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Cisco launches new Aironet wireless access points; Eyes more spatial streams

Jan 31, 8:30AM

Cisco is betting that the Aironet line can maintain quality as workers video conference, connect to virtual desktops and make wireless local area network calls from their devices.


Super Bowl Sunday: Connect with your favorite team via social media!

Jan 31, 8:00AM

Do you like football? Looking forward to the Super Bowl? Read this easily-digestible post, then get out there and link up with your favorite team(s) and players!


Facebook widens lead in display ad market share

Jan 31, 5:15AM

Over the last year, Facebook has managed to widen its lead in the U.S. display advertising market. The company increased its market share from 21 percent in 2010 to 27.9 percent in 2011.


EMC revs its Isilon NAS for Hadoop

Jan 31, 5:01AM

The company launched its EMC Isilon scale-out NAS with the combined with its Greenplum HD appliance will link together to combine storage, analytics and Hadoop.


The time Steve Jobs asked Google's Schmidt to stop stealing employees

Jan 31, 3:34AM

A 2007 e-mail uncovered in the course of a lawsuit reveals that under Steve Jobs' request, Google's Eric Schmidt got one of the company's own recruiters fired after they tried to hire an Apple...


IBM to close down Symphony, its OpenOffice fork

Jan 31, 2:04AM

Going forward, IBM will be putting its efforts behind the Apache Foundation's OpenOffice instead of its own OpenOffice fork.


Looking ahead to Windows 8: five big questions for Microsoft

Jan 31, 1:13AM

The beta release of Windows 8 is just a few weeks away. It should be nearly feature-complete, and expectations will be high. So what's keeping managers in Redmond awake at night? Here are my top...


Canalys: Apple topples HP in global client PC market

Jan 30, 11:56PM

Apple is on a roll already in 2012 after nabbing the top spot of another major tech list.


How panic spreads: Japan's resilience to earthquakes

Jan 30, 11:01PM

News reports, suggesting that Tokyo can 70 percent expect a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in the next four years, sparked panic. That was the least of my worries.


Facebook launches Timeline Movie Maker

Jan 30, 10:16PM

Facebook has launched Timeline Movie Maker, an app that creates a movie out of content on your new Facebook Timline. Does your movie improve your opinion of Timeline? Facebook hopes so.


Microsoft delivers developer kit for linking Amazon web services to Windows Phone

Jan 30, 9:57PM

Microsoft has released under an open-source license a beta of a toolkit for integrating Amazon Web services with Windows Phone.


Should tech companies buy content companies? Apple, Google, and many others have plenty of cash...

Jan 30, 9:45PM

Lots of tech companies make lots of money from content. So should they put music labels, movie studios, newspaper and book publishers on their shopping lists?


AT&T reshuffles executive deck and titles

Jan 30, 9:44PM

AT&T creates a new chief strategy job while giving Ralph de la Vega a longer title for his business card.


Microsoft entices startups with Azure cloud promotional offer

Jan 30, 9:07PM

Certain TechStars, Global Accelerator Network companies could receive $60,000 worth of cloud computing and storage capacity at no cost for up to two years.


Are teens ditching Facebook for Twitter?

Jan 30, 8:44PM

An Associated Press report implies that teenagers are ditching Facebook for Twitter. A closer look shows that while Twitter is in fact being embraced, it's definitely not replacing Facebook.


Video calling turning into a favorite living room pastime

Jan 30, 8:19PM

While the mobile market is seeing the most video calling activity at the moment, HDTV video chatting is presenting competition, according to a new report.


Microsoft launches a second Facebook social game

Jan 30, 8:08PM

Microsoft Research has fielded its second Facebook game aimed at helping to understand users' behavior in social-networking situations.


Share your opinions for a chance to win some cool AMD hardware

Jan 30, 8:00PM

Great AMD hardware to give away!


The easiest MacBook upgrade in history

Jan 30, 7:46PM

After research and geek talk with a fellow geek, I removed the hard drive from my MacBook 13" and put her older hard drive into the MacBook 13". Then I powered up the 13" and hoped for the best.


10 extremely awesome Android tablet tips and tricks

Jan 30, 7:32PM

Want to get the most out of your Android tablet? Then don't miss these tips and tricks that can be used to get better battery life, add hidden features, and get the most out of browsing the web.



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Daily Crunch: Wraiths

Jan 31, 9:00AM

1535Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: nanox: High-Quality iPod nano Watch Conversion Kit WiGig: Panasonic Tablet Wirelessly Transmits A Full DVD Video In 60 Seconds (Video) Flying People Spotted Over New York City…Film At Nine


Salesforce Launches Assistly-Powered Social And Mobile Customer Service Platform For SMBs, Desk.com

Jan 31, 7:59AM

deskLast September, Salesforce bought social customer service SaaS startup Assistly for $50 million-plus to help expand its service cloud offerings to small businesses. Today, Salesforce is debuting a brand new Assistly-inspired social and mobile customer service platform for small businesses, called Desk.com. As you may remember, Assistly helped companies collect and organize all of their customer conversations into a prioritized actionable list and equips support staff with the tools to respond to customers. The application allows businesses to filter conversations, access customer histories, automate processes and even tap into social media conversations on Facebook, Twitter and other sites. And Assistly provides users with key metrics and analytics, such as case volume, interaction volume by channel, response time, service levels, agent performance and more.


Dot429: A Fast-Growing, Multi-Platform LinkedIn For The Gay Community

Jan 31, 6:25AM

dot429_logo_dotcom_circlemark_v3-1When it comes to networking, there is no shortage of ways to connect with other professionals to talk shop. LinkedIn has become the most popular professional networking platform, with over 100 million users using the site to post their work experience, look for jobs, and connect with prospective employers. Facebook, too, has its own professional social network in BranchOut, or you can try startups like Identified or just go for some good old fashioned meetups.


T-Mobile Plans To Limit Domestic Data Roaming On April 5

Jan 31, 3:32AM

tmodataroamingIf you tend to play on the magenta network, a leaked document out of T-Mobile may require your attention. According to TmoNews, the carrier will impose new rules for domestic data roaming on April 5. Instead of the unlimited data goodness you've likely grown accustomed to, the carrier will cut you off after you burn through an allotted amount of data. Here's how it'll work:


Twitter's Dick Costolo: "We're Growing Faster Than We Have Ever Grown Before"

Jan 31, 3:09AM

dick-costolo-web_1733079cDoes Twitter need Google or does Google need Twitter? It's a question complicated by recent events, such as the two companies not coming to an agreement to extend their previous partnership through which Google showed Tweets in search results. That deal wasn't renewed,and then Google decided to promote its own Google+ results in search, which didn't go over well with Twitter at all. Asked about this at by Peter Kafka at the D: Dive Into Media conference this evening, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo responded:


Hey, Bromasters, Take Your Kenu Highline On The Slopes When You Shred

Jan 31, 3:01AM

Screen Shot 2012-01-30 at 6.48.59 PMSo you want to take a photo of you and your buds on the slopes or at the bar or at A&F or whatever and you know, just know you're going drop that shnitz on the floor. So what do you need? A freakin' Kevlar cord, Mr. Brojangles. That's what you need.


Former RIM Co-CEO Will Invest $50 Million As Heins Takes The Reins

Jan 31, 2:45AM

MikeLazaridisRIMWhether a "drastic change" is needed or there is already "a lot of change", former RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis (the same one who flipped out on the BBC during an interview) still believes in the BlackBerry. Forget the fact that the company's figures are half what they were at the beginning of 2011, and never mind the fact that the stock dropped 8 percent on the first day that new CEO Thorsten Heins was at his post. Lazaridis still thinks a $50 million investment in RIM stock (from out of his pocket) is well worth it.


Synacor Files For IPO, Acquires HTML5 Cloud OS Carbyn For $1.1M

Jan 31, 2:27AM

Synacor Carbyn IPOOnline content, portal and comprehensive front-end technology solution Synacor filed its amended S-1 today for an IPO looking to raise $75 million. The filing revealed that this month Synacor acquired Carbyn, an HTML5 operating system that lets users put their files, applications and more in the cloud and access them from any device. It paid $1.1 million total for the company,  $600,000 up front with $500,000 deliver in April 2013, and it hired 7 Carbyn employees.


SoftKinetic And Intel Partner For Minority Report-Style Ads

Jan 31, 2:05AM

minority reportStartup SoftKinetic just announced a new kind of advertising, one that combines its gesture-control technology with Intel's video analytics. The goal is for people to walk up to a digital display equipped with SoftKinetic's 3D camera and move their arms (or the rest of their body) to interact with the display, similar to Microsoft Kinect. Then, as you're moving, Intel's AIM technology can identify your age and gender, which is crucial information for advertisers — and also useful for personalizing the content to each viewer.


Nerve Dating Re-Launches To Put The Humanity (And Humor) Back In Online Dating

Jan 31, 12:51AM

Screen shot 2012-01-30 at 1.09.45 PMLast year, Nick Paumgarten wrote an interesting article for The New Yorker that detailed the rise of online dating and the effects it's had on web culture. What struck me most were some of the eye-opening statistics he shared about the size and popularity of the industry, beginning with the fact that fee-based dating sites have become, collectively, a billion-dollar industry -- that "one in six new marriages is the result of meetings on Internet dating site." What's more, online dating is now the third most common way for people to meet.


SocialCam Is Growing, But It's The Latest Alum Startup Returning To Y Combinator Anyway

Jan 30, 11:45PM

Screen Shot 2012-01-30 at 3.34.27 PMHaving spun out of online broadcaster Justin.tv last year, SocialCam has managed to get a strong footing on iOS and Android. It passed 3 million downloads in December, and it's now sending 3 million notifications a day, with video uploads and following counts up by 700% and 800% in the last few months, according to cofounder Michael Seibel. But the three-man team is going back into Y Combinator, the early-stage seed fund that Justin.tv had grown out of, instead of taking the more obvious routes of raising venture funding or simply continuing to build on its own.


Codecademy Becomes A Platform: Now Anyone Can Write Programming Tutorials

Jan 30, 10:59PM

codecademylogoOne of the most buzzed-about startups over the last few months has been Codecademy — a site that looks to make programming accessible to just about anyone, with a variety of interactive, web-based courses that have users writing their first lines of code within a few seconds. The site's 'Code Year' program, which invites users to receive one programming lesson each week, racked up a whopping 100,000 signups in only 48 hours — and it even has the White House on board. But, as anyone who has spent much time on the site can attest to, Codecademy has had one big problem: there just aren't that many lessons available. And the ones that are on there sometimes seem to be moving too quickly, without many practice exercises to explore and reinforce what you've just learned. Today, the company is launching a feature that will go a long way toward fixing that. Meet the Codecademy Course Creator.


Is Bebo Finally Dead? (Update: Not Quite)

Jan 30, 10:35PM

beboLargely forgotten social network Bebo may have shut down today. Bebo users certainly seem to think that this is the end. The Bebo website is down, and as a result there's a steady stream of sad tweets using the "#bebo" and "#ripbebo" hashtags. And if it's a false alarm, the company isn't doing much to combat that impression — the most recent posts on both the Bebo and Team Bebo Twitter accounts date from November.


The 5 Reasons Why Facebook Is Worth So Much Money

Jan 30, 10:25PM

Facebook MoneyHow did Facebook become worth so much money that it could file for the biggest IPO in tech history? By building a highly defensible product, platform, and advertising business on top of brilliant talent and valuable data. It now has several competitive advantages that protect it from disruption and could give it a long life as the primary online identity provider. Here are the 5 components that make Facebook a smart long-term bet for investors, regardless of its exact IPO pricing.


Paying To Serve: Microsoft Offers Accelerator-Backed Startups $60,000* In Azure Cloud Usage

Jan 30, 8:46PM

Screen Shot 2012-01-30 at 12.43.26 PMThe perks of getting into a top startup accelerator just got a little better. Microsoft is now offering startups in its new BizSpark Plus program $60,000 worth of costs for using its Azure cloud computing program. This includes any company that's a part of TechStars or its affiliated Global Accelerator Network, as well as Seedcamp, Dogpatch Labs, and a list of others. Let's say your hot new startup has just launched to the public, gotten TechCrunched, and is dealing with its big first wave of traffic. This deal will let you quickly scale up to meet the demand without blowing your seed funding on emergency virtual machines. An open cloud services platform, Azure works with major development languages including node.js, java, php and Microsoft's own . net, among others -- the point, from Microsoft's perspective, is to get in with the next batch of companies before they get hooked on offerings from rivals like Amazon.


Pre-IPO Filing, Facebook Trading Privately At $84 Billion Valuation

Jan 30, 7:57PM

Facebook $84BAs everyone waits for Facebook to file for its IPO this week, one of the big questions is what will its valuation be. Will it hit the magic $100 billion? Well, we are not going to find out this week because IPOs don't get priced unti right before the offering, which isn't expected until April or May. And a lot can happen between now and then. (What will be filed is the preliminary S-1 with all of Facebook's financials and other corporate information). But if Facebook went public today, chances are that it would get a valuation of around $85 billion.


BlueGlass Interactive Acquires Digital Agency Voltier Digital

Jan 30, 7:41PM

blueglassInternet marketing agency BlueGlass Interactive has just acquired Voltier Digital, a digital agency specializing in content marketing, infographic creation and data visualization. Voltier, whose clients include eBay, CEO.com, Fanhattan, WellHome, COLOURlovers.com, Greatist, and others, will be relocating its entire six person team to BlueGlass's Tampa offices immediately. In addition, Voltier's three founders, Dan Tynski, Nicholas Santillo and Chris Tynski, will hold senior roles on BlueGlass' production and marketing teams. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.


The Obama Campaign Is Now Using Mobile Payments Device Square For Fundraising

Jan 30, 6:44PM

Square_SigningHands 2.jpgThe latest technology to be adopted by the Obama campaign—Square. The mobile payments device is now being used by the Obama for fundraising, says the company. Staff, fundraisers and others are being equipped with the card reading devices, says Square, enabling the campaign to take donations on the go via Android devices, iPhones or iPads. "Whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, running for president or local assembly, Square makes it easier than ever for candidates, organizations and volunteers to fundraise for their cause," said a spokesperson for Square.


Intel Leads $20M Round For Solera Networks

Jan 30, 6:37PM

solera deep seeSolera Networks just announced that it has raised $20 million in Series D funding from Intel Capital (the chip-maker's investment arm) and others. The company says its DeepSee Platform can index and classify all network traffic, giving companies a comprehensive picture of their network security in real-time, either for spotting risks before a security breach or responding quickly once a breach has occurred. Both domestic and international sales supposedly grew more than 100 percent last year.


Twitter Posts Awful/Hilarious Recruiting Video To YouTube

Jan 30, 5:56PM

twitter-videoTwitter has posted a seriously awful/hilarious recruiting video to YouTube, which the company says was the product of last week's "Hack Week." During this time, employees were able to take time away from their day-to-day work to collaborate on new ideas. Although it was only posted on Friday, the video has already seen over 400,000 views at the time of writing. Why so viral? Because it's parodying the entire genre of startup recruiting videos by purposefully being bad. Really, really bad. So bad it's funny. Or at least that's the hope. The video has everything: amateurish effects, cheesy music, stilted speech, bad acting, poor production quality, and sayings like: "Man this is a sweet job. But working at Twitter isn't just a sweet job, it's a way of life - a way of life that's like a sweet job." Yeah, you pretty much have to watch this one.



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Textbook of the future? Not until we figure out distribution, DRM, and ecosystem

Jan 30, 8:05AM

Hardware is only a tiny part of the problem we need to solve to get educational resources into kids' hands (both literally and figuratively) at scale.


IT execs earn $155K on average, make up 5% of IT jobs: report

Jan 30, 8:01AM

A new IT salary guide from Bluewolf reflects a widening talent gap as more baby boomers reach retirement age.


Foxconn: Dangerous sweatshop or caring employer?

Jan 30, 8:01AM

A second NYT article on Foxconn' Technology discusses the human cost of assembling iPads and iPhones. Is Apple morally obligated to move assembly jobs back to the U.S.? Can it afford to?


Megaupload data 'to be destroyed': Could feds swoop on file-sharers?

Jan 30, 7:51AM

Megaupload users are expected to lose all of their uploaded data, including content they own the copyright to, thanks to this month's raid on the file-sharing company.


"Green" shopping bags could make you green around the gills

Jan 30, 7:21AM

It makes me really sad to think that more people might wind up in the hospital because they're trying to be virtuous in their use of reusable grocery bags.


Ultraslim waterproof Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX200V sports 18MP CMOS sensor

Jan 30, 5:56AM

Sony has announced three new compact Cyber-shot cameras that sport backlit CMOS sensors, including the feature-packed ultracompact DSC-TX200V


Only 1% of Facebook Page users engage with brands

Jan 30, 3:26AM

1.3 percent of Facebook users who Like a Page also engage with it. If you subtract new Likes, only 0.45 percent engage with the Pages they Like. Is this really as bad as it sounds?


Nokia Lumia 800 cracked open (video)

Jan 30, 1:24AM

TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler cracks open the Nokia Lumia 800. Here's what's inside.


New European data laws kill U.S. 'gagging orders'

Jan 30, 12:04AM

Ever heard of a National Security Letter? They can gag companies from telling a person that their data has been taken for U.S. inspection. But Europe is helping put a stop to it.


Forget the iPad, Android tablet makers better fear the Kindle Fire

Jan 29, 10:59PM

New user statistics show the Amazon Kindle Fire is already taking over the Android tablet space. Android tablet makers better fear the Kindle.


Sean Parker: Facebook IPO 'the largest offering in history'

Jan 29, 10:26PM

Napster co-founder Sean Parker was recently interviewed about Facebook's initial public offering (IPO). He said it would be "the largest offering in history" and that there's a Facebook bubble.


Exploring use cases for electronic clothes

Jan 29, 8:23PM

Flora is a new wearable technology platform from Adafruit Industries that makes crafting custom wearable multi-LED pixel designs geek-easy. Here's a look at the potential applications.


How ACTA would affect you: FAQ

Jan 29, 8:09PM

With SOPA and PIPA shelved, ACTA was somewhat ignored. Don't know what ACTA is? Don't worry: you weren't meant to. Here's what you need to know.


Ease Windows 7 eyestrain with a bigger, blacker mouse pointer

Jan 29, 7:52PM

If you're a Windows 7 user of a certain age, with cheap reading glasses stashed all over your home and office, this tip's for you. (And if it's not for you, send the link to your parents. They'll...


FBI to monitor Facebook, Twitter, Myspace

Jan 29, 7:06PM

The FBI is looking to monitor all public information posted on social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace. The organization is asking for an app to do all the scraping automatically.


At last, honesty in software advertising

Jan 28, 11:50PM

A sign of the times, or new tactic?


Textbook of the Future: The challenges

Jan 28, 7:01PM

It’s actually cheaper to go to another planet than to give an iPad to every child.


Photographer bullied by over zealous Kingdom Security staff

Jan 28, 6:49PM

Kingdom Security staff become abusive to a photographer taking photos of the Golden Wonder factory and create a Twitter storm.


Your next laptop could have Microsoft's Kinect built into it

Jan 28, 6:48PM

Microsoft is finally delivering on its promise to bring Kinect to the PC with official support, but most people would probably assume it would be most useful with a desktop. Nonetheless, it...


Galaxy Tab 7.7, Transformer Prime, leadership changes (MobileTechRoundup show #259)

Jan 28, 5:59PM

Kevin has the Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Asus Transformer Prime in hand and they both look sweet. There were several other topics to discuss this week in mobile too.



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After Leo DiCaprio Invests, Lance Armstrong Races To Promote, Advise Mobli

Jan 30, 8:59AM

lanceMobli, the startup behind the eponymous, much-hyped realtime photo and video sharing service, has struck a partnership with road racing cyclist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong. Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France champion, will be making use of a private Mobli channel to keep his fans and followers up-to-date on his life through videos, photos and whatnot.


AngelList Launches 2011 Yearbook: 500 Startups, 2,500 Investors & 12,500 Introductions

Jan 30, 7:29AM

Screen shot 2012-01-29 at 11.10.11 PMAngelList, the community for startups that is part social network and part communication tool, designed to connect first-time entrepreneurs with respected angel investors, got hot in 2011. Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi's startup community was oft-talked about as a service with the potential to transform dealflow and give young entrepreneurs access to hard-to-reach investors -- with value proposition being evident on both ends, for founder and investor. The across the platform were many last year, and to start off the year, AngelList is giving users a chance to review all the craziness that 2011 had to offer, as it this weekend soft-launched its "2011 Yearbook". The Yearbook offers the public an opportunity to get a more detailed look at AngelList's activity over the course of last year -- who grabbed funding, from whom, how much -- with CrunchBase offering some data to boot.


LivingSocial CEO: Lumping Us With Groupon Is Like Lumping eBay With Amazon

Jan 30, 6:32AM

Tim O'ShaughnessyThe local commerce industry as represented by daily deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial is still barely learning to walk, even though Groupon has 10,000 employees and LivingSocial has 5,000. While the two companies look nearly identical today, don't be surprised if they diverge. LivingSocial CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy reminded me in a conversation last week that "a lot of people lumped eBay and Amazon together 10 years ago" because they both were "ecommerce" companies.


For Those Who Can't Let Go Of The Past: The Techmeme Re-Underliner

Jan 30, 4:48AM

HeadlinesFixedRemember the old Techmeme of a week ago, before the new design took effect? Sure, the new design is easy on the eyes. But is it better? Personally, I'm already used to the new look, other than the sponsored posts stuck in your face in the new middle column (push those to the right, please, where ads belong). But some people just can't let go of the past—people like Eric Marcoullier (founder of OneTrueFan, Gnip, and MyBlogLog). Marcoullier hates the new design so much that he created a Chrome extension to revert it back to its old look.


DreamHost's Unhappy January Continues: First, A Database Breach, Now An Outage

Jan 30, 4:25AM

dreamhostDreamHost has been having a rough couple weeks. The low-cost hosting provider and domain name registrar found some unauthorized activity in its databases back on January 20th, which they later admitted were a series of attacks that may have led to the theft of some of their customers' FTP passwords. The company required mandatory password resets for all their Shell/FTP accounts -- you can read our coverage here. DreamHost's bad dream continued today, as they've been reporting outage problems, as Web, SSH, and FTP services were down for many of the company's virtual private servers, shared, and dedicated machines. The outage was first reported at 4am PST on Sunday, and has continued throughout the course of the day, with the company offering updates on its blog.


Sony Rolls Out A Trio Of New Cyber-Shot Point And Shoots

Jan 30, 4:00AM

DSC-TX200_Red_RightIn the market for a new point and shoot? Didn't think so. Why don't you take a gander at the new Sony shooters anyway?


Turning Two: FoundersCard Pulls Back The Curtain On Its Membership Community For Entrepreneurs

Jan 30, 2:33AM

FoundersCardThe top executives in today's largest corporations not only travel in style, but they have access to an absurd array of perks while they travel, from awards and complimentary products to discounts on just about everything. On the IPO "road show" for his company VarsityBooks (now part of eFollet.com), serial entrepreneur Eric Kuhn remembers being "amazed" by witnessing firsthand "the rates and privileges that top executives at the underwriting investment banks received." After leading VarsityBooks to be twice-listed as a public company on NASDAQ (the only company I'm aware of to do so), Kuhn got out in 2006 and started FoundersCard in 2009 -- determined to bring the same rewards and opportunities to entrepreneurs and founders -- "the true risk-takers and value-creators," he says.


Twitter, Democracy, and Internet Freedom

Jan 29, 11:00PM

1620349_pic_1299261234Twitter has taken fire in recent days from activists and bloggers who fear that the company's new censorship policies will muffle online freedom. News reports recall the ways in which protestors have had made use of Twitter to oppose dictatorships, and dissidents express concern that their ability to communicate will be harmed. The more immediate issue, however, may lie elsewhere. Twitter's new policies demonstrate vividly the complicated relationship between Internet freedom and democratic government.


The Emergence Of The Content Creation Class

Jan 29, 10:16PM

online-content-creationThe content creation class shall inherit the Internet. Richard Florida coined the expression the Creative Class, his belief being that these 30 to 40 million would be the driving force for economic development in a postindustrial world. Instead of driving the macro economy the Content Creation Class refers to the group of people who drive content on the internet those that write blogs, those that upload video to YouTube, and those that upload pictures to share with the world.


7 Reasons Why Pinterest Isn't Yet Ready for Tech Brands

Jan 29, 9:50PM

Pinterest_logoManaging a tech brand means you always need to be on the lookout for innovative and creative ways to engage your community. Lately, the rise of Pinterest, a social content curation platform, has been making headlines. As early adopters and community managers, we naturally jumped on board right from the start. So far, our overall experience with Pinterest has been a positive one, and we realize its potential. But we've also found that it's not yet ready for most tech brands – especially those that have no visual products. In other words, Pinterest seems to expect brands to adapt their content to fit Pinterest's platform, rather than Pinterest optimizing their platform for brands.


How Google+ Can Win: Make Publishing Universal

Jan 29, 9:02PM

Google-Plus-LogoLarry Page recently announced that he is quite thrilled with Google+'s explosive growth -- with 90 million registered accounts and 80% of the people engaging on a weekly basis across all Google properties. The problem, of course, is that very few of these 90M users are actively publishing on Google+. The Google+ strategy of fine-grained sharing of personal content using Circles has not been very effective. It takes a lot of effort to create and maintain circles, and Facebook has proven that most users seem to be comfortable sharing personal content such as family albums and baby pictures with their complete social graph.


(Founder Stories) Jeff Clavier: On Getting Your Product In Front Of A VC (And Keeping It There)

Jan 29, 8:41PM

JC FS Video 4 Advice.mov-1Because every VC's inbox is overflowing with pitches, and because VC's don't take meetings with just anyone, SoftTech VC's Jeff Clavier, (who just raised $55 million for his third fund) offers advice to founders who hope to cut through the clutter, schedule a meeting, and score some financing from prominent investors.


Games Decreasing In Popularity On Android, Entertainment Apps On The Rise

Jan 29, 8:20PM

games-ios-android2The mobile app ecosystem is growing so quickly - exponentially, even - that sometimes it's hard to see the larger trends occurring in the space. To really gain insight, it helps to look back over a longer period of time, like a year for example, in order to take stock of the changes taking place. To that end, I reached out to mobile app search company Chomp, who kindly obligated my curiousity by packaging together its first ever annual app search analytics report. The report digs into the data from Chomp's 1 million app searches per month, to reveal trends in app prices, category share, top apps and more.


10 Ways to Leverage Facebook for Startups: Part II, On-Site

Jan 29, 6:31PM

ryan_dogpatch_reasonably_small-121Yesterday I discussed how to improve user acquisition, activation and activity by building Facebook directly into your web experience. There is of course another half to the equation: leveraging Facebook.com to expand your reach and engage your users. On-Facebook success is less product-heavy than success off-Facebook, although they both ultimately aim for the same outcome: engagement. While it is as much an art as a science, if you optimize for engagement and continually test your way across Facebook's myriad of products – you may well find yourself sitting alongside The Rock (Facebook's best personality?) and Spotify (terrific example of being a platform first-mover).


The Ecommerce Revolution Is All About You

Jan 29, 4:55PM

AmazonPersonal recommendations have always been a part of ecommerce, but there has been little innovation since Amazon introduced retail and product personalization 10 years ago. But with the increasing mountains of data at digital retailers' fingertips, ecommerce is about to get even more personal. The fact is that right now there is little iteration from personalized ecommerce beyond what is taking place on Amazon. So you'll see suggestions of what other shoppers who bought a certain item also purchased, or recommendations to similar items to what you have purchased, but there is a whole world of social data, and even more-in-depth purchase data that can be mined by retailers to help increase sales.


Google, Facebook, Privacy — And You

Jan 29, 1:22AM

google privacy policyLike millions of other people, I got an email from Google this morning. It was entitled "Changes to Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service". The first sentence describes the intent of the changes as shortening 60 policies into one, and improving their readability.


Curebit Apologizes for Copying 37Signals: "Stupid, Lazy, and Disrespectful"

Jan 29, 12:38AM

curebit logoThat's awkward: Just as it was announcing a $1.2 million round of funding, online referral startup Curebit was caught lifting designs and code from 37Signals, the company behind popular collaboration tools Basecamp, Highrise, and others. The copying was called out on Twitter by 37Signals partner David Heinemeier Hansson, who, after an exchange with Curebit co-founder Allan Grant, called the Curebit team "fucking scumbags." It probably didn't help that Grant's initial responses didn't seem particularly contrite — he defended the copying as a "quick test" and at one point told Heinemeier Hansson, "Chill dude :)" (VentureBeat has a great blow-by-blow account of the initial controversy.)


Apple Buy Hollywood? That's A Terrible Idea

Jan 28, 11:51PM

hollywood fireApple should not use its $100 billion in cash to buy, or buy into Hollywood. While it would most assuredly (ahem, cough) disrupt the system, it would not spur the kind of creative chaos and innovation that would lead to the Emerald City of any show, on demand, for free, to rent, or buy, or subscribe, and organized by taste or popularity, or you! In fact, Apple buying into Hollywood, would actually kill Hollywood. Here's why:


FounderSoup: Stanford and Andreessen's New Startup Generator

Jan 28, 10:25PM

founder soup logo 4A single entrepreneur alone is vulnerable to shortsightedness, to fatigue. But with a team comes diverse perspective, encouragement, and the wherewithal to push through problems. That's why a group of Stanford computer science and business students started the Andreessen Horowitz-backed FounderSoup program. It's designed to give entrepreneurs with an idea or a fledgling company a chance to pitch -- not to raise funding, but to recruit co-founders. At its first full-scale event on Thursday night I saw an effective model for fostering startups, and several brilliant ideas in healthtech and energy (reviewed here) that could turn into successful companies.


Kindle Sales Growing Faster Than The Nook's

Jan 28, 10:23PM

kindle fireBarnes & Noble may be challenging Amazon's dominance of the e-book world, but the Kindle sales are still growing faster than the Nook's — at least if you connect the dots between some of the numbers included in a recently-published article by The New York Times.



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