Seattle’s Top Entrepreneurs Band Together To Invest In Local Startups (11)
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Seattle has has a heck of a tech scene, but isn’t so big that the community breaks down into cliques and haters as Silicon Valley often does in the boom times. Maybe that’s why I spend so much time up here. Like other tech hubs, successful Seattle entrepreneurs tend to become angel investors and help the next crop of companies come of age. An example: Pressplane, which recently announced a long list of Seattle angels. ...
MyPunchbowl 2.0 Launches With Gorgeous Custom Invitation Editor (10)
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MyPunchbowl, an eVite competitor that opened its doors early last year, has launched a ‘2.0′ version of its site that features a revamped interface and a very impressive custom electronic invitation creator. MyPunchbowl CEO Matt Douglas says that his team has integrated improvements throughout the site for the new release, including an enhanced address book, the ability to send test invites (to make sure they appear correctly in mail clients), and various UI changes. And ...
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friend app
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Ryan O said:
great for private events at wineries!
(The) Startup Depression (47)
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Jason Calacanis’ latest post to his email mailing list takes a look at the dark times many involved in the startup world have to struggle through at one point or another. Startup news is often dominated by success stories - multimillion dollar acquisitions and overnight successes are more glamorous than the countless entrepreneurs trudging in the trenches as they try to build userbases and raise funding. Calacanis’s post offers some valuable insight into the realities ...
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rexy said:
Wow, this is such a rich knowledge base for any entrepreneur in any part of the world. i would urge you to read it if you run your own company.
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Raphael said:
Toller Artikel über die Führung von Startups. Das umzusetzen erfordert aber viel mentale Kapazität.
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Lockhart said:
Good article re: keeping your business focused when things go to hell.
Challenge Games is a New Developer of Casual Social MMOs (2)
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Every couple of years, a different genre of game takes precedent over the rest, but it is only in recent years that MMO games has skyrocketed beyond almost anyone’s expectations. However, with the overwhelming hold games such as World of Warcraft have on the market, companies are forced to find new ways to compete. Challenge Games is a developer of online social games that employs different methodologies to compete with behemoths such as WoW, Everquest, ...
Apple Finally Realizes That NDAs For Developers Are A Bad Idea (5)
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It was definitely surprising to see Apple trying to enforce an NDA to stop iPhone developers from talking about their applications, so it's nice to see Apple (for once!) respond to the backlash by dropping the NDA. However, the company's explanation for why it had the NDA in the first place doesn't make much sense: We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like ...
Neil Gaiman's "Graveyard Book," chapter-a-day reading video from the tour (11)
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Neil Gaiman's on tour with his fantastic new book, The Graveyard Book. I'm about halfway through it and enjoying it immensely -- it's the spookiest, coolest, most dream-like and smart young adult horror novel I've read. As he tours, Neil is reading the book aloud, a different chapter at every stop, and his publishers are putting the readings online every day, chapter after chapter. Neil's a fantastic reader, probably the best living author-reader I've heard ...
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Looking forward to seeing Neil read in Boulder next week.
Install Boxee or XBMC on an Apple TV (32)
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Filed under: Multimedia, Hacks, Apple TV We've been expecting something interesting to happen to the Apple TV, but with nary a peep out of Cupertino it seems that atv-bootloader creator Scott Davilla has been busy. We've posted about Boxee before: it's a media center application based on XBMC with a social networking spin. Previously it was limited to Intel Macs running Leopard (and Ubuntu Linux), but it's now been ported to Tiger. That means that ...
Have Three Days To Spare? Get The Entire TechCrunch50 Conference On BitTorrent (21)
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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 ...
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Ely said:
It'd be interesting what startup concepts would be applicable in the Philippines.
Found Footage: iPhone app monitors your heart rate (8)
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Filed under: Found Footage A new iPhone application, currently awaiting approval from Apple, will monitor your heart rate via the built-in microphone (through either the onboard mic on the iPhone or through the mic/headset combo). The developer has released the above video demonstration. In addition to monitoring your heart rate using the microphone, you can also count your bpm (beats per minute) using the voice prompts. The application then stores your heart rate for later ...
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Zarpado! quiero quiero.. :P
Burning Bookmark (6)
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Tritium zipper pulls (6)
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It's a shame wonderful that tritium (a radioactive form of hydrogen that emits light) is illegal legal for some consumer products? in the US, because these zipper pulls are nifty. UPDATE: I'm not sure if these are legal or not. Tritium zipper pulls
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Can find these cheaper via http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.tritium
Social games need endgames (1)
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At AGDC last week Bioware’s Damion Schubert spoke about end-game design in MMOs. Massively notes: Endgame gameplay, elder gameplay, is a mandatory and compelling part of the genre’s equation. In fact, in Damion’s opinion complex elder gameplay exemplifies what makes the massive genre what it is… In reality, says Schubert, MMOs are generally really easy to play. Comparing the learning curve of an MMO to a single-player game is ludicrous; MMOs are like ‘popping bubble-wrap’ ...
SGN expands into iPhone games. (1)
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Yesterday, Techcrunch broke the story that SGN has released a new game for the iPhone called iGolf. (I guess I shouldn't have unsubscribed from Techcrunch a couple months ago - oh well.)Based on the video on Techcrunch, the game looks pretty awesome. You swing your phone to hit the ball. Like the Wii, the iPhone's accelerometer detects your swing and translate the motion into the game. Developing iPhone games is a smart move for SGN ...
Challenge Games Raises Another $10 Million. Well Played, Sir. (2)
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Browser-based fantasy game startup Challenge Games has raised a $10 million B round just a couple months after raising its $4.5 million A round. Globespan led the round. Sequoia Capital, which led the last round, also participated (Sequoia partner Roelof Botha is on the board). Challenge is behind the online role-playing games Duels and Baseball Boss. Both are addictive, and are designed to encourage the trading of virtual goods (better swords, better short stops) to ...
CrossOver creates Chromium just to show they can do it (9)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Freeware, UNIX / BSD, DeveloperMike Rose and I were chatting about this on the Talkcast a few weeks back -- virtualization and emulation programmers get all John Locke from Lost when you try to tell them what's not possible. And so when the guys at CrossOver heard that Google wasn't releasing Chrome for the Mac, they decided to put together a release themselves. CrossOver Chromium is a proof-of-concept release ...
Mytopia Brings Social Games to the iPhone (1)
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Just a few days ago, social gaming company Mytopia debuted their cross-platform development framework known as RUGS, or “Real-time Universal Gaming System.” The concept is to write applications once run them across across multiple platforms. Mytopia already has games running on a number of social networks such as Facebook and Bebo, but with the introduction of RUGS their capabilities are increasing. At TechCrunch50, Mytopia demonstrated support through their RUGS system for the major mobile operating ...
Stabilized bigfoot film (17)
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The infamous Patterson-Gimlin bigfoot film has been stabilized frame-by-frame to give you a better view of the lumbering woodland beast. A similar stabilization technique was was used on the Zapruder's film of the JFK assassination. Stabilized bigfoot film (Via Lemonodor Auxiliary)
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dasmart said:
The Zapruder film is much much clearer that i have ever seen it.
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This is interesting, but the JFK one is eerie...
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Link of the day - How PickyDomains.com Changed The Domain Game For Goodhttp://www.smashshack.com/ When Sarah Lavely gets angry, she likes to break things. Not all the time, but on days when everything seems to be going wrong, she has been known to throw some plates against a wall. Fortunately, she has an easy outlet: Lavely is the founder of Sarah's Smash Shack, a San Diego shop where customers pay to smash tableware like dinner plates, ...Shared by bsharpe (18)Contribute commentMashable! (3927) permalink
As promised a couple of weeks back, Michael Moore’s new documentary, “Slacker Uprising,” is available for viewing (and download) for free as of today at slackeruprising.com. Touted by Moore as a “gift to his fans” and distributed online by blip.tv, the movie documents Moore’s tour through 62 US cities in swing states during the 2004 U.S. presidential election, in which he rallied youngsters to vote (read: he rooted for the side that didn’t win). Perhaps ...Shared by Benoit (34) bsharpe (18) Creeva (88) Jordan (13) kskobac (26) peterch (21) Rolyat (16) Seshu Karthick (11) steve (35) Taylor (18) Wallace Wilson (19) 이장 (20)
