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Securing Our Minds: The Need For Brainwave Tech Standards Against Hacking
Sep 16, 6:00AM
Editor's note: Ariel Garten is the co-founder and CEO of InteraXon, a Toronto-based company that builds brainwave-enabled products and applications. In her work as a neuroscientist and entrepreneur, Ariel's insights into how the human mind works are creating new ways for society to interact with the world – and ourselves – using the power of our brains. Follow her on Twitter: @ariel_garten. Last month, researchers from UC Berkeley, Oxford, and University of Geneva posted results of a joint research study suggesting hackers could hijack a brainwave-reading headset and attempt to uncover sensitive user information – think PINs and bank information.The Power Of "Native Advertising" Is In The Hands Of The Brands
Sep 16, 4:00AM
Editor's note: James Gross is co-founder of Percolate, a marketing company with a mission to help brands create content at a social scale. Follow him on Twitter: @James_Gross. There's been much buzz around the term "native advertising" lately. And with the buzz has come a bit of backlash, and it's been mostly from publishers who are looking at the native solutions for their sites and saying it is nothing more than a banner ad in a different spot.Reid Hoffman On Why Seed Startups Should Relax On The Business Model Talk [TCTV]
Sep 16, 2:00AM
LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman has become known for giving solid advice -- both to the entrepreneurs in which he invests, as well as the general public with his recent book The Startup Of You. So when he came backstage at Disrupt SF earlier this week after his fireside chat with Michael Arrington, we just had to ask him: What is some bad advice that people often give to entrepreneurs that they should ignore?TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Day 2 Video Highlights (TCTV)
Sep 16, 2:00AM
Continuing our look back at the SF Disrupt conference video highlights, Tuesday featured the standing-room only interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In his first interview since the IPO, he called his stock performance disappointing and talked about his biggest mistake. Investors focused on the positive comments, including progress in the mobile business, and Facebook's market value soared $6.785 billion after the speech. It might be the first nearly $7 billion interview.Delta Sends C&Ds To Startups Tracking Airline Rewards; MileWise, AwardWallet & Others Affected
Sep 16, 12:00AM
Delta is joining American Airlines and Southwest Airlines as the third major brand to deny travel startups access to users' frequent flyer accounts for the purpose of tracking airlines miles and rewards. Startups affected include TripIt (reportedly*), MileWise and AwardWallet (confirmed) and others. Here's the situation in a nutshell: the airlines think your rewards data is theirs. Users think they own their own data. Imagine that! What's worse, is that airlines are actually pissing off some of their most important customers - frequent flyers - when they do things like this. It's a group that's critical to airlines' bottom line.It's Outage Week: Cloudflare Went Down This Morning
Sep 15, 8:55PM
Apparently not wanting GoDaddy and GitHub to have all the outage fun this week, Cloudflare confirmed on Twitter that it had issues this morning. Some sites may still be experiencing issues.Apple's Stream Dreams: The History Of A Potential Pandora Killer
Sep 15, 8:00PM
Apple is rumored to be prepping a Pandora-like service providing virtual radio stations to users, according to the WSJ, and though it didn't debut at this past week's Apple event, I think there's still a strong chance it's coming. It's no on demand streamed music delivery like Spotify or Rdio, but it's another step in that direction, and one that Apple has been slowly moving toward since it began offering digital music through iTunes in the first place. Apple must, like the rest of us, see the writing on the wall for locally-stored tunes, and while convincing its licensing partners that the future is all-streaming might be a Herculean task, Pandora-style delivery is a natural progression for the iPhone maker in an attempt to get labels to swallow their medicine, bitter-tasting as it may be in the short term.The Verbal Elegance Of Apple And Nintendo
Sep 15, 7:00PM
Editor's Note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of the leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development. You can follow him on Twitter here. Companies often shout in the games industry. They yell with videos, music, press events with booth babes and the monster that is E3. They hustle and go balls-to-the-wall for attention. They make big noise in order to get you to notice what they're up to and write about it. Everyone, that is, except the two companies who have probably been most crucial to the last few years of the industry: Apple and Nintendo. What they do they have in common?Jay Adelson Is Recruiting On Facebook. Is It For His Own Startup?
Sep 15, 6:12PM
For anyone that has followed Silicon Valley for the past ten years, Jay Adelson is a name that you know quite well. He's best known for his work with Digg, during its heyday. After moving into the CEO position at SimpleGeo, which has since been acquired by Urban Airship, we're told that Adelson is ready to make another run at a startup. A tipster says that Adelson posted in a private Facebook group for former Digg employees last night, suggesting that he's re-entering the startup world, and is doing some recruiting as well.Stan Lee Teams Up With Moonshark To Create His First Mobile Game: Verticus
Sep 15, 5:04PM
Moonshark, a startup backed by Qualcomm and talent agency CAA, teams up with big-name creative talent to create mobile games and apps. For its first game, it partnered with Jennifer Lopez. For its second title, it's working with a star of a very different type — Stan Lee, the comic book writer who co-created (with artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko) most of Marvel's biggest characters, including Spider-Man, and who's now chairman and chief creative officer at POW! Entertainment. Lee is supposed to take the stage at the Comikaze Expo (or, to use its full title, Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo) this morning, where he's going to announce his partnership with Moonshark and show a brief trailer of the upcoming game, which will be called Verticus. I got on the phone with Moonshark CEO Matt Kozlov yesterday to get some of the details.Gillmor Gang: Positively 5th Street
Sep 15, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — split right down the middle on the new iPhone 5. Well, @scobleizer did. He was bored by the announcement, impressed by the Apple ecosystem, and unable to come up with a good reason why we should buy anything else. @kevinmarks and @jtaschek won't be buying it, but I already have. The Gang touched on the news from Disrupt: Zuck v. HTML 5, @Benioff teasing next week's Dreamforce, and @scobleizer's brain trust of Normal People. But like clockwork as Verizon sold out its allotment in 60 minutes, Apple proved once again that what we once called a reality distortion field has been unmasked as just plain reality.Being More Accessible
Sep 15, 4:00PM
Editor's note: Nasir Jones is co-founder of 12Society and a multi-platinum recording artist. Follow him at NasirJones.com and on Twitter: @Nas. On July 24, I found out that my newest album hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. This isn't my first time around the block, but it's one of the most satisfying. I started as a hungry MC from QB, but now I am trying to give back to the hip hop community that made me. So as I stepped to the mic on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" that night, wearing a special 12Society t-shirt that I designed, a pair of jeans, and some Timbs, I can say I was on top of the world.The Path To Starting A Startup
Sep 15, 3:00PM
Editor's note: Scott Weiss is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and the former co-founder and CEO of IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. He blogs at http://scott.a16z.com and you can follow him on Twitter @W_ScottWeiss. People often ask me what the best path to becoming a successful entrepreneur is: "Should I go try and start a company now? Or go to grad school? How about working at a large tech company for a few years?"TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Day 1 Video Highlights (TCTV)
Sep 15, 2:00PM
Want to catch up on some of our Disrupt conference highlights that you might have missed? This weekend, we'll be posting videos from each day of Disrupt. Monday's agenda featured a keynote from Twitter and Square Co-Founder Jack Dorsey who told the audience he "never wanted to be an entrepreneur." Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz warned about how IPOs can change a company. We also heard from Greylock partner and LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman, Path's Co-Founder Dave Morin, Newark's Mayor Cory Booker and The Honest Company Founders Jessica Alba and Brian Lee, plus many other founders and tech leaders.The Mobile/Social/Local/Cloud Land Grab Is Over
Sep 15, 1:00PM
This was my second TechCrunch Disrupt, and what a difference a year makes. Not this year. I mean the year that began in July 2006, when Twitter launched. Two months later, Facebook finally opened up to everyone worldwide; in June 2007, Dropbox was founded; and one month after that, the first iPhone went on sale. Since then nearly everyone else has been playing in the space opened up by those four pioneers. Oh, I'm not saying they were the first social networks, or the first cloud-service startup, or even the first smartphone. But they were the first to win truly mass appeal, the first to reveal the riches available in whole new continents of unclaimed territory -- mobile! social! local! cloud! Since then, legions of copycats and competitors have rushed in to stake their own claims in these undiscovered countries where the streets seemed paved with gold. Not any more. That land rush is over. And this is a very good thing.Why You And Your Favorite Web Sites Will Feel The Pain If "Do Not Track" Passes
Sep 15, 12:51PM
Editor's note: Eric Wheeler is CEO and co-founder of 33Across. He brings 20 years of experience leading successful Internet businesses to 33Across. Much has already been discussed in the media regarding the threat that the $300 billion advertising industry faces if Congress passes a strict interpretation of Do Not Track. Most of the discussion has focused on how "adtech" companies would get hurt: ad networks, third-party data providers, DSPs, and marketers. However, what has gotten far less attention is that many of the web publishers that consumers enjoy on a daily basis would also have their businesses severely squeezed if such legislation were enacted.Alibaba VP In Response To Google Smackdown: 'Will Someone Please Ask Google To Define Android?'
Sep 15, 6:59AM
While Marissa Mayer is busy trying to figure out what to do with Yahoo's new $4.5 billion in cash -- recently gained from selling 20 percent of its holdings in Alibaba back to, well, Alibaba -- the Chinese web and eCommerce giant has recently been in a heated exchange with Yahoo's old pal, Google. The fun apparently began after Taiwanese PC maker Acer cancelled the launch of its new phone in China -- an event for which there was quite a bit of anticipation. As things progressed, it became clear that, in fact, Google was at least partially responsible for delaying the launch of the phone. Why? Long story short: Google objected to Acer using a rival OS in its new phone, according to the WSJ.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.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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