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• First Pictures Of OLPC's XO-3 Tablet Break Cover
• Scheming Intentions
• WindRiver Brings Overlapping App Windows To Android
• Gillmor Gang 01.07.12 (TCTV)
• My Failed Attempt At Making An Appeal For The Wikimedia Foundation
• Engineering Serendipity
• Daily Crunch: Hex Enduction Hour
• 4SquareAnd7YearsAgo Becomes Timehop, Takes You A Year Back In Time Through Online Content
• OLPC XO-3 Tablet To Be Shown At CES
• When "Find My iPhone" Becomes An Adventure
• Review: AAXA P4 Pico Projector
• Spotify Has Gotten Big In The US Via Facebook, But Serious Free Users Will Have To Start Paying Soon
• Facebook Says Privacy Advocates Should Applaud Timeline, EPIC FTC Probe Unnecessary
• With Version 2.0, Onesheet Becomes The About.me For The Entertainment Industry
• SV Angel And Founder Collective Give Hackruiter $200K For Its Hacker School
• PayPal's First In-Store, Brick And Mortar Mobile Payments Integration Is At Home Depot
• Not Bad, LG Marketing, Not Bad
• AIAIAI's New Headphones Continue Trend Of Understated Design
• Dijit Remote Control App For iPad Finally Goes Live
• A Very TechCrunch CES: How To Follow Our CES Coverage

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First Pictures Of OLPC's XO-3 Tablet Break Cover	Top
Last night we heard that the One Laptop Per Child program would be showing off its long-awaited XO-3 tablet at CES. We'll be getting a hands-on then, but they were kind enough to send out a couple pictures of the device this morning, and they seem worth sharing.
Scheming Intentions	Top
From Vannevar Bush to PageRank, the World Wide Web was built on hypertext, the notion that any morsel of information can link to any other. But that was always only a dream, and a rapidly-dissipating one of late. Nowadays even Web links are likely to terminate at warnings, paywalls or registration screens. Anil Dash rages that "Facebook is gaslighting the Web" with its treatment of content outside Facebook. Jon Mitchell and Jamie Zawinski complain that Google Plus will "mess up the Internet" for its treatment of content outside Google+ff (and Zawinski adds "they just ripped off this model from Tumblr.") Google's Tim Bray, in turn, is irate about single-page JavaScript sites breaking the web. Meanwhile, six months ago, according to Flurry, time spent using mobile apps surpassed web consumption. You can link out of apps easily enough -- clicking on a phone number to open a dialer, or a hyperlink to open a Web page -- but it's very difficult to reliably link in to an app.
WindRiver Brings Overlapping App Windows To Android	Top
Android users may soon be able to work with multiple app windows if an Intel-owned company called Wind River has anything to say about it. The company has recently announced they have worked up a way to implement overlapping application windows in Android, and the results look pretty slick.
Gillmor Gang 01.07.12 (TCTV)	Top
The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — kicked off the New Year in CES style. That's CES as in Apple-Free, last Microsoft keynote, All TV all the time, Super Cab Lines Vegas stays in Vegas. Both @dannysullivan and @scobleizer spent a great deal of time handicapping the race for control of what used to be called the TV set. These days I'm not so sure, as Apple's AirPlay could just as easily come in a controller-sized package (read iPhone) as a 100-inch box. The real battle is over how to find something decent to watch, and the big question is whether Google will figure out how to get network shows onto its service or if Amazon will embrace and extend Apple TV.
My Failed Attempt At Making An Appeal For The Wikimedia Foundation	Top
I wanted to write an appeal for the Wikimedia foundation. I'm going to be completely honest: the only reason I wanted to write it was for completely self-promotional and ego purposes. On almost every Google search, Wikipedia is the #1 or #2 result. It's almost like Google is just a middleman to Wikipedia. So I wanted you to search on "head transplants" and then click on the Wikipedia page and see my face on the left hand side with something like, "Click here to donate $5 to my favorite cause".
Engineering Serendipity	Top
When John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale reach for the same pair of black gloves in the movie Serendipity, they meet and fall in love. The goal of social discovery applications is to engineer this kind of serendipity. By leveraging demographic and interest data, and by providing good reasons to interact with strangers, this emerging category seeks to make meeting people feel fun and natural. And it's not just about dating. Most people I know I met through serendipitous encounters. Whether it's the friend I bumped into at the college bookstore as a confused freshman or the boyfriend I met at the coffee shop, most human relationships start the same way – in a serendipitous moment.
Daily Crunch: Hex Enduction Hour	Top
Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Review: AAXA P4 Pico Projector AIAIAI's New Headphones Continue Trend Of Understated Design What Witchery Is This? A Cardboard Camping Pot? Not Bad, LG Marketing, Not Bad A Very TechCrunch CES: How To Follow Our CES Coverage Nobody Wins At CES
4SquareAnd7YearsAgo Becomes Timehop, Takes You A Year Back In Time Through Online Content	Top
4SquareAnd7YearsAgo, a service built at a Foursquare Hackathon that emailed you your Foursquare checkins from exactly a year ago, has branched out beyond Foursquare. Now the service, newly re-monikered Timehop, includes your Facebook status updates, photos you updated, photos you were tagged in, as well as Twitter and Instagram posts from 365 days past. The tech industry is starting to see a resurgence of products that play into social media nostalgia; Facebook Timeline, Memento and Memolane for example. "Everybody is starting to realize that there's value in the past," Timehop co-founder Jonathan Wegener tells me. He hopes that the startup will one day be the "ultimate" way people experience their content history online, despite the tight constraint of only showing anniversary content -- which Wegener likens to Timehop's 140 characters.
OLPC XO-3 Tablet To Be Shown At CES	Top
After years in the making, the One Laptop Per Child program's XO-3 tablet will be shown in more or less final form next week at CES, according to the project's founder, Nicholas Negroponte. The latest image of the tablet is shown here, though it is from some time back and may no longer be representative. The price of the tablet will in fact be under $100, he said, though various options will put it over that. It has an 8-inch screen — traditional LCD, though it may be upgraded to a Pixel Qi display for power savings and e-paper-like capability. If they stuck to their original specifications, it will also be waterproof, durable, and about a quarter of an inch thick. The version they're showing will run Android, though what version was not specified.
When "Find My iPhone" Becomes An Adventure	Top
TechCrunch reader Nikos Kakavoulis sent us the following amazing story earlier this week ... The Daily Secret founder used Find My iPhone to catch an naive iPhone "thief" -- turning on the Play Sound feature in Starbucks in order to locate his lost phone inside the person who had found (and kept) his phone's pockets.
Review: AAXA P4 Pico Projector	Top
Short version: A powerful little device, significantly brighter than others of its size, with decent battery life and a good picture. Too bad it's so damn loud, and not the most user-friendly thing of all time either.
Spotify Has Gotten Big In The US Via Facebook, But Serious Free Users Will Have To Start Paying Soon	Top
Everyone who has been using streaming music service Spotify for free in the US from when it launched last July is now going to have to start paying, as Business Insider notes today. The reason is the company's policy of limiting free usage to ten hours and/or five plays per track every month, after the first six months of free usage. Full access will now cost you $9.99 per month, with partial access (no mobile, no offline, etc. but also no ads and no streaming limits) at $4.99.
Facebook Says Privacy Advocates Should Applaud Timeline, EPIC FTC Probe Unnecessary	Top
TechCrunch has received a response from Facebook to the Electronic Privacy Information Center's letter urging the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate Timeline for possible privacy violations. Facebook says it has not violated user privacy or its November settlement with the FTC. That's because Timeline simply makes historic content more accessible, not visible to anyone who couldn't already see it. Also, Timeline provides Activity Log for managing the visibility of this content. I agree. Facebook may be bending the rules of privacy, but it hasn't broken them. In response to EPIC's call for an FTC investigation, as reported by Identity Matters, Facebook's Director of Public Policy Andrew Noyes tells TechCrunch:
With Version 2.0, Onesheet Becomes The About.me For The Entertainment Industry	Top
Back in July of last year, ArtistData Founder and serial entrepreneur Brenden Mulligan brought his newest project, Onesheet, into beta. At the time, Alexia described Onesheet as the "About.me for bands", which is an apt description considering Mulligan's professed goal for his startup was to create a simple way for bands to build a real presence on the Web without having to religiously maintain that presence. That means that bands can use Onesheet to create aggregated, customizable profiles, verifying their identities through Facebook or Twitter to connect with third party services like Soundcloud, Bandcamp and ReverbNation. (And social media services like Posterous, Tumblr and YouTube.)
SV Angel And Founder Collective Give Hackruiter $200K For Its Hacker School	Top
YCombinator-backed hacker recruiter platform Hackruiter has raised a modest seed round from investors SV Angel and Founder Collective. The company raised $200K but could have raised much more, because it is already profitable co-founder David Albert tells me. Hackruiter is already profitable because startups like Tumblr, Weebly, Loopt, Artsy and Bit.ly currently pay Hackruiter $20K per programmer referral on averafe (Amazing, right?). And Hackruiter finds people to refer through its Hacker School, which is now entering its third batch. Unlike beginner code-learning programs like Codecademy, the in-person Hacker School is exclusively focused on making already good coders better.
PayPal's First In-Store, Brick And Mortar Mobile Payments Integration Is At Home Depot	Top
As we've reported in the past, PayPal announced an in-store payments technology both via mobile and point of sale systems that is currently being tested on a 'friends and family' basis in a national retailer. That retailer is Home Depot, we've learned from PayPal. PayPal said of the Home Depot announcement: We frequently run trials with our retail partners. In this case, PayPal and The Home Depot are engaged in a limited pilot program for new POS technologies. The pilot is currently being run in five stores and involves a small number of PayPal employees.
Not Bad, LG Marketing, Not Bad	Top
Watch first, then read. Or just watch, that's cool too.
AIAIAI's New Headphones Continue Trend Of Understated Design	Top
We don't design and hardware quite as much as we used to, but I'm making an exception for these. A good while back, I wrote about a pair of headphones I thought was the most understated and attractive I'd ever seen. They were the TMA-1s from Danish design house AIAIAI, and while I never got to get my hands on them, I'm going to make it my business to try their new pair out.
Dijit Remote Control App For iPad Finally Goes Live	Top
Dijit teased us with a preview of their iPad-optimized remote control app back in December, but home theater convergence aficionados will be glad to know that the app is finally available in the App Store.
A Very TechCrunch CES: How To Follow Our CES Coverage	Top
As you well know, next week is CES 2012 and TechCrunch will be there - with bells on. We're focusing on start-ups, small companies, and interesting people and we'll be doing a lot of live streaming, video interviews, and live giveaways. You're going to want to watch. But, you're saying, how can I interact with the CES team while they're on the floor? With Twitter, of course! First, follow @techcrunch for up to the minute news. We will be posting giveaways to this feed when they happen live and we'll be asking for feedback as we go along. We'll be using the hashtag #CEScrunch for all the CES stuff, but expect a little bit more noise.

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