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Friday, 22 March 2013
Archos picks a new CEO, ships 80 and 97 Titanium tablets to the US
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The Daily Roundup for 03.22.2013
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ThinkFlood closes shop, brings RedEye universal remote down with it
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T-Shirt Crowdfunding Site TeePublic Funds 22 Designs In Its First Week
Apparently, starting one popular T-shirt website wasn’t enough for Josh Abramson.
Last week Abramson, who previously co-founded the jokey T-shirt retailer BustedTees, launched TeePublic, which is basically a Kickstarter for T-shirts. Users can pledge to buy designs that they like, and if a shirt gets at least 30 people to fund it, then TeePublic will print it, and will continue selling the shirt indefinitely. Shirts cost $20, of which $5 goes to the designer.
Older sites have taken steps in this direction. Most notably, there’s Threadless, where people submit their designs and people vote on them. Ultimately, however, the designs that get printed are chosen by the staff. As a result, Abramson argued that there are plenty of designs that attract significant interest, but never get turned into shirts. (Y Combinator-backed Teespring is trying to do something similar.) For example, he pointed to this design, which the artist said received “a huge response from the members of the Threadless community” but “they never opted to print it for whatever reason.”
Abramson sold his company Connected Ventures (whose properties included CollegeHumor and BustedTees) to IAC, but he bought BustedTees back in 2011. He said that he considered making TeePublic part of the existing site, but he worried “there would be pressure on everybody to come up with funny T-shirts” (some shirts on the site are funny, but many are not). Nonetheless, he will be using BustedTees to cross-promote the new site.
In the first week since lauch, Abramson said TeePublic saw 50,000 visits, and there are now more than 2,000 registered users. Those users performed 1,000 funding/purchasing actions. On the design side, more than 480 designs were uploaded and 22 have been funded so far. And since it’s important for designers to publicize their shirts, Abramson also pointed out that 60 percent of the designers are sharing on Twitter and Facebook once they upload their work.
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Apple adds in-app purchase disclaimer to iTunes App Store pages
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Stop doing everything else, start watching free Star Trek all the time on Hulu
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Barnes and Noble giving away Nook Simple Touch with every Nook HD+ purchase in limited promo
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Apple ID accounts reportedly vulnerable to password reset hack, forgot password page taken offline for maintenance
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Apple Security Exploit Lets Someone Reset Your Password With Just Your Email and Birthdate
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Have $39,999 to Spare? You Could Buy This Samsung 4K Ultra HD TV
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Editors Letter: Who cares for the UNcarrier?
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Heyzap Introduces Ads To Its Mobile Gaming Network
Heyzap, a Y Combinator-incubated social platform for mobile games, is releasing a software development kit today allowing developers and publishers to introduce Heyzap ads to their games.
Basically, it’s turning Heyzap’s social network into an ad network too. Developers can use it to make more money, or to promote their games in other Heyzap games. You can see a sample ad to the left, highlighting one of Heyzap’s big advantages as an ad platform: The company knows what games users have played (since they’re sharing that information with friends on Heyzap), and it can make a reasonable guess as to other games you might be interested in.
Even though the ads program is only officially launching today, the company says that it has already run ads from Zynga, TinyCo, Storm 8, Green, Kabam, and Com2Us as part of a “secret alpha.” Heyzap ads are already running in 350 games (out of the more than 4,000 in Heyzap’s network).
The SDK should only take 10 minutes to install, the company says, and then developers should get paid at the end of every month. The ads will be monetized on a per-install basis. Developers can find out more here.
Heyzap has also been expanding its social features, for example by adding leaderboards late last year.
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The 5 Worst UX Mistakes Websites Make
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Smartphone Screens May Soon Be Made Of Sapphire
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NTT DoCoMo trials Tap-de-Concier service with a Google Now flair
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Albumatic Photo Sharing App Raises $4.5 Million, Says SEC Filing
Albumatic, the latest venture photo-sharing from Devon Gundry and Vine investor Adam Ludwin, is raising a $4.5 million round in funding, according to a recent SEC filing.
Adam Ludwin, co-founder and principal at RRE Ventures, Devon Gundry, and RRE managing partner Stuart Ellman are all named in the filing.
The app launched just three weeks ago. According to the Form D filing, a total of ten unnamed investors have already invested in the offering, in exchange for equity. Of the $4.5 million total offering amount, $4,045,002 has been sold. Not much else has been disclosed.
Albumatic has gotten quite a bit of attention since its launch, with MG Siegler taking a particular liking to it.
Perhaps it’s gaining popularity due to the fact that you can share pictures with friends in the moment based on a certain event, but location doesn’t have to be a barrier to that sharing. Nearby friends can participate by adding to the Event album, while users from afar can watch in real-time, maybe feeling a little closer to their friends.
Albumatic isn’t about sharing photos with your friends later on, nor is it about randomly connecting with people nearby. Instead, it allows you to create and capture events with friends in the moment.
Ludwin described his approach as, “fun and done.” We’ve reached out to Ludwin, but he wasn’t able to respond by time of publication.
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Microsoft reportedly prepping significant first-party app updates for Windows 8 and Windows RT
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Quadrocopter Drone Can Snatch Up Objects Like an Eagle
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RISE:2013 highlights: Kinect rehab, Lego lobsters, 3D printed tech and more
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No a la Ley Lassalle
Tal y como estaba previsto hoy ha sido aprobada en el consejo de ministros la reforma de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual conocida como Ley Lassalle, todo un asalto a muchas de nuestras libertades con la excusa de proteger la propiedad intelectual.
Para lo que quieren conseguir no era necesario cambiar ninguna ley, la cambian para tener más poder #Cmin #reformalpi
— David Maeztu (@davidmaeztu) 22 de marzo de 2013 Dada la mayoría absoluta que ostenta en PP, es prácticamente imposible que acepten ninguna posible enmienda que algún otro partido pueda proponer –si es que hay alguno con el sentido común de hacerlo, aunque lo propio sería pedir que la tumbaran– así que creo que es el momento de reproducir este texto de RedSOStenible :
Exigimos la retirada de la Ley Lassalle (nueva reforma de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual) y la apertura de un diálogo equilibrado, moderado por un mediador neutral, entre las autoridades, ciudadanía en general, artistas, creadores e industria, con el objetivo de discutir sobre las auténticas reformas necesarias en la LPI en un diálogo abierto y honesto.
No podemos aceptar una reforma en la que la copia privada se convierte de facto en una mera copia personal, en una clara desconexión con la realidad y una involución legislativa que no se podía ni concebir ni a finales del siglo pasado, y que actúa directamente contra los intereses de creadores y artistas que ven en la copia privada una actividad que les beneficia y sin la cual muchos no hubieran llegado a ser tales. También afecta a los derechos de todos los ciudadanos en su acceso a la cultura, no solo haciendo ilícitas las descargas en internet, sino incluso actividades tan absolutamente comunes como hacer una copia de un original que un amigo haya prestado a otro.
Esta reforma crea un escenario anticompetitivo en el mercado digital y hace que el valor de la cultura española tenga menos posibilidades de ser expandida y por tanto monetizada, perjudicando nuestro desarrollo tecnológico y comercial y a nuestras posibilidades de incursión en el mercado exterior.
Tampoco aceptamos que aquellos jueces que tienen que decidir sobre las presuntas infracciones de los derechos de autor sean sistemáticamente excluidos de desempeñar su labor con la creación de un tribunal de excepción al servicio de los lobbies de algunos intermediarios de la industria del entretenimiento. Es una aberración intolerable que nada hace por mejorar la relación cada vez más distante entre ciudadanos y el legislador, y perjudica en mayor medida a los creadores y artistas en general en su percepción social.
La ley de Propiedad Intelectual debe amparar los legítimos intereses sociales de la ciudadanía para acceder a la cultura, y que los autores se vean remunerados de forma justa para que puedan seguir creando.
En este sentido no se están tomando las decisiones valientes y activas para que la LPI se adapte a la realidad digital, dando tanto a creadores como a industria las herramientas necesarias para innovar en Internet y afrontar los desafíos que se plantean. Las huídas hacia delante no son, en realidad, nada más que un intento de evadirse de la tozuda realidad que acabará por imponerse con mayor o menor sufrimiento para todas las partes implicadas.
Creadores, artistas, ciudadanos en general e industria merecen algo mejor que esto.
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Plex for iOS 3.1 brings a mobile media server, deep content filters
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Panasonic brings out a Miracast adapter for Japanese TV viewers (video)
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Cuatro días de «check-ins» en Foursquare en un minuto
Foursquare check-ins show the pulse of New York City and Tokyo de Foursquare en Vimeo .
Watch: Four Days Of Foursquare Check-Ins In One Minute — En estos mapas de Nueva York y Tokio cada punto representa un único «check-in» en Foursquare y las líneas representan «check-ins» consecutivos, mostrando la actividad y los recorridos de los usuarios a lo largo y ancho de sendas ciudades como un espectáculo de rayos láser en tanto la mayor parte de la gente se desplaza de un lado siguiendo unas pocas rutas principales.
Esta otra versión anterior muestra una semana de «check-ins» en Foursquare abarcando todo el planeta, aunque no permite ver con detalle los desplazamientos.
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Apple, Microsoft and Adobe give reasons for higher prices in Australia, can't guarantee you'll like them
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Sony Xperia Tablet Z Torn Down on Video
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Samsung mulls sale of Dutch e-ink display subsidiary to Amazon
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United app lands on Windows Phone 8, hopes to become your preferred travel companion
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Por qué «5 minutos más» no es la mejor forma de despertarse
Aunque hace años que no uso despertador me ha parecido interesante esta explicación sobre el uso de la opción posponer alarma --botón snooze en los despertadores. Al parecer su utilización habitual puede hacer que te levantes más cansado que levantándote de forma natural o con el primer aviso del despertador.
El vídeo se puede ver con subtítulos en español (botón «Captions» en el reproductor de YouTube).
Vía Slate.
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Corsair unveils $130 Vengeance K70 gaming keyboard with backlit keys
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Planck satellite creates most detailed map ever of cosmic microwave background radiation
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Fujifilm announces FinePix XP200 ruggedized camera, S8400W superzoom
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AMD intros Radeon HD 7790 graphics card for $149, promises cooler and quieter 1080p gaming
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LG LS720 hits the FCC, hints at a mid-tier Sprint or Virgin phone with Jelly Bean
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Archos GamePad arrives in the States for $179
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