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Market Research Provider AYTM Rolls Out Its Biggest Update Yet With Bigger Panels, Better Prices, Video Questionnaires & More
Mar 08, 8:08PM
AskYourTargetMarket, a market research firm which got its start in the demo pit at TechCrunch 50 (in the pre-Disrupt days), is rolling out its biggest update to its service ever. According to CEO Lev Mazin, the company has made several improvements across all fronts, which include an expanded consumer reach, the addition of market research experts available, better pricing, a redesigned website, and more.Intel Capital President: Disrupt Alum Expect Labs "Fits In Nicely" With Voice Plans For Ultrabook
Mar 08, 8:01PM
Intel Capital, the venture arm of Intel, boasts over 120 portfolio companies to have listed publicly on the NASDAQ alone. In celebration of that, President Arvind Sodhani rang yesterday's closing bell, and we caught up with him to chat about the future of the Ultrabook platform, wearable computing, and advancements in voice and gesture technology. Intel Capital has actually invested in two of our most recent Disrupt alumni, Ark and Expect Labs, which focuses on predictive voice transcription to help you out as a digital assistant while you're on the phone.MakerBot Announces Its First Easy-To-Use Desktop 3D Scanner, The Digitizer
Mar 08, 8:00PM
Bre Pettis, founder of 3D-printer manufacturer MakerBot, announced their first desktop 3D scanner, the Digitizer, at a SXSWi keynote today. Pettis was coy about availability or final design but instead was focused on making a splash at the event. "We're excited to put ourselves out there with the announcement. I have a tradition of announcing things at SXSW. I don't think there are many actual physical products announced at SXSW, so it's special," he said.Google Research Releases Wikilinks Corpus With 40M Mentions And 3M Entities
Mar 08, 7:59PM
Google Research just launched its Wikilinks corpus, a massive new data set for developers and researchers that could make it easier to add smart disambiguation and cross-referencing to their applications. The data could, for example, make it easier to find out if two web sites are talking about the same person or concept, Google says. In total, the corpus features 40 million disambiguated mentions found within 10 million web pages. This, Google notes, makes it “over 100 times bigger than the next largest corpus,” which features fewer than 100,000 mentions. For Google, of course, disambiguation is something that is a core feature of the Knowledge Graph project, which allows you to tell Google whether you are looking for links related to the planet, car or chemical element when you search for ‘mercury,’ for example. It takes a large corpus like this one and the ability to understand what each web page is really about to make this happen. To construct this data set, Google looked at links to Wikipedia pages “where the anchor text of the link closely matches the title of the target Wikipedia page.” There is a high probability that this anchor text is a mention of the corresponding entity that’s the focus of the entity that’s discussed in the Wikipedia entry. The 10 million annotated web pages, sadly, aren’t part of the corpus because of copyright issues, but the UMass Wikilinks project features all the necessary tools to create this data from scratch. The UMass team also published a paper that explains the process that was used to create this data set in more detail (PDF). Last year, Google released a similar data set when it launched a database with over 7.5 million concepts and 175 million unique text strings, which is similar to what Google itself uses to suggest targeted keywords for advertisers. That set, too, was built by looking at Wikipedia articles to identify concepts and the anchor links that other websites used to link to them.Wrike Launches A Mobile Gantt Chart With Syncing So Everyone Can See The Latest Updates
Mar 08, 7:46PM
Wrike has added a type of chart that most seasoned project managers depend on for their work. It's called a Gantt chart and it's used to visualize projects in a way that a standard calendar lacks. Wrike is built on top of a real-time collaboration platform with a syncing capability, allowing updates to the Gantt chart across the browser, mobile app, or via one of the company's email plugins.Last Call For The Disrupt NY Extra Early Bird Discount
Mar 08, 7:19PM
Procrastination is a hell of a drug. Don't let it ruin your life. And, for the purpose of this post, don't let procrastination cost you money. Today, Friday, March 8th, is the last day for the Disrupt NY early bird tickets. Today is the last day that you can score tickets at a hefty discount. Today!Facebook Adds More Verbs To Open Graph Actions, You Can Now 'Do' More Stuff Through Partner Apps
Mar 08, 7:17PM
Facebook announced a number of new common actions today for Facebook activity, joining the "watch video" and other existing ones available to developers. These include actions in the Fitness, Books and Movies & TV categories that help users better express their interaction with media and their world. Of course, they also help developers mining the Open Graph for data get a more accurate picture of user intent and habits.VMware CMO Rick Jackson On His Way Out, Transitioned To SVP Role
Mar 08, 7:07PM
More changing of the guard among the leadership ranks at VMware. CMO Rick Jackson is on his way out of the company. He's stepping down as CMO moving into SVP role, although he'll remain CMO until a replacement is found. According to an internal note provided to TechCrunch, "Rick Jackson will be transitioning to a new role as SVP of Global Enablement. Rick remains CMO until a replacement is hired and transition completed."Dynamic Signal Launches VoiceStorm To Manage Employees' Social Media Promotion Efforts
Mar 08, 7:06PM
Dynamic Signal, the social marketing company led by Adify co-founder Russ Fradin, is launching a new product today called VoiceStorm that encourages, manages, and measures employees' efforts to promote a company on social networks. Fradin told me that VoiceStorm is functionally similar to Dynamic Signal's existing platform, which helps companies run word-of-mouth marketing campaigns — it's just built for employees rather than customers or fans. Basically, Fradin aims to replace all those team emails and in-person encounters where someone is nudging everyone else into tweeting something, posting it on Facebook, and so on.Facebook Barely Poked Snapchat, Active Usage Data Shows
Mar 08, 6:55PM
After initially missing the boat on mobile-photo sharing and then having to turn around and plunk down nearly $1 billion for Instagram, Facebook wasn’t going to let a hot app (and potential existential threat) emerge too quickly again. Although Facebook is more than 1 billion users strong, the company still has a paranoia and mortal fear that the next social network could emerge out of a distant dorm room. With promising engagement and growth metrics, Snapchat had quietly piqued some interest about a year ago before entering a hyper-growth phase with about 5 billion photos sent in a year plus $13.5 million in funding led by Benchmark Capital. By late last year, Snapchat was sending 50 million photos a day compared to 300 million photos posted on Facebook per day. Facebook responded much faster this time with an app called Poke, which it built in about 12 days. It had extras like the ability to send simple text messages, in addition to video and photos. It also allowed group conversations. But for many reasons, a Facebook clone does not a startup-killer make. Data on the active usage for both apps showed that Snapchat actually grew in market share from December to January after Facebook Poke’s launch. It then leveled off into February, while Facebook Poke has declined from a 2 percent market share down to less than 0.25 percent among iPhone users in the U.S. A Sequoia-backed startup called Onavo has a panel of a few million users that it samples active usage data for apps from. Because the company’s products track data compression, they can actually see the “market share” of different apps — or what percentage of iPhone owners in the U.S. used them in the last month. So as you can see below, their data suggests that 12 percent of U.S. iPhone users opened up Snapchat in February. Facebook has a mixed track record of competing against what it considers emerging threats. It has had successes like Messenger, which the company launched after buying Beluga. But on the other hand, it bought Instagram after it looked like a Facebook Camera app was going to come out too late in the market to be competitive. It shut down Quora-competitor Questions after about two years. It shut down a “Deals” product after exploring the super-competitive group-buying space, and Foursquare didn’t decline after Facebook launched its own “check-in” product. After veryHacker Steals $12,000 Worth Of Bitcoins In Brazen DNS-Based Attack
Mar 08, 6:49PM
A Bitcoin brokerage, Bitinstant was hit by hackers who used a bit of social engineering to take control of the company's DNS servers and ultimately funnel out $12,000 worth of Bitcoins.An iPhone Lover's Take On The Nexus 4
Mar 08, 6:41PM
This is the first Android device I would feel comfortable using on a regular basis. That doesn't mean I'm going to, but I would be just fine with it. If I had to boil down my thoughts about the Nexus 4 into two sentences, those would be them.Facebook Redesign Kills Ticker, Almost
Mar 08, 6:35PM
Tired of seeing every inane detail of yours friends lives pop up in that annoying Facebook sidebar ? Well apparently Facebook was too as the redesign announced yesterday eliminates Ticker for some, and banishes it to the bottom of the left Chat sidebar as a one-story tall blip for others. The real-time Ticker feed launched 2011 that's best known for outing your friends as Britney Spears fans.App Discovery Service Hubbl Now Delivers Personalized Recommendations Directly To Apple's Passbook
Mar 08, 6:24PM
Hubbl, the app discovery service built by former TechCrunch Disrupt finalists, has introduced an interesting new feature today for users of its iPhone version: Passbook integration. To get started, you simply visit a link (hubbl.io/passbook) from mobile Safari, in order to add a pass to Apple's Passbook which will then send you a new app deal every day. The Passbook feature will also be added to a forthcoming iOS app update as well.SideCar Sues Austin Department Of Transportation To Legitimize Ride Sharing
Mar 08, 6:13PM
There's a new wrinkle in SideCar's ongoing battle with local authorities in Austin. Just a day after announcing that it's offering free transportation to SXSW Interactive attendees, the ride-sharing startup has decided to take the city's transportation department to court.Sunglass Partners With DIYROCKETS To Launch 3D-Printed Rocket Engine Design Competition
Mar 08, 5:59PM
Two startups responsible for helping push the envelope on collaborative design and the democratization of building hardware are launching a competition today that could take open source 3D printing to the next level – and perhaps even into orbit.The Sonos Playbar Brings Wireless Surround Sound Without The Fuss
Mar 08, 5:49PM
Sonos is a wireless audio company that makes solid - albeit comparatively expensive - audio hardware. Setup is drop dead simple - to add a component you simply press one or two buttons on the new device and everything "just works" and the remote control UI, refined over most of the past decade, has a cult-like following. You can create different audio zones around your room and play different music in each one or enter party mode and turn your house into a massive disco. In short, Sonos makes whole-home audio easy.Google Glass App Identifies People By Clothes, Hints At Tech That Could Counter Face Blindness
Mar 08, 5:16PM
That problem where you're meeting someone for the first time, maybe to pick up something you bought through Craigslist? Google Glass can help with that. A new app designed for Google's upcoming smart-mounted computer will be able to identify people based on what they're wearing. The so-called InSight project is funded in part by Google and developed by University of South Caroline and Duke University researchers, and uses a smartphone app to develop a clothing-based digital fingerprint to help with later identification.Amazon Cuts Prices For Its SSD-Based NoSQL DynamoDB, Adds Reserved Capacity Option
Mar 08, 5:10PM
Amazon just announced a large price reduction for its cloud-hosted NoSQL DynamoDB database service. Provision throughput capacity - that is, the number of reads and writes your application uses - now costs 35% less and the price for indexed storage dropped by 75%.Posse Raises $500K More For A Local Discovery App That Lets Users Build "Playlists" Of Favorite Shops, Now Live In The U.S.
Mar 08, 4:53PM
Posse, a local discovery platform for web and mobile, is today arriving in the U.S. and making its iPhone app debut. The company has also just raised another $500,000 in additional funding from existing investors including Lars Rasmussen, Google Maps creator and currently Facebook's Director of Engineering, as well as Silicon Valley angel investor Bill Tai. Rasmussen also sits on the company's board.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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