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Students favour sport over maths, science (1)
permalinkFEWER Year 12 students are choosing to study maths, as newer social subjects become more popular.Shared by Ruben Schade (151)
- Ruben Schade said: Wow this will really help the economy and society... More jocks >_<
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Live: Twenty Questions For The Venture Capitalists At TechCrunch50 (1)
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Erick Schonfeld and Mark Pincus just took the stage at TechCrunch50 to ask twenty (or so) questions to top venture capitalists, most of which were submitted by readers. Sumant Mandal (Clearstone Venture Partners), George Zachary (Charles River Ventures), Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Raj Kapoor (Mayfield Fund) and Ross Levinsohn (Velocity Interactive Group) participated. My real time notes follow: Schonfeld began by asking how the venture capital industry has changed over the years. He mentioned Peter ...Shared by Andree (41)Contribute comment -
Forvo, aprende a pronunciar las palabras (1)
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Cuando hay problemas de pronunciación en inglés siempre recuerdo el clásico ejemplo entre "sheet" y "shit". Acabo de descubrir una página que servirá a muchos más casos y en muchos más idiomas. Se llama Forvo y es una enciclopedia fonética colaborativa, de forma que son los usuarios los que con su propia voz van aportando palabras en los idiomas nativos que hablen. Aquí está la diferencia entre las dos: sheet: shit: El sitio da muchas ...Shared by Irene (183)Contribute comment -
Only Fanfiction Can Scare The Paparazzi [We Can Dream] (1)
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Sienna Miller filed a lawsuit against a London-based paparazzo Darryn Lyons and his Big Pictures agency in the High Court of London to prevent them from taking photographs of her. Whether she's filing the lawsuit because she's upset about her pending split with Balthazar Getty or because she just hates the paps that much, the British legal system is about to establish another interesting precedent. Since celebrities can't retaliate any other way but in the ...Shared by Ben (495)Contribute comment -
Roger Wolfson: Why Obama Supporters Need to Do More than Vote (1)
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First, the good news. Obama is one of the most gifted politicians of our lifetimes. A supremely effective manager, an inspirational speaker, and a transformative leader. An Obama victory on Tuesday will increase consumer confidence, spur the beginnings of an economic turnaround, inspire a generation of Americans, say more than has ever been said about how America has evolved when it comes to race, and dramatically change the planet's impression of our country if not ...Shared by Chris K (171)Contribute comment -
冬令时了 (1)
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今天和 delphij 抱怨说,最近有点忙。delphij 说,看来你需要一天 25 个小时。 然后发现,今天换冬令时,果然有 25 个小时,感谢大神 delphij,Orz。Shared by hutuworm (115)Contribute comment -
Announcing The TechCrunch50 Finalists (9)
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We’ve gone through more than 1,000 companies to get down to the final 50 (okay, 52) that will present on stage at TechCrunch50 starting later this morning. We will be covering all of the companies as they present onstage or shortly after. But for now, here’s a list of all the companies that made it (except the last one, which will be picked from the DemoPit by the audience at the event). Learn more about ...Shared by Andrew Wise (43) Dylan Tweney (28) Joel (6) Kevin (5) marcel (24) Nikos (17) Stanton Champion (24) Tim (19) Usability (24)Contribute comment -
Viral Commericals (1)
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On this Sunday, was kinda thinking, again of absurbity, but more about how people, growing up on Web 2.0 have now taken control of the message. I think, what we’ll see the in the future, is more and more, co-creation along with the audience, rather than talking at it - hopefully, even Politically. The next 4 years will be telling - and it’ll be interesting to have the same conversation in 2012. TechCrunch’s Michael Arrignton ...Shared by Marshall Sponder (323)Contribute comment -
Meeting Jason (1)
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Yesterday I met Jason Calacanis. He was attending the Stream 2008 unconference in Athens,Greece and the opportunity was ideal. The meeting wasn’t by chance though. I learned about his coming through some Twitter friends and sent him an email asking for an interview. He counter proposed that I should go to Stream and videotape the whole session he would be leading on Friday afternoon. It didn’t take long for me to agree. I run there ...Shared by Manos (40)Contribute comment -
Have Three Days To Spare? Get The Entire TechCrunch50 Conference On BitTorrent (5)
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If you weren’t one of the 1,800 people who attended TechCrunch50 earlier this month to watch 52 startups launch, and didn’t catch the UStream live stream of the event, don’t worry. You can download around 25 hours of live footage - the entire three day conference - if you’ve got the room on your hard drive. The BitTorrent links are below. Each file is about 5 GB. TechCrunch50 Day 1 TechCrunch50 Day 2 TechCrunch50 Day ...Contribute comment -
Tonchidot狂騒曲、ザ・ビデオ (1)
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先週のTechCrunch50で聴衆から断トツの喝采を欲びたのは、日本のスタートアップTonchidotが開発中のモバイルソーシャル・タギングアプリ、Sekai Cameraのデモだった。日本人CEOの井口尊仁氏は、きわめて明らかな言語の障壁を越え、ジャッジたちの真剣な質問を意志の力でかわした。同社のサービスが具体的にどのように動いているのかに関する長々とした質問に対して、「イマジネーション!」「特許を取得しています」などと素っ気なく回答しては、聴衆を笑いの渦に巻き込み声援を欲びた。ジャッジのRafe Needlemanが、GoogleがTonchidotを買収するのでは、と水を向けるとこう反論した。「Never!」。 デモの元のビデオ部分はYouTubeで10万8000回以上再生された。デモ全体のビデオを上に貼り付けておいた。デモ後のQ&Aも入っている。ビデオ全編は17分あり、開始するまでに約1分かかるが、ここには、井口氏が乏しい英語力ながら、聴衆や疑心暗鬼のジャッジたちまでをも手玉に取る様子が記録されている。Q&Aは開始後8分あたりから始まる。井口氏は、いら立つジャッジTim R’Reillyをことさら巧みにあしらっていた。YouTubeにはほかに、短く編集された字幕付のジャッジのQ&Aもある(下に貼り付けた)。デモをする人なら誰でもここから学ぶことがあるだろう。答えは短く、細かい話に圧倒されず、世界をどう変えるつもりかを説明する。 デモは、Sekai CameraがiPhoneのカメラのビューファインダーを使って、データベースから取ってきたタグと情報を、現実世界のモノに重ね合わせる様子を見せるところから始まる。(iPhone SDKで、カメラをあんな風に使うやり方が許されているのかどうかわからないが、気にしない)。カメラをパンしていくと、店や商品、さらには友人の声やメモのテキストに対しても様々なタグがポップアップする。「上を見て。下は見ない」と、井口氏が聴衆に言い続ける。Sekai Cameraには「エア・フィルター」が内蔵されていて、関心のあるタグだけを見ることができる。現実世界とウェブを橋渡しするインターフェースとしてデザインされている。 この一例だけに限って、ライブではない作りおきのデモを認めたのだが、それはこの製品の全機能を見せる事実上唯一の方法だったからだ(TC50主催者のJason Calacanisが、動作プロトタイプが実際にiPhone上で動いているところを見ている)。しかしジャッジたちは、一体誰がこのタグ付けを全部やるのか、本当にこれがうまくいくのかを知りたがった。それに対する井口氏の答えは「Join us(一緒にやりましょう!)」であった。 CrunchBase Information TonchiDot Information provided by CrunchBase [原文へ] (翻訳:Nob Takahashi) タグ: techcrunch50, tonchidot 【関連記事】 TechCrunch50日本勢の活躍(2)Tonchidot TechCrunch50:2日のまとめ―インターネット接続も無事復帰! TC50―Sekai CameraはiPhoneからソーシャルタグで現実世界の情報を提供 企業内Twitter, YammerがTC50でロンチ TechCrunch50日本勢の活躍(3)GazoPaShared by ぉぉっゃ (25)Contribute comment -
WatchMeMelt Offers Video Aggregation and Blogging for Weight Loss and Fitness Topics (1)
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I met with WatchMeMelt CEO Brian Kenny last week while I was in San Francisco. The concept of WatchMeMelt is to aggregate videos from across the web around the weight loss and fitness topics. WatchMeMelt also offers the ability for members to blog along with groups to help motivate members to reach their fitness goals. The service is free and if members interact with the ads, the site could do very well. The weight loss ...Shared by SD (86)Contribute comment -
Swype at TechCrunch50 (2)
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Swype was one of the mobile related startups at TechCrunch50 that I found impressive and innovative. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and “swype” motions for both stylus and finger based input. Swype isn’t a pure mobile play as an embedded solution it may be applied to any screen as a enhancement to text input. The screen might be a mobile device virtual keyboard, but the screen might also be a TV display or visual radio ...Shared by Muthu Ramadoss (37) travischoma (7)Contribute comment -
TC50: クラウドソーシングによるジャーナリズム確立を目指すIamnews (1)
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昨日(米国時間9/11)のTechCrunch50で最後にプレゼンテーションを行ったのは、DemoPitにて人々の注目を集めようと競っていた100を超える企業から一般参加者の投票で選ばれた企業。参加者はそれぞれ3枚のポーカーチップを与えられていて、DemoPitでデモを行っている企業に投票した。3日の会期の最後において最多のチップを集めた企業が、最後である52番目にプレゼンテーションを行う機会を獲得できることになっていた。そして今回、ファイナリストたる資格を得たのはIamnewsだ。クラウドソーシングによるニュースサービスで、いつの日かAPやReuterのようにビッグになる夢を描いている。 Iamnewsはブログやウェブサイトで扱うニュースの情報源としてのサービスを提供する。すなわちクラウドソーシングによるニュースを扱うためのツールとなる。ブログやウェブを書いている人はここで市民ジャーナリストからの動画、写真、リンク、Twitter、メモ、ないし全文記事形式でのニュース投稿を募集する。ウェブの執筆者が投稿されたニュースを見て、それらニュースから自分のサイトで記事として扱うものを選択する。 本サービスの設立者で、Blog.tvの設立者でもあるイスラエルのNir Ofirは以下のように述べる。 ほとんどの中小サイト運営者にとって、著作権のあるニュースや写真などを扱うための方法がないことが問題だと考えました。Iamnewsでは運営者たちに情報源としての場所を提供し、ニュース投稿者を募って、そこでニュースを巡るコラボレーションを成立させようと考えたのです。独自のレポーターにニュースを書かせても良いし、サイトに参加しているレポーターの気に入ったニュースを取り上げることもできます。 つまり来期のTC50のようなイベントを扱うブログは、カンファレンスに参加する他のブロガーや参加者からのレポートや写真、動画を情報源として扱うことができる。クラウドソーシングによるジャーナリズムが新たな一歩を踏み出したと言うことができる。サイトは現在プライベートアルファの段階だが、近々招待を受けることができる予定だ。 【日本語版編集部より:ジャンプ先ではエキスパートパネルによるディスカッションを原文のままお送りいたします】 Panelist Q&A: Loic Le Meur: Who are you targeting? Nir Ofir: Bloggers and small publishers that do not have the resources to create news. They don’t have news teams so we want to create news teams for them . Don Dodge: Who gets paid and how? Ofir: What we are planning to create is a market layer, collect all the footage and news created this way and distribute ...Shared by Yasuo (13)Contribute comment -
Israel Makes Strong TC50 Showing (2)
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Israel seems to have been the country with the single biggest foreign contingent at TC50 with no less than 6 of the 50 companies presenting on stage. Some more Israeli startups could be found in the demo pit, the exhibition space and just walking around the venue floor shopping for investors, customers and partners. Here is a round-up of the 6 Israeli companies that presented on stage: Registered Investment Advisors (RIA’s) typically provide advice to ...Shared by Socrates (26) Taylor (22)Contribute comment -
Mark Cuban: “When I die, I want to come back as me” (4)
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To round out the day’s schedule at TechCrunch50, Jason Calacanis interviewed Mark Cuban, the founder Broadcast.com, HDNet, and several other companies. He has also been an angel investor for several startups including SlideShare, Goowy, RedSwoosh, Box.net, Calacanis’ own Weblogs, Inc and Mahalo. Below are our notes, which try to capture a fast-paced exchange that included Cuban’s entrepreneurial advice as well as his experience running sports franchises (the notes place emphasis, naturally, on the former). Jason ...- Mike Cannon-Brookes said: I love Mark Cuban - absolute legend.
- Nick said: I really enjoyed reading this interview with Mark Cuban. I don't always agree with him, but am still a huge fan. What a great entrepreneur.
- Dov Harrington said: Great interview where he discusses his investments and thought process going in to them.
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TC50: Scoble Declares That VideoSurf “Doesn’t Suck” (1)
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Video search is an unsolved problem. VideoSurf applies hardcore computer vision technology to this problem and finds relevant results beyond what may already be available to text-based search methods. In the demo at TechCrunch50, the startup showed how you might want to search for a scene in the show Entourage. You can drill down to the show, and then are presented with thumbnails of all of the characters, left to right at the top of ...Shared by Roopesh (17)Contribute comment -
TC50: Grockit, The Multiplayer Learning Game That’s Better Than Any Practice Test (2)
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Grockit, the mysterious online learning site that has been operating in stealth for the past year and has raised a total of over $10 million, has finally revealed itself to the public, and it doesn’t disappoint. The site calls itself a “Massively Multi Player Online Learning Game”, taking gaming concepts that have made World of Warcraft a massive hit and applying it to what amounts to an online SAT study group. After logging in, users ...Contribute comment -
TC50: Swype, Truly Gesture-based Data Entry (1)
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Swype is an amazing gesture-based data entry system that truly blew our collective minds at TC, CG, and MC. To type, you simply connect letters together using a stylus or finger and predictive text to pick letters and words out of seemingly unintelligible squiggles. Above is a video of two of the judges trying out the technology for the first time. (VC Josh Kopelman, who tries it first in the video, doesn’t grok it quite ...Shared by Christopher (23)Contribute comment -
TC50: Mytopia wants to help the world play together (3)
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Today at TechCrunch 50, Mytopia debuted their cross-platform development framework RUGS. The idea is simple: code once, and an application is automatically translated for compatibility on a range of mobile and Web platforms. RUGS applications are running natively on each platform, with porting solutions for Flash and every major mobile operating system. They demonstrated support for Windows Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian, Palm OS - even the Android emulator. Mytopia seems to be strongly focused not ...Contribute comment
