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Domo's Josh James: We're Making Every Employee Embrace Social Media, And It's Paying Off
Jun 24, 1:04AM
Back in May, Josh James, the co-founder of analytics company Omniture and now CEO of business intelligence startup Domo, announced an eyebrow-raising idea: He was kicking off an eight-week initiative that would require every one of Domo's 130 employees to become active on social media. Now James says the initiative is paying off, and he has numbers and anecdotes to back it up.The Stupid Rise Of The Subscription Condom Startup
Jun 23, 10:00PM
I love me some subscription commerce. Whether it be getting new underwear sent to me in the mail, or having someone pick out shirts for me, I love the idea of paying a flat fee and having shit just show up at my doorstep once a month. It's even better if whatever's being sent is kind of a surprise. That said, there's a recent trend in subscription commerce that's disturbingly popped up and recently been flagged in the TechCrunch tips line: The rise of the subscription condom service. Over the past few weeks, it's been suggested that we (separately) look into DollarRubberClub.com, as well as Rubber of the Month Club. A cursory Google search reveals that there are others, like Lucky Bloke -- "the ultimate condom subscription service," it claims -- and Sir Richard's Subscription Condom Service.Why Are Startups Flocking To SF? There's No More Room In Silicon Valley
Jun 23, 9:30PM
A lot has been written about the real estate turf war between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Most point out that many of the developers these companies target live in the city. The nightlife, walkability, and culture are identified as reasons for the trend. But if the heart of Silicon Valley is losing its allure to startups, why is there no real estate space available? The answer is that Silicon Valley is as hot as ever and here's why. The basic premise of these reports is that San Francisco is winning the startup real estate battle right now as companies like Zynga, Twitter, and AirBnB are choosing to put down big roots in the city. This trend is not new to the Valley. Downtown Palo Alto has been ground zero through numerous growth cycles, including this one.The Knut Is A Web-Enabled Monitor For Everything
Jun 23, 8:57PM
If you're headed away this summer, leave the Knut behind to keep and eye on things. This small, Wi-Fi-capable widget can transmit various measurements to your iPhone anywhere in the world. The Knut is a Kickstarter project by Richard Pasek and Jay Gondelman in Boston. They're looking for $80 per Knut and it has various sensors built in as well as functional sensors for various other measurements.Apple Chomps At App Store Search? Developers See Shift In Search Results
Jun 23, 8:16PM
Apple is making potentially significant changes to the search algorithm in the App Store, at least according to some app developers. If you're a developer or publisher counting on a well-chosen name to help with visibility, things could get tougher from here on out. But if you're a popular and well-reviewed app, things might be looking up. This could be an early step in the general revamp of App Store search and discovery that MG Siegler heard about when he broke the news in February that Apple had acquired app discovery startup Chomp.Gillmor Gang: Send In the Clones
Jun 23, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — found plenty to write home about in Microsoft's Surface tablets and Windows 8 rewrite of the Windows platform. Coming hard on the WWDC Apple announcements, it's clear Redmond is stepping up its game. With Skype and the still-not-closed Yammer acquisitions, Steve Sinofsky is trying to buy his way in to social. But once the smoke clears, straddling the desktop and tablet metaphors may turn out to be the biggest threat to Office yet. The only way to save Office revenue may be to give away social and the hardware to run it.Today's Google Doodle Is An Actual Turing Machine
Jun 23, 3:39PM
Today's Google Doodle is a working Turing machine that contains six puzzles. Sophia Foster-Dimino on Google's Doodle team built the app in honor of Alan Turing's 100th birthday. What's a Turing machine? It's not an actual machine, per se, but a thought experiment that allowed for the advent of digital computing.How To Get 100,000 Facebook Likes For Your Blog Fan Page
Jun 23, 3:00PM
I wanted to have 100,000 Facebook fans for my blog. I don't have a product to sell. I'm not trying to get advertisers on my blog. I'm not even trying to get more speaking gigs because of my blog. But I believe in the message of my blog and I enjoy having an audience for it. So I wanted to expand that audience. We have entered the "Choose Yourself" era. No longer do you have to wait for the big media companies to reach down from the heavens and bless you with a column, a book advance, a TV show, a job, a career, money, or even customers. In 2008 the tide came in, the financial system collapsed, and we saw that the myth of corporate safety was just another example of the brainwashing that we had undergone since we were kids.Laocoön
Jun 23, 1:00PM
Suppose you dropped your phone -- a real fall, like from the second story -- and it broke. You're picking up the pieces, cursing and trying to think of the last time you backed up your contacts, when you notice something. Deep within the phone's hardware, hidden from everyday use, you find a message -- etched right onto the chassis. What kind of message? Let's say you found a Darwin fish, or the letters YHWH? Or perhaps something a little more difficult to decipher -- a code or symbol of some kind, not an inventory number, but still something meant to be seen and read? What would you make of it? This isn't actually a hypothetical situation or something out of a Neal Stephenson book. Apple has actually done this -- and the symbol they've chosen is as arcane and ominous as it is unmistakable.Only Messi Can Save Us Now
Jun 23, 9:00AM
What's wrong with this picture? It's 2012, cheap broadband is ubiquitous in the developed world, and TV still isn't dead. In fact it's thriving. Sure, for the first time ever, Nielsen says more people watch videos on the Internet than on a TV--albeit barely--but if you look at how much time is spent on the two, there's no comparison: TV utterly dominates. Which explains why, again according to Nielsen, more money is spent on TV advertising than all other ad platforms combined. A few doomsayers say the TV industry "may be starting to collapse" and that excessive production costs are its weak spot. Yeah, if only. Television as constituted today makes no sense at all; it's a kludged-up legacy system that's enormously painful and expensive to maintain. But TV's entrenched economic interests and cultural inertia are so pathological that even HBO GO wouldn't make sense as a standalone app--as HBO confirms--and the rumors of a brand-new Apple TV ecosystem were, alas, dead wrong. Sure, YouTube, Netflix, and Hulu are mighty powers in their own right, but if even nigh-omnipotent Apple has given up, what hope do they have? Funny you should ask. I just happen to have an answer.Was I Too Hard On Klout's Joe Fernandez?
Jun 23, 8:06AM
I like Joe Fernandez a lot, more than I like most people. He's a true entrepreneur and badass, asking specifically to be onstage with me at LeWeb London because he knew that I had serious misgivings about his product, Klout. He told me he wanted a challenge and to put himself outside his comfort zone, both before and after the interview. Cool, anyone who's not scared of being in the hot seat garners my immediate esteem.Pharma's Huge Threat (and Opportunity): mRx
Jun 23, 5:00AM
It was only a matter of time before healthcare providers would start prescribing mHealth apps as soon as they proved to be as or more effective than prescription drugs. Happtique, a mobile health application store and app management solution startup will launch a trial of mRx. They claim this is the first program to enable doctors to prescribe mHealth apps to patients. mHealth pioneers are calling it an "app formulary" that complements (and competes) with a traditional drug formulary (i.e., the list of approved drugs a clinician can prescribe).After Surviving ABC's 'Shark Tank', Unikey Technologies Raises $1.1M For Smartphone Door Keys
Jun 23, 3:06AM
Unikey Technologies, a company made known by ABC's Shark Tank for technology that turns your smartphone into a universal door key, has raised $1.1 million according to an SEC filing. The amount appears to be in addition to a $500,000 equity stake raised from Mark Cuban and Kevin O'Leary earlier this year on the season finale of the program. Once the Unikey locking system is installed in a door, any paired Android, iOS, or BlackBerry device can unlock it. The system is not dependent on an app, but rather the system unlocks the door by simply detecting when the phone is in the immediate vicinity. "As long as I'm in range of the lock, I can control it," said Unikey founder and CEO Phil Dumas on the show.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.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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