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Quest.li: If Life Is A Game, This Is How You Play It | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the audience winner was . It’s a mobile application that turns real life goals into a game. Founder Danil Kozyatnikov traveled from Siberia to present. In the game you create different goals that earn you points. For example, Kozyatnikov said that he created a game to make it to TechCrunch... |
YC-Backed B2Brev Aims To Be The Yelp For B2B Services | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | Y Combinator startup wants to help small to medium sized businesses figure out which products and services to use, by serving as a venue for aggregated reviews. Starting out by dipping its toe into the daily deals vertical, B2Brev has aggregated over 2500 merchant reviews for daily deals sites, with 2000 from Groupon ... |
Idle Games Wants To Be The Pixar Of Social Gaming; In Their First Game, You Play God | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | If you were into PC gaming in the early 2000s, you know what is. Peter Molyneux’s 2001 classic published by EA gave every gamer the role they wanted: God. A new startup is aiming to bring that style of game into the social space. And more broadly, they aim to be the “Pixar of casual games”. is launching today at Tec... |
“Google’s Auto Correct Killed The Launch Of Our Android App” | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | We’ve all dealt with the frustrations of auto-correct, from unintentionally declaring that you’re to having your bitter, angry diatribe suddenly mutate into something involving a lot of “ducking”. Fortunately, these unwanted auto-corrections are generally little more than inconveniences. You laugh a little, backpeda... |
Amen Aims To Find The Best Of Everything With A Smart Interface | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | It’s been a long time since we were delighted and even slightly bemused by the utterly stripped down simplicity of Twitter. And let’s face it, there have been many pretenders to that simplistic interface crown since then. But Amen appears to have come up with a mellifluous new take on a mobile service which is tantalis... |
Take YouTube, Add The Gong Show, Get YouNow | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | There is a lot of junk on YouTube. But there are also a ton of undiscovered gems. Imagine if you could have a hand in surfacing the best stuff. And imagine how much more exciting that would be if you could do it live. That’s the basic premise of , a new startup launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt. An easier way to t... |
HouseFix: Bringing Social Recommendations & Accountability To Home Improvement | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | If you’re planning to get work done on your house in the near future, you’ll probably be interested in , one of the latest companies to launch this afternoon at the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield. The goal of the service is to the take offline social recommendations — in other words, the advice friends and neighbors o... |
Openbucks: Buy Digital Goods Online With Subway Giftcards (And More) | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | It’s sort of ridiculous how huge gift card programs are — Americans spend some $100 billion on them each year, and they’re now offered by myriad physical stores and online companies (like Zynga) alike. One reason why they’re so popular is that they give people who can’t get credit cards — like, say, millions of teenage... |
Shaker Aims To Turn Facebook Into A Night On The Town — Complete With (Virtual) Drinks | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | Facebook is the social network. But it’s still not really all that social. Yes, you chat here and “like” things there. But it’s not the same as going out to a bar with a group of friends. , a new startup launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt, aims to turn Facebook into that bar. The easiest way to think about it is as... |
Everpix: All Your Photos, Automatically Organized And Accessible From Anywhere | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | TechCrunch Disrupt finalist is a new service that automatically organizes and combines all your photo libraries into an elegant interface, whether they’re stored on the desktop or in the cloud. It supports traditional desktop software programs, like Adobe Lightroom, Aperture and iPhoto, for example, as well as online... |
With Bitcasa, The Entire Cloud Is Your Hard Drive For Only $10 Per Month | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | The cloud is now your hard drive. And not just a few dozen Gigabytes, Terabytes or even Petabytes, but of it – infinite storage – for only $10 per month. This is the incredible promise of the new TechCrunch Disrupt finalist . The company is launching a new cloud storage, syncing and sharing service that blows away i... |
Pressly Turns Websites Into Tablet-Friendly HTML5 Web Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | Pressly’s platform includes five customizable templates as a starting point, each designed with the needs of different publishers in mind. One template is more text-driven, while others are better for browsing through photos or videos. Like native apps, navigating a Pressly-built site uses intuitive gestures, like a ... |
Verious Launches First Marketplace For Mobile App Components | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | Today, TechCrunch Disrupt finalist is launching the world’s first marketplace for mobile application components – that is, the libraries, the SDKs (software development kits), the add-ons, the open source code and other third-party services which specifically cater to mobile app developers. Until now, there hasn’t be... |
Spool Is Instapaper On Steroids | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | is a new service aimed at addressing the problem created by the multi-device, multi-screen environment we now live in, where the content consumption experience can vary widely from platform to platform. On iOS devices, for example, you can’t watch Flash videos without serious workarounds. On an iPod Touch or other sta... |
NTT DoCoMo, Samsung Talking Chipset Alliance Against Qualcomm | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | Qualcomm is one of biggest players (if not the biggest) in the mobile chipset space, and their dominance of the market is forcing other manufacturers to seek alternative strategies. While Qualcomm’s huge presence has helped shape the market, a group of Asian companies are looking to form an alliance that will reduce th... |
Cake Health, The ‘Mint For Health Insurance,’ Launches To The Public | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | No matter how healthy you are, health insurance still has the uncanny ability to give you a headache. First there are the bills, which always seem way steeper than you were expecting. Then there are the non-bills that look a whole lot like bills, which may lead you to assume those envelopes that hold bills are non-bi... |
Report: Android Market Nearing 6 Billion Downloads; Weather Apps Are Makin’ It Rain | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | The Android Market continues to explode. Recent statistics published by research firm Ovum predict that app downloads in Android’s marketplace could reach 8.1 billion this year, compared to 6 billion for iOS, . Today, mobile research firm is releasing a report that gives a detailed look into the Android marketplace’... |
Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Talks About Facebook’s Early Days, And What’s Wrong With Google+ | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | Erick also asked Moskovitz for his thoughts on Google+. And in case you’re wondering, no, he doesn’t use it. To begin, Erick asked Moskovitz to talk about what Facebook was really like back in the early days. Unlike the movie, “The Social Network,” it wasn’t all parties, explained Moskovitz – in fact, there were only... |
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Farmigo: Tapping Into The Power Of The Web To Bring You Fresh Veggies | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | It’s no secret that fresh produce straight from the farm can often beat the potato skins off of its supermarket counterpart — and why farmer’s markets are becoming increasingly popular. But unless you set aside that chunk of time every weekend to pick up your veggies from local growers, you’re probably stopping by your... |
HP Offers TouchPad Refund Program To European Customers | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 12 | So, you bought an HP TouchPad. No, not the £89 TouchPad — the £399 TouchPad. Understandably, you’re pissed. Well, everything’s going to be okay. HP’s “way of saying thank you for choosing HP webOS” is to compensate customers who paid full price for the TouchPad before August 23. If you haven’t already noticed from the... |
CardFlick Hopes You’ll Never Use Paper Business Cards Again | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | Today’s audience choice winner was digital business card sharing app , a iPhone app that allows you to trade contact info either with other people who have downloaded the app or via email. Founder tells me that what sets the app apart from competitor Bump is that it goes beyond data exchange, “We’re about person... |
Banned From The App Store: An Anti-iPhone Game Complete With Foxconn Suicide Mini-Game | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | In the video game world, little can do more to send your sales soaring than being banned in one way or another. Be it because a country’s government got upset over how their people were depicted (a la Modern Warfare in Saudi Arabia) or because the developers slipped in a naughty little easter egg thereby triggering a r... |
Rentlord Launches A Socially Connected Market To Let Landlords And Tenants Manage Their Rent | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | You know what’s not that fun? Apartment searches. Also landlords. Luckily, launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt is , a social platform that allows landlords and lessees to painlessly create and manage their rent, leases, contracts, and much more. Rentlord boasts a socially-connected market that lets users find homes ... |
Sony’s Playstation Vita To Hit Japan On December 17 | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | Sony is currently a press conference in Tokyo where the company said that the Playstation , its new handheld console, will hit stores in Japan on December 17, just in time for the holidays (this decision was last month actually). For the 3G connection, Sony partnered up with Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Doco... |
Mobile Roadie Brings Self Service Mobile App Development Platform To China | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | which allows anyone develop and create sleek, rich media and apps, is launching today in China. Mobile Roadie offers a self-serve app development platform that integrates with YouTube, Brightcove, Flickr, Twitpic, Ustream, Topspin, Google News, RSS, Twitter, and Facebook. Users can build both iOS and Android apps... |
PlaySay Uses Facebook To Help You Learn A Language | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | Launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt, is a Facebook app that takes advantage of the social graph and the fact that most of us spend an inordinate amount of time on Facebook in order to help people learn a language. PlaySay uses images to represent the fundamental components of language learning, allowing basic langu... |
GoInstant Is Browser Sharing With No Downloads | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | Innovative browser collaboration technology launches in private beta today at TechCrunch Disrupt, for the first time allowing people to surf the web with each other without having to download an extra plugin or software. Whether you are on a Mac, PC, mobile device like iOS, Android, Blackberry or any other web browsi... |
ReadMill’s Disrupt Encounter Makes Them Launch Early | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | , a young Berlin-based startup subjected themselves to a withering interrogation by YCombinator founder Paul Graham at yesterday’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference ni an on-sage Office Hours session. They haven’t launched yet, and Graham repeatedly told them should launch now – “Why wait?” he said. Indeed, why wait. So t... |
Team Arrington | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | I guess I have a more nuanced view of ArringtonGate, but by the look of the media coverage there seems to be a different understanding of what Mike does. We all know the persona, the power, the influence, the trendsetter, the dog lover. But what is it that drives the man, the source of his rapid rise to the covers of w... |
Meexo: Bringing Game-ified Dating To Your Smartphone | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it one thousand times. Online dating has grown into big business, but it’s still pretty creepy. There are a lot of startups out there trying to do it better, trying to innovate and iterate, but given the very nature of the beast, it’s a tough obstacle to tackle. , a startup launching ... |
Vocre Lets You Instantly Converse In Foreign Languages | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | It’s almost magical how works; Speak into the app while your iPhone is vertical, flip the phone horizontal and the phone’s accelerometer cues the app to translate and speak what you’ve said into the language of the people you’re speaking with, they then can respond, rinse, repeat. To use Vocre, select the language an... |
JiffPad Creates Personalized Medical Diagrams Via iPad | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | Attempting to “reinvent healthcare communication,” Jiffpad is an app that lets doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other medical professionals communicate with patients via the iPad. Allowing users to select from already provided medical diagrams or upload pictures of their own, the app creates a “JiffTalk,” digitizing th... |
BetterWorks Brings Big Company Perks To Bay Area Startups — Coming Soon: The Gamification Of Working | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | What’s better: an employer giving you $500 or an employer giving you an iPad? At first, you may think it’s better to get the cash. But often, that money is used on things such as paying bills — important, but not lasting. The iPad will last. Every time that person uses it, they’ll remember who gave it to them. “Employe... |
Walmart Acquires Mobile And Social Ad Targeting Startup OneRiot | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | Walmart has , a mobile and social ad targeting startup. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, and OneRiot will be joining Walmart Labs. As we’ve in the past, recently its business model; shutting down its realtime search portal and focusing exclusively on monetizing via its realtime advertising netw... |
Farmville For Real Farming: Grow The Planet Launches Social Network To Teach You To Grow Your Own Food | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | The number of vegetable gardens is skyrocketing, and organic food and healthy eating are also on the rise. There are more than 70 million gardens in the U.S., which is generating a potential multibillion dollar market. A new startup launching at TechCrunch Disrupt today, called is hoping to take advantage of this opp... |
YC-Funded AeroFS: It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | I’ve been a fan of Dropbox for a long time. It’s convenient, it ‘just works’, and 2GB of free storage can go a long way. But it isn’t perfect — if you’re dealing with very large amounts of data, like movie footage, then you’ll quickly find yourself in the service’s most expensive tiers. And some businesses and professi... |
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LocalHero Helps You Wade Through The Noise Of Social Networks, Turn Your Friends Into Heroes | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | With the proliferation of social networks today, we are by no means at a loss when it comes to connecting with our friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. However, in today’s highly networked world, we’re finding that there’s a lot of noise; it has become increasingly difficult to share stories, images, and links (or a... |
Trippy: Bringing Your Friends And Social Recommendations To Travel Planning | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | There are hundreds of travel sites out there that will help you plan your trip, but often these guides come in the form of game-ified networks or consist mainly of questionable crowdsourced content from local experts — in other words, strangers. More often than not, these people are incentivized to write reviews, makin... |
Postmates Aims To Be The Uber Of Packages — And More | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | Couriers have been around forever. You’ve probably seen them on bikes, with messenger bags in tow. For a world teeming with innovative technologies, it seems somewhat surprising that the courier industry remains lacking in disruption. Especially if you consider that the courier industry in the U.S. represents a multi-b... |
Elon Musk: Starting A Company Is Like Staring Into The Face Of Death | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | , co-founder of and founder of and (SpaceX), sat down with Erick Schonfeld tonight just before TechCrunch Disrupt’s closing ceremony. During the brief conversation, Musk provided insight into how entrepreneurs can get started disrupting major industries like energy, transportation and space. It’s not an easy rout... |
Qraft: The Airbnb For Planes, Trains, And Automobiles (And By Trains, I Mean Boats.) | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 13 | When you’re just a wee babe, the idea of a new toy is the most exciting thing ever. Then you grow up, and “toys” become ridiculously expensive. You want a Chevy Corvette C6 Z06? That’ll be $70,000, please. You’re interested in picking up a 2011 Roehr 1250sc motorcycle? $40,000. Though I’m sure plenty of our utterly su... |
The Ultimate Guide To TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has just wrapped. In the feverish air of anticipation we carefully cultivate during the Disrupt season, you may have missed some of the talks, panels, launches, or startups that have taken place here at this incomparable conference. Don’t worry. We’ve collected all the content by our wr... |
Barry Diller Skewers AOL For Firing Michael Arrington From TechCrunch | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | Earlier today at The Paley Center for Media’s International Council, IAC Chairman and Senior Executive took the stage for a keynote conversation with , CEO of reDEF Group. Among the topics discussed: AOL’s recent announcement that TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington had . Diller has extensive experience and strong... |
TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield Semifinals: The Judges React | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | The semifinals started off in an unorthodox way, with moderator Paul Carr bringing on TechCrunch co-founder Mike Arrington to join tech celebrity judges Ron Conway, Hadi Partovi, Marissa Mayer, Roelof Botha and Matthew Cohler onstage. While we wait for the final winners to be announced, you can parse through my notes... |
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt Is…Shaker | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | Three days and 31 startup pitches later, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011 has been determined. Out of the 29 startups and two audience choice winners, we whittled the list down to which included , , , , , , and . The winner from this group receives the Disrupt Cup and $50,000, taking over po... |
A Year After “AngelGate”, More Angelic Angels Descend Upon Disrupt | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | A year ago, a huge controversy erupted before TechCrunch Disrupt (sound familiar?). Michael Arrington in San Francisco, Bin 38, and walked out feeling dirty. It was in Bin 38 that he overheard a group of angel investors talking about a range of things — many of which didn’t seem very entrepreneur-friendly. Anyway, th... |
Going Crazy With A Camera In Startup Alley | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | This year’s Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF was the biggest ever, with 200 companies exhibiting throughout the conference. Perhaps as a result it’s attracted many more international companies and the variety of startups is still pretty amazing to see. We decided to do a lot of running around with a camera (quite... |
PayPal To Unveil New Payments Platform For Merchants, Will Include Location-Based Offers And More | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | PayPal held an event today in Los Angeles for merchants to get a early look into the eBay owned payments giant’s new technologies. As CEO Scott Thompson says in a , The company says it will be rolling out a one-stop shop for merchants, both online and local businesses, to manage payments from customers. Details are s... |
Reminder: The TC Gadgets/Mobile Meet-Up Is Tomorrow In San Francisco | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | To recap: on September 15 at 6:30pm TechCrunch Mobile and Gadgets will host our first meet-up at in sunny SF. Sponsored by Samsung, this meet-up will be the first chance for our readers to get ahold of some of Samsung’s latest products including the just-announced Galaxy S II. It is an event not to be missed. We’ll h... |
Marissa Mayer Teaches Us How To Pronounce “Zagat” | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the closing talk was between Michael Arrington and Google’s . As Mike noted, the two of them have been on stage together more than any other interview duo at TechCrunch events, so it’s fitting that Mike’s final interview as a TechCrunch employee is with Mayer. He focused on one thing: Zaga... |
From Over 130 Hacks Came The Ultimate Six: The Hackathon Winners Take To The Stage | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | Over the weekend, over 400 hackers gathered for 24 hours of hacking, Red Bull, and networking. From these late night toils, over 130 hacks emerged from the . On Sunday afternoon, five expert judges, which included Salesforce’s VP of Open Cloud Standards Kevin Marks, Google’s Rohit Khare, Betfair’s Vice President of Mo... |
Miso Media Raises Another $2.4 Million To Help You Learn Guitar | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | One of the companies taking the stage this afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt is , a startup that’s looking to help you learn how to play guitar with the help of your smartphone or tablet. In addition to a product update, the company had some significant news: it’s about to raise $2.4 million in a round led by Mind Fund ... |
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Qwiki Embraces HTML5 And Takes The Next Content Step With The Qwiki Editor | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, , , took the stage to give an update on their business. that they may be the future of information consumption. But that information was largely pre-packaged at the time. Today, they’ve starting to give people the power to make their own Qwikis. CEO Doug Imbruce announced the Qwiki Edit... |
Fly Or Die: Premature Opinions On Windows 8? We Got ‘Em Here! | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | Erick and I did a quick Fly or Die on the Windows 8 pre-release tablet they sent along with us from Build this year and we were split right down blue (screen of death) state/grey (screen of death) lines. I found the pre-release to be lacking and buggy (I’m ) but I . Like it or not, this is the next Windows 8 and, as ... |
Remind101 Is A Private Twitter For Teachers | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | Ten companies from the incubator in Palo Alto pitched their wares onstage this morning at . In order to participate in the three-month Imagine K12 program, which runs out of the AOL offices, a startup has to have an education bent but otherwise can focus on any product. When I asked Imagine K12 participant Brett K... |
Sonar Adds LinkedIn Support, Gets A Shiny New Interface | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | This afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, announced that they’d added in what is likely their userbase’s most requested feature: LinkedIn support. Launched just months ago at Disrupt NY, Sonar taps into your existing social network accounts and your current location to find potential connections between you and those ... |
Clearwire, China Mobile Partner Up To Expand LTE | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | It’s no secret that Clearwire is looking at rolling out an here in the States, but a recently announced partnership could bring them some big support from overseas. The 4G internet provider has inked a deal with state-owned China Mobile to collaborate on the . TD-LTE is a network standard that China Mobile has been ... |
McClure’s Five “Million Dollar Points” For Startup Valuaton | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | Today during TechCrunch Disrupt, Michael Arrington led a discussion between a panel of angel investors. There was a ton of good content, but one thing that sticks out as particularly interesting is the way 500 Startups’ thinks about valuations. He has what he calls “million dollar points” — and there are five of them... |
Apple Looks To Postpone Motorola Patent Suits Courtesy Of Googorola Deal | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | Along with , Apple has a lot on its plate. The company has been since April in one of the most widespread patent wars ever, but many forget that Apple and Motorola Mobility have been duking it out for the past year. Motorola , and then with some multitouch patents, and the back-and-forth never ends. The point? A... |
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek On How The New Facebook Music Integration Will Work | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | Before I lost my voice earlier today (yes, that’s me up there asking all those questions, NOT Marge Simpson), I sat down with CEO at F8. Ek and I spoke about today’s “launch” of Facebook Music, which wasn’t a music console built on top of Facebook like some had conceived, but rather a partnership built around a doz... |
Mertado Raises $2.3 Million; Launches TV Platform To Bring Home Shopping To The Social Web | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 14 | , the social shopping startup that allows users to find and buy products on Facebook, today launched “Mertado TV”, a new product that will combine lifestyle video content with product selection on the social web. What does that mean? Mertado TV will deliver syndicated content from networks like the Food Network, Fine L... |
Basis Reveals An Awesome New Affordable Heart And Health Tracker You Can Wear On Your Wrist | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | After raising $9 million in venture funding from and earlier this year, has been able to continue their year-long research and design development of a new affordable heart and health monitor that can be worn all the live-long day right on your wrist. In anticipation of its showcase at , the startup is today reve... |
Video: Causes Founder Joe Green On The Impact Of f8 | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 22 |
As you may have heard, today Facebook held its fourth , showcasing an array of new features that represent what Facebook says are the biggest changes to its Platform since it launched in 2007. The changes include a completely and a new Open Graph API that gives third-party applications and sites more flexibility (a... |
Fly Or Die: G+ Or Facebook? Who Flew Higher? | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | is afoot and it looks like Facebook . But what about G+ and, most important, the new features added to head Facebook off at the pass. Erick and I discussed the pros and cons of both services, the various improvements, and, while I got a kick out of G+’s collaboration features, especially as a way to get work done,... |
Piictu Launches, Grabs Seed Funding To Grow Its Game-ified Photo Sharing App | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | Last week, another photo sharing app hit the scene. But before you commence with groaning, is more than just another photo sharing app, it’s “a fun and simple way to talk and play with pics”. Still groaning? Hold on just a second. In a crowded space, Piictu’s value proposition is that it is offering a new kind of vis... |
Social TV Just Got Real With Hulu On Facebook | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | Hulu does TV shows better than just about everyone. In fact, other than YouTube, of any web video platform (with the average web viewer watching an average of 3.2 hours a month). That being said, Hulu has never done social particularly well. Sure, users interact on Hulu discussion boards, tweet clips to friends, and ... |
EA CEO Riccitiello: We’re Taking Dead Aim At Zynga | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | The last ten years have been kind to game publishers. The mainstreamification of console gaming has led to enormous sales numbers, budgets rivaling Hollywood’s, and an arms race between the majors to create the next big game. But while EA and its ilk were buying up development houses, expanding like crazy, and having f... |
Brighton's Silicon Beach tech cluster finally breaks shore | Monty Munford | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | London’s nearest coastal city of has probably the worst beach in the world. Full of rocks, the only sand visible is a small patch remaining from a beach volleyball event when sand had to be trucked in. But what it lacks in sand, it has always wanted to make up for in Silicon, joining most of the Western World in tryi... |
Share Buttons? Ha. Facebook Just Schooled The Internet. Again. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | After last year’s f8 keynote, my initial thought was pretty straightforward: . Between the Like Button, the Open Graph, and the Open Graph API, I felt like we were shifting from Google being the fabric of the web, to Facebook taking over. A few days later, a now unpaid blogger declared it: . Both of these declaration... |
Online Video Ads Now Reach 50 Percent Of The U.S. Population | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | ComScore’s August web video rankings are in, and this is for sure: Americans watch an enormous amount of online video content, with most of that taking place on — you guessed it — YouTube. Of course, last month, Facebook, already the largest photo site on the Web, in terms of unique viewers. Which I find interesting ... |
Is Meg Whitman The Right Person To Lead HP? (TCTV) | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | Meg Whitman is back in the corner office. Earlier today, she was officially , taking over from Leo Apotheker, who lasted less than a year. In the video interview above, I talk to Forrester analyst about whether Whitman is the best person for the job or the best one available on short notice. Gillett and I get in... |
FakeGirlfriend.co Lets You Text With Your Made-up Canadian Model Girlfriend | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | “Whatever, man. I’ve got 10 girlfriends. And they’re supermodels! You just don’t know them, because they live in Canada.” “Oh, okay. Call one of them and prove it.” Well, — now what? Enter , a clever little service that lets you text your maybe-not-so-real girlfriend in a pinch, get a text back, have her “call yo... |
Coming Soon: Facebook’s Automatic “Read” Button | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | A few days ago, leading up to f8, we noted that we heard from a source that Facebook would soon be beyond the Like button. Specifically, we heard that “Read” “Listen” and “Watch” buttons were coming. But today during the f8 keynote, Facebook didn’t have anything to say about those. But that doesn’t mean they’re not c... |
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In First Company-Wide Email, Meg Whitman Says HP Must Focus On Their Mission | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | Meg Whitman as HP’s CEO and President hours ago and she, along with the new executive chairman of the board, Ray Lane, didn’t waste anytime reaching out to their more than 300,000 employees. In the email embedded further down in the post, they reaffirm the statement released earlier today that Meg Whitman has “enormo... |
Fampus Launches Social Events Site For Universities | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | Good startups often emerge from situations where the founder is attempting to solve a problem they themselves have. That was certainly the case with collegiate events site , created by 22-year old Brittany Brody, now a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a new arrival to the university in 2008, Brody wan... |
Spotify Will No Longer Be Invite Only In The US, And Users Get Their First Six Months Of Service Free | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | I’m sitting here at Facebook’s with Spotify CEO and he’s just told me that Spotify will no longer be invite-only in the US, and that the service will have no limitations (essentially be free) for an unpaid user’s first six months using the service — the clock will start ticking, and be retroactive, after a user sig... |
It’s Official At HP: Apotheker Is Out, Meg Whitman Named President And CEO | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | Leo Apotheker was made the president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard on September 30, 2010. Today, just shy of a year later, he has stepped down from his post and HP’s board of directors appointed Meg Whitman as his replacement. Big surprise, right? Under the leadership of Apotheker, HP’s stock lost nearly half of its value... |
Netflix Takes A Swipe At HBO With DreamWorks Deal | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 25 | Netflix has taken a few hits lately with the reaction to its its streaming and DVD business, but now it is punching back. The company signed a which will give it access to its movies and Tv shows for streaming over the Internet during the pay-TV window. Netflix won the deal over HBO, which currently is first in l... |
How To Enable Facebook Timeline Right This Second | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 22 | [ : Facebook Timeline is now available to all Facebook users. Learn more about the , as well as , . To enable Timeline for your profile, visit ] This morning , a crazy (and kind of creepy) omnibus look at everything that has happened in your Facebook lifespan. It’s like a story book of your life — or at least the... |
This Is What Winning Feels Like, Shaker Edition | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 25 | After the screaming ended, the Israel-based ditched Burning Man plans for TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 rehearsals in San Francisco, devising a plan that would buy them some time (asking if they could have all 13 founders on stage) and having that plan backfire (we said “Yes.”). After living through Erick telling them t... |
PayPal Now Processing $315 Million In Payments Per Day | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 25 | Wow. PayPal released some new public numbers recently that show the payments platform is processing a massive number of payments per day. PayPal says that it saw $3,650 in Total Payment Volume every second in Q2 2011. By our calculations, that means PayPal is processing around $315.3 million in payments per day. On ave... |
Clinging To Friction: Some Thoughts On Facebook’s f8 | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 25 | It’s been over 72 hours since Facebook first a series of groundbreaking new features at f8, which is all the time I need to predict the company’s long-term outlook, the way it will reinvent the web, and the pricing of its inevitable IPO. Okay, maybe not. But it’s given me some time to try the features out, as opposed... |
Startup Japan: A Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Visits Onlab, A Young Japanese Incubator | Brenden Mulligan | 2,011 | 9 | 25 | Before coming to Japan, we asked everyone we knew for advice on how to connect with the startup community in Tokyo. Every recommendation pointed at the exact same place: Open Network Lab. (“Onlab”) is a Japanese startup incubator in the same vein as Y Combinator or TechStars. The incubator provides startups with mento... |
Google And Monopoly Theater | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 25 | As I the last Wednesday, with its gotcha moments and Senators pontificating about the dangers Google poses to society, it struck me that what I was watching was theater. And not just any theater, but monopoly theater. I am borrowing from the concept of : “a term that describes security countermeasures intended t... |
He Took On The Video Star, Now Kutiman Takes On Democracy | Roi Carthy | 2,011 | 9 | 25 | What can I say, I just dig . I the work of the Israeli-born artist back in 2009 with the release of ‘ ,’ a seven-track music project created by splicing and dicing YouTube clips. It was back in March when I covered the release of a new, jazzier sounding tune of his called, ‘ ‘. Well, he’s back with another one of th... |
FYI Google, Facebook’s Former CTO Says It Would Take Two Years For ~250 People To Build A Clone | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | As the fruits of Google’s rush to build a social network are now , someone has asked a pretty apropos question on Quora, Former Facebook CTO and Quora founder provides an informed answer, arguing that if we were just talking about the software and systems and not the company’s user acquisition (which Google granted... |
Have Swedish Treasure Hunters Just Discovered The Millennium Falcon On The Sea Floor? | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | Some readers may be upset by the content herein, as this doesn’t exactly involve APIs, Android, or SDKs, but it was just too good not to share. The international media has been abuzz today with some unusual news from Sweden. The , a Swedish expedition plumbing the Baltic Sea for underwater treasure, has discovered wha... |
HTC Explains Android Bootloader Unlock Process, Warranty-Voiding Tool Coming Later This Month | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | It’s been a few months now since HTC CEO Peter Chou announced that the company will no longer be locking bootloaders on their devices, and enthusiasts have had nothing to show for it. Many of HTC’s recent devices are still locked up tight, prompting many to wonder when they would deliver on their promise. and a well-... |
Google Threw A Punch, Microsoft Fires Back With A Missile | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | Earlier today, . Seemingly sick of being continuously slapped in the face by the patent issue, Google’s SVP and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, calling out several of Google’s rivals for attempting to use “bogus patents” to destroy Android. Chief among the rivals called out was Microsoft. Drummond noted that th... |
Why Pay For A Lion Boot Disk? Use This App To Make Your Own | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | When Lion was released, we to a page detailing how to create your own bootable Lion drive. But if you absolutely must have a GUI and don’t want to go mucking around in the app package, you might find useful. Lion Diskmaker is a simple app that extracts the necessary items from an embryonic Lion install (i.e. the pa... |
The Beautiful Internet | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | If there is one thing I could say about most websites, it is that they are ugly. I mean really. Just atrocious. There are generally so many things going wrong that we have all had to completely reconfigure our expectations just to exist in this noisy, cluttered, pixelated world. It’s difficult to stretch one’s mind far... |
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Harvesting Energy From Radio Signals: Two New Devices From Japan (Video) | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | Gleaning electricity from radio signals isn’t super-efficient (or a new concept), but it’s possible technically. Two companies from Japan have recently come up with new devices that can do just that: one is harvesting energy from cell phone signals, the other uses a rectifying antenna ( ) to produce energy. First, a ... |
Zynga Sues Google Over Vostu Dispute, Brazilian Judge Grants Injunction | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | Two big pieces of news today in the Zynga/Vostu lawsuit (details on lawsuit and ). In addition to that first lawsuit filed in California, Zynga also quietly sued Vostu on its home turf in Brazil (lawsuit embedded below, but it’s in Portugese). Zynga dragged Google into that lawsuit, apparently because Orkut, popula... |
Zuck’s Sis Quits On Him | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | Facebook has confirmed to us that Mark Zuckerberg’s sister Randi Zuckerberg will be leaving Facebook to start her own social media consulting company . The other Zuckerberg had spent six years at Facebook, becoming Director of Marketing in 2009 and leading the company’s Facebook Live programs among other social media-... |
goCarShare launches car sharing iPhone app for music festival goers | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | , a car-sharing website that helps passengers find drivers who are travelling to similar locations and vice versa, has . Aimed a Summer festival goers, the app maps your current location and displays a list of nearby people to share a car with. Let’s hope they’re all friendly. goCarShare now has deals with 50 of Europ... |
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