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The Geography of HTML5 Security
Sep 23, 5:00AM
Editor's note: This guest post was written by Mike Shema, director of engineering at Qualys, a leading provider of cloud security and compliance solutions. Mike is also author of the recently published book "Hacking Web Apps: Detecting and Preventing Web Application Security Problems." Contact him here. HTML5 reinvigorates a technology that's been driving web content for more than 20 years. Notably, modern browsers can still render the majority of decades-old sites still lingering from the web's early days, but modern sites expect browsers to be a significantly more powerful platform than their predecessors.How Ridiculous Is It That Apple Maps Redirect To Google Maps On The Web?
Sep 23, 3:28AM
Yes, Apple Maps redirect to Google Maps on desktop, Android and any non-iOS 6 phones when you share your location. Womp. Obviously this is happening because there's no hub for Apple Maps on the web, but still, the absurdity of this loop is exemplary of how ill-thought out this whole Maps switch was.Ground Truth
Sep 23, 1:45AM
I was always a smart kid. Did very well on tests all through grade school, didn't have to do much work because the work I did do suggested to my teachers that there wasn't an issue. Just a couple missing worksheets, he'll do fine. When I got to middle school, I took the usual approach to things, which, for me, was always to just do them. That had worked brilliantly before, so I kept right on going. I failed. And I don't mean I got an A- and fretted about it like an overachiever. I fully failed math, test after test, almost ended up in remedial classes. Eventually I got it together, but years later I've accepted that among the things I have talent in, math is not one of them. Learning that about myself was an important step. Learning it about others is also important, but sometimes it has the distressing but necessary side effect of disillusionment. Apple's wretched maps app is a good opportunity for the company to learn something similar about itself, and for the world to recast its opinion of them. We're all grown-ups here. Why don't we relate like grown-ups to the companies we love — and hate?Fairness For Shareholders Who Bust Their Butts
Sep 22, 11:00PM
Editor's note: Ronen Shilo is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Conduit, a provider of cloud-based solutions that empower web and mobile publishers to engage their users across multiple platforms. Follow him on his Conduit blog and on Twitter. Every day I thank the universe for my inexperience. Why do I say that? Because one of the distinct advantages of not focusing one's energies on becoming CEO of a big company – big, at least, by Israeli standards – is that you aren't a prisoner of expectations. Or convention.The Rise Of The Mobile-Social-Vertical Marketplace
Sep 22, 9:00PM
Editor's note: Navin Chaddha is a Managing Director at Mayfield Fund, a global early-stage venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management, whose portfolio companies leverage the drivers of cloud/SaaS, mobile, social, energytech and big data. Some current Mayfield Fund investments include Appcelerator, Fab, Marketo, Poshmark, Solarcity, and Zimride.
The U.S. e-commerce market is estimated at $200 billion and is still projected to account for only 9 percent of total retail by 2016 (source: Forrester Research Feb. 2012 U.S. Online Retail forecast). We believe there is ample room for growth, and much of it will come from marketplaces.
Gillmor Gang: Good Vibrations
Sep 22, 8:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Adam Bosworth, Robert Scoble, Victoria Barret, and Steve Gillmor — convened at Dreamforce 2012 to honor the burgeoning Celebration of the Cloud. As Marc Benioff and Sir Richard Branson strolled past the Salesforce Live studio at the entrance to the Expo floor, the Gang recalled the birth of Web Services that @benioff correctly construed as the beginning of the end for monolithic software. Of course, as @adambosworth points out, social needs a tipping point where enough people congregate and contribute to make it compelling to return. And as Forbes' @victoriabarret says, the 95 thousand at Dreamforce and more on the Web confirm social is no longer cute or trivial. When Virgin America suggests tweeting or Facebooking your concerns rather than via an 800 number, you know the handwriting is on the Wall.Drunk on Cloud Kool-Aid? Time To Sober Up
Sep 22, 7:35PM
Editor's note: Justin Moore is CEO of Axcient, a cloud solution for data, application, and system uptime. You can follow him on Twitter at @justinrmoore. Many great technology breakthroughs are subject to analyst predictions about how quickly that technology will take over the world. In 2007, Gartner famously forecasted that all PCs would be virtualized by 2010. While this didn't happen then and is not close to happening now, business leaders and analysts continue to predict that all business systems will be in the cloud in five years.Fly Or Die: iPhone 5
Sep 22, 6:56PM
You'd think that doing an iPhone 5 Fly Or Die would be a piece of cake, what with 2 million pre-orders in 24 hours, but it's not so simple. All the complaining of boredom and slight lack of innovation out of Apple... well, it's not too far off of the truth. Apple took a huge risk with the original iPhone, and even with the iPod. But it turns out that those products changed their respective industries. And the iPhone, in particular, is the company's most profitable product ever, usurping the iPod. Now, Apple is the most valuable publicly traded company in the world, and while they'll take smaller risks with products like the iPad, there's no reason to make a major change to their shining star.Apple's $707M, U.S. Sales Ban Filings Against Samsung Underscore One Of Apple's Biggest Concerns
Sep 22, 6:07PM
Late on Friday night in California, Apple made more legal filings against Samsung (we've embedded them below), in which it is requesting a further $707 million in damages related to the $1.05 billion verdict against Samsung in Apple's patent case -- and along with it, a request for a sales ban on all of Samsung's Android handsets -- potentially far more damaging to Samsung longer term. The text of one of the filings makes a couple of references to something that is of great concern to Apple, and is particularly timely given that the filing was made just as Apple went into its first weekend of retail iPhone 5 sales: it doesn't want Samsung to get an edge on brand loyalty among first-time smartphone buyers, which it considers a "highly coveted group."iPhone 5 Jailbroken According To iOS Hacker @chpwn
Sep 22, 5:57PM
Grant Paul AKA @chpwn has posted the first screenshots of a jailbroken iPhone 5, taller screens and all. While the method isn't public yet, chpwn has posted screenshots of the "alt" App Store Cydia running at full iPhone 5 resolution.Check Out Highlights From Our Live Coverage Of The iPhone 5 Launch [TCTV]
Sep 22, 5:19PM
There are very few things that will get me out of bed at 5am: a family tragedy, more than $100,000 in cash, and a new iPhone. Of course, Matt and I were there to cover the launch of the iPhone 5 live, but we weren't the only early risers yesterday. Thousands of people, including fanboys, brands, and members of the media (not to mention Apple geniuses) were at Apple's Fifth Ave. flagship store in NYC at the crack of dawn. Yes, all for a phone.Pandora Users: An Explanation Of The Radio Law You're Asked To Support
Sep 22, 5:04PM
Pandora listeners may notice their regularly scheduled commercial breaks of Ford products and tight jeans were interrupted by a call to support a bill called "The Internet Radio Fairness Act." The proposed bill would reduce the royalty fees paid by Internet music-streaming services to those paid by other digital and satellite radio stations (the so-called "801(b)" standard). The Hill reports that online radio services shell out more than 55% of their revenue to pay off royalty fees, while satellite and cable companies only pay somewhere between 7 and 16 percent, according to co-sponsor Rep Jason Chaffetz's office.If Silicon Valley Stocks Are Down, Why Are Home Prices Up?
Sep 22, 3:00PM
Editor's note: Glenn Kelman, is CEO of Redfin, a technology-powered real estate broker, backed by Greylock Partners and Madrona Venture Group, with more than $7 billion of home sales. He previously co-founded Plumtree Software, which had a 2002 IPO. He writes a quarterly column on Silicon Valley real estate for TechCrunch. When Michael Arrington calls, you answer. Even if you're perusing evangelical memorabilia at a South Carolina gas-and-sip.Welcome To The Long Tail Of Social Media Marketing: Linqia Exits Stealth Mode With $3.5M Series A From Javelin, Esther Dyson
Sep 22, 2:36PM
There have been a lot of social marketing efforts aimed squarely at making content go viral, but equally there seems to be a rising trend, fuelled by big data analytics, of brands (and social media sites themselves) looking at ways of targeting very specific groups of users who are the most likely to respond. Linqia, which has developed a platform to deliver highly targeted "stories" to specific audiences, is among the latter group. The company has just exited stealth mode with a $3.475 million Series A round behind it, led by $2.5 million from Jed Katz of Javelin Venture Partners, along with participation from existing angel investors including Esther Dyson, and a plan to transform how social media marketing is done today.Google Granted Pseudonym Patent (You're Welcome. And, What Is Wrong With You)
Sep 22, 1:00PM
This week Google was granted a patent for "Social computing personas for protecting identity in online social interactions"; in other words, "a pseudonym could be presented as someone's name based upon their choices of who would see that name or their 'real' name." Sound familiar? It does to me. Two months before the patent was filed, I wrote here "Suppose Google ... let Plus users define which of their Circles see their real names, while others can only see their nicknames?"DODOcase Releases Handsome Handmade iPhone 5, iPad and MacBook Sleeves
Sep 22, 12:00PM
The venerable DODOcase is expanding its stately collection of iThing cases to include sleeves. These cases, DODOcase calls them Durables, are handmade in San Francisco and is a departure from the company's traditional products. But they seemingly have the same heart and soul. Each case is hand sewn using army-khaki canvas, leather and then lined with a poppy orange felt interior. Plus, since they're from DODOcase, you can trust that they'll last.Overcome These 6 Challenges When Selling To Startups
Sep 22, 5:00AM
Editor's note: Steli Efti is the Co-Founder and Chief Hustler of ElasticSales and an advisor to several startups and entrepreneurs. You can follow Steli on Twitter here. It is common entrepreneurial wisdom that good ideas often come from trying to solve your own problems. It's no surprise then that many startups are building solutions to do just that, and therefore need to sell their products to other startups.No One Who Looks Like This Works, Or Has Worked, At TechCrunch
Sep 22, 4:34AM
Not saying that it won't happen, or that it can't happen, just that it hasn't happened yet, so if a young looking blond TechCruncher in a pushup bra friends you on Facebook, beware. "TechCrunch employee" Rani Girard is apparently going around friending guys in the tech community for well, reasons. Her jig was up when she/he/it tried to forge a Facebook connection with Wired writer Ryan Tate, who immediately brought it to our attention. Also, I'm pretty sure "she" isn't real.Watch Apple's First iPhone 5 TV Ads: "Physics," "Cheese," "Thumb," and "Ears"
Sep 22, 2:46AM
Apple's making commercials again, but this time they're really really good. If you're not sold on picking up an iPhone 5 yet, these ads first spotted by Macstories will probably get you stoked.Want More Networking Lunches? LetsLunch Launches In The UK, Adds Sponsored Lunchers
Sep 22, 1:19AM
LetsLunch continues to spread its vision of professional networking through lunches -- it just launched in the United Kingdom. Tied to its UK launch, the startup says it's also releasing version 3.0 of the service. Now, I usually spend my lunches frantically cramming down food while writing posts or doing briefings, but if yours are a little less hectic, you might want to use LetsLunch to get some networking mileage out of those lunch breaks. (And I'm sure some of you think that's a terrifying idea, but hey, it's not for everyone.)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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