Last November, TechCrunch’s own Sarah Lacy sat down with Vineet Devaiah from “social streetview” startup, Phototour.in, which, at the time, had just received term sheets from a number of high-profile U.S. investors and had recently been awarded the “Top Emerging Technology Company of 2010″ by Nvidia. The startup was the first international, non-funded, under-20-member...
Today at Aol West Headquarters, a number of entrepreneurs, VCs, and executives gathered to discuss the state of the mobile industry and mobile technology. After a series of individual panels, the day concluded with the crowd of panelists gathering together for a lively discussion about the future of mobile, current mobile trends gaining legs,...
Businesses operating online can have hundreds or thousands of customers navigating their Website in a given day, in most cases slipping by without the business owner acknowledging them or necessarily even knowing anything about them. A web app called Intercom is the latest in a growing selection of customer relationship management and engagement products...
Trover, a photo-driven app for exploring places, has launched out of private beta. Trover lets users share location-tagged photos and browse them by time and location. Though Trover is a photo-sharing app, it is organized for exploration, not just for browsing images. Don’t think Instagram; Trover’s roots within Seattle-based travel startup Travelpost are apparent....
That’s bad for users, but speaking at OSCON today, Fitzpatrick argued that it’s also bad for the companies too. “If you lock your users in,” he said, “it makes you complacent.” Choice and trust matter for users, and by providing a way for them to get their data out, companies can make their users...
As we closed out today’s Mobile First CrunchUp, all of our speakers took the stage for an extended roundtable discussing a variety of topics affecting mobile: design, gaming mechanics, and, of course, iPhone vs Android. One of the last questions posed during the roundtable came from Wired’s Mike Isaac, who asked how the next...
In an interview with ITworld Doug Cutting, creator of Apache Hadoop and Apache Lucene explains how he got into open source. “The company went bankrupt and all the software was swallowed into some intellectual property black hole,” Cutting told ITworld. “Open Source seemed to offer the option to have the software that I’d written,...
“I’ve used all these different devices — they suck.” Short. Sweet. To the point. Rarely do you find that at tech conferences. Luckily, Chamillionaire loves coming to ours. That was the hip-hop star’s words to Android design lead Matias Duarte during our Mobile First CrunchUp today. During the closing panel, Chamillionaire got up to express his...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Cloud was still probably the most talked about topic this week at OSCon....
just.me, a stealth startup playing in the social and mobile spaces, has just raised $600,000 in seed funding from a list of all star investors including Google Ventures, True Ventures, SV Angel, Betaworks, Don Dodge, Patrick Gannon, Michael Parekh, Steve McArthur, and Four Horsemen LLC. just.me was founded by Keith Teare, a serial entrepreneur...