Sep 3 2011, 16:00 |
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Founder Office Hours With Chris Dixon and Josh Kopelman: Madbrook Publishing
Brian Snyder is the Founder and CEO of Madbrook Publishing, an educational/entertainment company that publishes Everything Butt Art. Snyder says Everything Butt Art’s mission is to “teach kids to draw, always starting with the butt shape”…
Sep 3 2011, 14:49 |
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Can Municipal Waste Power Our Cars?
One future source of green energy may be as close as the nearest dumpster thanks to companies vying to make fuel from trash. Enerkem, based in Montreal, and…
Sep 3 2011, 2:59 |
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Amazon Is Only Launching A 7″ Tablet? Genius. (Plus A Mockup!)
The Amazon Kindle tablet is real. Very much real. As in, MG has held it in his very own hands. I threw together the mockup above based on…
Sep 3 2011, 1:40 |
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Video: “Der Kritzler,” An Automatic Scribbling Machine
An automatic scribbling machine sounds less than useful, admittedly, but it’s really just the style of line created by this motorized drawing machine. It’s reminiscent of ASCII art,…
Sep 3 2011, 0:42 |
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Call Of Duty’s $50 Per Year Subscription Service Heralds An Expensive Future For Gaming
The world’s largest game franchises have become businesses unto themselves. World of Warcraft supports a huge halo industry of gold farming and grey markets. Farmville and its ilk…
Sep 2 2011, 23:49 |
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Google Acquires Digital Coupons/Incentives Platform Zave Networks To Bulk Up Commerce
Since 2006, Zave Networks has been working on digitizing coupons and loyalty rewards programs with products like Zavers. With the rise of smartphones, the market has been exploding.…
Sep 2 2011, 23:47 |
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Baidu Looks To Leapfrog Google With Cloud-Based Mobile OS (Update)
Chinese search giant Baidu is reportedly developing a cloud-based smartphone platform in attempt to dip its toes into the mobile pool. Mobile internet users in China totaled 233…
Aug 31 2011, 8:03 |
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New York Times Longitude: Linked Data + Location
Earlier this month the New York Times launched a beta testing playground called Beta620. It's a site for the news organization to try out new web experiments, some…
Aug 31 2011, 7:27 |
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HP Discovers The Wonderful Power Of Scarcity, And The TouchPad Lives On
Hot damn, I want one of those HP TouchPad tablets. Why? Because they’re sold out!
Perception of scarcity is a fascinating human condition. It’s one of the first…
Aug 31 2011, 6:53 |
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Transitflow: An Urban App in The Making
Adam Greenfield was the author of what is still my favorite book about the Internet of Things, Everyware (first published in 2006). Greenfield is now walking the talk…
Aug 31 2011, 6:23 |
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Tumblr Tops 13 MM U.S. Uniques in July
Tumblr, the simple sharing service and blog alternative, continues to attract a record number of visitors each month.
According to comScore, Tumblr scored 13.4 million unique visitors in…
Aug 31 2011, 5:58 |
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Salesforce Adds Realtime Chat, Screen Sharing, And Groups To Chatter; Debuts HTML5 Mobile App
Salesforce’s ‘social network for the enterprise’ Chatter has been the company’s first real foray into incorporating social with business functions. Salesforce originally announced Chatter back in November of…
Aug 31 2011, 5:22 |
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Adventure World: Zynga Unveils Newest Social Game [VIDEO]
Zynga has released the first trailer for Adventure World, the company’s newest social game.
The 37-second trailer shows off a slew of new maps, complete with ancient temples,…
Aug 31 2011, 4:43 |
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Find Home Design Inspiration With Houzz’s 170,000+ Photo Library
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for…
Aug 31 2011, 3:48 |
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Fashion Models Dance in Viral Lanvin Ad [VIDEO]
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.
Fashion’s having a little fun of the dancing variety lately, as Lanvin’s fall…
Aug 31 2011, 3:30 |
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As Apple Preps iTunes Match, Should Other Music Services Be Concerned?
iTunes Match, the cloud music syncing feature that will be launched with iOS 5 this Fall, is now available to developers. Earlier reports that it would enable streaming…
Aug 31 2011, 3:09 |
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Robot Vacuums: Roomba, Smarbo, And Now The Smartphone-Controlled RoboKing
When did the robot-vacuum world become such a crowded space? It’s starting to sound like a monster movie: RoboKing versus Smarbo II: Electric Vuumaloo. But it makes sense,…
Aug 31 2011, 2:51 |
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Android & iPhone Dominate Smartphone Market at BlackBerry’s Expense [STATS]
Google and Apple continue to eat up more of the smartphone market, while RIM and Microsoft continue to lose ground.
According to new data from comScore, 82.2 million…
Aug 31 2011, 2:36 |
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“Respect Explorer’s Heritage”
When photos started circulating yesterday of the new interface for Windows Explorer in Windows 8, I was sure they were a joke. Surely, this was an Onion mock-up.…
Aug 31 2011, 2:30 |
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Big Question (Answered): Accessing Your Desktop on Mobile Devices
There's an increasing focus on bridging the gap between desktops and mobile devices. Companies like LogMeIn, VMware and plenty more besides are offering technologies to access your desktop…
Aug 31 2011, 2:12 |
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Hands-On: Samsung’s Galaxy S II For AT&T;, T-Mobile, And Sprint
Since February, we’ve been waiting for our turn with the Galaxy S II. With the handset floating around Europe and Asia, it’s been hard to remain patient. But…
Aug 31 2011, 2:01 |
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Why CNN Acquired Zite [INTERVIEW]
In tablets generally and the iPad particularly, consumers have found a device conducive to reading news.
It’s no surprise then that a growing number of newsreading apps have…
Aug 31 2011, 1:36 |
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Help Us Celebrate TC Gadgets And Mobile At Our First San Francisco Meet-Up On 9/15
San Franciscans, start your thrusters. On September 15 at 6:30pm TechCrunch Mobile and Gadgets will host our first meet-up at Roe @ 651 Howard St. in sunny SF.…
Aug 31 2011, 1:30 |
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Turntable.fm Claims its 1st Victim: Are Group Listening Services Viable?
I recently received an email from the guys at MixApp. MixApp was the first collective listening web app. It was founded at the beginning of 2010 by a…
Aug 31 2011, 1:19 |
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U.S. Troops Overseas Can Use Gmail To Call Home For Free
Uniformed U.S. military personnel serving abroad can use Gmail’s phone calling feature for free. The promotion starts now and runs through the end of the year.
The free…
Aug 31 2011, 1:00 |
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Anonymous Former Member SparkyBlaze Tries Going Legit
Jason Lackey runs the @CiscoSecurity Twitter feed and managed to get an interview with @SparkyBlaze, or else someone who has access to his/her Twitter account, for his latest…
Aug 31 2011, 0:56 |
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How NASA Plans to Make Astrophysics Fun With an Ambitious Social Game
Imagine if government agencies made social games. Who wouldn’t enjoy the Federal Reserve’s Asset-Backed SecuritiesVille, or the Census Bureau’s World of FormCraft?
Maybe not.
But what about NASA?…
Aug 31 2011, 0:31 |
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Marvel At Sony’s Microscopic OLED Electronic Viewfinder
One of the marquee features of Sony’s new Alpha and NEX cameras, which by the way look excellent, is the new electronic viewfinder. I’ve never been particularly attracted…
Aug 31 2011, 0:16 |
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Chegg Offers 7-Day Ebook Pass While Paper Books Ship
Students who buy or rent a textbook from Chegg will no longer need to wait for it to arrive in the mail before they can start their homework.…
Aug 31 2011, 0:05 |
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Samsung Officially Announces The Galaxy S II For T-Mobile, Sprint, And AT&T;
It’s coming! It’s finally coming!
After months of gallivanting around the world with launches everywhere from South Korea to Canada since May (plus a one day delay thanks…
Aug 31 2011, 0:01 |
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App.net Gives Mobile App Makers an Instant Web Presence
“There’s a huge mismatch between apps and the web,” says Dalton Caldwell, co-founder of Mixed Media Labs. Caldwell’s current project, App.net, seeks to bridge this gap and is…
Aug 30 2011, 23:43 |
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Pro Tip: Do Not Buy An iPad From A Dude In A McDonald’s Parking Lot
Asteroid. The iPad is an awesome device, but it costs money. Even second-hand models often command more than a new Android tablet. They’re just that much in demand.…
Aug 30 2011, 23:41 |
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Kno’s Textbooks Is Top Back-To-School iPad App With One Download Every 8 Seconds
As students start going back to college, they are downloading Kno’s new Textbooks app for the iPad in droves. It is currently the No. 1 iPad education app,…
Aug 30 2011, 23:30 |
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CloudStack Takes the Plunge: Now 100% Open Source
Citrix is moving fast since acquiring Cloud.com in July. After less than two months with Cloud.com, Citrix has decided to bet heavy on the open cloud by merging…
Aug 30 2011, 23:18 |
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TC Cribs: A Magical Journey Through Box.net (In The Cloud)
We’re back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and this time we’re scoping out our first enterprise company: Box.net.
Don’t worry, despite what you may have heard…