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Path CEO Dave Morin Joins Eventbrite Board

Path co-founder and CEO Dave Morin is joining the board of the event ticketing startup Eventbrite, the company is announcing today. The news of the appointment follows what has been, so far, quite a b...
The Junkman’s Dilemma: How The Internet Has Changed How We See History

Back in in 1999, just as Ebay was coming into bloom, William Gibson wrote a piece on his experiences buying expensive watches online. He called the article My Obsession and it details his youth as a p...
Mobile Payments Startup Jumio Takes On Card.io With Credit Card Scanning Toolkit For App Developers

Mobile payments and identity verification company Jumio is introducing its Netswipe Mobile SDK today, which allows developers to add credit card scanning functionality to their mobile applications.
Review: Samson Carbon 49 USB MIDI Controller

If you are looking for Piano or Rhodes-like feel for serious playing, Samson's Carbon 49 USB MIDI Controller may not be right for you. However, if you need a keyboard for some light playing or sample...
Here’s A Video Of Samsung’s Galaxy S III In The Wild

The Galaxy S III is likely the most anticipated Android phone in existence. At least, today it is. Samsung is the king of Android hardware, the Galaxy S II is its most successful phone to date, and...

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Verizon is now bigger than parent Vodafone

Chinese and U.S. operators continued to dominate the list of global operators, according to Wireless Intelligence. China Mobile further solidified its top spot in both subscribers and revenue, but mos...
VeriFone’s SAIL caught copying rival Square’s user agreement

While VeriFone's Square rival SAIL looks nothing like Square's credit card swiping dongle, the company veered into flat out imitation with its legal user agreement, which lifted much of its language d...
Mobile app installs rise, but time in apps barely moves

Over the past year as more consumers have adopted smartphones the number of installed applications is up from 32 to 41. Yet the amount of time spent using those applications hasn't changed much, indic...
Rocket caught copying Fab code in Nigerian push

The fact that Germany's Rocket Internet is launching another clone should come as a surprise to no-one. But even with their copycat reputation, cutting and pasting code for their new Nigerian online s...
Appsfire builds a page rank system to score apps

Appsfire is introducing App Scores, a new way of pinning an iPhone app's worth to a simple number. The automated system works takes into account dozens of signals and comes up with a number from 1-100...

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Why Sharing Is the New Search [VIDEO]

What has a bigger reach than Google on the web? Sharing. We caught up with Tim Shigel (pronounced like “wiggle”), co-founder and…...
Turner Broadcasting Takes a Bite of Funny or Die

Web comedy powerhouse Funny Or Die announced a strategic partnership with Turner Broadcasting Tuesday, joining forces with television’s to…...
When Social Gaming Meets Social Good

Social Reality gets Facebook users to learn about causes while they're gaming.
Google to Sell Android ‘Nexus’ Devices Directly to Customers [REPORT]

Google will give several device manufacturers early access to future releases of the Android operating system, a new report says. As part of the…...
New HTML5 ‘Prometheus’ Training Center Shows Off Power of the Web

Microsoft is continuing to push the boundaries of HTML5 with a new interactive website for Ridley Scott’s upcoming film Prometheus. For the las…...

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This Sesame Street app will potty-train your kid

Hope you've got a screen protector...Sesame Street has a new iOS app, "Potty Time with Elmo," that is aimed at kids and parents going through the potty-training process.
Intel hopes the youngs will like its new mobile magazine

Today Intel is launching a Flipboard-like digital magazine, "iQ by Intel," that aims to attract "a younger audience" through a blend of employee-curated content and original stories. So far, it's most...
The morning lowdown 5-16-12

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning...
Microstock’s stock is rising: $265 million for Shutterstock, Fotolia

Fotolia is taking a $150 million private investment as Shutterstock goes public to raise $115 million. Coincidence? Crowdsourced-photo rivals are bulking up to challenge microstock's market-leading iS...
Betting big on live sports data, Perform lays €120 million on RunningBall

Fresh from its IPO, the increasingly good-looking online sports video and betting outfit Perform is buying big to add live match data to its services.

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Why the iPad Works for Writing

When the first iPad launched in 2010, critics were quick to lampoon the device for being geared too heavily toward content consumption. The criticisms weren't entirely without merit, especially consid...
The Truth About Why Yahoo's CEO Got Fired

What's the takeaway from Yahoo's recent CEO fiasco? Don't lie on your corporate bio, for one, and make sure no one else has lied on your behalf. But the real lesson has nothing to do with falsified cr...
Loomio: Making Better Decisions Remotely Possible

Email, instant messaging, forums, code forges and other collaboration tools make it possible for distributed teams to get work done - but they're not great tools for making decisions. The team behind...
9 Ways to Convince Your Parents to Support Your Startup - Not Just Financially

For many young entrepreneurs, getting their parents’ support for a new venture can make a huge difference - emotionally, practically and even financially. But it’s not always easy to explain to Mo...
S3 Storage for WordPress Blogs

Looking to tap Amazon S3 storage for your WordPress blog? The WP2Cloud plugin lets you store all your WordPress data - not just media files - in S3. The WP2Clo...

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The Facebook IPO Frenzy Turns Depressing

#bubbles Perhaps you've heard that Facebook is going public this week in a massive IPO that values the company at over $100 billion. There's an apocalyptic air...
It's Mark Zuckerberg's 28th Birthday

#facebook Boy King Mark Zuckerberg turned 28 today, striking fear and loathing into the hearts of everyone who is not a 28-year-old billionaire. Facebook will go.
Will Facebook Crush an Anonymous Social Network?

#theinternet If Facebook had its way, nothing on Earth would be called a "book" without its explicit permission. Now, Mark Zuckerberg's Big Blue Death Star is...
World's Best Twitter User Jose Canseco Mysteriously Disappears From Twitter

#poets A brilliant neutron star winked out of existence today, when grammar-challenged baseball player Jose Canseco abruptly shut down his wonderful Twitter...
Professional Video Gamer's Charity Campaign Tries to Outdo Kony 2012 In Obnoxiousness

#theinternet Now that Joseph Kony is in jail thanks to everyone tweeting that Kony 2012 video (he is, right?) all future activism will consist of slick viral...

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Mashup

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I Told Y'All

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LG Cloud

LD Cloud LG Cloud is the online storage service that users can enjoy video clips, music files or photo files wherever they are. (↬ theverge) | | |...

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PRESENTING: The End Of The Retail World As We Know It

Retail is changing, fast. New pressures are taking their toll on the industry, and retailers have to adapt if they want to survive. Magnus Ohlsson, founder of retail management firm MORM, ha...
Gleeful Google Exec Takes A Shot At Facebook's Lousy Ad Business (GOOG)

Google display ad boss Jason Bigler is not surprised that General Motors, the nation's third-biggest advertiser, has cut its $10 million Facebook ad budget to zero because Facebook advertising "d...
This Man Lost $3 BILLION By Following His Father's Advice

When Joe Green was at Harvard, he was roommates with Mark Zuckerberg. He and Zuckerberg created Face Mash together, which got the pair in trouble with the university. Green's father, a professor at US...
FURY AT FACEBOOK: General Motors Was 'Mental' To Pull Its Ads, Say Sources (GM)

General Motors' decision yesterday to pull its $10 million Facebook ad budget set of a firestorm reaction ahead of the social network's IPO, expected Friday. Many have taken the move as a sign that Fa...
Here's How Apple Will Sell A Lot More iPhones (AAPL)

China Mobile, the world's largest carrier in terms of subscribers, has confirmed to Bloomberg that it is in talks with Apple to offer the iPhone. China Mobile's chairman Xi Guohua told Bloomberg that...

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Microsoft will remove the bloatware from your PC, for a price

$99 and a trip to a Microsoft Store will get you a clean Windows install.
Massive DDoS attack keeps The Pirate Bay offline for over a day

Angry Anons may be behind the attack.
WSJ: production of 4-inch iPhone beginning in June

There's hope for farsighted iPhone fans.
Say hello to the real real-time Web

It's not just a buzzword, but a technological shift—the instantly accessible Web...
Google's bots learn to read interactive webpages more like humans

Google can now index parts of the Web that weren't indexable before...

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Bootstrapping

With all the talk of massive amounts of cash sloshing around the web/mobile startup ecosystem (including things I've said recently), you would think that nobody bootstraps anymore. But that is not tru...
Mobile Native Services

One of the most exciting areas of Internet applications these days are applications that are "mobile native". That doesn't just mean mobile first. It means mobile native - the app could not exist if t...
MBA Mondays Series: People

Based on the feedback I got on this topic last week, I've revised the title of the series and the topics we are going to cover. The series will be called People. Human Capital is a turnoff. Businesses...
Easy Come Easy Go

I just read that a lot of the social news reader traffic publishers like Washington Post and The Guardian were getting from Facebook has dropped off dramatically. Next we will read that the traffic so...
Android in Europe and Asia

I was going through the board deck of our portfolio company Wattpad this morning. Wattpad is the leading writing/reading community on the web and mobile. Quantcast says over 7.5mm people visit their w...

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The Custom-Built Workspace for Two [Featured Workspace]

Today's featured workspace features a long multi-level desk put together by IT professional Chad Cram. With tons of storage and desk surface space, it's very functional workspace for two. More&nbs...
Group Videos in iTunes by Saving Them as TV Shows [Videos]

Want to add more organization to your collection of videos in iTunes? Categorize the videos as TV Shows instead of Movies and then you can group them as you wish (home videos, YouTube videos, etc.). M...
Evernote for Android Gets a Whole New Look and More User-Friendly Features [Video]

Android: Evernote has given its Android app a complete makeover, and the updates are not only visually appealing but also make using the note-taking app on tiny devices much easier. More &raq...
Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Summer Semester 2012 [Video]

Your education doesn't have to stop once you get out of school—being free of the classroom just means you have more control over what you learn and when you learn it. We've put together a curric...
Build Your Own Electromagnetic Interface Detector to Root Out Standby Power Waste [DIY]

A lot of electronics use up power even when they're turned off and that wastes energy. The easy fix for this is to simply flip off a power strip, but if you want to root out and identify the source, P...

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Bitly readies real-time viral search engine, raises $20 million in new funding (Ben Popper/The Verge)

Ben Popper / The Verge: Bitly readies real-time viral search engine, raises $20 million in new funding — Bitly, a New York company that lets users shorten, share, and track URLs, is...
Fab.com relaunches, and it buries other social shopping experiences (Jolie O'Dell/VentureBeat)

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: Fab.com relaunches, and it buries other social shopping experiences — Today, Fab.com is launching its third and most ambitious version of the site, and CE...
Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Unknown Enemy (Enigmax/TorrentFreak)

Enigmax / TorrentFreak: Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Unknown Enemy — Although Pirate Bay downtime happens a handful of times each month, it rarely persists for more than a few h...
Appcelerator raises $3m more from Presidio for app development platform (Robin Wauters/The Next Web)

Robin Wauters / The Next Web: Appcelerator raises $3m more from Presidio for app development platform — Exclusive - Appcelerator, the US company behind popular cross-platform iOS, An...
Samsung loses $10 billion market value on Apple order report (Reuters)

Reuters: Samsung loses $10 billion market value on Apple order report — (Reuters) - Shares in Samsung Electronics Co slumped more than 6 percent on Wednesday, wiping $10 billion off...

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Google: No "shred of evidence" for Oracle patent claim

Google followed up with its closing arguments in phase two of the Oracle suit over Java, reiterating that it had no knowledge of Sun's patent portfolio Read more by Rachel King on CBS News' Tech Talk.
Best smartphone ever? Apple’s Siri says Nokia Lumia 900

Apple’s speech recognition software, Siri’s latest answer might leave its creators blushing. Apparently when asked what the best smartphone ever made is, it gives a surprise answer. No, it’s not...
Idiotic Copyright Comparisons in Canadian Parliament

Politicians are always going the extra mile for their supporters, and nothing spells that out more clearly than this video, taken from the Canadian Parliaments discussion into C-11, the current attemp...
Apple Resolves Siri Bug, Now Stating Nokia Lumia 900 Best Smartphone Ever

After having a long discussion on the report that Nokia accused Apple for overriding Siri’s report stating Nokia Lumia 900 is the best smartphone. Apple has fixed the bug that made Siri declare that...
Review: Sony Xperia S

The Xperia S is the first phone from the now single Sony ever since it acquired Ericsson stake in the company. You can tell from the spec sheet that Sony decided to start off with a bang and the Xperi...

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Chrome Offers Tabs To Go With New Tab Syncing Features

Google's Chrome web browser will now let you take your open tabs wherever you go. Just sign into your Google account and Chrome will sync your tabs from desktop to tablet to phone and back again.
Flickr Goes Big With Larger Images, Responsive Redesign

Flickr, the photo-sharing service that started them all, is teaching its competitors some new tricks with a redesign that takes a responsive approach to images, serving up bigger, better images across...
Firefox for Android Preps for Prime Time

The latest Firefox for Android beta is out and shows mobile Firefox nearly ready for a starring role on Android phones and tablets. This release looks different, but underneath the revamped design --...
Use Your ‘Head’ For a Better Way to Serve Images

Serving the right image to the right screen can be tricky. Developers need to account for not just screen size, but available bandwidth as well. A new solution solves the problem with just a few lines...
Jokes for Nerds: HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS

Web developer Louis Lazaris creates a pitch-perfect parody of today's jargon-laden world of web development.

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Wikipedia losing contributors, to streamline editing

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the user-generated encyclopedia is losing volunteer contributors, and must simplify its editing procedures. Originally posted at News - Digital Media...
See what's new in Thunderbird

As Thunderbird joins Mozilla's rapid-release program, the e-mail client reorients itself for a new road map. But where's it going? See what the Outlook alternative offers in this new First Look video.
Twitter revamping mobile site for iPad users

The company is tweaking its mobile twitter.com site using HTML5 to make it more user-friendly for iPad users. Originally posted at News - Digital Media...
How to tweet like a man

Sociolinguistics gives us the keys to more masculine or feminine tweeting. Hint, guys: Google my jeep my ni$$@, http it up, bro. 4 sale. need $. Originally posted at Crave...
Gmail voice calling offering lower international rates

Accessible through Gmail, Google's phone call feature is being rolled out in 38 new languages with cheaper rates across more than 150 countries. Originally posted at News - Digital Media...

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Rage Comics Turn Everyday Stress Into Laughs

Rage comics, using a combination of browser-based editing tools, offers an outlet for all the seething that comes from dealing with stupid behavior.
App Smart: App Tutorials in Bar and Magic Tricks - App Smart

A few apps aim to teach bar tricks with a minimum of props and are perfect rainy-day apps for parents and children, as well as barroom regulars.
How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet

It’s probably impossible to cloak your online activities fully, but there are steps you can take to make them harder to follow.
App Smart: A Review of Airport Guide Apps - App Smart

Airport guide apps can connect you with decent food, and may help you avoid overpaying for ground transportation.
Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Turning Off a Social App

If a social-reader app is getting a little too social, you can modify or remove it from your Facebook account.

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Daily Report: A Russian Tycoon and His Soon-to-Be Facebook Fortune

In Wednesday's New York Times, Andrew E. Kramer tells the story of Alisher B. Usmanov, a Russian steel tycoon who made an ambitious bet on Facebook in 2009, in the midst of the global recession. That...
In TV Race, Microsoft Has Lead, Forrester Says

When it comes to the underlying technology providers that matter for mobile app developers, there's Google and Apple, with Microsoft as an also-ran. But as television begins to resemble the mobile bus...
Consumers Less Happy With BlackBerrys

A survey of consumer satisfaction among cellphone users found that RIM's BlackBerry is losing ground. On a scale of up to 100, RIM's aggregate satisfaction score is lowest, at 69. By contrast Apple, t...
Send an E-Mail to the World, and Other Student Projects

If you could send an e-mail to one million people, what would it say? It's something you could eventually try with The Listserve, one of many projects from the Interactive Telecommunications Program o...
Today's Scuttlebot: Inside Anonymous and Inside Flickr

The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Tuesday's selection includes a new mobile camera app that can recognize faces and identify th...

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New Feeds For Searchblog

Pardon the site-specific interruption, but as part of my ongoing quest to keep my content here on my own site, I’ve begun posting pictures of stuff here that I’d otherwise put on Instagram...
Get to Know Ross Levinsohn

The remarkable news today that, among other important board moves, Ross Levinsohn will take over as interim CEO at Yahoo may well mark the end of an era – should his tenure stick, perhaps we can...
The Audacity of Diaspora

Last Friday Businessweek ran a story on Diaspora, a social platform built from what might be called Facebook anti-matter. It’s a great read that chronicles the project’s extraordinary high...
Oh, MacROSTIE!

A very happy Friday night with my wife, mother in law, and kids (and tomatoes, kale, wild rice, et al), made round by this MacRostie Pinot, 2007. Yippee, it’s the weekend!

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SAP Sapphire: Hasso Plattner talks in-memory computing, slams Oracle

Legendary SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner discusses the limits of today’s technology and why in-memory computing will change everything — nevermind what Larry Ellison says about it.
Oracle releases HP documents: 'Make your own decision'

Oracle has released a cache of HP documents first seen during litigation, which shows just how much HP wanted to keep the ailing Itanium chip going.
Smartphones: Commoditization looms; shakeout can't be far behind

Bottom line: The smartphone race will look dramatically different a year from now. A shakeout is on the horizon.
Apple iPhone 5, iTV launches to bolster transportation networks?

The transportation system seems to be pointing to more tonnage courtesy of tech product launches. One analyst connects the Apple dots.
Windows RT may breach Microsoft-EU 'browser ballot' deal

The European Commission is keeping its eye on Microsoft, after a U.S. Senate subcommittee said it would investigate potential antitrust matters relating to Windows on ARM browsers.

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The space shuttle, the future of media and a Twitter town hall

Inspired by my friend @om — who has collected some of his recent posts on his Om.is.me blog — I thought I would do the same and put together a list of some of the things I wrote during the...
Why Do We Link in News Stories? A Discussion

You wouldn't think that in 2011, we would still be having debates about the value of linking to things in news stories or blog posts, but it seems that we are. Blogging veteran Doc Searls got the late...
You Can’t Play a New Media Game By Old Media Rules

If there’s one aspect of the media business that has been disrupted more completely than any other, it’s the whole idea of “breaking news.” Just as television devalued the old...
Should We Be Keeping Score on Twitter? Klout Thinks So

As the race continues to find a reliable way of measuring influence in social networks and the “reputation graph,” Klout — one of the front-runners in that business, along with compe...
It’s Facebook Vs. Twitter In the Race to Make the News Social

Facebook has disrupted or helped to re-engineer many businesses and markets, including the photo-sharing market and the social-gaming market. But one thing it hasn’t really focused on so far is...

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Shark Tank Recap – April 27

Check out my recap of the popular ABC television show Shark Tank featuring Lori Greiner, Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, Kevin O'Leary, Damond John and Robert Herjavec.
Does Product Design Always Matter?

While I don’t own many Apple products, I know the feeling that they give me when I use them. I like my Android tablet but for some reason the iPod Touch just seems to give me a better feeling wh...
Web Jobs – April 23

Need a new web job? Check out the latest jobs for the week of April 23, 2012 on the CenterNetworks job board.
Why I’m Using Facebook More Often

I’ve never been a heavy Facebook user — I’ve had an account for a very long time but I mainly used it to share posts from CN and to “friend” people who request that I fri...
Tumblr is Invisible to the News, As These Charts Show. Why?

A look at Tumblr versus Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest with regards to news.

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New Interface for the Google Q&A OneBox

Google's OneBox for instant answers has a new interface that emphasizes the results. Google now displays the answer on the first line and the font size is bigger.The Q&A OneBox now shows multiple answ...
Research Sidebar in Google Docs

Google Docs has a new feature that lets you find more information about some of the words from a document and also add content from the Web. The research sidebar can be enabled from the Tools menu or...
Google Tests a New Interface for Info Panes

Last year, Google started to test a new sidebar that offers useful information about your query. As the Wall Street Journal mentioned in a recent article, Google will soon "present more facts and dire...
Photo Tours in Google Maps

Google Maps has a great new feature that shows 3D photo tours for more than 15,000 landmarks using the images submitted by Panoramio and Picasa Web users. Google displays an image preview next to the...
Google's Zerg Rush Easter Egg

Google has a new Easter Egg: search for [zerg rush] and you'll notice that search results will start to disappear, destroyed by zerglings. Your mission is to save the search results and kill the zergl...

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Tripping Becomes a Kayak for Home Rentals and Couchsurfing

Tripping now includes home rentals through partnerships with FlipKey, HomeAway and Roomorama.
Oracle Drops New Documents in Itanium Trial, and They're Juicy

Oracle takes its case that HP lied to its customers about Itanium to the court of customer opinion with a huge document dump.
Sprint's Hesse: We'll Make Money on the iPhone … Eventually

“Carrying the iPhone will be quite profitable," says Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, for the umpteenth time.
Fab.com Ditches Google+ in Favor of Pinterest

Fab.com, the shopping Web site that raised $40 million late last year in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz, has revamped its site to highlight more social features, including the ability to...
Dominant in China, UCWeb Brings Its Mobile Browser to Silicon Valley

With 50 percent of the mobile browser market in its home market of China, UCWeb is now looking across the Pacific.

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Have Arrington and Conway screwed up big time with their investment in Highlight?

Tonight I’m getting message after message that friend after friend has joined Highlight (the photo above is of Paul Davison showing it off to some of its first users back in December on the day...
Scoble: hit man of Silicon Valley?

Today a “journalist” (Dan Lyons) says I have been hitting up VCs to start my own fund. Really? I didn’t know that! For the record, I’m not raising a fund. This article is NOT a...
Pinterest is to Facebook as Storify’s new iPad app is to Twitter

Back in 2010 I wrote this article about the need for content curation software. Storify is it. Here’s a look at its new iPad app which is very awesome. Why is this important? Well, let’s l...
Why I am tired of Silicon Valley’s focus on virality, Glassmap is far worse than Path ever was

You might have seen all the people beating up on Path about two weeks ago. But that really is pretty benign behavior, in my experience, when compared to companies, like Glassmap, who really are hurtin...
Hacker News vs. Google+

I might as well have titled this “Hacker News vs Marketers.” Or “Hacker News vs Bloggers.” Or “jerks vs nice people.” But I never participate in Hacker News for a f...

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Should you learn to code?

I have to weigh in on this. You should learn enough about anything to find out if you love it. I had no idea I was good at writing software until, on a lark, I enrolled in a Computer Science...
Quick idea for Quora

Quora just raised $50 million. Quora is a very nicely done piece of software. Almost everyone thinks so. But I also think they're too late. There are already plenty of corporate blogging silos for peo...
Chrome is better, day 2

I'm now four days into using Chrome as my primary browser, after switching from Firefox. Top-line review: My work is better. Not just in the browser, everywhere. Having a strong competent tool in...
Run against the Republican Party

I saw Romney interviewed on Fox, and all the arguments about him being awkward and a flawed human being, to me, are unconvincing. To balance those, I look at what I know about the President. Honestly,...
Which iPad is better, continued

On Friday I wrote a piece that suggested, perhaps, that the iPad 2 is a better device than the iPad 3. The reasons: 1. Battery life. 2. Weight. 3. Heat. I don't see that much difference in sc...

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ProofHQ CEO: Remote work is bad for startups? Oh, please!

Remote work may be increasingly mainstream, but there are holdouts like Zaarly exec Shane Mac, who recently opined that startups and distributed teams make a lousy combination. That's news to the foun...
Design tips for home offices in small spaces

Got a remote gig that allows you to work from home but a home that isn't exactly palatial? Design pros channel James Bond to offer clever solutions to keep your business and personal life from blurrin...
Freelancer.com CEO: The future is bright for online outsourcing (but not niche sites)

When GigaOM sat down with Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, to talk about online outsourcing, he expressed incredible optimism about the growth of his site and web-powered international hiring in ge...
Can’t we all just get along? Employees, freelancers, entrepreneurs and coworking

Coworking, originally a movement dominated by freelancers and entrepreneurs, is increasingly attracting more and more remote corporate employees. Do their expectations line up with other members? Do t...
How to make time zone separation work to your advantage

Sure, staying up until the wee hours to talk to your colleague in Israel or Asia may be a bummer, but both a business professor and practitioners say that, with the right tools, working across multipl...

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Farewell, Internet

Well, here we are. More than four years after launching, Switched and DownloadSquad are unfortunately being closed. I've been thrilled to work at these two sites that have expanded tech coverage beyon...
Angry Birds Rio for Symbian lands in Nokia's Ovi Store

Angry Birds is one franchise that sure gives new meaning to the word cross-platform. Angry Birds Rio, the latest installment in the bird-slinging series from Rovio Mobile, is now available in Nokia's...
Kindlebility sends Web pages from your computer to your Kindle

Kindlebility is a bookmarklet that can send any Web page you're viewing to your Kindle. Kindlebility will format the websites so that viewing them on the Kindle isn't a pain. Once you've set it up (mo...
Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.2 gets smarter, faster

Auslogics Disk Defrag has been part of my system maintenance toolkit for quite some time. With the release of version 3.2, it's now even better at tidying up and optimizing your system's hard disk dri...
Windows 8 App Store images leaked?

Windows 8 images continue to leak onto the Internet, despite Microsoft's wallpaper-based pleas to those with access to the early releases. Today's installment courtesy CNBeta shows the upcoming Window...

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Path CEO Dave Morin to join Eventbrite’s board of directors

Path CEO Dave Morin has joined ticketing startup Eventbrite‘s board of the directors, a move Eventbrite claims will help it continue innovating on the social front. While Path was involved with...
Microsoft Kinect’s NUads is what the TV industry needs to survive the future

Microsoft is set to debut its new motion-sensitive advertising project NUads next month, which the company says will revamp the TV ad industry. The company’s natural user-interface ads, or NUads...
iSwifter launches full-featured mobile Facebook app — with social games included — on iPad

The problem with Facebook’s mobile app is that it doesn’t run games. The web-based site is built with Adobe Flash, but that runs poorly on mobile devices. As a result, Facebook can display...
TechStars alum Mocavo grabs $4M to help you find your ancestors

TechStars 2011 alum Mocavo has raised $4 million in its first round of funding in a bid to help people find their ancestors through its search engine, the company announced today. Mocavo started getti...
HTC One X, Evo 4G LTE shipments delayed over Apple patent investigation

HTC’s One X and and Evo 4G LTE may have been praised for their decidedly un-iPhone-esque designs, but the differences are apparently not enough for U.S. Customs. The two devices have fallen vi...

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With Fix In Place, Wolfram Alpha Explains How Siri “Recommended” The Lumia By Mistake

It wasn’t Siri that was recommending the Lumia as the best smartphone to some last week; it was Wolfram Alpha. That won’t happen again, now that Wolfram Alpha has made changes to to fix pr...
3 Guidelines To Scale Your SEM Team

There is a phenomenon within organizations that causes productivity to decline as teams grow larger. This phenomenon is described in economics as a diseconomy of scale and is caused by at least thre...
Did Google Drop 100+ Small Directories

Yesterday I covered a WebmasterWorld thread where SEOs were complaining that Google has been removing tons of free web directories from their index. I conducted some random tests and did notice some o...
Do Search & Display Really Belong Together?

The premise is simple – PPC and display are both media buys trying to achieve similar outcomes; both are forms of ‘bought media’ and now with display moving to a biddable environment both now re...
Early Stage Landing Pages At The Top Of The Funnel

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Hangers with 'like' counts let Facebook dictate fashion

Even if you're not popular on Facebook, your clothes can be. Special clothes hangers at a Brazilian store show the number of Facebook likes each item has. [Read more]...
Google Music device deauthorization policy upsetting users?

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Windows 8 Metro apps freshen up for Release Preview

Several of Microsoft's Metro apps will sport changes when the Windows 8 Release Preview debuts next month, says The Verge. [Read more]...
Get a Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet for $149

Forget the pokey old Nook Color. For the same price, this refurb (backed by a one-year warranty) has a faster processor, more RAM, and a microphone. [Read more]...
Kodak sticks with consumer printing, unveils ESP 3.2 all-in-one device

Kodak remains strong in consumer printing with today's release of the ESP 3.2 multifunction and an accompanying Pic Flick HD iPad app coming in June. [Read more]...

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Confession #112: Screen Rage

At five years-old, it’s no fun getting interrupted while you’re focused on something. As a parent, I compensate for that by employing a series of intricately planned measures to guide my s...
Confession #111: They Know You’re Reading This

I was recently complaining to a teller at my bank that the another bank down the street had given my 3 year-old daughter a stuffed horse for nothing more than walking past the front door. I jokingly a...
Confession #110: Kitties, Komen and The New Editor of Mainstream News

There’s a new editor in chief of mainstream news. You. About a year ago I was putting the final touches on an article for a major media outlet. I honed, I proof-read, I tweaked. My self-absorbed...
Confession #109: Something Disintegrates at a Burger King

The other day, while sitting in our car with the windows down, my wife and I had a heated argument. Bad words. Yelling. A fist or two slammed into our Volvo’s center console. Though we both rece...
Confession #108: I Made This on a Mac

I made this on a Mac. That statement is pretty common these days. But there was a time I would have never imagined creating something on a computer. Sure, I had some friends type up one of my essays o...

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