How timely.

In this first installment of Gadget Of The Week I decided to try something a bit different. Rather than focus on some obscure cellphone or wonky laptop, I decided to take on one of the biggest questions in the average small and home office: which juicer should I buy

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg didn’t travel to New York’s Times Square for the company’s big day. He did it unconventionally like you’d expect a hacker would.  He opened the bell remotely from the company’s Menlo Park Headquarters after Facebook employees had just finished a long, all-night Hackathon — their 31st.

You can watch live  from the NASDAQ site as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes history this morning ringing the bell to open the day’s trading on the NASDAQ from Facebook’s headquarters just before his company’s IPO. The ceremony has just transpired, with Zuckerberg not giving any speech or remarks. He signed the NASDAQ bell’s touchscreen “To a more open and connected world”.

Teaching. In spite of George Bernard Shaw’s now infamous “those who can’t do” proverb , teaching is one of the most important professions out there. Even for the many self-taught coders out there, at some point along the way, we’ve all had our lives shaped by a great teacher — in the classroom, or out.

Love’em or hate’em, despite the best efforts of Bump and others, traditional business cards aren’t going away anytime soon. At least, though, some companies are trying to bridge the gap between paper cards and efforts like Bump. New York-based Vizibility first announced its NFC-enabled businesses cards during SXSW earlier this year

Editor’s Note:  TechCrunch  columnist  Semil Shah  currently works at  Votizen  and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter  @semil “In the Studio” hosts a Silicon Valley technology veteran this week, someone who has been around tech since 1977, in venture since 1995, an early investor in Twitter, Yammer, and Millennial Media, a former executive in the gaming console industry, and while in college, took an interest in economics where his thesis advisor just happened to be Nobel Laureate Franco Modigliani

Comcast announced today that it is doing away with its 250 GB data cap , and will be moving to test out new plans will charge customers based on usage, rather than cutting them off. Since 2008, Comcast has had a data usage cap of 250GB for all its broadband plans

Getaround was the big winner at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2011 .

Time Warner Cable is on a roll with this whole TV Everywhere thing. Just a day after adding Viacom channels to its live streaming iPad app, the cable provider has announced support for HBO Go on the Xbox, Roku streaming boxes, and Samsung connected TVs.