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#FailedTechBands Is Funnier Than Most Hashtags, Shows Genius Of Twitter Personalized Trends
Jun 16, 12:15AM
"The Black IPs" lol. I follow nerds on Twitter, so rather than just the latest pop stars and sports games, I was delighted to see a nerdy hashtag in my Trending Topics. It's thanks to Twitter's new Tailored Trends that launched on Tuesday and shows you personalized trends based on who you follow. "Creedence ClearRecentHistory? Revival" brilliant. In just a few days Tailored Trends has shown algorithms can beat back the stupidity of the Internet. Here's why this matters, and a look at the best of #FailedTechBands.Yahoo's Mobile Sales Head Joins Ad Startup Drawbridge
Jun 15, 11:51PM
Drawbridge, a cross-device ad targeting startup backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, announced today it has hired Yahoo's former mobile sales head as its new vice president of sales and business development. The hire in question is Paul Cushman, whose official title at Yahoo was senior director of mobile sales strategy. Despite the turmoil at the top of Yahoo, and the virtually unending criticism it seems to get in the press, Cushman insists that his departure shouldn't be read as a sign of dissatisfaction with his old employer.Fritz Lanman's 'Livestar' Launching Soon, To Fill The Gap Between Foursquare And Yelp
Jun 15, 11:22PM
It's been a little over a year and a half since we wrote about Fritz Lanman's departure from Microsoft, to build his own startup called "5Star." Well, now we're hearing that his startup, actually called Livestar, is going to launch soon, judging by a demo video posted on Lanman's Facebook page. As early as next week even. Since our initial article, Lanman, a former Microsoft and Yahoo deals guy, has made some pretty savvy angel investments, most notably getting in early on Pinterest and Square. And now he's ready to focus on his own project.>From The Archives: Watch Yammer's First Public Demo And Launch At TC50
Jun 15, 11:00PM
Way back in 2008, Yammer made its first public appearance at the TechCrunch TC50 conference. David Sacks, who introduced himself as the CEO of Geni, not Yammer, gave an 8 minute demo of the new product. He finished the demo by flipping the switch and officially launched Yammer to customers. Less than 4 years later, Yammer appears close to a $1.4 billion exit and purchase by Microsoft.Zynga And CBS Are Working To Bring Draw Something To Primetime TV
Jun 15, 10:53PM
So you wondered how Zynga was gonna make money off its $210 million acquisition of OMGPOP? How about this: Hit game title Draw Something will soon be at the center of a new primetime game show, according to a report by Variety. The show's pilot, which was picked up by CBS after an apparent bidding war, will be produced by Sony Pictures Television, Ryan Seacrest Productions, and Embassy Row. According to Variety, the pilot concept will pit multiple celebrities and users against each other in front of a studio audience, translating a title most people play in their spare time while commuting or before bed into a hilarious new game show. Viewers at home will reportedly also be able to play along with the folks on TV. While Ryan Seacrest will help produce, he won't have an on-air role. A host has yet to be picked for the project.EBook Revenues Beat Hardcovers For The First Time
Jun 15, 10:40PM
The Association of American Publishers released a report today that shows that ebooks have beaten hardcover revenues for the first time. Ebook revenues topped out at $282.3 million YTD while hardcovers hit $229.6. Almost exactly a year ago the tables were turned with ebooks hitting $220 million and hardcovers brushing past $335 million. The only growth in hardcovers is in the young adult/children's category where hardcover revenue rose to $187.7 million and children's ebooks rose to $64.3 million, up from $3.9 million in 2011. In short, ebooks are winning.Hardware Accessory Maker PCH International Acquires Design-Centric Lime Lab
Jun 15, 9:53PM
You may have never heard of PCH International. But this Irish company makes packaging and accessories for some of the most iconic hardware products in the world. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink! They make cases, chargers, docks and earphones, among other accessories. They also create those whizz-bang unboxing experiences for many of the world's best-known hardware makers, but they can't disclose who their clients are. Now the company just picked up Silicon Valley design consultancy Lime Lab to bolster its product development know-how. Lime Lab was co-founded by former Ideo director Andre Yousefi and former Design Within Reach director and Apple manager Kurt Dammermann.TechCrunch Giveaway: One Free Ticket To Disrupt SF #TCDisrupt
Jun 15, 9:22PM
TechCrunch Disrupt SF last year was a huge hit and we are all ready to do it again! Disrupt SF is coming up, quicker than we realize, and we are already starting to plan like crazy behind the scenes. Believe me when I tell you this event will be just as awesome as last year's. Last year we had incredible speakers, the popular and somewhat intimidating Office Hours, fancy after parties, dozens of impressive startups battling it out for the ultimate grand prize, hundreds of startups getting noticed in Startup Alley, and almost 1,000 hackers who gathered together to build some awesome, and some funny, products in their allotted 24 hour time slot.Top Facebook Exec Bret Taylor Leaving To Do His Own Thing, More Departures Could Follow
Jun 15, 9:05PM
And so it begins: Facebook CTO and platform guru Bret Taylor is leaving Facebook this summer, Kara Swisher is reporting, off to do a startup with Google App Engine founder Kevin Gibbs. Taylor confirmed the news in (of course) a Facebook update. This is one of the first in a wave of Facebook departures we're hearing, as a slew of older employees have hit their four year stock cliffs, and the 90 day IPO lockout fast approaches. According to a source, many Facebook employees including one other executive are already planning what to do next.Driving Loyalty: Offers Provider Bloomspot Reports 72% Customer Repeat Rate
Jun 15, 9:00PM
Bloomspot, a local offers company launched back in 2010, is pulling back the proverbial kimono on its numbers in an effort to prove its business model works. Although sometimes lumped in with group deal providers like Groupon or Living Social, Bloomspot operates quite differently. Instead of group deals targeted at the masses, it offers exclusive deals targeted specifically at a merchant's best customers.Exit Interview: Nitin Bhatia On Sharepoint, Yammer, Leaving Microsoft And Joining NextDocs
Jun 15, 8:21PM
Nitin Bhatia is an ex-Microsoft executive who just announced he'll be working at NextDocs, a Sharepoint-based compliance software company. Bhatia, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi, spent 19 years at Microsoft, five of which were dedicated to managing Office 365, Microsoft's online office suite. We sat down with Nitin today to talk about his years at Microsoft, his thoughts on the Yammer acquisition, and his new position at NextDocs where he is the Vice President of Global Products. Bhatia expects that Yammer will stand alone within Microsoft for a while before being rolled into Sharepoint, Microsoft's enterprise collaboration product. He also believes that Microsoft will leverage its relationship with Facebook to integrate Yammer deeply and seamlessly into the Sharepoint product.Report: Google's Chromebooks Account For Less Than .02% Of All Desktop Traffic
Jun 15, 7:27PM
Google has been putting quite a bit of its weight behind its Chromebook initiative, but it's been rather quiet about how well these browser-centric laptops have been selling. Judging from the latest data from online advertising firm Chitika, Chromebooks remain a novelty. Across Chitika's network, just 0.019% of all traffic comes from ChromeOS. To put this into perspective, Sony's PlayStation, which isn't exactly a web-browsing powerhouse, easily beats ChromeOS with a usage share of 0.042%.Cartoonist's Lawyer Responds To FunnyJunk: The Oatmeal Will Not Cave
Jun 15, 7:22PM
It's on now. Matthew Inman at the The Oatmeal has hired a crackerjack lawyer, Venkat Balasubramani, who sent a long and detailed letter to FunnyJunk essentially saying that their mothers should, in the end, have carnal relations with a bear. The Oatmeal wrote a blog post complaining about his content being made available on FunnyJunk. There is no dispute that large quantities of his content were indeed available viaFunnyJunk. To the extent FunnyJunk wishes to make clear that it has removed The Oatmeal's content and that it should not be held responsible for the availability of this content on its site, it has an easy avenue to do so: FunnyJunk can publish a statement or a blog post to this effect.This would be the appropriate and First Amendment-friendly course of action for a website (that presumably shares the free speech concerns of the internet at large). In any event, FunnyJunk's claims are meritless, and The Oatmeal will prevail in any litigation involving FunnyJunk's threatened claims. To be clear, The Oatmeal will not cave in to FunnyJunk's attempts to censor him through legal threats and bullying.
Hitwise: Google US Search Share Down 5% In The Last Year; Bing, Yahoo Gained
Jun 15, 6:01PM
Google is still by far the most dominant search engine in the U.S., but in the last year it actually lost some momentum while Yahoo and especially Microsoft's Bing both saw increases, according to figures out today from Experian Hitwise, and bolstered by separate numbers released yesterday by Compete, with both calculating searches between May 2012 and May 2011. According to Hitwise's figures, Google accounted for 65.02 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending June 2, 2012, compared to 68.11 percent in the same period in 2011 -- down by 3.09 percent, or a percentage change of negative 5 percent.YouTube Launches Auto-Captions In Spanish
Jun 15, 5:47PM
Google's YouTube is slowly but surely expanding its line-up of supported languages for its auto-caption feature. Starting today, videos in Spanish will feature these automatically generated closed captions based on Google's voice recognition technology. Until now, this feature was only available for videos in English, Japanese and Korean. In total, says Google, about 157 million videos on YouTube new feature auto-captions.Newly Published Samsung Patent Points To A Stylus You Can Talk To
Jun 15, 5:44PM
If that microstylus just isn't cutting it for you, then you may want to see what Samsung has been mulling over. A recently published patent reveals some interesting new tricks that Samsung may be planning to stick in their forthcoming styluses (styli?). I don't need to tell you that Samsung has something of a fixation on pen-based interfaces -- take the pocket-sized Galaxy Note and the forthcoming Galaxy Note 10.1 for instance -- so it's intriguing to see what they think the humble stylus could be better at.Dwolla's First FiSync Banking Customer Goes Live, Eliminates ACH Delays With Real-Time Bank Transfers
Jun 15, 5:13PM
A major milestone for disruptive payments platform Dwolla: the company has just switched on FiSync, its real-time money transfer system which aims to replace the outdated - and much slower - ACH process. ACH, or Automated Clearing House, is the traditional means for making electronic payments here in the United States. A 40-year old system, ACH enables money to move from Bank A to Bank B, but the transactions take two to five days to complete. FiSync basically blows that system up, offering banks, credit unions and service providers access to a real-time alternative.TheDatable Launches To Help You Discover The Singles In Your Social Graph
Jun 15, 5:00PM
Even though it grew out of Facemash, Facebook has always been, by default, a dating site. With its portable social graph, an enormous user base and repository of images, and droves of social and interest data, it's no surprise that so many dating startups have chosen to build on top of its platform. Each in some way leverages Facebook's social graph/data to find you better matches. Yet, even so, Michael Brotzman believes that the majority of Facebook dating sites still aren't taking full advantage of the social graph -- that they're just compatibility engines in disguise. The biggest problem for single people, he says, is discovering other trustworthy daters in their circles, seeing how they're connected, and getting an introduction. That's why Brotzman and team are today launching The Datable, a dating site that is on a mission to build its own social graph on top of Facebook data -- in other words, a "singles graph."Making The Web Faster: CloudFlare Adds Support For Google's SPDY Protocol
Jun 15, 4:37PM
CloudFlare, the fast-growing service that aims to make websites faster and safer, today announced this it starting to roll out support for Google's SPDY protocol on its network. For the time being, this is just a beta test (you can sign up here), but the company will likely roll this feature out to all of its paying users later this year.Woot Founder And Daily Deals Pioneer Matt Rutledge Leaves Amazon
Jun 15, 4:32PM
Matt Rutledge, founder and CEO of Woot, and the grandfather of the daily deal, is stepping down from his position, two years after the website sold to Amazon.com. In an email sent to staffers, and subsequently posted to the community's website, Rutledge said that he was resigning his position effective June 15th to "move on to future projects with fewer acronyms." Woot was founded way back in 2004, and became a pioneer in the burgeoning "daily deals" market. It sought to give visitors one deal a day, posted to the website (like clockwork) at midnight. As the site grew and the deals improved, items regularly sold out just minutes after they were posted -- especially Woot's famous "bag of crap," which usually contained a hodgepodge of whatever leftover inventory and office supplies the team had lying around.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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