Archive | July, 2011

Gillmor Gang 7.30.11 (TCTV)

Posted on 30 July 2011

The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — covered the gamut between Google+ and well, Google+. The new social platform continues to delight and confound the early adopters in record numbers. @scobleizer remains optimistic that the search giant will roll out filtering features to cut down on the noise of squids, kittens, and well, Scoble comment farms

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Technology + Politics = Facepalm

Posted on 30 July 2011

Oh, how embarrassing . Earlier this week, Elizabeth May, the leader of Canada’s Green Party, took to her Twitter account and declared war on Wi-Fi .

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Daily Crunch: Orbs

Posted on 30 July 2011

Pixeet: Full Panorama Photos With Almost Any Phone SpaceX To Launch ISS-Bound Supply Ship In November Head-To-Head Review: Canon T3i Vs. Nikon D5100 Review: The Roku 2 XS Does Internet Media Streaming, Motion Gaming In A Tiny Package The Isostick Makes A Mockery Of Optical Disk Hegemony Video: This Guy Plays Air Drums That Actually Make Music

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360: TeliportMe Brings Its Killer Panorama App To Android (Oh, And It Works On Over 200 Phones)

Posted on 30 July 2011

Last November, TechCrunch’s own Sarah Lacy sat down with Vineet Devaiah from “social streetview” startup, Phototour.in , which, at the time, had just received term sheets from a number of high-profile U.S. investors and had recently been awarded the “Top Emerging Technology Company of 2010″ by Nvidia . The startup was the first international, non-funded, under-20-member company to win the award, according to Devaiah

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Three Companies Chi-Hua Chien Of Kleiner Perkins Would Love To Invest In

Posted on 30 July 2011

Today at Aol West Headquarters , a number of entrepreneurs, VCs, and executives gathered to discuss the state of the mobile industry and mobile technology.

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Facebook Roundup: Prineville, Ceglia, Seattle, Ads, Credits, Mobile and More

Posted on 30 July 2011

Facebook Set for Another Oregon Datacenter – Facebook announced this week that it would build another data center on its Prineville, Oregon campus. Construction is set to begin in October.

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Android’s Matias Duarte: Ice Cream Sandwich Will Help Devs Cope With Myriad Form Factors

Posted on 30 July 2011

As we closed out today’s Mobile First CrunchUp , all of our speakers took the stage for an extended roundtable discussing a variety of topics affecting mobile: design, gaming mechanics, and, of course, iPhone vs Android. One of the last questions posed during the roundtable came from Wired’s Mike Isaac, who asked how the next version of Android, which is called Ice Cream Sandwich, would help developers produce applications that look nice across the multitude of form factors Android will spread to.

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Chamillionaire Pleads With Android Design Lead To Give Him A Decent Device

Posted on 29 July 2011

“I’ve used all these different devices — they suck.” Short. Sweet. To the point.

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Stealth Social Mobile Startup just.me Raises $600K From Google Ventures, SV Angel And Others

Posted on 29 July 2011

just.me, a stealth startup playing in the social and mobile spaces, has just raised $600,000 in seed funding from a list of all star investors including Google Ventures , True Ventures , SV Angel , Betaworks , Don Dodge , Patrick Gannon , Michael Parekh , Steve McArthur, and Four Horsemen LLC. just.me was founded by Keith Teare , a serial entrepreneur and a co-founder of TechCrunch

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Mobile Has The Opportunity To Re-Think The Ad

Posted on 29 July 2011

Kleiner Perkins VC Chi-Hua Chien kicked off the “Money Matters” panel at the TechCrunch Mobile First CrunchUp with a telling understatement, “There seems to be a lot of new business models around mobile.” Indeed, what makes mobile unique as a communication platform is that traditional advertising isn’t the default. See: Kiip

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