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Daily Crunch: Moonlight
Feb 22, 9:00AM
Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Googlighting, Microsoft's Latest Viral Attack On Google Docs [Video] Samsung Galaxy Note Review: Who Do You Think You Are? Mr. Big Stuff? Tokyoflash Releases The (Readable) Kisai Stencil Watch This Kit Lets You Print Out The Internet This Twin-Lens Reflex Camera Is Built Out Of LEGOAlert: Social Media Is Eating Into Carrier Revenues, And It's Only Getting Worse
Feb 22, 8:54AM
Twitter, Facebook and other social networks have long counted on the rise in smartphone usage to help fuel their growth: that trend, however, seems to also be taking a toll on mobile carriers -- specifically in the form of revenues. The analyst firm of Ovum, part of the Informa Group, has estimated that operators lost $13.9 billion in SMS revenue in 2011, as a result of their customers using services like Twitter and Facebook to message each other instead of the carriers' own text messaging services -- a big rise on the $8.7 billion Ovum estimates was lost in 2010. A separate report from mobile analytics firm Bytemobile has also charted huge growth in the use of social media on mobile -- with operators getting virtually no benefit as a result.Storify Brings Drag-And-Drop Social Curation To The iPad
Feb 22, 8:02AM
Storify has become one of the main ways that people can create stories from social media — the startup says it has been used by 22 of the top 25 news sites in the United States, and that its users have curated a total of more than 3 million social objects. And now you can do that curation from your iPad. The company was already mobile, in the sense that stories (which are essentially curated timelines of content from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and more) created with its tools could be viewed on smartphones and tablets. But with the new Storify iPad app, you can create those stories on a mobile device, too. In fact, co-founder and CEO Xavier Damman argues that this may be the first great app for content creation (rather than consumption) on the iPad.Revel Wants To Bring iPad-Powered Point Of Sale Systems To The Hospitality And Retail Industries
Feb 22, 7:59AM
The addition of the iPad into the point of sale system or cash register isn't a new trend. Many small businesses are swapping out traditional cash registers for iPads and credit card processors like Square. But large restaurant chains and other establishments still need a complete front-to-back-of-house (i.e. a system that can send receipts to the kitchen) solution. Revel Systems hopes to be the go-to iPad-powered, comprehensive POS platform for restaurants. Launched in August 2011, Revel Systems' iPad software, cash register, weighing machine, and receipt printer are all optimized for restaurant and retail establishments. Along with the iPad friendly cash register, Revel Systems can be completely customized for payroll, inventory tracking, web ordering, email receipts and more.Now You Need Quora Credits To Ask Questions, But Can Also Use Them To Promote Content
Feb 22, 5:45AM
Quora has fiddled around with its Credits system and unveiled some new features today, making two very notable changes. The first one is the elimination of the original "Pay to show to Topics" feature of Credits, where users would have to pay credits to have their questions show up to people following specific topics. Instead, users will have to pay 50 Credits to ask a question, any question and all topic additions are "free." Users can earn credits by having their questions and answers upvoted, in addition to answering "Ask to Answer" questions or having users gift them credits.WhyIsFacebookInsightsNotWorking.com Is A Site That Tells You….
Feb 22, 5:00AM
.... Whether or not Facebook's in-house analytics product, Insights, is working. Due to product changes in recent weeks, the tool has been particularly slow to update with the latest metrics, as the site's creator, PageLever, has discovered. The startup uses Facebook's API to provide an advanced custom interface for page owners who are trying to track impressions and a variety of other key numbers. Because of the problem, it has been getting all sorts of questions from clients lately asking a slightly different question: "Why isn't PageLever working?" Yes, WhyIsFacebookInsightsNotworking.com doesn't actually try to answer what its name would seem to indicate. Only Facebook engineers working on the tool know exactly why Insights is not functioning at any given time, after all, and they are probably busy working to fix it instead of dealing with questions.Why Mobile Game Devs Should Port To Mac OS -Advice From Cut The Rope's ZeptoLab
Feb 22, 3:07AM
Last week, a Mountain Lion roared "Mac is the next big gaming platform." Apple is bringing Game Center to Mac, it will support cross-platform iPhone vs. Mac play, and the Mac App Store will likely become more prominent. It's time for mobile developers to decide if they'll bring their games to Mac OS, and how they'll port their controls and levels. Otherwise they risk having to claw their way up much more competitive charts. Tomorrow, after 100 million downloads across platforms, ZeptoLab will release its hit Cut The Rope for Mac OS. After hooking me up with a pre-release download, the Moscow-based founders gave me the low down on the biggest challenges of porting to Mac OS, and why they think it's critical that mobile developers don't get left behind on the small screen.EVE Online Saw $66M In Revenue Last Year, Mulls IPO
Feb 22, 2:56AM
CCP Games, the makers of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game EVE Online , say the company brought in $66 million in revenue last year. The game, a science fictional adventure set in a star cluster dominated by five major civilizations, first launched in 2003, and its subscriber base (currently about 400,000) has grown every year since launch. Revenue has been growing too, at a compound annual growth rate of 53 percent, bringing in total revenue of $300 million over the game's lifetime. As for profits, CCP would only say that it has "very healthy margins" — a claim backed up by the fact that it has grown to more than 450 employees despite only raising $3 million in seed funding.6Scan's Auto-Updating Website Protection Service Is Launching Today, Starting With WordPress
Feb 22, 2:20AM
If you're a big website, you have a range of good options for staying protected from malicious hacks: hardware from enterprise-oriented companies like Cisco or McAfee, your own in-house support, or hosted professional blog services like WordPress VIP (which is what TechCrunch uses). If you're a smaller site out on the open web, you have weaker options -- at least if you want to get auto-updated responses to a wide range of security problems. Israeli startup 6Scan is out to change that, launching a WordPress plugin today that automatically scans and updates to protect against the latest issues coming up across the web. By "automatically," I mean that the company's security team monitors the web and does its own research to find problems, then pushes an update to all of its users. These go out about every hour, according to co-founder and chief executive Nitzan Miron, as they're discovered and added to the company's system.Megaupload's Kim Dotcom Released On Bail, Perhaps Never To Be Seen Again
Feb 22, 2:07AM
When Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and several others in the organization were arrested in raids a month ago, it was noted by prosecutors that Dotcom's rather wild lifestyle and propensity for spontaneous international travel, combined with his vast wealth, constituted a serious flight risk. He was denied bail at the time, at least until February 22nd, when the US was to turn in its extradition paperwork. And today in New Zealand, or tomorrow rather, Dotcom was released under a number of conditions: he will have no internet access, will not travel 80km from his home except in emergencies, and no helicopters would be permitted to fly to his property.Bottlenose 2.0: Taming The "Share-pocalypse" With A Smarter Social Media Dashboard
Feb 22, 1:51AM
There's a lot of noise in our social media channels. I'm busy clogging up your Twitter feed with my deep thoughts, your friends are sharing their millionth baby picture on Facebook, and Scoble is filming startups in your living room on Google+. There is an unfathomable amount of data being produced every second, as social networks, apps, chat, etc. now facilitate real-time communication and sharing -- making email feel like the Pony Express. This makes it nearly impossible for people (and their businesses) to stay on top of -- among other things -- the real-time communication happening between their customers.Twitter Goes Back To The Future With Mobile App Update, '#Discover' Still Just As Useless
Feb 22, 1:20AM
Twitter has just launched a new app refresh for its mobile apps in Android and iOS, as well as expanded its offerings to the Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble NOOK and NOOK color. Returning to the iOS and Android apps is the ability to swipe individual tweets to reveal tweet actions like 'Reply,''Retweet,''Favorite' and 'Profile' -- a feature which was initially available in Tweetie, the app that eventually became Twitter for mobile, and then removed inexplicably. Another blast from the past is the ability to copy and paste text of tweets and user profiles, which I for one really missed.YC-Funded ScreenLeap: Because Screen-Sharing Doesn't Need To Make You Crazy
Feb 22, 12:54AM
With stories of Terminator-esque Google glasses making headlines these days, you'd think a basic task like screen sharing would be something that'd be pretty well solved by now. But while there are many different ways to share your desktop (or some portion thereof) with your friends or coworkers, more often than not the process isn't something you'd call easy. It's bad enough that many people (including me) often find themselves steering their peers around computers the old-fashioned way: voice instructions over the phone ("Okay, now look in the Dock, do you see the Settings button? The one with metal gears, right. Click that...") ScreenLeap, a new startup out of the latest Y Combinator batch, wants to make this process a lot less painful, so that next time you're confronted with an issue that could be better dealt with via screen-share, you actually take advantage of it.BuzzFeed Adds A Little Nostalgia To Your Facebook Timeline
Feb 22, 12:28AM
Facebook's Timeline is a cool idea, but as a representation of my life, it doesn't have much to say about my experiences before 2004. Now, in its own small way, viral content site BuzzFeed is trying to change that. Specifically, it's adding buttons to select posts that take advantage of the Timeline's ability to backdate content. The first post with this feature asks, "What Was Your First Computer?" For example, you could say that your first computer was an Apple II, and that you got it in 1978, and that would be added to the relevant section of your Timeline. Another post asks, "What Toys Did You Play With As A Kid?"Ailing LightSquare To Cut 45% Of Work Force As Regulatory Battle Rages On
Feb 22, 12:18AM
Things are beginning to look even dimmer for LightSquared. Just one day after satellite network operator Inmarsat announced that LightSquared had defaulted on a $56 million payment, new reports indicate that the company plans to slash its workforce by 45% in an effort to cut costs and keep fighting. "This and other cost savings measures will allow LightSquared to continue to navigate the regulatory process as it works with the appropriate government agencies to find solutions to the GPS interference issue," reads a statement issued to Reuters.Face-Recognizing Billboard Only Displays Ad To Women
Feb 22, 12:14AM
Moral ambiguity, thy name is advertising. How are we to parse this advertising campaign in London in which an intelligent bus stop billboard only displays its content to women? You read correctly: the billboard has a camera that scans passersby and if one stops to look, it determines their sex and shows them a 40-second video if they are female. Males only get a link to the advertiser's website. Now, does it change things if the advertiser is Plan UK, a non-profit organization trying to raise money towards the education of girls in third-world countries? And they don't show men because they wanted to give them "a glimpse of what it's like to have basic choices taken away"? Whether you find this commendable or reprehensible, you have to admit that the technology and implications are more than a little interesting.This Kit Lets You Print Out The Internet
Feb 21, 11:45PM
This complete project kit made by Adafruit allows you to print out things from the Internet. Want to print all your Tweets onto receipt paper? You got it. Want to print out your Facebook wall? Why the heck not! The kit uses an Arduino board and thermal printer and offers the opportunity for weekend hackers to pop together a cool little printer thinger and learn Arduino and Twitter programming.This Twin-Lens Reflex Camera Is Built Out Of LEGO
Feb 21, 11:36PM
Are you enough of a photo geek to build your own camera? Maybe. But are you enough of one to build it out of LEGO and some spare bits you had lying around the house? Probably not. But Carl-Frederic Salicath over in Norway is. And he did. He calls it the Legoflex B1.Big UI Changes Coming To Flickr Next Week
Feb 21, 10:47PM
Yahoo's management of Flickr has been something of a mystery. The photo-hosting service, once far and away the frontrunner and choice of pros and casual shooters alike, has seen few improvements in recent years — an eternity in the fast-moving online photography space. Many (including myself) cling to the service out of a kind of inertia, but it's hard not to be jealous of the whiz-bang layouts and features of newer sites and services like 500px and Instagram. Even communities like Google+ and Pinterest are making Flickr users second-guess themselves. It looks as though Flickr is finally getting the makeover it has deserved for years, though: launching on the 28th is a whole new layout and upload style, with an emphasis on community and consumption.The Daily Stands By The iPad Office Pic And Story
Feb 21, 9:26PM
Suite anticipation, said The Daily. The News Corp iPad mag broke the news this morning that Microsoft was about to submit its productivity suite to Apple for review. They even had a photo of the app running on an iPad to back up their claim -- which they triple watermarked for some reason. The outlet specluated that the app could launch in the "coming weeks." But then Microsoft responded, telling ZDNet that "The Daily's story is not a picture of a real Microsoft software product." I reached out to The Daily's Apps & Tech Editor Peter Ha for confirmation. Having personally worked with him for a couple of years here at TechCrunch, I knew he was not one to run a story of this magnitude without plenty of fact checking. Sure enough, they did their homework and Ha stands by the story and pic. Full statement after the jump.If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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