Daily Archives: July 29, 2012

London Olympics opening ceremony inspires 119 million tweets on China’s Sina Weibo

July 29, 2012
London Olympics opening ceremony inspires 119 million tweets on China’s Sina Weibo

Chinese netizens have taken to the first “Social Olympics” with gusto, posting more than 100 million messages about the opening ceremony on microblogging service Sina Weibo on Saturday. An official infographic from Sina broke down the specifics on the 119 million Olympics-related tweets posted as of 12pm on July 28. The image doesn’t specifically mention what...

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The First Company To Build Your Identity Into Your Phone Wins The Next Decade

July 29, 2012
The First Company To Build Your Identity Into Your Phone Wins The Next Decade

Editor’s note: Rebekah Cox is a product designer at Quora and previously a product design lead at Facebook. This post is a followup to a recent tweet, and first appeared on Quora. It’s important to understand what identity isn’t: Identity is not a password, it’s not root access, it’s not your calendar, it’s not...

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Pixelate and pointillize your images on the fly with SeuratJS

July 29, 2012
Pixelate and pointillize your images on the fly with SeuratJS

Built atop Raphaël, a small JavaScript library that simplifies working with vector graphics on the Web, SeuratJS is a plugin created by Greg Smith that makes it easy for developers to pixelate and pointillize images on the fly. According to the creator, the aptly named plugin (read: Georges Seurat) works by “extracting color data...

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Meet Brazil’s Startup of the Year GetNinjas [Interview]

July 29, 2012
Meet Brazil’s Startup of the Year GetNinjas [Interview]

If you followed TNW Brazil Startup Awards, you already know that the Startup of the Year award went to GetNinjas – a great opportunity to interview the founder and CEO of this promising venture, Eduardo L’Hotellier. TNW: Can you please introduce GetNinjas to our readers? EL: GetNinjas is a platform that connects clients with...

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As the Senate digs into cybersecurity legislation, the amendment haggling begins

July 29, 2012

Compromise might have become a word out of fashion in the nation’s capital in the last few years, but the Senate has managed to set aside some of its differences in the last week, and appears set to get dirty with rivals and pass a cybersecurity bill. Naturally, the upper chamber of the United...

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Iterations: Craigslist’s Network Effects And The Great Platform Challenge

July 29, 2012
Iterations: Craigslist’s Network Effects And The Great Platform Challenge

Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is currently an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been a columnist at TechCrunch since January 2011. He hosts a weekly TCTV show In the Studio and will now begin a weekly Sunday column, Iterations.” Follow him on Twitter @semil. A few weeks ago, Craigslist penned a “Cease and...

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Volume of mobile tweets at Games so high it interfered with Olympic broadcast

July 29, 2012

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Twitter have worked closely in recent weeks to promote the microblog service as a means to engage with athletes, competitions and London 2012. But mobile social media users are proving so voluminous  at some Olympic venues that they are now interfering with mobile networks on which the games themselves depend,...

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Mobile tweets are breaking Olympics’ TV data – how did carriers prepare?

July 29, 2012

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Twitter have worked closely in recent weeks to promote the microblog service as a means to engage with athletes, competitions and London 2012. But mobile social media users are proving so voluminous  at some Olympic venues that they are now interfering with mobile networks on which the games themselves depend,...

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Judge in Apple-Samsung case says patent drawings can ‘speak for themselves’

July 29, 2012
Judge in Apple-Samsung case says patent drawings can ‘speak for themselves’

A judge sided with Apple on Friday, saying she would not provide detailed  instructions to a jury about how to interpret patent drawings that lay out claims to the iPad and iPhone. Instead, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said it would be up to the jurors to use “the eye of an ordinary observer”...

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Korea’s KT Telecom hacked, 8.7m customers’ data sold to telemarketers

July 29, 2012

South Korea’s KT Telecom has admitted that hackers infiltrated its system to conduct a five-month long campaign which saw them grab and then sell personal details belonging to an estimated 8.7 million of its customer base, Reuters reports. The operator, the country’s second largest with 16 million subscribers, apologised for the data loss, which...

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