Posted on 17 March 2012
Editor’s note: Jay Fulcher is CEO of video technology company Ooyala . Follow him on Twitter @jbfulcher. The story of Hollywood’s relationship with technology reads like an on-again-off-again soap opera romance: initial feelings of fear, panic and jealousy followed by amity and intense attraction, followed, in turn, by more fear, jealousy and heated exchanges. Back in the early 1980s, MPAA President Jack Valenti went before Congress and asked them to outlaw the VCR.
Tags: boston, devices, digital, Facebook, hollywood, love, Mobile, Video
Posted on 17 March 2012
The episode and transcript of the This American Life episode retracting Mike Daisey’s piece about Apple and Foxconn are now live. If this is an issue you care about, you should listen to the whole thing. As host Ira Glass announced yesterday , the show found “significant fabrications” in the story, to the point where “we can’t vouch for its truth.” For example, Daisey admits that he never met a worker who had been poisoned by n-hexane, as he claimed in the episode (which was a version of his one-man show “The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.”) Many other aspects of Daisey’s account, like his meeting with allegedly underage Foxconn workers, were also disputed by his translator, although Daisey still says that they happened
Tags: charles-duhigg, daisey, episode, Facebook, foxconn, News, story, think-the-truth, truth, william, work
Posted on 17 March 2012
The last time TechCrunch checked in with Brittany Morin was in mid-November 2011, when the former Googler had just debuted her own lifestyle brand, Brit Media , aimed at positioning herself as the “Martha Stewart of Silicon Valley.” So TechCrunch TV caught up with her earlier this week in Austin, Texas at the South By Southwest Interactive conference to find out how things have been shaping up since the launch and what her plans are for the months ahead. According to Morin, visitor growth on her flagship HelloBrit.com website has been robust, but what a lot of people don’t realize is that’s just the beginning of her plan.
Tags: brit media, brit morin, Facebook, forthcoming, hellobrit, interview, media, possibility, screen-shot, silicon-valley, sxsw, texas, Video
Posted on 17 March 2012
Editor’s note: Farhan Thawar is the VP Engineering of Toronto’s Xtreme Labs .
Tags: ideas, microsoft, opinion, pair programming, programming, rewards, session, steele, time
Posted on 17 March 2012
The big Twitter redesign at the end of last year seemed to mean that the company was ditching power users to get more mainstream . The web site and the mobile apps added “Connect” and “Discover” pages to help new users find interesting people and topics.
Tags: air, api, change-the-way, chrome, client, london, Mobile, social, tweetdeck, understanding
Posted on 17 March 2012
The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms.
Tags: artist, designer, developer, games, intelligence, jobs, king-com, Mobile, social, Social Media
Posted on 17 March 2012
Editor’s note: Rich LeFurgy is a general partner at Archer Advisors . LeFurgy was Founding Chairman of the IAB and sfBIG, a Venture Capitalist (WaldenVC), head of ad sales at Starwave (ESPN.com) and the Walt Disney Internet Group. Follow him on Twitter @ rich_lefurgy
Tags: carriers, consumer, daily, digital-media, ecommerce, Facebook, phone
Posted on 17 March 2012
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — pretended to care about Hipswitch, er HighLight while unwrapping Christmas in March’s iPad Next. After a somber opening in remembrance of @kevinmarks’ father John Marks and Firesign Theatre co-founder Peter Bergman, the Gang got down to brass pixels, the new breed of designer stalker software, and just what Tim Cook has up his sleeve for Christmas in December.
Tags: allotment-each, chase-gillmor, christmas, costing-10-15, Facebook, gillmor-gang, having-alarms, robert-scoble, somber-opening, test-pattern, verizon
Posted on 17 March 2012
Tags: contentiously, Facebook, intelligence, internet, News, pdf, protagonist, science-fiction, usenet, william-gibson, words
Posted on 17 March 2012
Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo , he hosts a show on business and has published books on success . Follow him @ashkan .
Tags: critical, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, industry, life, macro, startup, startups, time