FUNKY GREEN: 06/02/13

Sunday, 2 June 2013

Switched On: BlackBerry's depressing keyboard trends

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Report: Apple Close to Launching iRadio Streaming Service

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Cockpit confidential

Cockpit confidential: everything you need to kwow about air travel. Patrick Smith.

Patrick Smith es en la actualidad piloto de Boeing 767 –aunque se resiste a decir para qué aerolínea– y desde 2004 hasta 2012 escribió una columna para Salon.com titulada Ask the pilot , Pregúntale al piloto.

En ella respondía todo tipo de preguntas por parte de los lectores acerca de s profesión, de los aviones, de las operaciones de las aerolíneas, etc.

Este libro recoge muchas de esas preguntas en seis grandes capítulos dedicados a los aviones propiamente dichos; turbulencias y demás cosas que hacen que se sacudan o que un vuelo pueda resultar un poco incómodo; despegues, aterrizajes y aeropuertos; la vida y carrera de los pilotos; qué hacen los pilotos una vez que están en la cabina y qué son los ruiditos que se oyen a bordo; incidentes, accidentes, y otros desastres; y las aerolíneas propiamente dichas, desde su modo de operación a sus libreas pasando por los nombres que les ponen a los aviones y las opiniones personales de Smith sobre libreas y nombres.

El problema, al menos para cualquier aerotrastornado, es que el contenido es muy básico y que nos sabemos todas las respuestas.

Eso sí, el libro quizás sea de interés para aquellos que no las tienen todas consigo a la hora de viajar en avión o para los que estén en primero de aerotrastorno, aunque seguro que por Internet adelante también pueden encontrar todas las respuestas a sus preguntas.

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Pocket Tripod for iPhone Fits in Your Wallet

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PSA: Yahoo Mail Classic shuts down June 3rd

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Wacom Cintiq 13HD review: a space-saving pen display for the design savvy workflow

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Pigeons Are Smarter Than You Might Think And Can Use Touchscreens

Passeport Big Bang, una forma divertida de visitar el LHC

Logo Passeport Big Bang Si andas por los alrededores del CERN desde hoy dispones de una nueva forma de visitar el Gran Colisionador de Hadrones.

Passeport Big Bang aúna la ciencia con el ejercicio físico, ya que propone un recorrido en bicicleta alrededor del anillo del LHC en el que hay que ir respondiendo a distintas preguntas para que te vayan sellando el pasaporte que acredita que has hecho el recorrido.

Recorrido del Passeport Big Bang

El pasaporte en cuestión se puede conseguir en las oficinas de turismo y ayuntamientos del Cantón de Ginebra y del Distrito de Gex.

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LG Optimus L9 II, T-Mobile branded F6 appear on Twitter

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Bijoy Goswami Doesn't Want Austin To Be The Next Silicon Valley

Bijoy Goswami is a fascinating man. Born in India, the entrepreneurial evangelist lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the U.S. before attending Stanford University. Now, and for the last 15 years or so, he lives in Austin, TX, and we were fortunate to have him speak at the TC Austin Meetup + Pitch-Off.

But even though he went to Stanford, The Human Fabric author doesn’t want Austin to become the next Silicon Valley.

He explained that the DNA of Silicon Valley (and all of California, actually) comes from this notion of becoming an overnight success. It all started with the Gold Rush, in 1849, he explained.

“Silicon Valley is the product of the Gold Rush. In 1849, people came with nothing and if they struck gold they’d become a millionaire. The formation of California started with this, and the whole of the state began to believe in the idea of overnight success,” said Bijoy on stage with John Biggs. “It’s part of their DNA, and they use technology because that’s the biggest lever to achieve that end.”

Goswami believes that Austin entrepreneurialism is quite different, and comes from a place of authenticity and passion.

“In Austin we want to be ourselves, and we’re all on a journey to be ourselves,” said Goswami. “The startup culture here is derived from a personal journey, and from where they’re passion comes from. They don’t care if they’ll be big or small, but they care about being authentic and giving their passion to the world.”

Goswami went on to say that Austinites don’t build the tools, but use them. Whereas new technology comes straight out of Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs in Austin use that technology to leverage their own passion projects and ideas. This explains why our the winners of our pitch-off, a post-production video editing collaboration tool called First Cut Pro, an Expedia for doggy day care called Embarkly, and an children’s camps and activities marketplace called Camperoo, were all focused on niche markets and solutions.

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HitFox-Incubated Mobile Games Marketing Platform AppLift Raises $13M Series A

As mobile gaming has exploded, it follows that startups helping to feed and in turn feed off the mobile gaming ecosystem are poised for growth. One such company is AppLift, the mobile games marketing platform co-founded and backed by games distribution incubator HitFox, which today is announcing that it’s closed a $13 million Series A round from Prime Ventures

It plans to use the new funding to invest in its platform and “accelerate” international growth. This will include AppLift staffing up in engineering, other product specialists and business development, adding a further 50 to its head-count by the end of the year. Positions will be filled in its Berlin headquarters and existing offices in San Francisco, Seoul, and Paris — with funds also pegged for further geographical expansion. “We will both hire more people in our existing offices and open new offices, especially in Asia,” HitFox co-founder and CEO Jan Beckers tells TechCrunch.

AppLift’s marketing and monetization platform helps games publishers acquire more users for its games, and in turn generates revenue for affiliates who want to monetize their mobile sites and apps by sending qualified leads AppLift’s way. Its 500+ media partners include the likes of RTL and Closer, while the company is currently partnering with over 80 mobile game publishers, such as King, Wooga and Kabam, who are seeing in total 1 million “high-quality” installs per month as a result.

In addition, AppLift`s platform is able to track, measure and benchmark the quality of players delivered with regards to retention, virality and, perhaps most importantly, monetization, such as in-app purchases. “Game publishers are able to adjust their spendings for different traffic sources based on the quality of the users they get,” explains Beckers.

Founded in 2012 by HitFox Group, Kaya Taner and Tim Koschella, AppLift attributes some of its speedy growth to synergies with other companies in HitFox’s portfolio, specifically its acquisition of ad2games, a company it notes was already active in “the space of user acquisition”.

Finally, I’m told that from start to finish, the investment from Prime Ventures was closed in under 5 weeks, which is pretty fast for a round of this size. Perhaps as a result, when I spoke to Beckers last week, he was sounding even more bullish than usual. He’d just returned to Berlin from a trip to Singapore — mainly for business, but with a few days vacation — and told me that HitFox and AppLift co-Founder Tim Koschella is now permanently based in Asia, first to grow its Korean office and then to open new offices elsewhere in the region. China, Japan and Singapore are cited as likely candidates to be next.

Meanwhile, Beckers says that two months ago HitFox co-founder Hanno Fichtner, along with his family, moved to the U.S. to strengthen the incubator’s presence across the pond, including hiring more staff stateside.

Chalk this up as another European startup thinking truly global, one long haul flight at a time.

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