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Meet Turntable's Piki, The First Music App To Do Social Music Sharing Right Top
PikiTurntable today introduced Piki, a Pandora-like, human-powered radio app combined with powerful Twitter-inspired social features. With Piki, the most impressive part is that Turntable is one of the first music startups to get social right. The company has been working on the brand-new service for a year.
 
Red Tricycle, A Digital City Guide For Parents, Raises $1.5 Million From Bob Pittman And Others Top
Screen Shot 2012-12-03 at 5.07.23 PMAs a parent in New York, I'm often at a loss as to how to entertain my children. Do we shoot trap over the Brooklyn Promenade or hit the city dump to look at rats? Do we go for a swim in the Gowanus or do we visit the beach to dig up needles? With endless possibilities comes endless indecision! Thankfully, there's Red Tricycle.
 
Enthuse Raises $1.3M From Greystripe Co-founder And Others To Help Sports Teams Reward Their Fans Top
iPhone-5-ChallengesIn 2011, Brian York founded Enthuse as a way to give fans the ability to connect with their favorite sports teams via their mobile devices and get rewards for checking into games, snapping photos and sharing the love. On the flip side, Enthuse enables schools and sports franchises to integrate with their API and SDK to quickly deploy social loyalty programs in their own, branded apps. To help it gain momentum and go after more collegiate and professional franchises, the startup is today announcing that it has raised $1.3 million from Allegro Venture Partners, Bee Partners and a handful of angel investors, including Maurice Werdegar of Western Technology Investment, Greystripe co-founder and YesVideo CEO Michael Chang, Peggy Taylor of B3 Ventures and a former senior exec at PeopleSoft and San Francisco 49er, Harris Barton.
 
WeVideo Launches New Cloud-Based Video Editor, Integrates With Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, Flickr & Google Drive Top
wevideo-logoWeVideo launched to the public earlier this year after previously offering its cloud-based video editor to YouTube users. Now the startup is releasing a new update to the video editing product that is aimed at providing easy-to-use themes and drag-and-drop functionality for users.
 
Ford And Jimmy Fallon Turn To Twitter For Help Writing Lincoln Super Bowl Ad Top
steerthescriptFord is launching a big marketing campaign to revive its Lincoln brand, and apparently Twitter will play a big role in those efforts, according to a story in Bloomberg. The automaker has hired Jimmy Fallon to write Lincoln's first-ever Super Bowl ad, which will be based on tweets. Neither Bloomberg nor the #SteerTheScript website offers many details about how Fallon plans to turn a bunch of tweets into a 60-second TV commercial — the website says, "The writing process will begin with a tweet from Jimmy and then after that it's up to you, and Jimmy, where the story goes."
 
Chrome OS: Google's Most Underrated Project That You've Already Been Testing And Just Didn't Know It Top
photo 1There are hundreds of devices to choose from when you're considering a new desktop computer, laptop or mobile device. We're overwhelmed by all of the choices we have, but choice is good. When it comes to computing, as far as operating systems, there are three huge players: Microsoft, Apple and Google. Yes, Google. A curious thing happened during Chrome browser's rise to being the most-used browser - an operating system was born. Perhaps that was the plan all along. One can never truly know with Google. What I do know is that when you're on the go, especially with a laptop, the primary piece of software that everyone uses is the web browser, so why not build an operating system on top of it?
 
SEC Filing: Ray Ozzie's Startup Talko Raises $4 Million To Develop Cloud-Based Mobile Backend Services Top
Image (1) ozzie.jpg for post 337635According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Ray Ozzie's startup, Talko, has raised $4 million to fund the development of its mobile communications apps and services. Little is known about the company except that it is developing communications software and tools for social interaction. Ozzie talked earlier this year about how the company, formerly known as Cocomo, will provide backend cloud services.
 
'Hey Guys – This Is Barack': Obama Holds Chillaxed Fiscal Cliff Twitter Q&A Top
barack-obama-sunglassesThe world’s most powerful man went to Twitter to promote his plan to avoid the so-called ‘fiscal cliff‘ of impending tax hikes. If his style is any indication, the prez tweeted from Camp David while sipping an Arnold Palmer. So, make like your commander-in-chief, put your feet up, and check out some of the best moments of tax policy in 140 characters or less: And, perhaps the best one of the day: Kudos, BO, for not skimping on the exclamation points. Peace out – Greg
 
Facebook Users Have 7 Days Starting Now To Vote On Clarified Policy Changes And If They'll Keep Voting Top
Facebook Governance Vote Logo Your VoiceFacebook has integrated feedback from regulators and users into a clarified set of site governance and privacy policy changes, and starting now users will have seven days to vote for or against them. They'll lose the ability to vote on future changes unless 30% of all users vote and the majority reject the proposal. Such a high turnout is unlikely, so this will likely be the last governance vote.
 
Microsoft Rumored To Deliver Three New Surface Tablets In 2013 Top
surface-1-2A relatively reliable MSFT tipster @MS_nerd recently tweeted that Redmond will release three new and distinct generations of the Surface tablet sometime in 2013. Ballmer recently said on a shareholders' call that the company would never again let hardware or anything else stand as a barrier to innovation, admitting that Microsoft was late to the game (especially with the tablet).
 
Apple's iOS Still Dominates Mobile Web Browsing, Little Has Changed Over Six Months Of New Devices Top
chitikia-ios-androidUsers of Apple's iOS mobile operating system tend to be much heavier mobile web browsers than Android users, according to mobile ad network Chitika. That tendency hasn't changed very much at all during the past six months, despite the introduction of a wide variety of new Android hardware. While Apple has updated its iPad, introduced the iPad mini and the iPhone 5, there have been countless new Android phones, the Kindle Fire HD and new Nexus devices, but iOS still has about twice as much of web traffic consumption as Android-based browsers.
 
Keen On… Ray Kurzweil: How Computers Will Reverse Engineer The Human Mind By 2029 Top
Screen Shot 2012-12-02 at 7.54.35 PMA new Ray Kurzweil book is always a major event. And his latest work, How To Create A Mind: The Secret Of Human Thought Revealed, is classic Kurzweil - both infuriatingly brilliant and brilliantly infuriating.
 
Google Launches Update To Maps API, Which Is Used By 800K Sites, With A Focus On Android Apps Top
2692346829_1ee5045ab2_zGeolocation is very important for consumers these days, it's a technology that can be used in almost any application you can think of. Whether you want to shop, do volunteer work or meet new people, having a great Maps integration is key for Android developers. Today, Google launched an update to its Maps API so that developers can better integrate them into the applications that they're working on or might come up with in the future. The API includes vector-based maps that load faster and will let app users navigate in both 2D and 3D views, with tilt and rotate capabilities using simple gestures.
 
Snafu Or Sequel? Xbox Live Survey Hints At Unreleased HTC Titan III Windows Phone Top
xbox-surveyIn a recently released survey meant for Xbox Live users, Microsoft got a bit curious about people's smartphone preferences. Fair enough -- they've got some skin in the game, after all -- but there was something slightly amiss about how the question was framed. What the designers of the survey didn't seem to realize is that there's no such thing as an HTC Titan III… or is there?
 
Five Things Apple Can Learn From Windows 8 Top
win8-macbookI've been using Windows 8 off and on for the past few weeks and, while I agree with many of the sentiments expressed by folks like Chris Pirillo and our own MG Siegler, especially regarding the Surface RT, I still think Microsoft did a good (not excellent) job on Win8.
 
YC-Backed Telephony Startup Plivo Raises $1.75M From Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Qualcomm Inc. & SV Angel Top
plivo-logoPlivo, a Y Combinator-backed telephony startup that offers an API platform for voice and SMS applications, is today announcing it raised $1.75 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Qualcomm Incorporated, and SV Angel.
 
Ask A VC Is Back With Felicis Ventures' Aydin Senkut Top
another-super-angel-levels-up-aydin-senkuts-felicis-ventures-closes-70mAsk A VC, the TCTV show where you put VCs in the hot seat, is back, and I'm going to be hosting. I'm really excited about helping you get to know some of the investors behind the companies we write about on a daily basis. We're kicking off the series with Felicis Ventures' Aydin Senkut.
 
Google Chooses Kendo UI-Powered Camera App As Default For Chrome OS Top
Kendo UI Chrome Camera AppThe latest version of Google's ChromeOS now features a Camera app. That by itself wouldn't be all that interesting, given that operating systems like OS X have long included built-in camera apps, but Google's app for its web-centric OS, of course, only uses HTML5, JavaScript and CSS to deliver a Photo Booth-like experience.
 
OMGPOP's Chief Revenue Officer Wilson Kriegel Becomes President, COO of Video Chat Startup Paltalk Top
wilson-kriegelAnother one of Zynga's recent departures has landed. Wilson Kriegel, who was OMGPOP's chief revenue officer until the Draw Something maker was acquired for $210 million in cash and retention, is taking a president and chief operating officer role at New York-based Paltalk. He left Zynga, which bought OMGPOP, earlier this year, following a slew of other executive who have left the ailing social gaming company.
 
ThisLife Launches Beautiful Online Photo Storage And Sharing Service, Uses Amazon Glacier To Keep Prices Very Low Top
thislifeThisLife announced the launch of its online photo storage, management, and sharing service at Amazon re: Invent last week. The service, which raised $2.75 million from an impressive group of investors in June, is obviously not the first company to try to solve online photo storage, organization, and sharing, but it's definitely one of the slickest ones I've seen in a long time. It's also one of the first startups to use Amazon's new Glacier data-archiving service in production, something that helps the company keep its prices down.
 

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