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Facebook Recruits Apple "Software And Hardware" UI Leader Chris Weeldreyer To Its (Smartphone?) Mobile Product Team
Jun 22, 11:58PM
Facebook is finally working closely with Apple -- on iOS 6 -- but it's also hiring away some of its design talent. The latest is Chris Weeldreyer, who has just left his position as a user interface design manager to become a product design manager at the social network. What will Weeldreyer be working on? "We're excited to welcome Chris Weeldryer to Facebook, where he will be a great addition to our growing design team," Facebook tells us. But we've also learned from a source close to the company that he'll be focused on its mobile products.Private Facebook Data Powering Ads Outside Of Facebook — Is The World Ready?
Jun 22, 11:50PM
Because investors sure are. Facebook's share price jumped up 3.8% to $33.05 today on news that it's now showing its ads on Zynga.com in a revenue sharing partnership. Most amazingly, neither the press nor users seem to be freaking out that their private, personal data is now being used to target them with ads outside of Facebook. That means Mark Zuckerberg waited just long enough, proving he's even smarter than he used to be.Apartment Search Engine PadMapper Gets A Cease-And-Desist From Craigslist, Removes Listings
Jun 22, 11:34PM
It's been years since I've had to look for an apartment, but in that time multiple friends have sung the praises of PadMapper (TechCrunch alumnus Greg Kumparak is a fan too). Usually, they describe it as a mashup of Google Maps and Craigslist. Starting today, unfortunately, they'll have to scratch "Craigslist" from the equation. According to an account that creator Eric DeMenthon published on the PadMapper blog, and that he elaborated on over email, Craigslist's lawyer sent him a cease-and-desist letter earlier this week, demanding that PadMapper take down any postings from Craigslist. The lawyer also sent DeMenthon a mobile license, so he could pay to use the postings in a mobile app.Tesla Motors Starts Shipping The Model S Sedan, Its First Family-Focused Electric Car [Livestream]
Jun 22, 10:41PM
Tesla Motors, the electric car company founded by PalPal founder and all-around tech industry badass Elon Musk, today began shipments of the Model S, the electricity-powered sedan it first unveiled back in 2009. Above we've embedded a livestream of the event, being held right now in Fremont, California.TechCrunch Giveaway: Free Ticket To Disrupt SF #TCDisrupt
Jun 22, 8:23PM
Here's another chance for one lucky reader to win tickets to this year's Disrupt in San Francisco! Congratulations to last week's winner, Stephen Hsu. Last week, we asked everyone to let us know who they would like to see at Disrupt SF. The comments were tallied and Mark Zuckerberg was the chosen one. Our people have reached out to his people. We'll let you know. Disrupt SF is going to be a blast. Last year we had speakers that included: Reid Hoffman, Tom Conrad, Max Levchin, Dustin Moskovitz, Mayor Ed Lee, Ashton Kutcher, Peter Thiel and many more.Gillmor Gang Live 06.22.12 (TCTV)
Jun 22, 8:17PM
Gillmor Gang Live - Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recording has concluded.The Turtle Beach Ear Force XP500s Are The Gaming Dad's Dream
Jun 22, 8:06PM
As a father it's amazingly hard to play video games. First, I'm not good at them anymore - try practicing sniping n00bs when you're trying to feed a 3-year-old something other than Goldfish crackers - and second I can't play them in their full aural glory because they sound like WWII carefully mixed with a terrible accident at a jackhammer factory. In short, they're too hard and too loud. Obviously I can fix the "too hard" part by only playing Yoshi's Story. But what about the "too loud" part? I'm glad to say the Turtle Beach XP500s have taken care of things.F*** Yeah! Supreme Court Tosses Out "Vague" FCC Indecency Fines Against Fox And ABC
Jun 22, 7:57PM
Public airwaves may be one step closer to becoming an indecent wasteland of swearing, nudity, and violence—a victory for First Amendment-lovers everywhere. Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously threw out fines against Fox and ABC for airing brief expletives and nudity, arguing that the FCC's rule against "fleeting" indecency was too vague. The narrow decision won't change the content of broadcasting anytime in the near future, but it has given the FCC more latitude in what it considers indecent and renewed the conversation about whether indecency rules are relevant in a world of Netflix, Hulu, and 24-hour access to the pornographic universe.Zappos Labs: Retailer's San Francisco Office Searches For Disruptive New Ideas
Jun 22, 7:48PM
Zappos left San Francisco way back in 2004, and since then it has become closely associated with its new home in Nevada — in fact, CEO Tony Hsieh is working to revitalize downtown Las Vegas, in part by turning it into a startup hub. At the same time, the online retailer hasn't entirely severed its connection to the Bay Area — in 2010, it reopened an office in SF, one that's focused on experimenting with cool new ideas. The role of the 11-person SF team is getting a little more official today, with its renaming from Zappos San Francisco to Zappos Labs. To be clear, that's basically the role that the team was filling already, releasing products like a fashion magazine-style iPad app. And it was even called Zappos Labs unofficially.Error 451: A Proposed Change To Web Standards Would Make Bradbury's Story Denote Censored Content
Jun 22, 7:14PM
Google employee and creator of XML, Tim Bray, has proposed a new error message for the web. Rather than hiding censored websites behind a generic 403 error - "the server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it" - these websites would return 451 - "censored."We Need A Whole Section On TC Called "Intern PR"
Jun 22, 6:47PM
Pro tip: Don't let the following happen to your PR pitch/intern. So I know this is a particularly egregious case of "pot calling the kettle black" (I personally am a Black Belt in typos) but, instead of being psyched up to "Party Our Apps Off!"at Google i/o next week, our team has been discussing the simple grammar mistake in the subject line of the below email for at least 30 minutes this morning. I thought I would share the thread with you guys, if anything to remind you again that there's a crucial difference between "your" and "you're" ("its" and "it's" are also tricky).Google Maps API Gets Massive Price Cut In The Wake Of Developer Defections
Jun 22, 6:28PM
Ever since Google introduced limits to how often developers could ping its popular Maps API for free and started charging developers for usage above these limits, we've seen a slew of prominent developers like Foursquare switch over to other platforms, including the open-source project OpenStreetMap. Now, it looks like Google has noticed that it couldn't keep charging up to $4 for 1,000 map loads above its free allowance. Instead, the company just announced that it is massively lowering its pricing to just $0.50 per 1,000 map loads.What Are You Really Like At Your Job? ViewsOnYou Intends To Find Out
Jun 22, 6:02PM
There's a "Recommend Me" feature on LinkedIn which I'm sure many readers of TechCrunch will be aware of, having been asked multiple times for references by their contacts. But what if you took that concept and created a data-oriented approach? That's the angle the bootstrapped startup ViewsOnYou is taking, and it's aiming it at companies that want to find out much more about you, beyond what your CV might say. The problem with recruitment these days is that recruiters need more than paper credentials, and instead now often rely more on people's "soft skills," such as creativity, ingenuity, and resilience. So to address this ViewsOnYou consists of 23 sliding scales covering a broad spectrum of the kinds of things employers and headhunters look for.Postmates Rolls Out Dynamic Pricing To New Users Of Its 'Get It Now' Delivery Service
Jun 22, 6:00PM
A month ago, mobile delivery startup Postmates publicly launched its 'Get It Now' on-demand courier service in San Francisco, allowing its users to order pretty much anything from various stores and restaurants around the city. When it introduced the plan, it charged a flat $7.99 fee for all deliveries made within an hour. Now it's changing things up just a bit, with a new dynamic pricing plan that will range anywhere from $5 up to $12, based on how difficult the delivery is. The dynamic pricing plan is based on an algorithm which calculates the fee based on the amount of time spent traveling and distance traveled, how long its couriers spend shopping or waiting in line to pick up an item, and the type of store that the user ordered from. Prices are based on historical data from the last month of operations, and will continue to be adjusted as new deliveries provide more data.CloudCar, The Stealthy Startup That Andy Rubin Is *Not* Joining, Has Raised $11.5M
Jun 22, 5:54PM
CloudCar, a startup still in stealth mode that was the subject of rumors earlier this month when Robert Scoble reported that Andy Rubin would leave his job at Google to join it, has filed a Form D with the SEC indicating that it has raised $11.5 million in a Series A round. The startup may not be Rubin's next place of employment, but he is connected to it: after the rumor hit, and then he denied it on Twitter, he further clarified in a Google+ post that CloudCar "are a group of friends who I give free office space to in my incubator in Los Altos."Cerego Labs: A New Platform For Building Better Learning Apps
Jun 22, 5:30PM
We've seen a lot of innovation in the education technology space lately, but we haven't seen many new learning platforms that give developers the tools to build their own apps yet. With Cerego Labs, though, developers can now access a platform that, as the company itself puts it, is somewhat akin to a "Heroku of learning." What's interesting here is that Cerego Labs offers both an API for developers who want to incorporate the service into their own apps, as well as an easy to use editor that non-technical users can implement to build their own learning apps without the need to touch any code. The platform is now in beta and developers can sign up here. Invites will come in waves and the company expects that the service will become generally available in the Fall.Gamification Platform Beintoo Secures $5 Million In Series A Funding
Jun 22, 5:27PM
Beintoo, which has a loyalty rewards and monetization platform for mobile games, apps, and sites, has secured $5 million in Series A funding led by Italian VC firm Innogest Capital. The startup won the startup competition at Le Web in Paris last year. Beintoo has managed to get itself onto - it claims - 10 million direct users spanning 100 million devices in less than a year by offering a simple way to effectively put gamification into any app.ThisLife Raises $2.75 Million From Madrona And Others To Organize Your Photos In The Cloud
Jun 22, 5:00PM
ThisLife quietly launched in 2010 as a cloud-based platform for storing and organizing all of a family's photos in a single place. But after two years of working to refine the service, husband-and-wife team Matt and Andrea Johnson are just about ready to open it up to the public, and have raised a seed round of $2.75 million to do so. ThisLife is built on the idea of having a single place to store and organize your photos. Not happy with current public photo-sharing offerings (the Facebooks and Flickrs of the world) or the photo capabilities of cloud storage services like Dropbox, the Johnsons set out to build a better environment to keep all their family memories.Facebook Ads and Sponsored Stories Are Now Running On Zynga.com, Previewing A FB Ad Network
Jun 22, 4:57PM
Zynga.com is now running Facebook ads and Sponsored Stories, a revenue split partnership the two companies outlined in Facebook and Zynga's S-1s over the last year. The ads appear in the Zynga right sidebar, and use the same personalized targeting exhibited by ads on Facebook.com. This agreement allows Zynga to better monetize its standalone site without the need for expanding its sales force, and meanwhile Facebook essentially gets free money. The exact percentages of the revenue split have not been disclosed. The set up gives the world a look into what a Facebook ad network could look like across the web -- a move that could allow Facebook to leverage its vast store of biographical data and the social graph to boost revenues.Nerf Unleashes Furthest-Shooting Weapons In Its Arsenal: N-Strike Elite Blasters
Jun 22, 4:32PM
Last night I went to a magical party. There was food, which is always good, and booze, better still, but neither of these integral ingredients played a part in the magic. Nerf's new N-Strike Elite line of dart blasters did. The company unveiled the latest in their line of N-Strike blasters, the farthest-shooting toy guns in the company's entire product portfolio, boasting a 75-foot trajectory. The Elite line includes three separate blasters, the Hail-Fire, the Rampage, and the Retaliator (by the way, is it just me, or are these super angry names?).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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