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The AUUG iPhone Grip And App Turns Your Body Into A Musical Instrument
Nov 23, 8:59AM
Anything that encourages people to stop hunching over their iPhones like a tech-literate Mr. Burns is a good thing--especially when it also looks cool and makes fun noises. The AUUG Motion Synth, a grip that attaches to your iPhone or iPod touch and creates sound by tracking your movements through its app, was designed for electronic musicians, but I can see other people using it, like dancers or music teachers looking for an engaging way to teach kids music scales. It recently launched on Kickstarter and is scheduled to start shipping in April if it reaches its fundraising goal. 
Coursera Adds Another $20M To Its Already Massive Series B
Nov 23, 8:04AM
Back in July, Coursera announced a $43 million series B. Now the round has grown to an even more impressive $63 million with the addition of funding from three undisclosed university partners.
Email Is Now Just Another Stream
Nov 23, 5:00AM
Editor’s note: Peter Yared is the CTO/CIO at CBS Interactive. Follow him on Twitter @peteryared. Only a couple of years ago, pundits were predicting an end to email. But instead of fading away, there's been ever-increasing email volume and usage. Rather than being replaced by Facebook and Twitter streams, email is actually becoming a stream itself. Mail systems are evolving to match the new volume of email, and users will increasingly see only algorithmically vetted emails. Some other emails may be shown below the vetted email, and the rest will flow away into temporal oblivion, just like uninteresting social posts from a few hours ago. Implications for marketers are significant. The days of the average AOL or Yahoo! mail user scrolling through every email in their inbox are rapidly fading. Email has been especially important in e-commerce sales and customer re-engagement. For e-commerce in particular, email marketing exceeds the performance of social advertising. Large-volume email senders will need to make a greater effort to send emails that are both personalized and interesting to the recipient. The email tsunami problem is pervasive. Several Silicon Valley folks have already committed the unfortunately termed "email suicide," where they give up on reading unread email and start anew. Others are adding email auto-responders stating that they will not necessarily see email. New vendors such as SendGrid have helped bring on the deluge by dramatically lowering the price of sending volume email and democratizing access with simplified onboarding and easy developer APIs. Google has added several features to Gmail in an attempt to add some order to the chaos of email. The changes will effect both email users and marketers. With Gmail features like Priority Inbox, Gmail Tabs, and Circles, users are increasingly engaging only with algorithmically vetted email from senders they know. Priority Inbox is only a satisfactory product and needs to evolve to automatically mark as "important" email from senders that a recipient repeatedly opens, especially if the recipient replies. Next-generation email clients like Inky go as far as sorting email by relevance rather than date. For marketers, sending a ton of email without any user engagement will soon become counterproductive. For each type of volume sender, a new balance will have to be found between sending numerous emails and still achieving desired "open rates" and "clickthroughs" — mechanisms by which an email provider like Google can detect whether or not the email is of
Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries
Nov 23, 5:00AM
Many of us yearn for a return to one golden age or another. But there's a community of bloggers taking the idea to an extreme: they want to turn the dial way back to the days before the French Revolution. Neoreactionaries believe that all the good stuff from the past few centuries come from technology and capitalism, and that democracy and social progress have actually done more harm than good. They propose a return to old-fashioned gender roles, social order and monarchy.
Microsoft Matches PS4 Sales With 1 Million Xbox Ones In 24 Hours, But Takes 11 More Countries To Do It
Nov 23, 1:56AM
Microsoft sent out some Xbox One PR today to various outlets, you may have seen the numbers. Over 1 million Xbox One (our review) consoles sold within 24 hours! That’s pretty good, and far better than the Xbox 360 sold on its opening day, marking a new record for Microsoft. But let’s make sure to put the numbers in perspective. Sony’s PlayStation 4 also sold over 1 million units in 24 hours when it launched around a week ago. So far, the two console giants are neck and neck. However, there’s just one little detail Microsoft fails to mention in its PR: The Xbox One launched in a total of 13 countries, 11 more than the PlayStation 4. Sony’s console launched only in the US and Canada, and will roll out to more regions later on. The Xbox One, by comparison, launched in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, the U.K., U.S., and New Zealand. That’s a lot more territory to only match Sony’s numbers blow for blow so far. The PS4 won’t hit other major territories like the U.K. and Europe until November 29th. Unfortunately, we can’t draw too many conclusions from the numbers because Microsoft makes sure to mention the following: “Xbox One is now sold out at most retailers. We are working to replenish stock as fast as possible to meet the unprecedented demand from our customers.” So, with stock unavailable at ‘most’ retailers, the lack of additional sales could simply be a result of there being no cookies in the jar. People could want Xbox Ones but simply not be able to get them. Sony did not make a mention of selling out of its stock in its release. Also notable: The Xbox One retails for $100 more than the PS4 due to the inclusion of the Kinect motion sensor, so this amounts to more money for Microsoft at this point. I’m sure we can count on some fantastic sounding momentum numbers from both Sony and Microsoft in the days to come. But for now, they both appear to have at least some raw parity of sales numbers. Meanwhile, Nintendo has sold just over 3.9M Wii U units so far this year.
Microsoft's Julie Larson-Green Hints At Further Windows Harmonization Across Device Classes
Nov 23, 12:37AM
A recent CITEworld article written by Mary Branscombe includes a quote from a Microsoft leader that directly hints at future harmonization of the various strains of Windows across disparate device classes. According to Branscombe, Microsoft executive vice president Julie Larson-Green said the following at a recent event [Insertion via CITEworld, formatting: TechCrunch]: We do think there is a world where there is a more mobile operating system, that doesn’t have the risks to battery life or the risk to security [that Windows does] but it also comes with a cost of flexibility. [...] We have the phone OS, we have Windows RT, and we have full Windows. We are not going to have three. I confirmed the above quote with Microsoft, who provided a very slightly different version of the second part: “We have the Windows Phone OS, we have Windows RT, and we have full Windows. We're not going to have three.” You almost want to add an ‘all’ in between I think that the simplest way to interpret Larson-Green’s first remark regarding battery life and risk is that if Windows is to be smoothed between Windows Phone and Windows 8, the vanilla Windows code will have to better at handling power sensitive situations, like mobile. Windows 8 is a partially mobile operating system, so the challenge isn’t insurmountable. Moving on: “We are not going to have three.” If you wanted to be crass, you could guess that Windows RT is going the way of that one thing that isn’t around anymore. Branscombe doesn’t think so, and neither do I. I reached out to Microsoft for comment on the quote, and was given the following statement: “We'll continue to support a broad range of chip architectures, including ARM, so our partners can deliver a broad range of devices. We have nothing additional to share about the roadmap at this time.” Microsoft at least wants us to believe that it remains committed to ARM. I do. In no small part because the company is investing so heavily in Windows RT as a mobile-centric operating system that can run in tablet circles. Look at the non-ARM tablet that Microsoft built, and you can see how it views Windows Regular as a mobile operating system. It doesn’t. Windows Phone runs on ARM-based chips. Could we see harmonization between Windows RT and Windows Phone? That feels wrong, given the inherent user interface difference. But
Google's Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Doodle Pits You Against Daleks, Cybermen, And Weeping Angels
Nov 22, 11:30PM
As we learned from that TARDIS easter egg back in August, there's some pretty strong Doctor Who love goin' on at Google HQ. Today, just in time for the show's 50th anniversary, the company found another way to fly that Whovian flag. This one's not quite as hidden as the TARDIS egg, but you'll still have to know where to look.
Twitter Enables Perfect Forward Secrecy Across Sites To Protect User Data Against Future Decryption
Nov 22, 10:16PM
Twitter has enabled Perfect Forward Secrecy across its mobile site, website and API feeds in order to protect against future cracking of the service’s encryption. The PFS method ensures that, if the encryption key Twitter uses is cracked in the future, all of the past data transported through the network does not become an open book right away. “If an adversary is currently recording all Twitter users' encrypted traffic, and they later crack or steal Twitter's private keys, they should not be able to use those keys to decrypt the recorded traffic,” says Twitter’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews. “As the Electronic Frontier Foundation points out, this type of protection is increasingly important on today's Internet.” This will augment the TLS and SSL protocols already used by Twitter to protect logins and transmission of data across its network. Twitter made its site fully HTTPS compliant in early 2011, though a login flaw uncovered late last year allowed passwords to be sent in plain text for some time from a sub-section of Twitter’s site. This is a simplification, but PFS basically ensures that if an agency is recording all of Twitter’s encrypted data it can’t crack one key and read it all. Instead, Twitter has implemented a solution that lets each client and server session generate its own encryption key, never sending that key over the networks. If an organization were to collect a bunch of Twitter data, it can’t break one lock and read it all, it must now break thousands or hundreds of thousands of additional keys to read any significant chunk of data. The organization most likely to be collecting enormous amounts of Twitter data for later decryption? The National Security Agency, who was recently revealed to have several major data gathering programs already in play. The revelations, which came via the Washington Post and whistleblower Edward Snowden, detailed a complex and robust system of collection tools that allow the NSA and other government agencies to access unencrypted data and to collect encrypted traffic in the hopes that they can decrypt that data in the future and add it to their searchable data stockpile. The site, according to an interview with The New York Times, will encounter a bit of a speed hit to make this work, to the tune of around 150ms on initial connection. But the differential should be worth it to enable extra security. Google implemented PFS two years
IDrive Launches Facebook Backup So You Never Lose The Photos And Videos You Were Tagged In
Nov 22, 10:15PM
IDrive, like most online backup services, has long focused on keeping the data on your local hard drive safe by backing it up to the cloud. Now, however, the company is launching a new product that expands its services beyond your local drive and deeper into the cloud. IDrive now allows you to also back up your pictures and video on Facebook to its servers. This backup feature, it’s worth noting, extends beyond your own photos and videos. If a friend tags you in a photo, for example, that image will be included in your backup. Normally, those images would be gone if your friend is a drama queen and untags or un-friends you (or – in less dramatic situations – simply deletes the picture). Facebook, the company argues, has evolved “into such an important part of social interaction that using the media site to store or share pictures / videos is frequently the chosen way of exchanging data.” The service is now available to all IDrive users (including those on the free 5GB plan) and once all the data from Facebook is backed up, users can access their images and videos from any web browser and the company’s iOS app. An Android app, the company tells me, is “coming soon” and all the data is automatically encrypted with what IDrive calls “an NSA-proof private key option.” It’s worth noting that IDrive isn’t the only company that offers this kind of backup feature. There are a few tools that allow you to download your data onto your own drive, of course, but services like OwnBackup and Backupify also offer the ability to back up your Facebook data. Chances are that IDrive, too, will add support for other online services in the near future.
Uber-For-Laundry Startup Washio Uses Ninjas To Get Your Dirty Clothes Clean
Nov 22, 10:03PM
There's no shortage of on-demand services popping up these days, as different startups each attempt to win the favor of users in specific verticals. One of the latest startups to launch in an "Uber-for-X" category is Washio, which is seeking to bring the on-demand model to the way in which people get their laundry and dry cleaning done. By employing a team of so-called "ninjas" to pick up clothes to be washes and drop them off 24 hours later.
Doom's John Carmack Leaves id Software To Focus On The Oculus Virtual Reality Headset
Nov 22, 9:39PM
Video game legend John Carmack has left id Gaming, a company that he helped to found, to focus his energies on his role as the CTO of Oculus. It’s the end of an era, as Carmack wrote game franchises like Doom and Quake while at id. Carmack is renowned for his coding prowess, work with three-dimensional graphics, and building games that changed the landscape of gaming. Also, the Big Fucking Gun, something that we should not forget. But if Carmack is known for helping build what is next, his decision to move on is hardly surprising. Oculus, if it finds mass adoption, will change the way gaming works, and how we interact with gaming content for the forseeable future. id Gaming released the following statement: John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id’s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well. The headset may be dorky looking, but Oculus contains in it the hope for a more immersive future, one that steeps a player inside a game, granting them no quarter to escape: Once you strap in, you are stuck in. Oculus certainly has the cash that it needs to see its project through: The company raised $16 million this summer. Previously, the company raised $2.4 million through a much-heralded Kickstarter campaign. The company lost one of its founders in June to a hit and run accident. With Carmack on board full time and cash in the bank, Oculus appears to be on a solid path. But really, Carmack, Doom 3 on Oculus. Make it happen. Or at least Quake 3. Please. Top Image Credit: Flickr
Travel Startup Triptrotting Relaunches As Wist, A Local Recommendations App For iPhone
Nov 22, 9:38PM
Travel startup Triptrotting is relaunching today on mobile as Wist, an app that gives you the top five personalized suggestions for dining and drink in any given neighborhood or city, based on your likes, plus friends' and locals' recommendations. The app is debuting with support for Miami only, but will arrive in other large U.S. cities, like New York and Triptrotting's home base of San Francisco, early next year.
Turntable.fm Shutting Down So Company Can Focus On Turntable Live Events Platform
Nov 22, 9:07PM
Today, Turntable.fm has announced that it will shut down its ‘virtual dj’ product entirely to focus on its new Turntable Live platform, which attempts to replicate the ‘being there’ experience of live performances. TechCrunch broke the news of Turntable.fm’s live event pivot back in September, but today the company has acknowledged that Turntable.fm will be shuttered. The news comes in a blog post by the Turntable team, where it details the efforts to get Turntable.fm, which was beloved by a core group of users, to work on a wider scale. “For over 2 years, we've improved and evolved the turntable.fm experience. We made rooms expand to unlimited sizes, made thousands of UI improvements, launched GOLD, built a mini-player, designed tons of avatars and listened to our community, trying to make the experience as wonderful as possible,” says the posting. “Over those two years, the community has played over 400 million songs in about a million rooms.” Unfortunately, those efforts weren’t enough. Comscore numbers in September put Turntable traffic at around 89k uniques. When he spoke to us a couple of months ago, Founder Billy Chasen said that the removal of the ability to upload music was able to save the company about $20k a month. But the posting says that the price of running the music service remained too high. “It was a tough decision to make because we love this community so much, but the cost of running a music service has been too expensive and we can't outpace it with our efforts to monetize it and cut costs,” says the posting. “If we also want to give Turntable Live a real shot, we need to fully focus on it.” The company says that playlists and songs will be able to be exported via Spotify or CSV file. It’s also making avatars available for everyone, rather than just those who have leveled up. It’s going to work on making ‘anonymous’ raw data dumps of Turntable info available for developers to play with. The company says it will host a live party on Turntable.fm on December 2. Presumably the site will be shut down after that date. Here’s an example of what a Turntable Live performance looks like. I always found Turntable.fm quite cool, but the basic concept had some distinct flaws. Streaming music is often something that people listen to in the background, without the time or inclination to
Record Setting 32M Tuned In To Watch League Of Legend's Season 3 Finals
Nov 22, 8:16PM
Among the youngs, competitive gaming, often referred to as esports, is growing at a rapid pace. The world’s most popular video game, League of Legends, this week reported the viewership figures for its recent Season 3 finals event that sold out the Staples Center in Los Angeles: 32 million tuned in around the world, with peak concurrents spiking as high as 8.5 million. For comparison, League of Legend’s Season 2 finals – also taking place in Los Angeles – last October saw 8.2 million viewers, and 1.1 million peak concurrents. So, the audience for League grew more than a touch in the yearlong period between the two events. Why does this matter? Becuase esports, and League especially, perhaps, are changing media consumption habits for an audience that skews young, and male, a target group that advertisers covet. Also, as the world turns its attention to the new Xbox One and Playstation 4 consoles, it’s important to keep in mind how popular PC gaming remains. League of Legends is a team-based game pitting five players against another five, each playing a unique champion out of a roster of more than 100. Teams work in concert to destroy their opponents’ base through the use of neutral monsters, team fights, and item purchases employing won gold from gameplay. It’s chaotic, colorful, fun, and exceptionally hard. Fueling the rise of esports is more than television deals in Asia. Instead, livestreaming company Twitch has enabled – though bumps remain – games of all sorts to be played for audiences that can span the globe. It’s not by accident that both Sony and Microsoft worked to incorporate the technology into their new consoles. The question that the above sums to is simple: How large can League grow in its 2014 season? Top Image Credit: LoLEsports
Google Wants To Bring Glass To Optometrists' Offices, But No Partnership Yet
Nov 22, 7:49PM
According to a Wall Street Journal report, Google is working with VSP Global to bring Glass to optometrists’ offices. We have learned from sources close to Google, however, that Glass does not currently have any partnership with VSP (yet). So while the two companies may be exchanging ideas, as the WSJ reports, no formal relationship between the two companies as been established so far. A Google Spokesperson provided us with the following statement: “We have said for some time that we are working to bring Glass prescription frames to our Explorers and we’ve created prototypes that members of the Glass team are actively testing. Beyond that we don’t comment on rumor or speculation.” VSP is a U.S.-based group that provides vision benefits and services to over 60 million people. The company works with a network of 29,000 doctors and also owns Marchon Eyewear and Altair Eyewear, which design and manufacture eyewear. This matchup between Google and VSP would make it easier for Google to bring Glass to users who need prescription Glasses. Google has never hidden the fact that it has been working on prescription versions of Glass and everybody who has picked up Glass has likely seen at least one Google employee who was wearing the company’s own prototypes. Google also specifically stressed that Glass v2, which is now rolling out to new and existing Glass users, was tweaked to make adding prescription Glasses easier. Google, however, hasn’t officially launched prescription lenses for Glass. As Glass already comes with a sunglass attachment, adding a prescription version wouldn’t be all that hard, but it would hardly look stylish. There are, however, some companies that are already looking into manufacturing these kinds of lenses. Just around the time Glass rolled out to the first group of “Explorers,” we also heard that Google was working with Warby Parker to make glasses that “look less like Geordi La Forge's eyewear and more like something a style-conscious person in the early 21st century would be happy to put on his or her face.” It’s been relatively quiet around this collaboration ever since, but Warby Parker would be the kind of hip company Google would probably like to work with on this project. To get Glass to the masses, though, it needs a company with a network like VSP. Update: We updated this post to note that Google and VSP don’t have any partnership yet and to include Google’s statement. Image credit:
Microsoft Now Shipping Kinect For Windows Preview Kits To "Thousands" Of Developers
Nov 22, 7:23PM
Today Microsoft announced that it is shipping developer preview kits of its new Kinect for Windows sensor and software. That means the company is getting the new Kinect (a pre-release version) and the code to run it into the hands of developers on the same day that the Xbox One launched. The Xbox One brings the living room variant of the new Kinect to average folk en masse. According to Microsoft, “thousands” of developers signed up for the program. That’s nontrivial given that it cost $399 to take part, as The Next Web’s Emil Protalinski points out. Developers who receive the pre-release Kinect will also be given the final Kinect for Windows device when it is finished next year. Kinect for Windows is a technology I’ve been a fan of since I heard of it. Adding voice and motion control to your computer that can likely already handle touch, and mouse and keyboard input is compelling. Other companies like Leap Motion are working on similar, if technologically dissimilar efforts. However, Kinect for Windows, unlike its Xbox-based cousin, remains a developer toy better suited for one-off experimentation than daily use. Buy a Kinect for Windows sensor and if you can’t code, you can’t do much more than look at the device. That said, no platform is born mature, and if we’re eventually going to bake elements of Kinect into our laptop screens and desktop monitors, we have to incubate the technology. The software side of the new Kinect contains a new SDK, supporting what the second generation Kinect hardware can bring in, in terms of data. For more on that, head here.
Aufeminin Acquires Subscription Service And City Guide 'My Little Paris' For $90 Million
Nov 22, 7:23PM
From little Parisian website to subscription service juggernaut, My Little Paris has come a long way. Earlier this week, Aufeminin acquired the company. We’ve learned from multiple sources that Aufeminin agreed to pay around $90 million (€66.7 million) for the acquisition. Part of Axel Springer, Aufeminin is one of the largest lifestyle website in France. For now, Aufeminin spent $54 million (€40 million) in cash to acquire 60 percent of My Little Paris, with future plans to acquire the rest of the company. It’s a great success story for its four co-founders — the startup only put together $6,700 (€5,000) of initial capital. In 2008, before becoming a highly-valued subscription service, My Little Paris started out as a woman-centric weekly newsletter to share restaurant advice and various urban tips. The newsletter rapidly attracted a healthy subscriber base. Today, more than a million people receive the recommendation newsletter three times a week. Now, the content is available on its website, as well as on sister websites My Little Lyon, My Little Marseille and other verticals (My Little Book Club, My Little Wedding…). But the most important part of the business is no longer the websites — My Little Paris shouldn’t be considered as a content-first company. In 2011, the company launched , a subscription service for women. Every month, subscribers receive a box of beauty and fashion items carefully curated by the startup. So far, 70,000 people have subscribed for $21 (€15.50) a month. My Little Paris has launched other types of boxes, such as Gambettes Box, a subscription service for tights. In the end, the content business was a great way to attract customers for its subscription service. It is one of the best examples of content monetization. Thanks to this acquisition, the My Little Paris team has international expansion plans in mind. For now, the company remains very France-centered. The company will certainly target women in urban areas in order to reproduce its French successes around the world. (Image credit: homard.net)
SEEiT, The Feature That Turns Twitter Into A Remote Control For Comcast Subscribers, Rolls Out This Week
Nov 22, 7:22PM
A new feature on Twitter which will allow Comcast subscribers to tune to or record select television programs by clicking on tweets is now going live. Last month, Twitter and Comcast announced a strategic partnership to introduce “See It” button in tweets, which Twitter users would tap on to immediately watch a live show or set their DVR to record it for the future. Today, Twitter is announcing the “See It” (or SEEiT, as it’s hilariously being spelled) buttons will roll out this week with two NBC Universal programs, a drama called “Haven” and the reality program “Naked Vegas,” as the first shows supported. These are odd choices for the SEEiT launch, as the shows aren’t exactly the most high-profile TV programs from the forthcoming lineup. However, Twitter refers to the rollout as a “preview,” indicating perhaps they want to test with less well-known shows while working out the kinks. On Comcast’s new SEEiT website, NBC’s “The Voice” is at the top of the page, and in several screenshots. Many expected it would also be among the first to receive the new functionality on Twitter, as it was the only program from the Comcast lineup which appeared on Nielsen’s study of the most tweeted about shows. Comcast has a number of other more interesting programming options it could have chosen from for the SEEiT preview, including The Blacklist, Chicago Fire, The Michael J. Fox Show, Sunday Night Football, Access Hollywood, NHL, Premier League Soccer, Sochi Olympics, Today Show, Psych, and Suits. We’ve just launched #SEEiT, providing instant access to TV shows and movies! Learn about it here: http://t.co/AfWLrkBA5M — SEEiT (@seeit) November 22, 2013 We’ve launched our partnership with @comcast that allows users to tune in to a TV show directly from a Tweet! https://t.co/9gbdexcyTM — Jana Messerschmidt (@janamal) November 22, 2013 SEEiT previews this week on Twitter for iOS with @NBCUniversal‘s drama series Haven and reality show Naked Vegas. https://t.co/fNqcLRWjqI — Twitter TV (@twittertv) November 22, 2013 Comcast previously said that the programming which will become SEEiT-enabled includes shows from NBC, NBC Sports Network, CNBC, MSNBC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, Oxygen, E!, Esquire Network, and The Golf Channel. But it sounds like lineup will be expanding in the future. Comcast says on the SEEiT website that it’s working with other programmers and channels beyond NBCUniversal, and hopes to have announcements related to an expanded lineup of supported shows “soon.” The SEEiT website FAQ also
Announcing The 7th Annual Crunchies Awards
Nov 22, 7:00PM
The glitz. The glamour. The nerds. It’s nearly time for the 7th Annual Crunchies Awards, where TechCrunch, Gigaom, and VentureBeat put aside the day-to-day bloodsport of blogging and celebrate the best of technology. As in years past, the collective tech blog community will give awards to the best and brightest startups, founders, investors and thought leaders in our industry. There are 20 Crunchies categories in all, including CEO of the Year and Best New Startup, and nominations are now open. The award ceremony will take place on Monday, February 10, 2014 at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco,beginning at 7:30 pm. Davies is an elegant venue that has hosted some of the greatest musical performances in history and now the Crunchies. Following the Awards, the Davies will also provide a festive playground for this year's after party. As always there will be a hosted bar, hors d'oeuvres, intriguing interactive entertainment and other fun surprises. And tech bloggers. General admission tickets are now available and start at $80. Seating is very limited and the event tends to sell out quickly. Crunchies nominations close on December 15th at 11:59pm. Sell Tickets Online through Eventbrite
KwikDesk, An Ephemeral Messaging Platform, Mulls Introducing Bitcoin
Nov 22, 6:03PM
An interesting idea sprouted up this week called KwikDesk, dubbing itself as a "Snapchat Meets Twitter." The service allows anyone to send self-destructing messages into the ether with tags, which can be used to later dig them back up in a search. It's entirely anonymous, with no senders IP log or record of individual users. Senders can choose to let the message live for 24 hours, 10 days, or 100 days. 
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