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Vertical Is The New Horizontal: How The Cloud Makes Domain Expertise More Valuable In The Enterprise
Jul 29, 2:21AM
Editor'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
Editor'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
Earlier 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
Sure, 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
Spoiler 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
It'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
Today 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
The 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
I'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
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
The 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
We'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
To 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
Well, 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
The 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
Investors 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
Hop 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
TechCrunch 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
Editor'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
If 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.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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