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Fitocracy Users Come For The Gamification, But Stay For The Community
May 27, 1:00AM
It's no surprise that fitness gamification network Fitocracy is thriving — the company recently announced that it had surpassed 1 million users and has signed deals with personalities like the Governator, Arnold Schwarzzeneger. But the company recently received its latest honor as one of Time Inc's 10 NYC Startups to Watch.Comic XKCD Nails Google Glass Critics (Especially Congress)
May 27, 12:00AM
Everyone has an opinion about Google Glass. Some fears are justified, since, as a culture, we don't have a pristine history of social etiquette always catching up to technology (see: loud-mouth cellphone users). But, as XKCD points out, this doesn't absolve us of the right to say something intelligent, and offer a reasonable path forward as we inevitably march towards heads-up display technology, in some form. By far the worst offender of question-only criticism has come from the U.S. Congress Privacy Caucus, which sent a passive-aggressive list of queries directly to CEO, Larry Page [PDF].Any.DO Integrates Kiip's Reward System To Make Completing To-Do Lists A Daily, And Fun, Habit
May 26, 11:00PM
If your'e a to-do list junkie, then you've probably already heard about Any.DO. The leader in the space just nabbed $3.5 million in funding to dive deeper into the personal productivity space. One of the things that Any.DO has done to keep its approach fresh is integrate Kiip's reward platform, which will give you stuff when you complete a to-do list.Google Glass: What's With All The Hate?
May 26, 10:00PM
Google Glass isn't even on sale yet and there is already a noticeable backlash against Google's first experiment in wearable computing. It's odd to see a product that was greeted with so much hype a year ago endure the love-hate cycle so quickly - even though there are only a few thousand units in the wild. Sure, we've done our share to popularize "glasshole" as a way to describe its users, but the backlash seems to go beyond the usual insidery tech circles.The Power Of Data Exhaust
May 26, 9:18PM
Scott Brown had a question about the number of parked domains he was hearing about: Do the domain providers have an email reply set up? What he found has led to the launch of Bounce.io, a five-month company that harvests 20 to 30 million bounced emails per day in what is amounting to an advertising treasure chest and a very rich, big data honey pot.New 'Arrested Development' Pulls Off The Geekiest Gag Ever, Confuses Much Of The Internet
May 26, 8:00PM
New Arrested Development is here! Have you heard? I could probably fall back on an "Unless you've been living under a rock.." joke here, but I'm pretty sure they've got WiFi under rocks now. Anyway — if you're just catching the first few episodes of the new season: Yeah, you saw what you think you saw. Yeah, it's a gag. No, you're not the only one that it confused.Facebook Home And Windows Phone Are Making The Same Apps-Related Misstep
May 26, 8:00PM
The problem for Home is Facebook has underestimated how important apps -- and, crucially, the customisation that apps afford -- are to the smartphone experience. When you step back and consider it, that's a breathtakingly massive oversight. But Facebook is not the only one to evince such flawed thinking: Microsoft's Windows Phone platform displays a similar self-centred narcissism.Fans Create A 3D-Printable Version Of Cyvasse, The Game Of Thrones Boardgame
May 26, 7:00PM
Take off your silken cloak and get your dragon eggs ready because Cyvasse, the game that characters play in George R. R. Martin's Game Of Thrones series is now 3D-printable. Created by Arian Croft of IllGottenGames and his friend Nate Stephens, the game uses most of Martin's rules mentioned in the books as well as interpolations taken from period-specific game rules.Electric Car Tech Company Better Place Hits The Deadpool, As The Greentech Shakeout Continues
May 26, 5:26PM
Better Place, the Tel Aviv- and based electric car battery technology company that's raised more than $800 million in venture capital funding since its 2007 inception, confirmed today that it has filed a court motion to dissolve and liquidate the company after attempts to raise more funds fizzled. The impending bankruptcy was first reported by Fortune's Dan Primack last week. The official announcement from Better Place came just after its majority shareholder, Israeli conglomerate Israel Corp., announced its decision "not to participate in the investment round offered by Better Place to its investors" adding that a liquidation application would soon be filed "since there were no investors who were willing to participate in a substantial amount in an additional investment round in Better Place."Iterations: How ESPN Thinks About The Future Of Its Product And Technologies
May 26, 5:00PM
After spending time in the valley as a founder, operator, and venture capitalist, my friend Ryan Spoon left the comforts of Silicon Valley to head east -- to Bristol, CT of all places -- to follow the intersection of his passion: technology and sports. And he's not just at another sports company -- he's at ESPN, a sports network which reaches over 100M homes with annual revenues approaching $8B. As one of the most valuable media networks out there, ESPN is also at an interesting point with respect to the shift happening in broadband, their subscriber fees, and the opportunities and challenges presented with mobile technology. Now as the SVP of Product for ESPN, the massive sports media and entertainment company, I invited Ryan and his colleague, Aaron LaBerge, who runs technology, to share some insights of how they left the technology world and ended up at ESPN, how ESPN thinks about the intersection of mobile and social in delivering content, how ESPN thinks about developers and their APIs, how ESPN thinks about the emergent hardware ecosystem for sports and fitness, and much more.
What Is Hulu Really Worth?
May 26, 1:00PM
It might look like the bidding for Hulu is "heating up," just based on the number of possible acquirers. At the same time, it seems unlikely that whomever Hulu's parents sell to will do better than the $2 billion it was offered two years ago. With ever more uncertainty around Hulu's personnel and content, any buyer will face a number of challenges in making that money back.iPad Video Ad Volumes Explode 10x in A Year, Due To Surpass PC Usage Inside 2 Years
May 26, 12:39PM
If there's one thing we know about the explosion in the use of tablets like the iPad, it's that people have been increasingly using them to consume video content. However, hard data on this has come in only dribs and drabs. Now a video platform which works with major publishes has released data which shows just how big tablet consumption of video is.Anatomy Of An Undisclosed Investment Or Exit
May 26, 12:30PM
In this post, I'll attempt to scratch beneath the surface a little and explore the story behind the undisclosed investment or exit. It will draw on conversations with investors and founders who have been directly involved in multiple funding rounds, acquisitions and exits, all of whom agreed to be as candid as possible for the purpose of this article and on the strict condition of anonymity.Yanked From The Cloud: Why Connectify Unplugged Its Switchboard Campaign
May 26, 6:00AM
Editor's note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Connectify, a Philadelphia-based software company obsessed with making the Internet faster and using Kickstarter to do so, this week pulled the plug on Switchboard, its most recent connectivity campaign. Alex Gizis, Connectify's CEO, said his backers wanted it that way. Connectify is no stranger to Kickstarter. When the company launched its Dispatch software that aggregates multiple broadband connections to boost speed, it raised over $100,000 and delivered its rewards on time.Making Sense Of The Internet Of Things
May 26, 1:00AM
Editor's note: Matt Turck is a managing director of FirstMark Capital. The emerging Internet of Things is experiencing a burst of activity and creativity that is getting entrepreneurs, VCs and the press equally excited. The space looks like a boisterous hodgepodge of smart hobbyists, new startups and large corporations that are eager to be a part of what could be a huge market, and all sorts of enabling products and technologies.CrunchWeek: Yahoo's $1.1B Tumblr Purchase, Lyft's Big Raise, And Microsoft's Xbox One
May 25, 10:00PM
It's that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most interesting stories from the past seven days. Ryan Lawler, Greg Kumparak, and I chatted about Yahoo's $1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr (and the reports that the company is eyeing a purchase of Hulu); Lyft's $60 million raise from Andreessen Horowitz and the debut of Microsoft's next generation gaming console, the Xbox 1.Misfit Wearables Drops Android Support For Its Shine Activity Tracker Ahead Of Summer Launch
May 25, 9:27PM
Heads up, Android fans. If you took the plunge and backed the rather sleek Shine wearable activity tracker from Misfit Wearables, you may want to get your money back. According to a recent update posted to the project's Indiegogo listing, the Founders Fund-backed company has decided to drop Android support from the final version in a bid to better focus on polishing the experience for iOS users.Will The Xbox One Rule The Living Room? Price Will Determine The Size Of Its Kingdom
May 25, 8:30PM
Price and ship date are always the biggest concerns when new gadgets or hardware hits the market, but in the case of the Xbox One, it's likely to help determine whether the "home entertainment system," as Microsoft is characterizing it, becomes the category-busting, revolutionary multi-purpose living room command center it's being billed as, or ends up just another console with niche appeal that makes it a target of lust for core gamers, but few outside that circle.What Games Are: Xbox One Is Microsoft's Spruce Goose
May 25, 7:14PM
Microsoft's Xbox One presents a big and complicated machine whose primary purpose is a menu layer for watching television. This in an age where living room television is irrelevant. Having bet the farm on this vision, the company looks so out of step as to almost be laughable and has built the digital equivalent of the Spruce Goose.Gillmor Gang: Parlor Games & Metaphones
May 25, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — neatly sidestepped the Yahoo Tumblr acquisition and segued into the wonderful world of messaging. As Facebook Home settles into a cot at the homeless shelter, Google is revving up for an all-out assault on the service suite. Google Glass is just the tip of the iceberg; below the waterline, the search giant is sucking image, location, traffic, and advertising data in realtime.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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