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• Mission Impossible: Seclore Can Now Make Your Email Self-Destruct
• After Successful Launches At USC And UCLA, Flinja Brings Its "Airbnb For University Jobs" To Stanford
• Entelo Launches To Help Businesses Recruit The Best Candidates, Even If They're Not Looking
• Facebook Explains On How App Center Recommendation Works. A Blueprint For Search?
• Amazon Sells Out Of New Kindle Paperwhite, Shipping Slips To 4-6 Weeks
• Tapbots Founder Paul Haddad On App.net, Netbot, And What Twitter's New API Means For Tweetbot
• That's A First: NASA's Curiosity Rover Successfully Checks Into Foursquare From Mars
• 500 Startups-Funded KeenFiles Makes It Easier To Share Huge Files
• As HP Outlines 5-Year Recovery Plan, Its Stock Price Crashes To A 9-Year Low
• Amazon Quietly Begins The Long Road To Closed Captioning Its Streaming Video Library
• Study: Redfin Features 20% More Real Estate Listings And Fewer Sold Houses Than Zillow And Trulia
• Meg Whitman Outlines HP's 5-Year Recovery Plan, Promises Growth By 2015
• Keen On… Mark Read: How WPP Is Now The Seventh Largest Digital Media Company In The World [TCTV]
• The Founders Of Rocket Internet's Square Clone Payleven On Technology And Taking Mobile Payments Mass Market
• Facebook Now Lets US Users Pay $7 To Promote Posts To The News Feeds Of More Friends
• Startup Weekend Acquires Local Events Newsletter Provider StartupDigest; Product Gets Spun Off As GroupTie
• How Technology Destroyed The Once Substantive Presidential Debate
• Airbnb Gets Into Recommendations With "Local Lists" Of Users' Favorite Neighborhood Hangouts
• Out Of Stealth, Toast Launches iPhone App For Social Wish Lists Linked To Gifts
• Making Sense Of The iPad Mini Rumors: What To Expect, When, And Why

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Mission Impossible: Seclore Can Now Make Your Email Self-Destruct	Top
Bombay-based security software company Seclore has developed a way for your email to self-destruct. This may be just the way for companies to get past the paradox that collaboration poses.
After Successful Launches At USC And UCLA, Flinja Brings Its "Airbnb For University Jobs" To Stanford	Top
Flinja wants to create a peer-to-peer jobs marketplace based on student and alumni networks within various universities around the country. It seeks to differentiate itself from other marketplace startups -- the Taskrabbits and the Zaarlys of the world -- by tying user participation to their college affiliation. Like Facebook once upon a time, all users are required to log in with their .edu email addresses, as a way to prove that they are either currently attending a participating university, or had once done so.
Entelo Launches To Help Businesses Recruit The Best Candidates, Even If They're Not Looking	Top
In July of last year, Jon Bischke and John McGrath co-founded Entelo to help companies large and small identify and recruit technical talent. Since then, the startup has been in limited beta, providing only brief glimpses into what they were building, but that officially ended this morning.
Facebook Explains On How App Center Recommendation Works. A Blueprint For Search?	Top
Facebook says that today 220 million people are visiting its App Center every month, with 40% likely to return the day after they use it for more. But with thousands of apps available, and visitors looking for guidance on what apps to use, recommendation is a huge part of the equation both for consumers, and for developers hoping their apps are the ones to hit the big time. Today, Facebook took a step towards demystifying how all this works in a blog post explaining the building of the recommendation engine.
Amazon Sells Out Of New Kindle Paperwhite, Shipping Slips To 4-6 Weeks	Top
Amazon apparently underestimated the success of its newest e-reader. The company just updated its shipping estimate, pushing back the delivery date to four to six weeks after ordering. Both models, with or without 3G, are experiencing the same delay. And it's no surprise — the device is more than an incremental improvement.
Tapbots Founder Paul Haddad On App.net, Netbot, And What Twitter's New API Means For Tweetbot	Top
App.net, the Dalton Caldwell startup that pivoted from being essentially an About.me for apps, and towards being a paid Twitter alternative, today got a boost on the software side thanks to the introduction of Netbot by Tapbots. Netbot, as any Tapbots fan will likely immediately recognize, is essentially a modified version of Tweetbot for iPhone and iPad, but one that works with App.net instead.
That's A First: NASA's Curiosity Rover Successfully Checks Into Foursquare From Mars	Top
I love foursquare, I check in from pretty much everywhere I go. However, I would say that the Curiosity Rover on Mars is seeing cooler scenery than I ever have. Today, foursquare reported that the craft has checked in on foursquare for the first time.
500 Startups-Funded KeenFiles Makes It Easier To Share Huge Files	Top
Photographers and designers often have to face problems mortal men do not. More precisely, they need to share huge files - up to 2GB - with each other in order to send around high resolution photos and layouts for clients. That's what KeenFiles.com is for. It's a place for these gods among humankind to share those things that are largest on their hard drives. The service is simple: you paste some lines of code on your website (I set it up here) and people just drag and drop files into your KeenFiles account. Uploaders must log in before they can send files, thereby preventing spam to some degree. The uploads are fast and seamless and you get an email once something has dropped into your folder.
As HP Outlines 5-Year Recovery Plan, Its Stock Price Crashes To A 9-Year Low	Top
Watch out below! HP's stock is tumbling to new lows as the company lays out its 5-year recovery program. Wall Street clearly doesn't like what it's hearing either. HP's stock opened at $17.35 and maintained this price throughout the day until it suddenly, nearly violently, crashed to where it sits now at 10% down for the day at $15.50, a 9-year low.
Amazon Quietly Begins The Long Road To Closed Captioning Its Streaming Video Library	Top
Amazon has quietly started to add closed captioning services to its Instant Video library, following a September 30 deadline from the Federal Communications Commission that required online media companies to begin incorporating these subtitles for the hard of hearing into their video content. This regulation -- an implementation of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2011 -- has been long in the making, with companies like Amazon and YouTube but also Apple arguing that they will need extensions to fully comply, and those arguing on behalf of people with hearing disabilities saying that digital content needs to be just as accessible as what people can see in analog.
Study: Redfin Features 20% More Real Estate Listings And Fewer Sold Houses Than Zillow And Trulia	Top
As the U.S. real estate market is slowly starting to gather some steam again, real estate portals like Redfin, Trulia and Zillow are again competing as important tools for prospective buyers who want to get an edge in competitive markets. According to a new study commissioned by real estate portal Redfin and real estate company Windermere, the quality of the listings on these different sites isn't always up to par. According to this study, which looked at 11 major U.S. cities, Redfin and Windermere.com feature about 20% more listings than Zillow and Trulia and almost two out of five listings on those two sites are no longer for sale.
Meg Whitman Outlines HP's 5-Year Recovery Plan, Promises Growth By 2015	Top
Hewlett-Packard was once the king of Silicon Valley. Not anymore. After years of executive turnover, the company has lost its soul although the money keeps pouring in. Meg Whitman intends to right the massive HP ship and just outlined an ambitious five-year plan that promises new products by financial year 2014 and finally growth by 2015. So three years from now. Gah. Whitman took over for ousted Leo Apotheker in September 2011. Apotheker replaced Mark Hurd in 2010. Today during HP's Securities Analyst Meeting Whitman blamed HP's current position on this constant turnover. She indicated it caused multiple inconsistent strategies. And she's right.
Keen On… Mark Read: How WPP Is Now The Seventh Largest Digital Media Company In The World [TCTV]	Top
One of my favorite unconferences is the European edition of Stream, the WPP/Yossi Vardi hosted extravaganza held annually just outside Athens. Last year, I interviewed Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP's ebullient CEO, about the global advertising economy. And this year, I had the good fortune to sit down with Mark Read, the CEO of WPP Digital, to talk more specifically about the company's digital strategy. Read stressed to me the importance of digital inside the WPP empire, explaining that it currently represented 32% of the company's $17 billion annual revenue, thereby making it the seventh largest digital media company in the world. And this will only grow in the future, Read told me, so that in ten years time "everything will be digital."
The Founders Of Rocket Internet's Square Clone Payleven On Technology And Taking Mobile Payments Mass Market	Top
The Samwer brothers, their Rocket Internet investment vehicle and their portfolio of e-commerce companies have been some of the harder-to-penetrate parts of the European startup ecosystem. They often don't reveal official funding figures for their landscape of businesses and have been publicity shy in other ways, too. So it was with some surprise that I was asked yesterday, in the middle of a crowded apps trade show in London, if I wanted to meet with two of the three co-founders of Payleven, the Rocket-incubated mobile payment startup -- one of the many companies, like Square, that have developed a way of attaching a device to a phone to turn it into a card reader -- to talk shop.
Facebook Now Lets US Users Pay $7 To Promote Posts To The News Feeds Of More Friends	Top
Facebook is expanding to the US the controversial Promoted Posts feature that lets users pay to get their posts more visibility in the news feed. It will cost $7 per post and Facebook hopes it will be used for garage sales, parties, wedding photos and other important announcements. Promoted Posts could surface important announcements, but I worry it could allow the rich to dominate the feed.
Startup Weekend Acquires Local Events Newsletter Provider StartupDigest; Product Gets Spun Off As GroupTie	Top
Startup Weekend, the organization behind the weekend-long hackathons encouraging entrepreneurship, has acquired local events resource and email newsletter provider StartupDigest for an undisclosed sum. StartupDigest currently reaches over 230,000 subscribers across 99 cities and 43 countries around the world. Two of StartupDigest's core team members, Editorial Director Jessica Ford and co-founder Brendan McManus, will join Startup Weekend following the acquisition. Meanwhile, the software product used to power the StartupDigest service will be transitioned into a new product known as GroupTie.
How Technology Destroyed The Once Substantive Presidential Debate	Top
Presidential debates were not always a soapbox for ideological soundbites. During the heyday of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, debates lasted several hours and dared to tackle policy nuances. Then, technology shot critical thinking in the head: radio forced once-complex messages into Twitter-like sound bites; television rewarded style over substance; and these days, users' social media feeds are covertly manipulating the public into a partisan echo-chamber before they have a chance to objectively evaluate the speeches for themselves.
Airbnb Gets Into Recommendations With "Local Lists" Of Users' Favorite Neighborhood Hangouts	Top
Airbnb has been pretty disruptive to the hospitality industry by allowing guests to find non-hotel lodging provided by other human beings, like, in their house or apartment or whatever. It's awesome! And I'm a huge fan. But today we're not going to talk about Airbnb's lodging marketplace, which is already hugely successful. Today we're going to talk about Airbnb's interest in recommendations of local places guests can check out when they're visiting new cities.
Out Of Stealth, Toast Launches iPhone App For Social Wish Lists Linked To Gifts	Top
Despite the news that Facebook is going to implement Facebook Gifts which will literally allow you to send a real gift to a friend whose address you don't have, there's a startup out there that is not afraid of the 800 pound gorilla in the room. And not to mention Svpply or Wrapp. That said, Toast, a social wish list app, in stealth mode for the last few months, reckons it has a different take on things based on the psychology of social gifting. The app is now available for free in the iTunes App Store [iTunes link]. In addition it's raised a small funding round understood to be in the region of €500,000.
Making Sense Of The iPad Mini Rumors: What To Expect, When, And Why	Top
Apple's iPad mini is now the subject of a bumper crop of fall rumors, and the stakes are higher now that the Wall Street Journal has chimed in with a report that production is underway on the smaller-sized tablet, and in fact began in September. Already this week we've also seen leaked parts in photographs, too, and word press invites could go out as early as next week. But what does it all mean?

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