TechCrunch
- Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication, Has A Patent To Prove It
- Oh, Kim Dotcom. You just never stop surprising us.Just hours after Twitter finally rolled out its long-awaited Two-Factor authentication, the Megaupload founder is claiming to have invented the entire mechanism… and hes got a patent to prove it.
- LinkedIn Has Definitely Acqui-Hired Maybe, Omar Hamoui's Polling Startup, Minus Hamoui Himself
- Fresh from closing its purchase of newsreading app Pulse, LinkedIn has made another acquisition to dive deeper into the mobile space. TechCrunch
- Encoding.com's Vid.ly Integrates With FreeWheel To Provide Monetization Of Universal, Cross-Pla(...)
- Cloud encoding vendor Encoding.com launched Vid.ly a couple of years ago to provide video creators with a way to publish
- GiftCards.com Agrees To Buy Giftly To Grow A Mobile Platform
- GiftCards.com, a Pittsburg-based company that has been around for more than a decade and has sold 5 million gift cards, agreed to buy San Francisco
- Twitter Ups Account Security With Optional Two-Factor Authentication Via SMS
- After hundreds of thousands of accounts were compromised a couple months ago, Twitter today launches two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and
- Twitter Introduces Charts By Genre And Popularity For Its #Music Service
- Weve confirmed with Twitter that it has rolled out a new part of its #Music service for the web, charts that we were accustomed to
- Founder Stories: Parse's Ilya Sukhar On Founding A Startup With Strangers
- For this weeks episode of Founder Stories, I sat down with Ilya Sukhar, co-founder and CEO of Parse. The interview was taped days before Parse

Mashable
- Quantum Dot Technology On Its Way to Smartphones, Tablets and TVs
- Just when you thought display technology could hardly get any better, along come quantum dots, making screens more colorful while consuming less powerThis is not just
- Trunk iPhone Charging Cable Is Flexible Yet Rigid
- Trunk is a charging cable equipped with a USB connector on one side and a Lightning connector on the other, and its rigid enough to hold
- Watch This Rocket-Powered Bicycle Hit 163 MPH
- François Gissy is a French bicyclist, but hes about the furthest thing from your typical fixie-riding hipster. No, this is how Gissy rolls: attaching a rocket
- See How Much the Next 'Call of Duty' Graphics Improve
- Call of Duty: Ghosts represents a significant graphical upgrade from the previous titles in the series, according to publisher Activision.To prove this, it showed a video
- Intellectual Property Commission: Pass CISPA Now
- A bipartisan and independent commission studying corporate espionages impact on the American economy recommended passing the controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in its
- Teens Getting Tired of Facebook Drama, Pew Survey Finds
- Though Facebook is still the most popular social network among teens, their enthusiasm for Mark Zuckerbergs network is decreasing, according to new findings from the Pew
- HP Stock Jumps 13% After Beating Earnings Estimates
- Hewlett-Packard posted mixed results in its second quarter, but beat analysts profit estimates, helping to send the stock up more than 13% in after-hours tradingHP reported

Read/WriteWeb
- LinkedIn's Facelift Continues With New Navigation Bar
- Aligning itself aesthetically more along the lines of social networks like Facebook and Google+, LinkedIn has introduced a new navigation bar to its website. The aim is in line with the companys simplification efforts, which so
- Don't Look Now, But We Might Be In A Developer Drought
- Hey, developers! Do you feel like youre in demand? Apparently you should.HubSpot, a Cambridge-based marketing software-as-a-service venture, has started a new initiative to handsomely compensate anyone who can refer a developer friend. “If you do, and we
- Twitter Finally Gets Two-Factor Authentication
- In a pure case of closing the barn doors after the horses have come home (and so many corporate Twitter accounts have been hacked), Twitter has announced today the option to implement two-factor authentication. If users
- Let's Talk About Why Yahoo Really Bought Tumblr: Native Advertising
- If we needed an event to wake people up to the power of native advertising, its surely Yahoos $1.1-billion purchase of Tumblr.Well be talking about this a lot at AdNatively, a one-day conference Im emceeing in
- If Google+ Is Good, Why Does Google Force It On Us?
- Google really, really wants us to like Google+. Google is embedding Google+ into each of its products, making it increasingly difficult to use its services without embracing the Google+ borg, whether you want to or not.Judging
- The Sky Is Falling For Smartphone Maker HTC
- Smartphone manufacturer HTC is in disarray. According to a report from The Verge, the company is hemorrhaging executives from its Seattle-based office amid poor sales, internal turmoil and controversy. Within the last several months, HTC has lost its
- Why Your App Design Doesn't Have To Be All Thumbs
- The debate about app design largely centers around screen size.What if designers worried about digit size instead?Luke Wrobleski, a respected designer who sold a company to Twitter and more recently founded Polar, an app maker, thinks

GigaOM
- If Fisker goes for $20M, that’s an over 99 percent discount from its peak valuation
- Is $20 million the final valuation of electric car maker Fisker Automotive? Yikes, thats what a group is reportedly bidding on Fisker for, and which would be less than 1% of its original valuation.
- Google plans to bring its own voice search to the iPhone and iPad
- Voice search will be available as part of an update to Chrome for iOS in the coming days, Google announced Wednesday. Its yet another part of Googles broader effort to create a layer on top of its chief competitors mobile
- Survey: Share your thoughts on Microsoft’s Xbox One
- The web is abuzz with talk of Microsofts Xbox One, which was announced on Tuesday. Heres a chance for GigaOM readers to share their own thoughts by taking our survey.
- Twitter does the two-step, gets serious on security with new authentication feature
- Twitter has finally joined other leading tech companies in offering two factor authentication. The move comes after high profile hacking incidents at the AP and other news outlets.
- Jennifer Lopez gets into the mobile dealer biz, founding Viva Movil
- Viva Movil launching a line of mobile device stores targeted at Latinos and has tapped Verizon Wireless to be its exclusive partner. The phones and service will be Verizon, but the marketing will be all J-Lo.
- How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome
- Are you ready for Google to take over the desktop? Youd better be if you use Chrome. With it, Google is making a play to rule the computing world as a back door to a new app economy.
- Google X is acquiring high altitude wind startup Makani Power
- Googles moonshot lab Google X is buying up Makani Power, a startup that makes a kite-like wind power device. Its probably the best place for the long shot, big idea that is high altitude wind.

TNW
- Yelp fires back at small business extortion claims, says it’s not, and ‘never has been’, true
- Yelp and its review service have once again come
- Square downsizes its management team as execs handling partnerships and international business leave
- Square has lost two executives in a move that sees their roles consolidated under a single individual. As
- Simple to-do list app Clear updated for iPhone and Mac so users can share lists by email
- Clear, a simple and incredibly beautiful productivity app for iOS and Mac OS X, has been updated today
- Google Code’s download option deprecated due to misuse, only existing project downloads to be(...)
- Google on Wednesday announced it is deprecating almost all download options for Project Hosting on Google Code. The company is blaming “increasing misuse” for the move. This is not a... Keep reading →
- Check out the world’s first job ad integrated into Twitter. Lets candidates apply without lea(...)
- Earlier Today, Twitter announced its Lead Generation product, making it easy for
- Docstoc launches ExpertCircle, a product and vendor peer-reviewed service for SMBs
- Docstoc, an online resource for starting and running a business, today launched a new service called ExpertCircle. With it, small and medium-sized businesses
- Rdio for Android and iOS adds Find People via Facebook and Twitter, record label Pages, new sid(...)
- Rdio on Wednesday announced it has updated its native Android and iOS apps with user interface changes and new features. You can download the latest versions now directly from Apple’s... 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
- Talking about in-memory
- I flew to the west coast this week to attend Maker Faire with my computer-programming, ham-radio-building, hardware-curious teenage cousin. I’ve attended twice in New York but this was my first trip to the mothership. Wow. So much cool stuff to
- Four short links: 22 May 2013
- XBox One Kinect Controller (Guardian) — the new Kinect controller can detect gaze, heartbeat, and the buttons on your shirt.Surveillance and the Internet of Things (Bruce Schneier) — Lots has been written about the “Internet of Things” and how it
- 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

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
- Today in APIs: The Celery API Provides Pre-Commerce Options, Sprout Social adds Google Plus Pag(...)
- The Celery API enables Crowdfunding projects to easily pre-sell product in advance of release. Sprout Social makes Google Plus Pages management easier for users. Plus: the Truecaller API is a phone directory via
- Metwit Weather API Now Features Push Weather Notifications
- Last month, ProgrammableWeb reported that Metwit was releasing a free, short term trial plan of the Metwit Weather API to help developers who have created applications using Yahoo! Weather APIs and have been impacted by
- Screenhero Offers Collaborative Screen Sharing via API
- Screenhero exists purely to share your computer screen; with anyone, anywhere, anytime. As the Screenhero team describes on their website: its like Google Docs for any application on your computer. Additionally, Screenhero enables developers to
- 96 Stocks APIs: Bloomberg, NASDAQ and E*TRADE
- Our API directory now includes 96 stocks APIs. The newest is the Eurex VALUES API. The most popular, in terms of directory page views, is the Bloomberg API. Below youll find some more stats from
- When Text Doesn’t Quite Get The Message Across: SayRoom API
- The sharing of thousands of online images is a big part of daily social media interaction. Even with the accompanying comments enhanced by expressive punctuation or clever emoticons, however, nothing beats an actual spoken response
- The Truecaller API: Phone Directory via Crowd-source
- The 600 million numbers that Truecaller has in its directory have been collected via crowd-sourcing. Truecaller’s users can share their contacts and in return they get access to search in the collaborative database. Thanks to
- Today In APIs: Duedil API, Box HIPAA Compliance and 9 New APIs
- Duedil API widens its reach with company information from 20 additional countries across Europe. Box Developers can now take advantage of its HIPAA Compliance Plus: Khronos to create Camera Control Open Standard API
