Editor’s Note: Rob Saurini is a hard working developer at TechCrunch, except for today. Today, he just wants to watch the Olympics, like a true patriot

If you were paying attention to Twitter today, you were probably met with two conflicting sides of the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Oh yeah – the bear is in the house.  The Bear revolt won. OpenStack’s next release will go by the name “Grizzly.” I love this story

Although the company behind Meteor , a framework for building real-time JavaScript applications in vein of Google Docs, just announced a nice big $11.2 million round of funding, it’s not the only game in town. In my story earlier this week I mentioned Mojito , a framework developed by Yahoo.

We’ve seen an increasing number of fashion startups lately and the newest one is Hello La Mode , a New York-based startup that just launched its marketplace for luxury fashion resale last week. The company just announced that it has raised a $500,000 seed round from three undisclosed angel investors

Soft Reklam’s canvas game  Super Texas Holdem Poker  led our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week.

Because we’re in need of some brighter NFC-related news today ,  Flomio , a TechStars-backed startup, and makers a platform for building NFC and RFID enabled applications, has closed a seed round of $525,000. The round was led by RMR Capital, and included participation from TechStars, the Cloud Power Fund, Matthew Lally ( Augme ,  Pickflair ), and  Clint Watson  ( FASO ).

App store analytics firm App Annie released a report on mobile gaming this week, which focused on the earnings potential of what it defined as “long-term” versus “short-term” games. That is to say, it found that mobile app superstars with media buzz were not necessarily outperforming the slow and steady games that flew under the radar  - meaning, those that never cracked the top 25 grossing ranking, for example. Long-term games earned an average of $920,000 versus $549,000 for short-term games, App Annie says

Facebook’s earned an average $1.28 revenue per user in the second quarter of 2012, a nearly 6 percent increase over last quarter , but not even a 2 percent gain year over year. The company’s highest ARPU was in Q4 2011 when it brought in $1.38 per user. U.S

Ok guys, admit it: You hate shopping, but you know what you really hate? Shopping for underwear. Well there’s a new brand of men’s apparel, called Mack Weldon , that is designed not just to provide a better fit for men’s underthings, but also to provide a better customer experience online