Archive | July 9th, 2012

PadMapper Gets Craigslist Postings Again, Without Craigslist’s Help

Posted on 09 July 2012

Late last month, Craigslist dealt a big blow to apartment search website PadMapper , sending creator Eric DeMenthon a cease-and-desist letter demanding that he take down any Craigslist postings on his site. Now DeMenthon has found a way to bring Craigslist back to PadMapper, though not in the way he would have liked. As you probably remember, PadMapper makes apartment listings from Craigslist and other services (including PadMapper’s own PadListings) much easier to navigate by displaying them on Google Map.

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Facebook Acq-Retired Face.com, But Here’s Why It Will Bank By Reviving Its Facial Recog API

Posted on 09 July 2012

Tagged photos are Facebook’s lifeblood, and it would be happy to suck them out of other apps.

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It’s Official: Pinterest, SF Mayor Ed Lee Confirm Move To San Francisco, Lee Opens Pinterest Acct In Celebration

Posted on 09 July 2012

Pinterest is pinning its name on a new office door: the company today officially announced that it is moving its offices from Palo Alto to San Francisco, confirming our reports from June that were further confirmed this weekend by Pinterest’s international growth executive Sarah Tavel. Pinterest tells us its office will be at 572 7th Street for now. The news was delivered today by San Francisco’s mayor Ed Lee, who has rung in the news by launching his own Pinterest account .

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Pinterest Traffic Passes Google Referrals, Bing, Twitter & StumbleUpon

Posted on 09 July 2012

Online sharing service Shareaholic just released new data showing that Pinterest is now beating out Twitter, StumbleUpon, Bing, and Google in referral traffic (not Google organic, of course). The study is based on Shareoholic’s network of over 200,000 publishers, which reaches more than 270 million people monthly

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DC City Council “Uber Amendment” Forcing Sedans To Charge 5x Minimum Taxi Prices (Killing UberX)

Posted on 09 July 2012

Uber cannot catch a break in Washington, DC. The city taxi commission tried to shut the private car service down last January over rule violations that it wasn’t actually committing . Now the local government is taking another shot, considering a legislative amendment tomorrow that would force sedan car services like Uber to charge at least five times the minimum cost of cabs.

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GitHub Pours Energies Into Enterprise, Raises $100 Million From Power VC Andreessen Horowitz

Posted on 09 July 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is investing an eye-popping $100 million into GitHub , the ever popular repository for developers to post code and collaborate. It’s GitHub’s first infusion of venture capital.Co- founder Tom Preston Warner said the round will go to developing GitHub Enterprise, a server side version of GitHub.com

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Facebook now allows pages to make ‘unpublished’ posts to test creative options

Posted on 09 July 2012

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Congressman Darrell Issa Signs Declaration Of Internet Freedom

Posted on 09 July 2012

Representative Darrell Issa (CA-49) signed the Declaration of Internet Freedom, a broad online document that aims to keep the internet free and open. Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is the first elected official to sign it. Issa has been an outspoken opponent of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

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Gamification Startup SessionM Brings On Hires From Apple And Google

Posted on 09 July 2012

SessionM CEO and co-founder Lars Albright says the company has been recruiting aggressively since it raised a $20 million Series B a few months ago. Today, he’s announcing three big hires from Apple and Google: Gerald Hewes, who led the analytics, optimization, and insights team for Apple’s iAd program, and who’s now SessionM’s vice president of engineering. Amy Jerusalmi, who joined Apple through its acquisition of Quattro Wireless  and led the iAd account management team

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Keen On… The Boy King: The Truth About Mark Zuckerberg From Facebook Employee #51 [TCTV]

Posted on 09 July 2012

Keen On… Katherine Losse: The Boy Kings A few months ago, I had Doug Edwards, Google employee #59, on the show to confess all about Google’s early days

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