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This is a hard space to find a niche in, but the money at stake if you succeed is staggering.
techcrunch.com - clausd almost 3 years ago
By far the most tweeted about moment of the conversation
techcrunch.com - clausd almost 3 years ago
Many tweets, and the official live coverage of the event, noted that Zuckerberg dodged some questions about privacy,
techcrunch.com - clausd almost 3 years ago
Some board members had always viewed our company culture as a pet project — “Tony’s social experiments,” they called it. I disagreed. I believe that getting the culture right is the most important thing a company can do. But the board took the conventional view — namely, that a business should focus on profitability first and then use the profits to do nice things for its employees.
techcrunch.com - clausd almost 3 years ago
Felix Salmon at Reuters concludes Sequoia ‘forced’ Zappos to sell, while Ben Metcalfe raises some questions about Zappos’ way of treating customers and employees, saying this approach appears to not pay off in the end.
techcrunch.com - clausd almost 3 years ago
Let’s annotate just released their iPad version for real-time collaboration for PDFs. The service is still in alpha and takes full advantage of the iPad’s HTML5 capabilities. The app practially runs within the iPads browser and also let’s you make use of native iPad elements such as multi-touch.
techcrunch.com - clausd almost 3 years ago
They call it Google Earth 5.2. I call it the Hiker;s Edition. One of the new features allows you to recreate the path of a hike or bike ride by ingesting geo-data from one of your GPS devices. The visualizations show you the speed, elevation, and other stats from your hike, which you can see as an animation inside Google Earth.
techcrunch.com - clausd almost 3 years ago
I think journalists should have the right to express their opinions on the topics they cover. More importantly, I think readers have a right to know what those opinions are. Frankly, I’d like to know sooner rather than later just how insane some of these people at CNN and Fox News are. To stop them from giving me that information is just another way to lie to me.
techcrunch.com - clausd almost 3 years ago
I always shudder when journalists say “don’t say something, get a source to say it and then quote them.” It leads to really awful stuff. Pretending that you’re writing one story when you’re really writing another, and then twisting what your sources tell you to fit whatever it is that your editor told you to write isn’t ethical journalism.
techcrunch.com - clausd almost 3 years ago
If you couldn't tell his bias after his being on the air for 30+ years, than he did his job well.
techcrunch.com - clausd almost 3 years ago
When I pressed him to be more specific, he said his next purchase will likely help “publishers make more money on something that they do.”
techcrunch.com - clausd almost 3 years ago
But, after playing with the features for a couple of days, they have proven to be incredibly useful, as or if not more useful and definitely more grammatically correct than “Who To Follow, and especially more useful than Facebook’s “Mutual Friends,” despite the fact that Twitter allows for one-way relationships whereas Facebook is by design two-way, where both parties have to agree on the relationship to connect.
techcrunch.com - clausd almost 3 years ago
Um, ok. But the data doesn’t show this at all. Sure, video traffic is expanding. Which makes sense because it’s a heavy load. But most of it is also being transported via Flash and HTML right through a web browser. And most app data is counted under “web” in Wired’s graph, meaning its all lumped together with normal browser data.
In other words, Wired took a misleading graph and then drew all kinds of conclusions based on it that don’t even make sense in their make believe world. It’s like they showed a picture of a banana and said it explains the rising cost of gasoline.
In fact, the only thing Wired’s chart really shows is that video files are really big, and people like to watch them in browsers.
techcrunch.com - clausd almost 3 years ago
There has never been a commercial entertainment that has been “stickier”, created more hours of usage in a given year, than World of Warcraft.
techcrunch.com - clausd over 2 years ago
The most fascinating trend is the “Urban Entrepreneur” – which SV Angel says is represented by startups like Twitter and Foursquare. “A new field of entrepreneurs is developing where key insights are coming from founders in large cities” says the report. It adds “[technology tools]…have led entrepreneurs to find innovation in behavior, rather than technology, at least within social media.”
techcrunch.com - clausd over 2 years ago
Document-sharing site Scribd wants to become the place on the Web where a million reading clubs flourish . With a redesign rolling later today, it will now start calling itself a “Social Network For Reading.”
techcrunch.com - clausd over 2 years ago
And part of the reason ngmoco, with revenues in the $30 million range, can command such a high price is the relative strength of the yen v. the dollar. In 2007 the dollar was hovering in the 120 yen range. Today it’s worth just 81ish.
That makes buying a U.S. company a third less expensive for a Japanese company. And DeNA is worth more than $4 billion, making purchases of this size relatively trivial. Just a year ago their market cap was 2/3 less.
That means Zynga, which shares a board member with ngmoco and would probably love to acquire them, couldn’t even field an offer in the same neighborhood as DeNA.
techcrunch.com - clausd over 2 years ago
5. Customers demand sucky products.
Not intentionally. But they request features that make your product suck, with depressing regularity. This is doubly true if your product allows some users to manage other users. There are features that they think they need but don’t, and features they actually do need but nobody else does. There are billions of people out there and you will never, ever satisfy even a tiny fraction of them.
techcrunch.com - clausd over 2 years ago
More seriously though, I’ve been growing increasingly alarmed by stories like this: the US government subpoenaing Twitter (and reportedly Gmail and Facebook) users over their support of Wikileaks. The casual use of subpoenas, including against foreign citizens is worrying enough – the New York Times says over 50,000 “national security letters” are sent each year - but even more concerning is the fact that often these subpoenas are sealed, preventing the companies from notifying the users they affect.
techcrunch.com - clausd over 2 years ago
When someone breaks a story, even if its partially or fully wrong, things start to happen. Sources who wouldn’t talk before start talking. Lots of bloggers and journalists focus on it. The correct story then emerges.
It’s Process Journalism. Too often the original person who broke the story then gets trashed for inaccuracies. I think the person should be credited with the first, hardest step in a big story, which is getting the ball rolling.
techcrunch.com - clausd about 2 years ago
we were never able to scale beyond a small early adopter community and into critical, mainstream usage. While the initial launch and traction proved extremely exciting, it misled us into believing there was a larger market ready to adopt our product. Over the subsequent year and a half, we struggled to refine the product’s purpose and bolster its central value proposition with better functionality and design, but we were ultimately unable to make it work
techcrunch.com - clausd over 1 year ago
Plan Z has two critical parts. First, identify how to measure when you’re tracking towards a worst-case scenario. Second, it’s the plan that tells you what to do should that happen.
techcrunch.com - clausd about 1 year ago
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