Archive | June 25th, 2011

After 50 Days Of Attacks, Hacker Group LulzSec Calls It Quits

Posted on 25 June 2011

Hacker group LulzSec has announced that after 50 days of hacking companies and organizations, it is finally done . Check out the message from LulzSec below, which was posted on Pastebin.

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Fly Or Die: How Color Became The Ishtar Of iPhone Apps

Posted on 25 June 2011

Ever since Color launched its photo sharing app, the $41 million startup has been having a rough time. John Biggs and I reviewed it on Fly or Die back in March, when CEO Bill Nguyen joined us to defend the app ( you can watch that episode below, we both gave it a “die”).

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Card Designer: The Inspiration For Zuckerberg’s “I’m CEO, Bitch”? Steve Jobs.

Posted on 25 June 2011

“I’m CEO, Bitch.” While the story of this title appearing on Mark Zuckerberg’s early Facebook business cards has been around outside the company since at least 2009, when Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires  was released, it really exploded into legendary status last year. That’s when the Acadmey Award-winning film, The Social Network (based on Mezrich’s book), launched the phrase into pop culture by having Justin Timberlake’s Sean Parker utter it as the exclamation point at the end of a key speech meant to inspire Jesse Einsenberg’s Zuckerberg.

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Facebook’s Ban Bot Leaves Some Developers Baffled (And Angry)

Posted on 25 June 2011

Over the last few days the TechCrunch tips box has seen a surge in complaints from Facebook developers who have had their applications disabled without warning.

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New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Context Optional, Acquinity Interactive, Tetris Online, T-Mobile and More

Posted on 25 June 2011

The  Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the  Inside Network Job Board , including positions at  Context Optional , Acquinity Interactive ,  Wild Needle ,  T-Mobile ,  Ace Studios/Tetris Online ,  Sneaky Games , and  Tagged , .

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Gillmor Gang 6.25.11

Posted on 25 June 2011

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Phil Windley, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — celebrated the news that apps are moving past web sites as the default architecture of the planet. I say celebrate because I think the trend is one that will continue, and even accelerate, as iOS notifications make interoperation between apps more useful. In the process, as @windley notes, notifications and the processes that are triggered, become the focal point of what used to be known as the operating system

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These Car Prototypes Built By Kids Can Do Close To 2,000 Miles Per Gallon

Posted on 25 June 2011

What’s more impressive than a car that can do over a thousand miles per gallon? One that was designed by school kids

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Stop The Hate: Daily Deals Aren’t All Bad, And Here’s Why

Posted on 25 June 2011

Editor’s note : We’ve run a lot of guest posts lately poking holes into the daily deals industry.  With this one, we hear another side.  Arash Pirzad-Allaei is a co-founder of KASA Capital , where heads the internet technology development of KASA’s network of websites, including daily deals site Crowd Cut

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Dear Gene: A Self-Branding Reply To Gene Weingarten’s Self-Branding Column About Self-Branding

Posted on 25 June 2011

Dear Gene , I was just reading your most recent Washington Post column: an open letter to a j-school student who wrote to you, at her professor’s behest, asking how you built your “personal brand” in journalism. You sure showed her ! Of course, you’re absolutely right that the desire to build a “personal brand” has encouraged some journalists to eschew good reporting in favor of self-aggrandizing positioning statements calculated to increase their own popularity.

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I Found Out About This Gay Marriage Thing On Foursquare

Posted on 25 June 2011

Well actually it was  an Instagram  of a Foursquare check-in, posted to Twitter … So I actually haven’t been following news at all today, and when I say news I mean actual news, not tech news which I keep up with like an addiction.  And I so had no idea that a bill to legalize gay marriage was passing through  the New York State Senate at the very moment I was writing  this post  about the Quora redesign. I was actually pretty surprised when TechCrunch Managing Editor Erick Schonfeld Skyped me with “Look at your Twitter feed.” In a quick game of Internet catch up, I scrolled through my feed. Yes, my Twitter feed confirmed that New York, as soon as Governor Andrew Cuomo signs off, will join Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont and the District of Columbia in permitting same sex marriage

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