FUNKY GREEN: 10/01/13

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Etsy reworks guidelines: sellers can now hire outside staff and manufacturers

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Commercial Reality: Why the man behind EVE Online is betting on VR while others aren't

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What Makes the Galaxy Gear Tick [VIDEO]

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With 37M Users And Revenues At $34M, DIY Website Creation Platform Wix Files For $100M IPO On The NYSE

Once upon a time, there were few places that the not-so-technically-inclined could go to secure their own slice of web real estate and build themselves a professional-looking websites. Either they had to speak Internet, or they’d have to pay someone who did a boatload. Just as WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and others would put blogging, content creation and the ability to chronicle what your cat is having for dinner into the hands of the public, Wix.com launched in 2006 to do the same for website creation.

Capitalizing on the maturing Web and growing demand for DIY creation and publishing tools, the Israel and U.S.-based company has grown to 400 strong, raised $60 million from investors and built a user base of 34 million-plus. Behind its continuing growth, the company announced today that it is officially headed to the public markets — the New York Stock Exchange, to be precise — under the ticker symbol “WIX.”

The company took its first step in this direction in June, submitting its draft registration statement to the SEC, signaling its full intent to go public. It wasn’t clear how long Wix would delay, if at all, before taking the plunge, but the answer came today, as the company filed its official registration statement with the SEC. While the number of shares sold and price range have not yet been determined, the company will list its ordinary shares on the NYSE, with the proposed maximum offering price at $100 million..

According to the statement, the $100 million IPO will be underwritten and managed by J.P. Morgan Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch, RBC Capital Markets and Needham & Company — with the latter two acting as co-managers.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and BofA Merrill Lynch are acting as lead joint bookrunners for the proposed offering. RBC Capital Markets, LLC is acting as other book-running manager and Needham & Company, LLC and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. are acting as co-managers.

In terms of the aforementioned growth, in its filing today, Wix reveals that it has “achieved 14 consecutive quarters of sequential growth in its premium subscriptions, growing revenues from $9.9 million in 2010 to $43.7 million in 2012, while collections grew from $13.8 million to $52.5 million, respectively.

For the six months ended June 30th, the filing reads, Wix brought in revenues of “$34.1 million, collections of $41.9 million and a net loss of $10.1 million,” on the back of its 679,536 premium subscriptions (as of August 30th).

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Samsung Galaxy Note 3: So Much Phone, So Much Power

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Nissan's autonomous Leaf shows its smarts on Japanese test track

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Toshiba's concept REGZA 40V and 50V 4K HDTVs double as pro-grade reference monitors

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HP intros eight business laptops, including two Ultrabooks; prices at $499

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Optinvent's AR glasses are cheaper than Google's and have a bigger display (hands-on)

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Spotify's 'Follow' button lets you recruit listeners from any webpage

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10 Extravagant Accessories for Techie Fashionistas

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Google Play Music All Access makes its way to seven more European countries

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Elliptic Labs releases ultrasound gesturing SDK for Android, will soon integrate into smartphones

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Grand Theft Auto Online update starts rolling out

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7 Data Viz Sites to Inspire Your Creative Eye

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Ya están en marcha los Premios Bitácoras 2013

Uno de los trofeos

Un año más vuelven a la carga los Premios Bitácoras , que este año celebran su novena edición.

Ya está en marcha la fase de nominaciones, en la que hasta el 15 de noviembre cualquier usuario registrado de Bitácoras.com puede nominar a hasta 5 blogs por categoría; otra opción para nominar candidatos es identificarse mediante una cuenta de Facebook o Twitter.

Una vez finalizado el plazo de nominaciones Bitacoras.com anunciará tres finalistas en cada una de las categorías, entre los que el jurado escogerá a un ganador, salvo en la categoría Mejor Blog del Público.

El 29 de noviembre se hará público el nombre de los ganadores en la tradicional ceremonia de entrega que tendrá lugar en interQué 2013 en La Casa Encendida, Madrid.

Las novedades se podrán seguir en el blog de los premios.

Es importante destacar que cualquiera que quiera acudir a interQué podrá hacerlo de forma gratuita gracias al acuerdo entre la organización y ALSA.

En cuanto a los premios, la novedad principal de este año es que a diferencia de ediciones anteriores un mismo blog sólo puede estar nominado en una única categoría.

En cualquier caso, las bases completas están en línea [PDF 70 KB].

Dado que como en años anteriores RTVE.es es el medio oficial de los premios nosotros renunciamos desde ya a participar en ellos dada nuestra relación como colaboradores habituales.

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¿Por qué nuestra voz suena distinta al oirla grabada?

Al oir nuestra voz grabada no sólo nos parece que suena distinta, es que de hecho suena distinta a cómo nos oimos a nosotros mismos —tanto que en muchos casos ni nos gusta cómo suena ni apenas la reconocemos como nuestra voz,

Why Do Our Voices Sound Different to Us Than to Other People? — Al hablar las vibraciones de las cuerdas vocales resuenan en la garganta y en la boca y se propagan parcialmente a través del cuello y de la cabeza. El oído interno responde también a estas vibraciones por lo que la voz de uno se oye también desde dentro junto con el sonido que sale de la boca, viaja a través del aire y alcanza el oído desde el exterior.
Esta combinación de vibraciones que llegan al oído desde dentro y desde fuera dan a la voz de uno (o hace que uno se oiga) de una forma distinta que cuando la voz llega sólo desde fuera [caso de una grabación]. En concreto el sonido que llega desde el interior aumentan las frecuencias más llanas, las de menor frecuencia, dando a la voz propia un sonido más pleno y grave que no se aprecia cuando se escucha en una grabación.

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5.5-inch LG phone leaks online, and it's allegedly affordable

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30 Shades of Pink iPhone 5 Cases

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A Full View of the Gigantic Asteroid Vesta

BitTorrent Is Building a Server-Free, Secure Messaging Client

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Canadian carriers launch centralized database of stolen phones

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Toshiba's TransferJet adapter does high-speed video transfer from micro-USB, smartphone chip coming next year

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Dropbox update adds automatic screenshot saving, iPhoto imports

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LogEntries Secures $10M Led By Polaris Ventures To Scale Log Management For SMEs

Last year LogEntries secured a $1.1M seed round led by Polaris Venture Partners. Similar to Splunk, which has IPO’d, LogEntries collects and analyzes huge quantities of machine-generated log data, helping companies track their application logs. But unlike Splunk, which works with big enterprise or ‘the Fortune 500′, LogEntries wants to go after SMEs, or ‘the Fortune 5 million’.

To that end it’s now received $10 million in Series A financing, once again led by Polaris Partners, and participated in by Floodgate, RRE Ventures and new local Irish firm Frontline Ventures. It’s also named Andrew Burton as president and CEO. SaaS Veteran Burton previously held executive roles through two startup IPO’s. LogEntries will use the funds to accelerate product development and expand.

LogEntries claims to have no complex query language and can identify and alert on significant events in a company’s data. The real-time search solution works across the entire software stack and was founded by Dr. Trevor Parsons and Dr. Viliam Holub. It also plugs into Heroku.

Log management systems are notorious for requiring complex technical skills, but instead uses a “collective intelligence” model deal with the data and turn it into actionable insights. The real-time search solution works across the entire software stack was founded by Dr. Trevor Parsons and Dr. Viliam Holub.

Founded in 2010, LogEntries emerged from University College Dublin’s Performance Engineering Laboratory after a decade of joint research with IBM. With support from Launchpad, UCD’s Nova Innovation Center and financial support from Enterprise Ireland, LogEntries was incubated in Dogpatch Labs, Dublin. Polaris backs Dogpatch in Dublin and SF.

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Google Docs gets a subtle facelift, shifts the focus to content

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NTT DoCoMo's vision of '5G' wireless: 100x faster than LTE, but not until 2020

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Taking First Steps Into Monetization, Viber Messaging App Announces A Sticker Market

Viber, the app that has promised free messaging and calls to its users since it’s inception, has today announced it’s first step into monetization.

As has been the case with competing apps like WhatsApp, MessageMe, and even Facebook Messenger, Viber plans to use stickers, large clipart-style emoticons and text, to generate revenue.

The company will be creating its own paid content, as well as licensing content from other sources such as television shows, branded characters, etc. Not all of the content within the Sticker Market will be paid, but some of it will be available through in-app purchase.

Viber first introduced stickers back in December of 2012, but has always maintained an entirely free, and ad-free, experience for its users. The Viber Sticker Market will launch “soon” with an update, but the company wouldn’t go into any further detail regarding timing.

Viber would not disclose the split of revenue between the company and the brand or artist licensing the paid stickers, nor would the company share which brands it is working with for launch.

However, Viber did mention that both Viber and the licenser determine the cost of a sticker. Furthermore, we can “definitely” expect more paid features out of Viber in the future, according to founder Talmon Marco.

Remember, shortly after unveiling stickers, Viber launched a doodle feature.

It wouldn’t be a surprise to see the company monetize further functionality within that feature, like unlocking extra colors or drawing tools.

For now, however, we’ll have to wait and see how the Sticker Market plays out for the messaging app, which has over 200 million users.

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