Yahoo is ready with a final version of its revamped email service in an attempt to make it more appealing to people who are shifting to social networking sites as their primary means of communication. Users of Yahoo’s free email service will be switched to the new version during the next few weeks. Aside...
Word has been circulating for weeks now that Twitter was soon to be swooping up the popular third-party app, TweetDeck. In early May, Mike Arrington reported that the deal was as good as done, but the two companies were not yet willing to publicly release the numbers. Today, CNN and CNET broke the news...
Once upon a time, in the year 2007, Dropbox consisted of two engineers coding in their boxers out of a shared apartment in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. To co-founder and CEO Drew Houston, launching a successful company, “looked like a never-ending trail up Mount Doom and there is all this fog ahead of you,...
Jeff Jarvis is the creator of Entertainment Weekly, a San Francisco Examiner columnist, the Associate Publisher of The Daily News, and a consultant to new media companies — in other words, a veteran of the old school and a proponent of the new. Jarvis took to the stage today at Disrupt NYC for some...
According to a recent study from the enterprise network solutions provider iPass, workers with smartphones have a harder time being physically separated from their gadgets, even when it’s time to sleep. Here are a couple of eye-popping stats: 39% wake up at night to check their phones and 35% check their email in bed before...
Once you’ve built an empire of funny cat pictures and other user-generated comedy ephemera, what do you do next? Ben Huh, CEO of the sprawling Cheezburger network of comedy websites, has begun discussing a side-project he’s working on called The Moby Dick Project. The Project’s aim is to rebuild online media in a format...
You won’t know this unless you’ve sent Mark Zuckerberg mail the old-fashioned way, but the Facebook CEO has a personalized stationery set designed in-house by one of the company’s designers, Ben Barry. “Mark gets a lot of mail thanking him from people with amazing personal stories made possible because of Facebook. We wanted to make...
You can now replicate data from MySQL data to MongoDB using Tungsten Replicator, an open source data replication engine for MySQL. It’s sponsored by Continuent, makers of Tungsten Enterprise. The new functionality was added by Continuent CTO Robert Hodges, Flavio Percoco Premoli of The Net Planet and Continuent employee Stephane Giron as part of...
One of the first victims of a hurricane (or a flood or a tornado or an earthquake) is the sense of control. The trauma of survivors often centers not on loss of life alone, or of property, but of a belief in the individual as an actor. In children it is particularly acute. Game...
Former AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui’s Churn Labs, his first venture after selling his mobile ad company to Google for $750 million, was one of the early highlights for TechCrunch Disrupt’s Start-up Battlefield. Hamoui’s first creation is Gnostop Gnomes, an intriguing mobile app that allows users to transfer a digital gnome between devices and chart...