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- Lessons for Data Driven Businesses
- Raincheck: Google Cancels NYC Android Event Planned For Monday Due To Hurricane Sandy
- Yammer's Cindy Alvarez: Five Types of People I Should Have Fired Sooner
- Gillmor Gang: Tommy Can You Hear Me
- How Long Will Programmers Be So Well-Paid?
- Arguments About Politics Are Like Arguments About Phones
- Amazon Web Services Outage Caused By Memory Leak And Failure In Monitoring Alarm
- Here's What Happens When Geeks Who Like Path Get Overly Excited About Halloween
- Buyer Beware
- In-Text Commerce Startup Cemmerce Raises Another $500K
- How Square Keeps Its Culture Cool And Connected: It's An App.
- Uber Co-Founder Garrett Camp Launches BlackJet, The "Uber For Private Jets"
- Save Humanity From Asteroids With Reflective Paint Clouds, Says MIT Grad. Really.
- Here's The Beats By Dre "Executive" Headphone Review By Someone Who Actually Used Them
- Sheryl Sandberg And 5 Other Facebook Execs Convert RSUs To Real Stock, But Aren't Selling Any Yet
- HBO Delays Launch Of Its First Standalone Streaming Service, Leaving Netflix Alone In The Nordics
- Behold The Best Samsung Galaxy Note Sales Pitch You've Ever Seen
- This Is The Nexus 10
- Exploreka's Mobile App Displays A Map With Deals That You Can Instantly Use
- Want To Read App.net Status Messages In The Official Twitter App? Here's How With Apparchy
| Lessons for Data Driven Businesses | Top |
| Robert J. Moore is the co-founder of RJMetrics, a company whose software helps online businesses make smarter decisions using their own data. He also previously served on the Investment Team of Insight Venture Partners. One of the fun things that happens when you start a company is that you get opportunities to share what you've learned with other technology leaders. In past year, I've been fortunate to present "best practices" sessions to a number of groups, including the portfolios of First Round Capital, Insight Venture Partners and FirstMark Capital. | |
| Raincheck: Google Cancels NYC Android Event Planned For Monday Due To Hurricane Sandy | Top |
 There may be an app for almost everything, but there still isn't one for controlling Mother Nature. Google this morning officially canceled the Android event that was scheduled to occur on Monday, October 29 in New York City due to Hurricane Sandy, which is expected to hit the city on Sunday evening. | |
| Yammer's Cindy Alvarez: Five Types of People I Should Have Fired Sooner | Top |
 Cindy Alvarez directs user experience at Yammer. At the Failcon conference this week she did an insightful if uncomfortable talk about the five types of people she should have fired sooner. | |
| Gillmor Gang: Tommy Can You Hear Me | Top |
 The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — counted their pennies as Apple, Microsoft, and Google weighed in to the Tablet Sweepstakes with new entries. Apple's iPad Mini captured two of the Gang's wallet, while none seemed ready for the Surface or other Windows 8 entries. Google seems challenged to wrangle the carriers and Microsoft may be dividing its partners with the home-grown Surface. | |
| How Long Will Programmers Be So Well-Paid? | Top |
 Last week Glassdoor published its most recent software engineering salary report. Short version: it pays to code. Google and Facebook employees earn a base salary of ~$125K, not counting benefits, 401k matching, stock options/grants, etc., and even Yahoo! developers pull in six figures. Everyone knows why: ask anyone in the Valley, or NYC, or, well, practically anywhere, and they'll tell you that good engineers are awfully hard to find. Demand has skyrocketed, supply has stagnated, prices have risen. Basic economics. But why has the supply of good engineers remained so strained? We're talking about work that can, in principle, be performed by anyone anywhere with a half-decent computer and a decent Internet connection. Development tools have never been more accessible than in this era of $100 Android phones, free-tier web services, and industry-standard open-source platforms. Distributed companies with employees scattered all around the world are increasingly normal and acceptable. (I work for one. We're hiring.) And everyone knows that software experts make big bucks. Basic economics would seem to dictate that more and more people will flood into the field, bringing salaries back down to Earth. | |
| Arguments About Politics Are Like Arguments About Phones | Top |
 We've all been inundated with political back and forth over the past few weeks. Curse you, social networks! And you too, Internet! And yet, what's really frustrating isn't the political back and forth, but the content that is being volleyed back and forth. More specifically, the lack of content. Watch 9 seconds of any recent episode of the Daily Show and you'll see that networks, pundits, experts, you-name-its are all happily willing to spend their days blowing an out-of-context sentence completely out of proportion and make said sentence seem like the biggest offense to politics since Watergate. | |
| Amazon Web Services Outage Caused By Memory Leak And Failure In Monitoring Alarm | Top |
 A memory leak and a failed monitoring system caused the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday that took out Reddit and other major services. According to a post Friday night, AWS explained that the problem arose after a simple replacement of a data collection server. | |
| Here's What Happens When Geeks Who Like Path Get Overly Excited About Halloween | Top |
 It's that time of year to be festive and spooky, carve up some pumpkins and get the candy ready for the neighborhood kids. One uber-geek Ashley Mayer, decided to take festivity to an all new level, tied in with her love of a particular social app -- Path. Yes, it's Halloween, let's get geekily creative. | |
| Buyer Beware | Top |
 I've greatly enjoyed watching the petty controversies that erupted this week, controversies having to do with what can only loosely be described as buyer's remorse: indignant iPad owners, a mysteriously banished Amazon customer, and a host of people calling foul on Facebook's promoted posts. One of these is a legitimate and productive complaint, the others are nothing but a froth about the mouth. | |
| In-Text Commerce Startup Cemmerce Raises Another $500K | Top |
 Cemmerce, an Israeli startup helping publishers monetize through affiliate linking, has raised $500,000 in new funding. The round comes from digital holding company Navitrio. The firm, which also offers its portfolio companies office space and administrative services, previously invested $500,000 in Cemmerce last year. Navitrio co-founder Dror Liwer is also co-founder and CEO at Cemmerce. | |
| How Square Keeps Its Culture Cool And Connected: It's An App. | Top |
 One of the things that really excited me about coming to TechCrunch is that I have the freedom to explore companies in a deeper, more meaningful, way. I've worked for quite a few startups and the people who make things tend to interest me more than what they actually make, sometimes. Along that line of thinking, I visited the Square folks today and had a great conversation about their stance on keeping a cool, calm, collected and connected culture in the office. As you know, the company is moving to a bigger space in San Francisco, one that dons an actual "square." Also, Square has expanded to Canada (eh?), which is always the first stop for full-on internationalization. | |
| Uber Co-Founder Garrett Camp Launches BlackJet, The "Uber For Private Jets" | Top |
 Uber for the home. Uber for car washes. Uber for this, Uber for that. And now there's an Uber for private jets. Difference is, this "Uber for… " is actually backed by an Uber co-founder. And oh man, is he excited about it. The startup is called BlackJet, and it's being backed by Garrett Camp, founding CEO of StumbleUpon and co-founder of Uber. | |
| Save Humanity From Asteroids With Reflective Paint Clouds, Says MIT Grad. Really. | Top |
 Who needs hunky space miners wielding megaton nuclear warheads when an new MIT paper argues that paintballs could save mankind from asteroid annihilation. Graduate student Sung Wook Paek estimates that reflective paint-covered asteroids would increase the pressure from the Sun's photons (light) to push a doomsday rock off course. In the 1990's quality video below, Paek demonstrates how enormous clouds of paint lodged from cosmic paintball guns could envelop a 27-gigaton rock headed towards Earth in 2029. | |
| Here's The Beats By Dre "Executive" Headphone Review By Someone Who Actually Used Them | Top |
 In case you haven't noticed, rapper Dr. Dre has his own line of headphones. They're called "Beats By Dre" and until now, they were made in concert with the company Monster. Apparently that has changed now and Beats are its own thing now, and that's good. I'm not a fan of Monster products, but that's a story for another day. I went on a bit of a tirade on Twitter about how Beats were replacing your old overpriced pieces of crap with new overpriced pieces of crap, so the company reached out to me and asked if I'd check them out and review them. I obliged. | |
| Sheryl Sandberg And 5 Other Facebook Execs Convert RSUs To Real Stock, But Aren't Selling Any Yet | Top |
 Six of Facebook's top officers (but not Zuck) filed Form 4s today to notify the SEC their RSUs will vest into 45.3 million shares on 10/29, but they won't be selling any. Facebook will withhold 45% of those shares and keep them from the market in exchange for paying taxes on those issued so execs don't have to pay taxes up front. That could keep the $FB price more stable as lock-ups expire. | |
| HBO Delays Launch Of Its First Standalone Streaming Service, Leaving Netflix Alone In The Nordics | Top |
 Those of us who were looking forward to seeing Netflix and HBO go head-to-head will have to wait just a little bit longer. That's because HBO has delayed the launch of its HBO Nordic subscription streaming service in Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, according to Reuters. | |
| Behold The Best Samsung Galaxy Note Sales Pitch You've Ever Seen | Top |
 Samsung is in the process of launching a new Samsung Galaxy Note II, but we've just received strong evidence the original may be even better. Courtesy of a Craigslist Toronto classified ad (via Twitter), take a look at this beauty of a pitch that tells you everything you need to know about Samsung's original phablet. In the words of the original poster, "Fasten your seatbelts assholes." | |
| This Is The Nexus 10 | Top |
 As you've no doubt already heard, Google is planning to unveil some new Nexus-branded goodies on Monday. LG's Nexus 4 smartphone has been examined in what seems like excruciating detail already, but now leaked images of Samsung's Nexus 10 tablet (obtained by BriefMobile) have begun to make their way 'round the web. | |
| Exploreka's Mobile App Displays A Map With Deals That You Can Instantly Use | Top |
 Just when you thought local deals couldn't be improved, Exploreka tries to provide something new. With that particular take, everything happens on mobile (iOS for now) with a map front and center. | |
| Want To Read App.net Status Messages In The Official Twitter App? Here's How With Apparchy | Top |
 The great thing about San Francisco is that it's a small town in size. As I was walking to the office today I walked by Steve Streza of Pocket and we caught up on what he's working on lately. Yesterday, there was an App.net hackathon and Steve showed me what he made, and it's really cool. If you're unsure, App.net is a project that is kind of like Twitter, for those who don't want to necessarily be on Twitter. Kind of. | |
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