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The Death Of Google Reader Opens The Door To A Smarter Subscription Ecosystem
Jul 07, 1:00AM
Editor's note: Julien Genestoux is the founder and CEO of Superfeedr. We all know that Google Reader, which used to be the most obvious RSS subscription tool, is now gone. At the same time, we see "follow" buttons on just about every website. We are at a tipping point with two contradictory trends: the decreased visibility of RSS feeds and the popularity of the "follow" feature. Google Reader and its market share was the biggest road block to a world where "following" can be both decentralized (open!) and ubiquitous.Why Do We Endlessly Retweet Tragedy?
Jul 06, 11:34PM
With the upmost respect for victims and survivors, may I question why we feel so compelled to personally spread bad news? Why with each bombing or disaster we all race to tell everyone we know what happened? We've realized the power of social media for distributing real-time news. It lets us express empathy, but can also spread fear and misinformation. It's time to ask if and when we're helping.Plane On Popular Tech Route From Seoul-To-SF Crash Lands at SFO
Jul 06, 10:06PM
An Asiana Airlines flight that follows a popular route in the tech industry between Shanghai, Seoul and San Francisco crash landed at San Francisco International Airport this morning, killing two people. A Samsung executive who was aboard the flight, David Eun, reported that most passengers seemed unharmed in a photo he posted on Path. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg was also almost on the flight, but switched to a United flight in order to use frequent flyer miles for her family. We do not know if anyone else from our community was on board that plane, but Seoul-to-San Francisco is a pretty highly-trafficked route for tech workers who work for or do business with Samsung or any number of the larger gaming companies there.Top Apps For The 1%
Jul 06, 9:00PM
There's been an interesting phenomenon occurring lately, thanks to the increasing ability of companies to reach and serve ultra-niche audiences -- the rise of the app for the 1 percent. Now more than ever, you can download apps that you can't actually afford to use. The democratization of the app store, of course, has meant services that used to only be available for the ultra-rich are now within reach of ordinary users. Think Uber, for example. Once upon a time, it would have been unheard of for most people to call a black car, and yet Uber makes such a service a somewhat affordable, if still luxury, option. A once-in-a-while thing.SEC Watch: Flash Sales Site Ideeli Raises $12M More
Jul 06, 8:30PM
It appears that flash sales site Ideeli has raised another $12 million in funding, according to an SEC filing from Friday. It's unclear who the investors are in this round, but this raise would bring Ideeli's total funding to $112 million. Past investors include Credit Suisse, Next World Capital, Cue Ball Capital, StarVest Partners, Constellation Growth Capital and Kodiak Venture Partners.College Humor's First Feature-Length Film Coming To iTunes And Other Digital Media Stores July 9
Jul 06, 4:57PM
College Humor is putting out a feature film (via Verge), and it stars a bunch of people you might recognize, including Glenn Howerton (Dennis from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia), Adrianne Palciki (from Friday Night Lights), Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation) and Josh Groban (yeah, the pop opera singer). It's called Coffee Town, and it's about a coffee shop aspiring to become a fancy bistro.Google Plus Is Like Frankenstein's Monster
Jul 06, 1:00PM
Your humble correspondent begs your indulgence for this flu-fuelled stream-of-consciousness post, but deadlines wait for no virus, so needs must I expel the contents of my febrile mind onto this screen and thence to yours. To wit: Google Plus is a total mess. You probably knew that already. But you may not have realized that of late it has become an interesting mess...like Frankenstein's monster. These days there's a lot of disingenuous chatter about how G+ is just a "social layer on top of Google," and was never intended as a direct competitor for Facebook; which is, of course, revisionist nonsense. Two years ago it seemed pretty obvious to just about everyone that G+ was intended, or at least hoped for, as a Facebook killer.Low-Cost iPhone's Plastic Case Shows Up In Alleged Video And Photo Leak
Jul 06, 12:46PM
Apple is said to be preparing a lower cost iPhone for later this year, with a plastic shell instead of its typical recipe of metal and glass to lower component costs. Now a site called Techdy, which creates Android knock-off handsets of higher-end devices, is claiming to have obtained the new phone’s plastic casing and front-screen assembly. The supposed early manufacturing prototype leak shows a smooth plastic shell in white that Techdy says feels much higher-quality than the plastic casings used in phones by other manufacturers like Samsung. The front resembles the screen of the iPhone we all know and love and has a black design that will reportedly be common to a variety of different color options for the back plastic half. The slightly contoured edges on the rear of this supposed budget iPhone are very much reminiscent of the current-generation iPod touch – essentially, this looks like a slightly thicker version, which makes sense given the additional room required for cellular antennas, ambient light sensors and other components. Apple brought expanded color options to the iPod touch with this generation, so that could have been in preparation for launching a line of lower cost iPhones with similar design themes. Comparison shots taken of the iPhone 5 with the leaked plastic iPhone case shows a design that’s only just slightly thicker than the current existing Apple smartphone. The screen size is the same, and among the only other significant outward differences is the use of just one speaker grill on the bottom edge of the device instead of two. Techdy is marketing an Android-powered clone of the device already, so definitely take this with a grain of salt. But it is in keeping with what we’ve heard about a supposed low-cost iPhone in the past, and that right there is definitely an attractive device. If Apple can manage to release a plastic iPhone for cheaper than its flagship that feels and looks better than the top-end designs of its rivals, we could see a very different smartphone game come later this year. There is lots more to see in the massive gallery Techdy put together depicting the supposed iPhone from every possible angle, so be sure to check it out.Google And Others Reportedly Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway
Jul 06, 12:23PM
If you work for a company that depends on advertising revenue, you won't hear people talk that often about using Adblock Plus, but it's something that millions of consumers probably can't imagine their Internet browsing without at this point. It manages to block out most ads on websites, providing a relatively clean experience that's sometimes night and day from the standard web. The thing is, some ads do get through, and Google at least appears to be paying to make that happen, according to a new report that's prompting a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Adblock Plus has an "acceptable ads" filter that allows certain content by default, and the company makes no secret that it charges big companies for whitelisting services – it mentions it right in its FAQYahoo's Recently Acquired Task Tracking Service Astrid Will Go Dark On August 5
Jul 06, 7:53AM
Yahoo has been snapping up companies left and right lately, and the revitalized company's hunger means that some well-received apps and services have gone (or will soon go) offline. Earlier today, another company threw its name into that particular pile: task management service Astrid will officially go dark on August 5, just over three months after co-founder/CEO Jon Paris announced the acquisition on the team's official blog.Songza Founders Talk About Newly Launched Club Songza, Competition From Apple, Pandora
Jul 06, 3:00AM
Songza is one of the hottest music streaming services on the market, with a special feature called Concierge that matches specific, expertly crafted playlists with activities it thinks you might be doing, based on time, day, and your preferences. Up until very recently, Songza was an entirely free experience with a few visual ads (never audio ads) to help pay the Songza bills.AT&T Considers Selling Your Browsing History, Location, And More To Advertisers. Here's How To Opt Out
Jul 05, 10:39PM
Good news, everyone! Wait, no. Not that one. The other one. Bad news, everyone! AT&T is considering selling your usage data (location, web browsing history, etc.) to advertisers, having seemingly decided that it's been too long since everyone was mad at them. Here's how to opt-out of the program before it begins.Bing As A Platform Will Allow Microsoft To Compete With Google For Developer Cred
Jul 05, 10:00PM
Microsoft knows how to build platforms, so when it announces a new one, it’s worth taking a closer look. Until last week, Microsoft mostly wanted you to think of Bing as a search engine that could compete with Google. At its Build developer conference, however, the company made a surprise announcement: Bing is now also a developer platform. Microsoft is opening up tools like Bing’s Entity API, speech capabilities, optical character recognition, translation and a number of other tools for developers of third-party apps. It’s also bringing its existing Maps API under the Bing Services umbrella. Microsoft describes these services as “an intelligent fabric” that it uses to build products “to help people interact with the world's knowledge and their surroundings in a more human way.” Microsoft already uses some of these capabilities internally, but it’s now opening them up to others, as well. The Entity API is the highlight of the Bing services. If Microsoft plays this smart, it could establish Bing as the go-to platform for developers who need easy access to information about the real world for their apps. While not everything from Bing’s advanced Satori Entity engine — Microsoft’s version of Google’s Knowledge Graph — will soon be available through the Entity API (Microsoft has not announced a launch date for the Entity API yet), the company believes it will allow developers “to build scenarios that augment users' abilities to discover and interact with their world faster and more easily than they can do today.” As Microsoft’s Director of Search Stefan Weitz told me during a brief chat after Microsoft announced the new Bing developer services, there had been some discussion inside the company about making these tools available to developers outside of the company. It’s a very good sign that those in favor of opening the platform up to outsiders won this fight. The limitation right now is that some of these new Bing services will at least for now only be available for Microsoft’s own platforms, including Windows 8, 8.1 and Xbox One. Given Microsoft’s push to get more and better applications onto the Windows 8 platform (in the form of more “metro” apps), this move makes sense in the short-term, but if Microsoft really wants to turn Bing into a developer platform, it will have to open all of these services to developers on all platforms. Microsoft knows that it’s competing for developers’Ask A VC: Lightbank's Paul Lee On The Art Of Finding Your Co-Founder
Jul 05, 9:30PM
In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Lightbank partner Paul Lee stopped in the studio. Lee, who is based in Chicago, joined Lightbank as a Partner in February 2011 and has led investments in BabbaCo, Udemy, ElaCarte, Skyvu, and Contently.Meet Consano, The Crowdfunding Platform That Wants To Help Cure Cancer [TCTV]
Jul 05, 7:44PM
Crowdfunding has been a godsend for getting lots of projects off the ground that otherwise may not have attracted dollars from traditional powers-that-be in retail manufacturing, music, movies, and the like. So at a time when the federal dollars that typically fund medical research are under more constraint than ever, doesn't it make sense to bring that same model that has worked so well for wristwatches and rock albums to work for curing breast cancer and new methods for lung transplants? That's what Molly Lindquist believes, so she founded a non-profit organization called Consano for allowing people to browse through vetted medical research projects at select universities and research institutions, and then contribute funding directly to the ones they find compelling.This Tiny, Portable Laptop Stand Will Finally Fix Your Posture
Jul 05, 7:02PM
"The Roost--stop hunching over your laptop," I read, back and neck aching as usual. I had been working at my laptop like a gargoyle since early in the morning. But in the Roost, a laptop stand that's raised almost $100,000 on Kickstarter, I've finally found a solution. Enter James Olander, a literal rocket scientist who decided that designing systems at Lockheed Martin wasn't for him anymore.This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Boxee Bows Out, Samsung And HTC Suffer And Moto X Unmasked
Jul 05, 7:00PM
Boxee got bought by Samsung this week, and announced that it would be closing down the Boxee Cloud DVR's cloud DVR feature. So that's done. Both Samsung and HTC disappointed investors, albeit in very different ways, and Motorola's next big play got some early details.Local Food Delivery Service Fluc Goes Live In Palo Alto And Menlo Park
Jul 05, 5:00PM
People like to eat, and generally don't like to cook. All of which means that food delivery is becoming all the rage among startups lately. There's a whole new food delivery service, called FLuc, opening up for service in Menlo Park and Palo Alto, hoping to let people pick and choose all their favorite foods and have them delivered for a small fee."Made In America"
Jul 05, 3:51PM
The five day work week. Chevrolet. Grand Funk Railroad. Steel plants on the shores of Lake Michigan. This is America. There is a rebirth happening right now. It's happening all over the country. Pockets of makers here. A consumer electronics company there. A startup accelerator in beautiful Harbor Springs, Mich.. They're appearing all over this land. And it's all heavily advertised. "Made in America" is, sadly, in vogue right now. "Imported from Detroit", "This American buys American." All bumper sticker catch phrases fueling America's greatest innovation: capitalism.No More 3D TV On The BBC Please, We're British - And Glasses Are A Hassle
Jul 05, 3:30PM
The BBC has been running a pilot 3D broadcast program for the past two years. But not for much longer. It's decided to pull the plug on 3D TV production, in the face of massive audience 3D ennui -- and the hassle of misplaced 3D glasses.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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