While social media may be the pervasive form of communicating online today, it’s not without its inherent flaws and dangers. We’ve seen companies made and ruined, as well as the same happen for personal reputations, all because of the behavior that is relayed via social media. While it’s always infinitely easier to give advice...
It’s been nearly 24 hours since the start of the Hackathon and the hax0rs have hax3d. We’ve seen 130 projects pitched in just 60 seconds each, all created in under 24 hours. While all of the projects were wonderful (really — this was perhaps our best Hackathon yet), some of them really struck the...
“Bye Bye Brazil”. For decades, this used to summarize the fate of many talented Brazilians who left their home country to try their luck elsewhere and never returned. Well, these days may be over. Indeed, one of the most interesting trends in the last couple of years is the reverse migration to Brazil. So...
In February, Amazon.com launched its long-awaited subscription video-streaming service as part of Amazon Prime, setting itself up to be a serious rival to Netflix. If we’re honest, it has yet to take off but let’s not be too harsh on a service that is essentially a bolt-on to its existing Amazon Prime annual subscription...
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Apple has just released a new beta version of OS X 10.7.2 to developers. This version is build 11C55 and is a new version of the Lion update that supports iCloud features. It is being provided for developers in order to allow them to test iCloud features like integration with iOS devices and iWork...
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In Vancouver, BC — thousands of miles from Ground Zero, the Pentagon and a field in Stoneycreek Township — you couldn’t see any outward sign that something unusual had happened on the morning of September 11, 2001. Except for one thing. The sky was empty. Nothing flying in or out of YVR, no contrails...
Hundreds of hackers participated from late last night to early today morning at the fourth annual TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in San Francisco, building in teams and waking up or popping enough coffee and Redbull this am in order to show off their hacks to judges including Salesforce’s VP of Open Cloud Standards Kevin Marks,...
Jon Orlin is the Production Director for TechCrunchTV at TechCrunch. Jon founded the video production studios at Yahoo! and also co-founded the live daily streaming webcast, Yahoo! FinanceVision. Before that, he was an Executive Producer at CNN for many years, overseeing daily news programs. His work at CNN won a Peabody and Emmy Awards....