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Calling Twitter’s Bluff
Ever since FriendFeed was sold to Facebook, we’ve been told over and over again that the company and its community were toast.
Can India “Jugaad” Its Way To More Angel Investing?
There was one complaint I heard over and over again from Indian entrepreneurs during my three weeks shuttling between Delhi, Jaipur, Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune: There aren’t enough angel investors in India. Now, truth be told, that’s a complaint I also hear in the American heartland, in Canada, in Europe, in Africa, in China and, well, pretty much everywhere I’ve traveled to over the last few years
Only 8 Bugs Stand In The Way Of Chrome For Mac Beta
We know that a beta version of Chrome for Mac is due at least by the end of December, but today brings more confirmation that it may be even closer than that. Mike Pinkerton , the guy leading the Chrome for Mac team, has just tweeted out that there are only “ 8 remaining M4 Mac beta blockers! Go team! #chrome ” This means that there are only 8 things standing in the way of Chrome for Mac going beta
Sunday Giveaway: See the World With Your Very Own Vue Camera System
It’s Sunday and I want you to be happy. That’s why I’m offering you your very own Vue Personal Video network so you can keep an eye on Santa as he sneaks up to your back porch and steals your garbage cans. We reviewed this kit a few months ago and were impressed.
iDroid App Rejected By Apple. Well, Duh.
Here’s a tip for all you iPhone app developers out there. If you want to make sure your app doesn’t join the long list of rejected iPhone apps out there, make sure it doesn’t advertise a competing product, especially if that product runs the Android operating system. Swavv Apps (creators of Beer Pong) learned that lesson recently when they tried to get their iDroid app past the App Store censors
How Did The Major Online Retailers Cope With Black Friday Madness?
Website monitoring service InternetVista vigorously measured the uptime and response time of seven of the most popular Internet retail websites from Monday morning November 24 until midnight November 28, to see how the online outlets would cope with the Black Friday madness, traditionally one of the busiest shopping periods in the United States both on the Web as in meat space. InternetVista pinged Amazon.com, Apple.com, Barnesandnoble.com, Dell.com, Target.com, ToysRus.com and Walmart.com every minute for the entire workweek from multiple datacenters located around the world, in order to find how well the websites were handling the influx of visitors looking for great bargains
CrunchBoard Jobs: uvLayer, MOO, Kakai and More!
If you’re on the hunt for a new job, check out our CrunchBoard . We’ve added nearly 50 new jobs from leading internet businesses in the last two weeks, including three jobs here at TechCrunch. Here’s a quick sample: Conferences & Events Producer TechCrunch – Palo Alto, CA Software Engineer uvLayer – San Francisco, CA Network Engineer Six Apart – San Francisco, CA Senior Online Product Manager MOO – London Build Release Engineer Kakai, Inc
Watch Out Foursquare, Facebook is Poised To Dominate Geo
Over the last six months just about all of my tech friends have started using Foursquare , a geolocation-based game that was built by the creators of Google-acquired Dodgeball.
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