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- CrunchWeek, Vol. 2: Is Mason Out At Groupon; Twitter Vs. PeopleBrowsr And ICOA-Gate [TCTV]
- Startup Claims That Party Call, France Telecom's Facebook Calling App, Was Its Idea
- Paul Graham Says Y Combinator's New Class Could Have "Less Than 50″ Startups
- Gillmor Gang: Talking Tablet Smack
- Iterations: Let's Hear From Developers In "The War For Talent"
- Dronegames In San Francisco Features Twitter Fists, Groupon Leashes, MiFi And Botnets
- Reach Out And Touch No One
- Backed Or Whacked: A Smartphone Robot For Playtime And Panorama-Style Mobile HD Video
- Ways To Get People To Do Things They Don't Want To Do
- A Full-Stack Web Team Will Provide Much-Needed Breadth And Depth To Your Startup
- Make Internships Count For The Student And The Company
- Breaking Through Cloud Addiction
- Facebook Makes A Huge Data Grab By Aggressively Promoting Photo Sync
- CEOs Don't Come Pre-Made, Authentic Leadership Has To Be Learned
- The Magic of Liquidity: Web Marketplaces Still Have A Long Way To Go
- SkrillexQuest, The Future Of Music Marketing: Dubstep Superstar Promotes Single With Online Advergame
- Games Industry Transitions In 2013: Will Consoles And Windows Rise Again?
- No Exceptions For Tech Industry: High Skilled Visas Now Tied To Comprehensive Reform
- Gift Guide: Sony Cyber-Shot RX100 Compact Camera
- Finding It Difficult To Get Your Startup Off The Ground? Try Doing It Under Missile Fire
| CrunchWeek, Vol. 2: Is Mason Out At Groupon; Twitter Vs. PeopleBrowsr And ICOA-Gate [TCTV] | Top |
| As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we're introducing a new TechCrunch TV show called CrunchWeek, where we discuss a few of the past week's more interesting stories. The aim is to get a bit more into the stories behind the stories that you read about on TechCrunch's main blog page. | |
| Startup Claims That Party Call, France Telecom's Facebook Calling App, Was Its Idea | Top |
 Two weeks ago, France Telecom-owned carrier Orange announced Party Call, an app Orange said it created in "partnership" with Facebook for users to make mobile calls via the social network. Now a small startup, Telesocial, says the idea was theirs first. | |
| Paul Graham Says Y Combinator's New Class Could Have "Less Than 50″ Startups | Top |
 Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham just had a few interesting things to say about the accelerator's Winter 2013 batch, the biggest of which is that it's going to smaller than before. There's no firm number just yet, but Graham noted in a new missive on the Y Combinator website that there may be less than 50 startups in the mix this time around. | |
| Gillmor Gang: Talking Tablet Smack | Top |
 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — survived a rare Saturday recording session at the unstable directorial hands of Gillmor. Topics included iPad Mini, Nexus 7, the latest Twitter UI on said iPad Mini, the lack of communication across platform firewalls, and a bit of Windows 8 Surface and Google Glasses smack. Rated B for Buttcast. | |
| Iterations: Let's Hear From Developers In "The War For Talent" | Top |
 Over the past few years, I've helped a small handful friends move from one gig to another. It's a highly personal process, and I'm not a "recruiting expert." Generally, in my limited experience, it often takes many conversations even before a close friend opens up about their desire to move or try something new. The motivations for each change are so different. Some want to work in a different industry, on a different technical problem, in a different city, for a different boss, for a different title, and so on. And, through these conversations, some patterns emerge, dangerous to extrapolate from, though illuminating given the fact every investor and founder stays up at night wondering how to deploy that early capital to find the right people to build out their vision. | |
| Dronegames In San Francisco Features Twitter Fists, Groupon Leashes, MiFi And Botnets | Top |
 Today, I got to judge a really cool competition, the Dronegames. Basically, a bunch of teams that like to hack on helicopter-like Drones came together in Groupon's San Francisco office to come up with some really cool creations. I expected things to spin and go upside down, but these folks did things way more advanced. What's a Drone exactly? Let's ask Wikipedia: An unmanned combat air vehicle or combat drone or simply "drone" is an unmanned aerial vehicle that is armed and has no onboard pilot. Currently operational drones are under real-time human control of unknown precision. | |
| Reach Out And Touch No One | Top |
 If the Internet, at its most basic level, was built around the idea of one human connecting with another human, is it really changing how this is done? To make it easier and better is no insignificant accomplishment, but are actually changing the way people communicate with one another? It seems to me that we're not fashioning a thunderbolt, but greasing the lightning that's already there. | |
| Backed Or Whacked: A Smartphone Robot For Playtime And Panorama-Style Mobile HD Video | Top |
 Editor's note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. High-quality videoconferencing was once the exclusive province of rich institutions with dedicated high-speed connections. Two recent Kickstarter projects take iPhone video interaction to places it has never been before. | |
| Ways To Get People To Do Things They Don't Want To Do | Top |
 Editor's Note: Nir Eyal writes about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com. A reader recently asked me a pointed question: "I've read your work on creating user habits. It's all well and good for getting people to do things, like using an app on their iPhone, but I've got a bigger problem. How do I get people to do things they don't want to do?" | |
| A Full-Stack Web Team Will Provide Much-Needed Breadth And Depth To Your Startup | Top |
 Editor's note: Phil Freo leads the engineering team at ElasticSales. I have had to explain, even to technical recruiters, the differences between the roles on a web engineering team and that the lines that separate them are often fuzzy. Here is the framework I use to evaluate whether someone is a good fit for a startup. | |
| Make Internships Count For The Student And The Company | Top |
 Editor's note: DJ Patil is a data scientist in residence at Greylock Partners, and Julie Deroche runs the firm's university recruiting program. The pressure is already on for building the class of 2013 summer internships. Since we've both been heavily involved in building the intern programs at LinkedIn and Mozilla, we're often asked by organizations and students about what makes a successful internship summer. | |
| Breaking Through Cloud Addiction | Top |
 Editor's Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital and The Modern Business Guide to Panel Discussions. Netflix uses Amazon infrastructure, competes with Amazon to stream video, and pays Amazon massive amounts of cash to handle its data. Is Amazon too good to leave? | |
| Facebook Makes A Huge Data Grab By Aggressively Promoting Photo Sync | Top |
 Facebook was already taking in 300 million photos a day, and that rate is about to dramatically increase. It's now ushering users onto its background uploads feature Photo Sync with a big banner at the top of its mobile apps' news feed. Just two taps and your last 20 photos plus every one you take in the future are auto-uploaded to a private album from which you can share and Facebook can mine metadata. | |
| CEOs Don't Come Pre-Made, Authentic Leadership Has To Be Learned | Top |
 Editor's note: Scott Weiss is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and the former co-founder and CEO of IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. An approachable and authentic CEO is essential to fostering a high-performance, open communications culture. | |
| The Magic of Liquidity: Web Marketplaces Still Have A Long Way To Go | Top |
 Editor's note: David Haber is an analyst at Spark Capital. Prior to Spark, David helped launch Locus Analytics, a start-up asset management business. The Internet provides the perfect medium to aggregate the long tail of fragmented and illiquid markets. This dynamic has made the opportunity for creating online marketplaces so compelling | |
| SkrillexQuest, The Future Of Music Marketing: Dubstep Superstar Promotes Single With Online Advergame | Top |
 When you beat Skrillex's Legend Of Zelda-style flash game, you see a link to buy its soundtrack on iTunes. SkrillexQuest is an advergame and its next generation of music marketing. You build an emotional attachment to the dubstep DJ's song "Summit" while it plays as you save the princess. That's something passive consumption of a music video, 30-second mp3 preview, or banner ad cannot do. | |
| Games Industry Transitions In 2013: Will Consoles And Windows Rise Again? | Top |
 For retailers and publishers in video games, Christmas is the busiest time of the year. On the digital side, Christmas is often one of the slower periods but, when the dust settles and spring begins, often new heroes emerge. For both, the holidays mark when we begin to wonder what's going on for games in 2013? | |
| No Exceptions For Tech Industry: High Skilled Visas Now Tied To Comprehensive Reform | Top |
 Powerful technology lobbies expected special treatment this week from Congress and got a tough lesson in rejection: there will be no more high-skilled work visas without comprehensive immigration reform. The probable failure of the STEMS Jobs Act, which would add 55,000 work visas for science-oriented immigrants, has become a casualty of war over the low-skilled immigrants dilemma. Despite $14.7M in campaign donations from the Bay Area and a full-court press from the likes of Aol* founder, Steve Case, Silicon Valley heavy-weights could not get Congress to set aside their differences on comprehensive reform for a favor to engineer-starved tech firms. Coastal isolation in startup land has caused an unfounded exceptionalism that so long as Silicon Valley kept producing world-changing products, the government would leave the area alone. Influence, however, had the unintended side effect of forced interdependence, and now the tech lobby will have deal with the rest of the country's issues before it can get more engineers. | |
| Gift Guide: Sony Cyber-Shot RX100 Compact Camera | Top |
 Sony's compact camera with pro features including manual focusing and RAW support comes with a hefty price tag, but it costs that much for a reason: This is simply the best camera currently available for shooters who want something that fits in a front pocket but still delivers image quality so breathtaking, your friends will think you've been toting around a DSLR. | |
| Finding It Difficult To Get Your Startup Off The Ground? Try Doing It Under Missile Fire | Top |
 Editor's note: Ben Lang is a growth hacker at lool ventures and creator of Mapped In Israel. The recent battle between Israel and Gaza revolutionized real-time war reporting, with both sides taking to Twitter, Facebook and other platforms to report the latest news. What you may have missed is how thousands of Israeli startups continued to function while under missile fire. | |
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