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XYDO, The Web’s Social Network For News, Brings Daily, Customizable Briefs To Your Inbox (Invites) | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 25 | Where do you get your news (besides TechCrunch, of course)? Some of you may like that familiar tactile experience of newsprint, ink on the fingers, but chances are that your news consumption takes place mostly online — or on a mobile device. But thanks to the content fire hose that is the Internet, there’s a lot of irr... |
Aiming To Be The Dropbox Of Music, Mecanto Launches An Affordable Streaming And Storage Service | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 25 | If you’re a fan of cloud-based music lockers, it’s a good time to be alive. , Amazon somewhat surprisingly beat Apple and Google to the music streaming and storage punch with their “Cloud Drive” and “Cloud Player”. Both Google and Apple have since launched cloud music offerings (or betas thereof), and all three contin... |
Local Business Reviews Site Angie’s List Files For $75 Million IPO | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 25 | After Jive’s filing yesterday, local business reviews site is throwing its hat into the ring, filing an this afternoon. The company will raises as much as $75 million, according to the filing. As we’ve written in the past, Angie’s List offers consumers a way to review and rate doctors, contractors and service com... |
Ness Serves Up Their First Personal Search App Catering To Restaurant Discovery | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 25 | Last night I went out to dinner. But I didn’t pick where I was going, Ness did. The place was good. Score one for Ness. We previously covered in July, talking about the technology that would power their eventual apps ( ). Today, the first such app has gone in the App Store, called simply, Ness. It’s a personal sear... |
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Keen On… Does the Internet Need More Global Regulation? (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 8 | 25 | In the wake of the London riots, there has been intense about whether the Internet – and particularly social media networks like Twitter and Facebook – needs more regulation. But according to the US State Department’s recently appointed Coordinator for Cyber Issues, the riots early this month do not represent an ... |
Netflix Hits The Asus Transformer, More To Come? | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 8 | 25 | Quick! Asus Transformer owners! Check your system updates. The Internet with claims that build 8.6.5.9 enables sideloading of the Netflix app. Right now, only the Lenovo IdeaPad K1 and ThinkPad Tablet are Netflix certified, forcing owners of other Honeycomb tablets to side load the app, something that previously wasn... |
Pandora Posts Record Revenue Of $67M In First Quarter As A Public Company | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 25 | In its first quarter as a , music streaming service Pandora record revenue in Q2 2012. For the second quarter fiscal year 2012, total revenue was $67 million, a 117% year over year increase. For the second quarter fiscal 2012, on a GAAP basis, the net loss per per share was $(0.04). The non-GAAP net income per fully... |
Taboola Raises $9 Million To Power Video Recommendations Across The Web | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 25 | , a service that powers many of the video recommendation widgets you find across the web, has raised a $9 million Series B funding round. The round is being led by Crescent Point, which is based in New York and Asia, as well as Evergreen VC, which has participated in previous rounds. This round brings Taboola’s total f... |
The Next Steps In Robotics And Computer Vision: Behavior Analysis, Situational Awareness | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 25 | We’ve seen some interesting developments lately in the fields of robotics and computer vision. They’re not as academic as you’d expect: enormous tech successes like the Roomba and have relied as much on clever algorithms and software development as they have on marketing and retail placement. So what’s next for our i... |
Facebook Users Uploaded A Record 750 Million Photos Over New Year's | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | It doesn’t come as a huge surprise, but it’s still staggering to think about: over the New Year’s weekend, Facebook saw photo uploads from its users. That’s a lot of celebrating, and it sets a new Facebook record. The stat was just by Facebook marketing director (who is also founder Mark Zuckerberg’s sister). We’... |
Twitter And Facebook Really Are Killing RSS (At Least For TechCrunch Visitors) | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | Earlier today, we ran a “ ” post featuring some key data WordPress.com sent our way for 2010. Interesting stuff all around. However, as some people have , in our top referrers for the year, Facebook is nowhere to be found. Further, Google Reader, an RSS reader, comes in number three! Is Facebook dying? Is RSS ? . It... |
Chatroulette Gets A New, Weird Revamp | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 3 |
Forgotten for months after an , everyone’s favorite video chat site has come up with the following solution to its problem of declining usership: Skins! After following a cryptic tweet from the Twitter account ( down a rabbit hole, I discovered that you can now change your background on Chatroulette while you cha... |
MyFacture raises €1 million so you can invoice clients from your mobile phone | roxannevarza | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | , a little French startup situated in La Rochelle has just announced that it has raised €1 million with . Not to worry if you haven’t heard of many startups from La Rochelle, the town’s entrepreneurial activity isn’t exactly that of Paris, Nantes or elsewhere. Still, this company – founded in January 2010 – managed to... |
TechCrunch 2010 In Review (Care Of WordPress) | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The reads Wow. The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 10... |
Quora Fact-Checks Quora On User Milestone | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | Earlier today, got a nice write-up on . The article talks about all the buzz the Q&A startup has been getting (something ). But at the bottom of the post, something interesting happened. “ ,” Fast Company wrote, citing that noted that the profile image numbers had passed 500,000. Obviously, that’s a nice mileston... |
Paul Buchheit Looks Back At His First Years As An Angel Investor | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | If you follow technology news, is a name that seems to pop up all the time. Among other things, he invented Gmail, built the first prototype for AdSense, coined Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto, cofounded FriendFeed (which was acquired by Facebook), and a partner at . Oh, and he’s also a prominent angel investor, wi... |
Reddit Has Banner Year, Boasts 232% Traffic Growth | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | Social news site has on a remarkable 2010 filled with and user engagement growth. Most notable? The jump in pageviews from 250 million in January of 2010 to 829 million in December of 2010, a 232% growth. Reddit has increasingly become a favorite haunt of many in the social media community, especially both its c... |
WITN: Book Publishing Has A Better Future Than Music and Movies (Thinks One Of Us) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | Aaaand… we’re back. Fresh from our Christmas and New Year break and ready to talk about the Most Important Stories Outside of Silicon Valley. Stories like, uh, Kevin Rose’s . But, yeah ok, while the jumping off point might be a stretch, we soon get to the meat of this week’s episode: whether we’re seeing a move from f... |
Microsoft Corp Dev Exec Bails, Raises Angel Round For Hot Stealth Startup | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | Microsoft Senior Director of Corporate Strategy and Acquisitions quit his job a few weeks ago. I heard rumblings about this and assumed he’d be focusing an angel investing full time – for the last couple of years he’s done it as a part time hobby. But nope, that’s not what he’s doing. He’s started a new company that’... |
OK, "Pivot" Is Officially Over-Used | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | Maybe you all saw this, but I’m catching up from vacation. It seems even the venerable, old-school is the over-use of the word And they are doing it in old-school cartoon form, no less. (As pointed out by Eric Ries .) If you can’t read it below the caption says, “I’m not leaving you. I’m pivoting to another man.... |
PS3 Cracked Open Even Further With "Root Key" Discovered | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 3 |
Just a few days after the PS3’s security was at a hackers’ convention, famed system breaker GeoHot has what is described as the “root key” for the , a hex sequence that identifies code as legitimate. I’m no hacker so I don’t want to overstep my expertise here, but this seems to be a pretty serious breach. But can... |
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Fitfinder re-launches as Floxx, for mapping the beautiful people | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | , the re-launched Fitfinder now backed by serial UK Angel investor Doug Richard, has re-emerged after a difficult birth on the campus of a UK university. To rewind quickly: Last year , 21, a final-year computer sciences student at University College London, founded of a UK site integrated with Facebook and Twitter all... |
Production 3DS Makes An Early Debut On Camera? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu64QDf7v1o&w=640&h=390]
This video purports to show the final hardware, though the criminal behind the camera seems to spend more time spinning it around than actually using it. It’s not groundbreaking or anything; I mean, I got to play with one , but this would be an actual... |
Of course LoveFilm wants to sell to Amazon | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | It’s that Amazon is in talks to acquire LoveFilm, the UK-DVD rental and online movie-streaming company. The deal is said to be worth $312 million, but in all honesty we are not surprised. The talks have been going on since at , and Lovefilm has been looking for an exit ? The investors dearly want an exit from what ... |
Apple: Actually, $50 Billion Isn't Cool Either. You Know What's Cool? $300 Billion. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 3 | Last night, the Internet was set ablaze by the news that Facebook was taking more money at a valuation of . That’s massive. But it’s actually only 1/6th of the value of another closely-watched company in the tech space: Apple. Apple hit the $300 billion market cap milestone today after surged 2 percent to open 2011.... |
StumbleUpon Sent 700M Pageviews To Other Websites In Dec, Is Growing 20% Monthly | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | Social discovery service when CEO tweeted out that it had in terms of referral traffic on . According to Statcounter, StumbleUpon is now responsible for 43% of all major social media site (StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Myspace and Digg) traffic on the 15 billion pageviews that the analytics se... |
#LessAmbitiousMovies Aims To Sort Of Take Over Part Of Your Twitter Stream | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | Hey you know what’s happening right now? , the craziest Twitter hashtag meme I’ve ever seen, pacing at around 200 tweets per minute. The basic premise is to tweet out the titles of popular films but watered down and less ambitious, get it? What’s notable about the meme is a) for some inexplicable reason it is not tren... |
Twitter And Foursquare Explain Their SXSW Explosions: Hustle, Buzz, And Maybe $11K | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | Now that it’s 2011 and we’re back in the swing of things, a lot of startups are already undoubtedly laying out their launch plans for the year. And while anytime seems like a good time around these parts, a lot of startups pencil in the festival in Austin, Texas as a good potential launching point. Why? Because it’s ... |
Sales Are At A Trickle On Google's Chrome Web Store | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 4 |
In December, after of anticipation and discussions with third-party developers, Google finally the — an online portal that lets users purchase and ‘install’ web applications like TweetDeck, MOG, and hundreds of others. It’s one of the first platforms that helps developers monetize web applications using a unifie... |
CES 2011: Let The Madness Begin | Contributor | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | Here we are again: CES. We’re all here in Vegas ready to bring everything the massive trade show offers to your interwebs. There’s going to be livestreams, hands-ons, liveblogs, all with a fair amount of debauchery. should serve up all your CES needs with the UStream window embedded up top and the latest news directl... |
Chegg Hires Former Netflix COO To Manage Massive Textbook Warehouse | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | Right about now, as college students across the country start to go back to school for the Spring semester, things are starting to pick up at 600,000 square foot warehouse in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. The warehouse sits right next to the main UPS shipping hub and across from a Zappos warehouse. The textbook rental ... |
Twitter Math: If Accounts Were Ranked By Followers, This Would Be The Equation | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | If you ever wanted to know where you rank among Twitter users in terms of the followers you have, that’s the equation. Well, for most of you anyway. Twitter tech lead Pankaj Gupta that equation out earlier today. A Twitter Equation: If accounts were ranked by #followers, approx. rank=exp(21 – 1.1*log(#followers)). e.... |
Nintendo DS Is Now The Best Selling Console Of All Time | Nicholas Deleon | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | has let the world know that the DS is the single best selling video game console of all time in the U.S. It makes you wonder whether or not Nintendo really ought to be concerned at all with the likes of mobile phone-based gaming. After all, isn’t , , now available on non-mobile phone platforms? Nintendo has sold 4... |
Not Just IPOs: The Surprising Increase of Big Liquidity through Buyouts (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | Around 2006 there was a sudden increase in so-called “partial liquidations,” where entrepreneurs could take some money off the table during a mid-stage funding round. Considered unheard of at the time, now they’re the norm for companies doing well. Then in 2009, we saw the rise of secondary markets, which allowed early... |
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CES 2011: Let The Madness Begin | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | Here we are again: CES. We’re all here in Vegas ready to bring everything the massive trade show offers to your interwebs. There’s going to be livestreams, hands-ons, liveblogs, all with a fair amount of debauchery. should serve up all your CES needs with the UStream window embedded up top and the latest news directl... |
California Can Now Search Arrestee's Mobile Phones Without A Warrant | Nicholas Deleon | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | Good news: the state of California . The new regime will only affect people who have already been arrested, so it’s not as if police officers will be able to search your cellphone at routine traffic stops. But still: yeah, it’s sorta lame. In 2011, even more of your rights will be chipped away. The California court th... |
TV Content Check-In App Miso Lands $1.5M From Google Ventures And Hearst | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | The check-in app for TV content has just announced $1.5 million in led by Google Ventures with Hearst Interactive Media also participating in the round. The startup had previously last May from angel investors and from Google Ventures. Similar to GetGlue, Tunerfish and others, Miso applies Foursquare’s check-in m... |
Performance marketing company LeadMedia acquires MediaFactory | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | , the European online performance marketing company with headquarters in Paris, has acquired Sao Paulo, Brazil-based . Founded by Stephane Darracq (a French serial technology entrepreneur) and backed by private equity firm , LeadMedia provides clients with Internet marketing solutions, including qualified traffic gen... |
HP Sends Out Invites For A webOS Announcement On February 9th | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | This one just hit our inbox. Looks like HP’s got an webOS-focused announcement brewin’ up for February 9th. It’s not the surprise mid-CES announcement that some (not us) were predicting — but given how noisy CES is looking to be, that’s almost certainly for the better. We will, of course, be there. “Think Big”? webOS T... |
Groupon Files Lawsuit Against Australian Clone "Scoopon" | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | An announcing a lawsuit filed against Australian Groupon clone . The post explains the unprecedented move of taking legal action against a Groupon clone, which apparently is squatting on the Groupon.com.au domain name. The case and in the meantime Groupon will be doing business in Australia under the name Stardeal... |
Zero Punctuation: Top 5 of 2010 | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | A bit NSFW (of course) but totally worth your time. I mean, what else are you doing. Let Yahtzee run down the top five games of 2010. |
Female entrepreneurs wanted – Astia opens applications for its European accelerator | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 4 | I won’t get into the “ ” debate but any help for startups is definitely a . On that note, , the not-for-profit “venture accelerator for women-led high-growth companies”, is calling for applications from UK and European startups for its Entrepreneur Programme, to be held in London in March 2011. Specifically, it’s tar... |
Quora Signups Exploded In Late December — Then Doubled From That This Week | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | So this service , it’s getting pretty hot. But up until now, we’ve only be able to how hot it actually is. But today they’ve finally shared some actual information — on Quora, naturally. Specifically, Quora engineer Albert Sheu has put up a long answer to the question: The reason Sheu gives includes a brief explan... |
Netflix Streaming Is The Gateway Drug To Internet TV | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | Nobody likes cable TV, although we all pay exorbitant sums for it to be piped into our homes. That is why the idea of being able to (and related bill) and replace it with a variety of streaming video services from the Internet is so appealing. So far, however, you what you watch on cable with Internet TV. But th... |
Panasonic Sort-Of Announces The Viera Tablet | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 1 | 5 |
CES 2011 was set to be filled with tablets and Panasonic briefly showed off their first entry into the form factor. Viera Tablet, as it will be called, will connect to “cloud servers” but that’s about all we know at this point. The tablet will be officially announced in Panasonic’s home country of Japan “in a few hour... |
Report: Facebook Revenue Was $777 Million In 2009, Net Income $200 Million | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | DST and Goldman Sachs’ in Facebook has obviously the tech and financial journalism pot and is now coming to light regarding the social network’s financials. On this note the that Goldman is now offering potential investors a Facebook “snapshot” which outlines site traffic, ad statistics and other analytics. A... |
Confirmed: Tweetie 2 (Twitter) for Mac Is Coming! | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | About an hour ago, the hot rumor that Tweetie 2 for Mac would be launching tomorrow morning. The source of that information was which posted an image they received of the product, which is being renamed “Twitter for Mac”. We can now confirm that the screenshot is very real, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Fur... |
Official Google Video Preview Of Android 3.0 Spied Briefly | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | An official video promoting Android 3.0 Honeycomb has just appeared on YouTube, apparently without any accompanying fanfare from Google. It’s on the Android Developers channel, but one would expect at least a blog post to show off the various nuances of the new interface. Actually, as I was writing this very paragraph,... |
Zynga To Acquire Flock, The Social Browser That You Never Used | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | Zynga is acquiring , a beleaguered startup founded in 2005 by and , we’ve confirmed. The deal should be announced shortly. The company has raised nearly in venture capital, although the last round was closed in 2008. We do not know the terms of the acquisition. Both Google and Twitter were also bidding for Flock,... |
Things about the Endless Facebook Speculation that Have to Be Said | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | I’ve avoided writing something about the Goldman Sachs- Facebook deal, because God knows the rest of the blogosphere has been doing enough speculation for the entire world. But four things I’ve read in the last 24-hours need a serious rebuttal. . I don’t care if it reaches 500 indirect individual shareholders through t... |
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Flattr rolls out direct donations, Wikileaks likely to benefit greatly | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | Earlier today, the official Twitter account of , the micropayment startup , that they were “excited excited excited …”, so we knew something was up. Now we’ve learned that the service, which enables users to ‘Like’ sites and content but with real money, is indeed rolling out something new: the ability to donate spe... |
Google Officially Posts Android 3.0 Sneak Peak, Touts "Holographic" UI | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | If you were on the Internet today, you undoubtedly saw that Google accidentally posted an overview video of Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” on YouTube earlier — then quickly pulled it. Before they did, and grab all the key screenshot of the Tron-like overview. Now Google has officially reposted the video, as well as a brief ... |
Yammer Proclaims The Death Of Old Media Through Old Media | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | You know how , so imagine my joy this morning when I drove into work this morning (at 8am as always) and saw this awesome piece of artillery right in front of my office. Yeah, our officemate has decided to wedge a billboard-sized nail in the coffin of old media (i.e. “one-way communication”) which conspicuously inc... |
X5 Music secures EUR 7m investment from Northzone to hit the States | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | Swedish music company has secured a 7 million Euro investment from Northzone Ventures, which also happens to the be the lead investor in that other Scandinavian music startup you’ve probably heard of, Spotify. X5 Music is a digital record label operating largely in Europe. It plans to use the funding to sign America... |
Is @Betfairpoker the new @ShitMyDadSays ? No, really | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | The wonderful thing about Twitter is that is can be used in many different ways. was a simple account which recounted the saying of a New York pensioner in all their unfiltered glory, and even became . But corporate entities – and it has to be said, startups – rarely do anything so brave. Not so which, has been ... |
Tweetie 2 Coming With The Mac App Store Tomorrow? Mum's The Word From Twitter | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | This afternoon, a site called Razorianfly a very interesting tidbit of information along with a purported screenshot to back it up. According to the site, Tweetie 2.0 for Mac is launching tomorrow . : If true, this is big news for Mac users who have long feared that the beloved app had been left for dead since Twit... |
Zynga Hires Fourth Ex-MySpace Exec | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | The MySpace talent exodus continues, and Zynga seems to be taking more than its share. In 2010 they hired , formerly a MySpace VP, the communications team. Soon after former MySpace CEO joined Zynga EVP. Now, we’ve learned from multiple sources, they’re hired two more. , a level 51 Cityville player and formerly... |
Official Google Video Preview Of Android 3.0 Spied Briefly | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 5 | An official video promoting Android 3.0 Honeycomb has just appeared on YouTube, apparently without any accompanying fanfare from Google. It was on the Android Developers channel, but one would expect at least a blog post to show off the various nuances of the new interface. Actually, as I was writing this very paragr... |
The "Digital Newsstand" Race Becomes: Who Is More Willing To Trick Users, Apple Or Google? | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 2 | Breaking news: old school publishers seem hell-bent on insuring their content doesn’t catch on in the red-hot tablet space. A story in this evening details how Google, Apple, Amazon and others are all racing to try to do deals with major publishers in order to set up their “digital newsstands”. Of course, all of this... |
$1 Billion Isn't Cool. You Know What's Cool? $50 Billion. Goldman And Facebook Agree. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 2 | While everyone has been busy wondering Facebook was going to IPO, most were looking past the first question: is Facebook going to IPO? But not TechCrunch alum Evelyn Rusli and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Tonight that Goldman Sachs has just led a major new investment in the social network. An investment that values it at ... |
Apple iPad And iPhone 4 Top eBay's Most Popular Searches For 2010 | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 2 | With eBay handling more than U.S. product searches a quarter, the marketplace can show what items are most desirable in a given time. We about what was trending on eBay during the holiday shopping period, and today the market place is releasing its most popular product searches in 2010. Apple dominated the list, wi... |
Square Starts 2011 with A New Round At A Big Valuation | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 2 | While much of Silicon Valley spent the last two weeks skiing or otherwise reveling in all that money made this year from acquisitions, partial liquidations and , Square founder was apparently hard at work. TechCrunch has learned that Square is in the process of closing a large round of funding. The company is being ... |
Like 'Twitter For iPad'? Check Out Its Facebook Counterpart, Facepad | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 2 | In what has become one of the not-so-great mysteries of technology, Facebook still hasn’t launched a native iPad application nine months after the device made its debut, despite the fact that many thousands — perhaps even millions — of people search for it every day. Of course, that hasn’t stopped some enterprising dev... |
FriendFeed Traffic Is Actually Up Since The Facebook Deal; Thanks Largely To Turkey | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 2 | . You remember it, right? It was that awesome service that Facebook in August 2009. It was a smart deal all around. Facebook got an awesome team of developers and product people, while FriendFeed got to translate some of what they were doing to a service with a reach as large as any on the web. Unfortunately, it was ... |
Minimalist Turntable Plays Your Records Minimally | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 20 |
This isn’t the first turntable we’ve seen that’s been stripped down to its bare parts, but it has the distinction of being more a deconstruction than a compacting of function. and others like it take the whole turntable idea and crush it into a single slab, but seems to keep the structure of the classic record pla... |
Seven Technologies That Will Rock 2011 | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 2 | So here we are in a new decade, and the technologies that are now available to us continue to engage (and enthrall) in fascinating ways. The rise and collision of several trends—social, mobile, touch computing, geo, cloud—keep spitting out new products and technologies which keep propelling us forward. Below I highli... |
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Verizon's "Countdown" iPhone Ad: Watch It Here So You Don't Have To Watch American Idol | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlN3BgsV1nc&w=640&h=390]
Although, as usual, I feel a little silly posting a commercial, this one from Verizon thanking their customers for sticking it out (whether they really did or not) is too decent to skip. It should be playing a lot in prime time, but of course that means ... |
Toy DSLR Actually Shoots Stills And Video, Has Swappable Lenses | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 20 |
Although this might actually also work as a gag gift your favorite photographer, it might be a pretty cool thing to give a kid, too. I mean really, if you want them to like the idea of interchangeable lenses and cameras, a little thing like this would be great way to introduce them. It’s called the , and it costs aro... |
Want To Open Your iPhone? Use This $2.35 Screwdriver | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | I’m not sure why it took a screw type change to open everyone’s eyes that Apple’s approach to hardware and software is over-protective and damaging to , especially when the problem of an uncommon screw type is easily solved by . Shouldn’t we be worried about all the other heinous things Apple, Sony, and other consumer... |
Next-Gen BlackBerry Curve Gets Caught On Camera | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | See that lovely, BlackBerry Curve-lookin’ thing up there? According to , that’s none other than the next generation BlackBerry Curve (or, as they allegedly refer to it as inside RIM, the BlackBerry “Sedona”) we saw . While N4BB’s source only named a few specs, they’re just about identical to what trickled out before:... |
TechCrunch Interview With Eric Schmidt, Larry Page And Sergey Brin | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | Late last summer we were ready to break a big story – that would be stepping down as the CEO of Google. Multiple sources and all that jazz. The basic story was that he was tired (who wouldn’t be), and that the idea of competing, and probably losing battles, against Apple and Facebook for the next decade wasn’t all th... |
YC-Funded AppHarbor: A Heroku For .NET, Or "Azure Done Right" | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | You may be noticing a trend: there are a lot of startups looking to mimic the easy-to-use development platform that made Heroku a hit with Ruby developers and offer a similar solution for use with other languages. In the last few weeks alone we’ve written about (which, as you’d guess, focuses on PHP) and (which aim... |
Is This Google's Groupon Clone? Well The Logo Fits. [Update: Confirmed] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | A on Mashable shows that Google will be imminently launching a Groupon clone, called Google Offers. By the look of the documents they have received from a source this product seems like it would be your run of the mill Groupon clone, Ha. adds another piece of the puzzle with a Google hosted Google offers logo, of t... |
Verizon's First iPhone Commercial: It Begins | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | Well that didn’t take long. Here it is, the first Verizon iPhone commercial. As you can see, the focus is on clock — the first one on 11:59 — implying that people in all different walks of life are waiting for something. There’s the noise of a click constantly ticking in the background as a low hum becomes a louder hum... |
Amazon Pegs September 27th As The Star Wars Blu-ray Release Date | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | Star Wars is on Blu-ray. That’s a fact, jack. Sometime in September is what the initial announcement stated. Now, Amazon is listing the actual date as September 27. You know what this means? It’s time dig out the trusty Travel John and camp out in front of Best Buy. [ via |
Video: This Concept Phone Is Pure Madness | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLrPOTYNQg&w=640&h=390] You know the cool thing about “Concept” products? They don’t really have to make complete sense. Take the one in the video up above, for example. Crazy long screen? Neat! Buttery, ultra minimalist interface? Gorgeous! Touch sensitive frame? Er, sure. Conn... |
Hadoukinect! Kinect Hacked To Play Street Fighter | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCOwNT2mZuU&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3] An enterprising young hacker has connected the to a keyboard controlled game, thereby allowing him to throw real punches at Dhalsim.
The code to run the interface is – it’s basically a set of physical triggers that ... |
The Saddest Pink Infographic About Women In Tech You'll Ever See | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | — Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg “ WPromote Infographic There was an extremely Google earnings call at 1:30 pm today and I’d like to write about some startups at some point before the day ends so I’m not going to waste too much time with this one. But here you go before I forget, an infographic about women in tech tha... |
TestFlight: Super Simple, Over-The-Air App Beta Testing Comes To The iPhone | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | If you’ve ever had to test an unreleased iPhone application or wanted to test yours with real world users, you’ll know what a pain it is. The UDID thing is bad enough, but the process of having to drag and drop .ipa and provisioning files to the copy of iTunes on the computer you sync with is ridiculous. Why on Earth c... |
Speaking of… Social Venues with Nic Adler of The Roxy [TCTV] | Cyan Banister | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | We read a lot of news about amazing companies when they receive financing, have a change in leadership or launch new products, but we rarely get a glimpse into the companies and people that use those products and tools in incredibly meaningful ways. This week’s Speaking Of… is with Roxy owner , son of Lou Adler who’s ... |
Shazam continues to invade the living room, partners with cable channel Syfy | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 20 | The living room and, specifically, television is ‘s next growth target. That’s something as the service aims to expand beyond its music recognition roots to become a wider discovery technology for all sorts of content. And today, the London-headquartered company has announced its latest television tie-in, partnering... |
RB5X “Intelligent Robot” From The 80s For Sale On eBay | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 20 |
While this particular item, like most electronics in the 80s, probably overstates its capabilities to some degree, it does seem like a pretty great little testbed for up-and-coming — at least in the early 80s. Time has rendered this little guy’s 8K of RAM rather inadequate, and I’m not sure people want to program the... |
SARTRE Road Trains Continue Testing | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | I posted about these back in December and people seemed interested, so I thought I should just post . There’s not a lot of new information, but if you follow you can watch a video with the system in action. I wonder why the lead truck has to be so damn big? |
Low-Cost Cherrypad Android Tablet Not So Low-Cost Anymore | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | You may remember the Cherrypad, a that, while receiving , still sold a few units out of sheer cheapness. The latest version of this budget device, however, isn’t so budget. The specs have gone up, and with them, the price. Mobile Magazine has (unconfirmed at the moment), and the improvements actually put it in the... |
Life360's Family Safety App Embraces The Check-In, Then Surges | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 20 |
For the last two and a half years we’ve been tracking the progress of , a startup that looks to help you keep your family safer by offering a variety of tools, like protection against identify theft and an alert system to monitor for sex offenders in your neighborhood. It’s not the sort of thing you’d expect to go v... |
DriveSmart Android App Plays On Parental Fears Of Teens Texting While Driving | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | You just shouldn’t text while you drive, even if you are a dextrous teen used to multitasking all day long. Yet people still do text (and Skype and email) while they drive, and not just teens (cough, Michael). There’s not too much you can do about it. But is coming out with an Android app for T-Mobile called Drive... |
Yahoo Turns To The Enemy To Simplify User Registration | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | says from earlier today. In fact Yahoo has let users create new accounts on Flickr with their Google credentials since last summer. It’s been tested as part of an internal Yahoo project to spur user signups. A lot of people apparently bail out during the account creation process at various Yahoo sites. Part of the p... |
Analog: A Melancholy Photographic Tribute To Darkrooms And Enlargers | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 18 |
If there’s anyone reading out there who ever did their own developing and printing, they should check out documenting the few remaining darkrooms in London. I love the look of these things; one day I’ll have my own darkroom, though I don’t think I’ll ever attempt color printing. There’s an over at Wired, along wit... |
Next Question: Did Apple Surpass Microsoft In Profit Last Quarter? Or Will It Be Next Quarter? | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | Earlier today, Apple announced their . The record-breaking numbers saw revenue surge to $26.7 billion — over $6 billion ahead of their previous best quarter (which was ). But even more impressive may have been how much profit grew. Apple’s net income was also a new record for them at $6 billion for the quarter. That’... |
Concept ZIP Jacket Lets You Control Your Media With Clothes-Related Gestures | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/18820170 w=620&h=349]
You might remember the , a hoodie with integrated earbuds, so you could pop your mp3 player into the pocket, plug it in, and boom. This jacket concept from Jennifer Darmour is a little more evolved, though I wonder if it’s taking the concept too far. But I’m posting... |
Video: Tesla Model S On The Road | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/18614767 w=620&h=349]
I feel like there’s something missing from this video of a Tesla Model S cruising down the road. Oh yes, the thumping music and roaring engines that usually accompany these road-type videos — on Top Gear, anyway. Isn’t it a little creepy how quiet it is? If you’re look... |
ReneSola Claims New Wafer Will Boost Solar Cell Efficiency To 17.5 Percent | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | ReneSola (NYSE: SOL) a major manufacturer of solar products based in Jiashan, China announced this week that its new silicon-based wafer, dubbed the Virtus, boosts multicrystalline solar cell efficiency to 17.5 percent. The company plans to sell the Virtus Wafer to manufacturers of multicrystalline solar cells. Its ea... |
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Designer Gas Cans Are Haute Couture, Haute Octane | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 18 |
I don’t know what to say about , other than that they’re great. They’re ordinary gas cans that have been branded with YSL, Chanel, and so on logos and patterns. Sure, you could stencil your own, but then you wouldn’t pay thousands for a gas can. I kid, I kid, they’re not even for sale as far as I can tell. [via ; ima... |
Apple COO Tim Cook Dismisses Android Tablets As “Bizarre” | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | Apple’s iPad is a hit. The company sold 7.3 million iPads in the December quarter of 2010, a 75 percent increase from the previous quarter. But judging from all the Android tablets announced at CES, it is about to face an onslaught of competition. So far, though, Apple COO Tim Cook has “no concerns” with the tablets... |
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