Two of Color’s photo-sharing competitors, Instagram and PicPlz, exemplify the lean start-up ethos. They started with $500,000 and $350,000, respectively, and teams of just a few people. As they have introduced successful products and attracted users, they have slowly raised more money and hired engineers. Color, meanwhile, spent $350,000 to buy the Web address color.com, [...]
Certainly not Mashable. It’s been over years ago… Peter Yared’s Musings: Why TechCrunch is Over.
A PasswordCard is a credit card-sized card you keep in your wallet, which lets you pick very secure passwords for all your websites, without having to remember them. You just keep them with you, and even if your wallet does get stolen, the thief will still not know your actual passwords. Your PasswordCard has a [...]
"If you can type, you can make movies" VISIT LINK: Xtranormal – Text-to-Movie (tags: 3d animation avatar cool design film education filmmaking flash fun graphics inspiration kids movie movies online tech software technology text tool tools video videos web web2.0 xtranormal text-to-speech moviemaking digitalstorytelling …)
TPUTH — Socially Generated Newspaper for Geeks, Designers and Venture Capitalists We're TPUTH. Tech and design news. Socially curated. Machine processed. Hand polished. No bullshit. (tags: blog design internet blogs news social inspiration image technology russian tech geek sharing aggregator entertainment twitter typography socialmedia ia digital future sarcasm trends newspaper tputh …)
TPUTH — Socially Generated Newspaper for Geeks, Designers and Venture Capitalists We're TPUTH. Tech and design news. Socially curated. Machine processed. Hand polished. No bullshit. (tags: blog design internet blogs news social inspiration image technology russian tech geek sharing aggregator entertainment twitter typography socialmedia ia digital future sarcasm trends newspaper tputh …)
Conversations With An Anonymous Facebook Employee The Rumpus: Do you save everything ever entered into Facebook at any time, whether or not it’s been deleted, untagged, and so forth? Facebook Employee: That is essentially correct at this moment. Rumpus: When you say “click on somebody’s profile,” you mean you save our viewing history? Employee: That’s [...]
How Google became Microsoft: A decade of hits, misses and gaffes For the tech industry, The Noughties were very nice indeed. Except when they weren't. During the first decade of the millennium, it goes without saying that computing has changed in a big way, becoming cheaper, easier to use, more mobile, and – in the [...]
Digging Alexa – how the geek demographic doubled overnight It seems to have passed without huge fanfare, but on April 20th 2006, the Alexa rankings for tech sites around the globe suddenly doubled, literally overnight. (tags: blog web internet blogs culture search interesting technology tech toread statistics analytics articles imported journalism metafilter Digg traffic alexa [...]
Revisiting the Mac mini media center First part of a series in which Christopher Breen explains how to turn a Mac mini into a media center. (tags: mac apple howto media tutorials computer tv tech itunes macmini products mediacenter mini appletv …)
Google uncloaks once-secret server Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency. Most companies buy servers from the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, or [...]
Immersive Media – amazing 360 degrees videos you can navigate Immersive Media’s key product is the Dodeca 2360, a camera named after the geodesic geometry of the Dodecahedron, on which the patent is based. The twelve-sided camera has eleven lenses which simultaneously record video. The twelfth side is the base of the camera. There is [...]
Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Joins Google TechCrunch has confirmed that Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious and a Yahoo exec until June 2008, joins a number of ex-Yahoo’ers at cross-town rival Google. In a phone call Schachter says he hasn’t been assigned to a specific project yet and declined even to state who he’s working [...]
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