Daily Archives: August 15, 2012

Medium is well done, but is it the future of publishing?

August 15, 2012
Medium is well done, but is it the future of publishing?

Obvious Corp., the startup incubator that Evan Williams and Biz Stone put together after they left Twitter, launched an ambitious new effort on Tuesday called Medium — a lightweight publishing platform the company says is part of an attempt to rethink how (and presumably also why) we publish content on the web in an...

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Hypersonic test flight flames out

August 15, 2012

That 46-minute cross country-flight so many people would love to see, may take a little bit longer than hoped. A key test to prove the viability of sustained hypersonic flight flamed out Thursday when an experimental X-51A WaveRider aircraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean less than 15 seconds into what was supposed to be a 5...

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Live: Thinking Differently About Web Publishing

August 15, 2012

We’ve gathered an illustrious bunch of friends, readers and technologists to talk about the new insurgent players in Web publishing, like Branch, Medium and App.net. There’s definitely a shift happening in how we produce for the Web, and how we read, watch and talk about what’s there. We’re discussing it live in this Branch...

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Facebook Is Trying To Go Around The SEC To Get Its Instagram Deal Done Sooner (FB)

August 15, 2012
Facebook Is Trying To Go Around The SEC To Get Its Instagram Deal Done Sooner (FB)

Flickr / LeWEB11 Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom doesn’t work for Mark Zuckerberg yet. See Also Instagram Growth Far Outpaces Facebook Or Twitter Twitter Delivers A Big Blow To Instagram Is The Instagram Effect Causing Silicon Valley To Fund The Wrong Companies? Facebook is trying to speed along its acquisition of Instagram. It’s using a...

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This Video Shows That The iPhone 5 Is Going To Be Really, Really Thin (AAPL)

August 15, 2012

The next iPhone is widely expected to be thinner than the iPhone 4S.  So it makes sense that other parts like the SIM card tray, volume, and power buttons will need to slim down too. Here’s a quick video we found on MacRumors that shows a few of those leaked parts compared to their...

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The Little Device That Might Change TV Forever Is Going To Launch In A Few Weeks (GOOG)

August 15, 2012
The Little Device That Might Change TV Forever Is Going To Launch In A Few Weeks (GOOG)

Email More Kickstarter See Also My Adventure With GroundLink, The Car Service You Need To Know About For Today Only, You Can Get An iPod At A Sweet Discount 9 More Cool Tricks You Should Try With Apple’s New Mac Operating System Kickstarter success Equiso has designed an HDMI dongle called the Smart TV...

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A Day In The Life Of Alexia Tsotsis, Startup Scribe Of Silicon Valley

August 15, 2012
A Day In The Life Of Alexia Tsotsis, Startup Scribe Of Silicon Valley

Email More See Also Scientists Are Solving Our Donor Crisis With Lab-Grown Organs Here’s How Much The Biggest Celebrities In Hollywood Are Worth The 10 Best Party Beaches Around The World Just a few years ago, Alexia Tsotsis got her dream job — a reporter at TechCrunch, one of the top technology sites in...

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How Airline-Style Yield Management Could Save Daily Deal Sites

August 15, 2012

For businesses that have tapped into social media to find more customers and instead have found a lot of pain, a new twist on an old business concept may bring them what they really need for social media deals: control. The concept is known as yield management, something already familiar to hotels and airlines,...

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LIVE: Cisco Reports Earnings! (CSCO)

August 15, 2012
LIVE: Cisco Reports Earnings! (CSCO)

AP Technology giant Cisco Systems is set to report quarterly results after markets close in the U.S., with analysts forecasting top line results to grow moderately. Click here for updates The world’s largest maker of networking equipment is expected to post earnings per share of $0.46 on sales of $11.6 billion.   This is...

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Facebook on the Olympics: 116M related posts and comments, athletes received 12.2M likes

August 15, 2012
Facebook on the Olympics: 116M related posts and comments, athletes received 12.2M likes

Now that the dust has settled on the London Olympics, Facebook has revealed a number of stats relating to how content was shared during the time between the opening and closing ceremonies. Most notably, Facebook saw over 116 million posts and comments relating to the Olympics games, and collectively, athletes added an impressive 12.2 million likes...

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