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Mark Zuckerberg’s 6 Ingredients For Success
Leadership guru Warren Bennis asked whether leaders are born or made. When asked if Wall Street would accept a young Mark Zuckerberg in his early 20s as CEO, Facebook investor Peter Thiel said: “Well, we’ll wait until he’s over 25 to file”. Wise move, considering that Mark’s title on his business cards read “I’m CEO, bitch”.
This week Facebook filed its S-1 to go public. Mark is 27. How Mark managed to launch a social networking site after Friendster had crashed during MySpace’s zenith ha...
Which Service Has The Best Welcome Message? (Hint: Pin Carefully!)
Two days ago, I received an invite to Pinterest. (I know, I'm late.) After signing up, I pretty much ignored the welcome message, just as I do with most services. But last night I decided to get myself caught up after the Crunchies, and started reading through all my unread emails (even the ones from Nigerian royal's relatives) and found myself actually reading through the Pinterest welcome email, too.
It's wonderful, and the reason it's wonderful comes down to just one bullet point:
Pin ...
Daily Crunch: Zen
Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: The Zen Table Practices Mindfulness So You Don’t Have To The Wheel: What Is The Foxconn Debate Really About? iModela Adds CNC Milling To Your Home 3D Printing Arsenal
Facebook Javascript API Goes Down, Taking Down Likes, Comments And Apps With It
I dare you to Facebook Like or even comment on this post. You can't, because the Facebook Javascript API, the backend system which allows developer applications and Facebook's own apps like Likes and Comments to communicate with the data available on the social network, is down, and has been down for at least an hour as far as I can tell, begging the question, "If article falls on a blog and no one Likes it, does it make a sound?"
Investors Drive $ZNGA Up 26% In Two Days Following Facebook IPO Filing
Those of us who have been following the social gaming industry already know that Zynga has made up a big portion of Facebook's revenues. But lots of public investors only seem to have gotten the memo on Wednesday evening, when Facebook's S-1 filing revealed that the developer made up 12% of its total revenues, or $445 million.
In the two days since, Zynga's stock has gone up more than 26%, to close at $13.39 this evening.
I Use Wikipedia More Than Makeup
I just donated $40 to Wikipedia, because I promised myself I would every time I poked fun at its Holiday donation drive and then just never got around to it. Did you know that you could actually donate during the off-season (Via the covert "Donate to Wikipedia" link at the far left of each individual entry page)? I didn't, before I asked Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales whether it was possible to donate in the off-season. Spoiler alert, it is.
My 40 bucks got me, in addition to the very sweet '...
Google Adjusts Political Posture With Sponsorship Of Conservative Conference
In interesting but ultimately not very shocking news, Google has signed on as a major sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference, which is more or less what it sounds like. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just a little odd seeing Google, which is becoming increasingly political, listed next to such organizations as the Koch Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the NRA.
But this isn't the moment Google comes out as a closet Republican. It's actually quite in ke...
Watch 2012 Super Bowl Commercials Now With Facebook + USA Today’s Ad Meter
Want to watch the big budget Super Bowl commercials, but can't wait till Sunday or don't care about football? Facebook and USA Today have just launched Ad Meter, a Facebook app where you can watch many of the TV spots right now. Then from kickoff until Tuesday night you can vote for your favorites. Traditionally an offline poll done live with handheld meters, USA Today has finally brought Ad Meter online so you can judge ads both in real-time and post-game.
Pokki Gives Quick Access To Madden NFL Superstars, Just In Time For The Big Game
It's the Super Bowl season, when a host of services and apps debut just in time for the biggest television event of the year. And, if you're a fan of Madden's NFL Superstars (a web app that's available through Facebook), then you'll like this launch: the game is now available as a Pokki right here.
Pokki, for those that haven't used it, is a platform that lets you install lightweight apps that live in your Windows Taskbar (a Mac version is on the way). Each app gets its own icon — click on i...
Arianna Wants To Put A Nap Room In TechCrunch HQ. LOL.
Silicon Valley absolutely, positively doesn't need a nap room because in theory we don't sleep, let alone nap (and if we do need to nap -- like in an emergency -- we take that shiz home, far far away from hungry competitors!).
Please Aol Mr. Sr. Facilities Manager, take that money and buy us a bunch of Diet Coke to drink late at night or that great beef jerky we used to have or a copyediting slave intern or passes to Burning Man or anything but a room specifically designed for being less pr...
Fear Not: Google Will Still Support The Verizon Galaxy Nexus
Earlier this afternoon Droid-Life noticed something strange: the Android developer devices page had been modified to remove the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, leading the site to question whether Google may have removed support for the device because of its spat with Verizon over Google Wallet. Which would stand to infuriate a lot of new Galaxy Nexus users (including myself), who are looking forward to receiving device updates directly from Google and not having to wait for Verizon to get around to p...
U.S. Government & Military To Get Secret-Worthy Android Phones
The amount of stuff we trust to fly in and out of our smartphones is astounding. Just look at what happened when a couple of reporters got access to an unwitting (and rather unlucky) Apple employee's iMessages alone — within days, they learned more about him than most people know about their closest friends.
Now, imagine all the stuff that could fly in and out of a government official's phone, or that of a highly-ranked member of the military. Forget saucy texts and booty pictures — we're ta...
Gillmor Gang Live 02.03.12 (TCTV)
The Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor – are recording live at 1pm PT.
Recording has concluded.
Apple Kicks Chart Topping Fakes Out Of App Store
Temple Jump, Tiny Birds, Numbers With Friends. These are not the apps you love. They're fakes designed to scam you out of $1.99 when you go to buy Temple Run, Tiny Wings, or Words With Friends. Today Apple took a stand against plagiarism, kicking these rip-offs out of the US App Store. Good riddance, but how can platform owners stop these developers before they rob users of thousands or even millions of dollars?
Micron CEO Dead At 51
The CEO of Micron Technology, Steve Appleton, died in a small plane crash today in Boise, Idaho. He was 51.
Appleton worked at the company since 1983, starting on the night shift production line. He died piloting a Lancair experimental aircraft around Boise.
OnSports Mobile App Battles Its Way Up A Tough League Ahead Of The Super Bowl
Most popular mobile sports apps are trying to feed you scores and news, or show you fantasy numbers. OnSports, by HitPost, is in a smaller class of apps that's focused on users running the discussion themselves. And now, ahead of the Super Bowl this Sunday, viral growth and featured spots on the Android Market and the iTunes App Store are helping it step up against larger competitors.
The Zen Table Practices Mindfulness So You Don’t Have To
Remember those little Zen rock gardens they used to sell for desks? So you could take a minute of your busy day to contemplate the void? Thanks to the magic of Kickstarter, you can build your own automatic, desktop-based Zen garden that will rake itself into endless patterns.
Ansca Mobile Accuses Partner PapayaMobile Of Copying Its Code
Ansca Mobile, the Palo Alto-based mobile development company and makers of the popular Corona SDK, is accusing its partner PapayaMobile of ripping off parts of its SDK for use in PapayaMobile's Social Game Engine. According to Ansca Mobile COO David Rangel, his company recently discovered that Papaya's engine is what he calls a "blatant copy" of some aspects of the Corona SDK.
In addition, says Rangel, some of PapayaMobile's syntax and sample code is identical to Ansca's, and the company is...
Some Refurbished Xooms Could Put Personal Data In The Wrong Hands
Maybe it was too thick, maybe it was too heavy, maybe you just didn’t like Honeycomb. Regardless of your reasoning, you may want to keep your eyes peeled on your credit score if you bought and returned a Motorola Xoom between March and October 2011, because your personal information may be in someone else’s hands.
Tumblr Now Lets You Highlight Your Favorite Posts For A Dollar
Tumblr is introducing a new feature today that lets its users pay a dollar in order to have their post featured on the Tumblr Dashboard. The option is called "Highlights," and it's now available right from the new post page on Tumblr. With Highlights, you can choose a special icon that will appear next to the post along with an optional message that points out why the post is important.
Syrian activists: 200 dead in government assault
Syrian forces hammered restive neighborhoods in the city of Homs for hours with mortars and artillery Saturday, sending terrified residents fleeing into basements and killing more than 200 people in what appeared to be the bloodiest episode of the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said.
Protesters attack 5 Syrian embassies
Demonstrators have stormed five Syrian embassies in Europe and the Middle East after Syrian forces reportedly killed more than 200 people in the city of Homs.
AP Analysis: Border Patrol OT up as arrests drop
Border Patrol agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border crossers has fallen to the lowest level in nearly 40 years, an Associated Press analysis of agency records finds.
Clinton: US, Europe must do more against tyrants
The Obama administration on Saturday called for stepped up U.S.-European cooperation to isolate tyrannies like the Assad regime in Syria, promote democracy in the Arab World and beyond and repair damage from the global financial crisis.
Egypt soccer federation president, board resign
The president of Egypt's soccer federation and his board of directors resigned Saturday, having already been fired by the country's prime minister following the riot at a game that left more than 70 dead.
Czechs take 1-0 lead over Germany in Fed Cup
Iveta Benesova gave the Czech Republic a perfect start to the defense of its Fed Cup title, rallying from a set down to beat Sabine Lisicki of Germany 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 Saturday in the opening match of their first-round series.
Clinton presses Ukraine on former PM's legal case
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is pressing Ukrainian authorities to quickly resolve the criminal case brought against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (YOOL'-yah tee-moh-SHEN'-koh).
NATO: Missile shield plans proceed despite Russia
NATO leaders on Saturday downplayed Moscow's fears that a new Europe-based missile defense system represents a threat to Russia, while vowing to move ahead with it, even if those concerns cannot be fully addressed.
Obama pressures Congress on housing
President Barack Obama is rallying support for his plan to expand government assistance to homeowners, pressuring Congress to help lower lending rates for millions of strapped homeowners.
UN: Civilian deaths in Afghan war hit record high
Last year was the deadliest on record for civilians in the Afghan war, with 3,021 killed as insurgents ratcheted up violence with suicide attacks and roadside bombs, the United Nations said Saturday.
One dead, two hurt after Marine base explosion
COLEVILLE, Calif. - Blast at California Marine base's family housing area that killed one person and wounded two others was related to the unit's propane gas distribution system and not associated with activities at the base itself, Marine spokesman Nicholas Mannweiler tells The Associated Press.
Telefonica extends lead in Ocean Race
World sailor of the year Iker Martinez survived the toughest conditions of his career on Saturday to become the second skipper in 22 years to win the first three legs of the Volvo Ocean Race.
Tens of thousands rally against Putin
Tens of thousands of Russians flooded downtown Moscow on Saturday to demand an end to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's rule, braving sub-zero temperatures to keep the protest movement alive one month before a presidential election that Putin is still expected to win.
Facebook chief faces tax bill of $1.5bn (Richard Waters/Financial Times)
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Facebook chief faces tax bill of $1.5bn — Mark Zuckerberg faces a tax liability of more than $1.5bn this year, vaulting the Facebook co-founder into the leagues of all-time highest taxpayers and leaving a big question mark over his company's initial public offering.
Las Vegas: Startup City (Brad Stone/Business Week)
Brad Stone / Business Week:
Las Vegas: Startup City — Zappos founder Tony Hsieh is spending $350 million of his own to make Sin City a startup hub — The history of Las Vegas is full of determined men with outsize egos and grand plans. There was Bugsy Siegel in the 1940s, envisioning a gambling mecca in the desert, away from the reach of law enforcement.
Apple Kicks Chart Topping Fakes Out Of App Store (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Apple Kicks Chart Topping Fakes Out Of App Store — Temple Jump, Tiny Birds, Numbers With Friends. These are not the apps you love. They're fakes designed to scam you out of $1.99 when you go to buy Temple Run, Tiny Wings, or Words With Friends. Today Apple took a stand against plagiarism …
89 Percent Of Ad Agencies Used Facebook In Q4 (David Cohen/All Facebook)
David Cohen / All Facebook:
89 Percent Of Ad Agencies Used Facebook In Q4 — Facebook continued to dominate the social media advertising sector in the fourth quarter,with 89 percent of agencies planning to incorporate the social network into their clients' campaigns, unchanged from the third quarter.
4 Ways to Tweet as a Visual Brand
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…
Polish Protests Put ACTA ‘On Hold’
Last week the European Union has officially signed the controversial “anti-piracy” trade agreement ACTA. This brings ACTA a step closer to passing, but individual EU Member States and the European Parliament still have to ratify ACTA later this year. But this may not happen.
Meetings Are Stand-Up Jobs
Stand-up meetings are part of a fast-moving tech culture in which sitting has become synonymous with sloth.
Don't Let Student Loan Rates Double
On 7/1/12, interest rates on subsidized Stafford student loans will double if Congress does nothing. Borrowers taking out $23,000 in loans will see their interest balloon by an estimated $5,000 over a 10-year repayment period.
EXCLUSIVE: Ari Fleischer Secretly Helped Guide Komen Strategy On Planned Parenthood
Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Bush and prominent right-wing pundit, secretly helped guide Komen Foundation’s disastrous strategy regarding Planned Parenthood. Fleischer personally interviewed candidates for the postion of “Senior Vice President for Communications and External Relations” at Komen last December. According to a source with first-hand knowedge, Fleischer drilled prospective candidates during their interviews on how they would handle the controversy about Kom...
Eurozone Problems
Implicitly, Europe is relying on “internal devaluation” to reverse this divergence.
African Marriage Ritual (Photos)
See photos of African marriage rituals (including Berber, Swahili, Masai, and more) in this travel photo gallery from National Geographic.
Don't try this at home
"I'm banned," he says. "By whom?" I ask. "My landlord," he says. "And the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority." Jon Ronson on DIY science.
Grown-Up Bacon Mac & Cheese
This is the perfect recipe for those of you who like to enjoy a big bowl of macaroni and cheese for dinner and absolutely nothing else. It's beautifully flavored, creamy, cheesy, and with the smokey bite of crisp salty bacon on top?? Oh man, you guys are in for a treat — I'm not even kidding. It's amazing. (previously)
Oh no, Woody. You're doing it wrong.
Woody Harrelson has been critically acclaimed for his leading role in the upcoming film Rampart. Harrelson has just recently begun an AMA (ask me anything) post on reddit to promote the film. But because he only wanted to discuss and promote the film (and has avoided some rather embarrassing questions), the reactions have been less than great.
As of this writing, it's been about 12 hours since the post began, so it may evolve even from now.
Roll 1d12 dot com
It's On The Ceiling! Roll d12:
1. d100 Swords of Damocles
2. City of the Intellectual Bats
3. Manhole-like trap door to maintenance level
4. Tapestry of webs depicting events in spider history
5. Stalactite pueblo dwellers: evil dungeon fairies
6. Adventurers impaled on barbed spikes
7. The furniture: nailed up by prankster
8. Alarming amount of dripping water and muddy seepage
9. Pulsating illumination from strange glass tubes in metal fixtures
10. Shriekers!
11. Eyes (d1000)
12. Hand-chisel...
A Field Guide to Antique Hand Tools
When it comes to hand tools, many woodworkers will tell you that they just don't make 'em like they used to. Unfortunately, making sense of the myriad versions and model numbers of antique hand tools can be a daunting task. Fortunately there's Patrick's Blood and Gore for Stanley hand planes, the Disstonian Institute for Disston saws, Old Tool Heaven for just about everything ever made by Millers Falls, and HyperKitten, which includes pages on Metal Routers, Stanley Bench Planes, and Harvey...
Men Don't Tell
In 1993, Lifetime released Men Don't Tell, a landmark film exploring female on male domestic violence.
A gloriously mustachioed Peter Strauss faces shame and the disbelief of society as a man who is being beaten by wife on a regular basis.
The whole movie can be seen here on Youtube.
Save vs nostalgia.
Mountain Dew, Gamma World - and cake! GeekDad's Ethan Gilsdorf uncovers a long-lost pile of loot - silent Super 8 footage of a 1981 Friday night D&D session. JJ Abrams couldn't have faked it this good. (SLYT-sorta)
11 covers of "Just Like Honey"
11 covers of "Just Like Honey", by the Jesus and Mary Chain. The original version. Cover by Guitar (German DJ + ethereal Japanese-inflected vocals) Hand-made ukulele cover. Cover by a teenage girl with a big voice, playing acoustic guitar in a bathroom. Closing scene of "Lost in Translation," with "Just Like Honey" playing over it.
In a day or twooooooo
North Korean Accordion quintet covers "Take On Me." (SLYT) Part of a project by Morten Traavik, a Norwegian theatre and film director, (previously featured on Metafilter).
Via Foreign Policy's Passport blog.
Timelapse images of fireflies
F**k yeah, fireflies! Long exposures of Photuris lucicrescens in video (and faster) and photos. Hold still for a few moments and you'll see glowing dots, or set your camera alone for over an hour and they're dashes flitting about.
Wet n Wild
Ever spill water on your iPhone? Well, now there's an app for that. Liquipel has a process by which it creates a barrier against water, coating even the internal electronic components, of your phone. They've demonstrated it by also coating a tissue paper through the same technology and the tissue paper was submerged and came out completely dry.
I thought this was pretty cool. Imagining how it may end up in different uses, from military (thinking submarines with zero friction) to manufacturi...
Tiltshift Japan ist Krieg
It's the weekend according to UNIQLO CALENDAR, portraying the
four seasons and forty-seven prefectures of Tiltshift Timelapse Japan. Music by Fantastic Plastic Machine who did
internet classic UNIQLOCK. [Previous]
With a Gun and a Camera
"They stuck me at P.S.A. 7 in the South Bronx," he said, referring to Police Service Area No. 7 in the department's housing bureau. "They cover all the housing projects in that area." It was dangerous work, performing vertical patrols — marching up and down staircases — watching for drug deals, responding to violent fights and domestic brawls, and worse.
Two years passed, and Officer Bolfo brought something else to work, along with his radio and his gun. A camera.
He cried during the last "Lord of the Rings" movie.
"At my then-boyfriend's house I opened a drawer to borrow a T-shirt. All the T-shirts were perfectly folded, as if ironed. I knew right then and there that I must run for my life." And other tales of romantic dead ends. capturing the exact moment you realize a relationship is doomed, doomed, doomed.
I hear a football game is also scheduled to air that night....
Super Bowl commercial breaks have become the most expensive and arguably most coveted advertising timeslots on television. NBC is charging $3.5 million for each 30 second slot -- $116,667 per second of airtime. But this year, many companies have released their commercials online in advance of this Sunday's broadcast. Entertainment Weekly and Adland are compiling them -- the latter on their 40 Years of Super Bowl Commercials page. (Previously)
Here are a few that have already been released:
...
Woman's Intuition Aids Her
LADIES
When in need of legal
or confidential advice
why not confer with
one of your own sex?
A concise history of Miss Cora M. Strayer's Private Detective Agency.
The Pepsi Paradox
How the Brain Reveals Why We Buy. "Most of us know that branding palpably influences our choices and shopping habits, but researchers suspect that branding can also fundamentally change the way we comprehend sense impressions.
At least that is the obvious conclusion to be drawn from the only (so far) classic study in neuromarketing, a fascinating study of what can be called the Pepsi paradox. "
The Paradox part is on page 2.
Neutrality Policy and the Wall of Silence
In Anoka, Minnesota, nearly ten students have committed suicide in the past year and a half. Anoka is part of the congressional district of Congresswoman Michele Bachman, and it had a policy of neutrality with regards to GLBTQ discussions in its public schools that "The Rolling Stone" reports as having now been replaced.
The policy implemented by the school board was supported by members of the Parents Action League, whose mission includes the statement, "To motivate and equip citizens with c...
there's no time to remove the bones. just eat the whole thing!
Competitive eater, Takeru Kobayashi, set a new record today, devouring 337 wings in a scant thirty minutes, at Wing Bowl XX (wiki).
Every wonder how he prepares for these events?
Kobi thought it was right for his body to eat at least 200 wings every day he's been in Philly for the entire week leading up to the big competition on February 3rd -- aside from today, when he'll eat like a "normal person" to rest his throat for tomorrow. You do the math and Kobi will have eaten well over 1,000 wing...
[STUDY] Jonesing For A Retweet: Twitter Harder To Resist Than Cigarettes And Booze
Sleep, sex and...Twitter?
A new study suggests that people are more likely to give into the urge to check email and their Twitter account than they are to smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. While the study headed by Wilhelm Hofmann of Chicago University's Booth Business School was limited in size, covering just 205 people between the ages of 18 and 85, it seems to confirm what many of us have suspected for years.
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"Desires for media may be comparatively harder to resist because of th...
Why the "S&%t X Says to Y" Version of This Meme Exploded
"The thing about memes is that through repetition, they create a shared language," says Professor Julie Levin Russo, an adjunct assistant professor at Brown's Modern Culture & Media Program. "If you understand the premise of the meme, you can communicate a lot very easily, with whatever twist you're putting on the meme structure."
On Jan 4, the "Shit Girls Say" meme was radically transformed. New York-based graphic designer & video blogger Franchesca Ramsey a.k.a. Chescaleigh unleashed "Shit...
How Social Media & Social TV Will Change Super Bowl 2012
This year's Super Bowl will be more social than ever before.
With the rise of social TV and the first-ever 2,800-square-foot social media command center, fans who have trekked down to Indianapolis and people at Super Bowl parties across the country can now opt to have a super-connected experience.
This marks the first time that the NFL has partnered with a Super Bowl host city. Like a Midwestern truck stop that's got a restaurant, convenience store, bathrooms, random coin-operated claw ga...
Top Tech Video of the Day: My 2 Year Old Discovered Flickr Today
This is old (as in 2007 old). The kid in the video is now seven years old and undoubtably jailbreaks his iPhone and programs Arduino boards. But five years ago he was just a toddler with a bottle, and this was the first time he was on the Web and Fleek-ler!, as he called it, on his own. It was "the moment" - the moment when you first realize that moving the cursor and clicking the trackpad leads to discovery, and that discovery is a whole lot of fun.
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It's Time to Ditch StumbleUpon for Pinterest
StumbleUpon is one of those sites we've had on our radar for quite sometime. We covered the company's redesign last year, which re-focused the site on topic features. So when StumbleUpon snuck in a strange change the other day without telling anyone, we were shocked. This update made it impossible to get direct links for the pages one is stumbling unless they choose to not sign-in to the service.
The entire point of StumbleUpon, for the user, is to build up a taste graph that will better de...
What You Missed at Monki Gras
If you didn't make it to London for Monki Gras, the follow on conference to Monktoberfest, you missed out on quite a lot of great content and beer.
The conference is organized by RedMonk, an unusual analyst firm. Their conferences, reflecting the analysts at RedMonk, are unusual as well. The Portland, Maine event was primarily organized by RedMonk co-founder Stephen O'Grady, who resides in Maine. This time around, the event was primarily organized by RedMonk co-founder James Governor.
Sponso...
Goldilocks, A Dwarf and NASA's Short Term Future
Space sucks. Literally. The void of space is one perpetual vacuum that would suck the brain out of any exposed human through their ears. In space there is also unfiltered radiation, extreme temperatures and a multitude of other ways that humans can be harmed outside of low-Earth orbit. Learning how to mitigate radiation and improve space crews' health are two of 16 recommendations made by the National Research Council to NASA for the agency's technological focus in the next five years.
Res...
Nokia Publishes Policy on Conflict Minerals
"Conflict minerals," those mined to support groups conducting armed conflict or engaging in human rights abuses, have been an issue since long before we first wrote about it in July of 2010. The mineral equivalent of blood diamonds, they include tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold, all of which are used to manufacture our electronics.
Nokia, the world's largest manufacturers of mobile phones, today published its policy on conflict minerals.
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"Nokia Policy Against Illegal Trade of Natur...
Data Visualization for People Who Don't Visualize Data: CA ERwin 8.2
In enterprises everywhere, including even the largest ones, the transition to cloud-based architectures has brought a new class of managers into the computing process. Suddenly, personnel managers and folks whose purview had been limited to finance and personnel, are being doubled-up with oversight roles for cloud deployments. The back office is no longer in the back (or the basement), and now these new managers are wondering: What is all this we're dealing with?
Donna Burbank - who's a s...
iTunes Match Bug Censors the Bad Words From Songs
iTunes Match, the cloud music-matching service that Apple launched last year, is a great way to sync one's music library across numerous devices. If your collection happens to contain songs with profane lyrics, however, you may be in for a surprise.
Apparently, iTunes Match has been inadvertently replacing certain tracks with the "clean" version of the same song, Cult of Mac reported.
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iTunes Match differs from Google's and Amazon's music cloud storage lockers in that it doesn't re...
Hogwash: Top Mobile Designers Are Not Pushing Back Against HTML5
Entrepreneur aficionado extraordinaire Robert Scoble posited a question on his Rackspace blog yesterday asking if there is push back against HTML5 by the top mobile designers in San Francisco. He cited new apps Path, Storify and Foodspotting as prominent examples of great apps with acclaimed UX that were rendered in native languages as opposed to HTML5. Are top developers really pushing back against HTML5 or is Scoble once again a little too deep in his fantasy world?
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One thing that ...
Is Twitter Ready For Some Football?
Sunday's Super Bowl is full of betting possibilities, but one line we couldn't find in Vegas is whether or not Twitter will crash because of heavy traffic during the game.
This year's NFL playoffs have already set one record for the most tweeted sports moment in history, when a Tim Tebow pass stunned the Pittsburgh Steelers on the first play of overtime against the Denver Broncos. The 9,420 tweets per second were not enough to cripple Twitter, but on New Year's Eve in Japan 16,197 per second...
Anonymous Shows How Easy it is to Intercept FBI Conference Calls
"I'm not sure if we're the only two on right now or not," says a voice with an American accent. The voice belongs to a man who identifies himself as Bruce, likely an FBI agent, who had just joined a conference call with other law enforcement officials based in the UK.
The irony of hearing Bruce utter those words at the beginning of the call is that, no, they were not the only people listening in. Somehow, members of Anonymous managed to tap into the call, record it and then post it online f...
Netflix' Daniel Jacobson: Letting APIs Change Everything
What we today call the "mobile app" could, in a very short period of time, become known as the portable app, or just the "app." It tends to use such a simple and straightforward model of interaction that people are starting to prefer using their smartphones for certain tasks, even when their PCs are right in front of them. By this time next year, portable apps originally designed for use on smartphones and tablets may be running on laptops.
The extent to which this changes everything is a ...
[Poll] What Is Facebook's Best Mobile Monetization Strategy?
You would think that a company with 423 million monthly active mobile users would find a way to squeeze some revenue out of them. Easier said than done. The biggest question to come out of Facebook's S-1 filing for its IPO was how the company could monetize its robust mobile app ecosystem. How will Facebook do it? Stitching in mobile banner ads is not likely a solution for Facebook. We explore Facebook's opportunities and ask for your opinion in this week's ReadWriteMobile poll.
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Facebook's Incredible Growth Story In Charts
Facebook's IPO filing, released this week, is fascinating for many reasons: We've already covered several angles.
Perhaps the most exciting, though, is the wealth of data about the company that is finally public - from its user statistics to its growth around the world to its finances. I've highlighted and visualized some of the most interesting data in this series of charts.
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One of the most powerful things about Facebook is how many of its users log on every day.
Facebook's IP...
[Study] A Friend of a Friend in Real Life But Not on Facebook
Picture this: You're at a party, and your good friend introduces you to one of their friends. You two hit it off, and boom - a new friend! You've just become friends with a friend of a friend. In real life, this is a common occurrence. On Facebook, a friend of a friend isn't necessarily an actual friend.
A new study from Pew Internet discovered this and an array of other interesting facts about peoples' Facebook friendships. The researchers found that most peoples' friend lists were not ver...
Get Ready For a World of Connected Devices
"This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it." HAL; 2001: A Space Odyssey
Editor's note: this is a longer version of ReadWriteWeb Editor-in-chief Richard MacManus' article for the SAY Media newsletter. The newsletter is delivered weekly and features SAY Media's take on media, culture, venn diagrams and the occasional Kubrick homage. You can sign up for it here.
Over half of all devices at this year's CES, the world's largest consumer electronics trade show, were Inter...
Nailed it.
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My school's Dean of Students outed a girl to her parents.
Today at school, a lesbian couple (possibly sophomores, but certainly at least underclassmen) were "caught" kissing in the hallways by our Dean. Our Dean routinely witnesses straight couples making out in said hallways, but has yet to write up a single one.
Not only did he write up the lesbian couple, he--despite the pleading of one of the girls--called their parents and explained what had happened. The girl who had been begging the Dean not to call had in actuality not told her parents of he...
Please stop.
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AMA request: The intern who suggested Woody should do an AMA
He obviously didn't come up with the idea himself.
Whose idea was the AMA, originally?
How much did you know about Reddit beforehand?
Was Woody Harrelson typing these responses himself, and reading the questions with his eyeballs, or was that someone else's lane?
Would you consider AMAs for promotions in the future?
How much did they pay you for this clusterfuck?
Edit: You must be reading this, unless you're just too dumb to live.
Here's what you do: tomorrow morning, you go Newt Gingrich...
IAmA request: Jon Lajoie
I can't stress enough how badly I want this to happen.
How did you get started on youtube?
How much help do you get making your videos?
What's your favourite video that you've made?
Your toughts on legalization of marijuhana?
How much money did you make during 2011?
There are plenty of these out there, about time shit gets done.
Front page! Thanks alot, guys :)
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What exactly do we see when we close our eyes?
Some people know that you get those psychedelic-like colors and images when you close your eyes after rubbing them or while pushing down on something. Is it light that's penetrating your eyelids? That's just a shot in the dark, I honestly I have no idea whatsoever. It amazes me what I see, and always had me wondering what exactly makes those images appear.
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7 stories to read this weekend
What a week! Most of the world was obsessing over the mother of all IPOs -- Facebook. So no surprise, I had to include some good writing on the subject. I have already started looking beyond the social internet and got some good pointers for that.
Survey says: Hollywood could make more money without windows
A survey conducted by BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield shows that Hollywood studios would likely make more revenue with the collapse of movie windows. More importantly, those sales would come with better margins since they wouldn't be sharing with exhibitors.
AT&T & Dish fight over spectrum, but will either build a network?
Report after report points to AT&T marrying Dish Network after Ma Bell’s forced break up with T-Mobile, but given the companies’ increasing belligerence, you wouldn’t think that was the case. What we’re witnessing here is some very cynical pre-nuptial gamesmanship.
The NYT needs a lot more than just a paywall
The New York Times has signed up over 300,000 people to its digital subscription plan, but that doesn't even come close to making up for continued declines in ad revenue. A new CEO is going to have to think creatively about where the paper goes now.
Startups pass on Silicon Valley to find their fortunes in New York
In the last couple months, New York has attracted former San Francisco start-up Qwiki, PlaceIQ from Colorado and recent 500 Start-Ups graduate Snapette of Boston, which spent the last half year in Silicon Valley. It shows that New York is becoming a destination for start-ups.
With 100m uniques, Taboola adds live video discovery
Video discovery startup Taboola has been growing fast, adding top publishing partners like The Washington Post, as well as expanding into the live streaming video vertical. Those new partners have helped drive growth for Taboola, which now reaches more than 100 million uniques a month.
Updated: Your Verizon Galaxy Nexus almost lost its Nexus
The Verizon Galaxy Nexus LTE handset is reportedly no longer a Google-supported developer phone, which could have software update implications. Code for the CDMA/LTE Nexus has been archived for reference by Google and it sounds like the issue is Google Wallet, which Verizon simply doesn't want.
How Apple conceived the iPhone
Former iPhone marketing manager Bob Borchers tells students how Steve Jobs originally approached the iPhone team with the challenge of building the iPhone, a device that to date has sold 183 million units in less than five years.
Micron CEO dies in plane crash
Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of semiconductor company Micron Technology passed away in a plane crash Friday morning. The small plane crashed near Boise, according to a company statement. Appleton, who joined Micron in 1983 and has been CEO since 1994, was 51 years old.
Doxo wants to take the paperwork out of healthcare
The healthcare industry is one step closer to going paperless. Doxo, the Seattle-based startup that makes "digital file cabinet" software, has signed up a number of major healthcare providers who will now use the system to send medical bills and collect patient fees online.
Nokia Hello: communicate via NFC with people you hate to speak with
A Nokia research project called Nokia Hello leverages wireless technology with Near Field Communications (NFC) chips to help people "speak" to each other. I figured it would be a good solution when speaking to someone in a non-native language (it is), but Nokia suggests another use.
As CDMA dies in Latin America, 3G drives a data boom
Mobile data is picking up momentum in Latin America as the number of 3G connections in the region doubled in 2011. Operators in Latin and South America are shutting down their CDMA networks, replacing them with UMTS systems, resulting in a huge surge in data adoption.
Skin Scan wants to fight cancer using iPhones and big data
Romanian startup Skin Scan is selling an iPhone app that lets consumers take pictures of questionable moles and get back information on its threat level. However, the company has much grander goals than helping consumers figure out whether to see a doctor.
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