TechCrunch
- Live Blog: Live From The Reveal Of Microsoft's Next-Generation Xbox
- It’s Xbox day! Almost exactly 8 years after the announcement of the Xbox 360, Microsoft is back with another one. We’re live on the ground
- Hoping To Ride The Crowdfunding Wave, Celery Lets Sellers Accept Pre-Orders, Charge When Produc(...)
- Airbrite, a Y Combinator-backed e-commerce startup, is debuting its first product today called Celery (its name a play on the world “sell”). Celery is designed to
- With $15M From Omidyar And 35M+ Users, Change.org Wants To Prove Socially-Minded Business Can A(...)
- Change.org got its start in 2007 as a social network for non-profits. For years, growth was slow for the fledgling
- Meet Agent, A Smartwatch With A Second Processor For Minimizing Power Consumption And Wireless (...)
- Smart watches are all the rage, and judging by the turnout and level of enthusiasm at the recently year one meetup for Pebble Kickstarter backers
- Brow.si Is An Add-On And Platform That Wants To Put The Engagement Fight Back Into The Mobile Web
- Today Brow.si, a new product from MySiteApp, is launching in open beta as an add-on for mobile websites that promises to bring a host of
- TeamSnap Online Sports Management Platform Acquires Weplay For An Undisclosed Amount
- TeamSnap, a company that provides tools for managing sports teams, has today announced that it is acquiring Weplay, a social networking site for athletes, parents
- Swipely Raises $12M To Plug Marketing Tools Into Retail Payment Systems
- Payment marketing startup Swipely is announcing that it has raised $12 million in Series B funding.Although founder and CEO Angus Davis (who founded TellMe,

Mashable
- Vine: 12 Ways to Make Your Videos Stand Out
- Youve had some fun with Vine, but now you want to get serious. Here are 12 tips to turn you into a Vine pro.With Vine, you
- How Microsoft Can Take Over the Living Room
- As all eyes look toward Microsofts announcement of the next generation Xbox and its bid to take on the PlayStation 4 in the gaming space, the
- Devastating Photos of the Oklahoma Tornado Aftermath
- A massive mile-wide tornado struck the town of Moore, Okla., near Oklahoma City on Monday, destroying homes, schools, businesses and vehicles, among other things.Reports say that
- Why Social Media Is the Front Line of Disaster Response
- Nearly one million people are affected by natural disasters each year. In the U.S. alone, some 400 people die from disasters that cost the economy $17.6
- How Marissa Mayer Will Use Tumblr
- Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who announced on Monday that the company acquired popular social blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion, said she will use the site
- Brilliant Rainbow Appears After Oklahoma Tornado
- A category 4 tornado swept through Oklahoma City and its suburbs Monday, overflowing social media accounts with images and videos of the overwhelming destructionBut University of
- How to Watch the New Xbox Announcement
- Microsoft is set to reveal the newest iteration of its Xbox gaming console on Tuesday. With expectations running high for the event, Microsoft has made the

Read/WriteWeb
- New Opera For Android Makes Switch From Presto To WebKit
- Browser maker Opera just released a new version for Android with a slew of new features, an upgraded design and better performance. And, for the first time for Opera, it is not running on its own
- Dell Kills Its Public Cloud, Continues To Flail In Post-PC Era
- Dell is a computer company desperately in search of a new market as the desktop and laptop PCs dwindles. But the Austin-based company is finding that that an elusive target.Public Cloud? Thats So 2011Yesterday the company
- Congress Wants To Take A Tax Bite Out Of Apple
- Tim Cook is going to have an interesting day today. The CEO of Apple will be testifying before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which would love to know how Apple has managed to avoid paying
- One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy
- Guest author John Fearon is CEO of Dropmyemail.com, which backs up emails in the cloud and Dropmysite.com, a cloud-based backup company.At any startup, the first hurdle is the lack of resources - lack of funds, lack
- Silicon Valley's Perverse Disincentives To Make Money
- $1.1 billion. Thats how much your company is worth if its long on users and short on paying customers. Just ask Tumblr. Or Instagram. Each yanked down billion-dollar acquisitions despite making virtually no revenue. Is this a
- Google Admits Defeat In Its 7 Year Battle With Amazon And PayPal
- Google just announced that is it is shutting down Google Checkout, a Web-based payments system it launched to great expectations seven years ago.It will continue to offer Google Wallet and handle transactions for apps, games, music,
- Congress Whacks Apple With The Tax Avoider Stick
- An 18-month congressional investigation turned up evidence that Apple is a major-league tax avoider, the New York Times reports — one that allegedly sheltered billions of dollars from taxation by moving the money through a web of

GigaOM
- Brrr: The chilly conditions that quantum computers need to run
- Quantum computers, which have recently been bought by Google and Lockheed Martin, arent just sophisticated computers, they need to operate at near absolute zero temperatures to deliver their quantum effects, and thats a tricky problem.
- Brow.si wants to make mobile websites behave like native apps
- The platform could give publishers a new tool in their quest to monetize online content. Not only does it let mobile websites issue push notifications, but it also introduces new real estate for ads.
- Powermat marries PowerKiss, vows to use same wireless charging standard
- By the wireless power invested in me, I now pronounce you a couple. Two wireless charging companies combine and agree on a single power standard. Thats great but theres still much work to be done in this industry.
- The future of propaganda: A Q&A with Sean Gourley about big data and the “war of ideas”
- During the Iraq war, the U.S. military used open-source data, from news reports to Facebook photos, to help detect patterns in the violence. But thats just the beginning. In future conflicts, big data will be a key part of the
- Six finalists in the book discovery Publishing Hackathon; winner to be announced at BEA
- The six finalists of the Publishing Hackathon held over the weekend in New York focus on discovering books in new ways -- whether its by browsing book jackets or getting recommendations based on your web browser history.
- Why one startup thinks laying a few bets could help companies convince employees to slim down
- A new startup is using financial incentives and penalties to help employers encourage their employees to lose weight and lower their risk for chronic disease.
- Knewton teams up with Macmillan to bring adaptive learning beyond K-12 and higher ed
- Knewton, a New York-based adaptive learning startup, has partnered with education publisher Macmillan.

TNW
- Handling 5M actions, EasilyDo brings its smart assistant app to Android with a widget and event list
- Smart assistant service EasilyDo today released an Android version of its app, making it accessible to more
- Polar extends its voting service to the Web, allowing users to find polls across devices
- Polling startup Polar has launched topic pages that are accessible from the browser. The launch of this feature now
- Twitter uses first version of its Innovator’s Patent Agreement to protect ‘user interface m(...)
- Twitter launched the first version of its Innovator’s Patent Agreement (IPA) today and applied
- Following acquisition by Jive, Producteev’s task management service drops its price and goes free
- Producteev, a social task management service, is opening itself up to anyone who wants to use the service — for
- Swipely raises $12m to roll-out its mobile payments platform across the US
- Swipely, a point-of-sale payments platform that gives businesses the ability to accept
- Last.fm joins forces with MUZU.TV to bring 90,000+ music videos to its Internet radio service
- Last.fm has teamed up with MUZU.TV today to bring over 90,000 music videos to the Web version of its
- Amazon Cloud Drive finally lands in Canada, offering 5GB of storage for free or 20GB for $10 a year
- Amazon.ca has announced the launch of its Cloud Drive service in Canada, letting local Web users upload and store their digital files on Amazon’s giant hard-drive in the sky, and... Keep reading →

37signals
- LINK: Ryan on Jobs-To-Be-Done Radio
- Ryan on Jobs-To-Be-Done RadioI talked about software design and seeing through the customer’s eyes for 30 minutes on Jobs-To-Be-Done Radio. In my favorite part we thoroughly debunked personas and talked about how situations, not attributes drive behavior. Hosts Bob and
- Don’t have the right gear? Make it.
- I’ve been working on some video tests with the iPhone and I needed to mount it on tripod for some steadier shots. Some folks in the office had good things to say about the Glif from Studio Neat, but the
- Don't have the right gear? Make it.
- I’ve been working on some video tests with the iPhone and I needed to mount it on tripod for some steadier shots. Some folks in the office had good things to say about the Glif from Studio Neat, but the
- LINK: The 37signals Report Card
- The 37signals Report CardWe’ve long believed in the value of transparency at 37signals. It’s why we write about how we work and why we provide real-time information about our customer happiness and uptime. We like being held to a high
- VIDEO: “If you wanna meet with me… come…
- “If you wanna meet with me… come to the garden… with your shovel… so we can plant some shit.” -Ron Finley
- Wanted: 25 special customers.
- We’re working on a entirely new product, and I’m looking to meet some potential customers. We can meet in person, over the phone, or via Skype, etc.The tool is for the small business owner who runs a company of between
- LINK: The importance of quick and dirty
- The importance of quick and dirtyQuick and dirty is a skill. Use it or lose it. My latest article for Inc. Magazine.

O'Reilly Radar
- Four short links: 21 May 2013
- Hyperinflation in Diablo 3 — interesting discussion about how video games regulate currency availability, and how Diablo 3 appears to have messed up. several weeks after the game’s debut a source claimed that there were at least 1,000 bots active
- Four short links: 20 May 2013
- Our Fair Deal — international coalition (EFF, InternetNZ, Demand Progress, Creative Freedom Foundation, many others) raising awareness and petitioning lawmakers to reject copyright proposals that restrict the open Internet, access to knowledge, economic opportunity and our fundamental rights. (via Susan
- Software and the physical world
- In this episode of the Radar podcast series Jon Bruner and I are joined by Mike Loukides as we muse more on software and the physical world. No coffee shop clatter in the background this time around as we were
- Three organizations pressing for change in society’s approach to computing
- Taking advantage of a recent trip to Washington, DC, I had the privilege of visiting three non-profit organizations who are leaders in the application of computers to changing society. First, I attended the annual meeting of the Association for Computing
- Four short links: 16 May 2013
- Australian Filter Scope Creep — The Federal Government has confirmed its financial regulator has started requiring Australian Internet service providers to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, in a move which appears to also open the door for
- Four short links: 15 May 2013
- Facial Recognition in Google Glass (Mashable) — this makes Glass umpty more attractive to me. It was created in a hackathon for doctors to use with patients, but I need it wired into my eyeballs.How to Price Your Hardware Project
- Four short links: 14 May 2013
- Behind the Banner — visualization of what happens in the 150ms when the cabal of data vultures decide which ad to show you. They pass around your data as enthusiastically as a pipe at a Grateful Dead concert, and you’ve

Micro Persuasion
- The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish)...
- The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish) briefing books I will be sharing field notes on LinkedIn from my various conversations with media innovators. You can read my learnings here.Pictured above clockwise: Anil Dash, Wenda Harris
- No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies...
- No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies like
- The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...
- The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press
- The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish)...
- The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish) briefing books I will be sharing field notes on LinkedIn from my various conversations with media innovators. You can read my learnings here.Pictured above clockwise: Anil Dash, Wenda Harris
- No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies...
- No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies like
- The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...
- The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press
- The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish)...
- The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish) briefing books I will be sharing field notes on LinkedIn from my various conversations with media innovators. You can read my learnings here.Pictured above clockwise: Anil Dash, Wenda Harris

Museum of Modern Betas
- Reclaim.fm
- Reclaim.fmTake back control of everything you create, curate and share on the internet.(↬ wirres) | | |
- WIP Videos
- Wip VideosA new way to share and review work-in-progress videos(↬ pandodaily) | | |
- Unicode Character Table
- Unicode Character Table❤ ☀ ★ ☂ ☻ ♞ ☯ ☭ ☢ € → ☎ ❄ ♫ ✂ ▶ ✇ ♎ ⇧ ☮ ♻ ⌘ ⌛ ☘ ✈ ☊ ♔ ♕ ♖ ☦ ✝ ❖ ➎ ♠ ♣
- kloudless
- kloudlessKloudless offers a simple, secure way to move attachments between your email inbox and other cloud storage services.(↬ techcrunch) | @kloudless | |
- ShotClip
- ShotClipCreate and share a cool video(↬ wwwhatsnew) | | |
- BitTorrent Sync
- BitTorrent Sync(in BitTorrent Labs)Automatically sync files via secure, distributed technology.(↬ gigaom) | | |
- CrowdMed
- CrowdMedCrowdMed is revolutionizing healthcare by harnessing ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to help solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online.(↬ netzwertig) |

ProgrammableWeb
- 95 Sharing APIs: Box.net, Dropbox and Ipernity
- Our API directory now includes 95 sharing APIs. The newest is the Screenhero API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Zillow API. We list 79 Box.net mashups. Below youll find some more
- Today in APIs: Weemo Funding for US, Metwit’s API for Push Weather Notifications, and 7 New APIs
- French Video Startup Weemo raises $3 million to expand to US. Metwit builds API for push weather notifications. Plus: Twitter extends API v1 life to June 11, new GEO APIs for Android,
- Hoppit API: Choosing Food Based On Mood
- What makes a trip to a restaurant a great experience is not just the fact that they serve delicious food and good wine, but it has a lot to do with the atmosphere and overall
- Stremor Releases Liquid Helium APIs Allowing Advanced Language Heuristics Technology to be Inte(...)
- Stremor, a language heuristics technology startup, has announced the availability of Liquid Helium APIs to third-party developers. Liquid Helium is a proprietary language heuristics engine that analyzes and interprets written content so that it can
- 38 New APIs: Sunlight Foundation, WeatherSource and Hoppit
- This week we had 38 new APIs added to our API directory including a weather data service, national digital library, personalized restaurant recommendations and photos, U.S. political contributions database and remote home heating control service. In
- API Spotlight: Popyoular, BIPS, and They Said So APIs
- Of the many APIs we published this week, ten were highlighted on the blog by our team of writers. In this post, we’ll shine a
- 20 APIs Used in 7 Days: Bing, Billboard and FeedBurner
- This past week 6 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 20 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Baidu, dlvr.it, Google Closure
