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Frequently Asked Questions About Quora | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 1 | 9 | The incredible growth of has also led to an equally incredible growth in chatter, punditry, and analysis about the future of social networking. The opinions range from thought-provoking (“the knowledge network comes online”) to (“the new form of blogging”) to flatly (“this is the next , , or ”). In reality, th... |
Post-CES Palate Cleanser: Ocarina Of Tetris | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 9 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWRfQtoaq_0&w=640&h=390]
clogging your brain? This little mash-up (slightly more melodic than ) should help clear your head, and maybe even send you running for your N64 to give this a shot. [via ] |
Streaming CES: How We Did It | Jon Orlin | 2,011 | 1 | 9 | As the 2011 wraps up today, we’d like to share a few secrets. The , with support from , provided more than 20 hours of live CES video coverage, taking our viewers right to the industry and media access only exhibit floor. For a look at video highlights, check out . Hundreds of Twitter questions were answered i... |
Verizon Will Trip AT&T With The iPhone — Then Point And Laugh With Unlimited Data | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 9 | Uh oh, AT&T. It’s looking , , , likely that the event on Tuesday morning in New York City is all about unveiling that will work on the carrier’s network. And for those of us who have long suffered and struggled with AT&T’s network to be able to use the iPhone (particularly those of us in cities like San Franci... |
Instagram Shuffle Adds Roulette To Photo-Sharing | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 9 |
is no doubt the latest rage in photo sharing, recently crossing after less three months of being open to the public. While the company is planning to open up its API in the near future, one developer has built a nifty new app on top of Instragram that has a roulette type of feature to access photos created and pub... |
First Look: HTC EVO Shift 4G | Contributor | 2,011 | 1 | 9 |
Evolution seems to be a bit less violent this time around. The HTC EVO Shift 4G attempts to build on the brand started with the much-hyped EVO 4G superphone that launched back in 2010’s summer. Instead of forging a new path with a fresh form factor and top-tier specs, the HTC EVO Shift 4G does things a bit more low-... |
Five Ways The Verizon iPhone Will Change The Mobile Landscape | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 9 | It has been a litany akin to prayer in certain circles: “Everything will be better when . I’ll buy it then.” But what will a Verizon iPhone really change? Let’s think this through. First, expect iPhone sales to surpass Droid sales for a brief period and then level off. My friend the former Hell’s Angel told me how a V... |
Daniel Raffel's Favorite New Geek Stuff Of 2010 | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 9 | Looking back at 2010, I’m particularly struck by the quantity and quality of new projects that launched. Just when I thought I had time to start reflecting on the year another project popped up onto my radar! And then another. And another! I count myself lucky to be working in an industry with so much creativity and en... |
Five Ways The Verizon iPhone Will Change The Mobile Landscape | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 9 | It has been a litany akin to prayer in certain circles: “Everything will be better when . I’ll buy it then.” But what will a Verizon iPhone really change? Let’s think this through. First, expect iPhone sales to surpass Droid sales for a brief period and then level off. My friend (a former Hell’s Angel) told me how a V... |
How Not To Be Influential? Quora Spam On Mechanical Turk | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 9 | There’s has been in the past couple of days about how can handle its , avoid (i.e. full of nonsense and spam) and scale with grace. As further evidence of a growing success problem, Google spam avenger us to evidence of Quora fraud through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Ironically the above Human Intelligence Tas... |
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Deals Juggernaut Next Jump Hires a CFO, Looks To Add 100 Engineers In San Francisco | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | Groupon gets all the attention, but another deal juggernaut that should be on your radar is New York City-based . The company runs group discount shopping programs for 90,000 corporations and organizations, and MasterCard’s loyalty rewards program. Investment bankers are sniffing around. Merchants offer deep discoun... |
Blekko Bans Content Farms Like Demand Media's eHow From Its Search Results | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | , the perky little search engine startup that lets you customize your search results, is taking the fight against web spam to a new level. It already allows searchers to mark results as spam and keeps a that counts how many spam pages are on the web (743 million and counting). Now it is about to block content farms... |
LG Continues The Thin-Bezel Love With New 47WV30 LED TVs | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 31 |
We all know LG hates bezels. Or loves thin bezels. One of those things. At any rate they are the thick bezels we all have on our TVs and monitors and replacing them with . I love the trend, personally, but it takes more than a thin bezel to make a decent display. What else have you got, LG? The new 47WV30 LED-backl... |
Apple Reportedly Blocks Sony Reader App, May Foreshadow War With Amazon Kindle | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | This evening the New York Times published an titled . An alternative title, should the report prove accurate, could be, . Really, things look like they are going to get nasty. According to the report, Apple blocked Sony’s e-reader application from the iPhone and mandated that it would need to sell content via In-A... |
33Needs Brings Crowdsourced Funding To Social Startups | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | The crowdsourced funding craze is picking up steam. Tonight we see the launch of , a site where socially-minded startups can raise initial seed funding from individual contributors on the Web. It is meets . Social startups post their “needs” in terms of how much money they are looking to raise, what problems they... |
Real Estate Community RentJuice Gets $6.2 Million From Tim Draper And Highland Capital | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | , an online community that allows real estate agents and brokers to view rental data in real time is announcing its Series B round of $6.2 million in funding today, led by and esteemed founder . While not consumer facing, RentJuice is still useful to consumers as it can provide a broker with up to the minute data ... |
Sony Patent Shows Cool Folding Grip For Point And Shoots | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 31 |
When it comes to point-and-shoots, you generally don’t see too much variation in the lens covers. They usually either have an automatic one or a piece that slides out of the way in one direction. A filed by Sony, however, shows off a pretty radical design that might set their cameras apart from the rest. The idea’s r... |
Err, Call Me: Vumber Gives You Throw-Away Phone Numbers For Dating, Work | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | By now you’ve probably heard of Google Voice, a service that lets you take one phone number and configure it to ring all of your phones — work, mobile, home, whatever — with plenty of settings to manage your inbound and outbound calls. But what if you wanted the opposite: a service that lets you spawn a multitude of ph... |
StrikeAd raises Series A round for its mobile ad platform | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | , the mobile ad startup, has raised a Series A round from German VC firm eValue, which has also backed the European video ad network, . As is often the case with regards to European investment, the actual amount remains undisclosed. However, it’s said to enable StrikeAd to “accelerate the development and deployment of... |
Google Dethrones Nokia As Top Seller Of Smartphones | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | Android has passed yet another milestone in its race to the top: With 32.9 million handsets sold globally this last quarter, it has ousted longtime champion Nokia (with 31m) for the title of . It’s a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, of course, since Nokia also makes its own handsets, but quibbling aside, the to... |
Review: Dell Streak 7 | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | Short Version: Here we go again: another impressive 7-inch Android tablet with a Gorilla Glass screen, 4G networking, and a suave interface. But is this thing more of the same or something new? The tried-and-true 7-inch tablet is, by now, old hat. In fact, little about the Dell Streak 7 is new except the clear emphasis... |
Yammer Swings Back at Jive with a Survey and Salesforce with a Video (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | The social enterprise wars are heating up. Last week, Jive’s Tony Zingale came on to talk about a that showed quantifiable value his customers were getting from Jive’s software and Yammer and Salesforce get the bulk of the industry press. I invited Salesforce’s Marc Benioff and Yammer’s David Sacks on the show if t... |
Build A Cellphone Car Mount Out Of Spare Office Supplies | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 1 | 31 |
Why not do something productive with the last few minutes of your workday and actually make something. Go to the supply closest and grab a large binder clip, some string, a durable rubber band and a bit of duct tape (black if it’s available). Got it? Good. First, look at this pic of the end result and try to build wha... |
Former eHarmony Head Greg Waldorf Joins Accel As CEO-In-Residence | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | is announcing today the addition of former head CEO as CEO-in-residence. Waldof spent eleven years at eHarmony and five as CEO before leaving the company a couple of weeks ago and landing at Accel as of today. While at eHarmony, Waldorf oversaw an online dating business that raked in more than $1 billion in revenu... |
Instructure Launches To Root Blackboard Out Of Universities | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | Mozy Founder launches today. He’s hoping to disrupt the entrenched player in the University LMS space, Blackboard, and take a big part of its $377 million or so in revenue. In 2007 , an online backup solution, for $76 million. Coates stayed for another year, then left. Since then he’s been helping integrate into ... |
RIM Shows Off The Playbook's Business Features | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekQNkl6gAOE&w=640&h=390] a long describing some business aspects of the RIM . It’s mostly for IT nerds so you don’t absolutely have to watch it if you don’t like hearing some dude talk about email sync in monotone, but at least it will give you a little time with everyone’s fav... |
Kickstarter: The aTrackt Improves Apple’s Keyboard And Trackpad Ergonomics | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | I wasn’t convinced this particular project was worth its salt, but a little reflection convinced me. I don’t use Apple’s dainty little desk accessories — I always go back to a nice, meaty mechanical keyboard and high-performance mouse, because Apple’s keyboards are like toys and the trackpad is no good for gaming. But ... |
Your own mini-me? Sculpteo lets you print a real-life 3D avatar | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 31 | This is pretty cool. , the online 3D printing service, has launched a new product that lets users turn two photographs of a person into a real-life figure – a mini me or physical avatar if you will. The Paris-based company is interesting in that it’s in-part positioning 3D printing, a relatively new method of producin... |
Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur? | Mark Suster | 2,011 | 1 | 30 | One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? Aren’t you ever tempted to go back and do it again?” The obvious answer is yes. When it’s in your blood, it’s in your blood. I guess it’s kind of like crack (not that I know from exp... |
WikiLeaks Founder Assange Tells 60 Minutes: "Our Values Are Those Of The U.S. Revolution" | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 30 | In an with , WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange compares his values to those of the Founding Fathers of the United States and argues that he is actually playing “inside the rules.” He defends his actions by leaning heavily on the First Amendment, stating that “our founding values are those of the U.S. revolution.” On... |
Quora Is Really About A Better Wikipedia, Not Robert Scoble's Hopes & Dreams | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 30 | Robert Scobleized Quora today. It was only a of weeks ago that I mentioned super-blogger penchant for taking very strong positions on technology and startups and then reversing those decisions completely on a whim. I love him for his quick retreats. And I certainly admire a man who’s willing to rethink his opinion ... |
The Triple Crown | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 1 | 30 | History shows us that when disruptive technologies appear, the battle lines are drawn between those who are empowered by the innovation and those who fear they lose such power. So it is with the iPad and its iOS platform, which has sparked a counter attack in direct proportion to the speed of its adoption across the co... |
Zuckerberg On SNL: "I Invented Poking" [Video] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 30 | ‘The Social Network’ star Jesse Eisenberg hosted “Saturday Night Live” tonight and opened the show talking about the movie’s impressive Oscar nominations. The monologue then switched to video of actual Facebook CEO watching his two “Berg” doppelgangers backstage, “Why can’t I go in there, I’m the real Mark Zuckerbe... |
Cloud-Based Storage Coming To PS3 (But For A Premium)? | Nicholas Deleon | 2,011 | 1 | 30 | is that cloud-based game save management will be coming to the beginning with firmware 3.60. Hate the idea of managing your saves? Don’t worry, for it looks like the feature will only be available to subscribers. Outrage! “Cloud-based save game management? What’s that?” A good, honest question, amigo. The long a... |
iPad Mags Need A New Blueprint | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 30 | Ever since the iPad came out, print media companies have been feeling their way in this new medium, but so far they’ve just been stumbling over themselves.
They are latching onto the iPad as a new where people will somehow magically pay for articles they can get for free in their browsers. But if they want people t... |
Confirmed: SoundCloud takes funding from Index and Union Square | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 8 | As we hinted four days ago, was indeed talking to Index Ventures and Union Square Ventures about investing. It’s confirmed today that both firms have made undisclosed investments. SoundCloud was looking to raise another round since its last was in April 2009, from Doughty Hanson Ventures for EUR 2.5 million. Sinc... |
OMG/JK: I Wonder If The Verizon iPhone Comes In Red | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 8 | It’s time for your favorite part of the week: the new episode of , featuring fellow TechCrunch writer MG Siegler and myself talking about the hottest stories in tech. And this episode’s a great one (though that should come as no surprise). This has been a remarkable week in technology news, especially when it comes ... |
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Gillmor Gang 01.08.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 1 | 8 | weighed in on the inevitable Year of the Tablet discussion from New York, where my view of Apple dominance is met with healthy skepticism but no real counter argument. Borthwick’s Bit.ly service continues to prosper even as Twitter consolidates services and clients in-house. As a self-described former member of the ... |
Can Google Get Its Mojo Back? | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 1 | 8 | A spectre is haunting Mountain View. No, not bed bugs: . Google is in serious decline. I don’t see how they can deny it. They have famously always been a data-driven organization, and the data is compelling. Business Insider’s list of cited no fewer than four from Google: Buzz, Wave, Google TV, and the Nexus One. ... |
Boxee Box Update Rolls Out Today, Hulu, Vudu Imminent [Update] | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 8 |
A cryptic Tweet from points to a new firmware version rolling out in the next few hours, one that probably promises and content on what Matt calls : Nevermind John. He meant to say Netflix, not Hulu. |
Confirmed: Index And Union Square Invest In SoundCloud | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 8 | As we hinted four days ago, was indeed talking to Index Ventures and Union Square Ventures about investing. It’s confirmed today that both firms have made undisclosed investments. SoundCloud was looking to raise another round since its last was in April 2009, from Doughty Hanson Ventures for EUR 2.5 million. Sinc... |
Daily Crunch: Concept Edition | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 1 | 8 | |
AOL's Awkward Billboard Ad About Your Boss | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 1 |
I still don’t get why parent company spells AOL in all caps but uses “Aol” in its logo. There’s probably a around here somewhere that explains it. But that isn’t what this post is about. This is a picture of a new billboard ad recently put up along highway 101 in Silicon Valley, visible to southbound traffic arou... |
Brooklyn-Based EXOVAULT Will Clad Your iPhone In Metal & Wood | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 1 | 8 | Yes. Another iPhone case. But these aren’t your typical American-designed, Chinese-made mass-produced cases. These are designed and made in Brooklyn, NY by people who are clearly committed to their craft. They’re a bit pricey with prices running between $70 and $195, but they’re unlike anything else and seemed to be bu... |
TextWeight Tracks Your Weight Loss Progress, Bugs You Through SMS | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 1 | For me and many others “lose weight” isn’t just a New Year’s Day resolution, it’s an every single morning one. But yeah, there’s nothing like a crashing boozy halt to a December spent scarfing crappy chocolates and piling on the gravy to make you feel like you should hit the gym, especially after hitting the scales. A ... |
Streamonomics | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 1 | 1 | God bless 2010 as the year when everybody, including Twitter, caught up to Twitter. Now that we know the importance of streaming realtime, what are we going to do with it? I’ve been doing some thinking as I recover from a pinched nerve that has made it agony to do anything other than feel sorry for myself. Thanks to pa... |
Facebook Close To Naming Sun Microsystems Campus As New Headquarters | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 1 | It’s been less than two years since Facebook its 150,000 square foot office space at 1601 South California Ave in Palo Alto, but the rapidly growing company is already itching for a new home. Now we’re hearing from multiple sources that Facebook has chosen the site for its new headquarters: the former Sun Microsystem... |
California Bill Criminalizing Online Impersonations In Effect Starting Today | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 1 | California’s SB 1411, which adds a layer of criminal and civil penalties for certain online impersonations, goes into effect starting today. The consequences include a fine of up to $1,000, and/ or up to a year in jail. So don’t go and do something crazy like on Facebook. There may be consequences. The full text and ... |
Daily Crunch: 1.1.11 Edition | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 1 | 1 | |
Twitter For Mac Is Like Massively Multiplayer IM — Will It Alter Twitter Itself? | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | Back in August, I first got to try out the Twitter Streaming API via the User Streams feature which was being beta tested on a new version on popular third-party client TweetDeck. “ ,” was the title I went with. For this post, I sort of wanted to use the title “If User Streams Is Crack, Twitter For Mac Is A Crack Pipe.... |
French Groupon clone Bon-Privé scores €1.5 million to conquer more French territory | roxannevarza | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | Perhaps now that is happily being valued at , investors all over the world are getting all the more interested in the local group daily deal platforms. Brand new Moroccan clone is rumored to be raising a round and France’s closed its first round of funding back in July. And now another French Groupon clone, , is ... |
Serena Capital drops €3 million on Yakarouler, another car-related e-commerce startup | roxannevarza | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | It is only the 6th of January and I’ve already been able to announce 3 French startups who have raised funding in the New Year on TechCrunch France: , and now . This last one has just announced a first round of funding of €3 million round with , the same French VC firm that is behind . Yakarouler is a Paris-based... |
Ask a VC: Questions about the New Enterprise Boom? Ask Jason Green | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | After a Holiday hiatus, Ask a VC is back and we’re kicking off the new year with Jason Green of Emergence Capital. Emergence was started to fund the software-as-a-service craze of the early 2000s. That wave has had mixed results, but Emergence had several of the big hits including Salesforce.com and SuccessFactors. Gre... |
Pandora and the Final, Crucial Internet Radio Frontier: The Car (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | At CES this week, Pandora made two announcements that get its popular Internet radio service into cars, one for and one for BMW. But while exciting, the reality is these are still hacks that use your smart phone to solve the big car Internet radio problem: Connectivity. It’s a big problem but a crucial one for Pandor... |
Floxx hits the skids as UK campuses start shutting it out | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | , the re-branded Fitfinder we , re-emerged after a difficult birth on the campus of a UK university after being banned as leading young mids astray from their studies. To re-cap: Floxx allows students to “spot” attractive people in at their college and post a message about them in the hope they will get a response. W... |
CheckPoints Hits A Million Check-Ins, 600K Bar Code Scans | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | Fast moving shopping rewards app and finalist has hit a couple of milestones this week, 2 1/2 months since its launch. Co-founder Mark Dipaola tells us that the app now boasts 1 million store check-ins and 600K barcode scans, or users scanning the barcodes of participating products in participating stores. Dipaola ... |
The Mac App Store Offers A Taste Of OS X Lion And The Future Of The Platform | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | The Mac App Store is going to be huge. Sure, you look at it now and see that it’s largely populated with a lot of apps you don’t want and will never want. But there are already quite a few gems (namely some key games) on day one. And the smooth execution of how it works makes it very clear that this is the future of so... |
Hours After Launch, Lackluster Apps Inspire A "Worst Of" The Mac App Store | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 6 |
If you’re as as we are, you probably spent a couple hours this morning exploring the or as I like to call it, the Productivity Toilet. And you are not alone, hours after launch some industrious (and foul mouthed) UI enthusiast has created a Tumblr compilation of terribly designed Mac Apps. While we found it on T... |
Hands-Off Video Demo: The Unnamed Samsung 4G LTE Smartphone For Verizon | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2YUJB5GwR0&fs=1&hl=en_US] Unless Samsung’s trying to pull some sneaky SEO shenanigans, I’m pretty sure they’re not actually planning on taking this thing to market with the name “4G LTE Smartphone For Verizon” — but if they’ve got another name for it right now, they’re not shari... |
Quick Hands-On: Fujifilm's Gorgeous X100 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 6 |
Oh man, I was so pumped to get my hands on this thing. This is the beautiful retro-styled, APS-C sensored, dial-covered compact camera we heard about a few months back, and immediately fell in love with. It’s got a “hybrid viewfinder” that either works as a regular see-through thing with overlay, or you can flip a swi... |
Hands-Off Video Demo: The HTC Thunderbolt for Verizon | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q77ncYFWs9c&fs=1&hl=en_US] At long, long last, Verizon has pulled back the curtain on the HTC Thunderbolt. After months of covering the various rumors surrounding this thing (not to mention watching it change names constantly, from the Zeus to the Incredible HD to the Mecha to th... |
Ustream Is Also Coming Bundled On Verizon's 4G Android Phones | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | Verizon is really looking to push the capabilities of its 4G network when it arrives on Android handsets later this year. Earlier today we wrote about the carrier had forged with streaming music service to put that company’s apps on every 4G Verizon Android phone. Now has announced a similar partnership: every 4G... |
Personal Raises $7M From Steve Case And Others To Help Consumers Protect Their Digital Data | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | Under the radar startup has just announced a round of funding from a group of impressive backers. Personal has raised in a Series A round of investment from and Steve Case’s with participation from and Eric Semler of TCS Capital Management (although this indicates the startup raised $7.3 million) Founded by ... |
Hands-On Video: LG's First Verizon 4G Phone, The Revolution | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | There’s only so much we can say about the just-announced LG Revolution, given that Verizon’s still staying mum on the pricing and release date (outside of “sometime before the second half of 2011”). With that said, one thing’s for sure: as I am with all of the 4G Android phones Verizon has announced this week, I’m pret... |
Verizon Officially Unveils the 4G-Enabled HTC Thunderbolt | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | After months and months lurking around the rumormill under a plethora of names, Verizon has made the HTC Thunderbolt official at CES 2011. Join us after the jump for the specs.
What do you think? Not quite on par with the that trickled out a few days ago, but it’s still pretty dang slick. |
Live from Verizon's 4G Press Conference at CES 2011 | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 1 | 6 | We’re Live at Verizon’s Press Conference in Las Vegas. The bandwidth is all of shaky, but we’ll keep the updates coming as long as the bandwidth Gods allow it.
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The Crunchies: Video Highlights (TCTV) | Jon Orlin | 2,011 | 1 | 24 | In case you missed last Friday night’s fourth annual , or want to relive the excitement, you can watch the entire show above. The sold-out event was attended by 1,000 people at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Ten times that number viewed the live webcast. Congratulations to all the winners, runnerups and... |
HighNote Is Group Messaging With A Multimedia Twist | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 24 | What sets group messaging app apart from the current wave of group texting apps like , and is that it adds a multimedia focus to the act of messaging in multiple. Aside from being a free Internet Protocol-based messaging app for members, the service (available on the iPhone, iPad, iTouch and Android as of today)... |
Fujifilm's Anti-Counterfeiting Watermarks Are Just Cool-Looking | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 24 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPbmZjA-YYA&w=640&h=390]
If you’re a big manufacturer of media and components like Fujifilm or Sandisk, you need to make sure that products on the market are actually from your factories and not some knockoff that just copied your packaging. Counterfeits can be remarkably like t... |
SafetyWeb Acquires iHound And myID, Pushes People-Centric Security Solution | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 24 | is a Silicon Valley startup that until recently has on serving anxious parents who want to know what their kids are up to on the tubes. But they’ve been on an acquisition tear – , and now two more small security startups – and They aren’t disclosing the terms of either new deal, other than to say that each deal ... |
WITN: No, New York Media, It Isn't 1999 All Over Again (Thanks For Asking) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 24 | In this week’s , we discuss the latest Silicon Valley bubble. Or specifically, we discuss why there isn’t one – and why New York media has to stop claiming there is every time a company has a high valuation. Yeah, Business Week’s Chris Farrell, we’re . Video below. |
MoshiMonsters launches first toy range, aims at $22 billion US market | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 24 | Tomorrow , the educational social game aimed at young children, is moving heavily into licensing its brand. It will also launch its first toy range at the London Toy Show, in conjunction with Master Toy partner, Vivid. MoshiMonsters now has over 30 million users worldwide – creating a tonne of kids who would really l... |
What Is Quora’s Biggest Challenge? | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 1 | 24 | By now, everyone has an opinion of and is waiting to see if their mom starts following them there, too. In the past week, in addition to winning the Crunchies award for best new startup, it is also the target of growing skepticism. Well-circulated articles have been written about the company’s ascent. from the Wal... |
Further Leaks Show Off Potential Interface, Specs For HP's webOS Tablet | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 24 | Last week, we saw what appeared to be a legit leak of , previously known under the moniker . Pre Central has gotten hold of some slightly less exciting, yet still interesting, design documents showing off potential UI ideas. I don’t want to spoil their day by just re-posting everything they got, so . There are no ac... |
Kinect + Minecraft = Full-Motion 3D Statues | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 24 |
We saw this little hack in an earlier stage a while back, but didn’t post it. I’m posting this update now, because it’s just too nuts to pass up. The details of the project, which basically imports still data from the Kinect and rebuilds it with blocks in Minecraft, . The movies were put together by saving, renderi... |
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3G Nook Discontinued, Lack Of Demand Blamed | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 24 |
It seems that although the business is , the 3G version of Barnes & Noble’s Android-based e-reader has never been much of a hit. Engadget has it that the cell-enabled variant of the Nook is , though you can still pick one up while supplies last, and of course you have the Color and wi-fi Nooks to choose from as we... |
Atrix Keyboard-Screen Dock Could Cost As Little As $150 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 24 |
The , which won many at this year’s CES, is famously able to dock with a laptop-like accessory and provide a more natural working environment. I was suspicious that this dock would be rather expensive, but someone claiming to have inside pricing info from Best Buy says it’s actually . I don’t think that’s so far ou... |
8-Bit Funding: Kickstarter For Indie Games | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 24 |
We’ve had a few posts on projects on CrunchGear lately, mainly because we think it’s a great way to bring attention to what we think are interesting and innovative hardware projects. However, one thing that doesn’t get a lot of love on Kickstarter is games. Things like have their own financial momentum, but it’s h... |
Weekend at Myspace: And Other Upcoming Silicon Valley Movies | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 24 | Whether the audience agreed or not, our favorite part (of ours) of the was the movie posters bit. Inspired by the success of the Social Network, we’d brainstormed a few ideas for Silicon Valley themed movies of our own, complete with promotional posters to help with the pitch. In case you missed seeing them , here t... |
Nintendo Clarifies Some 3DS Questions, Stonewalls Others In Interview | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 24 |
I’ve gotten used to the fact that Nintendo and a few other companies will pretty much never tell you what you want to know, just what they want to know. Makes me feel a bit like I’m parroting PR, but for something like the , we’ll take what information we can get. In this case, Nintendo is on form and deftly maneuve... |
I Feel Like A Kid Again With HeyTell, The Social Walkie-Talkie App With 3 Million Users | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 24 | When I was a kid, there were few things cooler than a walkie-talkie. I recall spending many a night running around hotels causing havoc as my friends and I pretended we were on some sort of secret mission, talking to each other back and forth over these devices. Then cell phones came along and changed everything. For a... |
Cubeduel Now Back In Action, Says We Like Facebook Employees Best | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 1 | 24 |
Last week, the service that’s a hybrid of Hot or Not and LinkedIn, went offline due to some serious growing pains. Initially, it was unclear whether the site had gone down because its content was somehow inappropriate, or whether it had simply gone viral too quickly. Director of Communications Hani Durzy stepped i... |
Review: Zoom Q3HD Camcorder | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 24 |
A versatile and useful pocket cam for people who value the audio portion of their video, but its high price may make those on the fence opt for a cheaper, more rugged model.
Pocket cams are convenient little devices, but they sacrifice a lot of image quality by having a tiny lens and sensor, and although people... |
Google Says Removing 'Reader' Link In Gmail Was A Mistake, Aims To Bring It Back Today | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 23 | Hmm … Maybe RSS isn’t after all? After the of the Google Reader link in Gmail with a link to Google Photos caused a on Friday, Google has vowed to bring the beloved RSS product back and tells TechCrunch its removal was accidental. And while Google is uncertain as to exactly when the highly dramaticized link will... |
Report: PSP2 To Be Released By Year-End, With OLED Touchscreen And 3G | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 1 | 23 | , Sony is planning to hold an event (now dubbed “PlaysStation Meeting”) in Tokyo this Thursday, probably to unveil the PSP2. Today, Japan’s biggest business daily, The Nikkei, is reporting that Sony will indeed unveil the device on that day, and they also have some information on what features it will come with. Accord... |
Good Thing For Green Tech? GE Chief, Jeff Immelt, To Chair Obama's Council On Jobs | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 1 | 23 | On Friday, President Obama appointed General Electric’s chief executive, Jeff Immelt — an advocate for — chairman of his panel of outside economic advisors, the newly branded Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. This council was formerly known as (the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board). Immelt was a fou... |
Sean Parker calls The Social Network "a complete work of fiction" | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 23 | Early Facebook backer Sean Parker, on stage at European conference DLD, just gave perhaps his most comprehensive reaction to The Social Network movie yet, calling it “a complete work of fiction.” During the end of the movie his character, payed by actor Justin Timberlake, is at a party where drugs are being taken and v... |
The AirPlay Network | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 1 | 23 | Week One of the Age of iPad was barely weekended when Keith Olbermann was removed from his position at NBC/Comcast. I missed his final show, mostly because I stopped watching it and all the cable news channels once the election was over. But then I remembered we are now in the , and guess what I found when I turned on... |
Fly Or Die (Crunchies Edition): GroupMe, Uber, Square | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 23 | In this week’s episode of , the show where CrunchGear editor John Biggs and I attempt to predict the survival chances of hot new products, we did a special Crunchies edition. Each of the companies we feature— , , and —was nominated for a Crunchie award. At some point in the show, a founder of one of the three co... |
Sean Parker Calls The Social Network "A Complete Work Of Fiction" | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 23 | Early Facebook backer Sean Parker, on stage at European conference DLD, just gave perhaps his most comprehensive reaction to The Social Network movie yet, calling it “a complete work of fiction.” During the end of the movie his character, payed by actor Justin Timberlake, is at a party where drugs are being taken and v... |
SheFinds Helps Women Shop More Efficiently Online | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 23 | is a blog network and buying guide that helps busy women shop online. SheFinds, which includes and recently launched publishes editorial content featuring click-to-buy items applicable to its specific vertical audience. Editors curate shopping guides for products within each vertical. For example, MomFinds will pu... |
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Apple's First Verizon iPhone Commercial Also Touts AT&T: "Two Is Better Than One" | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 23 | Two days ago, Verizon posted their first iPhone teaser commercial to their YouTube page. The tagline? “ .” Now, it looks as if Apple is ready to follow suit with its own marketing muscle. But they’re not just playing up the Verizon iPhone, but rather the fact that it’s now on networks in the U.S. The tagline for this... |
Webmission is back and it's worth considering | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 15 | Three years ago was more than a simple trade mission taking Internet entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley. It ended up creating a great gel in the UK startup scene. Well it’s back and thanks to TechCrunch we’ve negotiated an extended deadline for companies to apply for Web Mission 2011 until Friday 21st January. This year... |
Oversized Assets Indicate 2048×1536 Resolution On iPad 2 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 15 | A couple image assets included in the latest version of iBooks seem to have the same naming convention as iPhone apps have when they must accommodate both old and new iPhone displays. In other words, the images imply that the iPad 2 will undergo a similar transformation: remaining the same size while . (I always make ... |
The Block Album | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 1 | 15 | Every few eons we get another swarm of stories, usually involving Dave Winer versus the rest of the universe. Sub-themes include , , and . Typically Dave uses the event to launch yet another version of Radio 8 tricked out to convince us that his lack of business model business model beats traditional data silo roa... |
Gillmor Gang 1.15.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 1 | 15 | Bob Muglia moved on from Microsoft this week, and I for one was not a little surprised. You see, Bob is one of the few Microsoftees that sits (sat) across the two worlds of Microsoft. One is the old world, of Windows and Office and the predominant position in the technology community. The other is where the company s... |
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