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I Update, Therefore I Am
Jun 10, 2:00AM
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from the book DIGITAL VERTIGO, authored by TechCrunch columnist Andrew Keen. It occurred to me that the corpse might make more human sense after I'd expressed myself about it on Biz Stone's Twitter where, as @ajkeen, I had a following of several thousand followers. Squeezing the rectangular BlackBerry between my fingers, I wondered how to socially produce my confusion about Bentham in under 140 characters. Turning away from the Auto- Icon, I noticed that the University College corridor was thronged with students walking to and from their afternoon classes.Everlane: Does A Designer Shirt At Any Other Price Point Smell As Sweet?
Jun 10, 12:07AM
Editor's Note: Sales Marketing Manager Leslie Hitchcock is a non-editorial TechCrunch employee. In addition to working at TechCrunch and being super fashionable, she reviews startups and tech products occasionally on her personal blog, Leslie Just Joined. Two weeks ago I sat next to Warby Parker co-founder Neil Blumenthal at a dinner. Because I cannot help myself when meeting someone as interested in the fashion world as I am, I naturally talked his ear off. What we specifically discussed was the panel Neil sat on at Disrupt called "When Will Fashion Tech Just Be Fashion?" One thing that came up in the panel was the concept of fashion startups disrupting traditional brick and mortar stores by cutting out the middleman and keeping prices lower, presenting a unique AND cheaper online customer experience. Win win, right? The market is booming with companies entering this space: Warby Parker, Shoes of Prey and Everlane to name a few.Meebo Gets The Classic Google Acq-hire Treatment: Most Products To Shut Down Soon
Jun 09, 11:41PM
Looks like a talent acquisition. Smells like a talent acquisition. Meebo, the chat and publishers tools company that Google acquired for roughly $100 million, is going to see most of its products shut down next month. That includes Meebo Messenger, the sharing widgets and mobile apps. The one major product that will keep running is that Meebo Bar. (Yes, that one.) Haters aside, Meebo Bar does actually generate some meaningful revenue for publishers, but it sometimes irks visitors with ads that pop up from the bottom, left-hand side of the page. All of the products, except for the bar, will go down on July 11.You Don't Know Anything About Other Countries
Jun 09, 9:00PM
In today's fast-paced and global tech world, internationalization is often on the minds of entrepreneurs and CEOs. If done correctly, it's a great step that will make your business thrive on a global scale. However, there are a few essential insights an entrepreneur/CEO needs to break into a new country successfully. This is both easier and harder than you think it is. Easier, because you've already built up your business in one market. Harder, because what you don't know how to do, you really don't know. And there's no faking it - examples of internationalization gone wrong are a dime a dozen (think "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" or i18nguy). If you're seriously considering venturing beyond your core domestic audience, make sure you cover your bases and internalize these lessons.Meet Tom Lowe, The Filmmaker Who Talked Back To The Pirate Bay
Jun 09, 7:36PM
On June 6, 2012, filmmaker Tom Lowe found his film, Timescapes, on The Pirate Bay. His response wasn't to sue the uploaders into oblivion. Instead, he wrote a simple note: Greetings. I am Tom Lowe, the person who spent two years of his life living out of a Toyota pickup truck to make this film. If you enjoy it, please consider buying a copy from our website at TimeScapes.org or at iTunes, or maybe giving it as a gift to a friend, so we can recover the money we invested in the film, and then make some more films for your enjoyment. :)
Which Apple WWDC Notebook Rumors Are Most Likely To Come True?
Jun 09, 6:40PM
WWDC kicks off next week and in traditional fashion, a keynote headlines the event Monday morning. Much is expected from this year's show including iOS 6 and new Macintosh desktops and laptops. So far the rumor circuit has been a buzz with talk of a complete hardware refresh including Apple bringing back the MacBook brand, adding a retina display to at least one model and finally employing Intel's latest silicon that will also bring USB 3.0 to Macs for the first time. What follows is the first post in a series rounding up nearly every rumor concerning Apple's WWDC notebook announcements (iOS 6 and Mountain Lion to come) no matter how far-fetched or wild -- some will likely come true and others probably won't.Gillmor Gang: What Are You, Four?
Jun 09, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Dan Farber, Dan Taschek, and Dan Gillmor — no, that's not right. Steve Gillmor, Steve Taschek... No. Without Scoble, we have little time to get to the point, which this week is Google's Do As Much Evil as Possible Tour. @dannysullivan returns with a 20 minute diatribe on paid inclusion, whatever that means. Without Kevin Marks, we have to fend for ourselves until @stevegillmor picks a fight about Google's war with Apple and its consequences for Google +. In rebuttal, Danny ends up proving @stevegillmor even more right than usual. Hovering just off camera is the sense that with all this talent and possibility, shouldn't these guys work together as they did when the disruption began? Hey, how old are you anyway?7 Things Buddy Media Did Right To Become an $800mm+ Company
Jun 09, 4:00PM
The first thing, of course, is that Mike Lazerow, the founder of Buddy Media, met me. This sounds egotistical, but everything I did in the encounter was bad for me. He cold-emailed me in 2007. I had just launched a company called Stockpickr.com. He liked the idea and his time with GOLF.com (which he had built and sold to Time Warner for $24mm) was running out and he wanted something to do. He liked the idea of Stockpickr and wanted to run it. Specifically, his email said:Please Stop With The Dancing, Microsoft
Jun 09, 3:40PM
Look, I get it, Microsoft. You want to show people you know how to have fun, that even Microsoft can smile once in a while. But seriously, stop with the dancing routines. Your target audience doesn't dance. We, at best, sway with the music, but never dance. As GeekWire points out, the latest nightmare happened earlier this week at the Norwegian Developers Conference where several dancers took the stage and performed to a song with such classy lines as "The words MICRO and SOFT don't apply to my PENIS! (or vagina)" and "We are here to party and coding is our drug!" Laughter can be heard throughout the video as the attendees stand nearly motionless, likely in shock as if they were witnessing a train wreck in slow motion. This comes the week after Usher took the stage during Microsoft's E3 keynote for a nearly equally embarrassing show.Motorola's Next Super Phone Leaked: Meet Verizon's Droid RAZR HD
Jun 09, 2:50PM
The Droid RAZR HD is coming. It's yet to be announced, but several leaks foretell its coming. And the next Droid is set to go spec-to-spec with the Samsung Galaxy S III. This thing looks killer.Kinect Reveals The Next Job To Be Replaced By Computers: Sports Coaches
Jun 09, 2:00PM
"It's just as good as getting a personal instructor," says basketball coach Julio Agosto, speaking on the Xbox Kinect's new dribbling game, NBA Baller Beats. Agosto, an Emerald City Academy Basketball coach and father to b-ball Internet phenom, Jashaun Agosto, tells TechCrunch that Kinect's digital eye is able to recognize and reward enough advanced dribbling skills that the new NBA game could replace human instruction at his basketball camp (at least the dribbling portion). This latest Microsoft development brings one more job closer to the chopping block of skills that can be done cheaper and more conveniently by a computer: sports and fitness coaches. Baller Beats plays a lot like Rock Band but with a basketball; gamers are rewarded for dribbling to a (rockin') beat, with the familiar vertical scroll of colorful, raised buttons indicating when users should bounce the ball, and in what direction around the body.Experience Metro With Splashtop's Android And iPad Windows 8 Metro Testbed App
Jun 09, 1:52PM
Splashtop made waves (thankyouverymuch) in April when the mobile app company launched the Windows 8 Testbed Metro for the iPad. This iPad app allowed owners to experience the few highs and many lows of Windows 8 Metro. As Engadget put it then, it must be a bit uncomfortable for iPads, but it's a very impressive app offering nearly all the functionality of Metro including the many multitouch swipe functions. And now it's available for Android tablets, too.In Five Years, Most Africans Will Have Smartphones
Jun 09, 1:00PM
Feature phones are not the future. Of course that verges on tautology; of course everyone will have a smartphone, until everyone has something smaller and better and even more integrated into the fabric of our lives, like Google Glasses or cybernetic jawbone/retinal implants or whatever Charles Stross dreams up next. But when, exactly? I've spent a good chunk of my life wandering around and writing about the developing world, and as lots of folks have recently argued, that's still feature-phone territory, and will stay so for the foreseeable future. OK. Fair enough. But when precisely does the foreseeable future end? Because when the smartphone revolution hits the developing world, that's when things are going to get really interesting, because it will also be their computer revolution and Internet revolution, all at the same time. I'm particularly interested in sub-Saharan Africa (and it seems I'm not the only one around here) but it's particularly hard to make predictions about sub-Saharan Africa, in large part because you still have to take all the statistics that come out of there with a sizable grain of salt. That said, here are a few interesting nuggets. Current smartphone penetration estimates range from 3% to 17%, but I'm most convinced by Samsung's estimate of ~7%, up from 5% last year. Doesn't sound like much, does it? But:Snapchat Has Shared 110M Self-Destructing Photos, Hires Devs To Build Android App
Jun 09, 3:23AM
Snapchat hopes to outgrow its bad rap as a sexting app, but first it's outgrowing the Stanford dorm room where it started. Today it announced it has hired a community manager and two engineers, and has now been used to share 110 million photos that each disappear after a set time limit. Now its shooting to release a big iOS update by the end of June that will include "password recovery, bug fixes, a faster camera and drawing". And to appease its younger core demographic who might not be able to afford iPhones, it's building out an Android version.Why Is Gizmodo Paying People To Harass Zuckerberg?
Jun 09, 1:51AM
Gizmodo posted a "story" yesterday entitled "We'll Pay You for Photos of Mark Zuckerberg." Desperation aside, this is as crazy as it is stupid (And we're not even sure it's legal). See, Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of a company. Sure, that company is all about sharing with friends, but when you have more than 14 million people subscribed to your page, sharing a photo or a link on Facebook becomes an entirely different beast. He's scrutinized on everything that he's ever publicly shared. Just take a look at the IPO hoodie bonanza.It's Not A Bursting Bubble. It's a Correction And It Will Take Awhile.
Jun 09, 1:19AM
After disappointing post-IPO performances from Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, there's been a clarion call from top investors like Union Square's Fred Wilson, Y Combinator's Paul Graham and Kleiner Perkins' Mary Meeker for everyone to simmer down with valuations. But from what we can tell, any adjustment is going to take several months. For the very hottest late-stage companies like Fab.com, growth investors don't seem to be taking any heed from public market skepticism yet. I asked around about impact on different stages of the market and this is what I got:Where The Hell Are All The Rants?
Jun 08, 11:55PM
Hear that noise? That's the sound of a hundred press releases and announcements being ground to a pulp, the pulp being formed into a sort of hollow, vapid blog arrow, and that arrow being aimed squarely at Techmeme. I don't know, but ever since some of our most prolific writers left the blog game to either a) become entrepreneurs or b) become investors, the tech blogosphere has been quiet -- too quiet. And by quiet I mean so noisy that its difficult for anything of any substance (or signal) to come through.Enterprise Cloud Security Firm Qualys Files For $100 Million IPO
Jun 08, 10:41PM
The initial public offering fever that seemed to be sweeping over the tech industry has cooled noticeably in the weeks since Facebook's much-buzzed-about (and potentially botched) stock market debut. But it's not a deep freeze in IPO land quite yet. Qualys, a Silicon Valley company that specializes in cloud security software for the enterprise, has just filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission announcing its intent to hold an IPO and sell up to $100 million worth of its stock.Browse Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter All From One App: The Updated MyPad
Jun 08, 10:38PM
Omni-social reader MyPad has just released updates that lets its three million daily users browse and interact with Instagram photos in addition to reading and posting to Facebook and Twitter. MyPad's free and premium iPhone and iPad apps now let you browse Popular and your network's Instagrams plus leave feedback; batch upload, filter, and edit photos for publishing to Facebook ; access Twitter DMs, search, and trending topics; check in, listen to free music from Hype Machine, and more. MyPad's 10 million registered users are definitely digging the update, as sharing is up nearly 10x in the last few days. What was once a substitute for the missing official Facebook iPad app has blossomed into a bridge between our fractured social graphs.Interview With Nextag's Jeff Katz: Google Needs To Be More Transparent, Provide Equal Access & A Level Playing Field
Jun 08, 10:35PM
Earlier this morning, Google critic and Nextag CEO Jeffrey Katz used an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal to accuse Google of behaving like a monopoly. Google quickly responded with a line-by-line criticism of Katz's arguments. I had a chance to talk to Katz about his piece a little while ago and while he argued that he wasn't so much interested in engaging in yet another back-and-forth argument with Google, we obviously did touch upon Google's reaction to his piece.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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