Fee? | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | Earlier today we received word from a tipster that will be switching up its plan rates in the near future, likely sometime this month. The new rates add $10 to the price of the 300-minute plan (was $25, will be $35), $5 to the 1200 minute plan (was $40, will be $45), while dropping the price of the unlimited everythi... |
Boost Mobile To Nab The BlackBerry Style 9670 (RIM's Crazy Huge Flip Phone) This Month | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | Have you always wanted to rock RIM’s wonky-lookin’ BlackBerry Style 9670, but weren’t sure enough about the big ol’ clamshell form factor to lock into a contract? Good news: It’s going pre-paid. We’ve just received multiple tips that the Style will be hitting Boost Mobile sometime this month, complete with BlackBerry O... |
Effectology: Paranormal Spooooky Sounds | John Biggs | 2,011 | 7 | 6 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhnTaV7w_d8&w=640&h=390] Our buddy Bill Ruppert just shared another with us, this time creating spooky sounds from the haunted house. The effects he creates here are pretty wild including Alien Bells and an X-Files whistle, all built on effects pedals and a standard git-fiddle.... |
Toyota Joins Linux Foundation | Scott Merrill | 2,011 | 7 | 6 |
The , the nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux, announced yesterday that Toyota is its newest Gold-level member. This is a pretty interesting development for both organizations. From the official press release: “Toyota is joining The Linux Foundation as a Gold member to maximize its own inv... |
Europe Launching Gigapixel Probe To Map Milky Way | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 6 |
We’ve come to love the fantastic and sublime images of space taken from such satellites as the Hubble, but the truth is that the technology that created those images is incredibly out of date. And while you can’t argue with the results, it has gotten to the point where the sensitivity, angle of view, and data collecti... |
Sony Cybershot TX55 Shoots HD Video And 12-Megapixel Stills, At The Same Time | John Biggs | 2,011 | 7 | 24 | Although I’ve never been a huge fan of the Cybershot line, it’s interesting to see how much tech Sony has been dumping into these things of late. For example, this $350 camera shoots full 1080i video 12-megapixel stills at exactly the same time with no interruption. It has 5X optical zoom and some sort of 16-megapix... |
Airbnb Bags $112 Million In Series B From Andreessen, DST And General Catalyst | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 24 | The scrappy apartment sharing startup Airbnb has just raised $112 million at a one billion plus valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. We’re hearing that the split is around $60 million from Andreessen, $40 million from DST and $5 million from General Catalyst — the rest coming from previous investors and newcomer Jeff ... |
Kleiner Perkins Leads $37 Million Round In Realtime Traffic Data Company Inrix | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 24 | Realtime car traffic data company has raised $37 million in series D funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ Green Growth Fund and August Capital. This brings Inrix’s funding to nearly . Post-funding, Inrix’s valuation is just shy of $500 million. Inrix aggregates and crowdsources real-time traffic informa... |
Facebook Moves Into Its New Campus [Photos] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 24 |
Just like it told us it would , Facebook has started to move its into Building 10 of its new Menlo Park campus in the old Sun Building on the Bayfront Expressway. How do we know this? Well Facebook Product Architect has and the elaborate decorative elements involved in a Facebook album called “Building 1... |
Eying An IPO In The Next Year, LegalZoom Raises $66M From Kleiner Perkins And IVP | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 24 | You may have heard of which is basically an online service that helps people create their own legal documents. The site makes its relatively easy to do simple legal functions such as writing a last will, incorporating a business, trademark a name or creating a real estate lease. The fact is that paying a lawyer to dr... |
Facebook Glitch Revealed Thumbnails & Descriptions Of Friends’ Private Videos | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 24 | Facebook’s labyrinthine privacy controls have sprung another leak. This time it’s their Videos feature, which lets users share brief clips with their friends and family (Videos launched back in 2007 and Facebook now serves of views each month). Of course, videos are often sensitive — even more so than photos — but Fa... |
New iPad 2 Ad Highlights Versatility, Tries To Break Through To Doubters | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 24 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_gQHtXsLtU&w=630] “We’ll never stop sharing our memories. Or getting lost in a good book. We’ll always cook dinner and cheer for our favorite team. We’ll still go to meetings, make home movies, and learn new things. But how we do all this will never be the same.” Unveiled today,... |
Google Plus Has A Problem. Fear Not: I Have A Solution | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 7 | 24 | Google Plus is . I don’t think it will ever be more than the Pepsi to Facebook’s Coke, alas, but it’s much slicker and better designed. It’s too bad that the service has sacrificed a pile of goodwill over the last week by repeatedly publicly shooting themselves in the foot. First there was the . Now it’s gotten much ... |
The revolution will not be televised | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 7 | 24 | Seems like the Good Old Days are here again as Google+ invites continue to pile up in email. Email is that Y2K technology that jumped the shark in the middle of the decade, back when Twitter introduced realtime direct messages. How little has changed since then is why the blogs are still choked with Google+ analysis or... |
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Chatroulette + Google Hangouts= PlusRoulette | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 24 | Part of Google’s new social platform Google+ includes a group video chat feature called which is and sharing. As my colleague MG Siegler wrote in of Google+, Google Hangouts attempts to solve the social problem of video chat by making it easy for you to let others know that you’re interested in chatting. You can ... |
With A New Sense Of Purpose, Google’s Market Cap Closes In On $200 Billion | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 24 | Google’s stock is reaching its highest value over the past six months, trading as high as $619.50 share On Friday, putting search giant just shy of a $200 billion market cap. In fact, Google’s stock closed at $618.23 on Friday, giving the company a $199.23 market cap. The last time Google traded above $600 was in the f... |
Closing The Redemption Loop In Local Commerce | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 24 | When it comes to local commerce, the ultimate prize everyone is going after right now is how to close the redemption loop. The redemption loop starts when a consumer sees an ad or an offer for a local merchant, and is completed when the consumer makes a purchase and that purchase can be tracked back to the offer. If ... |
The Winklevosses Vs. Silicon Valley | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 23 | The Winklevoss twins had against Facebook dismissed yesterday, causing tech media to write another slew of “The Winklevosses’ Case Against Facebook Is Over But Wait Actually It Isn’t” headlines. The seven-year battle is indeed not over, as the Winklevosses intend to file a motion , which alleges that the Facebook wit... |
Shocked By News Corp Phone Hacking Revelations? Please. [TCTV] | Scott Merrill | 2,011 | 7 | 23 | “How can you close me up? On what grounds?”
“I’m shocked – shocked! – to find that gambling is going on in here!”
“Your winnings, sir.”
“Oh, thank you very much.” One has to mourn such a collective loss of innocence. The of the British parliament tearfully quizzing News Corp executives over that phone hac... |
Microsoft’s Online Business For The Year: Over $2.5 Billion …Lost | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 23 | Microsoft had one hell of a year. Their best ever, in fact, . , but hey, who is? Nearly $70 billion in revenue for what is primarily a software company is amazing. But the great numbers continue to mask one thing: the gaping, blood-soaked wound that is the Online Services Division. Reading Microsoft’s on their earn... |
Gillmor Gang 7.23.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 7 | 23 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Andrew Keen, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — convened for yet another G+ conversation. This one, however, was noted for its evenhandedness as @ajkeen and @scobleizer traded social blows over the new Google service. As someone in the Friendfeed chat on the livecast noted, @stevegillm... |
Daily Crunch: High Chair | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 7 | 23 | Here are some recent stories from TechCrunch Gadgets:
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OMG/JK: Lion’s Inverted Roar | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 23 | In this episode we take a look at Mac OS X Lion, the latest release of Apple’s operating system that introduces some key new features: Mission Control, Launchpad, and . Tune in to hear how often MG attempts to touch the screen of his Macbook because he’s so used to the iPad. Yup. Next, we turn to Spotify, the all-yo... |
Applifier Hits 100 Million Installs, Brings Social Game Discovery Bar To Mobile | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | , the cross-promotional network of social game publishers, announced today that it has delivered over 100 million game installs for free on Facebook. Launched in 2010, Applifier set out on a mission to help game publishers find new users and get their games discovered on the social network, and has since grown like a w... |
Google+ Ad On Facebook Is Banned | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | What happens on Google+, stays on Google+. At least that’s the way Facebook would like to see things. Web developer Michael Lee Johnson found that out the hard way. He was trolling for Google+ friends on Facebook by running a Facebook ad asking people to add him to their Circles on Google+. Facebook, apparently, di... |
Trimit Summarizes Emails, Blog Posts, And More With A Shake Of Your iPhone | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | Attention spans are short these days, and some might even say the Web isn’t helping this phenomenon. Regardless, time is money, and people are ever-looking for more useful ways to maximize what time they have. Many have little tolerance (or time) for long-form digital content, and we’re seeing the proliferation of the ... |
… On Twitter | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | Philosophically there is no more arbitrary milestone than the passage of time, each year we celebrate the passing of another year, see what I mean? That’s why Twitter’s second five-year anniversary milestone of 350 billion tweets delivered and 600K users signing up daily falls a little flat (Twitter celebrated its “fir... |
Guest post: European venture capital and a theory of evolution | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | All you ever hear about these days with European venture capital is either that it is miles behind the US or that it can contribute greatly to economic growth and should be subsidised by governments. While I mostly agree with both these statements I think they are missing the central point. By investing in early stage ... |
The Great European VC Debate – Timid, risk averse, bad? Or just misunderstood? | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | Nic Halstead threw a rabid cat amongst the pigeons this week when he spoke to about his disappointment in those European VCs who, he says, remain risk averse compared to thir US colleagues (Datasift just raised $6m from two US VCs). Towards the end of our video interview Nick said: “We’re still doing something quite ... |
Don't like the TechCrunch re-design? Then try one of these. | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | Don’t like the new TechCrunch.com re-design? Some enterprsing person has created “ “, a site which parses TechCrunch content through one of four diferent design. You can choose TechCrunch laid out at the New York Times, Hacker News, A Google+ account, or the Classic Design of old. It just goes to show, beauty is in the... |
Google+: One Hell Of A Trojan Horse | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | There’s no shortage of in the air these days. Overeager pundits and soothsayers are hoping to be among the most visible voices on the net saying which service or company it’s going to topple, why it’s going to fail or succeed, and why it should or shouldn’t be more like this or that. It all seems awfully premature, c... |
Viadeo challenges LinkedIn in China as CEO moves from the Valley to Beijing | Monty Munford | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | These are supposedly heady days for professional social networks. (At time of writing, 12/07) shares are now trading at $100, more than double its IPO price of $45 and valuing the company at more than $10 billion. But there are significant headwinds ahead for LinkedIn in its post-IPO form. Its reliance on third party... |
The Endless Bubble Debate: Kedrosky Vs. Wadhwa | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | [youtube=”http://youtu.be/DMRM1RwvTmA”] With valuations for tech companies going through the roof from Facebook on down to , the endless sees . and recently got into it on . Professor Wadhwa thinks it will all end badly with Grandma losing her piggy bank. Kedrosky points out that bubbles usually occur at the... |
Fighting Ticketmaster, The Edge Invests In Ticketing Startup | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | Ticket Text, the makers of , a white label mobile ticketing solution, announced today that they have raised $350,000 in seed funding from , a.k.a. David Evans, or the guy who plays guitar for U2. Several other Dublin and London-based angels participated in the round, with Ticket Text’s total investment now at just ov... |
Whoops! Sears.com Accidentally Lists iPad 2 For $69 | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | Anyone looking for a $69 16GB ? Apparently, some IT guy over at one of third-party resellers, GSM On Sale, had a bit of a face-palm moment: the site temporarily listed the iPad for $69. Oddly enough, the listing claims that you’ll save a whopping $30 by taking advantage of this deal, posting an original price of $99... |
Just When You Thought It Was Safe: Skype Vulnerabilities Emerge | Jay Donovan | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | Silly hackers are always trying to ruin the Internet and they have found yet another target in the form of popular VOIP software Skype. According to , linked from : “Skype suffers from a persistent Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability due to a lack
of input validation and output sanitization of the ‘mobile phone’ prof... |
Rugged Pocket Cam Round-Up: Toshiba BW10, Samsung W200, Kodak Easyshare Sport And Playsport | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | Summer is here, and there’s a good chance some of you are thinking of picking up something to document your vacations with. iPhones and point-and-shoots are all well and good, but if you want to take it to the pool or the beach, it’s nice to feel sure that an errant splash isn’t going to disable your camera permanently... |
Apple Leaks Thunderbolt LED Cinema Displays, Kills The Dream For A Redesigned Mac Pro | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | Apple is gearing up for a big back-to-school push as stated by several product codes that leaked the other day. As it turned out, one of the SKUs were not for a computer to a computer, but rather according to a random image on Apple’s website, a Thunderbolt-equipped LED Cinema Display. Such a monitor shouldn’t be that ... |
Apple Releases iOS 4.3.4, Patches Up The PDF Exploit / JailbreakMe Method | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | A shiny new iOS update has just been released! iOS 4.3.4 is now available on iTunes. As far as I can tell, there’s only one change here: Apple has fixed the PDF exploit that theoretically could be used to do all sorts of malicious things to you iOS device — unfortunately, that also means that they’ve fixed the PDF expl... |
CrowdStar And YouWeb Launch $10M StarFund For Mobile Social Game Development | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | Social gaming company is teaming up with the incubator which it was spawned from, , to launch a $10 million venture fund, called the StarFund. The fund will make investments in promising mobile game developers. Game developers can apply to receive up to $250,000 in initial funding to develop their mobile games, if t... |
Verizon: No, Our 4G LTE Phones Won’t Work With AT&T’s LTE Network | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | Verizon has a 4G LTE network. AT&T is building a 4G LTE network. They both use SIM cards. Surely, after all these years of running on vastly different network technologies (Verizon’s CDMA vs AT&T’s GSM) thus requiring silly things like two separate models of the iPhone, the two would have figured out way to make thei... |
Keen On… A Super Sad True Love Story (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 7 | 15 | America’s most talented writers are discovering the electronic network. In Gary Shteyngart’s best selling trip into the digital future, invents a darkly disturbing world in which we all wear electronic pendants around our necks called “apparats” which reveal everything about us to everybody. In the future, he tells... |
Sobees Debuts A More Social, Browser-Based Version Of News Aggregator NewsMix | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | Earlier this year, social media client Sobees , an iPad app which presents news and content shared by your social circle in a magazine format on the device. It’s similar in functionality to Flipboard, Summify or Pulse. Today the company is launching a browser-based, more social news aggregator. The which is designed... |
Unfriendly: Google Blocking Ex-Employee’s "Social Circles" Book (Oh Yeah, He Now Works At Facebook) | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | We’ve written about a few times now. As a refresher, he’s the guy who used to on user experience and made a popular presentation that how Google could Facebook in the social space — namely, friend groups. That, of course, ended up happening with Google+. But before that project was complete, Adams . After the ... |
T-Mobile Amps Their "4G" Network To 42Mbps in 56 New Regions, Still Has No 42Mbps-Compatible Phones | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | Oh man! I just realized: we’ve had this for a whole day now, and we have yet to do one of our kind-of-but-not-really-trademark posts. You know what that means? . T-Mobile is doubling the speeds of their high-speed data network in 56 new regions, bumping things from a theoretical max of 21 Megabits per second to a... |
Badgeville Raises $12 Million, Celebrates With An Infographic | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | founder and CEO is one of those people that is so ridiculously upbeat and positive all the time that sometimes you just want to strangle him. No one has a right to be that happy. He was smiling and happy when I met him at the Fortune Brainstorm conference a year ago and he showed me Badgeville for the first time. He... |
Photonics Breakthrough Is Less Disruptive To Light Than Empty Space | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | Research at Columbia Engineering School has yielded a material that is literally unlike any other known. Everything in the universe (that we can see) affects light one way or another. Slows it down, speeds it up, spreads it out, diffuses it in a certain way, whatever. Even man-made materials with “negative refractive i... |
GOTO Metrics Raises $3 Million, Relaunches As Zettaset, To Help Companies Manage Big Data | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | Mountain View-based announced today that it has closed a $3 million series A funding round. The round was led by and . DFJ Managing Director Andreas Stavropoulos and Nick Efstratis, managing director of EPIC Ventures, will both be joining Zettaset’s board of directors as part of the new round. The infusion of capi... |
Guest Post: Why we chose HTML5 over Native apps | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | Everyone has the same headache of deciding how to build their apps. Native or HTML5? Everyone is thinking about HTML5 Apps and talking about it if they should invest in it for their own app development, but there isn’t much practical help on how to do this. There are so many questions to answer. What device am I going ... |
"Your Logo Looks Like Tetris!" No, Our Logo IS Tetris | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | So, what do you think of so far? Wait, don’t answer that. You already have — thousands of times. The most common refrain seems to be, “love the new site, hate the logo”. But my favorite offshoot of that is the notion that our new logo looks like Tetris. I assume this is meant to be an insult, but I mean, who doesn’t ... |
Dropbox Raising Massive Round at a $5B-Plus Valuation | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | We’ve heard from multiple sources that is raising its next venture round and it’s a whopper. They’ve had preliminary conversations with several investors, several solid offers they’ve passed on earlier this year and are meeting with investment banks to handle the offering now. Allen & Co. is said to be in the mix, ... |
Play For iPhone Coming Tomorrow, AOL Pitches Me Over Instagram | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | Back in March, we noted that the mobile-first group inside of AOL was pushing forward with a pretty nice . The timing was good, they released it just as SXSW was kicking off. Unfortunately, it was Android-only — meaning myself and millions of others were unlikely to use it and instead would favor something like rival ... |
Quick Hands-On With AT&T's 4G TouchPad | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | We may have already the TouchPad’s most elementary form, but last week we saw a leaked roadmap that has the 4G version coming out in August. AT&T had an event today where we got a quick hands-on, but other than a speed test and a little extra info, there’s not much to say. Obviously an inside event (though relatively... |
Ruby Creator "Matz" Matsumoto Joins Heroku As Chief Architect | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | In what must be an amazing day for the Heroku founders, the creator of Ruby, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto has that he will be joining the former Y Combinator startup as Chief Architect of Ruby. “As a member of our platform development team, Matsumoto-san will continue his work on the Ruby language in close collaboration... |
Zaarly Launches On Android | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | Android users, say hello to . For those not yet familiar with the peer-to-peer mobile startup, they’ve had a whirlwind year thus far. Built at hackathons and startup weekends over the first few months of this year, Zaarly took first prize at LA Startup Weekend in March, and soon thereafter raised a $1 million seed rou... |
Nintendo Video Hits The 3DS Tomorrow (In Japan Only, Alas) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | Nintendo is working hard at making its 3DS less of a “put in a cartridge, play a game” console, and more of an all-purpose gaming/media/social gadget. They’re awful slow at it, though, since their entire system from the eighties on has been the cartridge thing, more or less. Perhaps they looked at Apple and said not “o... |
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Android Market Gets An Overhaul: Videos, Books, And More Discovery Options | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | Good news for Android users: starting today, Google is rolling out a new version of Android Market to all handsets running Android 2.2 or higher (which makes up the vast majority of Android users). It’s bringing with it a new UI, performance improvements, and a variety of features designed to help with app discovery, i... |
HP Touchpad Already Discounted At Best Buy, Amazon | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | Such is the life of a device. If you can’t beat ’em, undercut them. That’s just what’s happening at Amazon and Best Buy who both are now selling the under it’s MSRP by a fair margin. The 16GB model is cut by $10 at both retailers, making the price $489.99. The 32GB model is 5% under list making it $572.65 while j... |
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