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Expedia And Zillow Founder Rich Barton Wants To Fund 'Power To The People' Startups
Sep 15, 12:00AM
Rich Barton may still be best known for his role as a founder at pioneering web properties such as Expedia and Zillow, but in recent years he has emerged as an investor in some really interesting startups, from mobile-only hotel booking app HotelTonight to neighborhood-focused social network Nextdoor to workforce review site Glassdoor.Silicon Valley Luminaries Got Grilled On The NSA At Disrupt, Here's How They Responded
Sep 14, 10:44PM
Over the course of the three day Disrupt conference, Michael Arrington interviewed 13 of the most influential people in the tech industry, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. He questioned them all on their involvement and opinions on the NSA spying scandal. Let's take a look at what they said.CrunchWeek: The New iPhones, Twitter Preps For An IPO, And Tech Execs Talk NSA
Sep 14, 10:00PM
What a busy week it's been for the tech industry -- and what better way to cap it off than by First-Time Chilean Entrepreneur Raises $16M To Disrupt Latin America's Insurance Market
Sep 14, 8:00PM
Think about that pure, unbridled feeling when you knew you wanted to be an entrepreneur. Now think about the unsexiest business you could possibly start. Did you think of an insurance product and financial services aggregator? Did that get you excited? It got one 29-year-old Chilean civil engineer excited enough to start Latin America's first insurance product comparison site, ComparaOnline.Naval Ravikant On How AngelList Syndicates Can Shake Up The World Of Venture Capital 'Scouts'
Sep 14, 6:56PM
Since its inception in 2010, AngelList has steadily transformed the way people think about gathering funding for their technology startups. But so far, nothing AngelList has done has garnered as quick and strong of a reaction from the venture capital sphere as the debut this past summer of a feature called "Syndicates." A number of Silicon Valley investors seem to think that AngelList Syndicates could be one of the most disruptive developments that startup funding has seen in years.Gillmor Gang: Inch by Inch
Sep 14, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — added up the Apple announcements, the Twitter IPO, and why Chromecast's Cloud-to-Device model will stick. No consensus on this last point, but since AirPlay does a little of both strategies, we'll know soon enough. The biometric capabilities and low-power bluetooth chip of the new iPhones may not seem a breakthrough, based as the tech is on well-trod ground. But mobile is about the signature of its omnipresence, and the thumbprint will save bucketloads of time that will endow the new habits with strategic signatures and business models they suggest. Meanwhile, I'm off to AutoRip me a new one.He's Electric - Will A Revolutionary Black Box Turn Dale Vince Into Europe's Elon Musk?
Sep 14, 4:46PM
Dale Vince sits in a spartan office in the corner of Ecotricity, one of the UK's few green energy electricity networks, and taps away on an Apple Mac at his standing desk. The office is bare, other than a normal desk, a couple of chairs and a Union Jack flag hung on the wall. But the Union Jack is not sporting its normal Red White and Blue. This a Union Jack fashioned in various shades of green. For Vince is a died-in the wool ecologist. While running his company, he blogs from a site called "Zero Carbonista" which has an image of him looking like Che Guevara. He considers the drive towards an electric future as important as Elon Musk, founder of the Tesla electric car company. Vince is deadly serious about being "green" and now his plans extend beyond wind turbines into a radical new technology he hopes to roll out across the UK and which he is only now talking about for the first time.Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams Lays Out His Plan For The Future Of Media
Sep 14, 2:42PM
Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intelligent algorithm. Ordinarily, such a goal would seem utopian, were it not for the fact that Williams is among a handful of Internet pioneers who have disrupted the media industry multiple times. Before Twitter terraformed the landscape of news distribution, Williams's first smash hit, Blogger, became the branded namesake for an upstart generation of amateur writers to challenge the established players Most importantly, Medium, his new platform for publishing mostly long-form content, has quickly garnered popularity — and infamy. In only a few months, its most popular contributions are making front-page headlines and snagging millions of views. In our Silicon Valley bubble, its contributors semi-regularly spark industry wide-conversations among the Internet elite. “The site from Twitter’s co-founders is one year old, and still mysterious,” wrote The Atlantic‘s Alexis Madrigal recently, in one of many stories attempting to understand the Internet multi-millionaire’s enigmatic new project. Now, for the first time since Williams launched the beta of Medium last year at our own TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Williams is ready to talk. News “Crap” Vs. A Book Williams is taking aim squarely at the news industry’s most embarrassing vulnerability: the incessant need to trump up mundane happenings in order to habituate readers into needing news like a daily drug fix. “News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import,” he tells me during our interview inside a temporary Market Street office space that’s housing Medium, until the top two floors are ready for his growing team. “Even if it’s fiction, it’s probably better most of the time.” It’s true. The daily news cycle doesn’t always do its job at enlightening American democracy. In the aptly titled research paper, “Does the Media Matter”, a team of economists found that getting a randomized group of citizens to read the Washington Post did nothing for “political knowledge, stated opinions, or turnout in post-election survey and voter data.” News, alone, is evidently insufficient to make us a more informed society. Instead, Williams argues, citizens should re-calibrate their ravenous appetite for information towards more awe-inspiring content. “Published written ideas and stories are life-changing,” heWait, When Did Software Become So Boring?
Sep 14, 1:00PM
Maybe I'm just jaded and cranky. But as I wandered through Startup Alley at Disrupt this week, and even as I watched many of the Battlefield contestants, I found myself fighting eye-glazing ennui. Apps and services that help you connect and collaborate with others. Tools which help you build or use apps and services that help you connect and collaborate with others. Sigh. Been there. Done that.The "Zizz" Is An Intelligent Sleep Mask That Helps You Get Better Zzz's
Sep 14, 12:47PM
At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 this past week, a Warsaw-based startup called IQ Intelclinic was showing off an intelligent sleeping mask which uses sensors to monitor the wearers' sleep cycles, including REM and non-REM sleep, in order to determine if you're getting quality Zzz's at night. The mask uses small electrodes pressed to your head surrounded by cushy material called viscoelastic foam for comfort, and then pairs with an accompanying mobile application so you can view data regarding your sleeping and waking behaviors, and identify possible problems like sleep apnea, for example.Tow Choice Wants To Take The Hassle Out Of Calling For Roadside Assistance
Sep 14, 2:29AM
Once, on a brisk autumn night months and months ago, I went for a run around a park and promptly lost my car keys in the dark. The next hour was spent Googling local tow services and hoping that my phone's battery wouldn't die, and the hour after that was spent sitting at a picnic table under an ancient oak tree trying to keep warm. If only Tow Choice existed back then. I met with co-founders Dave Kozuki and Robert Cheng at Disrupt SF's Startup Alley, where the jovial pair expressed their desire to build an Uber for tow trucks to better serve motorists in need.Harbingers Of Apps To Come, Here Are Four Google Glass For Fashion Hacks We Saw At Disrupt
Sep 14, 12:43AM
With an abnormally high population of Google Glass owners in one convention center and ShopStyle's API open to participants at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, it should come as no surprise that a number of hacks combined the two.Microsoft's Now-Deleted Anti-iPhone Commercial Is The Funniest Thing From Redmond Since Windows RT
Sep 13, 10:10PM
It’s Friday, kids, so calm down and have a laugh. Do this: Stop caring about Apple and Microsoft and Google and the phone in your pocket and the platform of your dreams and all that. Instead, giggle at the following video clip in which Microsoft takes on Apple in a way that I honestly did not see coming. Microsoft knew that the clip would cause controversy, and they yanked it quickly, likely as planned. Whatever. It’s still farking hilarious and worth watching. If you can’t laugh, you can’t take a joke and that means you are three points of calcification from being a statue. Laugh! Enjoy: Go nuts if you want but I’m busy laughing. Have another coffee. Top Image Credit: Sean MacEnteeAsk A VC: Early Twitter Investor And Spark Capital Partner Bijan Sabet On Founder Personality, Investment Syndicates And More
Sep 13, 9:35PM
In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Spark Capital founder and general partner Bijan Sabet joined us in the studio to talk about investment syndicates and much more. Sabet was one of the early backers of Twitter (which just filed its S-1 with the SEC for a public offering yesterday) in 2008 and served on company's board from 2008 to 2011. Sabet also led investments in Tumblr (acquired by Yahoo), Jelly, Stack Exchange, RunKeeper, Foursquare, Boxee (acquired by Samsung), OMGPOP (acquired by Zynga) and thePlatform (acquired by Comcast).Gillmor Gang Live 09.13.13 (TCTV)
Sep 13, 8:17PM
Gillmor Gang - Keith Teare, John Taschek, Dan Farber, Roberts Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today.Ark Launches Rapportive-Meets-Mailbox Email App In Pivot To Marketing Intelligence
Sep 13, 8:15PM
Need to do some homework on who you're emailing? You could search their name on Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn, but on mobile that's a lot of taps, and it's hard to know if you've got the right John Smith. So Ark has just launched a mobile email client that pulls in all the social profiles of the people you're emailing with so you can quickly do research on business contacts or stalk your friends.Mailbox's Gentry Underwood Would Rather Move Slow And Get It Right
Sep 13, 8:00PM
In an interview backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood said that the company is actively working on an Android version of the app, and mentioned that ephemerality may be involved in forthcoming "whiz bang" features down the line. Mailbox doesn't have the same "move fast" mentality as some other companies, most notably Facebook. The company was bought by Dropbox in March and only implemented Dropbox integration for attachments in July. Most recently, the company announced cloud search for Gmail which was surely one of the most clamored-for features since Mailbox's launch in February of this year.The Government Wants To Define Who Qualifies As A Journalist
Sep 13, 6:18PM
Journalists and netizens have mixed feelings about a long-sought federal media shield law that is headed to a vote in the Senate. The Free Flow of Information Act of 2013 would protect designated journalists from revealing their sources against a subpoena. Dozens of established media outlets are thrilled about the law, which was derailed in 2009 after WikiLeaks ignited a global debate about a new kind of journalism. But, after 3 years, no member of Congress seems willing to add in protections for leakers like Julian Assange or Edward Snowden. “The world has changed. We're very careful in this bill to distinguish journalists from those who shouldn't be protected, WikiLeaks and all those, and we've ensured that,” Schumer said. “But there are people who write and do real journalism, in different ways than we're used to. They should not be excluded from this bill,” said author Senator Charles Schumer. Schumer, who has been cozying up to the tech elite, fought California Senator Diane Feinstein to expand the working definition of journalist to include bloggers (thanks, Chuck!). Feinstein wanted to law restricted to “real reporters” who earn a salary. The current amended law [PDF] would give protection to bloggers and permit a judge to decide whether any new form of writer qualifies for protection. Paul Boyle, Senior Vice President at the Newspaper Association of America, believes the law would have protected two AP journalists from federal investigators, who were going after them for exposing a thwarted terrorist plot. Still, there’s no love for Assange, Snowden, or any of the future data leakers that may contribute valuable information to our democracy. “Once we reach the point at which we even allow Congress to set parameters for who should, and who should not be considered a journalist, we’ve gone too far,” wrote Techdirt’s Mike Masnick. “Because we know that setting that precedent will lead to further encroachments down the road. If congress defined the act of journalism, rather than the person, we wouldn’t have to worry about ad-hoc judicial determinations of who qualifies for First Amendment protection. But, that would require the government’s willingness to extend the First Amendment to WikiLeaks. They are evidently not prepared to do that. The bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 13-5 and is on the way to a full vote in the Senate.With Automatic Photo Import, Days Gets One Step Closer To Having Users Share Everything
Sep 13, 2:54PM
Days by Wander launched back in May with a very difficult mission: to change the way you think about photo-sharing. While some think that pictures of your feet or coffee are too mundane for photo-sharing to Instagram or Facebook, Days asked you to share as many photos as possible, mundane or otherwise. To help usher in this type of behavior, Days didn't allow photo imports, as they wanted users to share pictures the same way they take them, which is a lot. Today, however, the app is updating with a new feature: photo imports.Woot's Founding Team Returns As Mediocre Laboratories To Experiment With E-Commerce
Sep 13, 2:02PM
A little more than a year after Woot founder Matt Rutledge left the revolutionary daily deals company he sold to Amazon, he's bringing the team back together to hack e-commerce once again. The new company, called "a mediocre corporation," is being designed to build up and test out new ways of selling products to customers online.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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