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The Day The LOLcats Died, A Song Against SOPA
Jan 18, 5:40AM
Today people take to the streets and black out the web to protest unfair piracy legislation. To the tune of Don McLean's 'American Pie' they'll be singing: "Why, why are laws a thing you can buy? / They got paid off, should be laid off, re-election denied / Our web means more than lawyers, lobbies and lies / So speak up before the internet dies / Speak up before the internet dies". Watch the video...Accel Leads $52.5M Round In Cloud-Based Data Storage And Backup Company Code 42
Jan 18, 4:59AM
Code 42 Software, a Minnesota-based online backup company for consumers, businesses and the enterprise, has raised $52.5 million in funding led by Accel Partners with participation from Split Rock Partners. This is the first major investment from Accel's recently announced Big Data Fund, which is dedicated to funding infrastructure and application companies in "Big Data." This is the first round of institutional investing for Code 42. You may not have heard of Code 42, but the enterprise company should be on your radar. Founded by Brian Bispala, Mitch Coopet and Matthew Dornquast, Code 42 launched CrashPlan, a personal data protection and backup software, back in 2007. The intention of CrashPlan was to reinvent backup by developing an easy-to-use technology to protect data whenever and wherever it is created. After introducing CrashPlan to consumers, Code 42 decided to use this knowledge gained to develop and deliver a backup software that was enterprise-grade.Triangle Startup Factory Re-Launches Accelerator; Promises $50K To Each Founding Team
Jan 18, 4:11AM
Today, serial entrepreneurs and mentors Chris Heivly and Dave Neal are kicking off the re-launch of their North Carolina-based startup accelerator, Triangle Startup Factory, in the hopes of providing entrepreneurs with a founder-friendly option for accelerating their early-stage tech businesses. To make Triangle Startup Factory an appealing alternative, the accelerator will run two three-month-long programs over the next four years. Each batch will consist of five to seven startups, and founding teams will receive a $50,000 capital investment upon being accepted -- but, perhaps the best part is that Triangle is promising an additional $20,000 to $150,000 in convertible notes to each startup that completes the program.Turntable For Video 'Chill' Turns Into Pinterest For Video, Sees 10 Sign Ups A Minute
Jan 18, 3:01AM
Chill, a startup that started out Namesake and then morphed as a virtual environment for video watching, has performed the mother of all pivots (again) today, going from a Turntable for video to a Pinterest for video, allowing users to post as well as view, comment on and repost video from people that they follow on a pretty grid interface. The new Chill now supports any video, from YouTube, to Vimeo to College Humor to "pretty much everything under the sun: ESPN, Crackle, Funny or Die, you name it!," says co-founder Brian Norgard.StartupPlays Offers An Affordable (Virtual) Alternative To Startup Accelerators
Jan 18, 1:56AM
Founders and entrepreneurs are likely familiar with some of the more well-established startup incubators and accelerators out there, like Y Combinator, TechStars, 500 Startups, Founder Institute, DreamIt -- to name a few -- all of which provide terrific opportunities and resources for their founding teams. Of course, many of these come with a price, requiring founders to hand over five to ten percent equity for seed investments of around $25,000. Scott Annan, the founder of Network Hippo and Mercury Grove, believes that not all veteran entrepreneurs are looking for the type of hand-holding and guidance (or the level of time commitment, as they often run three-month programs) offered by incubators and accelerators. That's why he created StartupPlays.MPAA CEO Chris Dodd: Blackouts Turn Users Into "Corporate Pawns"
Jan 18, 1:04AM
President and CEO of the Motion Pictures Association of America Chris Dodd has issued a strongly-worded statement regarding tomorrow's planned outages and protests relating to the SOPA and PIPA legislation. If you didn't already think the MPAA was a ship of fools, this will convince you once and for all.Reddit's Alexis Ohanian On SOPA: "The Fight Isn't Over"
Jan 18, 12:27AM
Supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) may be on the run in the face of growing online protests, but SOPA and its Senate counterpart, PIPA, is not dead yet. "The fight isn't over," Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian tells me in the TCTV video interview above.Gillmor Gang 01.17.12 (TCTV)
Jan 18, 12:25AM
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — on SOPA, Google +, and the End of Software Mayan 2012 Edition. Not one of my best efforts, but the Gang more than picked up the slack.Codecademy and The White House Announce Code Summer+ Youth Education Program
Jan 18, 12:12AM
Today, Codecademy in conjunction with The White House announced a new program to educate the nation's underprivileged and disconnected youth: Code Summer+. The announcement was made at an event held by Twilio and hosted by US CTO Aneesh Chopra. There, Codecademy's co-founder Zach Sims explained that as part of Obama's larger Summer Jobs+ initiative, Code Summer+ will offer a "condensed version of our curriculum to get [youth] on track to become engineers." Additionally, partners including Foursquare, Twilio, and any other company can work with Codecademy to create lessons that will be distributed to the kids.Facebook In Brazil: A Big Ending To 2011 Finally Pushes It Past Orkut
Jan 17, 11:30PM
First there were the stories about Facebook taking over your college campus, then it was your high school or workplace, then your country... now the stories are starting to be about how Facebook has used up all the new users and only has engagement left to gain. But that's in older markets like the US. The company is still growing worldwide every month on its way to a billion users, and it's because of places like Brazil. In 2011, according to a new study out from leading web measurement firm comScore, Facebook added nearly 24 million new users in the country. In December it pushed past incumbent Orkut to reach 36.1 million monthly uniques. The Google-owned social network isn't seeing any drop-off, though, in contrast to US incumbent MySpace's fate -- and in contrast to India, Orkut's other big market that was lost to Facebook years ago. Instead, Orkut just grew slowly from 32.7 million to 34.4 million in Brazil during the year.A Close Look At Samsung And Microsoft's Surface 2.0 (AKA SUR40)
Jan 17, 11:03PM
The Surface has been around since 2007, but the new and improved SUR40 is a much more usable device. Microsoft and Samsung were showing off the new touch-capable table in NYC today, and I was lucky enough to get up close and personal with it. The specs in and of themselves are impressive: 40-inch 50-point multitouch screen with a 1080x1920 resolution, AMD processors, 1GB of memory dedicated entirely to graphics, a 4-inch profile, and a host of USB/HDMI ports. It's the computer you always wanted, save for the fact that it looks like a kitchen table and costs about $9,000.Money Ball for Medicine – Business Models for Healthcare
Jan 17, 11:00PM
Entrepreneurial epiphanies surface in random places. For Eric Page, it was watching Brad Pitt's latest movie, Moneyball. The epiphany caused him to shift Amplify Health's business model from a provider of technology to a heavy user of technology. While there is a wave of disruptive technology in healthtech, as interesting is the wave of disruptive innovation on the care delivery side of healthcare. These companies aren't technology companies, however technology plays a pivotal role.Quora Launches An Off-Site "Follow" Button For Topics And People
Jan 17, 10:30PM
Quora has joined the "Button" wars today with the launch of the Quora "Follow" button, created by Quora engineers Shu-Uesugi and Edmond-Lau. In the same vein as the Twitter "Follow" button, the Quora Follow button can be embedded in any website by cutting and pasting a customized snippet of code from the Quora Resources page. Users can choose between a light button and a dark button to taste. "The goal is to help people discover great Quora users from the outside of www.quora.com," says co-founder Charlie Cheever, "Like blogs and personal websites. When someone clicks on your button, he/she will start following you immediately if he/she is logged on to Quora; otherwise he/she will be prompted to log in or sign up."Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo
Jan 17, 10:22PM
Yahoo just announced that co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned from its board of directors. "My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life," Yang wrote in a letter to chairman Roy Bostock. "However, the time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo! As I leave the company I co-founded nearly 17 years ago, I am enthusiastic about the appointment of Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer and his ability, along with the entire Yahoo! leadership team, to guide Yahoo! into an exciting and successful future."Tomorrow Facebook Will Fill Your Timeline + Ticker With Shopping, Travel, and More Apps
Jan 17, 10:10PM
In September at f8, Facebook announced partnerships with a slew of companies who would develop Open Graph Timeline apps. Airbnb, Path, Ticketmaster, Payvment, Causes and 30 others all said they were onboard to produce apps allowing users to share when they "traveled", "purchased" something online, "donated" to a charity, and other activity. 4 months later and many of these Open Graph applications have yet to launch, but that will change tomorrow night according to our sources when a new class of Open Graph lifestyle apps is unveiled at a Facebook press event.Samsung Not Sold On The Bada-Tizen Merger Just Yet
Jan 17, 9:53PM
I've long wondered what exactly Samsung would do with their homegrown Bada operating system, and for a little while there the answer seemed clear -- Samsung SVP Tae-jin Kang recently noted that Bada would be merged with the Intel-backed Tizen OS project. In fact, he said at CES that the work to combine both platforms had already begun, which seemed like a pretty definitive conclusion for Bada. Now it seems like Samsung may be having second thoughts about the whole process. Samsung representatives have reached out to AllThingsD and Information Week to say that a final decision regarding a merger hasn't yet been made.SOPA Isn't Dead, It's Just Sleeping (Until February)
Jan 17, 9:52PM
Oh, you thought SOPA was dead? That the riled rallying of the entire Internet, the blacking out of dozens of popular websites in protest, or the President himself coming out against the bill would be enough to kill it off? Nope. It'll be back — they're just taking a little break.Facebook Study Reveals Facebook Is Not An Echo Chamber (For Some Values Of "Echo Chamber")
Jan 17, 9:20PM
Some of Facebook's scholars-in-residence have published an analysis of approximately 283 million Facebook users' sharing habits. The study, which has to do with the paths by which information is caught up and shared — which types of friends share the most, where you post the most content from, and so on. The study itself was, no doubt, spurred by honest intellectual curiosity, but the summary on Facebook a slightly editorializing bent that suggests things were more purposeful.Lionsgate Sacrifices "Abduction" To Test Simultaneous Facebook/DVD Release
Jan 17, 9:16PM
When you're in charge of getting people to rent a move like Abduction, with its Metacritic score of 25 and a truly remarkable 4% on Rotten Tomatoes, what can you really do? The answer: whatever the hell you want. Short of stuffing free money into every box, few things could really help this one take off — so you might as well experiment, right? And experiment they shall. Throwing Abduction to the sharks for the sake of testing their teeth, Lionsgate is releasing the film on DVD and Facebook simultaneously.What Is A 3D Printer Good For? Stop-Motion Cartoons Featuring Princesses, Of Course!
Jan 17, 9:10PM
Makerbot creator Bre Pettis and his musician friends from Scary Car made this cute little video featuring 3D printed action figures being created in (near) real-time and then discovering love.
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