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Twitter Launches Clickable Stock Symbols, StockTwits' Howard Linzon Says "Hey, We Already Do That!"

Jul 31, 4:22AM

Screen shot 2012-07-30 at 8.45.28 PMTonight, Twitter quietly rolled out another feature -- one that may seem simple and straightforward at first glance but could actually have big implications. The company said via its very own Twitter account that users can now click on stock (or "ticker") symbols in any tweet to view search results for those stocks and companies. To make this possible, Twitter is essentially introducing a new hashtag -- or what is being called a "cashtag." Instead of the ubiquitous "#", the addition of the symbol "$" added in front of any ticker will instantly provide context for that stock, aggregating all tweets that use the ticker under one label. Twitter gives the example of "$GE" -- General Electric's ticker symbol -- although this will obviously work for any company, like Apple ($AAPL) or Google ($GOOG), allowing users to peruse conversations happening around those stocks in realtime.


Yahoo's IntoNow Updates Its iPad App With Music Syncing, TV Screen Captures, And Group Chat

Jul 31, 4:01AM

intonowWhen Yahoo acquired IntoNow last spring, the "technology powered media company" sought ways to connect users playing around with their iPhones and iPads with content that they were watching on TV. Today, about 80 percent of users watch television with some sort of mobile device in their hands. But mostly what they're doing is checking email and playing Angry Birds. Now if only there were some app that could get them to pay attention to TV-type stuff while commercials are on. That's what IntoNow and other second screen apps are all about. Anyway, the newest IntoNow release -- the company's third major update -- takes a step back from earlier versions, which were focused on TV discovery and sharing metadata with users. It found that users were getting little actual utility out of those features, and they weren't coming back for more, according IntoNow GM Adam Cahan. So the team set about re-imagining ways it could promote more interaction with the app.


Irreducible

Jul 31, 2:52AM

Irreducible Featured ImageThe future is in apps you don't open. "We're going to move away from the era of 'I have hundreds of apps but never think of using them' towards 'I have these cool apps and they take care of me'". This is David Lieb, co-founder and CEO of Bump, on the sea change in design philosophy that underpins Pay With Square and his company's new photos apps Flock. It centers around the idea that apps shouldn't force us to add new behaviors. Instead, they should strip away needless, interruptive steps from themselves and the way we live our lives until the solutions to our problems become irreducible.


Amazon Lockers Available For Delivery In Silicon Valley, Too

Jul 31, 2:11AM

amazon lockerIt looks like Amazon.com is expanding its Lockers program, which allows customers to have their deliveries sent to, yes, nearby lockers. The idea was first reported last fall. It may seem like an inconvenient alternative to home delivery at first — until you think about some of the headaches that can come up, like worrying one of your neighbors will swipe the package as it's sitting on your doorstep, or making sure you're at home to sign for it. With Amazon Lockers, the package sits securely at a nearby pick-up station, until you come by at your convenience (well, as long as it's within three days of delivery) and open the locker up with a special code.


Dalton Caldwell On App.net's Plan To Build A Dependable, Ad-Free Version Of Twitter [TCTV]

Jul 31, 1:58AM

Screen shot 2012-07-30 at 6.53.16 PMDalton Caldwell made some serious waves earlier this month when he announced "an audacious proposal" to refocus his company App.net to build a real-time feed API and service that would essentially be a new, more open version of Twitter. It's always fun to hear about big ideas like this, so it was great to have Caldwell stop by TechCrunch TV last week to tell us in person about App.net's new mission and clear up some common misconceptions about what they're up to. You can watch our whole conversation in the video embedded above, and below I've excerpted some of his points.


W3i: App Marketing Costs On The Rise, Jump 56% On iOS, 70% On Android Since January

Jul 31, 1:06AM

how-to-ask-for-a-raise1-money-handout_s600x600It's no secret that the mobile app landscape has become extremely competitive. Over the last few years, this has led to an incredible amount of innovation and progress, but the cost of visibility -- of acquiring new users -- is also on the rise. In fact, Fiksu found that the cost of acquiring users hit a record high in December. While December is a critical month for app discovery, it remained to be seen whether or not this trend would continue. Today, W3i, the monetization and distribution network for app developers, released new user acquisition figures for the first half of 2012, and the results tell the same story. Assessing hundreds of millions of mobile users from January to June 2012, W3i found that the average cost-per-install (of CPI) of mobile apps increased by 70 percent on Android and by 56 percent on iOS.


Why The Open Cloud Wins And Oracle Loses When IT Gets Virtualized

Jul 31, 12:26AM

oraclelogoOracle said today they have bought a company called Xsigo that leverages the growing popularity of a new form of technology that virtualizes the network. It's called software defined networking (SDN) and it is shaking up the way we view IT and the cloud. The acquisition points to a shift in the market that will eventually make Oracle the loser. The cloud is opening up while Oracle is folding inward. Network virtualization is serving as a catalyst for a federated infrastructure that will make the open cloud more viable for an organization than a vertically integrated stack that needs to be managed by teams of IT engineers.  Oracle is rejecting that premise and will use Xsigo to strengthen its own proprietary environment.


GoDaddy CEO Steps Down, Scott Wagner Named Interim CEO

Jul 31, 12:18AM

GoDaddy-Will-No-Longer-Sell-cn-Chinese-Domain-Names-2GoDaddy CEO Warren Adelman has stepped down after less than eight months on the job. Adelman replaced the beleaguered elephant-killing former CEO, Bob Parsons, and will be succeeded by Scott Wagner of KKR Capstone, a major GoDaddy investor.


Microsoft Open Sources Entity Framework

Jul 31, 12:07AM

Microsoft_Logo_PageMicrosoft continues to make in-roads into open source development. Early last year it open sourced several development related tools, including NuGet and several libraries for its ASP.Net language. And by the end of the year the company announced sponsorship of projects to port both the Node.js development platform and the big data analytics tool Apache Hadoop to Windows. It's even making Linux available on Azure, the company's cloud computing platform. And now it has open sourced Entity Framework, a framework that helps developers simplify data manipulation.


What Those Mysterious Cell Phone Fees Fund: $115 Million For Rural Broadband

Jul 30, 11:13PM

Photo: TelegraphEver wonder what those mysterious government service fees on your cell phone bill go to fund? Part of it goes toward a newly launched $415 million plan to provide 400,000 rural netizens with some broadband goodness. The Connect America Fund, a Obama-administration supported plan for universal access to broadband, is part of a larger $4.5 billion mission to connect 19 million homes to bit-torrent streaming speeds by 2020. As with any major government rollout, the project is dogged by bureaucracy and industry backlash, but is nonetheless moving forward.


Still Protesting? Facebook Will Soon Force You To Switch To Timeline

Jul 30, 10:45PM

No Old Facebook Profile DesignOver the next few months, anyone still refusing to voluntarily switch to the Timeline profile redesign will be automatically migrated, Facebook tells me. Users could choose to adopt the redesign starting in January, but there have been some hold-outs who didn't want their whole life becoming easier to access, or just hated change. Soon they won't have a choice, though. Facebook revealed to me it plans to complete the Timeline rollout by this fall as part of its photo revamp this morning. By waiting to minimizing the number of users it's forcing to switch, and doing it all gradually, Facebook will have successfully avoided the wildfire protests that characterized its early years.


With Marissa Mayer In Place, Yahoo's Interim CEO Ross Levinsohn Officially Leaves The Company

Jul 30, 10:26PM

Image1 for post TC50 Backstage: Ross Levinsohn on MySpace, Ad IndustryAfter Scott Thompson's unceremonious departure from Yahoo's CEO spot earlier this year, Ross Levinsohn took over as the company's interim chief executive -- and for a while there, he was widely expected to eventually be named Yahoo's permanent CEO. But, of course, that's not how things worked out: This month Yahoo announced that longtime Google executive Marissa Mayer would take the CEO spot. And now it's official that Levinsohn will not be sticking around to see how it plays out. His last day is tomorrow.


PaidContent Founder Rafat Ali Launches Travel News Site Skift

Jul 30, 9:52PM

Screen Shot 2012-07-30 at 1.46.13 PMRafat Ali, founder of paidContent, sold his company to The Guardian for roughly $12.5 millionin 2008. Then he spent two years traveling the world, in a "quest for isolation after eight clamorous years." Now, he has built "the homepage for the travel industry" to inform your travels. Ali and co-founder Jason Clampet, who ran Frommers.com's original content efforts, aim to disrupt the enormous travel industry with a site that offers a combination of original media content and data tools to users, especially business travelers.


This Friday's Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp: Come Learn What's Working For Airbnb And SongPop

Jul 30, 9:38PM

crunchup2012-wide-for-wp-1Facebook is still huge and growing -- it added another 50 million users this past quarter, and it's about to break the one-billion-humans mark. But it still has to figure out how to survive on mobile. So we're focusing on Facebook and its developer ecosystem at our annual CrunchUp event this Friday in Redwood City, Calif. Our aim is to detail what's working and what's not, so entrepreneurs can better strategize how to think about Facebook when building their companies. Get your Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp tickets now! They can be found here. Some mobile-savvy startups are getting big growth from Facebook's platform. One of them is the music game SongPop. It now has more than 2.7 million daily active users and 11.4 million monthly active users via Facebook, and it's also a top free app in the Apple App Store. I'll be trying to get all the secrets to its success out of its creator, Mathieu Nouzareth, this Friday as part of our panel on Facebook's platform.


The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs In Tow

Jul 30, 9:25PM

Screen shot 2012-07-30 at 12.52.33 PMAugusto Marietti, Marco Palladino and Mike Zonca founded Mashape in November 2010 to create a unified, all-in-one marketplace where one could go to find, sell, distribute, and hack on APIs, believing that APIs would become an essential part of the conversation for developers. Though it wasn't an easy road, last September Mashape raised $1.6 million from NEA, Charles River Ventures, Jeff Bezos, and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors -- to name a few. Mashape has been in private beta since, testing its model and "building out the supply-side," says Marietti. Today, the startup is finally throwing back the curtains, officially opening to the public, with new features and inventory in stock.


Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before: Olympic Athlete Kicked Out Of Games For Tweet

Jul 30, 8:30PM

Switzerland's Michel Morganella runs onMichael Morganella, a defender on the Swiss Olympic soccer squad, has been kicked off the team for an offensive tweet about South Koreans, hours after losing to the country's team. Five days ago, Voula Papachristou, Greece's triple-jump champion, was kicked off her team for an offensive tweet about West Nile virus. Morganella's Twitter account, @morgastoss, has been deleted, but Swiss newspaper Le Matin grabbed a shot of the tweet.


Codecademy Adds Python Lessons, Promises More Server-Side Languages

Jul 30, 8:05PM

codecademylogoCodecademy, the startup offering online lessons and tools to help people learn how to code, is adding Python to its lesson line-up starting today. Until now, co-founder Zach Sims says Codecademy has "been focused on client-side languages and markup - javascript, HTML, and CSS." Starting today, you'll be able to find user-generated Python lessons on the site, and Sims adds, "This is the beginning of new language support on Codecademy - Python is only the first server side language you'll see."


Bing Improves Its Facebook Integration With Friend Tagging

Jul 30, 7:45PM

bing_logoMicrosoft's Bing search engine launched its social sidebar last month and the company has been adding features and support for additional social networks ever since. The core of Bing's social efforts, however, is its Facebook integration and the company today announced a nice new feature for Facebook users on Bing. The social sidebar already allowed users to ask their Facebook friends questions right from Bing, but with today's update, Bing is also allowing users to tag up to five of their friends whenever they ask a question. This, says Microsoft, will allow you "to effortlessly tap into the collective wisdom of your social network, and get input from your friends who are in the know."


Distracted Walking Injuries Quadruple — Mobile Devices to Blame?

Jul 30, 7:15PM

images (5)The number of citizens wandering into ditches, on-coming cars, and each other while staring at electronics has "quadrupled", according to the Associated Press. "Look up. Drivers aren't always looking out for you," reads a Delaware traffic safety sign, one of many states that are turning to the magic of PSA billboards as a substitute for state legislatures that have almost universally opposed laws criminalizing "distracted walking." While the Internet is overflowing with hilarious bloopers, such as one man walking into a real-life black bear (video below), distracted walking is a serious problem, and is implicated in the 4.2% rise in pedestrian fatalities in 2010.


Showyou Adds Olympics Content To Its Apps, Now Has More Than 28,000 Video Clips (And Counting!)

Jul 30, 6:50PM

Screen Shot 2012-07-30 at 11.47.36 AMOne problem with 2012 Olympics coverage is that there's so much of it. If you're in the U.S., you can turn to NBCOlympics.com for full video coverage of the Summer Games, including clips, highlights, and full-length video of competitions as they happen. But with all that content, it's difficult to sort through and find what you're actually looking for. Want a better way to find and discover what's happening at the Olympics? Showyou is trying to solve that problem, by automatically highlighting the Olympics content that its users are sharing with each other in the app and on other social networks.



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NYC Vs. SF Tech: Above And Beyond The "Company Town"

Jul 30, 2:59AM

fayshoafIt didn't start with a monkey, or a tiger. Or even a million-dollar blowout with Snoop performing in a hazy fog. For me, it started with schwag. Lots and lots of schwag. So much, in fact, that in 2006 a group of enterprising tech folks at RubyRed Labs started a side company named Valleyschwag, selling leftover tech schwag for $15. You read that correctly; people would willingly pay a $15 monthly subscription to get poorly-sized, Hanes Beefy T's with now-defunct tech logos on them. And it was positioned as an opportunity; to quote Michael Arrington on this very site, "sometimes it's easy to forget that a lot of people out there don't have the opportunity to get schwag from their favorite startups." Times, how they have changed (though I still do cherish my Dodgeball shirt).


Hands-On With The Braun BN0106 High-End Digital Watch

Jul 30, 1:29AM

Braun-BN10-watch-13Most people in America know Braun as the maker of some kitchen and bathroom items such as coffee makers and electric shavers. They also make clocks and watches. A new piece from the German brand recently won a Red Dot design award and is produced in collaboration with a clever watch designer from the quirky brand Ventura.


The First Company To Build Your Identity Into Your Phone Wins The Next Decade

Jul 30, 1:09AM

rotaryphoneEditor's note: Rebekah Cox is a product designer at Quora and previously a product design lead at Facebook. This post is a followup to a recent tweet, and first appeared on Quora. It's important to understand what identity isn't: Identity is not a password, it's not root access, it's not your calendar, it's not your email, it's not a technical achievement, it's not your location, it's not a user account in a system, it's not your contacts and it's not a feature.


Iterations: Craigslist's Network Effects And The Great Platform Challenge

Jul 29, 11:00PM

platform diveA few weeks ago, Craigslist penned a "Cease and Desist" letter aimed at Padmapper, the popular apartment listings site, to stop its use of Craigslist data for the third-party service. While Craigslist has behaved this way before, the startup community does not particularly like these types of letters. It was not too long ago that the City of San Francisco sent a "Cease and Desist" letter to a company called, at the time, Ubercab, a letter that again brought startups together in a mutual display of support for new business models in the face of regulations and conveniently-timed rules enforcement. In the case of Craigslist, the power, wealth, and sometimes confusing policies of the small private company exposes the philosophical rifts among many in startup community who believe the global community message board stifles the advancement of products and services like Padmapper and, in the process, doesn't create the best possible consumer experience.


Jeff Bezos, A Blonde, And A Book Walk Into A Bar (Part I)

Jul 29, 10:00PM

Screen shot 2012-07-29 at 6.12.53 AMWhile I find technology and innovation in technology to be intellectually fascinating and fun to read about, in my personal life, I am what product managers disdainfully refer to as "The Last Adopter." I've spent the last 9 years living in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco as an outlier so extreme, I still yearn for the return of The Pony Express because I love hand-written letters almost as much as I love ponies. I am not a journalist, a professional writer, or even a blogger. So: if you're looking for breaking news you can impress your boss with, let me save you some time. Set this aside, read every other article on this site, and return to this when you've just finished your fifth coffee, find yourself staring into space, and absentmindedly wonder what the Kardashians are up to today. This is not hard-hitting journalism folks.


The Rumpus Literary Website Brings Back Old-Fashioned Letter Writing

Jul 29, 9:00PM

lettersStephen Elliott, founder and editor-in-chief of a literary website called The Rumpus, has found a modern-day audience for old-school letters. His site, a mixture of old-world letter writing and the modern web, is called Letters In The Mail and it aims to further disrupt the way we think about publishing. Elliott is a writer, filmmaker (his movie About Cherry comes out later this year), and occasional teacher He started The Rumpus in 2009, and it has evolved into a mix of reviews, interviews, the popular "Dear Sugar" advice column, with lots of other content. (I took a class from Elliott when I was in college, and also conducted a couple of interviews for the site in its early days.)


Google Fiber: 20% Of Kansas City, MO Neighborhoods Have Already Met Their Sign-Up Goals

Jul 29, 8:08PM

fiber-rabbitThat was fast. Just a few days ago, Google officially opened registration for the 1 gigabit fiber network it is launching on both the Kansas and Missouri sides of Kansas City. Within just two days, more than 20% of the eligible neighborhoods on the Missouri side have already reached Google's thresholds for bringing its super-fast fiber network to their "fiberhoods" and quite a few others are just a few signups away from reaching their goals.


The Paradox Of VC Seed Investing

Jul 29, 8:00PM

Screen Shot 2012-07-29 at 1.04.33 PMEditor's note: Brian Singerman is a partner at Founders Fund and previously worked at Google and There.  This is the first in a series of articles I am writing to bring more transparency and honesty to the field of venture capital. While many of the themes may be contrarian or controversial, I have two primary goals: First, I want to help entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts understand what motivates investors. Second, I hope to draw attention to some of the fallacies venture capitalists use in their negotiations with entrepreneurs. Aligning the incentives of entrepreneurs and VCs will lead to much stronger relationships and innovation. Entrepreneurs regularly come to Founders Fund asking us to lead or participate in their seed/angel round. They are often confused or shocked when I try to convince them that with very few exceptions, it is not in entrepreneurs' best interest to raise seed capital from large venture firms and neither is it beneficial for large firms to invest in seed stage companies. Among the reasons: the structure of VC economics and unavoidable perception issues. Since this conversation happens frequently, I'd like to share my honest thoughts on why large funds should avoid angel investing -­‐ and also why Founders Fund nevertheless does so through its wholly owned FF Angel funds.


This Is Your Brain On Boarding: How To Turn Visitors Into Users

Jul 29, 6:57PM

Screen Shot 2012-07-24 at 11.40.31 PMEditor's Note: Nir Eyal is a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the founder of two startups and blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com. Follow him on Twitter @nireyal. Before you can change the world, before your company can IPO, before getting millions of loyal users to wonder how they ever lived without your service, people need to on-board. Building the on-ramp to using your product is critical in every industry, but few more so than in the ADD world of web and mobile apps. Distractions are everywhere, vying for user mindshare and threatening to pull them off the road to using your products like the donut shops and strip clubs at a trucker's rest stop.


Founders Are Not Heroes. Let's Get Back To Work

Jul 29, 5:31PM

Screen shot 2012-07-29 at 3.43.23 PMEditor's note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 15-city event series hosted around the world to help educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. He's also ex-Electronic Arts, the founder of Commonred and Vaporware Labs.< A few weeks ago a founder called me to commiserate. He told me about how his product had taken longer than expected to build, how his co-founder was gone, and how he was almost out of money. There was desperation, but more than anything he longed for pity and a shoulder to cry on. My response? "Please shut up and get back to work."


Fly Or Die: Google Nexus 7

Jul 29, 2:00PM

Screen shot 2012-07-28 at 4.55.38 PMEver since I/O and the unveiling of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the blogosphere has been measuring Google's new Nexus 7 tablet. The verdict in almost every case is good, including our very own iPad lover's take. John and I thus found it only fitting to bring the little 7-inch tablet into the studio for Fly or Die. The tablet, with a 7-inch IPS 1280x800 display, a Tegra 3 quad-core processor, and the latest version of Android, didn't fail to impress.


Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies Fail To Improve Comments

Jul 29, 11:00AM

YouTubeIconYouTube has joined a growing list of social media companies who think that forcing users to use their real names will make comments less of a trolling wasteland, but there's surprisingly good evidence from South Korea that real name policies fail at cleaning up comments. In 2007, South Korea temporarily mandated that all websites with over 100,000 viewers require real names, but scraped it after it was found to be ineffective at cleaning up abusive and malicious comments (the policy reduced unwanted comments by an estimated .09%). We don't know how this hidden gem of evidence skipped the national debate on real identities, but it's an important lesson for YouTube, Facebook and Google, who have assumed that fear of judgement will change online behavior for the better.


>From Information to Understanding: Moving Beyond Search In The Age Of Siri

Jul 29, 6:00AM

child Head with symbolEditor's note: Nadav Gur is the founder and CEO of Desti, a virtual personal assistant for travel incubated by SRI. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Worldmate, the first mobile travel app. "Any fool can know. The point is to understand." --Albert Einstein Since the launch of Siri on the iPhone 4S last year, the media has been abuzz with the potential implications of what's next – from Google's Eric Schmidt commenting that Siri poses a great threat to Google, to countless articles by VCs and thought leaders.


Vertical Is The New Horizontal: How The Cloud Makes Domain Expertise More Valuable In The Enterprise

Jul 29, 2:21AM

clv0910-red-velvet-cake-xlEditor's note: Gordon Ritter is a founder and general partner at Emergence Capital focused on cloud companies.  In the days before the cloud, on-premise software providers that focused on selling into a vertical market were considered second-class citizens to the "big guns" selling into the broader horizontal marketplace. The real "win"—in market share, wallet share and ultimately, profits—was the broadest approach. The notion of specializing in solutions that serve a market niche or specific industry was considered limited unless it was just the start of something more horizontal.


A Few Good Rounds: Trends In Venture Capital Over The Last 12 Years

Jul 29, 12:00AM

taleof2markets1Editor's note: This is the second article in a series by Redpoint Ventures principal Tom Tunguz examining trends in the public and private technology markets. He recently discussed four trends in the public technology markets. Today, he compares the current state of the US venture capital to historical norms. The venture capital industry is in the midst of a contraction. Since 2001, limited partners have invested a median of $22B each year in venture capital. Over the last 3 years, those figures have dropped by 50% to $16B annually.


Let's Not Get Too Excited About Google Fiber… Yet

Jul 28, 10:21PM

Google Fiber logoEarlier this week, Google provided details of its Google Fiber rollout in Kansas City. To hear some blogs tell it, it's like the heavens will open from above and grant Kansas City blazing-fast Internet and competitive TV packages that will solve all the problems locals have with their current cable provider or ISP. But see, it's not that easy. Google faces a number of challenges as it transitions to become an ISP. Here's why Google's grand experiment laying fiber might not be all the it's cracked up to be. >From a pure cost standpoint, Google Fiber sounds pretty amazing. It offer Gigabit speeds at an attractive price point, which other ISPs probably can't compete with. And it would be great, if it were available today. But rolling out fiber is a complicated process, and most Kansas City residents anxious for some high-speed competition probably have a long wait ahead.


Move Over, Pebble: MetaWatch's New 'Strata' Aims To Make A Splash On Kickstarter Too

Jul 28, 9:20PM

strata2Sure, the Pebble has nabbed its share of headlines and accolades lately, but that doesn't mean it's got the nascent smart watch market all sewed up. Case in point: veteran MetaWatch recently pulled back the curtains on its new Strata smart watch, and it's already picking up plenty of steam on (where else?) Kickstarter. Unlike some of the other smartwatch concepts that have been dreamed up in recent months, the Strata is the brainchild of a known quantity. MetaWatch has been tackling the problem of putting topical information on people's wrists for nearly eight years now -- the company's roots lay with the clothing and accessory mavens at Fossil, which produced a pair of fashion-conscious smart timepieces in May 2011 before the team split off and formed their own company that August.


Please Don't Watch NBC Tonight. Or Any Night.

Jul 28, 8:47PM

screen-shot-2011-10-06-at-2-58-57-pmSpoiler alert: Phelps and Lochte raced today. The results are all over Twitter. But the race won't air on TV in America until tonight. This is 2012, not 1996. NBC has put all of the events live online, provided you have a cable subscription, but won't have them available recorded online and won't air many events, including the most high-profile ones, until a primetime tape delay. This isn't a new strategy, just a dumb, outdated one.


BlogFrog Shows The Power of Women Bloggers But Trust Critical As Influencer Marketing Programs Rise In Popularity

Jul 28, 8:04PM

LogoIt's of note to mention that BlogFrog has developed a platform that would not be possible without women bloggers. The newly available platform has a network of 100,000 "social influencers." Women represent 95% of that community.  These are women who write about parenting, food, health, fashion and home and garden.


Bitly Announces Realtime, A Search Engine For Trending Links

Jul 28, 7:31PM

bitly fishToday Bitly announced a new Bitly Labs project called Realtime, a service for finding the most clicked on Bitly links. Realtime, now in private beta, allows users to filter searches by social network, keyword, subject and more. For example, here are the results for a search for the keyword "startups" in technology on Twitter:



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Vertical Is The New Horizontal: How The Cloud Makes Domain Expertise More Valuable In The Enterprise

Jul 29, 2:21AM

clv0910-red-velvet-cake-xlEditor's note: Gordon Ritter is a founder and general partner at Emergence Capital focused on cloud companies.  In the days before the cloud, on-premise software providers that focused on selling into a vertical market were considered second-class citizens to the "big guns" selling into the broader horizontal marketplace. The real "win"—in market share, wallet share and ultimately, profits—was the broadest approach. The notion of specializing in solutions that serve a market niche or specific industry was considered limited unless it was just the start of something more horizontal.


A Few Good Rounds: Trends In Venture Capital Over The Last 12 Years

Jul 29, 12:00AM

taleof2markets1Editor's note: This is the second article in a series by Redpoint Ventures principal Tom Tunguz examining trends in the public and private technology markets. He recently discussed four trends in the public technology markets. Today, he compares the current state of the US venture capital to historical norms. The venture capital industry is in the midst of a contraction. Since 2001, limited partners have invested a median of $22B each year in venture capital. Over the last 3 years, those figures have dropped by 50% to $16B annually.


Let's Not Get Too Excited About Google Fiber… Yet

Jul 28, 10:21PM

Google Fiber logoEarlier this week, Google provided details of its Google Fiber rollout in Kansas City. To hear some blogs tell it, it's like the heavens will open from above and grant Kansas City blazing-fast Internet and competitive TV packages that will solve all the problems locals have with their current cable provider or ISP. But see, it's not that easy. Google faces a number of challenges as it transitions to become an ISP. Here's why Google's grand experiment laying fiber might not be all the it's cracked up to be. >From a pure cost standpoint, Google Fiber sounds pretty amazing. It offer Gigabit speeds at an attractive price point, which other ISPs probably can't compete with. And it would be great, if it were available today. But rolling out fiber is a complicated process, and most Kansas City residents anxious for some high-speed competition probably have a long wait ahead.


Move Over, Pebble: MetaWatch's New 'Strata' Aims To Make A Splash On Kickstarter Too

Jul 28, 9:20PM

strata2Sure, the Pebble has nabbed its share of headlines and accolades lately, but that doesn't mean it's got the nascent smart watch market all sewed up. Case in point: veteran MetaWatch recently pulled back the curtains on its new Strata smart watch, and it's already picking up plenty of steam on (where else?) Kickstarter. Unlike some of the other smartwatch concepts that have been dreamed up in recent months, the Strata is the brainchild of a known quantity. MetaWatch has been tackling the problem of putting topical information on people's wrists for nearly eight years now -- the company's roots lay with the clothing and accessory mavens at Fossil, which produced a pair of fashion-conscious smart timepieces in May 2011 before the team split off and formed their own company that August.


Please Don't Watch NBC Tonight. Or Any Night.

Jul 28, 8:47PM

screen-shot-2011-10-06-at-2-58-57-pmSpoiler alert: Phelps and Lochte raced today. The results are all over Twitter. But the race won't air on TV in America until tonight. This is 2012, not 1996. NBC has put all of the events live online, provided you have a cable subscription, but won't have them available recorded online and won't air many events, including the most high-profile ones, until a primetime tape delay. This isn't a new strategy, just a dumb, outdated one.


BlogFrog Shows The Power of Women Bloggers But Trust Critical As Influencer Marketing Programs Rise In Popularity

Jul 28, 8:04PM

LogoIt's of note to mention that BlogFrog has developed a platform that would not be possible without women bloggers. The newly available platform has a network of 100,000 "social influencers." Women represent 95% of that community.  These are women who write about parenting, food, health, fashion and home and garden.


Bitly Announces Realtime, A Search Engine For Trending Links

Jul 28, 7:31PM

bitly fishToday Bitly announced a new Bitly Labs project called Realtime, a service for finding the most clicked on Bitly links. Realtime, now in private beta, allows users to filter searches by social network, keyword, subject and more. For example, here are the results for a search for the keyword "startups" in technology on Twitter:


Stranded Vessels

Jul 28, 7:00PM

stranded_vesselsThe 20th century was owned and operated by middle men. Industry began as the creation of something for which would be traded other goods, services, or cash. As production centralized, distribution (as always) rose to close the distance between the product and the consumer. Facilitating consumption became a business unto itself: printing, shipping, packaging, and all the rest. A respectable, powerful, and necessary business. More recently, when certain products became capable of being distributed without this mighty infrastructure, that business ceased to become necessary, and correspondingly their power and respectability are now in decline. Words and media being the most portable data, the huge industries that have long facilitated their consumption are dying, slowly and poorly. How long before the present titans of technology find themselves in a similar position? It's hard to imagine exactly how it will happen, but the trends are easy enough to extrapolate.


Kickstarter: Meet The Vers 1Q, A Stunning 2-inch Battery-Powered Bluetooth Speaker

Jul 28, 5:57PM

vers-1qI'm in absolute love. From the gorgeous wood cabinet to the technical capabilities, the little Vers' 1Q is simply perfect. The $120 price ($99 for Kickstarters) is just icing on the cake. It's rather refreshing to see a warm, nearly alive device in our world that's generally filled with modeled plastic and faux chrome trim. Simply put, the 1Q is a battery-powered Bluetooth speaker. A 2-inch driver provides the audio while, packed inside the walnut or bamboo casing, a 6.5W amp powers the audio provided from either Bluetooth or the 3.5mm jack. The included battery charges via microUSB and should last 10 hours on a charge. What more can you ask for from a small speaker?


TechCrunch PSA: Olwimpics Blocker Blocks The Olympics

Jul 28, 5:19PM

Screen Shot 2012-07-28 at 1.18.15 PM If you're like me, you never real got into spectator sports. Maybe it was the jock-induced swirlies or maybe it was the pointlessness of ball-based games, but I couldn't give two shot puts about the Olympics. Thankfully, there's the Olwinpics Blocker from FFFFF.at.


Gillmor Gang: London Calling

Jul 28, 5:00PM

Gillmor Gang test patternThe Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — killed some time waiting for NBC to let us watch the Olympics on our tablets and phones like the rest of the world. @dbfarber isn't ready to write off Microsoft, but I can't help wondering why Steve Sinofsky was content to duck a journalist's question about the Windows Surface's impact on hardware partners by pushing him toward the tablet with the suggestion he go learn something With a week of Google Nexus 7 under our belts, a rumored deal between Apple and Twitter, and Mitt Money on his Insult Europe Tour '12, we're entering some good times as the world melts. Bring on the fiber; Kansas City here I come.


Review: Cerevellum Hindsight 35 Rearview Biking Computer

Jul 28, 3:00PM

scaled-9844We're very lucky that the creator of the Cerevellum is even alive. Evan Solida was a competitive cyclist until a major accident in 2007 left him unable to ride. After years of plastic surgery and physical therapy, he was able to get back onto his bike and now builds unique cycle designs, does contract work, and just released his first product, the Hindsight 35. This unique device is essentially a rearview monitor and race computer for cyclists. It connects to various sensors using ANT+ wireless technology and a small lens and light combo on the back of the bike gives you a full view of what's coming up behind you in brilliant color. The device also records the scene in five minute bursts and stops recording when you (or your bike) are suddenly interrupted by a collision. In short, it's a way for cyclists to find out what's behind them and, if they run into a spot of bad luck, see who's responsible.


In Praise Of Quick And Filthy

Jul 28, 1:00PM

phpTo paraphrase the late great David Foster Wallace, did you know that probing the seamy underbelly of software development reveals ideological strife and fanaticism on a nearly Godwin's-law scale? Did you know that software development even had a seamy underbelly? It does, and its name is PHP, the world's least-loved but arguably most-used programming language. It's loathed, it's despised, and it's everywhere. WordPress, meaning TechCrunch, is brought to you by PHP. Yahoo? PHP. Facebook? Them too--although Quora founder and former Facebook CTO Adam D'Angelo hastens to stress that "PHP was out of the question" for Quora, and Facebook merely uses it because it's "stuck on that for legacy reasons". And yet PHP is allegedly used by more than three-quarters of all web sites. To sum up: everybody hates PHP, except for the countless legions who use it, who should all be very ashamed of themselves. I don't think it's an exaggeration to call that a general consensus. PHP has been called--and by people widely respected in the industry, too--"a fractal of bad design," "the biggest, stinkiest dump that the computer industry had taken on my life in a decade," and, worst of all, "the Nickelback of programming languages."


IOC Starts To Delete Unauthorized Video Of Olympics On YouTube

Jul 28, 11:28AM

Screen Shot 2012-07-28 at 11.58.39Well, we knew that Olympic organizers were likely to be tough on unauthorized content, especially after issuing regulations around social media prior to the Games. And evidence of that is surfacing today in the shape of deleted videos on YouTube. Search for scenes from the spectacular opening ceremony in London and while you will find excerpts from official broadcasters like the BBC, videos uploaded by ordinary users are being gradually being stamped out.


Why Platform Clouds Need to Be More Like App Stores

Jul 28, 7:53AM

platformThe app store model, pioneered by companies like Handango and popularized by Apple, has become the preferred method for distributing software on everything from desktops to post-PC devices. We're also seeing this model in the cloud, mostly through software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, such as the Google Apps Marketplace. But what's been missing so far is a platform-as-a-service that allows you to add components through an app store interface.


Buddy Media, Nanigans, BLiNQ Build On Facebook's New Ads APIs, Could Show Wall Street The Money

Jul 28, 3:48AM

JOBS COUNCILInvestors demand more revenue from Facebook, and Sheryl's got just the APIs to give it to them. Over the last two days, three major ads tech partners have revamped their products with recently released Facebook APIs that allow brands to track and optimize for on-site conversions including app installs, buy home page ads and logout page takeovers, and target ads specifically to mobile. The new capabilities in tools from Buddy Media, Nanigans, and BLiNQ Media (who just updated today) will attract ad dollars from app developers, huge brands, and local businesses. That means more revenue for these Ads API providers and more revenue for Facebook, which it needs  to rescue its share price, down 11.7% today.


Soulja Boy Takes On The iPad With His Ridiculous Tablet

Jul 28, 12:53AM

20120727-202629Hop up out the bed...turn my tablet on? Rapper Soulja Boy has released a branded tablet with Tokova called the "Tiger Shark Soulja Boy Edition."


Yo Forbes, Fuck You

Jul 28, 12:16AM

forbes-fuck1TechCrunch is currently missing <%=Fucks%>, according to Forbes' Brian Caulfield. We expect to add more <%=Fucks%> into our posts in <%=deadline%>. Responds our more serious than me co-editor Eric Eldon, "Our disappointing F-Bomb second quarter 2012 financial results and outlook for the third quarter 2012 illustrates that our F-Bomb business continues to be in the midst of transition. Within our F-Bomb business unit, we have established early momentum with F-Bomb+, and we are increasing our investments in F-Bomb+ to achieve market success."


Our Devs Weigh In: We Also Want To Watch The Olympics Instead Of Work

Jul 27, 11:33PM

nbc-logo1Editor's Note: Rob Saurini is a hard working developer at TechCrunch, except for today. Today, he just wants to watch the Olympics, like a true patriot. So I've been sitting here for the past couple of hours searching for a way to watch the Olympics Opening Ceremonies when I should probably be doing actual work.


NBCOlympics' Opening Ceremony Tape Delay: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

Jul 27, 11:15PM

OlympicsIf you were paying attention to Twitter today, you were probably met with two conflicting sides of the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony this afternoon. On the one hand, you had those who were on the ground (or who had access to the live stream somehow -- more on that later), and those who were bitching about not being able to watch the ceremony live. The whole kerfuffle came about because NBC decided that, rather than broadcast or stream the ceremony live to those who might wish to see it, it would run the thing on a tape delay. While most of the rest of the world -- or at least Europe -- was watching the ceremony live, U.S. audiences were held hostage by NBC, which holds the rights to the games here. Rather than broadcasting the biggest event of the Games live as it happened, NBC decided it would air the ceremony on a tape delay, to capture a larger overall audience.



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