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Monday 8 April 2013

Google Fiber is officially coming to Austin, Texas



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Intel announces next-gen Thunderbolt with 20 Gbps throughput



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Fox threatens to become a pay-TV channel if courts greenlight Aereo, probably doesn't mean it



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Bloomberg: Next Xbox features an AMD x86 chip, making backwards compatibility difficult



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Red Motion mount eliminates shutter judder, we go eyes-on (video)



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We're live at NAB 2013 in Las Vegas!



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Acer's 7.9-inch Iconia A1-810 outed with quad-core CPU



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iMaze Lets You Turn Your Photos Into A Maze And Race Your Friends To The Finish

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While visiting, and judging, the Photo Hack Day at Facebook headquarters yesterday, one of the more than 60 hacks presented in a two-minute format was iMaze. The team that put it together in just a little over a day was comprised of developers, some of whom were high-school students, and it ended up being one of the most polished apps coming out of the hackathon.


With Aviary and Facebook putting on the event, some really cool things came out of it, but iMaze is one that just flat-out stuck with me. It’s simple: It turns your favorite photos into a maze. Once the maze is created, you can either make your way through it yourself or challenge your friend over the web in a real-time speed-test.


Before we get to the app itself, the team geekily put together some stats on what went into making iMaze:



  • 5 People

  • 24 Hours

  • 1304mg of Caffine

  • 1,492 Lines of Code

  • 194 GitHub Commits

  • 12,920 Calories

  • 3 APIs


Impressive. Now to iMaze.



Since you probably have a ton of photos on your computer or tossed about all over the web, iMaze uses Filepicker.io to let you pull in photos from Dropbox, Facebook, Flickr, Google Drive, Google Photos, Instagram or of course your machine. Once you upload the photo, you can use Aviary to edit it down before it’s turned into an interactive maze game that changes each time you upload a photo.




Pick single player or invite a friend, and then compete with them in real-time.



Now you’re ready to compete in getting all the way through this ZuckMaze by dragging the line with your mouse:



Considering that this was a hack put together in a day, it’s pretty fun and well-designed. The iMaze team won third place overall, but I hope that they keep working on it, because it would be a fun Facebook game and app.


Once in a while, I enjoy playing hangman or Tic Tac Toe, not because I’m a gamer, but because I like doing something while I chat with my friends. Considering that these mazes are built on top of your photos, it’s a nice way to reuse images from the past and start a fun discussion with your closest pals.








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G-Technology Evolution Drive Pushes Thunderbolt to the Limit



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Red performs Dragon sensor upgrades right on the NAB show floor (video)



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G-Technology shows off a Thunderbolt-powered dock with dual hard drive bays



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Marvel giving away over 700 free first issue digital comics (for real, totally seriously this time)



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Blackmagic announces Production Camera 4K, $995 Pocket Cinema Camera with MFT mount (hands-on)



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Google Drive on iOS updated to 1.30, adds landscape editing to docs and spreadsheets



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HTC One Is a Winner



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Facebook Home Leaks Online — But Don't Download It Yet



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These crazy, gorgeous seats are an 'allegorical interpretation' of the BMWi line



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Wave Glider sea robot gets a new version, replete with more power and gear



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El cierre de Messenger, o el correo encadenado que al final se hizo realidad

¡Que quitan el Messenger!

¡Que quitan el Messenger!


Creo que pocos servicios de Internet generaron a lo largo de su vida tantos correos encadenados afirmando –falsamente– que se cerraba o que se iba a volver de pago como Microsoft Messenger.


Claro que eso se hizo realidad, aunque por otros motivos muy distintos a los esgrimidos en esos correos encadenados, el día que Microsoft realmente anunció que iba a retirar Messenger en favor de Skype.


Tal cosa comienza a suceder hoy con el arranque del proceso de la migración de las cuentas de Hotmail a Skype, aunque tardará unas semanas en estar completo dado el enorme número de cuentas involucradas.


Nunca lo usé con asiduidad; de hecho no recuerdo haberlo usado casi nunca, si es que llegué a hacerlo alguna vez, así que no puedo decir que lo echaré de menos, aunque no por ello dejo de apreciar que en cierto modo su cierre marca el fin de una era.


Eso sí, los consejos pertinentes acerca de no reenviar correos encadenados, al menos no antes de haber comprobado la autenticidad de la historia que cuentan en sitios como Rompecadenas o Snopes siguen totalmente vigentes.


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Vodafone launching 4G services in Australia from June



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Slim For iPhone Helps You Keep Up With Facebook, LinkedIn And More, Without Obsessively Checking For Updates

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In our state of continued information overload, and because of the growing number of services which we have to check in order to keep up with the information that matters to us, things get missed by even the most active social media users. A new startup called Slim wants to change that, and is today launching an iOS application which allows you to discover and be alerted to the most important life events from your friends and colleagues – like births, anniversaries, job changes, and more.


Today, there are already a number of companies attempting to make sense out of the noise that’s out there by leveraging the data on social services, then applying their own unique algorithms to present things you shouldn’t have missed. For example, I have a folder on my iPhone dubbed “Summarize” filled with apps that do similar things to Slim (or at least play in the same general news summary space), including things like Prismatic, Clipped, Thirst, undrip, Wavii, Circa, Antenna, NewsWhip, and, until recently, Summly. Some of these are more focused on summarizing news stories, while others are meant to filter through your social media accounts, like Facebook or Twitter, for example.


But, combined, what they point to is that we’re now in search of tools that help us address the real-time nature of information flow and what it’s doing to our abilities to keep up and stay engaged. Just because news moves in real-time, that doesn’t mean people do.


Slim’s app is slightly different from apps that merely summarize Facebook or Twitter in that its focus, as CEO Yair Levin explains, is also on the business user, not only the consumer. “We are targeting business users who have little time but want to stay aware of opportunities and reasons to get in touch with friends and clients, active social media users who need a ‘safety net’ to ensure they don’t miss an important update from one of their networks and infrequent users who just want the highlights from social media,” he says.


The app uses natural language processing to build users a customized feed of all the important activity across Facebook and LinkedIn, and it sends out push notifications when a major milestone occurs. As you swipe through the updates that appear, you can also train Slim even further by starring the updates you appreciated and marking those you don’t want to see again. The app will learn your preferences in time, becoming more relevant the more you use it.


In addition, Slim takes things a step further than some others do, by allowing you to not only view the updates, but also respond. What’s clever here is that the app doesn’t just allow you to respond via the social network (e.g. by commenting on the post itself on Facebook), it also offers other real-world mechanisms for reaching out, including text messages, calls, emails, and it even connects you to Gifts.com if the announcement requires a gift. Handy.


Slim users can opt to receive a weekly or daily digest of their updates, as well, which works as another good way to stay on top of what’s happening, even when you haven’t had time to check the app or the social networks yourself. (Note that the weekly digest email is switched on by default.)


As of today’s launch, only Facebook and LinkedIn are supported, but the plan is to add Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Salesforce and Yammer in the next month or so. Based in San Francisco, Slim’s co-founders include two Israelis, CEO Yair Levin and CTO Zeev Vax. Currently a team of four, Slim has closed on $200,000 in seed funding from G7 Ventures, and the round is ongoing.








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Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx review: a decent Windows 8 tablet, but not Lenovo's best



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Microsoft agrees to sell Mediaroom to Ericsson, goes all-in on Xbox



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O2 customers get free pass on Virgin Media's tube WiFi, last 12 stations go online this week



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HopStop Launches Crowd-Sourced Transit Alerts Through HopStop Live!

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HopStop, the location services app that helps you navigate the wacky world of public transportation, has today unveiled its biggest product launch ever, with the release of HopStop Live!


The service is integrated with HopStop’s default iPhone app, as well as having its own standalone app called “Live!” The apps let users crowd-source information in real-time about delays to subways or trains, giving even more clarity to the morning commute.


HopStop already accounts for delays that are marked on the MTA’s web site for service disruptions, but that isn’t an all-encompassing view. Many times, trains will be delayed because of police investigations or accidents, and the corresponding delay alert doesn’t appear online for many hours after, or not at all. Still, these delays can really bork up a day, and so HopStop is letting its massive user base start calling out issues for fellow users.


Though crowd-sourcing public transit delays has been done before — most notably by Waze and NextTrain, along with some other mobile apps — HopStop brings a new level of scale to the recipe.


As of today, HopStop has announced that its userbase has surpassed 2 million monthly active users, and the app access data points for 700 transit agencies, 20,000 lines, and 750,000 stops.


Here’s what CEO Joe Meyer had to say about it:



The real-time public transportation space has attracted so much attention over the past twelve months with a countless number of new transit apps all professing to have the answer to real-time. The problem with the vast majority of these is that as impressive and headline-grabbing as their goals or claims may be –they all lack the critical ingredient for any crowd-sourced service to be useful –a big enough crowd of endemic users. Over the past nine years, HopStop has grown to be the biggest independent player in the transit routing market, and today’s launch of HopStop Live! will leverage our large user base and strong commitment to product excellence to define the future of real-time public transportation information.



The main goal is that users will build and foster mini-communities around their particular commute, keeping each other in the know about delays and service disruptions in a way that official lines of communication are too slow for.


For now, the HopStop Live! service is only available for iPhone, but the company is working on rolling it out to other major platforms in the coming months.








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Razer promises sneakier sneak attacks with $130 Orbweaver Stealth Edition mechanical keypad



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Red unveils the Motion mount with jello-killing global shutter for Epic, Scarlet



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OnePageCRM Raises $749K For Its “Zero Admin” CRM For SMEs

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OnePageCRM, the cloud-based CRM targeting small businesses or SMEs, has raised €575,000 (~$749k) from unnamed private investors and supported by Enterprise Ireland. The Irish Galway-based startup says it will use the new funds to staff up in engineering, specifically web and mobile developers, along with marketing and customer support — creating a total of 12 new jobs.


Prior to this, the company was self-funded while it rolled out an “experimental” MVP in mid 2010, which has since been rebuilt from the ground up and designed to be mobile-first


Although the CRM market market is a very crowded one, from giants like Salesforce to a plethora of smaller players and startups, inspired by the GTD movement, OnePageCRM’s pitch is that it takes a “zero-admin” approach that isn’t just designed to help manage contacts and track sales, but to actually help sell. Starting from the premise that a lot of sales management software and CRMs require a lot of data entry and admin — a charge that I think can be applied to many productivity apps in general — the company set out to design a cloud-based and mobile offering that would be as simple as using email, with a UI that resembles the workflow of an in-box, hence its “OnePage” branding.


“To us, other CRMs are just databases. You wouldn’t open up a telephone directory (listing A-Z) and start selling? Our app forces the user to make up-front decisions about that next action required to move a sale forward,” CEO and co-founder Michael FitzGerald tells TechCrunch.


What this means in practice is that rather than relying on an A-Z view, contacts, with their associated follow-up task, automatically float to the top of the list and turn red when action is required. Staying within that single dashboard, each time you complete a sales action, say make a follow-up call or send over a proposal, you’re prompted to decide what’s next and when e.g. “Follow up after sending estimate in 3 days time”. The contact then moves down the list and floats to the top again after the time is up.


“Essentially your trapping prospects in a continuous loop until you get them over the line,” says FitzGerald.


In addition, contacts çan be categorised based on where they sit in the sales pipeline and can also be loosely tagged, so that they can be filtered in various ways. The system will also send you an email each morning reminding you of what actions/follow-ups need to be taken that day. It’s the kind of thing us distracted journo-blogger types would probably benefit from.


To that end, after a 30 day trial, subscriptions start from $12/month/per-user, down to $8/month/per-user with volume.








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Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform Realty Mogul Is Gaining Steam, As It Wins Another Pitch Competition

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Last week, a young startup called Realty Mogul took home top honors at “Founder Showcase,” a Silicon Valley pitch competition and networking event hosted by TheFunded.com, in which eight early-stage startups showed off their wares in front of 400 investors and founders.


Realty Mogul won the top prize from a pool of over 50 seed-stage companies, beating out email optimization startup Embarke, which came in as the runner-up. This isn’t the first time that Realty Mogul has caught the attention of investors or judges at a pitch competition — or of those at accelerators.


The startup is a graduate of both the Founder Institute and Microsoft/TechStars’ accelerator in Seattle, and recently announced its $500,000 seed round raised from a handful of angel investors, including Gust CEO David S. Rose, Gordon Stephenson and serial entrepreneur Sky Kruse. Not only that, but Realty Mogul also won the HATCH Pitch Competition at SXSW in early March, where it was selected as the top startup from over 100 applicants.


Why the buzz? The Los Angeles-based startup has been attracting attention of late for its mission to make real estate investing simple and accessible to all. At least, that is the startup’s long-term goal. As Anthony wrote at the startup’s launch last month, as of now Realty Mogul is a platform where accredited investors “can pool their money to back real estate deals” and buy shares of pre-vetted investment properties, including apartment buildings, office buildings and retail centers. Accredited investors can invest as little as $5,000, without having to worry about the rest of the hassle that come with being an investor in those properties.


The company is currently working with over 1,000 investors, who are using the platform to access a dashboard where they can manage their investments, browse a marketplace of potential investments, sign paperwork and submit payment for deals they want to be involved in and are charged only if the total funding goal is reached. Once reached, investors can track their investments using the site’s dashboard.


And, yes, as Anthony wrote, Realty Mogul is focused exclusively on accredited investors at this point, and qualifying as an individual will require a net worth of more than $1 million. But co-founder and CEO Jilliene Helman thinks that the excitement over equity-based crowdfunding has big potential and that the startup’s model could work beyond this set of accredited investors.


After all, it’s one of the ways that investors can still see returns on their investment, she said, as investments can begin providing returns in the short term (in a few months, via rent checks or loan payments), rather than over years or decades. As to its own cash flow, Realty Mogul makes money by way of administrative fees associated with these investments and by giving real estate firms access to a pool of pre-qualified (and vetted) investors.


When we asked Helman to tell us a little bit about how Realty Mogul is looking to stand our from the competition — from related sites like FundRise and Prodigy Networks, she tells us that, in comparison to the former, Realty Mogul is working with operating partners who have local market knowledge within specific property types, whether that be multifamily, retail or office, for example. Fundrise thus far has raised money for all their own development projects, she says, and while “they are in the acquisition and development business, we are in the business of curating best-in-class operating partners.” Realty Mogul investors can diversify across locations, operating partners and property types, she continued.


In turn, while Prodigy Networks has a sexy product and looks to invest in “trophy properties,” she says, “we are more interested in properties that kick off healthy cash-flow and provide steady returns for our investors … we are 100 percent cash-flow investors and look to provide distributions to our investors in the first quarter after they invest in a property with us.”


The other big difference, the CEO says, is that Realty Mogul allows investors to invest in both loans secured by real estate and equity. In loans, the investor is “always in a first lien position,” which is the safest position position to be in on debt, and the startup’s loans pay fixed interest payments, while its equity transactions pay preferred percentages and allow investors to participate in appreciation and upside.


Furthermore, in terms of traction, Realty Mogul has invested over a quarter of a million dollars since launch, and just closed a transaction in Washington that involved a loan “paying 8 percent to investors on annual basis,” she says.


And, in terms of targeting that wider audience? Hellman says they’re still waiting on the final regulations to be determined by the SEC on equity crowdfunding, but “we’re interested in opening this model to a wider audience” as soon as they can.


Founder Showcase runner-up, Embarke, which also impressed the panel of investors at the event, is an email optimization product that analyzes individual user behaviors and interests (as opposed to aggregate user data) in order to ensure delivery of the right message to the right person at the right time. Embarke has created over two million user profiles and is sending over 13 million emails a month, helping marketers to increase opens and clicks by 10 percent to 25 percent, the company says, and counts SendGrid as an integration partner. The startup is based in Seattle.


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Samsung building mid-range phone with 6.3-inch display, says ETNews



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Get an early look at Facebook Home with these leaked pre-release APKs



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Facebook's paid messaging experiment lets you harass celebrities for a premium



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Red Epic Dragon sensor updates start tomorrow for $8,500, watch them do it at NAB



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«Alergia al wifi» y el efecto nocebo

En The New Yorker, The Nocebo Effect: How We Worry Ourselves Sick ,


Las víctimas del síndrome del wifi afirman que las emisiones de radio de las comunicaciones móviles causan dolor de cabeza, náuseas, cansancio, hormigueos, dificultad para concretarse y problemas gastrointestinales, entre otros [...] los científicos le han dado un nombre a esto: intolerancia ambiental idiomática atribuida a campos electromagnéticos [hipersensibilidad electromagnética], pero nadie ha encontrado ninguna evidencia de que suponga algún riesgo.



Sin embargo el síndrome del wifi puede tener sentido en el contexto de un fenómeno aún mayor: el efecto nocebo.

El efecto nocebo es algo así como el lado oscuro del efecto placebo. Según la Wikipedia,


El efecto nocebo se refiere al empeoramiento de los síntomas o signos de una enfermedad por la expectativa, consciente o no, de los efectos negativos de una medida terapéutica [...] una respuesta orgánica del sujeto como consecuencia de las expectativas pesimistas propias del sujeto al pensar que el fármaco le causaría efectos dañinos, dolorosos y desagradables.

El efecto nocebo se puede dar incluso aunque no haya medicamento ni química alguna por medio —como reacción negativa una sustancia placebo.


El artículo de The New Yorker hace mención a estudios llevados a cabo sobre el síndrome del wifi en voluntarios que fueron sometidos a estas señales sin saberlo y voluntarios que no fueron sometidos a ellas aunque se les hizo creer que sí, de forma similar a los estudios que se hacen con medicamentos y sustancias placebo.


Entre aquellos voluntarios que no fueron expuestos a señales inalámbricas, aunque ellos creían estarlo, se detectaron o reportaron los síntomas comunes del síndrome del wifi (hormigueo en las extremidades, problemas intestinales o de concentración,...). Algunos llegaron a tal grado de incomodidad que tuvieron que salir de la habitación antes de tiempo.


En ocasiones basta con leer en Internet sobre síntomas, síndromes y enfermedades para que la preocupación por padecer alguna de ellas pueda llegar a suponer un problema,


Internet se ha convertido en una poderosa —y a veces irresistible— máquina dosificadora de nocebo [y] en pocas horas uno puede alcanzar cierto grado de malestar desde la comodidad de su hogar.

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Enthuse.me Is An Online Profile Creator To Help You Pimp Your Personal Brand

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It’s probably hard to get people enthusiastic about another service that lets you build a professional profile online. But that isn’t stopping Enthuse.me from giving it a go. The startup, based in London’s “Silicon Roundabout”, recently launched a public Beta of its one-page profile creator that targets the self-employed, small businesses owners, and other kinds of individuals who want to build and promote their personal brand online.


At first glance, competitors would appear to be services like About.me or Flavors.me, which, like Enthuse.me, also consolidate a user’s various web presences and online identities into a single, well-designed page, although a more direct competitor is probably something like Zerply.


To begin creating your own Enthuse.me page, you first pick a username, which also forms the basis for your Enthuse.me web address (e.g. enthuse.me/sohear), and sign up manually or via LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook login. Next you upload an avatar and fill out a short bio defining your expertise, which acts as your personal pitch and appears at the very top of your profile page.


You then populate the rest of your Enthuse.me page with links to and content from your various online presences, such as your career history pulled in from LinkedIn, your follower stats from Twitter, or your Klout score from Klout.


Then comes the more creative part. Using Enthuse.me’s various modules, you add and showcase more content from the web or created and uploaded specifically for your Enthuse.me profile, demonstrating what you are good at and any past projects or achievements. This might be media coverage, blog posts you’ve written, YouTube videos, photos or other visual media.


Finally, you can link to and recommend up to 5 other Enthuse.me profiles to check out — your “A-list” experts — which acts as a form of association and a way to encourage you to invite others to join the service. Overall, the resulting page, though nicely designed, is fairly minimalistic and lacks the customizability looks-wise of other online profile creators, which could be both a good and bad thing depending on your own taste for these things.


Longer-term, the company plans to add social networking features, potentially encroaching a little more on professional networks such as Linkedin. This might also form the basis for a “knowledge marketplace” that lets users, whose bread and butter is selling services under their own personal brand, to use the site to sell their time or other wares, with Enthuse.me taking a small cut of any transaction.


Of course, that’s getting a little ahead of ourselves and is a far cry from what exists today, both in terms of functionality and the needed network effects. Scale, and a ton of it, will be probably be required first. And in an already crowded space, that will undoubetedly be Enthuse.me’s biggest challenge, no matter how enthusiacally the startup or its backers — the company has raised around £1 million in funding from MLC50 — tries to meet it.








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