Who says working for TechCrunch isn’t just about the best job ever, ever? Case in point: Bummed after losing to Causes’ Josh Persky in Zaarly’s ”Startup Haircut Contest” this week, our newly minted executive assistant Greg Barto was just going about his Friday business today, planning meetings and filing files, etc when he was surprised...
Daily Archives: July 8, 2011
Now You Can Use LinkedIn To Stay Up To Date On Who’s Getting Hired (And Fired)
Today, LinkedIn passed Myspace to become the second largest social network in the U.S. LinkedIn has seen a surge in traffic since it went public in May and reached an all-time high of 33.9 million unique visitors in June. Taking advantage of the professional social network’s continuing growth, Roger Lee, the co-founder of PaperG,...
PHOTOS: Skype’s Stylish New Stockholm Office
Skype has had a busy month. It was acquired by Microsoft, and then Facebook announced that video chat using Skype will be available on Facebook. On top of that, they’ve got an awesome new office in Stockholm, Sweden, designed by architecture firm PS Arkitektur. PS Arkitektur was kind enough to send us some photos...
5 Free Collaborative Whiteboard Apps For the iPad
It seems as though the minute the iPad was announced, innumerable light bulbs went off as developers and entrepreneurs everywhere came to the same realization: “We could totally use this device as a digital whiteboard!” Indeed, a search for the word “whiteboard” in the App Store returns a whopping 170 iPad apps. Although the...
Don’t Call It A PivotPlz: PicPlz Spun Off As Mixed Media Labs Prepares Their Next Product
When Mixed Media Labs raised a $5 million round last November, it raised quite a few eyebrows. After all, the money came from Andreessen Horowitz, the VC firm which had backed Instagram. To be fair, they backed Instagram when it was still known as Burbn — before it became what is now a massively...
Fight Information Overload With Trimit on iPhone
Short form, long form, there’s a time and a place for reading all kinds of articles but wouldn’t it be nice if you could have some very long things made very short, automatically, and still get the gist of them? Such is the promise of Trimit, a London-built iPhone app described as “an automatic...
Mirror neurons: A new issue for managers of remote teams?
Managers of remote teams have plenty to worry about. On top of the deadlines, interpersonal conflicts and competing priorities that face all team leaders, managers of dispersed teams need to concern themselves with keeping everyone connected and collaborating despite physical distance. Now, Wharton management professor Nancy Rothbard is adding another item to their list...
There Will Be A Business Version Of Google+ Later This Year (GOOG)
Google is working on a version of its Google+ social networking service for businesses and will roll it out later this year, according to a manager on the Google+ team. Christian Oestlien posted a YouTube video (embedded below) urging businesses NOT to set up pages on Google+ today — the current service is designed...
Instagram tops 10,000 developers using Foursquare API
More than 10,000 developers behind some of the hottest apps on the iPhone, iPod Touch and AndroidOS-based smartphones are using Foursquare’s application programming interface to tap into its location and places database, the company says. Foursquare launched its API in November 2009. In a post published Friday on the Foursquare engineering blog, platform evangelist Akshay Patil writes:...
Top mobile apps are hooked to Foursquare API
More than 10,000 developers behind some of the hottest apps on the iPhone, iPod Touch and AndroidOS-based smartphones are using Foursquare’s application programming interface to tap into its location and places database, the company says. Foursquare launched its API in November 2009. In a post published Friday on the Foursquare engineering blog, platform evangelist Akshay Patil writes:...