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Technical Glitch Leaks Special SXSW Foursquare Badges Early
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2010-03-11
If you're excited about the mysterious array of special Foursquare badges promised for this year's SXSW, then you'll probably want to skip this post. Otherwise, read on.
A site dedicated to Foursquare badges appropriately called Foursquarebadg.es has taken advantage of a technical glitch this morning to identify 15 special badges that will be available during this year's SXSW conference, which starts this week in Austin, Texas.
Benchmark And Accel Partners Reach Across The Atlantic To Fund ResearchGATE
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2010-09-08
"So ResearchGATE is Facebook for Scientists?" I asked ex-Facebook exec, current Benchmark Capital general partner and new ResearchGATE investor Matt Cohler. "I bristle at that characterization," he responded telling me that doesn't adequately describe the company.
Either way he's invested in the Berlin based startup, along with Accel Partners, Simon Levene, Michael Birch, Joachim Schoss, Martin Sinner, Ulrich Essmann, Christian Vollmann and Rolf Christof Dienst. Cohler, Levene and Schoss also join the company's board of directors. Oddly the company won't disclose the size of the round, other than to say it's a typical series A round, which implies $5 million or so.
We first wrote about ResearchGate in May, when Leena Rao called it, ahem, LinkedIn for scientists (I know, but context is always nice):
Ebyline Launches As A Market For Freelance Journalists And News Syndication
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2010-09-08
Can a ragtag group of former newspapermen from the L.A. Times help newspapers fight off the content farms of the Web? The founders and backers of Ebyline, which has been in private beta for a few months and launches today more broadly, think they can streamline the way news organizations manage freelancers and syndicate their own articles. Some publishers testing out the system include Variety, ProPublica, and The Texas Observer.
Ebyline is a marketplace for freelance journalists and syndicated news. Freelancers must be invited by an editor at a participating publication, or be vetted through an application. They can pitch story ideas into the open marketplace, or take assignments directly from editors they work with. The freelance writer and editor agree on a price, the freelancer submits drafts through the system, and once the editor accepts it after any necessary revisions, payment is authorized. The story can then be dumped into whatever ancient content management system the newspaper uses.
Alert The Enterprise: Seesmic Integrates With Salesforce Chatter
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2010-09-08
How businesses and brands deal with social media has become one of the defining issues of the recent web era. Today a pretty big leap is taking place which may define the next phase. Two of the biggest players have come together to create certainly one of the slickest and most seamless integrations I've yet seen of the realtime social web and enterprise worlds. Seesmic is to integrate Salesforce's internal Twitter-like app, Chatter, into their platform. That makes Seesmic the first realtime social consumer app to go directly into the enterprise space. Seesmic will also suddenly have the potential to access to over 20,000 Salesforce customers who have used Chatter so far.
The news was unveiled at a 3,000-strong Salesforce conference in London today. Below we have an exclusive interview with Loic Le Meur of Seesmic and Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.
Once you see Seesmic working with Salesforce's Chatter it make perfect sense. Suddenly you can be having internal and external conversations at once.
Jim Wiatt Quits AOL Board, Will Leverage Hollywood Rolodex As ?Strategic Advisor'
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2010-09-08
AOL has just announced that Jim Wiatt, former chairman and chief executive of the William Morris Agency, will assume the new role of strategic advisor to AOL. Wiatt will be stepping down from his position on AOL's board of directors to take on the position.
Wiatt will be spending his time helping AOL create content partnerships across the entertainment and media sectors, similar to this deal AOL stuck recently with the Ellen DeGeneres show. AOL also has a deal with the Jonas Brothers for entertainment video network for teens Cambio.
Salesforce Takes Chatter Mobile With iPhone, iPad, Android And BlackBerry Apps
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2010-09-08
As Salesforce's foray into social collaboration, Salesforce Chatter, gains traction amongst enterprise users, it makes sense for the company to launch complimentary mobile apps to the platform. And as the enterprise increasingly relies upon mobile devices for connectivity; there is a strong demand for native mobile use of Chatter. Today, Salesforce is taking Chatter to mobile phones; unveiling Chatter Mobile apps for the iPad, iPhone, Google Android and BlackBerry devices.
Salesforce Chatter, which was originally announced last November, was launched into public beta in June after four months in private beta. In the realtime collaboration platform's firts three months open to the public, Chatter has been adopted by 25,000 companies; with 25 percent of Salesforce's client base using the platform. .
Campus Dibs Is A GroupOn For Colleges: Smart Move
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2010-09-08
The most interesting thing about Campus Dibs, a recently launched GroupOn clone, is its choice of vertical i.e. college campuses. If you don't think this is notable enough to merit another (albeit brief) GroupOn clone post then just remember how Facebook got a heads start towards world domination, by strategically targeting social networks in the Ivy League and slowly expanding outward.
Facebook has proven that colleges are hotbeds of virality in more ways than one, and are extremely interesting when thought of in terms of a market for GroupOn clones. If you doubt Campus Dibs' chances for setting itself apart from the 800 or so daily deals sites out there, just imagine the power of the 50k plus populations of college campuses and alumni coupled with the mob mentality of group buying sites.
Soon, We'll Have Downloaded More Apps From iTunes Than Songs (Chart)
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2010-09-08
Asymco, a Helsinki-based app developer / industry analysis advisory firm, ironically founded and led by a longtime Nokia manager, just posted this telling chart on its blog:
According to the firm's research, iTunes download rates for music and iOS apps are both still growing, but accelerating much faster for the latter. In fact, Asymco posits, based on data from the recently updated Music and App Store, that the total number of app downloads has already reached the same level as that of songs in less than half the time.
Norton Debuts New Security Software, Reveals Cybercrime Pisses Off Victims
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2010-09-08
Symantec this morning released two new security software products, Norton AntiVirus 2011 and Norton Internet Security 2011.
Coinciding with the release, the company has also published its latest cybercrime report, dubbed The Norton Cybercrime Report: The Human Impact. The company claims two-thirds (65 percent) of global Internet users have already fallen victim to cybercrimes, which includes computer viruses, online credit card fraud and identity theft.
Dell finally gives up on Windows XP
Znet - News - United States - 2010-09-08
Dell said that it plans later this month to stop selling PCs downgraded to Windows XP, ahead of next month's deadline.
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