Earlier today we reported that the Kickstarter game Haunts: The Manse Macabre is in trouble despite a successful Kickstarter campaign. The turn-based horror title’s lead director, Rick Dakan, asked fans to contribute $25,000 through the crowdfunding website. The Kickstarter finished with $28,000 in funding, which went toward finishing the game. Yesterday, Dakan updated the...
Marc Benioff: Windows 8 Is Going To Be ‘The End Of Windows’ (MSFT, CRM)
Julie Bort/Business Insider Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff See Also An Early Look At Windows 8 Baffles Consumers The Split Between Larry Ellison And Marc Benioff Is Getting Bigger, Uglier, And Geekier Marc Benioff: I’m Trying To Fill Steve Jobs Shoes As A Visionary Marc Benioff, CEO of Microsoft rival Salesforce, decided to take some...
Jeff Bezos: People Who Are Right Are People That Change Their Mind A Lot (AMZN)
Good perspective from Jeff Bezos who was speaking with Chicago tech company 37 Signals: He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn’t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait. It’s perfectly healthy — encouraged, even — to have an idea...
FACEBOOK: People Don’t Want To Get Online, They Want To Get On Facebook (FB)
Today, a billion users. Tomorrow, the world. Vaughan Smith, Facebook’s head of corporate development, said in a speech Friday at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in San Jose, Calif. that people in emerging markets didn’t want Internet access per se—they wanted to get on Facebook. Ina Fried at AllThingsD reported Smith’s remarks. “Facebook is...
Nokia Nearby, a local search app for Series 40 feature phones with no GPS, is now available
This is a nice one for international users with Nokia Series 40 feature phones. Nokia has announced that its Nokia Nearby app has made its way to the Nokia Store after exiting a beta test that kicked off in September. The Nokia Nearby app is a local search app that gives you locations to...
Microsoft yanks Xbox’s Twitter and Facebook apps, pointing users to Internet Explorer 9
Please file this in the ‘well, what a moronic move’ bag. It has become known that Microsoft has removed applications supporting Twitter and Facebook usage from its app marketplace on the Xbox 360 console. Why would the company do such a thing? It appears to be doing so to boost usage of Internet Explorer 9, thus...
The Growth Hackers conference aims to help marketers effectively use data to run companies
When one thinks about a hacker, a couple of things probably come to mind: the classic movie starring Angelina Jolie or a computer specialist eager to either innovate or destroy something. Lately, a new use of the word “hacker” emerged. Called the “growth hacker“, this is someone who someone, typically a marketer, who is...
YouTube Networks: An Inside Look At Their Unsavory Business Practices
Ray William Johnson, the world’s most successful YouTuber, announced he is leaving his signed network Maker Studios earlier this week via video. The news sent the YouTube-o-sphere abuzz with gossip as both Johnson and Maker Studios are citing wildly different reasons for his departure. Almost everyone believes Johnson’s side of the story, however, because...
Forget Bring Your Own Device
As consumer devices and services increasingly outstrip their corporate competitors in power, productivity and cachet, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has become the latest so-hot-you’ll-melt trend in the world of corporate IT. But plenty of IT departments see it as a demon to be exorcised from the cubicle farms – or an opportunity to...
New York startups can compete to get a fiber connection
Startups in New York have a new competition that offers more than bragging rights or a trophy — although far less than the contest organizers would have you believe. The city is kicking off a challenge that will bring free fiber to the building of small businesses, though they will have to subscribe for...