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Tagwhat Aims To Become The Go-To App For Local Deals With Social Media Aggregation And A New Design
Feb 03, 7:24PM
Tagwhat is a mobile startup trying to present users with content that's relevant to their location — descriptions of nearby points of interest, social network messages related to those locations, and now, with the latest app update, with local deals and events. The deals are pulled from Facebook and other social networks, and then recommended to users based on the time and location. Co-founder and CEO Dave Elchoness argued that this approach is significant because it means a user can see relevant deals without having to follow a bunch of different businesses on Facebook and Twitter. At the same time, the businesses get access to potential new customers (rather than just promoting themselves to existing fans), and they don't have to change their behavior at all — which also means that Tagwhat doesn't have to go out and recruit a bunch of businesses.After Seducing 1M Little Monsters For Lady Gaga, Backplane Expands To Spawn More Fan Clubs
Feb 03, 6:19PM
Geeking out about your favorite things can be embarrassing or annoying on the big social networks. But Lady Gaga's tech team Backplane proved with her Little Monsters site that fans want an online home. Now it's branching out to create communities for 10 more bands and brands, starting with Conde Nast's photography magazine, and Guns'N'Roses. Backplane's ready to take you down to Paradise City.Iterations: The Spectre Of Inorganic Distribution
Feb 03, 6:00PM
Distribution is a hell of a drug. In a product-obsessed town, it's distribution that often proves most elusive, and when a person or platform can tap into it, they oftentimes move quickly to lock-in those advantages. However, not all distribution is created equal. In today's technology landscape, while thousands of startups pursue the dream of massive distribution, a few platforms and companies hold tremendous advantages in their own special, elite tier: Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon.Craigslist Finally Gets More (P)Interesting, Adds Photo Grid View For Visual Browsing
Feb 03, 5:20PM
Craigslist has taken another baby step forward to improve the usability of its retro-tastic web interface -- adding a photo grid view to certain types of listings that allows site users to visually browse categories so they can quickly scan listings for items of interest. The new grid view feature lets users toggle the view to see a grid of photos, rather than a list of text links.Is The Government Telling The Truth When It Says Your Data Is Secure?
Feb 03, 4:00PM
Editor's note: David Teten is a partner with ff Venture Capital and founder and chairman of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York. Modern encryption systems are, in theory, exceptionally secure. The Advanced Encryption Standard, for example, is so sophisticated that all known attacks are considered computationally infeasible. It is no surprise then, that the NSA considers 256-bit AES safe for storing top-secret data.After Aaron, Reputation Metrics Startups Aim To Disrupt The Scientific Journal Industry
Feb 03, 2:00PM
Editor's note: Richard Price is founder and CEO of Academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers. Aaron Swartz was determined to free up access to academic articles. He perceived an injustice in which scientific research lies behind expensive paywalls, despite being funded by the taxpayer. The taxpayer ends up paying twice for the same research: once to fund it and a second time to read it.In Europe Etsy Sees Opportunity, Says Caroline Drucker [TCTV]
Feb 03, 12:13PM
Last year Etsy, the marketplace for hand crafted goods, was powering ahead with 20 million members in nearly 200 countries and had passed the $700 million mark for sales in 2012 (compared to $525 million for all of 2011). By the end of the year, over 100 million items had been sold in Etsy's history. And as she explains in this video shot at the recent DLD conference in Munich, now Europe is a big opportunity according to Caroline Drucker, Etsy's country manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Although it faces local competitors like DaWanda, it appars there remains plenty of room for growth.Backed Or Whacked: Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Laziness
Feb 03, 11:00AM
Editor's note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals. Beyond making their way in the dark, modern humans have many basic needs -- maintaining well-being, feeling secure, and enforcing as much control over their domain as possible while exerting as little effort as necessary. The ability to achieve them with the aid of a smartphone, though, has arrived relatively recently, and the ability to crowdfund them via Indiegogo as per all of this week's projects, even more so.Want To Successfully Recruit For Your Startup In 2013? Focus On Developers, Data And Big Problems
Feb 03, 7:00AM
Editor's note: Dan Portillo joined Greylock as vice president of Talent in 2011. John Schmocker is on the Greylock Partners Talent Team and works closely with portfolio companies to help them build out their core engineering teams. Talent makes or breaks a company, particularly a new one that's just finding its feet. Landing the right engineer on your team can make all the difference; likewise, missing out on the UI/UX talent you need can be devastating.How To Say No, And Other Tips From Inside SRI's Venture Process
Feb 03, 5:00AM
Editor's note: Norman Winarsky is the Vice President of Ventures at research and technology development organization SRI International. What have we learned over more than 65 years of invention and commercialization? There are several specific ways in which our venture processes stand in contrast to what is in vogue today. These are lessons that anyone in the business of innovation should consider.Ads, Odds, Nate Silver Predictions And Every Other Tech Angle You Need For Super Bowl XLVII
Feb 03, 2:48AM
Millions of people across the U.S. are preparing their jerseys, face paint and horrific nachos. Yes, football fans rejoice, the big game finally kicks off tomorrow in New Orleans -- that is, Super Bowl XLVII, between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Franciso 49ers. The Super Bowl is always one of the biggest media events per year, and our inboxes have been flooded with "OMG this is going to be the most social Super Bowl EVAR" emails for weeks now. It's going to be a close, hard-fought game between two teams that most people will probably know nothing about until kickoff. But because the Super Bowl has become such a spectacle, there are tons of things to pay attention to on the Web and on social media, while stuffing your face with fried food and trying to watch the game while asking your friends what happened on the last play.Cloud Latency Issues? Dedicated Network Connections Will Help
Feb 03, 2:00AM
Editor's note: Jelle Frank van der Zwet is Segment Marketing Manager, Cloud, for Interxion, and David Strom is a freelance writer. As businesses migrate and deploye more and more applications to the cloud, the issue of latency is becoming increasingly complex. In order to leverage cloud computing as a true business enabler, it is critical that organizations learn how to manage and reduce latency.The Forgotten Secrets Of The Enterprise Giants: Virality, Word Of Mouth, And Other Radical Experiments
Feb 02, 11:00PM
Editor's note:David Barrett is founder and CEO of Expensify. I would strongly encourage everybody who competes with Expensify to study Roman Stanek's latest article, "Forget Virality, Selling Enterprise Software Is Still Old School." To everyone else, I'd offer an opposing view: Enterprise sales is undergoing the most radical shakeup since the turn of the century, and today's experiments will be tomorrow's best practices.What Games Are: Should Sony Move Beyond PlayStation?
Feb 02, 10:00PM
On Feb 20th, Sony is holding a press conference in New York for which we assume is the PlayStation 4. Yet, is that really the smartest move that the company could make? With the argument that the PS idea's time has gone, wouldn't Sony be better served by rejuvenating their entire operation (including its brand) and letting go of the past?Facebook Ramps Up News Discovery Battle Against Apps Like Flipboard With "Articles Related To"
Feb 02, 8:01PM
Rather than trust your friends and favorite Pages to post interesting stuff, Facebook is taking news discovery into its own hands with "Articles Related To...". This special feed story shows you popular links that lead to content mentioning Pages you Like. It could be the next step in Facebook's master plan to take on apps like Flipboard, Pulse, and Zite, keep you on site, and make publishers payPeter Thiel On His 'Super-Futuristic' Focus And The Chess Strategy Founders Should Know [TCTV]
Feb 02, 8:00PM
Peter Thiel, the tech industry magnate known among other things for co-founding PayPal and investing very early in Facebook, took home the VC of the Year award at the 6th annual Crunchies this week for his individual investments and his work with Founders Fund, the San Francisco venture capital firm he co-founded in 2005 focused on companies with "revolutionary technologies." I think Thiel is one of the most fascinating and forward-thinking people in technology today -- and the business world overall -- so I was really pleased to get the chance to talk with him backstage for a few minutes just after he collected his award.Google's Schmidt: 'Twitter Can No More Produce Analysis Than A Monkey Can Type Out A Work of Shakespeare'
Feb 02, 7:53PM
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt's upcoming book, "The New Digital Age," isn't pulling any punches. From the "irrelevance" of anonymity to some juicy thoughts on Twitter, the Wall Street Journal published some thought-provoking quotes from the book slated to be released in April.The Art Of Science
Feb 02, 6:45PM
Like many great startup ideas, the formation of L.A.-based incubator, investment firm, and accelerator Science had its origins at a dinner. In 2007, Peter Pham and Mike Jones found themselves working in L.A., having recently sold companies to News Corp. and AOL, respectively. The duo, who were friends, started to organize dinners, called Beta South, to bring together startup founders and tech leaders in the area. Pham says that attendance at these dinners was in the single-digits but soon expanded to include many more. At that point, Jones and Pham started thinking about ways to foster entrepreneurship and bring more VC dollars to L.A. Flash forward four years, and Jones had just sold News Corp.’s Myspace, where he was CEO, to Specific Media. As he was thinking about what to do next, he came back to what he and Pham discussed. He was certain that the best way to foster more entrepreneurship in L.A. would be to combine the best elements of Idealab, Y Combinator, Betaworks and a VC firm into a startup-creation machine. From the start, Jones had a very different view on how to structure Science, and it's this unique model that he hopes will set it apart from the hoards of incubators that are emerging in the current market. While many of the companies that Science is incubating are interesting, what’s far more intriguing is the process through which Science forms, develops and then supports these companies. Jones reconnected with BillShrink founder Pham who had just, infamously, left the photo sharing app Color, in 2011 at the The Lobby conference, a yearly gathering hosted by August Capital partner David Hornik. Pham was brought on to control investments and the money side of things. One Part Art, One Part Scientific Formula After spending years at News Corp. and AOL, Jones had observed the structure of media companies, realizing that the right management structure could provide strategic services to launch and support businesses. For example, large media companies have some assets that they own 100 percent of, some assets they own part of, and some assets they produce in-house to support other content. This model, says Jones, has not been applied to venture capital yet. “Why weigh a startup down with things like developing customer-acquisition tools, handling financing and legal operations,” he explains. “We have an operational and strategic way we build companies, and there is a set structure behind this.” And Science’sPair, The Mobile App For Two, Buys UK's Cupple And Rebrands As Couple
Feb 02, 6:04PM
Tenthbit, the Y Combinator-backed mobile app studio behind the couples app Pair, is doubling down (literally) on its business ambitions: the company today is announcing that it has bought Cupple, a UK-based rival mobile app for two people only, and, to mark the change, has rebranded itself as Couple.Gillmor Gang: Give Me Your Pants
Feb 02, 6:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — is recorded live in the style of a jazz date, where the group improvises around the themes of the day or week. As we prepare to start, I usually try and get voice levels while at the same time trying to "save it for the show." This time we went ten minutes or so before realizing we'd neglected to record. The result is an abrupt start to a good conversation, post-Crunchies. It turns out Mike Arrington is very tall and the Oliver guy from the Daily Show very funny.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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