December 2011
41 posts
How One Author Found Success With Digital Books
It’s said that print is dead — and not just newspapers or magazines, but maybe short stories too. After 20 years working in print, f… Viral twitter marketing Social Media marketing Twitter Marketing
Dec 31st
Facebook Timeline vs. Old Profiles: How People...
Your social media profiles have morphed as the sites they live on have changed. So has the way people view them. To get a better idea of how pr… Social Media marketing Twitter Marketing How To Use Twitter
Dec 30th
How Mobile Games Are Sports Stars? Newest...
Heads Up with Cristiano Ronaldo — a mobile game featuring the Portuguese soccer star — has already been a hit for parent company Ro… Twitter Marketing How To Use Twitter Twitter Strategy
Dec 29th
How iJustine Became a YouTube Mogul [VIDEO]
We all know (or should know) that there’s no magic formula to creating a “viral video,” but there are some core ingredie… Twitter Strategy Viral twitter marketing Social Media marketing
Dec 28th
Does a Non-Traditional Resume Limit Your Odds?...
Non-traditional resumes, while unique and eye-catching, may limit a job applicant’s chances of landing his or her dream job. Many companies, esp… Social Media marketing Twitter Marketing How To Use Twitter
Dec 27th
TechCrunch Moscow ? All The On-stage Video
On December 5th, 2011 TechCrunch Europe came to Moscow again. Co-organized by TechCrunch Europe, Digital October and Kite Ventures, the second TechCrunch Moscow showcased several early stage startups and hosted panels on emerging technology trends in Russia and abroad. The event, held in English, proved to be a smashing success, bringing together over 700 participants and attracting several...
Dec 27th
Need A Last Minute Gift? There?s A Subscription...
Brit Morin is the Founder and CEO of Brit, a new company focused on providing people with innovative ideas, software, and products for creative living. Subscription services have been around for more than a century. Generations before us were the first to enjoy subscriptions to magazines, newspapers, and more. As a kid, I even remember being forced to go door-to-door to sell subscriptions for...
Dec 26th
3 New Ways to Connect With Content That Interests...
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st… Twitter Strategy Viral twitter marketing Social Media marketing
Dec 25th
Dropbox For Android Gets A Major Revamp, New...
The new year is right around the corner, and many of us are in dire need of some organization. Luckily for all you fandroids out there, DropBox 2.0 has finally made its way onto the Android Market. The app has brand new features and a totally revamped layout. You’ll find a little arrow to the right of each file in the app, which will then lead you to a pop-out menu. From there you can...
Dec 25th
BREAKING: GoDaddy No Longer Supports SOPA
Following a maelstrom of Internet backlash, GoDaddy has withdrawn its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the company announced on Friday. &… Viral twitter marketing Social Media marketing Twitter Marketing
Dec 24th
Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer...
At this point quite a few internet companies have protested H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in creative ways. Held by many to be the worst thing to ever happen to the Internet if it passes, SOPA would makes it really easy for copyright holders to force sites offline that they think are offending, among other things.\ While the judiciary vote has been delayed until next year, the list...
Dec 23rd
Kindle Adds Periodicals to iOS Apps: But Will...
Amazon updated its Kindle app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch Wednesday, giving users access to their periodical subscriptions and cloud-sto… Twitter Marketing How To Use Twitter Twitter Strategy
Dec 22nd
Streamglider Takes On Flipboard And Pulse With...
Streamglider is launching its iPad app today, hoping to disrupt the tablet news consumption and social reader space. Despite competition from Flipboard, Pulse, and many others, Streamglider believes that it provides the most comprehensive iPad experience to date for tracking your social streams, RSS feeds and more via the iPad. The free iPad app allows you to import your social accounts like...
Dec 21st
Keen On? Carmine Gallo: The Innovation and...
It’s not every American who can wow Paris. But earlier this month at Le Web, the author and communications expert, Carmine Gallo, impressed a Gallic audience with a brilliant speech about the innovation secrets of Steve Jobs. But whatever Loic can do, TechCrunchTV can do better, so we invited Carmine into our San Francisco studio to give us his own intimate insight into Steve Jobs’...
Dec 20th
20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This...
It seems that people nowadays can’t watch cable television or streamed video content without contemplating a corresponding hashtag or status upd… Twitter Strategy Viral twitter marketing Social Media marketing
Dec 20th
Retailers Offer Last Minute Holiday Price Breaks...
It’s clear that the BlackBerry PlayBook is a tough sell (unless you don’t have to pay for them), but that hasn’t stopped RIM and their retail partners from going nuts with PlayBook promotions. To wit: Best Buy, Staples, and Office Depot have dropped the prices of RIM’s tablet yet again, starting at $199 for the 16GB model. Social Media marketing Twitter Marketing How To...
Dec 19th
BleuFlamme Lets You Make Your Own Custom Shirt In...
If there’s one thing the world needs it’s a service that lets you build a shirt using 3D rendering technology. Sure we could use cars that run on water and world peace, but let’s get the little things out of the way, right? Thankfully, there’s BleuFlamme, a website created by a gaggle of eight engineers who have dedicated their lives to the sale of custom shirts. Twitter...
Dec 18th
SOPA Delayed ? But Not For Long
The extremely unpopular SOPA bill was supposed to be the last order of business today as the House Judiciary Committee prepared to break for the holidays, but a parade of objections and amendments (over 50) kept the bill in discussion and at last the committee adjourned without resolving the issues. What was expected in this contingency was for the committee to resume work whenever the House...
Dec 18th
Goodbye, Heather
Heather Harde, the business brains behind TechCrunch, will be stepping down at the end of the year as general manager of AOL?s technology properties (including TechCrunch, Engadget, Joystiq, and TUAW). AOL GM Jay Kirsch, who oversees Autos, Finance, and Industry on the business side, will be adding Tech to his responsibilities. Editorially, TechCrunch will remain independent under me. (Editorial...
Dec 17th
Ron Howard Film to Make World Premiere on YouTube
It only makes sense that the new short film by two-time Academy Award winner Ron Howard and his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard would make its world pre… Viral twitter marketing Social Media marketing Twitter Marketing
Dec 16th
Grand Theft Auto 3 Now Available for iPhone and...
As announced, a special Anniversary Edition of the massively popular Grand Theft Auto III game is now available on iOS and Android devices. The… Twitter Marketing How To Use Twitter Twitter Strategy
Dec 15th
Badoo Unveils Features to Help Shy Users Flirt
In a bid to lure in more users in the United States, multilingual social network Badoo has rolled out two “U.S.-friendly” features t… How To Use Twitter Twitter Strategy Viral twitter marketing
Dec 14th
Over 1M Merchants Now Use Mobile Payments Platform...
Mobile payments startup Square has just passed a major milestone?over 1 million merchants are now using Square to accept credit cards. This is up from 800,000 merchants using Square a few months ago. As co-founder Jack Dorsey explains, there are only 8 million merchants who accept credit cards in the US, so Square has already accumulated a pretty decent chunk of users. Twitter Marketing How To...
Dec 13th
Kremlin Reaches Out to Protesters on Facebook
The Kremlin is using Facebook in a bid to quell anti-government sentiment, following the country’s largest protests since the fall of the… Twitter Marketing How To Use Twitter Twitter Strategy
Dec 13th
XXX Domains: An Obvious Failure
Is it just me or is the ICANN plan to corral online porn going terribly wrong? We already have reports that universities are snapping up XXX do… Twitter Strategy Viral twitter marketing Social Media marketing
Dec 12th
Fly Or Die: The New Xbox ?Metro? UI
Erick isn’t much of a gamer, which is why he’s particularly suited at assessing the new Xbox 360 UI, dubbed Metro by those in the know. Aside from the obvious changes in design, the UI actually makes it easier for guys like Erick to use the Xbox to watch movies, Youtube videos, UFC fight, and other media ephemera that thus far has been lacking in the Xbox experience. Microsoft knows...
Dec 12th
OWS Protesters ?Mockupy? Law & Order SVU Set...
Occupy Wall Street protesters occupied a TV show set depicting the movement in New York City Thursday night. They organized the march via… Social Media marketing Twitter Marketing How To Use Twitter
Dec 11th
How to Increase Facebook Engagement Using Custom...
The year 2011 brought exciting changes to social media marketing, especially when it came to Facebook. One such change is the ability to build… Twitter Strategy Viral twitter marketing Social Media marketing
Dec 10th
Google+ Responds to Facebook Events With Schemer...
Google released Schemer, an activities recommendation engine with Google+ integration, in invite-only beta Thursday. The engine promises to beco… Viral twitter marketing Social Media marketing Twitter Marketing
Dec 9th
Up Close With A 3D-Printed Card Skimmer
I’ve recently fallen into the habit of pulling and tugging at ATM slots before I slide my card through because I fear that someone nefarious has stuck one of these 3D-printed card skimmers over the opening. This skimmer, found in California, was 3D-printed to resemble the real Chase ATM slot almost perfectly. Wildly enough, there’s a pinhole camera connected to a full PCB hidden under...
Dec 9th
Waze Brings Crowdsourced Social Traffic Data To...
Social mapping and navigation company Waze is partnering with 12 local broadcast stations including KGO-TV San Francisco, KABC Los Angeles, WFAA Dallas, and WPVI-TV Philadelphia, to bring its citizen-traffic reporting platform mainstream. Founded in 2009, Waze offers free apps for the iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry and other mobile platforms, that include turn-by-turn navigation...
Dec 8th
With Growth Accelerating, Socialcam?s Mobile Video...
We’ve been tracking Socialcam’s foray into mobile video sharing since the app launched in March, so we have some context for the announcement today that it’s passed 3 million downloads. Basically, the app is starting to take off. It took until July to reach 1 million downloads, so around five months. Then it hit 2 million downloads near the beginning of October, or around three...
Dec 7th
CMU Researchers One-Up Google Image Search And...
To search these days is really an incredibly service-intensive process. Whereas before, to search something meant you had to through its drawers or folders by hand and inspect things by eye, now it means simply to produce a query and allow the vast computational engines of cloud services to exert themselves in parallel, sifting through petabytes of data and instantly presenting you with your...
Dec 7th
42 Big-Name Twitter Accounts Launched in 2011
In its almost six-year journey to gaining 100 million active users, Twitter has attracted a slew of celebrity users and well-known agencies. This year… Viral twitter marketing Social Media marketing Twitter Marketing
Dec 6th
7 New Apps Worth Downloading This Week
With about 500,000 apps in the Apple App Store and an estimated 300,000 apps in the Android Market, finding the gems among the virtual haystack can be… Twitter Marketing How To Use Twitter Twitter Strategy
Dec 5th
1.8 Billion Questions Later, ChaCha has Evolved...
When ChaCha launched in 2008, most of us were introduced to it through a friend. We added its number to our flip phones and sent our questions o… Social Media marketing Twitter Marketing How To Use Twitter
Dec 4th
45 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
Now that Thanksgiving is over, the family is gone and that shopping frenzy might have worn you out a bit, it’s time to gear up for the nex… How To Use Twitter Twitter Strategy Viral twitter marketing
Dec 4th
?All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S.? Wins $50,000...
A San Francisco-based team has just won the DARPA Shredder Challenge. DARPA, the government agency whose work led to the creation of the Internet, challenged the public to reconstruct five shredded documents. The winning team, called “All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S.” completed the task in 33 days, spending nearly 600 man-hours building algorithms and piecing together more than...
Dec 3rd
British Intelligence Agency Recruits via Twitter...
It?s not the first time that GCHQ, the British intelligence agency, has appealed to talent via the gaming world. In 2009… Twitter Marketing How To Use Twitter Twitter Strategy
Dec 2nd
Twitter Account Will Post a Bible Verse Every Day...
In the beginning, Twitter created tweets and … Bible-related Twitter accounts? Yup, and the latest religious handle, @TweetTheBible… Twitter Strategy Viral twitter marketing Social Media marketing
Dec 2nd
Ben Huh: What Saved His Life
Ben Huh’s popular Cheezburger Network websites — Fail Blog, The Daily What and I Can Has Cheezburger? to name a few — have fil… Social Media marketing Twitter Marketing How To Use Twitter
Dec 1st