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- Yahoo's Homepage Isn't Raising Enough Money For Hurricane Sandy Relief, Let's All Step Up
- Get Your Ass To Metro (Windows 8)
- Quick, Tie The Rafts Together
- Do We Need Another Angel List? NOAH Insider Seems To Think So
- Gillmor Gang: Shaken Not Stirred
- The 20 Most Innovative People In Democracy 2012
- 3D Printers Are Not Like 2D Printers: A Rant
- EFF: Calling All Geeks – Help Explain To Judges Hearing Oracle v. Google Appeal Why Copyrighting APIs Is Such A Bad Idea
- 3 iPad Mini Design Considerations For Developers
- After Hurricane Sandy, NY Startups Have To Find A Place To Get Back To Work
- Sequoia-Backed Search And Social Marketing Company Kenshoo Raises Another $12M
- Where The iPad Mini Fits On My Digital Tool Belt
- Adding Photo Filters Doesn't Mean That Twitter Will Cancel Out Instagram
- Foursquare Looks Into A Fourth Round At An Over $700M Valuation, Investors Skeptical
- It's Alive! Google's iOS Search App Shows Hints Of Self-Awareness
- Facebook Execs Start Selling Stock: Sandberg Cashes Just ~2% Of Her Stake For $7.4M But CAO Dumps Half
- iPad Mini Display Under The Microscope: Not As Good As iPad 4th Gen, But Much Better Than iPad 2
- OMGPOP Founder Charles Forman Raises $4M For Picturelife, An App For Backing Up Your Photos In The Cloud
- iOS 6.0.1 Already Accounts For 7.5% Of iOS Traffic 24 Hours After Release
- Mobile Ad Exchange Nexage Opens Up To Third-Party Services With Nexage Connect
| Yahoo's Homepage Isn't Raising Enough Money For Hurricane Sandy Relief, Let's All Step Up | Top |
 We're just now learning what level the devastation that Hurricane Sandy caused on the East Coast, specifically in New York City, and people are starting to send the wagons around to raise money to assist those in need. We learned yesterday that mentions of blood donation and the Red Cross skyrocketed on Twitter during the peak of the storm, and other organizations are starting to get involved. | |
| Get Your Ass To Metro (Windows 8) | Top |
 Love it or hate it, Windows 8 is a big deal which is only going to get bigger. Particularly the Metro side. The Windows Store will bring app store economics to the PC in a way that most users have never experienced before, and that represents a golden opportunity for developers. However they will have to move incredibly quickly to get ahead of the rush. | |
| Quick, Tie The Rafts Together | Top |
 To operate in the 21st century as if it is still the 20th is certain death for most businesses. Not instant, but certain. And it was certainly this practice that led two of the largest publishers to combine their lot. The resulting business will have to change all the same, but it's easier to navigate these waters as a single raft (of the Medusa variety, but a raft nonetheless) than as a flotilla. | |
| Do We Need Another Angel List? NOAH Insider Seems To Think So | Top |
 Many would say Angel List has become an indispensable resource for investors and startups to find, connect and recommend each other. This almost altruistic effort has taken Silicon Valley to the world, and, increasingly, the world to Silicon Valley. Slowly but surely European-based startups have also started using it over the last couple of years, and, used in combination with CrunchBase, it can be pretty powerful. However, not all think this. And only this week, a new player emerged with an attempt at its own land grab: NOAH Insider. | |
| Gillmor Gang: Shaken Not Stirred | Top |
 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — stumbled through and upon the possibilities of an orbiting metadata cloud. Mark our words, Instagram's success with the pre-teen set sets the table for powerful social graphs where photos share equal weight with GPS, swipe, and realtime contextual data. While we detoured slightly in anticipation of the social impact on the election, Obama and Chris Christie banishing the toxic politics of partisan nitpicking for some basic working together was a sight for sore eyes. Maybe Google and Apple can take a page from at book. | |
| The 20 Most Innovative People In Democracy 2012 | Top |
 President Barack Obama, Julian Assange, Mayor Cory Booker and more. On the eve of America's political new year, Election Day, we highlight this year's most innovative people in democracy. | |
| 3D Printers Are Not Like 2D Printers: A Rant | Top |
 The last time I wrote about 3D printers, an appalling number of people in the comments - including VCs who really, really should know better - kept writing things like: "Nearly identical comments were made about personal computers, desktop printers, color printers, laser printers..." and "just like printing at home" and "Let's use the traditional paper printer as an example" and "it will follow the same trend as 2D printing" and and and and and. Recently the very same thing happened to me in casual conversation. And so, this rant: | |
| EFF: Calling All Geeks – Help Explain To Judges Hearing Oracle v. Google Appeal Why Copyrighting APIs Is Such A Bad Idea | Top |
 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking for help in explaining to the federal circuit why copyrighting APIs is such a bad idea. The EFF's request comes after a victory earlier this year when U.S.District Court Judge William Alsup ruled in the Oracle v. Google case that an API cannot be copyrighted. | |
| 3 iPad Mini Design Considerations For Developers | Top |
 Editor's note: Boris Chan is a principal at Xtreme Labs who leads product development and innovation efforts. Apple finally unveiled the iPad mini last week. Perhaps its main selling point is that it runs the same apps as the iPad and works just as well with the same screen resolution despite its smaller size. | |
| After Hurricane Sandy, NY Startups Have To Find A Place To Get Back To Work | Top |
 Recovering from Hurricane Sandy is no small feat as most of Lower Manhattan is still in the dark without power. I talked with a couple of people working in startups who had to find a place to get back work. But the most difficult part was probably to set aside the devastation and get the businesses back on track. Those companies are fragile and can't risk a companywide blackout for a week. | |
| Sequoia-Backed Search And Social Marketing Company Kenshoo Raises Another $12M | Top |
 Digital marketing company Kenshoo has raised $12 million in new funding. The round was led by late-stage investment firm Tenaya Capital, with participation from all past investors, including Sequoia Capital, Sequoia Growth Fund, and Arts Alliance. A Kenshoo spokesperson told me this brings the company's total funding to $30 million. | |
| Where The iPad Mini Fits On My Digital Tool Belt | Top |
 Happy iPad mini day. Since my review a few days ago, by far the number one question I've been asked about the device is: how does it fit into my life? Do I really need another iPad — let alone a smaller, less powerful one with a non-retina screen? Will I use it alongside the regular iPad? What about alongside a MacBook? Instead of those devices? This question keeps coming up, of course, because everyone is trying to understand how the iPad mini might fit into their lives — or if it will at all. Granted, I've only been using one for a little over a week, but I think I already have a pretty good sense of where it will fit into my life. | |
| Adding Photo Filters Doesn't Mean That Twitter Will Cancel Out Instagram | Top |
 Nick Bilton of the New York Times is reporting that Twitter is working on adding filters for photos to its product. This is clearly an attempt to add to its current capability to upload photos. At first blush, you will think that this is purely a defensive move against Facebook and Instagram. While that might be partially true, adding filters to photos does not cancel out Instagram whatsoever. | |
| Foursquare Looks Into A Fourth Round At An Over $700M Valuation, Investors Skeptical | Top |
 Foursquare has been taking VC meetings recently, looking into raising a Series D round of funding of between $50 million and $100 million according to multiple sources. In previous rounds, the company has brought in over $71.4 million in financing from Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures and others. From what we're hearing the company seeks to flesh out this round at a pre-money valuation of between $700 million and $800 million, and that number has a few VC shops skeptical due to its growth trends, which have not gotten more inspiring after the company's recent June redesign, according to multiple sources. Foursquare raised a $50 million round at a $600 million valuation in June of 2011 and still has plenty of money in the bank as far as we know. | |
| It's Alive! Google's iOS Search App Shows Hints Of Self-Awareness | Top |
 It may not have a cool name like "Siri," but you can't accuse Google's Voice Search app of lacking personality. Or self-awareness, for that matter. In case you missed it, Google upgraded its iOS search app on Tuesday with improved voice search functionality - it's the closest iOS users can get to a "Google Now"-like experience. The new app can return information like weather, stock quotes, sports scores, flight details, language translations, YouTube videos, and any other fact-based answers which Google's Knowledge Graph can quickly deliver. And when an instant answer isn't available, the app simply launches a Google web search instead. | |
| Facebook Execs Start Selling Stock: Sandberg Cashes Just ~2% Of Her Stake For $7.4M But CAO Dumps Half | Top |
 Facebook's executives gained the right to sell stock this week and three are now starting to cash out. SEC docs show COO Sheryl Sandberg is selling 352,904 shares to pull in $7,474,506.72. That's just 1.91% of her current, massive stake. General Counsel Ted Ullyot is selling a little too. However, Chief Accounting Officer David Spillane is selling over 61%. That's 256,000 shares out of the 416,000 he was just awarded, which could worry Wall Street. | |
| iPad Mini Display Under The Microscope: Not As Good As iPad 4th Gen, But Much Better Than iPad 2 | Top |
 The iPad mini may have a display that's being singled out in most reviews as below Apple's recent standards, but a look under the microscope by Repair Labs affirms what I've been noticing in person: while the mini definitely doesn't offer the same kind of quality as an iPad with Retina Display (3rd or 4th gen), its screen is a big step up from the 2nd-generation iPad. | |
| OMGPOP Founder Charles Forman Raises $4M For Picturelife, An App For Backing Up Your Photos In The Cloud | Top |
 OMGPOP founder Charles Forman has raised some money for his new venture Picturelife, according to an SEC filing. The startup, which is focused on backing up, storing, and providing access to all of your photos in the cloud, closed a $4 million in new funding. The app works by syncing photos from multiple devices, and giving users the ability to access them from anywhere. Users can also import and sync photos from a number of other social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and others. | |
| iOS 6.0.1 Already Accounts For 7.5% Of iOS Traffic 24 Hours After Release | Top |
 Apple's minor bug-zapping update for iOS 6, iOS 6.0.1, is already making up 7.5 percent of mobile web traffic as measured by ad network and analytics firm Chitika, just 24 hours after release. If you've been following, you'll note that that's just half of the 15 percent adoption rate iOS 6 saw a day after being in the wild, but this is a minor update, making that uptake rate impressive. | |
| Mobile Ad Exchange Nexage Opens Up To Third-Party Services With Nexage Connect | Top |
 Nexage is hoping to expand the capabilities of its mobile ad exchange with the launch of a new service called Nexage Connect. Mark Connon, the company's executive vice president of corporate and business development, said advertisers and publishers can do a number of things (largely related to targeting) in the desktop world that they don't have easy access to in mobile, due to restrictions on third-party cookies. So Nexage is taking a platform-style approach by integrating with outside services. | |
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