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- Data And Privacy Rears Its Head At DLD
- OK Go And Eytan And The Embassy Rockers Talk About Their New App: inBloom
- DLD 2012 – @Jack Dorsey: "Twitter Has A Business Model That Works"
- Box's Next Frontier: Cloud Storage For The Federal Government
- Apple Just Incentivized Every College Kid To Get An iPad. As For High Schoolers…
- SOPA Debate Part II: Viacom & CDT Square Off Over "Due Process"
- Summify Shutdown Means Big Gains for News.me
- Cowen: Google's Mobile Ad Revenues Could Surge To $5.8 Billion In 2012
- 14 Steps To Successful SEO For Startups
- Dave McClure Isn't Worried About The "Series A Crunch"
- Steal This Book!
- What Happened To Kodak's Moment?
- Daily Crunch: New Eyes
- The Dawn of Social Lobbying
- Analyst: All These Concerns Over EA And Star Wars Are "Overdone"
- If The Tech Industry Had Its Way, Hollywood Would Be Zynga
- Google Trims The Fat
- Delicious Adds Collaboration and One-Ups Pinterest With Privacy
- Watch This Delightful Crowdsourced Star Wars Fan Film Immediately
- Investors Bet On Social Gambling, $ZNGA Closes Up 6.57%, Now At $9.09 A Share
| Data And Privacy Rears Its Head At DLD | Top |
 It's only day one of DLD, the annual TED-like conference in Munich thrown by German media giant Burda, and already we have a few misunderstandings brewing. Amid the furore surrounding the SOPA protests and lobbying form media companies, at the other end of the debate-spectrum, the European Commission, in the shape of EC vice-president Viviane Reding, has been looking at harmonising privacy and personal data in Europe. | |
| OK Go And Eytan And The Embassy Rockers Talk About Their New App: inBloom | Top |
 Today two musicians sat down with me to have a chat: Andy Rubin of OK Go, and Eytan Oren of Eytan and the Embassy. But we weren't here to talk music. The dynamic duo actually built an app called InBloom and sat down with me to tell us how it came to be, and what it's all about. | |
| DLD 2012 – @Jack Dorsey: "Twitter Has A Business Model That Works" | Top |
 Earlier this fine Sunday afternoon, Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey took the stage at the DLD Conference, the annual pre-Davos meeting of minds held in Munich, Germany. In an interview with not one but two journalists (Holger Schmidt from FOCUS Magazine and Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick), Dorsey talked a great deal about Twitter and a little bit about Square. Dorsey didn't reveal anything spectacular about either company, emphasizing once more how Twitter is not your traditional social network (here's my counterpoint) and that its business model works, thanks very much for asking. | |
| Box's Next Frontier: Cloud Storage For The Federal Government | Top |
 For Box, 2011 was a huge year in terms of customer acquisition. Box ended the year with 77% of the Fortune 500 using the company's cloud storage offerings. Procter and Gamble marked one of Box's largest deployments for the year. While Box is still continuing to focus on cloud solutions for the enterprise in 2012, the company has set its sights on a potentially huge fish for the year—the federal government. Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie tells me that there is a huge opportunity for Box in procuring cloud storage options for government agencies. "There's going to be a big shift in public sector using cloud services this year," Levie explains. "With so many agencies having to collaborate with public and other organizations, it's more efficient to do this in the cloud." | |
| Apple Just Incentivized Every College Kid To Get An iPad. As For High Schoolers… | Top |
 As I watched Apple's iBooks event in New York City last week, my mind began to race about the ramifications of such announcements. Everyone had a pretty good idea for weeks (or months if you read the Steve Jobs biography) that textbooks would be a focal point for Apple, but there wasn't much thought given to what this would mean. During the event itself, I just kept thinking, "wow, Apple just incentivized every college student to get an iPad". Except, they didn't. Not yet. | |
| SOPA Debate Part II: Viacom & CDT Square Off Over "Due Process" | Top |
 Before SOPA was pulled from the House yesterday, opponents of the bill argued (among other things) that sites accused of making copyrighted material available could be shut down without being given full, adverserial, due process. Was this an accurate assessment? Viacom's General Counsel and EVP Michael Fricklas and David Sohn, General Counsel and Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology defend their respective positions in part II of TCTV's SOPA/PIPA debate. | |
| Summify Shutdown Means Big Gains for News.me | Top |
 When social news startup Summify announced Thursday that it was being acquired by Twitter, it looked like the Summify's existing users were out-of-luck — the company said the current version of the service would be shut down. Enter News.me. The company is best-known for its iPad newsreading app (which was developed at The New York Times, then commercialized by incubator betaworks) but it also offers an email digest of news from your Twitter stream, similar to Summify. It sounds like jilted Summify users jumped on News.me as an alternative, so the company published a blog post telling Summify users, "We're here for you," outlining upcoming features like Facebook integration, and asking for feedback. | |
| Cowen: Google's Mobile Ad Revenues Could Surge To $5.8 Billion In 2012 | Top |
 How much does Google make in advertising from mobile? Cowen analyst Jim Friedland estimates that Google is generating $7 per year from each smartphone (and tablet). This includes both search and display advertising in mobile apps on both Android and iOS (iPhones and iPads). Thanks to the rapid growth in smart mobile devices from an estimated 509 million last year to nearly double that in 2012 to an estimated 914 million, Google's mobile ad revenues are expected to more than double from an estimated $2.5 billion last year to $5.8 billion in 2012 (see chart). | |
| 14 Steps To Successful SEO For Startups | Top |
 This is a guest post by Ryan Spoon (@ryanspoon), a principal at Polaris Ventures. Read more about Ryan on his blog at ryanspoon.com. For startups, it is dangerous to entirely separate product and marketing – both strategically and organizationally. A great product isn't overly useful without an audience. And a great marketing strategy can't save a poor product. Product and marketing have to coexist. | |
| Dave McClure Isn't Worried About The "Series A Crunch" | Top |
 In recent months, there's been some hand-wringing about a "Series A Crunch" — namely, a glut of startups raising seed and angel funding, then struggling once they need to raise a proper Series A. But in a recent interview, 500 Startups founder Dave McClure said the complaints are misguided. | |
| Steal This Book! | Top |
 Nobody wants to be told that their business model is obsolete. Ask Kodak. Or Hollywood. And the publishing industry is slower on its feet than most. Bookstores don't want to believe that they'll ultimately lose 75% of their pre-e-book business to that scourge plus Amazon delivery. (I'm assuming e-book market share will eventually plateau somewhere north of 50%.) Meanwhile, publishers cling to the model wherein readers purchase books individually, usually before they've been read: a model so entrenched that many seem to find it literally impossible to believe that alternatives might exist. I've been lamenting that paucity of imagination in my columns here for some time now. It's why publishers have lashed out so ineptly at any suggestion of a subscription model. But I've also been saying for five years that publishing's business model will ultimately become even less restrictive than that. In the end, lo these many decades from now, most books--and all novels--will be free to read, and their readers will decide whether and how much to pay for them after reading them. I know, big talk, no action, right? So: | |
| What Happened To Kodak's Moment? | Top |
 A Kodak Moment: a rare, one-time moment that is captured by a picture, or should have been captured by a picture Click. We all had them: times you reached for a camera to stop life for a second, to grab a memory. For decades, Kodak was the rock solid standard in photography and as the 131-year old company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, "Kodak moments" may be all that's left of what was once one of the most powerful companies in the world. Kodak can't compete let alone survive in this new world. The only thing keeping them alive is a trove of 11,000 patents, and even those don't seem to be piquing anyone's interest. Click. From household name to also-ran in a few years. This isn't a story of a stubborn buggy-whip manufacturer going out of business for refusing to change. This is a carriage maker making a seemingly successful transition to the automobile and then, just as quickly, failing catastrophically. So what happened? | |
| Daily Crunch: New Eyes | Top |
 Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: HumanBirdWings Guy Survives First Test Flight Marketing Genius: Two Twins Giggling As They Sell You Designer 3D Glasses Math-Blind AI Teaches Itself Basic Number Sense Watch This Delightful Crowdsourced Star Wars Fan Film Immediately iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Finally Get Proper, Untethered Jailbreaks | |
| The Dawn of Social Lobbying | Top |
 The word "lobbyist" surely doesn't have the best connotation in the world. Depending on your reading of the definition, it generally signifies an attempt to influence government decisions, traditionally by targeting legislators or regulators. What isn't often taken into consideration, however, is that while there are lobbyists in dark suits roaming the halls of Congress funded by entities such as big oil and pharmaceutical companies, "lobbying" is also conducted by nonprofit groups funded by different kinds of special interests. We think of efforts, however, as "activism," but at the end of the day, they're just another form of lobbying. Now, a new form of "lobbying" has emerged, but instead corporate checks or individuals donations, the currency has shifted from cash to social connections, where financial power will be trumped by network power: "social lobbying." | |
| Analyst: All These Concerns Over EA And Star Wars Are "Overdone" | Top |
 So, there's been some hubbub around Electronic Arts over the last few days, as the company ramps up for the release of its third quarter earnings on February 1st. Yesterday, EA's stock closed at $17.54 per share, which, in context, meant that the gaming goliath's stock was down 30 percent since hitting its 52-week high in early November. This drop was mostly due to the collective shock relating to the news concerning its recently released title, Star Wars: The Old Republic, which now has a ridiculous price tag attached to it -- as Wall Street is estimating the cost to be between $150 and $200 million. | |
| If The Tech Industry Had Its Way, Hollywood Would Be Zynga | Top |
 Like all of y'all I just read Paul Graham's SOPA-soaked call for a tech startup that would kill Hollywood. You would have to be a complete idiot to think Hollywood (or at least some part of Hollywood) isn't ripe for disruption BUT ... "The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot of damage to civil liberties and the world economy on the way down. It would therefore be a good thing if competitors hastened their demise." | |
| Google Trims The Fat | Top |
 Google has more than 40 core products, and hundreds depending on how you count them. Even with over 30,000 employees, that's a lot to support. In the name of refocusing, today the company announcedthat Picnik, Sky Map, Urchin, Needlebase, Google Message Continuity, and the Social Graph API are all headed for the deadpool, open source, or absorption into more central divisions. | |
| Delicious Adds Collaboration and One-Ups Pinterest With Privacy | Top |
 Delicious has just announced 4 new features to make its stacks, or collections of links, more social. Because the only thing better than a bundle of your favorite kitten websites is bundle co-created by you and your friends. You can now collaboratively build stacks, comment on whole stacks, respond to a stack with a stack similar to a YouTube response, and create private stacks. The features will permit new use cases like stealth cooperation and give Delicious an advantage over Pinterest which doesn't offer private boards yet. | |
| Watch This Delightful Crowdsourced Star Wars Fan Film Immediately | Top |
 You can't always count on the wisdom of crowds. But this particular project turned out not merely good, but amazing. Star Wars Uncut is a project by filmmaker Casey Pugh (and edited by Aaron Valdez and Michael Pugh), in which Star Wars: A New Hope was divided into 15-second segments, each of which was replicated by fans in whatever way they chose. Connect the new segments and voila! Crowdsourced magic. Watch the video inside. | |
| Investors Bet On Social Gambling, $ZNGA Closes Up 6.57%, Now At $9.09 A Share | Top |
 The social gaming industry has been getting more and more interested in a potentially big new way to make money: online gambling. And investors, who are now able to buy stock in market leader Zynga, are following suit. Today, Zynga told All Things D that it was considering how to approach the new opportunity: "We build games and experiences that our players want and love. Zynga Poker is the world's largest online poker game with more than 7 million people playing every day and over 30 million each month. We know from listening to our players that there's an interest in the real money gambling market. We're in active conversations with potential partners to better understand and explore this new opportunity." | |
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