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GitHub Announces Octokit, The Official Way To Build Using The GitHub API
May 31, 11:35PM
GitHub today announced Octokit , a new lineup of GitHub-maintained client libraries for the GitHub API. Octokit comes in two flavors. It offers a kit for developing Ruby apps and another for Objective-C. The Ruby version is what the site describes as a simple wrapper for the GitHub API. The Objective-C version uses the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch framework "for interacting with the GitHub API, built using AFNetworking, Mantle and ReactiveCocoa."Stilly Is A One-Button GIF Maker For iPhone That's Even Easier Than Vine
May 31, 10:17PM
Like GIFs? Tumblr? Got an iPhone? $2.00? OK, good, then you'll probably like this new app called Stilly which is either the most ridiculous thing ever or the most fun you're going to have all weekend. The app, in a nutshell, turns anything you capture with your iPhone's camera into a jiggling, wiggly, color-flashing GIF. Well, you know, kind of!Ask A VC: Freestyle's Dave Samuel On The Secrets To A Great Co-Founder Partnership And More
May 31, 9:45PM
In this week's Ask A VC episode, Freestyle Capital's Dave Samuel joined us in the studio to discuss his investment philosophies and more. Samuel also talked about how and why his co-founder relationship with Josh Felser has been so successful. The duo co-founded Spinner (acquired by AOL for $320 million), and Grouper (acquired by Sony for $65 million). In 2011, Fesler and Samuel formally launched Freestyle Capital, which makes investments in early-stage startups.With Over 12M Users, Wish.com Hopes Its AdWords For Shopping Will Stick
May 31, 8:23PM
Hey kids, there's a new personalized shopping platform in town. Since it raised $1.7 million in angel funding, ads recommendation system ContextLogic has put its ads optimization technology to good use in a wishlist-making app called Wish. As its moniker belies, Wish allows you to view a feed of goods specifically tailored to you and add them to various lists on the platform -- like my list about Summer. Every time you add to a list or recommend an item, Wish's natural language processing and machine-learning tech learns that that's the type of thing you're interested in and then shows you more of it. Like what happened to me and blingy iPhone cases (below). Yes, I did add such a silly thing to my Wishlist.After Four Years At Twitter, Director Of Platform Ryan Sarver Will "Fly The Coop" With "No Plans But Rest"
May 31, 8:10PM
Ryan Sarver, who joined Twitter four years ago and is currently its director of platform, announced today he'll be leaving the company on June 28th, and has "no plans but rest". Fittingly, he announced his departure in a series of tweets seen below.Twitter Just Made It Easier To Obsessively Tweak Your Profile
May 31, 7:54PM
I don't know anyone who thought the process of editing their Twitter profile was just too complex -- talk about first world problems -- but they're surely out there somewhere and working themselves into a tizzy over a recent announcement made by Twitter profile engineer Patrick Ewing. In a triumphant tweet, Ewing made it known that Twitter users can now edit their profiles in-line without having to pop into a separate account settings tab.Despite Criticism, FWD.us Adds YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen And Web Mogul Barry Diller As Funders
May 31, 7:51PM
Amidst widespread criticism, Mark Zuckerberg's political advocacy group FWD.us gained some momentum today as it announced Steven Chen and Barry Diller have signed on as financial backers. Chen was a co-founder of YouTube, and Diller is the chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp which owns About, Match, Newsweek and Vimeo. Diller and Chen, an immigrant himself, will fund campaigns for immigration reform.Connecting Offline Shopping With E-Commerce, Curebit Partners With Bonobos On New "Retail Referrals" Program
May 31, 7:01PM
Curebit, an e-commerce startup which has built its business around optimizing and tracking word-of-mouth referrals for customers like Bonobos, Restaurant.com, Jawbone, True & Co., and others, is now stepping into the world of offline brick-and-mortar commerce with a new solution it's calling "Retail Referrals." This new in-store program, being trialed in a half-dozen Bonobos "Guideshop" locations, encourages shoppers to "tell a friend" about their purchase after checkout in order to earn additional store credit if the friend buys using the provided discount code.This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Moto X, Locks, And Austin
May 31, 7:00PM
TechCrunch is in Austin this week for some excellent pitch-offs and BBQ. We also learned of the new Moto X, a secret phone that could change Motorola's fortunes, the August smart lock, and the new iPod. It's one of our only live shows done with three members of the team in the same room and features Jordan Crook, Matt Burns, and John Biggs as Sir Sweatsalot. Enjoy!Aiming To Make You More Productive, Focus@Will Launches A Music App For iOS
May 31, 6:32PM
I've always been impressed by people who can listen to music while they write. I mean, I'll do it every once in a while, especially when one of my co-workers is being particularly distracting, but in general I've found that music just slows me down. Well, there'a startup called focus@will aiming to solve that problem, and today it's following the launch of its website and Android app with the release of an app for iOS.ParStream And Panopticon Partner To Provide Analytics And Data
May 31, 6:29PM
ParStream And Panopticon are partnering to offer data analytics and data visualization by integrating their respective platforms. ParStream offers an in-memory analtytics technology that it markets as offering sub-second response. Panapticon is known for its visual analytics and in-memory engine that can push out graphics in an event stream.Amazon Updates Route 53 DNS Service To Make Hosting High-Availability Sites On EC2 Easier
May 31, 5:45PM
Thanks to an update to its Route 53 DNS web service, Amazon now makes it a bit easier to host sites that need high availability in multiple AWS regions. Route 53 has been offering DNS Failover since February, but that wasn't really an option if your application was also running behind Amazon's Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service. ELB allows you to automatically distribute traffic across EC2 instances. Route 53's failover service needs to be able to check a specific IP address for availability, but that didn't work with apps behind ELB because they don't have a fixed IP address in Amazon's architecture.Two Years After TweetDeck Acquisition, Founder Iain Dodsworth Leaves Twitter
May 31, 5:41PM
TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth announced today that he's leaving Twitter. In his tweet, Dodsworth noted that it's been two years since Twitter acquired TweetDeck, and he said "now feels like a perfect time to start something new." Dodsworth's departure comes as Twitter's vision for TweetDeck does seem to be shifting. A few months ago, it shut down the iPhone, Android, and AIR versions. There are still native Windows and Mac apps, but the company has suggested that the web version will be its focus going forward.The Transit App Nabs 35K Downloads In 72 Hours, Blows Past Google Maps In Canadian App Store After Going Free
May 31, 5:27PM
The Transit App, the app that provides real-time transit information on iOS, enjoyed a boost back when Apple cut transit out of its own Maps app during the switch from Google to its own in-house navigation and mapping service. Earlier this week, the app went completely free and offered some great updates, including real-time estimates of wait times at stops for select markets, and now it's seeing another big spike in demand.LightUp Helps Kids Learn Electronics With Augmented Reality
May 31, 5:18PM
Understanding electronics is tricky. Electricity is invisible, the components are cryptic, and the concepts are hard to grasp. That's where LightUp comes in. This is an AR-based system for teaching electronics by allowing kids to build little projects and "see" what the components are doing using augmented reality.Lyft Hits The East Coast With A Launch In Boston, Its First Big Post-Funding Expansion City
May 31, 5:00PM
Lyft raked in a huge amount of new funding last week, raising $60 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Along with that funding, the company said it would be looking to aggressively expand its peer-to-peer ride service with launches across the country and even globally. The first new market to bear the fruits of that expansion is Boston.Hulu Plus Upgrades Its Living Room Experience With A New Look, Search, Controls & Added Kids Section
May 31, 4:45PM
Hulu may be courting bidders right now, but in the meantime, the company is shipping a new Hulu Plus experience for the living room, with updates hitting today. The user interface on Samsung TVs and Blu-ray players, Roku set-top boxes, and soon Nintendo's Wii, is being upgraded with a new look and feature set aimed to help viewers better discover and search for shows.LinkedIn Launches SMS-Based Two-Step Authentication To Prevent Account Hacking
May 31, 4:42PM
LinkedIn today announced that it has added optional two-step authentication to its sign-in process. With this move, LinkedIn joins Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook and numerous other services who have recently enabled two-factor authentication to ensure that it's harder for hackers to compromise user accounts.As TV Falls Apart, Tumblr And Twitter Aim To Pick Up The Pieces
May 31, 3:37PM
For years, it’s been said that Internet use would cut into the time U.S. consumers spend watching television. Today, those premonitions are beginning to reach the tipping point. TV ratings have dropped by 50 percent over the last decade. Goldman Sachs recently called the decline “the sharpest pace on record.” The firm found that ratings in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic – the key group targeted by advertisers – fell by 17 percent last winter compared with the winter before. ABC, NBC and Fox were most affected, with decreased ad revenues cutting into profits. (Fox had to get distributors to pay higher subscriber fees to pull a profit). But even highest-rated CBS lost 3 percent of its 18-to-49 audience this season, The New York Times reported in April. Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne had released charts at the beginning of the year showing the ratings drop, claiming declines are a function of income level. But it’s not just that. The writing has been on the wall for some time. Back in 2004, for example, studies indicated that television viewing would be one of the first leisure activities to be hit by Internet use and online socializing. (Other activities supposedly affected were sleeping and real-world socializing.) Though today, TV continues to remain the dominant medium, the emerging generation of so-called “digital natives” – the first to have been born into a world where consumer adoption of the web was already mainstream – seem to prefer other behaviors. And it’s more than just splitting time between TV and video games, or TV and mobile apps, or TV and online video. That’s why it’s funny that the general assumption is that services like Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu and YouTube will eventually claim users’ time and eyeballs in the way that the “boob tube” once did. That may not be the case. We just don’t know yet. For a generation who grew up on the web, can we say for sure that watching TV-like content through other devices will be their preferred downtime activity? TUMBLR AS THE NEW “TV” Tumblr founder David Karp doesn’t seem to think so. Having built up an online community that Yahoo just acquired for $1.1 billion, he told Charlie Rose in an interview this week that Tumblr is part of a larger transition in consumer behavior. “What regular people out there in the world do – right now, they spend a huge amount ofShapeways Introduces New Squishy 3D Printing Material, Elasto Plastic
May 31, 3:26PM
While the name "Elasto Plastic" sounds like an 80s punk band, it is, in fact, a new material from 3D printing company Shapeways. The plastic is elastic to a certain degree yet maintains its shape after stretching or squeezing. It will break when pulled too hard and is still in the experimental stage on the Shapeways website.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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