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How To Disrupt Petty Inconveniences
Sep 15, 6:00AM
Depending on who you ask, Jack Dorsey started off the latest Disrupt on either a very controversial or a very non-controversial note. "We need revolution, not disruption," he said, words that would be easy to characterize as platitudes if he were not working hard at uprooting a few global institutions. Even so, the sentiment did not entirely match the tone of the conference that was to follow. Whether you want to call it a bubble or not, it's not controversial to say that there are millions upon millions of dollars going to ideas, services, and sites that will be dead or irrelevant in a year or two. The metaphor of the Cambrian explosion has been employed, of course. Tellingly, the Wikipedia article for it reads "most organisms were simple, composed of individual cells occasionally organized into colonies." What a marvelously apt description of the creatures I saw on display this week! A great number of the startups (a word that is beginning to lose all meaning, by the way) that I saw were aimed at solving problems so trifling that the first objective of many pitches was to alert the audience that they exist. Is this healthy? Yes and no.Twitter Bug Randomly Swaps Out Avatars For Some Accounts, Profile Settings Now Disabled
Sep 15, 3:07AM
Well here's a Twitter bug that is kind of alarming. Apparently, for some verified accounts, avatars were swapped out with other random users'. Currently, the profile settings are disabled for all users, so you're stuck with what you have now. Can you imagine trying to tweet and seeing some random Joe in your place? Yeah, weird.Zynga's Unredacted Response To EA: Uh, You Weren't Suppose To Sue Us Over These Hires
Sep 15, 1:30AM
Earlier today, Zynga filed a scathing legal response to EA's copyright lawsuit — with a few sensitive areas redacted. However, it turns out that TechCrunch readers are even more awesome than I expected, because one of them figured out how to un-redact the document and sent us the full countercomplaint, sans black bars. So what was missing? Basically, more details about supposed agreements between Zynga and EA, and allegations that EA has violated the terms of those agreements.GitHub Says Database Issues Caused This Week's Outage and Performance Problems
Sep 15, 12:01AM
A database migration gone awry caused the outage and poor availability that GitHub customers experienced this week. In a lengthy blog post today, GitHub's Jesse Newland, apologized for the outage and said overall it was way below the company's standards.Google Fiber Adds Turner Channels, Including Cartoon Network, CNN, TBS, And TNT
Sep 14, 10:35PM
When Google first announced the details of its Kansas City fiber rollout, one of the knocks against it was that its channel lineup was a little thin. While it had struck deals to bring video subscribers more than 116 channels, at the time of its announcement, it was missing some notable channels -- stuff like ESPN, Disney, AMC, TBS, TNT, and HBO. Today, Google announced it has also added content from Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting. The Turner deal will provide channels like Boomerang, Cartoon Network, CNN, CNN en Español, CNN International, HLN, hTV, infinito, TBS, TCM: Turner Classic Movies, TNT, and truTV. That brings Google mostly up to parity with other distributors, and at $120 a month for TV and 1Gbps broadband, the offering is competitively priced.Here's All You Need To Know About The iPhone 5: More Cat
Sep 14, 10:32PM
All right folks, maybe you've already pre-ordered your iPhone 5. Maybe you're still on the fence about whether to make the upgrade. I know there are a lot of techy things that have changed which make the iPhone 5 the most amazing smartphone ever created on the planet. However...here's all you really need to know about the iPhone: You get more cat.The One That Got Away: Kevin Rose Passed On Pinterest At A $5M Valuation
Sep 14, 9:43PM
We had the chance to catch up with entrepreneur and investor Kevin Rose during TechCrunch Disrupt, asking him about a multitude of startup zeitgeist topics, including the Y Combinator versus Google Ventures kerfuffle and what today's high seed stage valuations mean for entrepreneurs. Rose held that high valuations sometimes turns off potential investors, and then brought up how he had passed on investing in Pinterest at a $5 million valuation, as an example.Plan Epic Dates: BeCouply's Dates.fm Wins The Disrupt Hackathon SYNC AppLink Developer Challenge
Sep 14, 9:30PM
Just under a week ago, we kicked off our hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt. Before the event started, Ford had already picked a number of teams that would get access to the otherwise closed Ford AppLink API. The winner of this challenge was BeCouply, which developed the Dates.fm app for suggesting interesting dates to Ford's in-car interface. Date.fm, the team says, "lets you tune in to nearby date ideas on your phone and in your vehicle."BitRhymes On Track For $45M In Annual Revenue On The Strength Of Virtual Bingo
Sep 14, 9:16PM
If you had to take a guess at what has been at or near the top-grossing spot in the U.S. iPad App Store for the past month without looking, I'd bet a bingo simulator wouldn't be high on your list. But India's BitRhymes has proven that in fact users are interested in playing good old-fashioned bingo on their ultra-modern iPad devices, and revealed to TechCrunch that it's currently tracking to realize an annual run rate of $45 million in revenue on the back of its premiere title, Bingo Bash for Facebook, iPad and iPhone. That one of the best-performing social games on the App Store and Facebook right now isn't from someone like Zynga is a sign that there's still plenty of opportunity to be had in this space, but that it might be best explored by peering into corners that don't immediately seem like winners. Bingo is traditionally seen as a game for octogenarians, but BitRhymes' CEO Sumit Gupta said in an interview that surprisingly, there's been lots of interest from younger demographics, and users have predominantly been women.Zynga Counters EA Lawsuit With Allegations Of Anti-Competitive Behavior
Sep 14, 8:31PM
Zynga just filed its legal response to Electronic Arts' copyright lawsuit. The response has three parts: A motion to strike portions of EA's suit; an "answer and demand for jury trial" on other portions of the suit; and a counterclaim from Zynga.Google Apps Says Goodbye To Internet Explorer 8, Pulls Support For the Browser
Sep 14, 8:08PM
Today, the Google Apps team announced that it will no longer support Internet Explorer 8. Thank goodness. This will affect everyone using Google Apps: businesses, educational and government institutions. The drop of support officially starts November 15th, a few weeks after Internet Explorer 10 launches.YouTube Moves API Discussions And Support To Stack Overflow, Ditches Google Groups
Sep 14, 7:54PM
Calling all developers, YouTube has taken steps to join Stack Overflow and bring discussions about its API there. For those who are using the API, you know that Google Groups hasn't really been cutting it as far as getting updated information, details, and responses. It's an interesting move for a Google-owned property to jump outside of its own house, but one that's necessary to properly engage with developers. Go to where people are comfortable, your own tools be damned if they're not cutting it. Good stuff.Court: Tweets 'Gifted To The World,' Twitter Hands Over Protester's Secret Info
Sep 14, 7:45PM
After months of resistance, Twitter has succumb to legal pressure to hand over the protected tweets of an Occupy Wall Street protester to a New York court. Prosecutors in the case believe the private messages undermine protester Malcolm Harris's "not-guilty" defense that he and 700 other protesters were unknowingly lured onto the Brooklyn Bridge where they could be arrested for obstructing traffic. Even though Harris attempted to conceal the tweets, the court concluded that "If you post a tweet, just like if you scream it out the window, there is no reaosnable expectation of privacy. There is no proprietary interest in your tweets, which you have now gifted to the world."Keen On… Grindr: Should Gays Vote For Obama Or Romney in November?
Sep 14, 7:42PM
Given the ubiquity and power of today's online networks, it's become a cliche to describe the race between Obama and Romney as a social media election. But few social networks have become as explicitly engaged as the 4 million person strong gay network Grindr in pursuing the human rights of its members. As Grindr's CEO Joel Simkhai told me at Disrupt, that's because gay men don't have equality in America. Thus Simkhai has launched Grindr For Equality - an initiative designed to educate gays about relevant issues in the upcoming election.Find My iPhone Leads To Arrest Of Suspects In Atlanta Armed Robbery Case
Sep 14, 7:25PM
Apple's iPhone has had its crime-fighting capabilities detailed before, but a new story today out of Atlanta (via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution) has its Find My iPhone feature helping to catch two suspects in an armed robbery case. After five women were held up at gunpoint near the Biltmore Hotel last night in the Georgia state capital, police tracked one of their stolen iPhones to an apartment and nabbed the suspects. A tipster tells us that police used Find My iPhone, the service that Apple makes available to iCloud users who also own iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and iPad hardware, to track the device. Find My iPhone has helped in arrests a number of times in the past, including in an armed robbery case reported by the L.A. Times last November.Gates, Gore, And Dimon, Oh My: Here's The Full Schedule Of Kleiner Perkins' Swanky CEO Summit
Sep 14, 7:05PM
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has been quietly holding its CEO Summit for its team and the leaders of its portfolio companies over the past few days. The event, which is celebrating Kleiner's 40th anniversary, isn't a total secret -- there have been tweets here and there about it -- but the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm has kept a tight lid on exactly who has been in attendance. You've got to wonder: What do some of the most powerful people in the tech and financial industries do to recharge and refocus before taking on the busy autumn season? Well, wonder no more, because TechCrunch has obtained the full schedule. And it's absolutely amazing.New Intel Chip Won't Support Linux
Sep 14, 6:49PM
Intel will not support Linux in its upcoming chip for laptops and tablets. That leaves Windows 8 as the only operating system that will run on the Clover Trail Atom chip. To be clear, Linux can run on Clover Trail because it is an x86 chip. But it's unlikely any device maker will want to go to the trouble to do it.Disrupt Hackathon Winner Docracy Adds Collaborative Editing And Signing Capabilities To Github For Legal Documents
Sep 14, 6:40PM
There are a number of websites that offer form legal documents to users. But it can be difficult to complete the next step of the process of establishing a will, or forming a company, when it comes to actually editing and signing these documents online. Docracy, which won the Disrupt NYC Hackathon more than a year ago, is a repository for legal and business documents, such as NDAs and term sheets. Anyone can upload a document, which will be translated into native HTML5, and become available to other users. The startup's free and community-curated library of templates now includes the ability to edit and sign legal documents. Once you find the document you want to edit, you can negotiate the whole thing online and edit the document directly within your private account. In terms of signage, Docracy now offers e-signatures with a typeset PDF result that links back to the executed version online.On-Demand Car Service Uber Launches In Dallas And Strikes A Partnership Deal With Virgin America
Sep 14, 6:13PM
On-demand car service Uber has launched in yet another new market today, opening up to everyone in Dallas. And it's also done a major deal with Virgin America, which could result in tons of new customers getting exposed to its service. Uber announced the Dallas launch on its blog today, making Big D the 18th market that it's now operating in. Dallas is similar to a few other markets that Uber has had success in, like Los Angeles. The city suffers from a bit of urban sprawl and also has a pretty high DWI rate. Making Uber available is one way to reduce the amount of driving people have to do when going out or getting to the airport or stadiums.Opinion Polling Network Thumb Sees Growth Rate Double, Tops 1.2M Total Users
Sep 14, 5:52PM
Mobile app Thumb, which has been asking users to provide their opinions since its original private beta launch in June 2010 as Opinionaded, today revealed to TechCrunch that it now has more than 1.2 million registered users. It marks the first time the company has talked in detail about its specific user population size. Thumb has been vocal about engagement stats in the past, however, telling TechCrunch in December of last year that users receive on average 50 to 100 responses to questions they post on the site, which can be about anything, and which other users can comment on or thumb up and thumb down. This generates a cumulative impression of sentiment on submitted items.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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