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We’re approaching an end of an era. A time when MG Siegler, my cohost on OMG/JK , will no longer be forced to struggle with AT&T on a daily basis.
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OMG/JK: The Verizon iPhone And The End Of An Era
TechCrunch Disrupt finalist GameCrush is launching its own take on the Chatroulette-like experience today with Crush-O-Matic. The new service is a random game generator where users simply click “Go!” and automatically get matched up with another user in a two-way cam-enabled game session.
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GameCrush’s Crush-O-Matic Blends Chatroulette With Online Gaming
Twitter Chairman and Square founder Jack Dorsey sat down with Charlie Rose last night to talk about Dorsey’s unique position of being responsible for two technology startups based on the idea of simplicity: Twitter and Square. Watching this interview you realize that Dorsey’s accomplishments have little to do with luck, and more with his focus on creating the purest products by throwing away any unnecessary flourishes.
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Jack Dorsey On Charlie Rose: “It’s Really Complex To Make Something Simple.”
In the world of online video, there is a battle brewing over the next dominant standard for online video, especially on HTML5 Web pages. Today, Google took the gloves off and declared that it will soon stop supporting the H.264 video codec in its Chrome browser
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The Gloves Are Off: Google Chrome Browser Will Drop Support For H.264 Video Codec
Photo sharing applications are clearly all the rage right now, with newcomers seemingly popping up every week. Between Instagram, picplz, Path and others, people already have a lot of ways to share their mobile snapshots with friends. But now they’ve got one more, and it’s focused on a different use-case: shopping and fashion
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Pose: A Photo Sharing App For Fashion And Shopping That Just Raised $1.6 Million
SeeClickFix , developer of technologies that enable citizens to report and monitor non-emergency issues in their local communities, has raised equity funding from O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Omidyar Network , the investment vehicle of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar . According to the press release , this marks Omidyar Network’s first for-profit investment in its Government Transparency investment area and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures’ first investment in a Gov 2.0 initiative
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SeeClickFix Gets Seen, Clicked And Funded (By Omidyar Network And O’Reilly)
Earlier today, I posted a simple observation on Twitter. “ Interesting: @att has twice the Twitter followers of @verizonwireless and @verzion – so they have that going for them.
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Make Them Stop: AT&T And Verizon Reps Are Now Fighting With My Tweet Stream
I’ve always been a big advocate of storing things in the cloud. Not just emails and files, but my entire life.
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Why I’m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud
Over the past several months, there’s been a shift happening in the Bay Area. Whereas a lot of startups used to be centrally located in actual Silicon Valley, near the tech giants, Standford, and the venture capitalists, they’re increasingly moving north, to the city of San Francisco. (Technically, TechCrunch was one of those startups,
Jules: “Well you know the 3D HD channels on TV?” Vincent Vega: “I don’t watch TV.” Jules: “Well, the way they make the Penthouse 3D HD channels is, they make one show with a dual-lensed camera. That show’s called a 3D porno. Then they show that show to the people who make 3D pornos, and on the strength of that one 3D porno they decide if they’re going to make more 3D porno.
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Penthouse To Create First 3D Porn Channel
